skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As noted elsethread, the code is indeed wrong even on x86, although you only need compiler fences there.
But if they started charging even 1$/user/year, most of the 450M users might not be on the platform. There are other free platforms offered with similar functionality. Security/Privacy is not a concern for a lot of that 450M users.
Bears aren't usually a problem in the winter, with hibernation and all...
> they haven’t been using any fancy CRDTs

CRDT is actually "the tricks we have always used + math to prove whether they work or not". Read the papers. You'll find old school stuff like Lamport Clocks.
This is painfully stupid. Apple having literal backdoors on everyone's lives is the same as social media cookies? You must be an Apple apologist or stock holder.
https://archive.md/SYRvf
Not sure what will actually happen, but you could easily allow volatile variables with if they have extern “C” linkage for compatibility with C headers, while deprecating it elsewhere.
While it’s legal under part 91 to have only a magnetic compass, a vaccine powered gyro DI (or solid state equivalent) can be found in the majority of the GA fleet. The aircraft without a DI are typically ones with bush flying or acrobatic missions, where pilots don’t spend much time looking at their instruments for navigation anyway.
I know that YJS is a common library that people use for using CRDTS in the browser and web-apps.

https://github.com/yjs/yjs
> I don’t think Facebook is “good” or “evil” — I think it’s a corporation.

Sure. You could say this about any company or any country. Or even a person. We're all just a collection of thoughts and actions.
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If its point is really consumer discussion with authors (I don't think it is) then Issues is a pretty terrible name for it. Given the overall quality of GitHub in literally every other aspect of the product, I find that unlikely.
Find a non-profit in some area you care about and volunteer.
So the crucifix is visible in the dark? This article makes it sound like a black light needed to observe the phenomenon, which strikes me as odd because I wouldn't have thought black lights were commonly available at the
time when these first gained popularity.
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(Element CEO here). Honestly, it depends on your threat profile. Any kind of bridge has to inevitably MITM your conversations in order to work, and we’ve tried to spell that out in all the product info about Element One.

If you want to avoid your E2EE conversations on Signal or WhatsApp being relayed via a service like Element One (because you’re an activist or whatever), then your options are to not bridge at all, or run a bridge yourself. Clientside bridging may be an option in future, but reliably running a bridge in the background on mobile is somewhere between non-trivial and impossible.

Finally, we are currently crunching on getting E2EE to work nicely between the bridges and the Matrix clients (so bridged conversations are stored E2EE on the Element One server) and it should be coming in the coming weeks. It’s worth noting again that even when that lands the bridge will still necessarily be able to see bridged conversations at the point of bridging.

TL;DR: if you don’t trust Element with your Signal conversations for whatever reason, don’t hook up Signal to your Element One account :)
We live in a world made of spectrums where we must balance opposing desires. We cannot have prosperity without security (in the law enforcement sense) and we cannot have freedom with absolute security but we make compromises to try to find a balance between those opposing forces. It is an incredibly hard problem to solve but I don't really know where that perfect balance is and I'm not sure anyone knows.

I don't want to live in a police state and I'm not sure of anyone else that does. I also don't want to live in complete anarchy or even a libertarian state because I think there are bad people out there that would take advantage of that and potentially hurt other people.

It always seems to be hand waved away on this forum, but perfect computer security could indeed help criminals out there. I don't know the numbers around how many more but I really believe that no one knows.

I make no assertion that one side is right and the other is wrong, just that it is a hard problem and that I don't know the answer.

Where and how do we find the balance? I know the law enforcement community pushes against computer security to attain better security (in the law enforcement sense) and I know that tech people generally push for computer security that limits law enforcement abilities. I don't think we can let one side of the argument completely win, but how do we find that balance?
It's ok that they have confusingly similar acronyms, because they're basically the same anyway.
>1 J = 1 Ws

Yes, because watts are defined joules per second. Joule is the SI base unit.
Usually there is no drop in salary

i.e. most of these companies previously worked 5 days per week and then switched to a 4 day week without loss in salary
One database per user. And even disregarding the obvious inability to natively join information across tables, it still was a mess to subscribe to changes across all of them and all the other things you take for granted with a relational database. And to me, it looks like couchdb is on life support as a technology. It's a great idea and revolutionary in it's time, putting everything as documents with views, etc. But, too many gaps and unclear direction.
Companies must be forced to implement a subset of their features as part of some interoperability standard. The rest they can keep for their competitive advantage. I can't recall any industry who ever volunteered for this. Car makers didn't, telecoms didn't, software makers won't. No one did and they all exploited their users/customers to the fullest until they were forced to do so.
I did tests on Kahan summation recently on my macbook pro and -O3 defeated the algorithm while -O2 did not. Declaring the below variables as volatile restored error compensation with -O3.

