skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s more like heapsort, because the OS will use a heap to implement a priority queue that contains times for when the next process needs to be scheduled.
Meh, there are in-betweens. I neither love my profession nor feel trapped by it. It's a decent and low-stress way to make good enough money such that I can do things I actually love, such as spending time with my wife and son, or playing sports. If I were rich I wouldn't do any coding, and I doubt there are many in the profession who would. Not because I hate coding, it's fine, I just like other things more.
Always interesting how anecdotes go since most "anti-vax" people I know despise Facebook and other large social media platforms.
Chemical dependency is a real thing with serious medical effects. Severe cases of withdrawal can actually be fatal.
Sure, that's true for the general population but I don't think that applies here. While software isn't quite as demanding as say law or medicine, it still takes quite a bit of effort and skill to become truly proficient in our profession. Anyone talented enough to succeed at building software is also talented enough to succeed at other well paying professions; it cannot be said that we didn't choose the profession we're currently employed in.
I know nothing about the practicalities, but could you run grow lights and head pads to raise seedlings and hydroponic food and then donate to the neighbourhood? Meagre, but might save on some tiny transport cost somewhere.
How does fb harm democracy? Is FB actively shutting down voting sites? Bribing politicians?
It is it simply disseminating information?
Getting proper AMX support on _x86_ Linux merged is nasty because of state size issues. I know nothing about ARM64 extended state, but some of the same issues may exist.

(The x86 xstate design is horrible. I doubt that ARM64 is anywhere near as bad.)
I was so excited to read this because I thought Yubico had finally launched implantable NFC yubikeys that we could carry under the skin.

Too bad it's just a fingerpirnt sensor.
I'd suppose the maxis would argue that services would spring up to take a small fee, post the collateral, negotiate fair resolution to disputes, etc ... but then they're halfway to reinventing rental agencies, insurance and credit cards and all that with sprinkling of operational and exchange rate risk thrown on top.
Won't help. We're already in a feedback loop releasing tons of methane from permafrost. Methane is 28 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. It is already out of out if our control.
Didn’t see this until now, but:

> You have absolutely no evidence to support this statement.

Correct. That’s why I said “seemingly” and “anecdotally”.

> Apple is under no obligation to disclose every practice or behavior, especially one which is completely innocuous and benefits the customer with zero downside.

I didn’t say they did, I just said I didn’t like it.
No need since it is really plan text files ?
Does that actually work? How did Trump winning in 2016 help your average Green Party supporter?

If anything, didn't Biden win by a larger margin against Bernie in 2020 than Hillary won against Bernie in 2016?
Yes, Intel will still sell you a license for NIOS if you want to harden it into your product.
Yeah, that’s true. But you just run into a different set of inefficiencies there. The higher the level of participation you demand for the electorate, you risk an outcome where you represent popular sentiment less and the intensity in motive and means of individual factions more.

The entire idea of electing an executive separately from the legislature is not necessarily efficient in the first place, and the higher level of important placed on for former is quite strange from some perspectives.
PostgreSQL 14 on Kubernetes
Printing money functions like a tax, but it's not a tax. It was never proposed and debated by congress and then passed.

> If anything, it seems you're proposing the wealthy not be subject to taxes oriented towards to common good, which is what the op was (correctly imo) upset about.

I'm proposing the opposite. The money printing since 1971 has been one of the major drivers of inequality. If you own a lot of assets like stocks and real estate the last year and half of printing dollars has been tremendously good for you. If you work for a living and your income is mainly your salary, it hasn't. Your rent has gone up while your wages and opportunities have lagged.
Hacking Bitcoind RPC to Remote Code Execution
Approval voting makes much more sense to me. Consider ranked-choice if it were applied to the presidency: Given that some states are slow to report their results, there are scenarios where you can't fall back to people's second choices until all the votes are in and finalized to determine who lost the first round.

With approval voting, you can declare a victor without running a state machine.
Perhaps airships need a different lifting gas, one with "almost indefinite powers of expansion".

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff1/night.htm
Yeah, I've anecdotally heard from a lot of people that they've stopped using the library because they've racked up fines.

It's often not necessarily that they can't afford the fines or are unwilling to pay, but they're too embarrassed or intimidated or aren't sure what the right procedure is, so they just stop going to the library.
> does anyone really care how the tally is calculated?

