skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't the benchmark of how secure those systems are, just a benchmark of how valuable exploiting them is. Hypothetically speaking, iOS could be more secure, but an Android exploit could be valued more if high valued targets tend to use Android. Keep in mind that phone OS usage varies quite a bit by country and wealth.
Also "Princes of the Yen", it mentions how IMF took advantage over Asia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-IZZxyb1GI
Blizzard has been the walking dead for a very long time now. They could very well be the Xerox of the video game industry. At that point of merger, they were big dogs in esports, and had the best rts, arpg, and mmo games out but they haven't done anything up to that level since then and have been completely incapable of capitalizing on their position, letting all of their advantages slip away.

They failed to capitalize on custom wc3 maps, so dota allstars spawns the moba genre with LoL, Dota2, smite, and countless others, tower defense games and other maps all spin off to make their own games. They make SC2's custom map functionality worse which cripples any chance for capturing further innovation.

They completely torpedo e sports with the release of SC2 which many consider just inferior to SC:BW, completely ignore WoW arena, or any kind of innovation at all with WoW, only releasing uninspired expansions to further milk addicts. Now players have gotten bored enough to jump ship to FFxiv and they are losing their cash cow. Lets not forget the entirely forgettable Warcraft movie too.

Even Overwatch was supposed to kill cs:go but it is basically treading water now, especially since the sequel was delayed and Jeff Kaplan has left. The pro league is a joke compared to the big names. HOTS was abruptly abandoned. Hearthstone was basically their only great success (but I assume is stagnating like everything else now), without it they basically have nothing which is why they have turned to remakes recently (and have failed spectacularly with wc3r and had to outsource d2r in response). They basically have nothing substantial until d4 or Overwatch 2, both of which were delayed until 2023 at the earliest. Now with all the workplace culture scandals they are hemorrhaging talent on top of everything and have effectively lost their position as one of the most desirable studios to work for in the industry.

I don't think Blizzard knows how to make good games anymore, that part died long ago.
TLDR:

The stolen information includes names, addresses, contact information and social insurance numbers.
(...)
Additionally, during a technical briefing on Tuesday, an official said the accessed data was unencrypted. On Wednesday, Haggie appeared to walk that statement back, saying he could not confirm whether the data had been encrypted.

The provincial government has so far been cagey on the details about the cyberattack, including who is behind it and their intentions. Sources have told CBC the security breach is a ransomware attack, but so far government officials have not confirmed the nature of the cyberattack and will not say if they have received a ransom demand.
> What Trump believes or uses for his political gain does not magically become incorrect by virtue of being believed or used by Trump.

OTOH, I will tell you that I definitely look at what my daughter says with a far more critical eye than I do what my son says, because my daughter has a track record of lying and my son does not.
Everything may be in a box, bag, or can (perhaps even frozen!) but that doesn't mean it's not healthy. Nor does availability of produce mean a particular individual is going to buy a (presumably healthy?) sack of apples over that (presumably unhealthy?) super sugary apple juice, or box of Apple Jacks cereal.

Philosophically, man, humans weren't meant to have fresh produce of all kinds from all over the world year-round. That a lot of us do can be a nice luxury for some, but I think it'd be really hard to justify such a state as a necessary component of a healthy diet.

I agree with you that budgeting sucks and is harder the less you have, though.
i believe there were cuts in the video so it was prerecorded. cuts that apparently were so clean it was another piece of evidence they had some access to some professional equipment as consumer grade equipment of the time wasn't up to the task
So you deploy a new contract and tell users why they should update. Then they can choose to use the new version or not. I don't think you really understand this idea.
it might look like a terrible practice, but in reality it actually is a funnel

if you don't have serious money lined up (typically 5-6 numbers minimum) sales won't bother with you anyways

sometimes pricing can't be easily calculated and there might be many factors and even some custom agreements in place (like SLAs), which do add up the cost substantially

in my own projects, however i always list minimum commitment for every tier

but only because i don't have enterprise sales team
You might want to experiment yourself before making bold assertions, because you are wrong. I've just tried these (with qemu-system-x86-6.0.0-7.fc35.x86_64):

• Microsoft_Windows_NT_Server_Version_4.0_227-075-385_CD-KEY_419-1343253_1996.iso (1996, own copy)

Installer starts, locks up with screen corruption about 5 seconds in.

• https://archive.org/details/windows-95_fixcpu_iso_windows_is... (1994-ish)

Cannot read the emulated CD-ROM.

• https://archive.org/details/redhat-9.0_release (2003)

Installer boots, but fails at partitioning stage, the first time it accesses the disk.

• https://archive.org/details/IBMOS2Warp4Collection (1996)

Cannot read the emulated CD-ROM.

• Plan 9, 4th ed. (2003, own copy)

Gets quite far, up to the login, although with a lot of errors, but later hangs hard. (Out of all of them this looks closest to being possible to make work.)