The relevant code is:

kahan_y=g_sample_z - kahan_c;
kahan_t=g_sample_z_sum + kahan_y;
kahan_c=(kahan_t - g_sample_z_sum) - kahan_y;
g_sample_z_sum=kahan_t;

(this is in an inner loop where a new g_sample_z is calculated and then added to a running g_sample_z_sum with this snippet)
I see this as one user, solving a personal issue at the burden of everyone else around them. Seems more like arrogance than zen.
> As for why you and your father seem to have been spared by that... if I may ask, did you two have access to mental health care and use it?

Well, we've had health insurance for my entire life so I guess we had "access" to it, but as far as I know my dad never used it, and I didn't see a psychiatrist until I was 26 (and I wasn't drinking much before that, certainly not enough to be considered an alcoholic). He certainly didn't have access to it until he finished school, growing up in a relatively poor family.

I think at least in my dad's case, he saw how much his dad's alcoholism screwed things up, and decided that he was going to try and avoid that fate no matter what, sort of using his dad as an example of "what not to do." As I was growing up, I think I saw my dad drink a grand total of four glasses of wine, all of which were done on different New Years events, and never enough to get "drunk" or anything like that. As he's gotten older (and as his kids have all grown up), he's relaxed on that a bit and I will occasionally see him drink slightly more frequently, but I think that habit of sobriety has been somewhat ingrained into him at this point.
Tangentially related: For anyone else who is tired of the highly-dramatic word “slam”, you may appreciate SlamCount. A Twitter bot that keeps an eye on news orgs usage of the word: https://mobile.twitter.com/slamcount1
I often wonder this about old tech. What attracts some people to keep using it? Is it the comfort or familiarity or is it minimalism?

I sometimes want to feel the experience of my Pentium 1 PC with that rubberdome keyboard and ball mouse. But I know it was a frustrating experience. The mouse didn't work exactly, we had to alt+ctrl+delete every 20-30 minutes. They keyboard felt like jello. The CRT monitor gave us headaches.

Moreover I have a 2010 era functioning hybrid laptop that is collecting dust. I like the idea of familiarity it is certainly not a comfortable or faster experience. Is it veiled minimalism underneath you have frustration that you can't do anything that would be distraction because your computer is ancient.
> The contact tracing protocol for Covid was anything but more surveillance.

Wow, just wow. I am stunned to find such an ignorant comment on Hacker News. Maybe someone this naive could exist in the general population, but on a board with tech folks ... how can anyone be this blind?
It’s good to know we are bringing more attention to the largest contributers of carbon emissions.
I lived a similar experience back in Cairo during the Arab Spring. People had no internet access for over 10 days. It was their way of shutting down communication between people protesting on the streets and their family and friends.

Needless to say, when that happened, I simply lived down in Tahrir square since my brother was already there and I had no other way of checking on him.

Now that I'm in San Francisco, I can't tell you the libration I feel every single day by being able to do and say whatever I want. By being able to think, really think.

Sadly though, a lot of Americans and especially people on the far left are not appreciative of the freedom of speech this country has, and continue to squander it.
So who then? Parent stated it as if it was obvious. The only remaining Iranian enemy I can see with a "world class highly sophisticated cyber warfare capability" is Israel, and I'm not sure what they accomplish strategically by breaking some Iranian gas stations.

All of Iran's other rivals in the middle east are lacking in said capabilities, and China and Russia tacitly support Iran.
I do think that this is just the start. Once they get in touch with better technology, these precautions will probably start ramping up.
I mean the article mentions that GA (General Aviation) has pretty much adopted GNSS at this point. And its likely that airliners can afford the cost of INS as a backup system along with the other backup mechanisms mentioned in the article.

"Today, however, navigation by global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) – backed up by ring laser gyro-stabilised INS/attitude and heading reference system platforms, radio beacons and air traffic control surveillance using multiple technologies – means that aviation has no real need to use a magnetic reference."

Lastly, I would imagine the inclusion of AHRS systems as backup still supports a mission critical VFR/IFR type of flight.

In the event of GPS jamming, I doubt non-critical operations would operate given the heightened risks.
Generally the amount of work should be equal, especially when, as in OPs case, the curation is already happening.

But even when not already curating, what is effectively a simple rename could already prevent a lot of complaints: rather than automatically closing stale issues, you could either just have them tagged "Stale" and filter those out of your own view (if you prefer passively dealing with stale issues), or automatically tag all new issues as "Untriaged" and remove that tag if you want them to show up in your view (if you want more active curation).
I take issue with the final off-hand comment he made about Tik Tok[0] on one of the linked twitter threads:

> Also: the tiktok algorithm has decided that I am a "foodie"; it's pretty much correct about that. Why should I suffer a more mediocre & less valuable experience? Because "democracy is at stake" because of bunch of people never learnt how to identify conspiracy theories at school?

