skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems cyclical. Going insane causes people to lock people/themselves in their homes and locking people in homes/being locked in homes causes insanity.
Looking for blueprints for Jewish space lasers, are we?
Yup, it's that close. I'm honestly happy there's an outrage ahead of releases of chips like that. Some systems did get secureboot locked down. Maybe we get the policy we got exactly because people are still outraged.

I'll take that any day over ms+Intel releasing a t2-equivalent + SB combo as required in all new certified laptops and people realising too late.
Yeah I think mine did too.
IRC users around, what are the servers you're joining? Looking to give it another try after all these years.
This is the first I've heard of Hari's ethical lapses. Wish it had been mentioned in the recent HN thread [1] on his new book!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29768539
...well every one of them except Matrix, which can plug into Telegram, Discord, Facebook Messenger, and Google Chat - which I'm using all of!
Just what we need, a worse snr in group chat.
If you don't have a background in plants and just learned about something from reading about it somewhere and decide to give it a try (might not even know there are poisonous plants that look somewhat alike), those sorts of details can be hard to notice and distinguish at first. Even as someone who has a pretty good background with plants at this point, I have occasionally been surprised at initially misidentifying something because the individual plant had an unusual presentation or was in a different growth stage than I was used to and I wasn't being super careful. I did spend some time learning about the poisonous plants in my area though and am extra careful with things that have other poisonous plants that look similar.
The English language is fucked.
It isn't even a matter of being able to pay for therapy or psychiatric visits. The mental health system has been overwhelmed throughout the pandemic. There simply aren't enough mental health professionals to help the overwhelming need of individuals throughout the pandemic. You could be waiting 3+ months before you can even be seen by someone, especially if on a state or low-income health insurance plan.
> The fearmongering about Pluton

Part of the reason for this "fearmongering" (if it's fair to call it that) is that Microsoft has released little information about Pluton, besides a press release. Plus, it's not like the fears are completely unfounded based on Microsoft's messaging; Microsoft's press release says Pluton is based off the Xbox[1] (and this paywalled article mentions the same thing[3]), and they've previous said the major goal of the Xbox security system is piracy prevention [2], i.e. DRM. However, I agree with the overall conclusion of the main article that it's probably not much worse that what already exists.

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2022/01/04/ces-2...

[2] https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/

[3] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9354509
One thing that you should also be aware of: on the later Macs (T2 Intel and M1) there is activation lock protection too. This ties the Mac to your Apple ID and it can't be reinstalled without it. Just like an iPhone.

It's meant for theft protection but it causes us headaches at work when employees have left and used their personal Apple ID. Apple will disable it but only if you can prove ownership.
How do you stop thinking of worst case scenarios for any thing
By default for whatever situation i start to think in negative and worst scenarios any body faced this and how to overcome
Even if that's true right this minute, an unauditable (:/) bit of hardware controlled by Microsoft (!) that can be force-updated by them (!!!) means this can change at any moment.

I liked TPM with my own keys. This just seems a bit 'extra' in all the wrong ways.
Wonderful story, thanks.
Seems like a perfect opportunity for a brilliant, successful, and slightly eccentric SV multi-millionaire to create the perfect retreat / resort / hideaway in the shell of an architectural marvel.

Just sayin'.
Not just lockdowns, but the cancellation of physical activity programs. This has disproportionately affected lower-income populations as well. Many of the community and activity centers have closed throughout the pandemic, while wealthier private programs have remained open.
What's wild to me is how IRC was the wormhole that essentially got me out of my small hometown, and established everything I've been able to do over the last thirty years. It's scary to think about how much impact something like a chat server could have.

My gateway drug was ANSi art, and that whole scene. I made connections when I was 13 to folks who ran the groups, folks 6-10 years old that me, and was offered my first internship in the Bay Area through IRC. I drove across America in a beat up Honda Civic where the muffler fell off halfway there. But that was it: Through a bit of weird gumption and blocks of colored ascii, I was working at a design agency in Silicon Valley. Everything kinda barreled forward from there.

I think about this quite a bit: Unevenly distributed opportunity. There are a lot of smart, creative, emotionally intelligent folks stuck for lack of opportunity, and it seems like if you value GDP growth or general societal forward momentum on a whole, then maximizing access to those opportunity footholds should be a first-order priority of society.