I can also tell you that we're moving away from emulating i440fx entirely (to q35), and nothing prior to 2005 will work once that change has been made. In addition, changes to how virtio works means that guests before about 2010 that use virtio will have problems unless you take special steps.
why do you have a fb account?
Here in Argentina, perhaps 40 years ago, my father took me to a car restoration workshop where two metal sheet workers ("chapistas") were forming a 1936 Chevrolet coupé roof by heating a steel sheet in the floor with a torch and curving it up by cooling it with damp cloth. That's also a technique to remove dents.
An English Wheel was used for the smaller radius parts.
For ultra successful startups, sure everyone gets rich.

I think the issue is with the 95% of startups that have no or moderate success who convince employees that lotto ticket equity and beanbag chairs are worth more than work-life balance, healthcare, and cold hard cash.
I think being generous with these arguments hurts more than helps. The reporting rules are mandatory for COVID-19 vaccines because they were authorized under emergency use.

"Healthcare providers who administer COVID-19 vaccines are required by law to report the following to VAERS" ... "Death" - https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html

Even someone who dies of a car accident gets recorded as a death. There is no judgement call made as to whether the vaccine caused it at all, it is required by law.

https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/saved/D8/D159F823

VAERS is a dataset that is meaningless on its own, especially in the case of the COVID-19 vaccine. It is meant to be compared with other datasets to uncover trends which could indicate a problem with the vaccine.
> "It's expensive to be poor."

This is a talking point I wish more people on HN understood.

Can't afford a dental cavity filling? It becomes a root canal next year. Maybe you'll settle on just a simple extraction, and now you're down a tooth with no hope of ever affording a dental bridge, let alone an implant.

Can't afford to get a lump checked out? Three years later, you're unable to afford the stage 3 cancer treatment.

Buying the massive 30-roll pack of toilet paper from Costco for $15 is cheaper than buying 6-packs for $5, but you only have $20 to last the week, and you gotta buy food, too.
Most (any?) smart contract platforms can theoretically bake in a concept of proxy upgrading or even decentralized governance over triggering the proxy into an upgraded contract. Sure it's complex now, but this is still very very new tech and those problems can easily be built upon and abstracted away.
That was basically the only win in that war
I think to some extent our media has developed an attitude towards inconvenient ideas that they are conspiracies. They can't discuss stuff like that without emphasizing how totally not true they are. I am not saying it is or isn't true but that the media will tend to suggest inconvenient stuff is not true.
> And what kind of legislation would tickle your fancy? Intentional release is already legislated against. How do you legislate the prevention of accidents?

That's a ridiculous line of reasoning: legislation helps mitigate accidents all the time.

Pilots don't want their bird to fall out of the sky, and yet legislation around pilot training, practices and certification limited the number of accidents.
> You mentioned earlier that "the capital to start" was part of what made being a taxi driver in Cuba "hard". $600,000 certainly sounds like rather a lot of capital in 2010. Are you now saying that acquiring that capital isn't hard, so only knowing who to bribe is the hard part?

Raising money in NYC is not the same as in Cuba.

First of all, in NYC you need USD and that's what the market will loan you. You can use your house as colateral, finance it through other means or rent the license from an owner. It's a scummy business and I'm glad Uber disrupted it, but there were several legal ways of doing so.

In Cuba, you'll need USD as well (the "official" currency is worthless) but it's illegal to carry it and the local warlord won't let you exchange it for a fair price. You need black market connections and potentially help from abroad to even have the slimmest chance at getting some real currencies.

> I ... don't know what that means. If a Cuban MD visit the US, they aren't referred to as doctor?!

This is America, they can refer to themselves how they want. Signing a prescription with their name and MD however would be a felony.

> So, the US appears to recognize medical degrees from Cuba like it recognizes degrees from other countries.

But earlier

> "US citizens trained in Cuba have demonstrated success in examinations to work in the US health system"

It's unclear how much classes they had to re-take before being able to pass the exam. The article won't say (of course).
And there are 2006 Chrysler 300s in the Bay Area for under $4 grand a piece on craigslist. As an asking price. The parts seem fairly affordable as well, judging from the parted out ones also on the bay area craiglist.

It's entirely reasonable that poor people have older model luxury cars, either purchased 3rd hand or from when they were better off financially. After all, how much do you think you'd pocket selling your old 2006 [any non-collectable car] if you had to buy something new to drive around.
>I think it's because it's vanishingly rare that someone actually wants to see the world burn to the extent that they're willing to spend years of personal effort to that end to enact a plan that will kill them and everyone they know and love.

