skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There always is a huge room for subjectivity, edge cases and other critique in this. But generally saying I'd say yes. My experience mostly is about desktop/laptop (non-gaming, on-board video only) though.
TBF GPU prices are nonsensical at this point in time. The MSRP of a 3060 Ti is $400, a 3080 should be $700.
I meant the ownership model.

I'm also imagining a usage model where all the various components of the microkernel come from the same place and have passed various minimum standards like "doesn't have any unsafe blocks". If some program really needs an unsafe block to do something, then that goes into a (hopefully small) library of heavily-scrutinized functions that do dangerous things but expose safe interfaces.

If we compare with the Linux kernel: in Linux, any part of the kernel can clobber memory in any other part; there's no protection at all. Users generally accept that because the Linux kernel is a pretty well-run project, but still bugs slip in from time to time. If instead you imagine a system where the compiler simply doesn't allow one part of the kernel to clobber memory that belongs to some other part, that would be a significant improvement over what Linux offers.

Anyways, security mechanisms don't necessarily have to be enforced at run-time if they can be enforced at compile-time. That assumes you compile the code yourself with a trusted compiler, or you get the binaries from a trusted source. (Though unfortunately Spectre has become a big problem for compiler-enforced data isolation within one big shared address space; I'm not sure whether compilers these days can do code generation in such a way that it doesn't suffer from sidechannel attacks, or if for the foreseeable future it's just something that software developers have to be wary of.)

In theory you might eventually be able to run device drivers from random people or run arbitrary applications in the same address space as the kernel, but that would require a lot of faith in the compiler to reject anything that could be a security hole. It's an interesting model, though; a pure unikernel approach everything shares the same page tables and there's no need to swap them in or out when context switches happen. And invoking a system call can be as cheap as executing an ordinary function. It might even be inlined by the compiler.
If the economy only stands because of people consuming things they never would've bought on their own it deserves to burn. This mentality is killing us along with the planet.

I really want to see a society wide experiment on banning ALL forms of advertising, be it digital or physical.
> are becoming comfortable

Ugh, comparable, not comfortable.
But what is might here?

Historically, "might" correlated near perfectly with "population size". From Sumer onward, the size of your army & slave count determined right-making (in the UN sense). Exceptions due to technology innovations were sparse and short-lived.

Therefore subsequent evolution has been mostly around how to manage large groups of humans, through "social contracts" and various domestication measures. The social configurations that managed better, won over those that did worse.

In other words, huge centralized states have been a huge evolutionary success. There are pretty much no independent ("sovereign" when it comes to right-making, UN or otherwise) small groups of humans any more, they got all gobbled up by superstates.

But I wonder if our institutions have fully caught up to the fact that the number of humans is near-irrelevant now. With the right technology, a small group can dominate millions, billions. And their necessary supply chain is tiny, relative to the purported UN jurisdiction – by a factor of at least 1000x.

So "democracy as right making" is at DIRECT ODDS with "might as right making". I wonder how this clash between where the power resides (technology and its homeostatic supply chain) and where people think it resides (themselves and their divine individuality) will play out. The emperor has no clothes.
The next sentence:

> "And then on top of that, to pay, you know, an electric bill, probably at around four to five hundred dollars a month for the rest of my life and only increasing. I thought, well, now's the time to go off-grid."

So what’s the total cost of ownership for his system? Does it have $400.00/mo of upkeep?
> Most people aren't dying from an accidental overdose

Yes they are. Before fentanyl contaminated heroin came around most heroin overdoses were because of massive differences in product purity. You know the dosage for your usual 10-20% heroin and when you get a batch of 60%+ you are doing over 3 times your usual dose without having a clue and because heroin has a low delta of LD50 to active dose, your usual dose is now letal.

If medical grade heroin was available, with known purity and no contaminants, heroin deaths would drop to almost 0. The drug itself isn't even that distructive in normal dosage, apart from the crippling withdrawl that btw is not letal and dosen't even require hospitalization, unlike benzodiazepine and alcohol withdrawals which can be fatal.
I believe if you really want to be on the safe side, you should use software encryption and a mix of common hardware parts. Risk of being compromised are low, whereas I would suspect some backdoor with hardware solutions at this point. That there is political pressure for solutions like that isn't a secret. But some forms of encryption are possible on compromised systems.
I wouldn’t be surprised if majority of that price is E-Ink licensing fee.
That's a very misleading question. You are comparing law and social constructs with natural science or math equation results. That's not how the world works.

Societies are much more complex than that.