Anyway, thanks IRC, and the folks who maintained / maintain it.
I find it hilarious that instead of using a battle tested and widely known cryptocurrency that relies on actual cryptographic techniques, like Monero or Zcash, they’ve embraced a crypto that basically no one has heard about, no one was using, and relies on Secure Enclaves for privacy. Which are very likely backdoored by Intel and/NSA or at the very least one hack away from total compromise. SGX has had hacks already.
BIOS mods are not exactly common, but there's plenty of people doing it. Projects like coreboot are another example, and of course all the tools around removing as much of the ME as possible. Obviously the "fringe" gets slowly trimmed, and we should be looking out for those like we do canaries in a coalmine.
I think Postgres tends to have a bigger SQL dialect and it's faster on the same hardware (afaik, based on light testing)

MySQL clustering and operations tooling seems much better. No vacuums to worry about
> People seem to obsess over are we in a bubble

I think this is going to be common for a generation or so. The 2008 crash was penalty the first total crash of the internet age. The previous big crash, the dot-com bubble, was big news, but not tied to everything yet. It took out a lot of tech-sector stuff while main-street people said “told you so…”

2008 was a crash where no one was safe. Everyone said housing was a bubble that couldn’t pop - home prices don’t drop. It’s a generational event that left people (economically) traumatized.
Match Group file multiple lawsuits after repeated failed acquisition offer
It’s impossible to gauge the level of security it deserved and the level of security that was implemented.

Security is a tradeoff. You didn’t think they did a good choice, they think they did, that’s all we can say.

For most companies, security is about securing the border. Making sure nobody can get in.

Once someone gets in, it’s actually really hard to stop them, so people tend to favor what makes development faster rather than what makes security tighter…
Neat Algorithms – Paxos (2014)
> parents for SAAS solutions

This should be patents. Ducking autocorrect strikes again.
> Which only means that programs can choose to not service devices without TPM

But those "programs" could include "an online check made by your ISP, mandated by your government". If your computer doesn't pass the check, it won't be allowed online. What good is a phone call if you're unable to speak?

> it might take 10 years

I think more like 5, although the government might start slowly, like only preventing non-TPM devices from accessing "sensitive" online services, e.g. banks or anything that requires a payment.

The next step would be connecting the "online check" with a biometric ID, enforced by the device. Every time you unlock your device, it would request from the government a random ID that is included in every packet sent, and those IDs would be tied to your legal identity in a government database.

Letting someone else use your device would be similar to letting someone else use your car, in that you are responsible for whatever is done while you are logged in, unless you report it stolen.
No it’s more like “why complain about a method that isn’t being used to lock down devices instead ones that are actually being used for that purpose”
> "it's fine that ~40k YOUNG ADULTS DIE". "oh, they are unvaccinated and fat!!"

The colleges discussed in this article are requiring all students to be vaccinated, so we're talking about a group that's at significantly lower risk of death or severe disease.

What is the rationale for colleges holding their students to more stringent standards (e.g., random testing, travel forbidden) than the CDC recommends for everyone else? (My guess is that it's colleges' deathly fear of being sued if a student happens to die of Covid.)
There should be a mandatory retirement age for government. 65 sounds about right.
> In the end, x86 systems didn't become any more locked down.

I realize it was only introduced as of ~2012 and it's been 10 years, but I'm not sure we can draw a conclusion on this one just yet. Windows 11 took a huge leap in that direction so for all I know it might take another decade; it certainly doesn't look like they've given up on the idea of locking down the desktop just yet.
Next the M1 SuperMax for the more serious offenders!

And macOS 13 Guantanamo :)
One could just as easily draw the conclusion that spending time with parents was the cause of the extra stress.

I wonder if there is any chance of actual actionable data being teased out.
A lot of them give it to assisted living facilites jsut before that happens. There is a huge industry around siphoning off assets from the elderly before they die.
When I first read about Web3, I thought the exact same thing. The fact that there are fees to deploy and run dapps is right there in the design. And yes, it does seem like it's the intended design to have users pay the ether to do so.

But that requires users to download and learn how to use a dapp browser, and to front the ether for running them. That's going to be a non-starter, because with the possible exception of a very small number of people, nobody wants to do any of those things.

But hypothetically, an app developer could developer their backend as a dapp, and a HTML/CSS/Javascript frontend, essentially using the blockchain as a replacement for AWS. Is this useful? I suspect it isn't. One could argue that blockchains have better uptime than AWS, but I bet the price would be higher and the performance lower. The only other benefits you get are that anyone can audit the dapp (if they trust your Web server to actually be using it), and that you're no longer beholden to a socially-destructive giant company like Amazon.

As Moxie's original article pointed out though, you'd still be beholden to the few companies or individuals that run etherium nodes. This is, again, something that approximately nobody wants to do, and if Web3 ever took off, I suspect the bandwidth and storage requirements of running a node would increase to the point where only socially-destructive giant companies could afford to do so.
“Of course, but that's not really related to what I said.”

You said sexuality is a “completely arbitrary and subjective social construct” and that “there's little point in trying to objectively categorize” it. Sex has been studied since animal husbandry existed. So what you said was obviously wrong.
not if they know how to bend it ;-) I was told that even the speed of light is hackable!
It's good to real statements like that in the following manner.

