skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also worked there and what I like about the phrasing in the quote above is that it surfaces the possibility of turning a one-way-door into a two-way-door.
The DNOS minicomputer division demanded that the 99/4 be absolutely crippled, so powerful operating systems could not be run on the machine.

I was "lucky" enough to get a 99/4a early on, then a job at Deere converting DNOS systems to Xenix and TI System V on 68000 NuBus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-DNOS
Isn't it somewhat disconcerting that the sequence of media isn't protected by authenticated e2e? Essentially any delay and re-ordering is invisible?
So I think you misunderstand, a turbocharged engine generally produces hotter exhaust due to the gases being run through a compressor, and often have more aggressively set timing than a similar layout aspirated engine. I don't know where you got "the cooling of the exhaust air" from?
This notion is only used in context of smart contracts and on-chain virtual machine code.

This is in contrast to wallet implementations.
A common complaint about tech is that they do get rid of #5. It's a classic tech thing to remove a bullshit job and siphon off part of the surplus to the tech company and part of it to the employer of the bullshit job. Only the bullshittiest of jobs survives.

As for the rest:

1. Housing - tech does help with this, via enabling remote work for a larger class of people, micro housing, and easier purchases/sales for homes outside of big areas. See here: Zoom, OpenDoor, Haus.me

2. Health - so many, but goes all the way from Benchling to Robin. Actual health stuff but also ancillary industries.

3. Inequality - I don't consider this a problem

4. Unkindness - Citizen for crime, a bunch of law tech startups for law

5. Addressed above.
Yep we will complain and we will let the public know what apple is up to. We are always watching the watchers as well. Don't forget that Apple. We won't let you reframe it as "think of the children". Please stick to the hardware and making $$$ business, we don't want you playing keystone cops.
Usually you can fit a full-size card in most of the mini-itx cases. Not every full-sized card, but a full-sized card.

I was lucky and building before prices shot sky high and availability became so limited, so it might be harder to find a card you know for sure will fit.

There's a pretty large community around building small form factor pcs, and a lot of forums will have case/card compatibility lists.
What would a low capital biological research institute look like? Like nothing?....because it can't exist? (This is the answer in my experience). I ask only to see if anyone has any ideas. The consensus seems to be that you will always need 100s of millions of dollars to do something like this.
It's a manifesto. They are saying "We are X, and here is what we believe". Anyone can do that, no authority required.
chess.com has always been more laggy when moving pieces around than lichess, which is perfectly lag free animation for me. Not sure what is causing it, but I have the feeling, that it affects my blitz performance a lot, especially in time trouble.
That's just a version number. It's like saying Gmail launched in 2009, because that's when they removed the "beta" label, when people had actually been using it since 2004.

Rust was available in 2012[0], and Swift wasn't until 2014. In reality, since we're talking about using it on the server, Swift wasn't available until almost 2016[1].

[0]https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-January/001...

[1]https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-linux-port/
This is Linux after all.

This niche is not "real people" because "real people" don't use Linux. At the same time there are a lot of unreasonable requests, and the developer makes something free and shouldn't be bothered with such a low reward. Rudimentary functionality in Linux is quite good, maybe it will be a real issue in usage, but "real linux" users use keyboard. ;)
And likewise, Dqlite for the C folks in the crowd:

https://dqlite.io/

[Edit] The only thing that'd be different for Rust and/or C is the avoidance of "stop-the-world" GC pauses, which affect Java more, but are still present in Golang.
It's true that language specific IRs are more powerful, but that isn't the problem in this example. Interfaces aren't part of Zig at the language level, nor are object lifetimes over which to make the vtables immutable. Having a memory model where memory is not innately typed is what makes this problem difficult to optimize, the IR has very little to do with it.
The author also failed to say anything positive about electric motors.

