skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as I said, it was a defacto paramilitary arm - [https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/exhibits/show/rebelgoverno...] (one of many, many examples)

Or do you think the gov’t of Alamance and Caswell counties just somehow lost the paperwork?

Why do you think the Federal government sent in federal Marshalls (and more) so James Meredith could attend Ole’ Miss? Could it have something to do with the Governor himself taking over as registrar to block it, and numerous threats of violence, including from the KKK? [https://aas.olemiss.edu/documenting-the-african-american-exp...]

If you want to talk First, Second, or Third Klan, then sure. But if you want to spin the Klan in the south as a bunch of radicals running around in the woods? That’s just false.

It was who would come for you if you didn’t do what you were ‘supposed to’ - and were aided, abetted, and in many cases actively led by members of various state and local governments. When Lincoln was assassinated, reconciliation or follow through post civil war mostly stopped, and for a long time the hardliners and ‘secret Baathists’ (or not so secret) used it as their enforcement arm. And it was very effective. Ask any black man or woman living in the Deep South.

Now they’re mostly a bunch of loser types (Third Klan or post Third Klan depending on where you draw the line), but they’re still somewhat dangerous. And to not remember the history is even more dangerous.
> The Chinese economy did well because of the zero-CoVID policy. The policy allowed China to reopen businesses in March-April 2020, and to avoid widespread lockdowns since

Much of that GDP growth was still tearing down and building apartment blocks. It isn't real. Again, they are completely closed up now. They are "locked down" even if they aren't stuck in their houses anymore. I wouldn't want to be living in Beijing right now (where I was from 2007-2016), it isn't a very fun life these days.
Repeated torture ?
at a certain point you have to take responsibility for your actions and the impact it has on the world. Sure, if you don't do it somebody else will. But what matters is that you weren't the one who did it and dirtied your hands. Yes, the CEO/management are responsible for the overall direction and tactics used by the business but the engineers are also complicit since without them the plan isn't executed.
Would you say that gamblers that choose to gamble and destroy their lives doesnt matter or not in the end because it's their choice?

Is morality just relative and unconnected to your neighbor?
sure. i don't think i'm articulating my real point well enough.

web browsers and all of their components get audited. because they process potentially malicious data as their core function, they see A LOT of attention in terms of hardening.

the point that i'm trying to make is: the amount of software that doesn't immediately and apparently touch potentially malicious data is absolutely enormous and the number of paths that data can take to touch that software is even more enormous. yes, one can put forth good principles for "building codes" for software and yes, one should... but there's an awful lot of software out there that is not up to code (where the craft is so young that the idea of a code isn't even close to being finalized) and it won't be for a very long time.

that being the actual on the ground situation, what is one simple thing that individual developers can do to help prevent catastrophes? always sanitize inputs. moreover, it's much easier to find and audit every place where data is accepted from untrusted sources than it is to find every place where data may be parsed.
I disagree that life has no meaning, and helping the poor is deeply meaningful. Redirecting wealth from the rich is one way to do that.
Ouch. I came here to see if there are any contemporary self improvement books I've missed, then I read this.
I've completely turned away from non-fiction books/audiobooks in recent years and find it difficult to even know where to start back....
Any specific book recommendations?
>Honestly, I would expect more of how to not look so stupid or incompetent that people won't want you near anything important.

If I wanted to convince most people I were not stupid or incompetent I would:

1. point out problems with their plans

2. argue about precise wordings as pedantry is seen as the sign of a precise intelligence.

3. be reasonable and urge reasonableness, surely the incompetent would not be reasonable.

4. talk about potential ramifications of decisions made going against organizational goals.

etc. etc. in short many of the methods that will allow you to shut down progress also help bolster your own reputation for intellectual rigor and understanding of issues from all sides.

Sure you won't be seen as a fiery genius, but a sagacious counselor - that's good enough.
To some extent that's true, but you're missing a fundamental aspect of humanity's relationship with nature: we're completely dependent on it, but it's not dependent on us.

Humans, for example, could change the biosphere to the extent that human life would be difficult, and billions of us would die off. Nature, however, wouldn't "care" at all, as life tends to find a way.
Consider US vs PRC scenario - naval battle over ocean where theatre area is cordoned off as no-go zone for commercial traffic. UAVs massively out maneuver human pilots. Massive electronic warfare disrupts data links and force remote human out of loop. So UAV falls back to onboard sensors to operate autonomously to finish mission to sink enemy ships. Well preferrable enemy ships that match onboard profiles, but might as well as sink all vessels within a no-go region. No real need for human decision making if goal is already well defined and the environment permissible. Vast percentage of the earth (bodies of water, minimally occupied lands) can easily be turned into no-mans land for UAVs to battle with little risk for collateral damage. It's the same permissible environment for tactical nukes, which is still part of doctrine / planning for anyone that has them.
Browsers have the sandbox. Extensions are outside of it, within a different one, but the further up you go the more vulnerabilities there are.
Is there a reason they waited 50 years? Was it specifically to wait for new technology to analyse the sample?
Benign explanation: for whatever reason, they're not getting the newsletters so they're trying to subscribe again using a throwaway.
You sure? I believe there's only a window of 2-3 months. It has happened to me couple times
A language server is an API for a program in a language, so that text editors and linter and code generators can all interact with the program without knowing about each other.
You do not need to decompile any code to scan a .so for symbols used.

