skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
worth watching Netflix "I Do Care". Sadly its very much like in the movie. At least here in USA (source: friend of family works in a assisted living facility and sees very bad stuff daily!)
How do you propose preventing that, outside of legal remedies? If they design the hardware it obviously can be done. Hell, with the right external chip you could do it with a MOS 6502.

And as for barring it legally, remember that there are valid uses for locked down systems. It can be a useful security barrier.
Noting these as inspiration for more realistic foods in my Curse of Strahd D&D campaign, where the sun is never bright.
I actually don't have knowledge of that. Do you know what the reason for the backtracking was?
It has been decreasing, a lot, and not from selection bias. A few years ago a lot of people on my side were using iMessage, now almost everyone went over to discord and Insta. Some Telegram but not many.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you can find many of those politicians, reporters, and public personalities who supported the invasion of Iraq still slinging their opinions out to the world and receiving lots of attention. Something tells me that this, like many other tragedies and fuck-ups of our time will be memory-holed and we will learn less than nothing in aggregate.
> The good news is that with 9.4B vaccine doses administered we know how to return to relative normalcy.

Even with high numbers of people vaccinated spread is only slowed. Even with boosters spread is only slowed. We tried vaccines and it has failed to bring a return to normalcy.
I have not faced that exact situation, where the type of thinking you described happens for any and all situations at hand; but, I have faced that situation across my life and can think of a few scenarios at the moment. For example, if my girlfriend is out in town with her friends and alcohol is involved, I worry in general and then there are moments when I do contend with worst case scenarios.

I don't think that computing worst case scenarios is devoid of light, but it can be rough.

What I like to do in these situations is to pray to God. I like to seek refuge at God, from Satan the rejected. I believe God is the Eternal Refuge. I seek refuge as many times as I feel the need to. I believe imploring God is a form of worship, and worshiping God is good, therefore I continuously implore for things, including refuge.

Hope it helps, and that you have a blessed night.
But what if they offer a (level of) service that SMS/MMS does not? Surely they can’t be dismissed so easily by a rational person?
Whoa I can copy/paste images directly into the editor, sweet!

One question though, if I deploy a containerized version via docker and upload images, where do the images reside (it seems like the php uploads folder? Just curious if I had to redeploy the image what volumes I might have to mount as back-upp
>> the taking of standardized tests

I hope the NH Bar is ready for this. Bar exams are almost universally administered through proprietary test-taking software. I think the key words are "shall be required". They will make a paper option available in some corner of an office somewhere, thus freeing them to use all the propriety software they want.
> Android supports RCS, iMessage does not.

iMessage has existed in more or less its current form for over 10 years now. RCS took too long and basically gave this space to Apple. And Apple keeps adding features, such as bundling photos sent at once, showing where photos you have came from, and other things, not to mention things that STILL aren't on Android (nor whatsapp) like livephotos.
By all indications those who made it happen will be the ones writing the history.
No Livephotos.
Via what mechanisms? Nothing we currently know about Pluton would enable it to do anything like that, as far as I can tell.
Fauci has admitted it:

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Fauci said. “Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.”

“We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

-- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/health/herd-immunity-covi...
>here's my server for DevOps:

It's not your server. I hope you have everything backed up and alternate means of communicated with your community. Discord has and will ban you from their platform for things as innocuous as making bots for Team Fortress 2.
What were they supposed to do? They had about two weeks to go from fully in-classroom to fully-remote with no warning, in the middle of the school year. I don't care what kind of technology you have, that is going to be a clusterfuck.
There is no evidence society would have collapsed. Many countries do not have the health infrastructure the US has and have not undergone societal collapse. Yes more elderly would have died. More people with comorbities would have died. But societal collapse?

The shutdown lasted for far too long. Mock Florida all you want, but they weathered the pandemic far better than many states with strict lockdown regimes (California/New York). Consider Florida has one of (if not the) largest senior populations in the US too.
RCS has been a thing for a while. Apple has no excuse.
Assets going up in value isn't really a wealth transfer by itself. The buyer is just exchanging a lot more cash for an asset worth a lot more. Their wealth doesn't change overall. Rents are a different story perhaps.