Considering a stock-off-the-lot tesla can absolutely rip a hellcat in a race, you'd think these guys would be all for it.
I didn't write this with anything specific in mind; it's based on a binge of Defcon videos from at least a year ago - consider that my citation.

Honestly, anyone that invests the slightest amount of effort in researching how vulnerabilities are found could arrive here. I'm surprised there's skepticism, quite honestly.

It often comes down to the would-be attacker downloading a published update, looking around the PHP or whatever within, and finding unprotected or bugged APIs to leverage -- often to write their own modified version of that same update.
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Thank you for saying this. Rare to come across someone here who is realistic about the situation.
How does this work? I mean, I suppose the server must at least know the IP addresses of the participants?
And the bUt yOU dOn'T uNderStAnd tHe tEchNolOgy! Really? a communuity of programmers, engineers, and scientists can't understand technology? It's so preposterous.
Yeah, I also thought this was going to be bot vs bot :)
> "The fact is that liberty and safety are intrinsically at odds."

If you own an Apple iPhone, and you have photos on it, and you enter into a contract with Apple Computer to use their cloud service, and you upload photos to the cloud service for them to host on their servers, do you have the "liberty" for them to not be allowed to stop you abusing the service in egregious ways? This isn't a matter of freedom and liberty while you can still you can refuse to use iCloud and refuse to use iPhones. Where, by comparison to your example you have much less option to opt-out of travelling by road, using products driven to you on roads and working with people who travelled by road to get to you.

> "it's the implicit calculation we do in other cases, e.g. preventing child deaths in car accidents. We all implicitly agree that some amount of death and disfigurement of children is worth the economic and social benefits of cars"

We don't all agree in the same way; the amount of agreement is continually changing. Where roads are dangerous, authorities lower speed limits and add traffic calming measures and citizens agitate for cycle lanes and pedestrian zones. Where vehicle exhaust makes for poor air quality, people demand cars must have catalytic converters and be subject to emissions control regulations. When pedestrians die in crashes, car manufacturers add external crumple zones. Around schools, people are employed to stop traffic and help children cross roads safely. We pay educators to teach children about road safety and pay for campaigns aimed at educating drivers about pedestrian awareness, drunk driving, distracted driving, the risks of speeding, using fairly graphic imagery of children being hit and killed to drive home the point. We mandate that older cars have regular checks to make sure they're still road worthy and still have functioning brakes and tyre tread and working lights for safety reasons.

I'm often arguing against cars and the harm they do to humans, but it's not the "either you ban cars or you hate children" boolean you're suggesting it is where everyone who benefits from cars is happy to sacrifice children for those benefits and thinks the current amount of sacrifice is just fine thanks and wouldn't change it if they could.
One of the authors (Andrew L. Shapiro) wrote the 1999 book The Control Revolution. It's something of a sibling to Lawrence Lessig's Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Shapiro was a student of Lessig's), though its focus is somewhat different.

The first part reads (intentionally) archingly technophillic. That's balanced by the following sections.

The number of currently-extant issues identified with piercing accuracy is ... large. I strongly recommend the book.

David Shenk's Data Smog is similarly pioneering and insightful.

Other signers are better known. Douglas Rushkoff's current project is his Team Human podcast, he's also known for his book Cyberia, both of which are strongly critical of tech trends since the late 1990s. Steven Johnson has written several books on technology. Paulina Borsook wrote Cyberselfish.
Most important thing for me is the latency of the streaming solution. Discord seem to do really well here, with <1 second latency times. You done any measurements with your solution to suggest how much latency there is between the server and the client?
"Minor" is a fairly reasonable description IMO; best predictions suggest single digit productivity loss a hundred years from now, compared to a number of existential risks like nuclear proliferation, advanced biowarfare, normal warfare, etc. Of course it's all relative.
A few years later IBM developed another UNIX variation on the RT PC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC). It had a microkernel running on top of a RISC processor, and the microkernel hosted a port of UNIX System V (which IBM called AIX), a port of BSD 4.3, or PICK OS. The RISC processor evolved into the Power series which is still around.
I wonder how much general agreement there is with these opinions. Personally I agreed with most of the UI opinions except the preference for L-shaped knight move arrows.
archive.org has a pretty good collection of snapshots for this site, going back to Dec 1998 (I'm guessing ~6 months after it was first published based on the Mar 12, 1998 date on the site).

https://web.archive.org/web/19981212033307/https://www.techn...