Our experiment consisted of throwing a dice twice.

Our data shows that on average result of second throw is lower than first one hower this result is not statistically significant.
What a classic HN response.

Humans are social creatures. How are lockdowns and social distancing not causal? There's a reason long distance relationships fail and solitary confinement is an ultimate punishment.

Add to this doomsday news on loop, confusing messaging on vaccines.

I also have too, too much anecdata to counter this.

I spent time helping families during the COVID crisis. The amount of confusion and uncertainty generated by the pandemic hit many families hard especially in states with strict lockdown regimes.

I have friends who work as RCs at a top university: they are swamped with students devastated by the pandemic who are uncertain of what their futures hold given the gap.

I have friends whose four year old has began pulling her hair out for no reason early on in the pandemic. They started taking her to a private prek that was opened. It stopped.
This is the latest book on systemd and Packt is having its yearly USD$5 eBook sales at the moment[1].

[1]Linux Service Management Made Easy with systemd:

https://www.packtpub.com/product/linux-service-management-ma...
Exactly.

I'm not a Facebook user, mostly because of the vast and repeated privacy violations they've committed in the past (not to mention their monopoly behaviors and political influencing, etc.) - but because I don't run/own/fund any similar monopolistic entity, I'm essentially forbidden from even talking about it??

Another is ClearView AI (oh look, another Thiel-funded thing!) - I oppose the existence of that company based on their entire business model being the abuse of people's information without consent, and how they expect you to cancel yourself to prevent being abused by them [1]. But according to some people [2], anyone that hasn't been abusing people's privacy cannot have an opinion on ClearView AI's actions [3], until you actually do so yourself [4], otherwise you're just "posturing" [4][5].

Yeah, great logic!

> They worship them, to put it simply - the rich and powerful - and they don't understand & can't process that not everyone else does.

What's worse are the ones that go out of their way to justify or even apologize their behavior (not unlike those part of a certain political cult right now).

[1] https://app.clearview.ai/privacy/deindex

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Kranar

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29858726

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29858764

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29858663
Would you mind shedding some light on how you do development and the pros and cons you experienced comparing to REPL-driven development?
Fortuna was analyzed (and generalized) in https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/167. It's a solid design.
What I took away is that at some point we have to return to normal. Give up. Let it spread. Do away with testing. Tell students and teachers to come in if they have mild, cold-like symptoms.
Is it really a bad take? my parents & aunt had 28,34% gains respectively on the value of their main properties in just 1 year. I'm going to have to pay for that (or settle for a lot less living space) if i want to own anything here in the future. Definitely feels like a wealth transfer.
Depends. A neighbor hated his family that he purposely caused his home to go into probate just to slow them down.

Most of the time the money is passed onto the next generation. But here's the current problem: the boomers, as a generation, have a lot of assets, specifically housing, locked up as rentals. This has caused house to shoot up (though it is not the only factor).

If the boomers die, I suspect that a large number of homes would become available at reasonable prices within the year of the death. For example, my parents own multiple rental homes (only of one of which they constructed for the express purpose of renting on a plot of land that the city thought was undevelop-able). When they die, my sister and I will sell the properties. While she lives near them, she doesn't want to manage them, and I don't since I live far away.

By allowing the boomers to live longer, these assets remain locked up. They can continue to rent seek at the expense of the generations that came after them. This means that multiple generations, particularly millennials and zoomers are screwed.
that's the thing, it doesn't really matter

it's not YOUR OS, it's their product, you not forced to use any of their products

linux and voila, you got your freedom back
This exactly. After a year of high school physics and a year of mechanics and electrodynamics, they finally get around to telling you: that was kind of all lies, here’s relativity. And then a month later they do it again for quantum, and finally admit they don’t know what is really going on. But Newtonian mechanics is useful!
I made the *NIX dotfiles analyzer
Perhaps a better analogy then is securing the noose around the neck of the prisoner, but not yet releasing the trapdoor.
Minimalism can work, if you like minimalism.

Plainly the author, from his writing style, does not.
I haven’t heard that particular story. I did hear one years ago about a new manager at a Godfather’s pizza place in Norman, Oklahoma. I know about this one because a close friend of mine became the next manager after this guy got fired.

So, the manager who got fired, the first thing he did when he came onboard was to take an inventory of all the ingredients that were used, and how much they cost per pizza they were put on. Turns out that cheese was the most expensive ingredient. So, the guy cut back the amount of cheese they put on pizzas. Initially, there weren’t many complaints. So he cut some more. And more. And then there came a whole tidal wave of complaints. And massive losses of income and negative profits.

So, he restored the amount of cheese they put on pizzas, but started cutting the meats and proteins. And wound up with the same result. A tidal wave of complaints. And massive losses of profits.

