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All the nuclear threads here are the same, and they're all deeply frustrating. HN isn't exactly a bastion of liberal speech (here fucked up conservative hot takes reign supreme) - but ostensibly the populace is more technically literate than average. Yet it's the same stupid bullshit every time.

It's dangerous!!11!! fukushima! chernobyl!1!!

> nope look at some statistics it's very safe

ok, the waste!11! scary spicy rocks!! glowing cats! landscape of thorns!!11

> nope just bury it like finland, or leave it in the pool

ok ok only finland is special enough to dig holes for spicy rocks

> ...

it's expensive!!!11! it's too expensive!! the future is wind turbines and solar panels and turning bolivia into a giant battery

The water is lapping at our feet. We are doomed.
Hopin. [0]

[0] https://hopin.com
The Turnbo Manuscripts
I’d buy immediately a module with a blank 60% ortholinear layout (possibly with QMK support)
Given how terrible labor laws are for employees in the US, I would never assume anything negative about an American based on the mere fact that they were fired from some job.

Being a Fired American isn’t some stigma that one needs to “spin”.
I am a bit late to your train of thought so it seems to have left the station without me. Are you saying we solve mathematical problems with the National Guard? Correct grammar with it? I honestly cannot understand what are you trying to say here.
The story of Sleepopolis changed the way I think about review sites.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
I've thought about using Janet for a game, but there's more examples of people using love2d plus Fennel so I'm more likely to use that combination for my future Lisp game experiments. (Fennel is similar to Janet and created by the same person, but compiles to Lua.)
Can I run intellij on it?? Or is this intended for more docker based workflow... Either way it looks interesting... congrats on the launch.
URL is currently showing as http://index.html/

Correct URL: https://toonk.io/ipv4-sale-wide-and-apnic-selling-43-8/index...

I tried to re-submit with the correct URL, but it got erroneously canonicalized to the same thing and marked as a dupe.
While ideal and even natural, I often find that "normal work" usually comes in such fits and starts that it typically make this approach difficult or even impossible.

The most recent time when I had plenty of time and few "normal" stories on my hands there was no normal work to align the extra to. This wasn't as much fun as I thought it'd be. It led to some rather out there "extra" work (from the whole team) that ended up being rather pointless.

There have been a few exceptions where I had really good product managers that ensured a steady work stream that made this possible. Indeed, I found that if the worksteam was steady, it seemed like the obvious thing to do.
there are lots of ways to emit less CO2 right now without any nukes pro or con.. yet, stall...
Newspaper book reviews certainly can have the suggested problem.

The Times would arrange for positive reviews of HarperCollins books by giving them to a reviewer who they knew would provide one.
Yep, making Sunday the zero'th day.
> One person tells me my problem is that I might be an asshole and you tell me my problem might be that I'm too nice...

No, what the GP actually said was

>> I wonder if you suffer from Nice Guy Syndrome.

That's not the same thing. Because sufferers from Nice Guy Syndrome only actually think they're being "nice", but they're being so in ways or from motives that actually make them, in practice, assholes. (Sorry if that's a distortion or oversimplification of the book GP suggested; I recently skimmed through it, but didn't actually get to read the whole thing.)

> Why is it so far fetched to suggest that maybe the problem is not me?

Because usually, when one person has trouble with everyone else, and goes "What's wrong with all of them?!?", Ockham's Razor suggests the simpler hypothesis, "Maybe there's something wrong with you?", lies nearer to hand.

All in all, I'd suggest you try to get that book and read it more thoroughly than I did. (And so should I.)
I can’t stand working with people like the OP. He probably sat front row in every class and raised his hand for every teacher’s question too. Cringey, unprofessional... brainwashed. People like OP need to go for a walk outside instead of doing more work.
I'm not convinced there aren't ways to make it feasible. It would certainly select for high-value messages, and there'd have to be systems for avoiding DDOS-style attacks.

I remember doing a back of the napkin protocol for such a network, and assuming that most messages were tweet-sized and took 5 minutes to send. I get it, though I think you're describing a worst-case scenario. Bunps in popularity would just extend the latency. I think there's ways to overcome the problems and exploit the unique advantages.

The thing with things like JS8call is that it's still like using a postcard instead of a letter. I don't use postcards because I wouldn't put anything more than a superficiality on them.
> Who's the next highest bidder after Apple for a bug in `gamed` that allows you to access GameCenter and download contacts?

Anyone who actually pays money or golden bars within a reasonable timeframe?

> It's a significant vulnerability, but there's e.g. no price list entry on Zerodium

On this scale I think it's "Contact us and we negotiate" sort of price.
You need about 30 ug of MRNA vaccine. For Regeneron the dosage is an initial dose of 600 mg followed by 300 mg every other week. Pfizer is $19.50/dose. Moderna is $15/dose. Regeneron is $2100/dose. And that's with the US govt having bought millions of doses of Regeneron.
> Haskell and Pascal, how embarassing to miss those

and Curry, while we're at it, https://curry-lang.org/
And then launch Brian Blessed, who no doubt will have a few quiet words after his mission.
Honestly, I know nothing about them but the largest donor on that list is a USA based NGO..