The bullet points are exactly the same 24 years later, but I didn't check to confirm that the text under the bullet points is the same.
Roblox pressures reporter covering its in-game market where kids gamble IRL cash
> places like Google

Which place aside from Google?
> All that happened was people loitering & browsing on their phones a bit before buggering off. Removing that isn't going to tangibly speed up the roll-out of vaccines.

It's not generally a problem for mass vaccination centres, but it very much is for small GP practices and pharmacies.
To be fair, we know it will be a problem, but we don't know if will actually be a big problem or a small problem. Will we have mass migrations? Total environmental collapse? Deserts everywhere? Or will something bigger than climate change roll around to wipe out civilization, like a mass psychosis or WW3?
Check out https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/prot.... It is metadata-free. It does not require a centralized server. It uses Tor.

Goals of the project (solved):

Users aren't personally identifiable by contacts or their address
Communication is authenticated and private
No person or server can access contact lists, message history, or other metadata
Resist censorship and monitoring at the local network level
Resist blacklisting or denial of service against users
Accessible and understandable for non-technical users
Reliability and interactivity comparable with traditional IM services

OK, the accessibility part is not implemented, but that is besides the point. I am not arguing in favor of using Ricochet here, so it does not matter anyways. FWIW, it has been audited.
> Please, try to hide your excitement about a turbo-six instead of a bruiser Hemi V8

A lot of turbo 6's would absolutely hose a v8 - Ford in Australia learned this when they released the XR6 Turbo with a 4.0L inline 6 turbo, and out-sold and out-performed their flagship 8cyl offerings.

This author sounds like a typical old man yelling at the clouds.
3 steps to building your own trading app with Alpaca
Oh my god you can turn it on during a game?

Here I am turning it back on via the menu after saying GG each game! What a chum!
I do not have a 737 type rating. But I did work on the 757 stabilizer trim system and gearbox design for 3 years. I know what runaway stabilizer trim is, and have been through the failure mode analysis on the 757 trim system.

> the defining characteristic of runaway trim failures that I've experienced is that the trim keeps going in one continuous motion until it can't go any further or you manually shut off the system

Runaway trim is the trim coming on when it isn't supposed to. It could be continuous, it could go it fits and starts, it could come on randomly. The corrective action is the same - turn it off.

This is why the trim cutoff switch is prominently there on the console within easy reach.

Waiting until it can't go further, i.e. it runs into the stops, is just not a good idea as by then the airplane may be in an extreme pitch position which may not be recoverable.

> ...after their poorly designed system caused a plane crash

The LA crew never turned off the trim system, despite restoring normal trim with the electric thumb switches 25 times.

The previous LA flight experienced the same MCAS malfunction, and after restoring trim a couple times, turned off the stab trim system. They then proceeded to their destination and landed normally. They did not know about MCAS, but they did know that runaway trim is dealt with by turning it off, which is a memory item.

The MCAS system was poorly designed. But a contributing factor to the crash was the pilots not following proper procedure in response to runaway stab trim.

I am not a pilot, so take the following as you will:

1. if I suspected an autopilot malfunction, I would turn it off and fly manually and let the maintenance people figure it out.

2. if I experienced runaway trim, I would turn off the trim and fly without it as much as possible, again letting the maintenance people debug it.

In general, I am not going to debug a flight critical system at 30,000 feet that is malfunctioning if I can fly safely without it.

