skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also untrue, if the standard did mandate that pointers to functions could participate in a memcpy and the behavior was as if the instructions of that function were treated as an array of chars, then C++ compilers would be forced to accommodate that implementation regardless of what platform it ran on, Itanium, x86, even a PDP-11 it wouldn't matter. For example it might mean that implementations must tag or otherwise store a dictionary to keep track of addresses to functions so as to differentiate pointers to functions from pointers to objects and produce whatever appropriate behavior is needed to copy said instructions. An implementation could keep an intermediate representation of any function that can potentially be memcpy'd and then translate that representation at runtime when it participates in a memcpy. Whatever the case may be, if the standard mandates certain behavior then an implementation is required to respect it. While not entirely the same, C++ does do something along these lines in certain situations involving pointers to virtual member functions involved in a diamond inheritance structure.

Saying that C++ (the code in the article is not C and the two languages differ about the treatment of pointers to functions) could have well defined semantics to handle this is entirely moot... it's about as relevant as saying that a C++ program could run on top of the JVM with a garbage collector [1] and hence eliminate all types of memory errors. Even if a C++ program ran on a platform that had guaranteed garbage collection the fact would still remain that C++ as a language does not have well defined semantics for what happens to a dangling reference and as such a C++ compiler is free to exploit that to make very strong assumptions about the runtime behavior of the program for the sake of generating efficient code.

The fact that this is undefined behavior gives a compiler the freedom to perform optimizations under the assumption that runtime behavior will never engender said behavior. Raymond makes use of this property when he discusses COMDAT folding which is a common optimization to elide multiple copies of the same function or to even produce multiple versions of a single function optimized for different scenarios. From the article:

"Even without Profile-Guided Optimization, compile-time optimization may inline some or all of a function, so a single function might have multiple copies in memory, each of which has been optimized for its specific call site."

This property has nothing to do with x86, or Itanium or PDP-11, it's a purely logical optimization permissible only because of the various forms of undefined behavior in C++ with respect to the treatment of function pointers.

[1] http://nestedvm.ibex.org/
Overcharging offenses, with the ranges of any possible punishments, is done precisely to pressure people into settling for an outcome the DA finds politically expedient. There is a TERRIBLE amount of uncertainty in EVERY STEP you've outlined, and we see examples EVERY DAY of judges who throw the book at people, especially when they are unknown loners who have offended powerful corporations. PLEASE don't suggest that being accused in this situation wouldn't place someone under ENORMOUS fear and pressure about what could have happened, even if "everyone" thinks those outcomes were unlikely.
> And that's after fewer people who are vaccinated catch the virus, and there's more aborted infections and asymptomatic infections after vaccination.

This is the big one. Conditional on symptoms the viral load may be similar betwee vax/no vax, but if the vax have much less probability of getting symptoms then all is good.
> This area of law seems rather difficult to codify perfectly

Sure, but law doesn’t function by codifying things perfectly. There is no perfect codification of the physical ways one can move one’s fist, but clearly some such ways constitute an illegal act while others don’t.
In fact you have the contract with the services where you sign up. Even if you did not read T&Cs, you have accepted them and only then your relationship with the service started on their terms. You are not just a row in the database, you are a customer getting service in exchange for something. You have at least opted in to their data retention policy, and you have to opt out explicitly. If services will be required to purge the customer data after period of inactivity by default, chances are high that free accounts will simply cease to exist. In any case, quite significant share of customers would prefer to opt out from purge and they will be important enough from commercial perspective to make this opt out default in T&Cs acceptance process.
What makes you think India is _not_ industrialized?
Sorry if I wasn't clear in my original post. This was just looking at the first definition of the words, much like the examples given in the article. As you noted, the full OED definition is much longer, and the bear connection is mentioned in the etymology section.
That could be applied to every corporation that outsources manufacturing, which is almost all of them. The same could also be said of the "greenwashing" effect of outsourcing. We move polluting industries overseas so we don't see it and companies can make two-faced claims about being "carbon neutral" by not counting overseas manufacturing.
> Nor does it imply USB PD support.

All USB-C cables do PD. They all do 20V 3A. ALL OF THEM. This is wrong. What FUD.

> TB3 cables doesn't guarantee USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 support. ... Also, does not guarantee Displayport Alt Mode support.

There's no mode other than 40Gbps that is official, from what research I've done. But I do see some cables that list as 20Gbps. To me, this seems like a spec violation, but I could be wrong.

