skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me that the hazards described below accrue to any software you don't / can't audit / test and it's just a question of how much you can successfully blame on the vendor and further more deflect with "my hands are tied because contractually I'm bound by the vendor not to reverse engineer":

* software is ubiquitous

* software opens the door

* software is an appealing attack vector for bad actors because it can be widespread and highly effective

* without controls in place to detect malicious changes, they may go unnoticed until they're distributed

The mitigations also apply to software generally:

* security and software teams (to) work together to develop policies and a process for testing applications and software components

* (ummm, static analysis does apply to proprietary software, they just call it breaking the law)

But who is suposed to do all this, really? The Linux Foundation is going to spend $10Mil and that's going to prevent Solar Winds? Does not compute.
Very interesting.

It seems to me that the basic punchline of Minsky theory is "the financial system is designed to encourage momentum investing". Or maybe even "everyone is a momentum investor, some just do it with extra steps".

Even if you're not consciously a momentum investor, you will use or be presented with so-called "risk" metrics which are really just looking at past performance, in a way that mostly amounts to

Stonk go up = "low risk"

Stonk go down = "high risk"

If you use such metrics, you're just a momentum investor with extra steps.

And if everyone is just a momentum investor with extra steps, our markets will of course boom and bust, as a market full of momentum investors must do.
No problem! Yeah, it makes things faster to start that have to be pulled first.

I mean there is almost no need to worry about making images smaller if you are using stargz, because it just won't pull anything that's not needed.
The best thing you can do for your kids is to have a good happy relationship with your partner.
>Your issues with social media are simply complaints about people.

That argument has the same flaw as the National Rifle Association's "Guns don't kill people, people kill people".
Yes, I especially love the leaves with lighter undersides which seem to flicker in a breeze. Those were so gratifying to look at, and still are.

My test to see if I need a new prescription is looking at the tops of trees and assessing how much detail I can see, because the proper amount of detail is so imprinted in my mind now.

Another thing I love looking at is distant mountains. They are covered in so many fascinating details. Before glasses, they were dark walls with white caps. With glasses, they are like small worlds standing in front of me. The trees themselves become the leaves of the mountain. It’s very cool to actually see what’s on them. Last year I spotted a waterfall on one and sat for half an hour or so picking out where the stream was above and below it, began to notice patterns in the vegetation that would help me follow the stream, saw things like landslides which disrupted the patterns, began to notice a colour gradient in the same species of tree as the altitude lowered, etc. Endless details. Without glasses that experience would have been impossible.
@curryable looks the same as @partializable:

@curryable
def add(a, b):
return a+b

add2 = add(..., 2) # curried
print(add2(3)) # 5
I do embedded systems. The 68040 was fast enough (1990). The 68060 was very much fast enough (1994).

For desktops, probably 2000.
> bonus for why that chart shows numbers in the future without apparent change in typesetting from current (real?) numbers

These are the current prices for "futures". The date is when the coal will be delivered.

As the delivery date nears, the price for the contract will converge to the spot price (assuming there is a spot market). For the dates in the past, the price shown is the last price before trading of that futures contract was halted.
> OTP passwords are better

For accounts which hold something of value (monetary and/or personal data) then sure.

But every once in a while when I need to login to GitHub it blocks my logon and demand what I give it a code sent to my e-mail. In essence this doean't seems that different from the scheme in the article.
> _An Apple share was worth a little under $7 when PG wrote this. Today, it hovers around $170_

And that’s after a 7:1 split in 2014 and a 4:1 split in 2020… money isn’t everything, but they are clearly finding some success via software, which is the fastest growing part of the company of late.

Personally, I have plenty of my own gripes with Apple, but ever since switching to their ecosystem 13 years ago I’ve felt like I hopped off a creaky freight train and onto a high speed maglev.
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It's still a native app and must play by Apple's rules - for example on monetization.

The fact that it uses a subset of web technologies that Apple deems acceptable is a technical detail.
I'm still looking for a full web frontend framework that uses constraints -- because yes, they are the best version of 'responsive' layouts ever.
I did mean 20th century.

I still contend socialism is about central planning. Common ownership and participation in the means of production via democracy is central planning in practice, since people end up pooling their decision making power.

Representives then implement policies decided by the collective, which all people are subject too.

It's opposed to the libertarian vision, which would be for each person to make more of their own decisions individually, with voting less relevant.
Sex is an integral part (though not the only one) of most romantic relationships. If it weren't, most people wouldn't be demanding sexual exclusivity from their partners.
> But Apple's growth in market value since – from $175B at the end of November 2009, to $2.73T today – at least raises the possibility that Apple wasn't making a "mistake" [...] Still a drag on human progress & welfare, sure.

Basically highlighting the issues of capitalism unchecked.

Initially it can be beneficial to society - I'm confident in saying Apple empowered individuals and other companies in the early years through to pretty much around the time this article was written. For all it's flaws it was an overall force of good for society, for humanity... it didn't suddenly stop doing that, but changed focus, and started to erode it.