I agree that Boeing made a big mistake in not disclosing the existence of MCAS and how it operated.
about half of these concerns evaporate if you just use a hardware wallet. web3 will almost certainly never achieve its goals if hardware wallet adoption isn't ubiquitous.

if you want to lever criticism, criticize how expensive hardware wallets are and their lack of support.
JFYI you can play all your steam games on GeForce Now at least.
There’s nothing unethical about a scientist working on weapon development for their country in the middle of a war. Imagine it’s 1935 and you lack the modern perspective. I mean you might not like it, but I don’t think there’s an ethical violation here.
The ZX81 did the same in "Fast mode". "Slow mode" actually kept the screen refreshed when buttons were pushed - amazing.
The FDA could permanently lift some restrictions on abortion pills
It's not executed in-browser, it runs in the Swift Playgrounds app. Think of it like an RSS feed that you can add to the app, and it'll show you new chapters of the book once they're published.
> There is no possibility that outages are good for AWS.

Do you know how many non-technical CEOs/boards/bosses have told their tech people that they need to go multi-region/cloud because that's what the one-paragraph blog and/or tweet told them to do in response to last weeks event?
Ford still makes crate engines based on the 302 & 351, and Chevy still makes small & big block engines despite the fact that these architectures aren't in any production vehicle (the LS series of engines are based on Chevy's small block, but there's so many changes it may as well be a new architecture). I don't see why Stellantis wouldn't keep producing a small line of V8 engines for enthusiasts.
East coast drivers are all terrible, but the worst by far drive shitty commuter cars.
Ask HN: Best place to purchase (used) technical books that's not Amazon?
I'm trying to disconnect myself from Amazon as much as I can. Where this burns me is purchasing (used) technical books. I've been trying to leverage my local library system more but the majority of the technical, CompSci-esque books are laughable. I found one book that's good and I'm working through it, but most of the stuff there is "Windows 8.1 for Dummies" and "Hosting your own blog" sort of content. I think the next most-technical book I've seen is

I know there's the traditional MSRP avenues for new books, such as traditional book sellers, but I'm hoping I can find a marketplace for used, worthwhile technical books.

Any pointers?

Thanks!
Thanks for this suggestion! I didn't think about it at all. I will look into it. I'd rather have a small desktop that I can carry than yet another laptop.

I completely agree with you that laptops degrade way faster than I like
Thanks for the elaboration.
And encrypt your home partition.
This is specific to small Turbo engines (eg. 1.1 l three cylinder turbo). They get great MPG ratings in official testing, but in real world usage they perform worse than a larger non-turbo counterpart (for the same amount of power/HP).

Small turbos get good mpg ratings, but their real world use is different:
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109366_small-turbo-eng...

The trouble with turbos: Why fuel economy can be worse, not better
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/adventure/red-li...

Could we be reaching the end of the road for small-capacity turbocharged engines?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/02/could-we-be-reaching-th...
> but i suppose that given the right taps it would be possible to correlate through server streams based on timing data anyhow

Probably, but it'd be much harder I suppose.
Lichess allows you to upload a custom bots and play them (and other can too), and I believe you can also run against other bots. There's also https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship, but IDK how one enters.
Wow! Ok, I will check it out. I'm willing to pay a subscription if I have access to my library.
I'm assuming NSO just buys these exploits and then packages them.
I find game analysis in lichess much better than chess.com's. The advices it gives out are usually rubbish.
I think the whole value of the Unix tool ecosystem is that you don't need to build large pieces of software. If you look at all the GUI tools that Microsoft had to build for Windows administration in the earlier days and how they eventually came out with PowerShell because of the inadequacy of those tools, you can see how successful Unix tools have been by the --lack-- of big software that does their job.
Perseverance rover makes 'completely unexpected' volcanic discovery on Mars
One of the values of the Internet generally strongly endorsed by the Technorealists, techno-optimists, and techo-pessimists (or neo-Luddites) is that the Internet should be a forum for free expression especially of minority views.

