skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how simple the vaccine is there really should be a zero tolerance policy (barring a real medical reason). I think the president had the right idea with his mandate. To be a part of society those people can take one tiny shot (or two) .
Is income really the only signifier of what makes an activity loserish to you? Not who they work for, the work they're doing, who it may target, the rules they may actively be choosing to break in the process, etc.?
> The belief is that the constitution, and the system itself, is inherently racist

But we can actually read the constitution and say for certain that it isn't racist. It's actively anti-racist, albeit not in the self-defeating Kendian sense of the term. The fact that it is an impediment to those who would argue counterfactually that free speech is inherently racist (for example) and must be dismantled is precisely the point.

Freedom from tyrannical ideologies is exactly the value that the constitution affords us--that it inconveniences tyrannical ideologues isn't an argument in favor of dismantling the constitution, it's proof that the constitution is working effectively. So there isn't even cause to "burn it to the ground" much less concern ourselves with its replacement.
I think there should be a corollary to Godwin's law to call out any thread that is very much subtle in trying to showcase just how much Donald Trump has been wronged by 'the media'. Sadly there's a surprisingly high amount of these on hn.
That part about the superior payment system cracks me up when we recently had this: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/02/each-twitter-super-foll...

>The App Store does not allow for multiple instances of the same subscription, leading other platforms such as YouTube and Twitch to get around this by effectively allowing users to buy a sub-token that can be directed toward a specific creator.
It's not a fine. That's the problem.
You are not kidding? That list has only fast food items on it. Where is the home cooked meals with veggies and meats in different sauces etc? Today I had meat sauce. Yesterday I made a fish soup.
About the Theory of Computation in general. A draft:
https://hefferon.net/computation/index.html :-)
Reading Gibbon has changed my life. I am happy to see him pop in in HN ;-)
One of the interesting things to come out of the Fortnight trial was that Nintendo and Sony did not allow you to spend V-Bucks bought off of their platform (where they didn't take a cut), while Apple allowed it.

So there are more ruthless companies out there.
Hahaa, I love that one.

I remember reading http://bash.org/?5273 as a teenager and thinking "What! How could anyone possibly lose a whole computer?" But then I lost a fully-working-responds-to-ping raspberry pi a few years ago too. :)

Cheers!
True. There is nothing that would prevent a software company within Sweden, let's say, from opening a free Facebook competitor. Given the reality, such a law as I proposed would be seen as unfair from Facebook's perspective. In many ways, I would say I agree with them. To remedy this, the law could be constructed so that it is only illegal within the confines of the United States. In other words, a paid subscription is mandatory within the United States, while it can be offered for free for anyone outside.
Having a desire to increase your income is fine. For some, it is their primary motivation, for others it is a result of being recognized for producing valuable results. Each person has their own moral code; for some, even working for Google or Facebook falls outside of that code.

I have worked with various companies that have contracts with the US military and other agencies. I wouldn't say they underpay. I would actually say they pay pretty well, but once again, this has to align with whatever your personal values are. Some people are quite happy to work for a three letter acronym agency and couldn't ever conceive of working for a FAANG or a foreign entity.

I am sorry that a general perception of Americans might be that we are mercenary and will run after the highest paying opportunity. There are 300 million of us, and I would say that a majority of Americans are driven by values that don't include the theft of national intelligence assets or chasing after money no matter the consequence.
I understand, but you can't have it both ways: You can either build a minimal Twitter clone that limits user-submitted content and not worry too much about security/abuse, or you can build a web host. The latter entails a comparatively enormous amount of responsibility you don't seem keen to take on.
I spent half a day watching multiple Jobs interviews on YouTube and there is an interesting effect across these interviews: the interviewers sound dated in their assumptions, while Jobs sounds fresh and contemporary. Even though these interviews were 20-30 years ago.

One example is when Steve is being grilled about buying a “search engine company” called “Siri” and the surrounding rumors being certain that Apple obviously bought this search company to go to war with Google. Steve laughed and said “that’s not a search company, it’s an AI company.”
What's the issue with four iPad models? iPads practically are the tablet market. Is four options too many?