Over time a market winner, or winners are picked, and then it seems to be just a matter of time until user exploitation starts, without natural pressure to produce the best product, with the best experience, for the user beyond basic tolerability; it slowly devolves into a venture into wealth extraction as the people who originally cared enough about the companies original values either leave, retire or die. Finding ways to lock in users, creating artificial dependence and tricking people into subscriptions are all just optimisations on this path to wealth extraction from the average person.

It sounds a bit conspiracy theorist when I read that back, but it's hard to say it's not true... this just seems to reliably happen to these incumbent corporations.
Can you recommend good geometric algebra books starting at a elementary level, say, not assuming starting knowledge much beyond high school mathematics? I did some preliminary research, but I had the impression the intended audience for most books in this area is people that already master the conventional approach but are open to see the subject under a new light, so a lot of previous knowledge is assumed.
Keeping the population levels up is so far down in my list of priorities that it will never come up. Is this really a concern of other people?
It's more complicated than shows up in micro benchmarks like that. Since when you do it, it's pretty much every add, you end up polluting your branch predictor by using jo instructions everywhere and it can lead to worse overall perf.
Thanks for the writeup, makes sense now.
I’d welcome that, but it’s new information to me and I can’t find confirmation of it. The sources I find all say it could potentially be banned retroactive to the start of this year.
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> She said she never had any trouble initiating contact with authority figures when she had some business to discuss. “We’re all just people,” she says.
most people can't actually look at something continuously. There are blinks and saccades our brain filters out.
Democratic ownership is central planning. It means using votes to decide how the whole country will move.

The hierarchy is unavoidable at scale.
This is also my main method of improving work life. Inflating the cost of sprints lets me spend more time "working"- on chores around the house, side projects, childcare, etc.

As long as you complete what's "agreed" to (which is transparently a conflict of interest: engineers stating what can be accomplished; the ones who have to do the actual work), then everyone seems bizarrely happy.

The reduced working hours I qualify as increased salary, which prevents me from jumping ship for a better salary. I also qualify the reduced work as metal health recompense for perpetually dealing with scrum narcissists.

It's Putts Law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Success... - but somehow management's impotence is becoming increasingly transparent.
Didn't think of that. Just saw my iPhone rocket down from 50% to 10% one time too many and instantly ordered the new Android phone.
I've always understood that C was designed to fit a hardware budget.

We knew about many of these features then, when C was created - but it wasn't until the 2000's really where computing horsepower caught up to be able to use them in a universal way.
Just curious, what does 3P stand for?
But what they're referring to is that none of the code in that is hard to understand... unlike in C/C++. This is like of like the same idea behind Go. You make the language simple and straight forward and even though there may be a LOT of code the code will be be easy to understand.

And I would add that Go is obviously easier than Java here by design, but anyone could write a horribly over-abstracted Hello World or Fizz Buzz in any language given the motivation.
I'd like to offer a hypothesis for what consciousness is:

I think consciousness is modulating some other dimension that we don't have a good definition for. Electrical signals migrating around in the brain in certain complex patterns perhaps do that. If we figured out how to do it, we could perhaps invent telepathic communication. Schizophrenia, where people hear voices and think they have multiple people in their brain, is probably two of these complex patterns going at the same time that are out of sync with each other due to some form of brain damage.
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The ranking of scientific publications based on citations you’re describing is impact factor [1]. I haven’t heard that as an inspiration for Larry Page’s PageRank [2] but that is plausible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
I upvoted your comment as I completely agree. As a smaller nation with a large and powerful neighbor to the south, it is important for Canada to protect against foreign influence in our politics and particularly our elections.

I do wish we would apply those foreign influence and foreign funding rules more consistently though. A few years ago, the prime minister in question, accepted millions in funding from Chinese investors to his WE charity. In order to avoid having to defend those actions he even prorogued parliament.

It would also be nice to limit foreign investment in Canadian real estate so that more Canadians could afford a home in their native land, but I might be dreaming.
I think what Apple is really mainstreaming is the mass-use of their devices as a low-bitrate, irregular sneakernet. This should replace lots of IoT stuff.

It's kinda dumb that our cabin has a 'smart' meter on a meshnetwork, but there's no way for me to remotely turn-on a heater 4h before I arrive without a $10+/month subscription.

Maybe one day I can offline order a book and it just shows up because the on-line devices nearby (or are likely to show up nearby) can drop it off wirelessly.

A traffic light won't be needing its own internet subscription or private physical network to beam up a picture of the intersection or status.
My guess would be a pipelining issue where `INTO` isn't treated as a `Jcc`, but as an `INT` (mainly because it is an interrupt). Agner Fog's instruction tables[0] show (for the Pentium 4) `Jcc` takes one uOP with a throughput of 2-4. `INTO`, OTOH, when not taken uses four uOPs with a throughput of 18! Zen 3 is much better with a throughput of 2, but that's still worse than `JO raiseINTO`.