The point is that's what has kept us safe so far. But when the complexity of bioterrorism gets to the level of script kiddies, there's plenty of people that are intelligent enough and driven to do it with nothing to lose. The difference with nuclear or chemical attacks is that those both require massive industrial capacity and complex delivery mechanisms. Think of the mayhem when a single hacker can modify a flu virus to infect the entire world.
You don't have to eat twice as much because the unit price doubled. I'm pretty sure the suggestion wasn't intended to mean that they should sell the same amount of product for $2 as they now do for $1.
“I learned it by watching you” where “you” = 90% of the web today, sadly.

(That is, unnecessarily and avoidable breaks some links that should be thusly clickable even if some still can be.)

How we got to this point, I have no idea.
Efficiency and robustness usually do anticorrelate.
90% cost reduction on world's largest health database using ideas from Erlang
The problem is not that all principles are bad. The problem is that there are so many people writing down stupid rules, and neither the good nor the bad ones get concretely justified, so it's very difficult for new programmers to discriminate between them. This is how we end up with new CS grads who wrap every new bit of functionality inside a class with getter/setter methods and write dozens of useless unit tests.
because it's not a real problem. The same way you can buy a mona lisa t-shirt in the gift shop and that doesn't steal any of the value away from the owner.

What you describe could be rather easily implemented, but why would anyone build or use that?
For Syncthing on iOS there is Möbius Sync. However, it struggles with background updates (due to iOS restrictions).
There are some thoughts you just aren’t allowed to think, lest you be labeled a trump-supporting nazi racist.
That war was lost on 2003. Biden finally put a fork in it
Everytime you get evicted and the landlord throws your stuff on the curb
I don't mind crypto as anonymous payment to buy illegal things online. And that's all it's good for, really.

Shady gambling, scams and shitty art is not the future.
That's simply not true. I've bought products from Wirecutter recommendations that simply link a clean merchant url - no affiliate link.
IKEA-style exploded assembly diagram from a KiCad PCB with Fusion 360 [video]
Oh, how I am reminded that I need to add yet another quart of oil into my Isuzu for the next two weeks.
Great thank you. I am very interested in alternative ways to organize the global economy that are more equitable and fair so I appreciate the link.

I should also mention Naomi Klein's No Logo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeTgLKNb5R0
Exactly the same thing happens to me. Ain't nobody got time for that, after like day 9 or so.
Neither of those are in rural areas. Heck, people I know in urban areas are still excited when the Aldi's come to town.
Ransomware is a threat, even for the smallest of businesses
Yea, I've yet to come across a regex replacement tool as easy to use as jetbrains find & replace. Invaluable for certain tasks.
HTMX really kicks ass, I simply love it.
Yep! I don't know what it is about mattresses specifically, but every part of the industry from highstreet shops to the online products all make me feel like I'm being ripped off in a way that no other product does.

Bed salesmen are worse than car salesmen.
Raise your hand if you have not designed your own language.
New thing here may be the community members reading it.
JRR Tolkien estate to ‘JRR Token’ cryptocurrency: You shall not pass
It matters in the same way that understanding why a plane crashed matters. If you can't figure out why a plane crashed then you can't improve flight safety much.
Yes. A billion devices don't support Vulkan, and never will. And that's just Android.

But yeah, sure tell me how you won't need to create a different version of software just because of Vulkan.

Meanwhile, Metal is supported on all Apple devices (starting with A7 chip), and given how "Apple has the most liquid cash out of any company in the world right now" (your words), they are not in a "desperate need" of developers supporting their systems.
There's plenty of "weight loss clinics" these days that are just thinly veiled prescription speed dealers, to give another example.
In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true, without conveying any information apart from the fact that the statement is indeed true.

You can build untraceable anonymous cryptocurrencies using these algorithms.
This is actually really freaking hilarious. I laughed out loud literally. Great work!
I've had issues in the past with PDF search in Safari and Preview. Very pleased with Spotlight, though I keep hearing good things about Alfred.

Having Finder search the whole Mac by default (instead of current folder) is a bit of an annoyance.

What has been your experience?
Also 90% discount for nonfat people

90% discount on lung cancers of nonsmokers

General 30% discount for people exercising regularly

Etc...
Good leaders are merciful to sins confessed and decisive towards sins discovered.
If you're at the point that serious GC performance is being examined, then a rewrite to rust is something that should be considered on the strategic roadmap if it is code you have control over (versus third party / OSS software).

I think Go has a maximum expansion footprint. People presumably use Go because it is faster and better GC than Java. Rust will probably eat a lot of that territory. That will leave people that like it strictly for language/idiomatic reasons, and that won't be enough.

The entire meta-point of the post is to try to argue that Go is "better" than Java GC-wise. Well, it is and it isn't in reality, as benchmarks and people in the know have said. If it is "better" it is a very unconvincing win.

As someone wise said 10 years ago, you almost need 10x the performance to have a convincing improvement to get laypeople to notice, and to get dev people to consider switching from legacy/entrenched ways of doing things.