The unfair property taxes in California and similar states is certainly wealth transfer though, which got vastly more unfair.
>it's been 10 years, but I'm not sure we can draw a conclusion on this one just yet.

seriously? 10 years is an eternity in tech, and if they really did lock down the desktop a few years from now with some new system (eg. pluton), I'm not really sure that you could say "I told you so" or "TPM caused the platform to be more locked down". It'd be like predicting some sort of smallpox attack by china in 2010, then claiming you got it right in 2020 because of corona. The only plausible scenario where you could plausibly blame TPM/UEFI is if OEMs suddenly decided to remove the ability to add user keys and/or disable secureboot.
Meanwhile, hardware-level OS-ignostic rootkits like Computrace exist, and Intel ME has its own network stack, but Pluton being adopted as some kind of industry standard to lock down a platform in the name of "security" and what have you is a conspiracy.
Taler wants to hire an iOS app dev as freelancer to build/test iOS app
it just goes to show how these large budgets are possible. nothing nefarious to see here.
Words words words. Tl;dr yeah he’s right. That $250k house you were supposed to buy? Yeah, it’s $450k now. Pay up.
It sounds like they're using UEFI capsule updates for the firmware, so it'll actually be easy to perform the updates under other operating systems - Microsoft just won't have any mechanism to compel you to do so.
Has Anyone Summited the 14 Highest Mountains?
Found this via their Twitter:

https://twitter.com/taler/status/1474731795681849345
Don't forget that even recently Microsoft has pretended to be committed to open source, but consistently continues to make decisions that counter that. What may look friendly today like their switch to Edge, may end up being entirely hostile like Edge has become today.
I want to add my two cents in that "run their own server" does not necessarily mean hosting open web exposed services. I started slowly in 2017 and have currently 4 family members' houses connected via IPSEC (one of them cross-atlantic). All internal information exchange, hosting private services etc.

You can argue that for IPSEC (or VPN or Wireguard) you still need _some_ port open, but getting that single port secure is much more hassle free than keeping control of (e.g.) 20 individual web services. And most of it is already set by default. This provides already a lot of benefits: I can try out technology, I am (largely) independent and I can migrate on my own terms and schedule, not when forced by cloud providers. I still have external "hosting", but it is very basic and controlled through CI on my own private Gitlab ( pushing static sites to the public through SSH).

I am not sure whether this is fully compatible with web3/crypto, but to me it was the first step in getting some control back and it feels really good, despite the work.
> to those that need to hear it, it says what it needs to say to get them to understand what needs to be done

This only works if truth is used. The labster seems to be assuming they have credibility; but if they're lying, or if they're associated with liars, they'll lose it (if they haven't already).
This former MySQL dev says:

> MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220104181634/https://blog.sess...
Firmware updates can't add network hardware where none currently exists. The block diagrams for Pluton don't give it any mechanism to communicate with the network directly.
So they are the same everywhere.
To be quite honest, I'd be interested myself to find out. I can't see the motivation for changing it, other than they found it not to be beneficial. It seems like opening it up again would just create more problems in the long run if they intended to close it down eventually.

I might look into it, as it sounds like an interesting rabbit hole.
The problem was this clusterfuck lasted for far too long and public guidance was and still is a complete mess.

We panicked everyone instead of having a level-headed policy where we stratified risk by age and health condition.
Then it won't be a big problem I guess.

Though having a blob firmware from MS embedded into the CPU itself feels kind of weird. A better way to do it was some third party handling it or requiring that firmware to be open source for example.
> [...] a virus that was nowhere near a risk to children.

People continuously forget about (or maliciously omit) even a single step beyond someone's infection. One infected person can spread it to others. Even if the individual's risk may be low, soon, you start spreading it to people that are more at risk. Schools can thus become superspreader locations that put their parents and teachers and whatnot at risk. Whether or not everything we did with schools is right, not doing anything would've led to millions of more people dead.

> [...] our hysterical reaction to Covid, [...]

Everyone certainly did some wrong things and arguably are continuing to do so, but "hysterical" is not how I would put it. We were facing a [relatively] unknown virus with poorly-understood effects to this day. We still can't predict who will be affected how by it.

I think this rhetoric is dangerous and some points of it are [to me] blindingly obviously wrong.
Microsoft's 32-bit ARM devices were being sold as appliances, their 64-bit ones are being sold as general purpose computers.
This shows a gross misunderstanding of viruses.

1. Children don't exist in a vacuum. Even if they don't become symptomatic, they can still be a carrier and they can still infect adults that they're in contact with. Should teachers be sacrificing themselves? Should families isolate their children within the house?

2. It's a low risk to healthy children. What do you do for children with other health complications? America has a lot of diabetic children. Covid is also shown to increase the risk of pre-diabetic children becoming diabetic https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-substan...

3. Covid is not a one and done. You get it, and it can have long term lasting effects even if it doesn't kill you. That applies to children as well.

4. Covid spreads very quickly with a relatively high risk to the greater population. Lockdowns were a safety measure at the very least to be able to keep pace with things. It was absolutely the right thing to do till the virus was more understood.