In practice, nearly all TB3 cables are 40Gbps capable. They will almost completely certainly run USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 more than fine and will run DisplayPort Alt Mode more than fine. They'll do great.
It's actually the prequel, 'A Deepness in the Sky', that has this. Both very good books.
1. I spent time with my bff. I spent time with my dad. Time with loved ones is what I value most in life; I'm glad I got some good memories. :)

2. I got a job as a backend senior eng; I went from making $65K to $102K a year.

3. I did two trips: Maldives & Newfoundland.
Can't speak to insurance, but fwiw the M/T tropical breeze has DWT of 750 [1], whereas Wikipedia considers 30,000 DWT to be on the smaller end [2], so this is likely a much smaller tanker than one would envision when one first reads the headline, and likely costs notably less than the $51 million asking price of the yacht [3], as Wikipedia says a 32,000 DWT tanker (40x the size of the one here) runs for about $43 million.

1. https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/TROPIC-BREEZE-IMO-89063...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_tanker#Vessel_pricing
3. https://www.boatinternational.com/yacht-market-intelligence/...
This is probably completely wrong. It is looking like fusion power will arrive sooner than most people realize.

This will make energy virtually free, which will change _everything_. Think heating the open air downtowns of cities, for example, even in quite cold and snowy areas.

Is is cheap and easy to produce clean water, given abundant energy.
That is exactly what happens. In fact, it happens in cycles. There is the sunspot activity cycle which is like every 12 years. Then there is a cycle at around 100 years that has been identified. But then ere are also cycles at even larger time scales around 1500, 6000, and 12000 years. With the 12000 year cycles being the most intense. And we know this because the polar direction and intensity of the magnetic field are recorded at the time a lava deposit solidifies. Which as we know is an ongoing never ending process; there is ALWAYS lava flowing somewhere on earth.
The conservative tendency to car apologia is really disappointing. For some reason, it's perceived to be consistent with the conservative worldview, but it isn't. Automobile supremacy requires massive social engineering and state intervention and car-based cities can only remain as such by artificially limiting homebuilding (and therefore density). If you set individuals free to build what the market demands they will create cities in which it's very unpleasant to drive (i.e. densely populated city centers) and those cities will need to solve the transportation problem some other way. The only way you can prevent that is to, well, literally prevent it -- i.e. make it illegal (via zoning).

It’s true that progressives are wild about transit, but I wish more conservatives resisted the urge to view cars as the natural political opposite.
They threatened him with much, much more than 6 months to try to get him to plead guilty as a felon. They drained his financial coffers and drove wedges between him and his support network.

If it was a slam dunk at trial and 6 months was a fair sentence, then why is there a need to threaten so much more to avoid granting him his right to a trial?

Aaron's case is not unique in this regard and is indicative of the casual brutality and inhumanity inherent in the way that our justice system works. We desperately need to threaten reform how plea bargaining works and the amount of power we give prosecutors.
You may be correct, but it's too early to tell.

As I have stated elsewhere in this thread, the rate of vaccine escape has gone up by about 5x, (from 6% to 30%), but that's still much better than one would get from no vaccination.
We desperately need a law

Why not just have a law against subverting the intent of existing laws, or against making bad-faith arguments? Laws are only as good as people's willingness to accept impartial assessment thereof. Absent that, they will just be exploited selectively for strategic leverage.

Aristotle observed that laws tend to multiply under tyrannical regimes, as rulers impose ever more onerous conditions upon their subjects; I think it's also true that an excess of laws creates opportunity for tyranny in the sense of creating a much larger attack surface for a malicious or cynical actor to exploit. To my mind, the growth of the US and state codes* is a bug rather than a feature, and pruning such complexity highly desirable.

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4146.pdf
It's actually kind of insane how negligent super-yacht crews are. I've had a number of close calls sailing in the summer around the Hudson / in the ocean right outside of Manhattan. Many crews also have no clue how to handle currents or operate a vessel in close proximity.

Never had issues with huge tankers, police boats etc - but I can count a handful of times super yacht (a boat longer than 40m) captains have been drunk, high or just absent when a vessel is in motion.
The yacht - https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/utopia-iv/

Appears to be for sale and for rent, the owner is an American behind "Market America" MLM outlet and shop.com.
Sorry, can you clarify what you mean here?
Summarizing the event from memory, it seemed during the BLM virtue signalling craze -- he told his staff, "Coinbase exists to make money and not to be political. If you are unhappy about the lack of political expression and you need to leave because of discomfort over this -- the employer will apologize with a parting gift of a large sum of money."

Essentially, he bribed the toxic political radicals to leave and take the payout.
> Even if this had been in scope, I would have thought twice about submitting anything.

Sorry, I don't understand. Why would you be hesitant to responsibly disclose it to HackerOne?
I had a similar suggestion the other day[1], except I chose what to me sounded more English-sounding:

JOIN films f USING FOREIGN KEY

Here the explicit foreign key, films_did_fkey in this case, could be specified after FOREIGN KEY. This would be similar in syntax to when you force an index for a select statement, at least in the DB we use.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687565
> Isn't incarcerating a person who's not a danger to others and who's crime had no harmful outcomes a waste of everyone's time and money?