$2 million Ford Foundation Grant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
It depends. "Let's change to <new JS framework for no reason>" is annoying. But if you do a little more research and reframe the problem to make it simpler, that's just good senior dev work.

Understanding the problem and finding what the business really needs instead of diving in.
And here to me, knower of basic biology and observer of children, know that children spread viruses.

I sorta caught COVID from my kid and stuff. She sat in a class for 3 days with another infected child whose parents knew the child was infected but who also did not have an adequate plan in place to care for him during the day. It was a complete shitshow, and I permanently lost most of my sense of smell.

But thanks for your information.
The block size debate wasn't about retroactively changing the outcome of a valid network transaction, was it? That's a pretty substantial difference between this and the DAO disaster. Retroactively changing things without the majority consent of the system's voting power defeats the purpose of using a blockchain at all.

> you've continued to deflect any point where I've indicated that it has any merit as a network at all.

That's because the minute the Ethereum project leaders retroactively altered the transaction history the way they did is the minute the project lost all credibility with me (and hence my original comment about why Ethereum should just switch over to a PostgreSQL database if their stance is that the devs should be able to invalidate prior transactions on a whim). I've outlined a set of reasonable governance safeguards in a sibling thread that I believe could restore confidence in the project by bringing it back in line with the aforementioned core principle of operation that justifies building it as a blockchain (and not just a database), but I'll point out that the project has enacted nothing like them to date.

I'm not opposed to hard forks on principle. I'm opposed to hard forks that get pushed through without measurable majority stakeholder consent. Even if Ethereum had done a very simple miner-based vote to upgrade the system to disable the DAO contract (something they could have done in the time between the attack and the time the attacker could have exited with the DAO's ETH), it would have been enough to satisfy this requirement. But they didn't.
Who? Speculate as to who they might be. The six figure numbers you're familiar with are for code execution bugs. This is obviously not that. So they're not anybody that quotes prices for bugs, or anyone directly comparable to them.

Governments can already pay prices comparable to the supposed bounty valuation of this bug for code execution. They're probably not shelling out six figures in gold bars for a bug that exfiltrates contact lists from apps that have to be installed from the app store.

The non-bounty market clearing price for a lot of scary sounding vulnerabilities is $0.
There were cards that had a pot on the back. You could just dial up more speed, until your machine ran poorly, then back off just a little. Kind of crazy to think about!

The speed on my Apple FastChip is adjustable in real time too. It's neat to just dial a speed appropriate for the application at hand.
> Obviously, it should be the people who insist on being a vector for communicable disease.

I hate to break it to you, but the vaccines we have do not produce sterilizing immunity[1], everyone is a possible vector by dint of being a living, breathing mammal.

Perhaps you were arguing this whole time from the perspective of original sin.

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
There is a sort of narrow applicability of it so that you can grant some unprivileged operator the ability to run a script -- hopefully well audited with very limited number of knobs that it exposes -- to run with elevated privs. But the common use of it to give out access to nearly everything other than shell to system admin roles is pretty pointless and annoying.
> Various other Linux developers have also expressed unhappiness with deficiencies in the OSS API [3].

Wanted to see what this meant so i read the citation. I think this is what I found most relevant:

> There are two separate models that can be used between the software and the hardware. In a "push" model, the application decides when to read or write data and how much, while the "pull" model reverses that, requiring the hardware to determine when and how much I/O needs to be done. Supporting a push model requires buffering in the system to smooth over arbitrary application behavior. The pull model requires an application that can meet deadlines imposed by the hardware.

The claim is that write(2) etc. is supporting push but ill suited for pull. It's easy to do the former in terms of the latter but not the other way around.
"We do not have access to your data"

How can I independently verify the accuracy of this claim?
I’ve been using eternal terminal for this and it’s rock solid.
That kind of thing usually occurs in low-intensity suburbs/exurbs where I can just drive.
"Since then, Apple published multiple security advisories (iOS 14.7.1, iOS 14.8, iOS 15.0, and iOS 15.0.1) addressing iOS vulnerabilities but, each time, they failed to credit his analyticsd bug report."

"Two days ago, after iOS 15.0.2 was released, Tokarev emailed again about the lack of credit for the gamed and analyticsd flaws in the security advisories."