I can try to convince you that this is right, if that's what you're asking. But no, there won't be a math equation or an scientific measurement that proves that it is correct. Because we're humans, not numbers or bits.
Why do you feel that you were less valuable after you completed your degree?
It's such a gross subversive of the technology. Satoshi created bitcoin so no one would have control of the money supply

So con artist and VCs created "crypto" where every con artist has there own money
Private replay in macOS Monterey is not compatible with content restrictions in screen time. If you use screen time to block some websites, private relay won’t work.

Has Anyone found a solution yet?
From a management and information security perspective this seems like an extremely stupid idea. Depends on the kind of data of course.
forth? emacs? mumps?
what if this is a way of thinning out the herd. jk
Ever since the movie "Demolition Man", it should be obvious why biometrics are a bad idea. (Yeah I know they also can try to scan for signs of life like blood flow - still, I don't like it).

Even without the Demolition Man scenario, an even worse issue is that you can't change your biometrics in case somebody steals them. Fake fingerprints are already easy to do, other things surely can be cloned, too.
Why does the “ENGAGERIDLEYMOTHERFUCKER” metroid password break NES emulators?
There are a few projects like this from US labs, like RAJA and OCCA. But is there wider adoption of any of these outside of research labs?
It is a framework of rules that countries decide to implement into their own. Those countries who implemented it decided it was a useful enough set of rules to implement at home. Others didn't.

If by "this is a useless set of rules" you are saying "oh, c'mon! This is not the law"... then yeah, you're right. It's not legally binding. It says so in the first paragraphs of Wikipedia. But it was useful to others as a framework and model.
"we" as in everybody :-), in particular in our capacity of shaping legal frameworks and regulation

maybe there reason there isn't more discussion about something so deeply relevant is that we are already in a stage where what is being discussed is pretty much channeled and controlled.

I would imagine if somebody declared "your property ownership is dead, from now on you own nothing" there would be quite a bit more discussion about it.
Ada lacked platform support and free/open compilers compared to C as well.
Sure, but Windows on ARM has to run on many ARM processors, not a specific one designed by MS. They could detect if the processor has non-standard TSO support and use that when running an x86 app, but they still have to do something to run the x86 app on a standard ARM processor.
Just sought further confirmation as I've had issues in the past with supposed cross compatible cordova/capacitor plugins.

Also wasn't sure whether it was being suggested to use the react (native) plugin or the cordova plugin, as I didn't clarify (I should have) in the parent that I'm using react js and not native.
I don't get it, you're intentionally making a straw man argument against yourself?
My phone is configured to send texts from any numbers not in my contacts to a "junk" folder so they don't disturb me with a notification. Unfortunately, this really is necessary given the amount of junk texts (and calls) my phone number receives.

I could see myself ending up in the same situation as the subject of this story if I were out hiking and I got slightly off course, but I weren't in fear of being truly lost, and if meanwhile the rangers were trying to call me from a number I didn't recognize.

One possible solution: For areas requiring permits to hike, make adding the park's phone number to your contacts a requirement to hike in the park. The reality of the spammy telephone system in the United States is that expecting people to notice calls from unexpected numbers is unreasonable.

(Or just require everyone to carry satellite locators in parks. I don't think we're too far off from that being economically feasible.)
Unfortunately this article (like most news articles seem to) mixes up kW and kWh, so we don't actually know how big his off grid solar system is. I'm guessing 8 kW (or 8 kWh per hour, without capacity factor taken into account).

It's a pretty compelling option - spend less than the connection fee to get free electricity. The biggest problem is that you have to size your system for cloudiest days in the dead of winter - which means massive batteries and lots of extra panels. It would be interesting to see a full cost breakdown for a realistic use case over 4 or 5 years, including the cost of maintenance.

I imagine you could throw a $1000 generator into the mix to cover the really bad days, but then that's an added maintenance burden.
I think you may be missing my point: in all the cases I’m looking at, capital letters are centred vertically, not lowercase letters like x (that being what small caps will be tuned to) as you’re suggesting; synthetic or real small caps will make no difference.
Maybe to try to answer some of OP's question. Rust is past it's "1.0" release. Other alternatives are also plenty viable and I would love to see more technical conversation considering them, but I think Rust is viewed as more mature (not a 'Rust' user here). An example, I find Zig really interesting. However, I think even the main creator of Zig says it is not production ready yet (however it is getting closer to that '1.0' release). D may be the only one I know (besides Ada) that has that level of maturity.
I believe Skype is dead by now for average users. Some still use it in business environments, but they sure did a good job in getting rid of it. Without much success though, since people just use other products.
> Combined, the system produces eight kilowatt hours

Can they start educating journalists about power and energy, in university or whatever internships they do? It is really not that difficult.
LibreCAD devs just filled DMCA notice on "LibreCad 2" by 'Alef_Soft' at Microsoft Store.[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/issues/1399#issuecommen...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/concern/dmca
for me the biggest reason is that i can't (locally) compile to ios on anything but a mac.
This feels on par with relabeling the Monopoly booklet "suggestions" because no one is enforcing it, really.
Tesla spends like 5x as much per car on R&D.