Yes, but I think the solution is to make fewer things criminal through the democratic process first. Enforcement of laws is important.

It’s one thing to put people in jail who don’t belong there. But according to this article it kinda seems like Swartz did deserve some jail time.

He knowingly broke the law and showed no remorse. Instead his view was that the law should not apply to him because he did not agree with it. That’s a dangerous mindset to have for an individual with money and power.

It’s important to show remorse and contrition in these circumstances, otherwise we can just assume the behavior will continue. And Swartz had a history of this kind of behavior starting with PACER, so really it should have been expected that failing to prosecute in this instance would have been taken by Swartz as a signal to behave like this with impunity.

> I encourage you to learn about the conditions in prisons.

I 100% agree with you, and know all about this topic, but that’s really a different conversation.
I think you stopped reading before the last paragraph of my comment. Or, really, one of the first ones, because, again: the prosecutors are on the record with the sentence they were actually threatening Swartz with, and, as I said, and Swartz's attorney said, and this New Yorker article said: it was nothing resembling 50 years.
Facile in modern English means "too easy", like a shortcut that leads to the wrong destination.

This meaning has diverged from French/Spanish, where the word still just means "easy".
Personal k8s cluster

>Pretty uncomfortable with the idea of hosting it on digitalocean or similar

Everything is encrypted. Use strong master password and 2fa, even if your VM gets dumped and your password gets stolen there's no data they can recover.
Alot of people host it on raspberry at home, if you have VPN to home it can be more secure.
Also clients are synced, so you can sync while at home network - your in-browser or in-app vault will be available even if server is not reachable at the moment.
The first true millipede–1306 legs long
Yes, this should be pretty obvious. If you kidnap someone and force them to log in to a computer system they have access to so that you can steal information or resources using that computer system, obviously that would be illegal (on top of the kidnapping) even though the computer system is working entirely as intended.
> How would you prevent such negligence

The ones who are damaged by the negligence sues for negligence.

Similarly: those people who act recklessly can get sued for more, or even criminally prosecuted. Finally, someone who acts out with malicious intent can be sued / criminally charged with the highest crimes.

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So in this "Sega" case: Sega can sue their security for the negligence.

Then, the hackers can be sued for something between recklessness and malicious intent.

Yeah, the law is flexible. "Justice" as a concept in the Western world revolves around both actions + intent. (With intent / state of mind in roughly 3 states: negligence, recklessness, and malice in that order).

Its a flexible system, albeit sometimes imperfect... but just applying it in a textbook manner to this case results in acceptable results IMO.
Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
> wouldn't an expert be consulted??

All the prosecutes need is an expert that says "Base64 is an encryption. Sending data encrypted means they don't want you to read it.. they tried to break encryption and succeeded when they werent supposed to"

And then just fear-monger the risk of broken encryption and government and how you have to try to break it and its dangerous or something.

Lots of people claim to be experts, and know enough to pass. Plenty of people want to curry gov favor, or get their 10 seconds of attention.
The concern is not about what a competent DA would do.
> This is always what happens when you subcontract responsibility out. The middle-man works out how to keep the margin as large as possible and that means the bottom rung gets squashed and everyone up the chain is getting lied to.

Not always. You can have reliable middlemen who verify claims and investigate and blacklist fishy suppliers, but the buyers have to want it. Consider how we as purchasers of expensive electronics tend to buy from established retailers (middlemen) who invest in processes to ensure the legitimacy of the name-brand products they stock, instead of buying from an unknown company that was created last week and is selling the same products at a much cheaper price. We consider the risk that the unknown company with no history may have sourced counterfeits, intentionally or unintentionally, and we buy from a retailer we trust instead.

It sounds like Foxconn's approach to acquiring accommodations for their workers is like buying an Hermes handbag under a bridge for $20.
If there's a prosecution, everyone involved should be put on trial for deprivation of civil rights under color of law. This is absolutely a violation of press and speech freedoms, and retaliatory to boot.
It's unclear to me where the line is being drawn and a zero-tolerance policy applied with maximum criminal penalties pursued.

The whole world sucks: the companies who are slovenly with our data, the criminals who exploit that data when it is inevitably leaked, the grey hat hackers who "joyride to prove they found your keys" to use the memorable metaphor from elsethread, the circumstances which make probing for vulnerabilities incredibly risky because one misstep gets you a prison sentence. the resulting feast of vulnerabilities ripe for criminal exploitation....
Eh, I don't think "many" people believe that in comparison to the adult population of the US.
> According to the MPD's third organized crime control division, the names, dates of birth, and sex of 38 men

Looks like they leaked their sex a second time.
> I want to be able to go see a play, or a movie, or to a restaurant without fear that I'm putting myself more at risk because someone at the table next to me got a vaccine 8 months ago

Why do you believe that you're any more at risk in this situation if you're boosted?