They didn't give him credit in the last 5 advisories. Really no excuse for that imho. If Apple keeps this up then why would anyone report bugs to them when you can just post it online and get credit for it right away? Or sell it on some 0-day site.
Honest question for free market True Believers. Isn't this the self-regulating neoliberal/libertarian ideal? That instead of government regulation, we have businesses making decisions as rational actors to maximize efficiency and utility? If consumers and sellers don't like the credit card companies determining what they can and can't transact, then they should just not use them. Go with PayPal or some other system that isn't constraining their choices in ways that they don't like.
Centralize open hardware under an ex-Facebook team? No thanks. We can encourage more competition and innovation, in many niches.
What's the value-add here over a traditional VPS? Codespaces (or Coder/code-server, or gitpod) have the benefit of launching in your browser and being really easy to destroy/spin up if needed. This seems like you're paying for a box and you'll get SSH credentials to connect to it.

Ease of use counts for something, of course, but the market for this is developers that probably either know how to use DigitalOcean or don't know what SSH is and will stick with Codespaces or its alternatives. Static IPs are also interesting, but given the use case for me is being able to nuke my dev environment just like I nuke a git branch, as long as it's accessible somewhere I don't know how much that matters.

(I'm not trying to be down on this at all, I don't know where I'd start with launching a VPS provider. But I think there's something missing from this landing page.)
Yes. Old software had timing loops and other delay constructs. For a while, that button was meaningful when running games intended for the original clock rates.
This has been my experience too, speaking as someone who's usually the ">" line.
Downtimes due to incidents on their data centres. We used to joke saying things like “oh, that must be the OVH guys having some fun on the datacenter again”.
If you’re referring to Thorium and pebble bed, they’re both not proliferation safe and have their issues with ecological confinement of highly active waste.

So unfortunately they never managed to overcome the initial “should we even seriously try it” cost/benefit analysis
They all need some enrichment, but then apparently it’s still very hard to go from a civilian reactor to weapons-grade uranium. Just, I guess, much easier than from a heap of coal.

I understand that with adequate supervision from the IEA proliferation is generally a non-issue.
Wow, the list of atrocities on this place's Wikipedia page is horrifying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Ce...

The founder sounds like a psychopath who was enamored with 1940's utopian literature based on the idea of shaping all behavior through direct reward and punishment.
I edited my original post. See https://www.esofund.com/
There are other newer places also like https://join.equitybee.com/
imo personal responsibility and lifestyle adjustments are just the kind of grassroots behavior that could lead humanity out of this. why wait for the industrial/capital machine to see the light and change course?

this approach, however, would have to be widely adopted and it may take generations. it's not a quick fix but i suspect it would be longer lasting, being built on a societal foundation of healty eco-habits.
The supply DID NOT go up. You can do as much shadow book keeping as you like, but you didn't create a single new BTC. Nobody but miners can increase the BTC supply.
Looking further at the chips, they only support up to 4 external displays. I wonder if 4 is somehow otherwise a factor down to the CPU/integrated GPU level.
> NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Arrives in French Guiana After Sea Voyage

After Space X, Virgin galactic, Blue origin and Boeing they still need ESA to launch it. Am i missing something ?
I had a similar course, using VHDL going on to Spartan-3E kits (which I still have sitting in a box 14 years later). Our professor gave us three C programs -- with the input that would be entered and expected output -- and we had to implement everything to make it work: CPU, VGA output (with "font" definition), keyboard input, and translation of the C programs to our CPU's instruction set.

That was a difficult yet extremely rewarding class. My wife, then girlfriend, still remembers that semester because she barely saw me.

IIRC, bonus points were given to the team with the highest clock speed. I didn't win, but I seem to remember mine being somewhere in the 18MHz range and the winner in the low to mid 20s.
Facebook updates policies to protect against mass harassment on public figures
Mathematicians are human just the same and are wont to get their hands on shiny toys too from time to time. There's some value in seeking out novelty.

Apropos deep nets, with the explosion in machine learning in the past few years, I've been seeing a lot of research interest statements change to meet that. In particular, there's an awful lot of numerical linear algebra being done now.

I suspect that things will come full-circle soon enough, and those tools developed in numerical linear algebra (via their connections to functional analysis) will make their way to harmonic analysis.

(This is notwithstanding the fact that compressed sensing is picking up a little momentum as a research area in applied mathematics and other disciplines that study signal processing. Wavelets, curvelets, shearlets, chirplets, etc. will likely see some action there too.)
Typography, to me, is one of those things that’s simultaneously incredibly boring and completely fascinating. On the one hand, it’s something you experience (whether consciously or not) for a large part of your day, and each font you read in your day has been meticulously chosen for all the supposed qualities it gives off. But on the other hand - it’s just a bloody font.
> At some point the crops will start drying out in the fields

It's already happening, as your links show. Double-digit percentage crop loss in some areas, which has already resulted in empty supermarket shelves for some staples[0]. And food prices are already reaching record highs. It won't be long before heat bubbles hit the wrong places at the wrong times and kneecap the world's food supply.