Here, there's basically no real world improvement to point to.
Do any of current VR headsets do reprojection within headset independently from the game framerate similar to what tilt-5 does? I would expect it to help a lot with minimizing any delays and thus reducing motion sickness. Shouldn't it work even better with VR since most objects are further away from eyes compared to virtual tabletop thus smaller change in shape of them when doing minor head movements?

I can think of two potential problems with VR reprojection that don't affect tilt-5 as much. Virtual tabletop rendered by most tilt-5 applications is closer to being flat surface which can be reprojected perfectly (ignoring pixel density). There is no rendered content to draw on the edges of screen when turning the head left or right, in case of tilt-5 unless your head is very close to the board nothing is rendered on the edges of FOV anyway since the board is in the middle of it. Might not be too much of problem since FOV edges need less details. Simply fading black or generating filler based on edge colors similar to TVs with ambilight might be good enough. There is also an option to render slightly wider FOV to give some buffer area if it means that hitting high framerate isn't as critical.
At least concerning the tax issue, the US government doesn't even need to do that. If they squeeze the credit card and banks as they've done for the adult industry and marijuana industry, we will see the entire market deflate. The only reason crypto is okay in the West is because an offramp into fiat is provided. Once that offramp gets closed, it's game over and we are back to 2010 in terms of crypto value.
Clockwork Pi DevTerm Review: Hands-On with the TRS-80-Inspired Kit Computer
Fundamentals of Java about data/class layouts in memory have remain same for decades. So author is right at big picture.

> I think the changes Java has made to GC are among the biggest improvements to the framework/JVM and have contributed vastly to JVM stability and growth over the last decade.

This is of course true. However the point is for Java it is absolute necessity for Go it may be nice to have.
A better analogy is a forest fire - perhaps a human triggered it, maybe it was lightening. Whichever caused this specific fire, you cannot build a fire prevention strategy solely around stopping people lighting fires.
The distributed network exists because we collectively agree to host the nodes, and because we put trust in that network, and in its supply chain (application, OS, hardware, electricity, clay, etc). Ownership is built on that trust - exactly the same as your ownership of a domain name is built on the trust in the registrar, ICANN, root name servers, and so on.

Suppose a hypothetical scenario, where a malicious actor sneaks in a bug into the node's code, that causes the requests signed by your key to be rejected, and the code gets deployed to the majority of the network. Your key/token becomes effectively worthless.

Suppose a (much less hypothetical) scenario, where a state decides to outlaw the technology, which puts node operators/users at a legal risk, disincentivizing the use of the network locally, and diminishing its value globally. You still "own" the token, but it's that much less useful.

There are different considerations, trade-offs, threat models, failure modes, horror stories, but nothing about ownership in a decentralised network is _fundamentally_ different - it's still built on trust.
This is a really excellent list. Some of it is specific to the kind of low level work this person was doing, but a lot of it isn’t. I would love to work on a team with the author of this blog post.
i should be selling cocaine and cocaine accessories, i could also use some myself
Yeah. If you want a V8 sedan on a budget Chrysler 300s are a great option (as were the used Ford panther family of cars that preceded them in that market niche).

....which is why they're so stigmatized by the white collar well to do crowd.
They voted for it via representative democracy. If it comes out that there was a leak and politicians still want to fund this kind of thing, then they'll get less votes.
Nobody votes for most things in a representative democracy. I don't think you'd be surprised to know that bad press is effective at changing behavior.

The notable exception is Donald Trump, whose superpower is that shame causes him to double down. He's the kryptonite for a representative democracy. Just because of that, I'll never understand why people voted him in.
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Yes, it uses Qt for the GUI. Thanks ^_^
The fat protocol hypothesis hasn't been proven. If your app has value, why would you let a protocol take any of it?
I think the point is that people on the poverty line eventually have to start making decisions that will break them out of the cycle. There are plenty of programs out there that will do just that. A 50lb bag of rice might very well be too much upfront but it might mean hitting the local food pantry while building up a pantry full of staples from EBT.
I don't pretend this is an easy process but continuing to do that same and getting the same results shouldn't be surprising to anyone.
Additionally, it can't be stated enough how important it is to build up credit for these people.
There was even faster/nicer way of doing this in the past from KRunner via Events Plasma Runner: https://store.kde.org/p/1081205/ I really miss this. Does anyone know of something similar for the current version of KDE Plasma 5?
let's make a cricket DAO
Realistically speaking we have no legislature anymore.
No, but it doesn't have to be for good reasons. Was there unmet demand for supercomputers to stare at while taking a shit 20 years ago?

20 years ago only big companies could do it. Now anyone can do it, so they will. There are over 15,000 cryptocurrencies of one kind or another right now. When anyone can spin one up for peanuts lots of people will.