There were dozens of different Android tablets at the peak. That didn't go well for any of the Android tablet vendors.
My favorite part is that the response body can optionally include "short and stout".
All: please email hn@ycombinator.com if you see abuse like this. Protecting the quality of the site is our #1 priority and we can't address problems we don't know about!
China’s Biggest Movie Star Was Erased from the Internet
That suggests that there are websites anywhere that do want to deal with GDPR, which seems rather unlikely.
Yeah, that's extremely stupid. It seems like he was suing his employer for this, hopefully it went well: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

After the points I made, do you still think I'm being illogical and off the deep end? I really think what I'm saying about recognizing dogwhistles is important and common sense, but maybe I'm wrong.
Wait, you can pair with the transmitter with no authentication? That sounds real bad.
I take your point but disagree that they are unrelated. They are different news items, so I’ll try and isolate my comments in that way. I just think that people working infosec should care a lot about the sanctity of law and the importance of judicial review. If we let the court of popular opinion reign supreme, hackers will always lose and the powers that be, the elite, will always maintain control. Just my opinion, which I will try and keep more narrowly focused in the future.
Tesla is bringing in-car purchases to buy upgrades and FSD subscription
> Traded throughput away for smaller lookup tables.

Much of the improvement came from a re-encoding of String (no longer internally encoded as UTF-16), and more sophisticated GC algorithms.

> If the jvm cant run a day without creating a hcrash report and you need 10 times as many cpus to complete a job in the same time, how is that a step forward?

If you see crashes, submit a bug report, but we've not been seeing any increase in crash reports. It's possible that you're using a library that hacks into JDK internals and is a cause of such problems. Try using JDK 16 or 17, where strong encapsulation is turned on (at least by default).
It is a slippery slope fallacy. You only have to look back through the history of vaccines and see. We have had vaccine mandates before and guess what? No dictatorship installed. It's easy to point at democracies all over the world. Mandated vaccinations never led to "okay now do this ______ to improve your health or else" . Also no one says bring in the police, just make it so that if you want a job then get the vax or bring in a reason from your doctor that says you can't take it because of some medical condition. Simple.
I don't understand this series of emails. Schiller is saying he noticed that Amazon ran an ad where someone bought books on iOS and then read them on an Android. Jobs' response is "let's force Amazon to use our payment system". But weren't they already using it in this case? How does Jobs' point follow from Schiller's example?

Schiller then brings up how there's a complementary ad in which an Android user buys books, then reads them on iOS. Jobs' point would make sense if that was the original example, but it wasn't brought up until after he'd responded. Weird. Maybe he was psychic? (j/k)

Another thing that doesn't make sense is Schiller's recommendation to ask Amazon to "get in compliance with the rules". It sounds like they were in compliance with the rules, because an exception had been made for them. It seems (from those emails only) like the issue was that Apple made an exception for Amazon they no longer wanted to abide by.
It's not necessarily about being the first to discover a result.

It's about being able to communicate it clearly. Being concise and presenting relatable models is important.

Results have limited value on their own. If they are not clear and concise you can't reach a wide audience.
Note: 2007.

Knuth-Plass line-breaking is cool, and it's something I've looked at a fair bit for my own website, because it would likely help with fixing blatant nastiness on mobile browsers (where you get a lot of stretched lines or large gaps, particularly when stuff like blockquotes or lists narrow the width further).

But every HTML/JS version of Knuth-Plass (and/or microtypography adjusting spacing/glyph size) seems to be a performance abomination and fragile†, and web browsers have clearly signaled that they are never going to provide better native typesetting (even as their greedy linebreaking means that it doesn't work as well as you'd assume to insert linebreaking/nobreak character entities to try to control it).

† One person a few years ago did a cool approach where they precomputed every possible screen width to provide the exact layout tailored to a reader's screen width, since there's only a few thousand reasonable screen widths & K-P screams... And their demo is already broken in browsers. Bleh.
This attitude is common on Reddit and HN, but I think you misunderstand what the norm is. Comparative few companies "spare no expense" when shopping for their average employee. And yes, a developer is a average employee, a worker bee.

A few really big companies might have a different attitude, at least for their major players. I know for a fact that these big companies will offer less than $70k to work in silicon valley, which is a slap in the face to a new grad that was getting better offers in low COL areas.

So where are these mythic companies that don't care about money and give all new hires a fortune without trying to control costs at all?
That's true, we would need a way to collect this data so it's easily seen as part of a whole.

E.g. if you search for eggs and cholesterol you should find all studies with their summarized results on whether eggs are ok or not for your cholesterol, grouped by researcher, so if somebody does 200 studies to find the one positive it's instantly visible.
I always feel like people never discuss the elephant in the room, which is that whoever you are, your feed is dictated by the people and pages you have chosen to follow. It doesn't matter what the platform is. If you give people the flexibility to craft their own feed, and they want to craft a feed full of hate and lies and nonsense, how can we ever stop them?

Meanwhile, my feed has zero politics and is comprised almost entirely of retro video game stuff, plus a few local NYC groups. I kind of love it!
Tell HN: Epik have finally informed customers of their data breach
Received at 19:20 UTC, approx 2 days after the breach was publicly known:

> At Epik, we take security and the privacy of your information very seriously. Therefore as a precautionary measure, I am writing to inform you of an alleged security incident involving Epik.