Well, it's not so great. The ability to discover preferences and adapt content could also be used by a malicious actor to discover targets; ie, for a totalitarian regime to discover dissenters. Such a regime needn't have an agreement with the social network, either; they need only use the tools made available to users and advertisers upon that network to harvest information about dissenters. It's as simple as creating a honey pot. Moreover, if an agreement exists with the social network, then the curation itself can omit undesirable content in the general case, and keep it available in the explicit case; not censoring it, per se, but ensuring that it does not receive an equitable platform.

That's what many are clamoring for, isn't it? A way to selectively weed out voices and people that are undesirable.

I feel like the problem is two fold:

1. That there's this assumption that somehow the tools used to harm some won't be used to harm others.

2. That the feed is necessarily worth saving.

(2) is most interesting to consider, I think. Perhaps it's not. Perhaps algorithmic social media feeds aren't worth saving.

0: https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1451997185478963211
National House Price Index increased 19.8% year-over-year in August
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I'd suggest to open an issue for tracking in spec repo https://github.com/cooklang/spec, so people can discuss different options.
So basically XRP but with even worse privacy implications.
Companies buy out other public companies all the time. They usually pay more than the stock price per share.

Right now if someone wanted to buy Tesla, they would have to pay more than the share price in order to get investors (the owners) to sell it.
If all the various GNSS constellations went down simultaneously we'd definitely be in the shit. Not just because we lost GNSS, but we'd also probably be fighting a war or Kessler syndrome would be in effect. Either way, losing GNSS would be just one of many problems!
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Paying for this as a service? No thanks. Too many subscription based services already.
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It is different. Less bizarre but better production value.
there is some amount of truth on what the parent is saying. Ages ago, when x86 only had x87 FP, gcc would program the FPU to use 80 bit precision even when dealing with doubles. The excess precision meant that GCC could not implement IEEE math correctly even without fast-math. Forcing the storing of intermediate values into memory via volatile variables was a partial solution to this problem.

MSVC configures the FPU to use 64 bit precision which means that double words fine, but it has no 80 bit long double and float still suffer from excess precision.

SSE avoid all these problems.
I've been waiting for an invite for almost a year now. Even gave my credit card for them, but still waiting...

I'm just yelling here to take my money, but nobody answers.
You can indeed self host (although Element One doesn’t use slavi’s ansible playbooks but instead the Element Matrix Services hosted infra we use to host Mozilla, FOSDEM, HOPE, KDE, GNOME etc)
I'm almost embarrassed at how fast I can get things done with Rails. It's so easy and it just flippin works.

I devote time to keeping up to date with alternatives, but the costs of switching are high, and the ROI just isn't ever there.

(I work at a university these days, where our problems are different than when I worked at a startup, but speed of development and the relative stability of the platform are always important no matter what you're doing)
OCR is local, but the resulting text can be indexed by "Siri & Search" (e.g. "Learn from this app" and "Show content in search"), which default on.

Is OCR text stored alongside photos on the file system? E.g. can text be backed up along with photos, or is photo text recorded in OS storage that is unaccessible to the user?
My device, as other implementation, use the particle passing through the Geiger tube as a "virtual coin" , given a sampling frequency, if one or more particles are detected the firmware returns 1, if no particle is detected, zero. In other words, the random numbers are built a bit at time. My configuration with the background radiation returns too many zeros, so I needed something more ... lively. Anyway, what is the point to use the natural radiation if you have the serious stuff ? :-) When I say that the device is a nuclear RNG, peoples smile but when I turn it on and they listen the characteristic sound of a Geiger counter, the average reaction is "WHAAAAAATTTT ????". It's funny.
I think the idea was to have the freezer permanently in a cold place like a shed attached or very close to the house.
I fully expect it's greenlit, but not publicly so.

They'll openly greenlight it when theater attendance drops off, after a couple of weeks, and ride the extra publicity.
You seem like an intelligent, thoughtful, and educated individual. Perhaps you might find it interesting to read up on the history of attempts to pursue the precise balance you suggest is desirable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

If you seek numbers, the FBI invites you to inspect their data: https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr

As you correctly and wisely say, the world is full of hard problems with many strong, clear, compelling, and valid viewpoints to balance. It may just be possibly worth considering that this might not be one such scenario where balance is possible, let alone achievable. Do you think there might be cases, in the fullness of the human experience, where one set of extremists on an issue are right, their opposite numbers are wrong, and any balance between them also wrong? What if what seems to be a balance is based on a false premise?