> ... and is no longer protected and far more likely to be carrying and spreading covid

Antibody levels are not the full story. Cell-based immunity remains intact without boosters and is key to preventing hospitalization/death.
Case Report: GBS Presenting as Facial Diplegia After Covid-19 Vaccination
This is frustrating because even a massive payout to insurance still doesn't cover the environmental externalities.

There should be a different set of government-imposed penalties for environmental damage resulting from negligence, essentially a probabilistic Pigouvian tax.
> jingoist politicians, a media focused on trivial distractions, techno utopianists

Note that these groups are (for the most part) mutually antagonistic. It's not hard to find someone who agrees that politicians and media and public-health officials are all incompetent or malign or both, yet those same people absolutely idolize techno-utopian billionaires who hardly have any better claim to such adulation. That antagonism is what drives the " fragmented society that cant agree on common truths" that you mention. The problem with a movie like Don't Look Up is that everyone looks right past the offense to others, sees their own in-group being lampooned, and decides that the whole thing must suck.
Sugar additive trehalose may lead to Clostridium difficile colitis (2018)
But it spreads so fast that it doesn't seem like that matters. It spreads basically as fast as people are interacting, if it gets into the student body then everyone will be infected in a matter of days even if they are all vaccinated.

I can't see how it could spread any faster than it already does through vaccinated people. A few people there being unvaccinated wont make a difference.
If I were to guess, anything written by the VP of Engineering would be heavily edited by legal and marketing until the result was indistinguishable. Source: I work for a company that doesn't let anything go out without approval of Legal, Marketing, and a few other nebulous 'stakeholders'
I opined.
Ask HN: Are you missing out on anything by not serving IPv6 from your webserver?
Are there any ISPs out there that only provide IPV6 connectivity to their clients I suppose is my question?
I studied physics when I was young and my first reaction was 'sure you can!' and 'I have done that kind of stuff some 20 years ago or so'. What looks to be the problem is that he wants a rather non-physical kind of noise. The noise is supposed to be between 0 and 1 distributed uniformly. Now, that really is not the kind of noise one expects or wants in physics in most cases. The values that are distributed in a gaussian way would seem to be much more sensible. O well, I suppose the thing he calls 'blue noise texture' really cannot be generated very well in frequency space....
0,89% is a lot. That's why you vaccinate.
Amazon, Walmart Chinese potting soil..and the 34th Amendment
Super interesting. Short term this will be useful for detecting deepfakes. Long term this will be useful in training deepfake models to make undetectable deepfakes.
Same here. Worked on Mystic Star and radio programming was on 8 inch floppies well beyond 20 years of operation. The network still exists but many of the sites were decommissioned.
I so wish Aaron were still around so that I could argue his Infinite Jest conclusions with him.

(My reading of IJ is that wherever a parallel to Hamlet can be credibly drawn, it's probably right, and that JOI was murdered by CT & Avril.)
Honestly, I'd want to see strict liability for data breaches, with revealing of personal information included as a type of injury, and not merely something that must be shown to have led to other forms of injury. Right now, the most I can do is reduce the amount of personal information that is collected about me, and I have no ability to ensure that it is stored in a secure manner. Companies that record personal information about me (e.g. Google, Equifax, Facebook, etc) have the ability to improve their security, or to reduce the scope of collected data, but have no incentive to do so. By placing the liability on the same entity as makes the decisions, it creates that incentive.
Yeah, that's fair. Comments are a little bit like invisible ink; they look like they're not there because the rendering engine doesn't display them, but they're still sent with every copy of the information.

It would be better if the SSNs were white text on a white background and we were here because someone highlighted the text, though.
There is an uncharacterized unknown risk in the long term post-sickness effects of Covid. Many may survive the immediate sickness but virus remains in the most for at least months, and there could be long term tissue damage or other changes.

Also I’m not sure why you say the vaccine is such a risk for children. It’s currently undergoing study and an even younger age range is close to being approved. In general we are talking about a vaccine with some minuscule portion of the dna pattern of the virus vs getting exposed to the virus itself which includes the same pattern, and will get multiplied to millions of times higher exposure - along with many many other sequences of the full virus - all with unknown long term effects.
so I tried to cancel my lastpass account, I didn't find an easy way to cancel my subscription. So I deleted my account instead. Still not sure if I'll be hit with a rebill next year though

I don't know if this is becoming the norm, it seems really weird that cancelling things is becoming more difficult. I could have sworn cancelling the subscription used to be easier, it seems they've implemented more dark patterns to make this more difficult? Maybe it might be my imagination

Also I moved to 1password and it's wayyyy more polished than lastpass. Not sure why I didn't move to a different service sooner
If your VM gets dumped and your password gets stolen, are you not vulnerable to a SIM swap? Asking out of paranoia.