In the meantime, the human population is still rising sharply[1], with 2 billion more mouths to feed coming before the population curve will start to level out. Things aren't looking good.

[0] https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/05/pasta-shortage-due-to-poor-wh...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/2019-Revision-%E2...
This is related to the "Principle of Embarrassment" in hermeneutics. The idea is that "embarrassing" or inconvenient stories are more likely to have been true because there is no reason for someone to have made them up since they seem to conflict with the broader narrative, or at least complicate it.

Another example is the discovery of the empty tomb by Mary Magdalene and possibly some other women. At the time women were considered to be more untrustworthy, so the argument was that if the story was fabricated, surely the author would have decided to make the empty tomb discovered by a group of men since it would have been viewed by contemporary readers that this (already implausible) story was coming from a more trustworthy source.

Of course, the most prominent example is the crucifixion itself, since crucifixion was reserved for traitors and the lowest criminals. If you're trying to argue that this man was the Son of God, why write a story in which at the climax he is executed as a despised criminal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criterion_of_embarrassment
I had an old Pentium 90 that would crash on NT consistently. The diagnosis was a crappy bus that resulted in various errors.

Just for fun, I loaded Red Hat 5.2 on to the machine and it ran just fine. The syslog was full of bizzare errors, chattering the whole time too.
And what if that information gets weaponized against journalists in an authoritarian regime?
> And keep backups of your data.

Frequent backups. Test them occasionally.

Redundant backups for precious data.
There isn’t the thickness necessary for mechanical switches. What I’d love is to see some ergonomic layouts, kind of like Corne or Kyria (staggered columns and thumb cluster).
Down to the physics of FETs and the underlying chemistry? How much further doe it go?
Which ignorants can - and will - proceed to piss away on terrace heaters to have drinks while having a smoke outside on the street
And there is a ton of developed software ready to go. At the least, all the internal code would be very mature at this point.
the only complain have with these is that there is no namespace or anything that allows me to discover them. You have to follow all the release notes or check lib.d.ts. In comparison, flowtype prefixes them with $, so when I type "$", I get the suggestion.
I have a lot of questions about this. What kind of machine can I provision? Can I make a remote mac for XCode shenanigans? What if I have some awful Windows thing I need to rebuild but don't want to install Visual Studio locally any more, is this a decent substitute for running up a local VM?

What kind of security is sitting around my source code? How would I guarantee when I stopped using the service that a copy wasn't kept somewhere?

Is it backed up / a snapshot done regularly? What kind of control do I have over those snapshots, the timing of them and deleting them if I decide to stop using the service?
* working in a consulting shop (for breadth of experience)
* working in a big company (exposure to scale I can't get any other way, though I didn't stick around long enough, tbh)
* working with a product for years and years. makes you think about ways to help future you in a way that consulting won't.
* blogging about problems I found interesting. to write a description of a problem is to begin to truly understand it.
* speaking. doesn't have to be at a bigname conf, even at a meetup will force you to learn.
* founding a startup. not for everyone, but super helpful to me in having user empathy, thinking about business process as well as code, GSD
* doing a stint as a technical trainer. really improved my grasp of the technology.
The advisory credit and bug bounty fiasco aside, when I reported a security vulnerability to Apple in 2010, they wrote, "Because of the potentially sensitive nature of security vulnerabilities, we ask that this information remain between you and Apple while we investigate it further." It seems to just be a standard inclusion in their correspondence, and not unique to this exchange.
Not to mention, "you’ve just visited some articles recommending fancy paper notebook products" makes it sound like he viewed some spammy top 10 list full of paid affiliate links, so he's probably succumbing to performance advertising regardless of Facebook's later involvement.
So much of what we rely on today for Internet applications and infrastructure has at its core a fallacious advertising revenue model. As companies who spend money on advertising realize the low returns they are getting, they will turn off that ad spend, which will turn those platforms into increasingly needy and demanding in your face advertisers, being more intrusive with your data. Since the average "user" is the product and not the customer, users will continue to see fewer and fewer features that don't help with advertising revenue and the quality of the overall service to the user (not the customer, the advertiser) will decline.

We're already seeing that. The quality of Google products continue to decay. Facebook and LinkedIn are increasingly both becoming shallower advertising hustles (LinkedIn just this week turned off post notification for events to force people to buy LinkedIn ads). As other apps and websites get snapped up by these FAANGs, we'll start to pine for the Internet that was 2008. The decay is already well under way.

What is truly sad is that some of the smartest computing minds of our day are spending their efforts at these FAANGs not advancing society but rather helping keep people more addicted to social networks, optimize for clicks on video and web streams, pushing products in all your channels, and optimizing for the wrong things. How have we gone so astray?
How can we reasonably say Apple is moving slowly to fix bugs when we don’t know how much work is going on behind the scenes? A slow response can just be a slow response.
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