That store ended up losing so many sales that their profit was negative over a full quarter, and that manager was fired. My friend, who was already working there and had been working there longer than anyone else and was very well respected by everyone, was promoted to be the new manager.

Turns out that he was only sixteen at the time, and that it wasn’t legal for him to be the manager of an establishment that sold alcoholic beverages for in-store consumption. Of course, this place was literally just across the street from the University of Oklahoma, so there’s no way that they could avoid selling alcoholic beverages to college students who were old enough. And they got caught.

As I recall the story, that was kind of the last straw for that store, and since that franchise had been on shaky ground for a while, they actually went bankrupt and the store shut down.
I live in Japan, and my carrier charges me the equivalent of 3 US cents per domestic SMS, or 40 cents for an international SMS.

On the other hand, I have unlimited data with no throttling.

Everyone here uses the LINE messenger app, or email. Literally all I have in my iOS Messages app is 2FA codes and Pingdom notifications.
Because significance thresholds can vary pretty dramatically. Plenty of experiments done in physics for instance have reported results even though they didn't yet reach a 5 sigma threshold (3x10e-7). In physics something can be highly highly likely but still not 'significant' enough to warrant a discovery. They simply couch it as, hey this was the result and even though it isn't 'significant' the high likelihood may warrant additional research here. Reporting a binary significant/not significant is far less useful.
This seems unlikely given how many elderly people died of covid. Presumably their wealth was inherited by their children.
> You can't create a ponzi scheme or perform money laundering with traditional financial products? Really? That's your claim?

> I'm not here to defend crypto, but let's keep the discussion factual.

You can’t speculate on the currency itself, driving its value up and down as part of your own ponzi scheme.

Or rather, for major currencies you can’t. Maybe you can manipulate tiny currencies of tiny nations that way, but those usually end up using the EUR or USD anyway.
Covid variants should use semantic versioning.
> Apple could easily have locked it down in exactly the same manner as their iOS/iPadOS devices

Yes. That is in fact the problem. They shouldn't have the ability at all. Given the ability it will be done, it is only a question of when and why.

Corps have this ability already and are building in tech to make circumvention even more difficult. We are one update away as it is now.
717-gigapixel image of Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch'
They attempted to lock down the boot process with 32-bit ARM, but backtracked with 64-bit ARM. If the intention was to keep eventually lock it down, why backtrack and open it back up? It's not as if Linux on ARM was a major selling point for their ARM devices.
mnesia had very difficult to debug consistency issues that can crop up. Have these been fixed?
I address this mostly to this comment's siblings: the fact that you're upset about the lying bit only reinforces labster's point. I say this based on the comments thinking that the lie is actually meant to deceive, getting distracted with the word "lie" and its connotations, and missing the broader issue. The issue is that the general population can't be reasonably expected to understand how climate change works, and how statistics play out in climate change modeling. Unless the message is dead simple, the message will be lost.

What the "lie" "really" says is subtextural/etc: to those that need to hear it, it says what it needs to say to get them to understand what needs to be done (and, importantly, isn't wrong, just isn't the whole picture either); to those that already know the answer, you didn't need to hear the lie in the first place. There is no deceit.

Climate change needs participation from everyone, and, for better or worse, everyone includes a majority of, eh-hem, less-than brilliant people. We need them to understand regardless of our own righteousness.
Omicron is roughly as contagious as chicken pox. Remember what happened when a single child got chicken pox before the vaccine? There was never a question that everybody was about to get chicken pox--the only thing you could do was manage the timeframe.

Before the vaccine, people would have chicken pox parties so all the children were exposed simultaneously and everybody could get it over with. With Omicron, it's simply the reverse, it's blowing through everybody so fast that it will burn itself out in a couple months.

After that, it will simply have a constant endemic background level like chicken pox prior to the vaccine and the flu.

We are in the endgame. It isn't the endgame we wanted, but it is the endgame.
Show HN: Like Twitter, but Immutable, Verifiable and Decentralized
And an obvious support of US based IT vendors, is the use of Google's I'm not a Robot test, a streetview surveillance category program disguised as AI training?

But then when considering US antivirus spam filter vendors necessitated the need for I'm not a Robot, was/is this simply the US shaking down the rest of the world or at least western civilisations to dominate like the US does in NATO?
Good intro to the problem. I did a fair bit of work on more complex versions of this problem in distribution systems at a past job. Because a distribution system is unbalanced, each phase has to be solved for but the phases interact with each other so the optimization problem becomes ~9x more complex.
this, i don't understand why journalists want to create problems when there are clearly none, do they feel like they became out of touch with the new generation? do they feel like they need to do something to regain the influence they long lost?
Why do you manually pick user UID/GIDs?