They literally developed a completely new battery manufacturing factory and cathode plant from the ground up. Plus of course their own batteries with their own chemistries. No other car company comes even close to that.

They are vertically integrating to the point where they themselves are building their own battery manufacturing equipment.

They are even slowly getting into mining themselves. And of course solar, stationary storage and so on.

Hard to see what company is doing considerable more. Tesla is doing a pretty large amount of innovation.
If you use plex, you transcode all the time. If your smart TV doesn't grok your native encoding, plex will do this in flow. Or for handholds. I don't think plex is alone in doing this.

Maybe I misunderstand how many people do streaming TV with downconvert.

But that said, very chuffed OB does ffmpeg. You rock!
> Both companies have done impressive work the last few years.

Apple bought timed-exclusive access to TSMC 5N and also now 5NP. On the same node the differences would be less.
Dunn's Law of Information

"What you don't know, you don't know - and you can't make it up".

Attributed to former Raytheon vice president Bruce Dunn.

http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Dunn%27s_Law_of_Information
NT was already a functional OS in October 1991: https://betawiki.net/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1_October_1991_build and http://www.os2museum.com/wp/installing-oct-91-nt-from-cd/

Those decisions were already way beyond locked back then.
Why didn't you just start right away with applying it then?
Good point. But apparently most of the people don't care.
And note that even with a connection fee of zero, his autonomous setup would start to pay for itself after four years, due to no longer having to pay power bill of $400-$500 a month. Thats assuming zero maintenance costs so not quite correct, but it can't be too far off. It really is a no-brainer.
The memory models are relevant as the translation/JIT/whatever has to take them in consideration. TSO is well known and it's also well known how arm weaker memory model needs memory barriers to emulate TSO.

If there is a JIT I'd expect to be able to add a read barriers, on memory location allocated by another thread - incl. allocating bits in the pointers and masking them off on each dereference. If any block appears to be shared - the code that allocated it would need to be recompiled with memory store-store barriers; the reading part would need load-load and so on. There are quite a few ways to deal with the case, aside the obvious - make the hardware compatible.

If in end it's not an easy feat to make up for the stronger memory model correctness, yet correctness should be a prime goal of an 'emulator'
Go-jet: JOOQ like library for Golang
What a terrible article.

The premise is 'they offer features that use data & say they keep it secure. but what if they actually don't'

Seriously?
I don't know Zig, Ada and D very well, but isn't Rust the only language that can guarantee huge amounts of safety with zero runtime overhead due to the burrow checker?

I think that is its differenciating property.
I started a meetup group And now have something to do outside of working hours whenever I want. I've made some close friends this way
The same Intel that faked the CPU performance in 2018 by overclocking it and using some insane cooling?

Intel is playing this PR game where they release / announce or leak info, so people might try and wait for what Intel has to offer. It's super obvious, weak, and disingenuous.
I would say the terms are mutually exclusive only because there is no expectation of privacy where a party is anonymous. This is reinforced against online communications in a very practical application by presence of digital certificates.
This looks really fantastic.

Is anyone working on let's name it CookHub already? So essentially GitHub for receipts. The nerd in me wants to fork receipts and share my small adaptations to the community.
I presume it's all encrypted large data stores anyway – otherwise rowhammer, spectre, meltdown and friends would be really rather substantial.

Moreover, I just don't understand why. If you're going to spend half a billion on an AWS bill, you can probably afford to run a datacentre locally (and use the waste heat to warm British homes at least!)
My feeling is that for coreutils-like user-mode apps, the push is not to rewrite them in Rust, but rather to rewrite them at all.

Coreutils and the standards they are based on are far behind what's possible with CLI UX, and I feel like that amounts for some of the effort. That's certainly why I myself cheer this movement on. I want to see a nicer Unix.
Your whole comment is so naive about the economics of drug trafficking but I think:

> If users are in prison, they can’t buy street drugs.

is really the ultimate cherry on top. Do you really think prison contraband is extinct?
Work conditions and business practices aren’t the same things.
This is just a collection of generic arguments against technology, as opposed to an article offering insight about Apple. Then they stuck Apple's name on it and there's the article.
No it isn't. The difference between union and non union is far smaller then people have in the idealistic fantasies.

Tesla employees are payed just as well, and with stock options they actually historically have been paid WAY, WAY better.

The thing about Tesla is that its forward looking for a long time since they have a stable leadership with a clear long term plan. This leadership has been leading the company for more then a decade and all their plans have worked out.

Tesla now certainty is worth now what they were valued at a few years ago.