If the 2020 US election tabulation process is any indication, yes.
I run 24 fans in my build and I have a couple of these as the final stop in the wiring chain in the back and run almost exclusively in Linux these days so this is absolutely welcome.
Little soft core CPUs like this are often incorporated into larger FPGA designs to handle sub-tasks that would otherwise be annoying to implement with pure logic. Think something like a simple CLI console to configure low level board functionality, etc.
Correct, but for AWS, you can use SSO and delegate the MFA to your SSO provider.
Sorry, I didn't read carefully. Thanks for correcting me.
The company that packages and sells Sea Monkeys also sells these. We tried it once, but they didn't hatch unfortunately.
Honestly, you can do a similar calculation for things like trees and algae. But the thing is that we didn't get that carbon from thin air in the first place. We dug it out of the ground. I'm not sure how much we mine every year, but I wouldn't be surprised if we mined a "mountain range" per decade.

Also I think your mountain estimate is off. Mt Everest is 158.76 gigatons (~350e12 lbs). I don't think this detracts from your point (that's a TON of mass each year) but I thought I'd make the correction. I mean we're still talking half an Everest every year.

For reference, I did also find a source that says we mine between 32 and 50 billion tonnes of aggregate (sand and gravel) every year. So maybe 80 isn't that bad?
Yeah, carbon capture can be done with less energy, see BECCS for an example (where people grow trees/grasses to capture carbon from the air, then burn it for energy, and capture the CO2 for immediate sequestration).
For anyone keeping score at home: people "still" use Fedora because of stability, short security patch interval compared to other options, and also up-to-date dev packages.
If they operate in America, then they have to give a fuck about American laws.

If they don't operate in America, then I don't give a fuck what they do.
The idea is really starting from a core group of people who trust each other and then expanding that circle using the collateral mechanism for new entrants and then making the relationship less codified over time and more natural

The real value is in having an index of people you trust and all the things they’re willing to lend to you

I think as people gain trust over time the network effects start to become really valuable
For almost all people, if not all, there are a number of truths that are difficult to accept; we vary in which ones we find challenging. I think the internet shows what happens when we try to merge without taking those truths into account.

I think people will continue to accuse AI of being biased until AI facilitates people to become aware of their own biases. What's beyond that is not easy to imagine, and may even seem dystopian from your current standpoint, but it's probably the next big thing.
The author is really more accurately talking about free monads. With free monads, you make the nomadic structure clear and defer the interpretation of monastic structure for later.

Even in Haskell free monads are used pretty sparingly, so it's definitely not every day defining their own bind or return as data.
Yes and no. For me the $85 feels expensive compared the other YubiKeys I own. On the other hand, if the $85 stops one "event" then the price is low.
I think you're close to understanding why modern societies that aren't capitalistic always end up failing.

Capitalism (with legal guardrails and social policies) works because it accepts that you can't fully stop greed.
You probably won’t be thrilled by the spherical cows in the nearby pasture then.
It's humans all the way down!
> Well, that’s a good example: there was a huge rise in need for masks and other protective gear about 20 months ago and the supply chain couldn’t handle it.

I'm going to bump you just a little on this because your point is mostly right.

In the US, there were manufacturers ready to add extra shifts for producing masks, but nobody would cut them the check.

The point of JIT is also so that when something goes wrong in inventory you don't get saddled with a bunch of waste. The problem is that means that you need quick, accurate decision making for when the inventory situation does go wrong.

In this instance, all the players who could cut a check for masks were all paralyzed by their systems for various reasons (bidding/disclosure requirements, political ideology, etc.).
Your question implies that the yubikey is an HSM. It isn't. It has a secure element.

If you want to implement your own novel test of user presence, you could get an F-Secure USB armory device (https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory) and tap into the GPIO.
if you build with the wood then it doesn’t burn or decompose (yes, eventually, it will burn or decompose, but the more buildings on earth made of wood at any one time is carbon that isnt in the air.)
A liberal is a capitalist is a conservative. The NY Times hails from smack-dab in the middle of the corporate center of American politics.
History should do an automatic Save As, Complete for every page. History search should do a full-text search. Viewing a page from history should open the saved version, with reload or a button to load the original URL.

These are all obvious ideas for computers with lots of memory and disk space, but browsers are one-size fits all designed for 4 GiB laptops and old phones.
Bank of America doesn't.
Google should implement date stamp validation as part of the vetting process for "who came first" with the entire-app name and logo cloners sucking the life out of the Play store.

Yet another reason to write web apps instead of native mobile...
Tabletop Sim should have you covered, for the most part.
For folks asking why Approval Voting (vote for as many candidates as you want) is more representative than RCV/IRV, here's 2 starting points:

* Voter Satisfaction Efficiency: https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSEbasic/

* Ka-Ping Yee showing how voters' preferences would translate to ballots, then how different election methods picks winners from those ballots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7btAd1HYvjU&t=1329 (watch about 10 minutes).
I think the cases you are thinking about are agreed upon by the subject, who might be a high level politicians and/or CEOs whose "lack of a next step" would "stick out like a sore thumb", but whose prior hard work and/or financial success would leave them in a position to deserve to devote more time to family. Something like that.
Eh if you keep it dry, it can hold it for a few hundred years. Permanent sequestration is ideal, but we’re really trying to minimize the area under the excess carbon curve in the near future to buy some time, so even shorter term stuff can be helpful. Reduction of excess carbon-ton-years is the way to think of it, IMO.
If Tox ever wishes to target normal people (like Signal), this is completely unacceptable.
I feel like now is the best time to make a 3rd party.