> Our internal team, working with external experts, have been working diligently to address the situation. We are taking proactive steps to resolve the issue. We will update you on our progress. In the meantime please let us know if you detect any unusual account activity. I am proud of our team’s efforts as we do our part to empower a thriving internet for the benefit of our customers around the world.

> You are in our prayers today. We are grateful for your support and prayer. When situations arise where individuals might not have honorable intentions, I pray for them. I believe that what the enemy intends for evil, God invariably transforms into good.

> Blessings to you all.

> Regards,

> Rob Monster

> Founder and CEO

> Epik Holdings Inc
IMO Flash was as big a mess as Steve said it was at the time and it was already time to move on from it. It was mess even on the desktop (if my browser crashed, it was almost always flash). Adobe let it get that way and there it was.
I’m going to start an online Excel proofreader and logic checker. Should be interesting!

/JK
Barking wrong tree here. This uses token signing so you are sharing less data.

IMO this is holy grail of gov auth. Currently my card only works with usb reader and some obscure java browser plugin. Tapping card on my phone is easily 10x better experience.
Nike: https://travelswithelle.com/budgeting/nike-employee-store-be...
The video call is exactly to prove you are not lying. How having an ID card proves you are that person? if nothing it proves you managed to use it before any report of theft reached the central database

edit: i mean, you claim "Success signal
Binary — Yes or No" but there's face verification involved. how is that not a threshold signal in the end where the system can still be fooled/passed the verification decision back to the client? ...seems like a more expensive step before the video call in the end :)
You should do whatever Filippo says you should do. Not trying to be flippant. :)
I am American and can't help but wonder if this is a subtle British joke. This is just poor grammar based on how I was taught, so perhaps some Brits think it's cheeky to call it "American Style", like an American calling a dull stick a "British toothbrush". If so, well played. If not, no harm done, just don't use "American Style".
It’s interesting that it was hosted on an Acorn Archimedes workstation, the first consumer product with an ARM chip inside it. (ARM originally stood for Acorn RISC Machine.)

They didn’t chose it for any technical reasons, it was just what they happened to have.
3 years uninterupted uptime and counting.

what in 17 do you think is worth risking downtime?
How did you get the German Personalausweis to comply? It is supposed to require a complex dance involving a remote server and certificates as well as a PIN before divulging the data.
Thanks, edited a bit for clarity. What is a better way to say it?
OpenSea's comms afterwards felt a little weak / lacking. I'm curious if they are still scrambling to put something together, investigate + determine appropriate action. The community is full of mixed reactions, so perhaps waiting for consensus or things to naturally blow over.

> We want to be clear that this behavior does not represent our values as a team

It was the head of product (from the top), so it's pretty damning wrt team values.
> Cant any of these companies use proper security experts?

I can't speak for all of them. But I worked at a very large company known on a global scale. They thought they had proper security experts, but the people that hired them didn't know security very well. When issues were brought up, instead of them asking "how do we resolve this?" they would ask "why would someone do that?" This raised so many red flags in my head the first time I heard this, I didn't even know how to respond.

I came to them with various issues, one of them could've had very serious consequences. I proposed step by step solutions that were simple and would've patched up issues behind the scenes and only impacted people that were violating security policies. They never seemed to care about protecting what they had. It was very sad.

I'll give two examples of the issues they faced:

1. They left doors unlocked and open to the building during working hours, anyone could enter and witness highly classified work on someone's machine, or use someone's machine if they had left their desk without locking it, which happened frequently.

2. Their shared document service, which contained many classified, and highly classified documents had an authz vulnerability which would allow any logged in user to view (and in some cases edit) any document in the company that was stored on their document storage service.

I think my conclusion is that a lot of companies don't even know what their issues are, don't know what experts they need (or if they need them at all), and don't care because nothing bad has happened yet.
A list of potential transactions + profits -- https://twitter.com/btcinchina/status/1438041142306623491
In a theoretical sense, an unbounded number is always finite.

In a practical sense, turing machines don't voraciously consume tape. Adding extra feet of tape gives you an exponential increase in what you can compute. So if you set up a program to be reasonably judicious with its tape use, you can just say that if it reaches an end you pause it for a day, head to the shop, and buy another reel. Big computations take a lot of time anyway.
The problem with "shopping lists" is that, at least in the past, it's turned out that companies like e.g. mobo manufacturers change the chipsets in the corners of these devices without even changing the product ID. If I told you a mobo to buy, there's no guarantee that you'll actually get what I was recommending.