For myself, I would already consider electric flight as part of their future revenue. Its a logical next step but it will take 10 years. Of course I can understand that other people think this is crazy. But flat out, for me, I see them growing 50% a year for many more years with no end in sight.
Apple added hardware support for x86 memory semantics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731534

https://mobile.twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1331735383193903...
So one should not rewrite programs out of some form of respect for the original author's language choice? That doesn't sound reasonable. It is actually worse: it sounds like a socially unsound approach.

It would be really nice to be able to rewrite the Linux kernel in something that is better suited to writing reliable low level software than C. That's not very controversial. The problem is that there hasn't been many clear candidates for this.

For that investment to pay off the language you rewrite it in has to be sufficiently better than C in ways meaningful to the project to make the investment worth it.

I think it is very good that people do these experiments. And even though I am not a Rust developer, I really want people to explore Rust as an alternative low level language for writing operating systems. Including Linux. Part of this comes from having worked off and on with embedded code for the past few years. The state of much embedded code is just awful. And it is clear that languages that offer more safeguards are desperately needed.
First OpenAI launches the code laundering tool CoPilot, now Altman wants to scan the world's irises.

Could Altman perhaps sit down and fucking program something himself? Show us your code.
Also, any plans on how to convert between units?
> The new iPhone operating system, iOS 15, can digitise text in photos, enabling users to copy and paste text from an image, or call a phone number that appears in a picture. Scanning nearby buildings with an iPhone will make Maps recognise them and generate walking directions. Algorithms will identify objects in real-time video, and it will be possible to turn photos into 3D models for augmented reality. And users will now be able to carry their IDs in their phone. All of these features increase the amount of data collected.

The basic premise of the article is that : more data -> more surveillance. Certainly, this could be possible. However, is there a way to collect more data and yet not increase surveillance?

> Apple created the Bluetooth beacons tracking people in shops, gyms, hotels, airports and more by connecting to their phones.

I think, this is where the author lost me. The contact tracing protocol for Covid was anything but more surveillance. This is what happens when you buy into simplistic narratives.
“ If Apple is serious about privacy, it should offer an iPhone model for the privacy-conscious: one without facial recognition and without encryption-breaking tools, one in which it is easy to cover the camera, and in which the microphone can be mechanically turned off, among other features. If we want to keep our democracies in the digital age, we need to set limits on what gets tracked. “

So they want Apple to manufacture the Librem 5?[1]

[1] https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
This is literally the whole discussion under this article. How can we act like it's a violation of something if it's not binding in the first place.

How can we complain about western countries violating our privacy defined by some ruleset defined by organisation that decided it's a good idea to make genocidal state member of a human rights council of said organisation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28997501
>a new pronoun should be introduced to avoid ambiguity

hahaha oh boy are you in for a treat.
5:45 is the 'real' start of gameplay.
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A recent study found that younger generations said that it was easier to leave their partner than to leave a company that did not respect their privacy [0]. It is easy to adopt the mindset of 'privacy nihilism'[1]: your data is out there and you cannot escape it. Yet that same aforementioned study also noted that 75% of Americans were concerned about online privacy.

And there are more reasons to believe that attitudes to privacy are changing for the better. Research by Demos found that half of young people in the UK said they were either extremely or very concerned by 'online privacy'.[2]

Arguably the biggest obstacle to privacy is the effort it requires. People perceive reclaiming privacy to be far harder than it actually is. But for most, privacy is achievable. As individuals, we have the ability to chose which services we use. You might just want to switch to a few more privacy respecting alternatives, using Startpage instead of Google, or ProtonMail instead of GMail. Sites such as Privacy Guides, of which I am a team member, showcase tools and knowledge to protect your privacy. It is surprising how few steps it can take to massively increase your privacy.

[0]https://www.securitymagazine.com/gdpr-policy?url=https%3A%2F...

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-a...

[2]http://demos.co.uk/press-release/demos-young-voters-concerne...
Even WFH users have to use an company notebook. If you let use the user with to work with there home PCs, then yes, you lost anyway.
Every 'interest' has this data. It comes down to money and time.
Hell yes. If you have an open issue, you have an issue. It doesn't disappear because you wish it away with a bot.

Ticket overload may be a problem, but stale bots do not solve it.
It's actually not arbitrary at all. The UN came out of the league of nations, which was specifically a bunch of colonial powers and their offspring / colonies.

That is precisely the reason why some highly controversial UN resolutions were passed right after the second world war. It's almost ironic that China now wields so much more power over the path the UN is taking than the old colonial powers.

But whenever people say this or that is a human right, we ought to remember that a lot of the things that are legally defined as human rights were at some point defined by some old colonial overlord until it wasn't. The founders of the UN definitely didn't think that people of any colour were the same or that interracial marriage is a human right.