Which is precisely what they are doing: freely expressing what at the time was a distinctly minority view.

For a list of signatories, see: https://www.technorealism.org/faq.html

You'll have to use the Wayback Machine on many of those links, though HN readers who've followed this debate should recognise at least some names. I've highlighted a few in an earlier comment.

Several (and perhaps most) of the signatories have written books (either before or after the launch of Technorealism), and/or articles in the tech or general press.
Exhaust gas runs through a turbine, hence 'Turbo'. Typically this cools exhaust. Whether or not the higher combustion temperature from the compressed inlet gas makes up for this is not known to me.
What air quality sensors do you recommend? Thanks.
I wonder if the people on this thread that complain about the battery life shortly after buying it use the vacuum in its "turbo" or "power" modes.

I purchased one of the LG stick vacuums and I've vacuumed almost the entire house with it. Whereas my housemate picked it up and vacuumed one large room and the battery was half flat, he complained about it, then I caught him vacuuming the entire room on the boost setting simply because he wanted the most suction possible. But it wasn't needed at all.
I prefer a numpad too so you're not alone.
> as researchers refuted all their technical arguments one by one.

Heya, do you have any links for that? Haven't really been keeping up with this whole thing. I briefly looked at the Privacy Sandbox proposal page a while back in late 2020 to figure out what it was all about, but haven't really got anything on researchers refuting their technical arguments.
> Every company I've ever worked for, when they went looking for a VP-Of-Something, they'd never promote from the proletariat--they'd always go externally and look for someone from the nobility.

Interestingly, that might be the case for Fortune 500. But among the fortune 10, most CEOs/C-Suite are engineers with long tenures at the company.

Actually, if you look back at some of the most influential companies in the Valley at their peak, that's been a rule of thumb since the Fairchild days. Andrew Grove is an example of that [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove
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Turbochargers do not compress exhaust air, they compress intake air using already-expanded escaping exhaust gas. It is possible this restriction preserves (localizes?) some heat but based on my very, very basic understanding of thermodynamics I would expect some exhaust heat to be "lost" to the work of compressing the intake air. I'm not sure how this would manifest. In the end I suspect exhaust gasses are still hotter in a turbo setup but as a side effect of ramming more air through the intake and burning more fuel per cycle.
I’m convinced every metropolitan area will have its share of bad drivers, and the only outlier is country-esque small towns where people are never in a hurry to get anywhere and often drive 10-5 under the limit.
Git is probably the most notable example of a complex software program that is composed of a series of independant tools, though gcc is actually also architecturally a pipeline. Visual studio code might also not be a great example. It's an ide, whose ide features are based on seperate process servers which communicate over a textual protocol... it's very plan 9 esque.
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>I'm still not sure I understand. If there is a working proof of concept for the exploit that is published, would you still consider that an invisible hypothetical?

Yes. If deployment is difficult and not applicable in real world settings it isn't really a threat, its like reading about the TouchID since the first iPhone 5S being tricked by copying fingerprints, or needing a bust of a person to trick FaceID. Do people still usually use it? Its a recipe, maybe even its cooked, but if nobody eats the poisoned food because it smells bad, I am not worried I might eat it.

>then significant money is at risk from security vulnerabilities then I'd usually expect security to win out.

In practice it sadly isn't true like the leaks of other people's data that constantly happens.

I think updating browsers is a good idea, I think sandboxing apps can be safer, using a VM for some functionality could be useful too (if you run XP and malware detects its a VM, it doesn't even infect it). Basically I see most security issues as paranoia when its academics publishing hypothetical attacks that have never been seen in the wild, if they made super ebola in a lab or anthrax, I am not too worried about breathing it in.

I would like it patched if the cost is worth it. Intel's was not, I disabled it, and religiously update my browser, my computer is faster, I have safety despite it never existing as an attack because it was easy to defeat.