Perhaps we should stop, take a step back, and examine our biases?
It would be nice to see PSTN/SMS as well, those are more complicated to self-host!
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Ha ha! I'm not a dev any more, but old habits die hard, I guess. My comment was, in fact, to confirm for anyone who wanted to access with mobile Safari but who hadn't yet, that it indeed would work fine.
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Maybe your grandmother purchased them from Bob Lazar: https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c...
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They do not. You need to have the app installed to your phone, which is a big no for me.
Just because you are the author does not make you the maintainer. If you, obviously and clearly, announce to all users that this software is effectively unmaintained, then I have no problem.

It’s when authors try to eat their cake and have it too that I have a problem; i.e. when authors want the fame and renown of being seen as responsible for widely-used software without doing the maintenance work necessary, then I have a problem.
Do you have a link or project site for the DIY random number generator? I'd like to read about it :)
As far as I understand, Idris and dependent typing in general are only useable for small systems today - the largest systems successfully proved using dependent typing are the SEL4 kernel (which is ~10k lines of C) and the CompCert C compilers (which compiles a subset of the C language, and has only a minimalistic optimizer, if I remeber correctly). And these two have been 5-10 year PhD projects.
The box is just an example, the real subject of the post is the list under “A few consequences with how CSS does its thing”. And all those examples really are pixel-perfectness (pixel-perfect text boxes, pixel-perfect alignment of different fonts, pixel-perfect vertical centering of text in a button).
The resources problem is worse with Apple, since they strongly hinder repair/reuse of their devies.
Warby Parker normalizes surveillance and who makes pencils? Them too.
I'm thinking more of cases like robbery.
Nuclear is “clean” energy in terms of generating minimal waste compared with natural gas, coal, hydro etc. It’s not technically renewable but it’s widely available enough to the point that it could power our civilization for a good long while. Enough time that fusion should become feasible which technically isn’t renewable either since there’s a finite amount of hydrogen in the world but should be enough to see us through building a Dyson sphere of some kind.
I watched some order takers at a food service company a few years back. They worked in a green screen program -- not sure if it was DOS, or some terminal.

The speed at which they worked was unreal. Their hands never left the keyboard. They knew where everything was, and they could literally retrieve any information in less than one second, both due to the speed their fingers worked on the keyboard, and the responsiveness of the app.

I remember thinking that I need to pay more attention to keyboard-only usage of the next app I write.
We've had discussions about this at work.

New versions of our service got deployed once per week, barring delays and hotfixes. Sometimes we'd miss a release, and a version would stay in production for two weeks. Maybe there would be a code freeze and we'd miss a release, and a version would stay in production for three weeks.

We occasionally saw problems. Some cache would fill up over two weeks but wouldn't empty, or something like that. Something that you'd like to test, but which doesn't show up unless you run something in production for a month.

I advocated a simple solution: either check that the process runs for multiple weeks in testing, or restart the process every week in production. In other words, don't test it in production.
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Ingredients seem to form a tree but I think a DAG would be more appropriate.
I agree, I thought about that. I expect that it can be some cases when either ingredients or units have spaces. And the problem is that I can't come up with a solid counter example. Something like @coriander{2%small batches}... You can open an issue in a spec repo so people can discuss https://github.com/cooklang/spec.
Only black bears, even in summer they're dangerous to the food, but not really that dangerous to you (as long as you act reasonably). Racoons are more dangerous to food, too.

There are bear proof barrels, which are frequently used for camping (and I'm not sure if I'd bet on them against a bear, but they keep racoons out), or if you don't have them you can tie your food up a tree and that does a pretty good job too.
When it comes to bathrooms I think most people agree with wanting equal outcomes. That does not mean wanting equal outcomes for all other aspects of life.
I know what you mean. But, remember that most of the best writing in history was produced by candlelight. Improvements to word processing probably lowered the barrier so that more people could write, but if you're already a writer it may not make much of a difference to you. And since the most difficult part of writing is sitting down and doing it for a long time, the key technology involved may not be the word processor, it may be the rituals that make that happen for you over and over.
Quite a few data stores use CRDTs under the hood.

Redis uses CRDTs for active-active architectures [1] and for some of their native data structures [2].

Riak also uses them in their data store [3].

And looks like PayPal might use them for consensus purposes (I found this while looking up the Riak talk so I haven't actually watched it) [4]

1: https://redis.com/blog/diving-into-crdts/

2: https://redis.com/videos/active-active-geo-distribution-redi...

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20882ZSdkU&ab_channel=Erlan...

4: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/crdt-production/
> Apple's own ads product has tripled its market share since this launched.

Serious question: what exactly is "Apple's own ads product?"
Where would I (as an Apple ecosystem user) encounter it?