Non-loony-tunes republican voters held their noses and voted D against Trump. Progressive D are frustrated because they're not getting so much as a fig leaf after supporting the establishment candidate.

Basically: the Democratic party tent is currently busting at the seams. It seems possible that the corporate-centrist Dems and Republicans unite under the Dems flag, leaving all the non-Q populists without a sane party to represent them.

I don't think his chances are good, but the iron is as hot as it has ever been.
> I don't know what you mean by "1990 style".

They said "5 stage", which sounds to me like no out-of-order fancy stuff of the sort we've been used to.

> Calling it a "little FPGA program" seems very dismissive.

Well, I wrote a little 5 stage CPU FPGA program once (In Haskell compiled to Verilog :), but that's another story). It wasn't very hard.

I haven't made a production IC, but I'm told that's much harder. I would be awesome if Intel made a RISC-V chip, even a slow one just good for arduino-type toys, but that's not what happened here.
2450MHz radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats (2019)
If you're looking for a textbook on BGP-4 the I can recommend Sam Halabi's excellent second edition of Internet Routing Architectures:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0015V9DQ0/

It's a wee bit out of date having been written ~20 years ago, but it gives you the general gist of how BGP works as pertaining to the actual internet rather than the RFC theory.

I used it (and the first edition) when I got dropped into a project to build out an internet exchange point with a route collector and all that good stuff circa ~1999.
> If a poem (or book) makes 10% of its readers more likely to become geniuses and contribute to solving world problems such as cancer, but 0.1% of its readers are more likely to commit suicide, should that book be banned by law?

I really don't know the answer. I've struggled with this tradeoff myself, as I've built some tools that have powerfully impacted people on an emotional level and I've been hesitant to put them out there because of the severe damage they might do to a small percentage of the population.

That being said, I read a few essays a few years back about Frankenstein and this from a Q&A[0] in the same Slate series[1] that I try to remember when I think about creating such tools:

> Does that make it into a warning against playing God?

> It’s probably a mistake to suggest that the novel is just a critique of those who would usurp the divine mantle. Instead, you can read it as a warning about the ways that technologists fall short of their ambitions, even in their greatest moments of triumph.

> Look at what happens in the novel: After bringing his creature to life, Frankenstein effectively abandons it. Later, when it entreats him to grant it the rights it thinks it deserves, he refuses. Only then—after he reneges on his responsibilities—does his creation really go bad. We all know that Frankenstein is the doctor and his creation is the monster, but to some extent it’s the doctor himself who’s made monstrous by his inability to take responsibility for what he’s wrought.

I try to remind myself of this lesson that perhaps it's not about not creating powerful things but trying to continue to maintain these things instead of abandoning them and just accepting the havoc they wreaked.

I think where I often feel the most frustrated is in believing that FB doesn't really seem to me to be trying that hard in 1) making the platform less addictive, 2) getting rid of bots, 3) suggesting which legislation they want (instead of just punting and say "we said we want regulation, it's your job Congress to create it"), etc.

I don't think they'll ever get rid of all the things that cause harm, as it's even hard to choose dinner for a party of 4 where someone won't get hurt or angry, and this is a scale almost 1 billion times larger. I just want to have the impression that they are trying, or at the bare minimum, that they have the courage to say that sometimes bad things come with the good and they openly say that they are choosing that tradeoff. Maybe they've said it that way, I just don't seem to trust them much in terms of trying to take responsibility for their creation.

[0]: https://slate.com/technology/2017/01/why-frankenstein-is-sti...

[1]: https://slate.com/tag/futurography-frankenstein

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If the person never saw a sky before or never worked on facebook sky but passed by a window and saw a green sky and freaked out I would mention it. Context matters.
> Are we just supposed to leave out that many empires simply collapsed, like the Roman Empire?

Its, again, not the same thing you predict, so...does it matter? (Rome didn't have a simple gold standard and despite coin debasement never abandoned metallic commodity base of its currency in principle.)

> Few that become heavy meth users ever go back to being healthy.

And few that have fully adopted useful new technology (social or otherwise) simply abandon it for the less useful thing they had before. Argument by analogy often involves begging the question.
That's weird.