5. As the virus was more understood, it reinforced the above points because covid has very complex side effects
I don't think the reaction was hysterical, the united States ranks 14 out of over 200 countries for most deaths to COVID per capita, and we don't even have high population density.
We should be complaining when it happens, not that any of these methods exist - they're super useful to have in many applications, eg. access control door locks, keeping PKI HSMs locked down, etc.
I just got an email about this -- well done! You are such a good maker. You just make and make and make. A real builder. Totally inspiring, I love seeing your updates!

What's your process? Do you blog about your tech stack or challenges?

Really enjoy seeing your work! :)

edit: ps - also what do you use for those email mailouts? they look awesome
Playing devil's advocate...It could be a lab leak (I've seen conflicting stories, some seemingly reputable), but I agree it doesn't matter if it is or isn't...and it leans (more into conspiracy territory than not) what matters is there's this cat, and it's out of the bag, and vaccines protect against it, Ivermectin does jack shit and other 'cures' are bullshit unless sanctioned by the broader medical community (Pfizer's new pill as an example).

Just TRUST your doctors, there's not a conspiracy to make everyone baren or something crazy, the vaccines are safer than going to a bar and having a few drinks.

ironically Covid itself probably has a better chance of making one sterile than the vaccine as ACE receptors are in the testes, and other reproductive organs, so it could sterilize people who get bad infections.
I've always thought this was just Microsoft's copy of Google Titan and Apple's T2. And as others have pointed out, there's a lot of overlap with what a TPM can already do.

The main thing that comes to mind for me is that since this is integrated into the CPU itself, now 'things' can be strongly and directly tied to the CPU instead of a separate TPM or some collection of hardware identifiers. Was this already possible on x86? My mind immediately went to "this will be used for tighter DRM"; I feel like content owners would like this a whole lot.
Thank you. I didn't really understand the argument of the article until I saw a production usage. I thought he was arguing that arrow code is okay if you add comments, but he's really saying that sometimes a single code path can't handle all the complexity of the world and special cases are OK.
You will not own anything one day and be happy about it according to the media.
Well, duh. So did adults: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/29/1041515...
The Chinese own over 2 million acres of American farmland, more than any other nation.

This doesn't line up with government reporting here:

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF11977

Even if this wrong by a factor of 10 (which it would have to be to match your number), it's peanuts compared to the US Agricultural land owned by Canada and less than half of Dutch-owned land.
I don't think Hubble or the JWST have much to do with the question of whether we should have built another LHC to collect data twice as fast, except as an imperfect analogy to help frame the question in casual consideration—i.e. the reverse of the analogy I made in my comment.

In fact, answering that question should come down to whether we expect the LHC to realize the majority of important observations "in range" of its instruments within its projected lifetime, and also in time to make useful contributions to the selection and design of future experiments.

To answer your question directly: yes, AFAIK the LHC is fully utilized; when it's not running, it's down for maintenance or upgrades, and its observations are (or have been, in its active periods) in high demand. But it's far from clear that building another one would yield a good return on investment, especially given the opportunity cost of diverting funding from future experiments.
I was going to ask the same thing if no one else had.
Well in this case it's not really getting worse. The hardware you bought is already backdoored/locked down. It's like closing the stable door after the horse ran away.
Reminds me of when Seattle finished boring a transit line with their zillion dollar tunnel boring machine, they cut it up and sold it for scrap. Never mind that the machine could have just kept right on boring, extending the line.
- Too much overreach in functionality.

- The developers had a condescending approach and ignored the wider community.

- Simple things like log files no longer being plain text. Obtuse.

- Arguably designed to inject unneeded complexity that will cause money to flow into big orgs. 1.2 million lines of code vs shell scripts. Just wow.
Thanks for that! Not as bad as I would have thought.
It is an indirect transfer.

Central bank balance sheet coupled with debt monetization debases fiat. That means if I worked for an hour and made $10 and your house goes up by 30%, I can buy less house while you can borrow against your house at low interest rates to buy more financial assets or even my time.
No, covid is the common name for covid-19, the disease pathology that happens when you are infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus and your body fails to control it.
You can contract out the management. They will find tenants, deal with leases, collecting rent, evictions when needed, maintenance, everything. They take a good chunk of your cash flow, but that would allow you to keep the properties as an asset if you want to.
Not as fun, but there is a Rust book that teaches you Rust through teaching you to programming 2D games. It is called Hands-On Rust [0], and it is from PragPub.

When learning a language, I always look for books that actually make you do something rather than tediously, boringly walk you through the user-facing API.

[0]: https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/
I'm an android user.

I had no idea what this thread was about until your comment. Thanks
What if the public funded it and tolerated the cost overruns, and the numerous delays because they wanted the "circus aspect" photography? Looking at you Juno and thanks for the swirling ocean photos on Jupiter. I bet the majority of the public did! YMMV
No one is saying apple needs to get rid of iMessage, just update the fallback from sms to rcs
Are you kidding? They look very cheap
I'm not exactly sure how me_cleaner works, but AFAIK it still works even with intel bootguard? I believe the way it works is that intel ME are present in the bios as optional modules, and they can be removed without messing up the signature.
Almost every large project starts as a small project.