So, more advocacy BS.
A deeper issue is what happens if you sell the name NFT on two blockchains. Which one should count?
Please tell me the rules, since you're so knowledgeable and the rules are so obvious. I worked in finance. I read our company's rules. I attended compliance meetings every year. And I could not tell you for the life of me if a co-worker WhatsApped me to ask if I was coming to a bar on a Saturday, if we were violating any rules.

The line between personal and business isn't black and white, and broker dealers are required to neatly separate them into "things you can talk about here and nowhere else" and "things you can only talk about elsewhere and never here." Oh, and to boot, WhatsApp is encrypted, so you never know what people are talking about anyway. So, even if they are talking about personal stuff as friends, the fact that they could have been talking about business can make it a fineable offense, even though they wouldn't have been allowed to talk about it in work channels.

So, please tell me exactly why this is such an easy thing to follow.

My personal view is that the SEC just wants to ban all finance employees from ever being allowed to use encrypted messaging (9mm people in the US), which would then put pressure on Facebook to decrypt its messenger (the government's actual goal). And they know that going after places like JPM will get all the finance-hating public riled up, and ignore the fact that this is just one more example of the government trying to get more power to spy on people. Just my take.
> NFTs are not scarce.

This is why provenance matters. The NFT with the same provenance is scarce. When an artist mints an NFT and sells it, the NFT provenance is part of the value.

If I mint an NFT pointing to a frame in Pulp Fiction, no one cares. If Quentin Tarantino mints one, now it has value.
I've read the project's description and failed to figure what it does.
What's a 'USB switch'?
Where should this device be connected to?
"press one button on your USB switch and all your monitors connect to a different input." - if the USB switch has buttons - why would I even disconnect/reconnect it?
The project's description is shit.
The IP address 34.66.115.47 points to Google Cloud. I think there's a possibility the real address is legitimate and it's just a coincidence? Or maybe they're using a Tor-like service that "covers their tracks" by sending randomized data?

If you don't see any obvious reason for malice, I think you should email them and ask!
Was it my comment you were intending to reply to?
I’d really prefer to not have to make an account. Or if I do, sign in via Apple.
See if your newsletter leaks emails? Many do.
Log4j 2.17.0 released, for third CVE (CVE-20 21-45105)
I think what you're describing is the SingStar game on PS3 :D We used to play it a lot with friends. Truly fun.
The looming background risk of nature the most distressing part of the constant and ongoing petty human squabbling.

The coronavirus is really nothing compared to the scale of disaster that is expected over a 100 year period. And yet people persist in running down all their buffers and living lives assuming that nothing will go wrong. Their really should be an expectation that every household has at least a years supply of tinned food.
If I can’t trust Amazon to handle this issue why should I trust their grocery stores to not sell pesticide contaminated foods?

Similarly, why should I trust Walmart to not sell similarly contaminated items in store? If Amazon can get away with, wittingly or not poisoning, their customers, then as history shows it is a short matter of time before their competitors cut the same corner.
I’m sure Mac Donald’s would happily make a few billion burgers for the right price
Interesting. My current set up is a usb switch and an hdmi switch, so two buttons to push.
AIUI the decision was made via standard procedure (a Request for Comments sub-page), and it was the consensus of the editors (that is, the ominous "they" in your comment) that it is unreliable as a source.

Now there is an obvious need for quality control of accepted sources in a project like Wikipedia, the process was transparent, and its conclusion is up for debate (hence being conducted through a Request for Comments). What would you propose instead?
I know that, but this one ("Iotel") either has a bit-flip or is some kind of fake?
I don't understand the opposition for the death penalty in cases like this.

The person was clearly guilty, and a serial offender. Removing this individual from society creates the maximum good for all.
Not quite, no. Even manually setting the clock rate would allow for performance improvement as you could lock the card at its boost clock or at least prevent downclocking under load.

The only lockout solution is to lock speeds to the base clock completely.
> But there is so much more that can be done with NFTs. For some thing, ownership actually gives you an advantage.

I have an unwritten blog post about what "ownership" means in the digital realm, but the gist is that ownership is control. This is complicated by laws imposing meatspace-minded artificial scarcity, mainly by forbidding the duplication and/or reverse-engineering of certain bytes on your own hard drive (programs which have restrictive licenses).