Edit: now I remember -
I wrote a gm script to load multiple pages of results into a single page because I wanted to see 5 pages at a time. I can see why that looked like scraping.
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing. Sidenote: the UI is lagging on my 2015 Macbook Pro. So much JS in there :( I could be wrong, but pretty sure all these animations could be done purely with HTML/CSS.
I would really like to see open primaries with approval voting and the top two going to the general election. I think that is much simpler than RCV and I'm not convinced RCV would ever provide a better outcome.
> Who gets to decide what algorithms are simple enough to be legal? You? Why?

I'm not talking about the legality, I'm talking about the liability. If one user posts defamatory/libelous speech and Facebook decides to blast it to 1 billion users because their secret sauce algorithm found that it really cranks the revenue dial, Facebook should share some culpability in that defamation lawsuit. A basic 'hot' algorithm that's not designed by squadrons of PhDs running machine learning on user behavior analysis isn't really the same thing, culpability-wise, imho.
Wouldn't most libraries nowadays allow paying fees online?
KCLS (King County Library System in Washington) allows that for example.
You can maybe try looking at it from another angle and feel proud of supporting your library by giving them money...
decomposition doesn’t evaporate the tree into the air, it can build the soil and become habitat for larger animals (which also count as biomass)
Sounds like he is actually starting a PAC as opposed to a new political party.
In a Galaxy Far, Far Away, I Was Almost Anakin Skywalker
> fingerprints _by themselves_ are a pretty poor replacement for passwords

eh, that is not well known nor is it true. It is very much use case dependent.

For example, a fingerprint is a great replacement for a password to unlock your phone, for most uses of such.
I agree with what you're saying. On the flip side, there are multiple systems (Elo, Glicko), anchors, playing pools, etc. in use around the place, and FIDE and CCRL are offset by around 80 magnitude I heard, compared to about 600-700 difference between top humans and top engines.

So for a non-technical audience, I feel like it's easier to give a ballpark that they can understand without having to pull in too much context around Stockfish, CCRL, etc. It may have been better to clarify further in the docs though.

The "Data" document does give the relative Elo breakdown in the appendices.
You could make a physical chip out of this, but there are lot of O(1) costs that mean I am not just going to download Quartus, call up my local fab, and get me a toy CPU from this for fun.
Mixed member proportionate voting works well for NZ, in terms of allowing multiple political parties to gain significant representation… [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_re...]
I agree, I really don’t like this one either. There are many things in math that are counterintuitive, but the idea of a homomorphism is not one of them in my opinion.

Once someone explains the idea, and provides a few examples it is very natural.

I also don’t like the text explaining zero knowledge proof. It needs the phrase “practically speaking” somewhere or “for practical purposes” since it’s not true in a strict sense

But overall there were some fun ideas on the list!
Statement from Mark Zuckerberg
Will users eventually be more empowered against the publications? All of these publications try to play against human biases to receive attention and sell ads. There are psychological tricks. By now we should have tools that distill whose interests are upheld by an article (liberals, cocacola, war or peace, workers, some researcher/university which is selling their latest drug). We’ll be able to “pagerank” who is upholding who.
I'd guess the threat model is imaging the encrypted storage, which can be done even if the computer is turned off, in the hopes of acquiring the keys later to decrypt the image. If you install malware and the encryption is not visible to the OS, all you get is the data on the machine at the time of implant, since storage image decryption is coupled to the hardware. I also imagine it is much easier to exfiltrate encryption keys stolen from the OS undetected than to rummage around and exfiltrate the contents of a hard drive.
In many countries, SMS is terribly expensive. This is one of the reasons Whatsapp exploded. The other being that it ran in essentially all possible platforms, even on phones that were not "smart".
I just thought of a simple argument: unroll the bigger circle into a line. Then as the smaller circle rolls from one end of the line to the other, it makes 3 revolutions. After that, roll up the line back into a circle (with the smaller circle still attached to the end). That adds one more revolution.
9 figures for some feelings?
Bank of America supports it and like you'd expect, supports bypassing via SMS. Even worse is that they only let you register a single key.
If you'd like some good dawn-of-time history about the BBS era Phrack came out of (and the people who started it) The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling is available free on Archive.org (book 101!). Fun read, probably even more so if you weren't there.

https://archive.org/details/thehackercrackdo00101gut
It's actually the opposite. Most U2F services allow at most 1 registration.
If Apple is trying to make an argument that access to its userbase is a service it provides that on its own is worth X% of in-app revenue, then it follows that Apple's userbase is providing Apple value by being a part of the market/service that they sell.

Unless Apple isn't selling access to a market... then things would be completely different.

But you can't have it both ways. If access to the iPhone market is a service with value that Apple is justified in charging developers to access, then who really makes that market valuable to app developers, and who really makes that market attractive enough that Apple can sell it? It would be the people buying iPhones, the customer base that makes up the market that developers want to reach.