Arguably, all of the actually-successful ones did. The only projects I have heard of that started large are rewrites of another project, in another language, that did start off small. It seems possible there are a few run under rigorous engineering management, I imagine likely only in aerospace.

So, if you want a language to be good for large projects, and to get it actually ever used for them, it has to also be good for writing small projects, and good at adapting to them becoming large over time.

C++ targets that role: you can write a useful 500-line program, and also maintain a million-line system, all in the same C++. Rust is making a go at that space. Common Lisp and Ada wanted a piece of that pie. Scheme, by contrast, explicitly chose not to. C is fantasmagorically unsuited for writing big systems, but is shoehorned into the role anyway. Java was imagined to be targeting the role, but its design was so crabbed as to be almost as bad at it as C; but it is gradually being grown into the role.

I note in passing that PITL is unfortunately close to PITA. Maybe another term of art would be a better choice.
Hellanicus of Mytilene, born 60 years before Plato, of whose 22 books we sadly only have fragments, wrote about Atlantis around 405 (when Plato was about 20).

For him Atlantis was the daughter of the titan Atlas. A small fragment of Hellanicus’s opus about her survives with the following line: "Poseidon coupled with Celaeno, and their son Lycus was settled by Poseidon in the Isles of the Blessed and made immortal.". "The Isles of the Blessed" would become Atlantis the geographical location in Plato's writing. The fragment was found in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri 11, 1359.

Certainly not a lot or a bullseye, but there you go.

If you permit me, I'd like to make a suggestion to you : always applying the (IMHO) fallacious rule "apparent absence of evidence is evidence of absence" makes life very drab. Letting oneself dream of utopias past or future improves creativity, and gives hope and a nice escape from the rat race. Don't spoil other people's fun with cynicism.
If you have an AMD system then there's a decent chance that it's already running a TPM stack on the on-die Platform Security Processor. Pluton isn't really any more tightly integrated, it just means the TPM stack isn't running on the same core as a bunch of other random platform things.
I think this take is a little extreme. I grew up in a very small town. You couldn’t get to the city without driving 30 minutes to a bus stop. I didn’t like it very much, and really looked forward to moving to a city.

However, there were a plethora of parks, ponds, baseball and basketball courts, skateboarding parks, and an ice rink nearby that were somewhat walkable.

Yeah I spent a little too much time on the computer but I did have a social life and went outside a lot doing all kinds of fun.

I think you are underestimating how much fun kids can have with not very much. I agree that we have serious cultural problems but I think urban planning is the wrong culprit here.

I think at least some of it is lazy parenting who are content with just giving their kids an iPad or throwing them in front of the TV for entertainment.

You know what my sister did with her friends for “fun”? They wrote and acted out plays. This wasn’t that long ago, it was in the 90s.
Would I be wrong to assume that technological advances in the next 15 years would justify sending a second satellite? As in, instead of a refueling mission we'd be more likely to send a version 2 of the satellite with even better sensors/apparatus/whatnot?
In fairness, I think they have a point. 10 years is usually an eternity in tech, but we're talking about a system that's still compatible with systems from the 80s; so I think that expecting things to occur on extended timelines isn't unreasonable.
> 10 years is an eternity in tech

Maybe if you're talking Java versions, but not in the desktop OS space. (Look at so many old machines running Windows 7 or earlier right now, and look at long old OSes are officially supported, and how long they're still used afterward.) And besides, even if it was, this wouldn't mean anything. Look at the whole Default Browser fiasco that happened in the last few months. Microsoft went back to engaging in practices they had already settled with the Justice Department two decades ago.

Also look at how they finally made Windows 11 64-bit-only. And even now it still runs 32-bit programs, just the OS is 64-bit. It took two decades after 64-bit CPUs came out to get to this point.

They take their time and meander, and it takes a while. Possibly due to corporate sluggishness, possibly due to wanting to boil the frog slowly, possibly due to wanting to test the waters for a while... who knows why. But speed isn't the main criterion.
We’ve terraformed the crap out of the world in ways that are guaranteed to have massive and significant effects, and climate scientists are racing to try to predict where the worst impacts will fall. This is an incredibly difficult thing to do because while in the aggregate the damage we’ve done is visible, weather is chaotic and the problem is near impossible. Instead of seeing modelers as our best, if highly imperfect, guides to weathering this storm we are (predictably) using the imperfection of their models as an excuse to do nothing about the problem, even though the overall effect of our actions is extremely obvious.