So NFTs have nothing at all to do with ownership because they don't touch those dynamics (at least not in a way meaningful to the end user). Even an NFT that granted you certain privileges would have those privileges enforced by some external system, so you're again only borrowing the authority from someone else so it's really they who own it and you're only buying a license to use it.

Open source software, on the other hand, is about ownership because the license is granted to users to assume full control of what they possess with no third-party arbitration.
As a person that has worked on a product that did NFTs before they reached mainstream [1]: This is not what we were trying to achieve.

And before anyone comes with the classic HN argument that blockchain is a hammer looking for a nail. Sorry no. In 2015, we did what any other startup would do to create a product and talked to a whole lot of customers and did story elicitation.

What customers were interested in was:

- being able to prove the existence and hence authorship of their digital artwork upon creation: blockchain anchoring was a good fit

- being able to make their art digitally ownable (precursors were e.g. Rafaël Rozendaal's ownable TLDs)

- making money from their creations

- transferring/consigning/loaning

- generating a certificate of authenticity

- licensing/copyright claims

Many of these things aren't important in today's modern NFTs anymore. But what the author has created is not what artists were looking for in those days and it's not what they're looking for today. If they did, surely they'd do what the author suggests.

- [1] https://ascribe.io
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I use the Omada SDN business line-up.
Please re-read my original comment. If the binary is stripped, no internal symbols would have been visible or even present in the file to be scanned. The jumps between subroutines happen directly, without a symbol jump table (because a jump table adds runtime overhead and is largely unnecessary, especially in statically linked executables).
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That you can have cross-game assets and universes between different games and developers. Your special Dota skin works as a skin World of warcraft (?) or it might work in ancillary services around the game: could be used as a feature unlock or even log-in for services around the core game.

It can setup a marketplace of unique items without the game founders having to create anything at all, or users recurring to unsafe selling and buying mechanisms.

Game applications are definitely interesting to explore and experiment with.
Hello IIAOPSW!

I think you are thinking about it in exactly the right way! Have you not, perhaps, been consuming content from the Qualia Research Institute? :-)

Seriously - at QRI we think quite similarly. Please reach out if you'd like to have a chat. See my comment on the main thread for some useful links. I'll add as well that indeed repetition is the building block of cognition, and this is due to harmonic resonance!

In particular, we have taken steps to actually quantify empirically the properties of various visual tracer effects on psychedelics as a proof of concept for how to quantify harmonic resonance in the brain.

See: "Modeling Psychedelic Tracers with QRI’s Psychophysics Toolkit: The Tracer Replication Tool" - https://qualiacomputing.com/2020/10/09/modeling-psychedelic-...

And also, you may find quite insightful to read: "On Dark Rooms, Jhanas, Ecstasy, and the Symmetry Theory of Valence" - https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/10/31/on-dark-rooms-jhanas-...

This latest link is my response to Scott Alexander writing about our theories.

Infinite bliss! :-)
Tylenol has an extremely narrow therapeutic index and can easily cause liver damage.

Regular use of Benadryl has been linked to a 50% increased risk of dementia.

Both these drugs are available over OTC. Ok the other hand it would be pretty problematic if pain killers and antihistamine drugs weren't readily available, so maybe there are trade offs between safety and making useful drugs widely available?
You can make dynamically linked executables with both Go and Rust. The compilers have no blame in this.
I've been trying TinyGem and the Discover section is always empty :(
“ I used to feel very bad about my ethnic identity, and felt ashamed about it”

I wish I spoke Bengali just to read Tagore in the original. First poet, at the age of 33, that I have ever appreciated. Brilliant.

Of course, an atheist would have trouble appreciating him
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Came to make the same comment. Read it twice and am still in the dark.
Moreover, what happened with just putting a small border around the glass with a raised lip? I owned several generations of Droids that I seemed to drop constantly and this protected them every time. Modern phones are designed to be ultra-fragile with glass going right to the edge, so we can appreciate the elegance before we stuff them into a bulky case forever.
He/she is developing something similar to what you are exposing and is reverse engineering the behavior for quick solutions/shortcuts.
Or is learning how form submissions work.

Not that i haven't done anything like that, ever :)
One thing I don't understand is that, afaik, and NFT and the record of transactions have no legal weight or enforceability like the assignment of copyright.
it's not plastic.

M1 Macs can't do what that laptops does.

Simple as that.

People are not stupid, that might surprise you, but people use their money for the best, usually.

> Not to mention the unusable trackpad and keyboard

Have you ever heard of a device called "mouse"?

My friend uses another device entirely, it's called "WACOM CINTIQ PRO TOUCH 32"

because he cares about eronomics in his job, specific to his job, he doesn't need to show off with his friends.