Lots of efforts have been made over the years to create "audio PC" companies. Even with the Windows market within their intent, I don't know of a single one that has lasted more than a year or two. How much of that is a market problem and how much of it is a problem of actually sourcing reliable components, I don't know. I do know that when large scale mixing console companies find mobos that work for them, they buy dozens of them, just to ensure they don't get switched out by the manufacturer.

Apple stuff works because Apple sort of has to care about this workflow functioning correctly. There's no magic beyond careful selection of components and then rigorously sourcing them for the duration of a given Apple product's lifetime.

I have no actual evidence on the video adapter front, but my limited experience would keep me aware from NVidia if I was trying to build a low latency audio workstation. Back in the olden days (say, 2002), there were companies like Matrox who deliberately made video adapters that were "2D only, targetting audio professionals". These cards were properly engineered to get the hell off the bus ASAP, and didn't have of the 3D capabilities that audio professionals (while wearing that hat) really don't tend to need.
Deathloop reviews: 'Ingenious' shooter is a contender for game of the year
North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters
My take, if you want to reap the benefits of modern society you get a vaccine. Exceptions can exist for those with medical reasons, but not religious.
When you're facing big tech giants it's very difficult to judge the best course of actions. They have the advantage, money, influence and usually the advantage in similar situations. I'm not saying the sell out (especially at a ridiculous price) is ok and should always be accepted, but most of the times it's the wiser thing to do. Anyhow, isn't this one of the purposes of most app developers/startups, to have a software/service that one of the big companies out there will want to acquire and give you cash and time to work on your "brain child" the way you want it?
Very interesting. I can change a breakpoint to not break, but log, instead. This should be quite interesting. Also the option to "go back in time" by dropping a frame from the callstack is very useful. This way, it's possible to go over some part of the execution again without having to restart the whole application.
It's getting awfully chilly in these waters,

and more icebergs are forming//smashing together every month!
Nokia can charge $1000, but then no one would license their patents - so they charge a price the market will bear, that maximises their profit.

Obviously the market can bear 30% for Apple. And this is actually unsurprising because the number used to be more like 50% when software was sold in physical stores.

You’re free to think that’s too much, of course, and refuse to pay it.
The parent isn't talking about bailing out the coal industry, but West Virginians transition their economy from fossil fuels to something that actually benefits the country.
And it was exacerbated by another bug which was causing the absence of a period to be ignored, so any username ending in a recognized filetype was blocked (e.g. "AsiMOV" in the example, or "MaasTIFF" in the comments).

I initially suspected that a regex was involved and someone forgot to escape the period, but it looks like that wasn't even the case -- the erroneous code was literally checking if the username ended in any recognized extension.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/65954/...
Yes! Human ingenuity will either solve climate change, or it won't, in which case we're either going to die or live a hard existence on another planet. If anything, the more children there are, the higher the odds that those in the next generation will be able to come up with solutions to climate change.

This is all putting aside the basic argument that it's our most fundamental purpose. If we stop reproducing, humanity is extinct within a ~hundred years.
- The Stuxnet one is pretty good. Went straight out and bought the book.

- The one about Pirate Bay if you want to hear what a collosal, confused prick one of the guys behind it is
For others wondering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N26

> N26 (known as Number 26 until July 2016) is a German neobank headquartered in Berlin, Germany. N26 currently operates in various member states of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and in the United States.
To be fair, there were a number of defendants in that law suit. And they're probably just the ones that got caught.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

"The defendants are Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, all high-technology companies with a principal place of business in the San Francisco–Silicon Valley area of California."
From a quick CVE search, less than 1,200 bugs ( https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=adobe+flash ).

For practical purposes, ~Aleph-nought.
For me, personally, I really like the lambda calculus as a tool to organize and better my computational thinking.

I came into programming/computer science from a mathematics degree; I read some old treatises on recursion theory[1] and fell in love. I couldn't ever quite wrap my head around the Turing Machine formalism, but kept at it for a while. Finding Barendregt's paper [2] was a huge shock! I grasped it much quicker. So, yes, lambda calculus and the Turing Machine formalism are equivalent in explanatory power, but there are also reasons someone might prefer one to the other. So, yes, for me, the value _is_ the formalism.

As to why I think the Rekursiv would provide a good platform for implementing lambda calculus on the bare-metal, that's entirely due to Rekursiv's memory model advantage and the fact that it has a user-writable ISA. Why would someone choose to implement the lambda calculus on bare-metal? You call it "fetishism," I call it fun!

More generally, I just really like the idea of having a machine with a user-writable ISA.

[1] Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2738948M/Theory_of_recursive...

[2] Introduction to Lambda Calculus: https://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/TypesSS05/E...
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