> and the lack of video camera

are you familiar with the concept of a working machine?

> Or even the fact that this machine gets super hot and loud

have you ever thought that people don't care about it, because they are working and their job is not making less noise possible?

that's a feature only if your job requires absolute silence, rendering at X minutes per frame is not one of them.

People just don't care.

It's like saying that your washing machine is noisy.

Do you stare at it while it washes your underwear?
The children's publisher Usborne has many titles on computers and coding:

https://usborne.com/gb/books/browse-by-category/science-and-...

The official Raspberry Pi magazine website make all their issues available free to download as PDFs. Each issue is full of tutorials. (Obviously requires a Raspberry Pi) :

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/issues
I presume USB switch refers to a USB hub with two "output" USB cables, one of which is active at a time. One can toggle the active by pressing a physical button on the switch. Use case: keyboard and mouse are plugged into the switch and you can quickly toggle them between two laptops without messing with the cables.
You can't have the latter without the former.
> Nobody ever had a problem with verifiable receipts when attending concerts or buying a car or eating at a restaurant.

They do when buying physical artwork, coins, stamps, pokemon cards or other collectibles. There are plenty of things people buy that are only valuable because they are provably "genuine", and would be worthless if they were exact replicas with no provenance.
I'm surprised your manager let you join a 20% project as a noogler. Sounds like poor remote management at least deserves a slice of blame.

The right mental health diagnosis might temporarily shield you from certain employment consequences and longer term actually help you find a sustainable pattern of work and life. Google offers benefits and resources that might help in that area, try them before you lose access.

"a day in the life of an engineer working from home" https://youtu.be/Rgx8dpiPwpA
>Google is worth 100 billion dollars

$100B from $2T*. :-)
For anyone that still thinks that NFTs are only meant to be overpriced jpegs to be used for money laundering, consider two different projects: ENS [0] and Unlock Protocol [1].

ENS treats domain names like NFTs. So we can have applications that use your ENS domain as your identity, it can work as a decentralized / uncensorable alternative to OpenID, it can be used as an actual domain (you can use <your ens name>.eth.link to redirect to a IPNS name for instance, and the ENS devs are working to get a top-level domain that can integrate with actual DNS.

Unlock uses NFTs as keys for access control. This means that you could have decentralized alternatives to substack or any kind of paywalled content, but one thought that really interests me is that we could imagine in the future that kind of service provider will not be able to lock you into a contract, and we will be able to avoid any type of billing overcharges of surprise bills. Coupled with the idea of "streaming payments" (i.e, periodic transfers of micro-payments), we could be able to run subscription services by the hour/minute/second, and to cancel it you can simply close the payment stream.

[0]: https://ens.domains
[1]: https://unlock-protocol.com
>Rich people spend money on useless things, provenance isn't required to pose the same question.

It's not just rich people. Pretty much everyone living in a developed country from the 20th percentile up pisses away an inordinate amount of their income on stupid shit. Why? Because it's fun!
I first read your example as a snarky one, but on reading it again its implications are rather profound.

I wonder how much of our problems arise because our intuitions and assumptions on the small scale simply fail on the macro scale
It would be very interesting to understand this part of the story in more detail, although I expect it’s more complicated than the statement above. But someone should really research this properly.
When you use a switching USB hub to switch your USB peripherals from one device to another, it detects the change and uses DDC to also change your monitor’s input setting.

It needs to run on each computer in the setup since it watches for the USB devices to connect.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usb+switch
They would probably be safer to just distribute the paper torn into sheets/squares. The corners and edges would probably be "hot", but for a few 100sq in pages, you would expect ~3mg/sq in and 0.4mg/cm2. Then the buyer knows what they're getting and can extract it (eat, smoke, dissolve and shoot) themselves. Next print artwork on the sheets and sell them at Dead Shows!

Some in China really do consider this "payback" for the opium wars. I suspect sadly it will end up rebounding in unexpected and unfortunate ways.
> ...the anti-NFT crowd doesn't seem to get it and that is just as frustrating. People value status signaling tools.

The fact that it's even possible to not "get it" means that NFTs are not an effective status signaling tool. If it has to be explained, the status signal was not received.

Lamborghinis, yachts, and large diamonds inspire a visceral reaction; there's nothing to explain.
You do not need internal symbols.

All the public entry points are spelled out exactly by name, and all the external symbol dependencies.
For all the new tools (HLS, Wingman), it's the core tooling that has improved the most since the then. GHC (+ghci) and cabal are leagues ahead of 2014 now.

Some other cool tooling advancements since then that come to mind are.. Nix integration (both nixpkgs and haskell.nix), ghc heapview, ghcjs, a glut of formatters, ghcid (is this that new?)