[0]: https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
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While true this is the risk you took when you punched in info you can't prove if the need arise.
Thanks, that's amazing! I wish there was more of a central forum for this stuff. Do you know of any similar channels for FF6, Chrono Trigger, and other golden-age JRPGs?
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Not officially supported on a headless server, but there are docker containers that work.
Will pihole automatically protect against A/AAAA domains if your blocked domain host file lists are updated regularly?
it is precisely why I degoogled my life.

I did not want to live under the constant threat of big G locking me out of my own life anymore.
This is a really good article and I highly recommend reading through it. It collects a lot of great info in one place.
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Sorry. I should have known better than to try to participate in this thread. My apologies.

Carry on.
This is so similar to the Anna Sorokin scam (now famous via Netflix). I think the Insta culture has made people so hungry for the image of success that they'll do anything to achieve it.

Taking that a step further, I do wonder if crimes like this will get public sentiment behind removing anonymity from the Internet. There's plenty of reasons to keep people's privacy. But society will only tolerate so much criminal behavior before handing over their freedom for order.
How about converting BTC to USD? This will always be centralized and your bank could always block the incoming transaction.
Pixel 6 is a flagship phone from Google, it uses Google's own Tensor SoC, and runs Google's own Android OS. It was released in October 2021, and is guaranteed Android version updates until October 2024. Security updates until October 2026.

Three years of updates of Google's own software on their own hardware is ridiculous and inexcusable. It also shows that it was never about who made the SoC.

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705#zippy=%...
It would be pretty dumb seeing as twitter (to single out one) has huge numbers of fascists to communists on it still to this day. Personally I think the problem of "echo chambers" is a minor one compared to the problem of massive unitary platforms where western governments offload political debates on the limits of free speech and what constitutes disinformation to a bunch of tech execs.
Looking through your comment history, you appear to have a history of passive-aggressive comments like the one above. A typo as extensive as "wri g" is pretty hard to read at first glance, because it has an intervening space.
Whataboutism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism) is pretty boring unless we were specifically trying to create a ranked list of the worst things.

Also, without an explanation of why "in your opinion" "any social media company" is worse, you're just declaring a personal bias - and vaguely, too. (Is social media company Snapchat more destructive than Apple's App Store policies?)

If you have some larger grudge against some specific social media companies, why not write it up, with reasoning & naming names, in an appropriate place? Why only allude to it, to make Apple's destructiveness seem smaller?
> Sure, but I hope it's easy to understand that it's orders of magnitude easier to just buy an AirTag

Oh yeah, Was just pointing out that the pricing of such things is dropping like flies.

> Pretty much no regular stalker is going to design and build their own GPS+cellular tracker.

Agreed, again was just pointing out the pricing of parts.

> Yes, it's absolutely possible, and not super difficult, to track someone using a GPS+cellular device. But it feels really disingenuous to claim that tracking people was just as easy to do for your average stalker pre-AirTags.

I don't think I did claim that. I wasn't trying to claim that. Maybe thats just the limitation of using text.
Mandela Effect Examples
I worked in various restaurants for about 12 years, but its not just my experience.
Does this mean that Apple is failing to validate the capability of things that purport to be AirTags? Or that the BLE protocol is just not powerful enough to have Apple signatures on each broadcast public key?

If it's the latter, it might mean that the entire AirTag product line is dead in the water.
You cannot get your location on iOS without also sending your location to Apple. As far as I know, iOS is the only platform that has this deficiency. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21708157
You don't, it's all opinion, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

We can at least all agree there is difference in the efficiency of writing a program in binary opcodes for a specific architecture vs writing one in C... although quantifying it is impossible, and that's just one quality.
You can purchase pre-made GPS+cellular trackers, but it seems like it would be much easier to tie a detected tracker of this type back to a specific person. A tracker with cellular capability will have a SIM and some kind of subpoena-able service record, while one of the pirate AirTags described in the post is basically just an antenna and a battery.
464XLAT: IPv4 services over an IPv6-only network
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Yeah, I’m Ukraine. Not sure which other countries not supported
Non-metallic rebar (eg GFRP rebar, Basalt rebar) is also an option that's becoming more popular, though I've only seen it in low-importance structures. Both have very different design considerations than steel though: they essentially don't yield until failure loads, they have thermal expansion different axial vs radial, etc.
That'd be like checking average body temperature of the hospital and declaring everybody healthy since it's 36.6.

Many people won't need get sick for years and just use those sick days as extra holidays. Because why would you let this go to waste :) But those who do get ill, most likely will be off for more than 1-2 days at a time.
Has there been an actively developed open-source language both without a "benevolent dictator" AND without being bikeshredded to death by democracy?

(I wouldn't count C as actively developing, even though it is moving glacially slow, I'm thinking of things like Python, etc. Or other languages that aren't "done.")
3rd party developer.
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A vast majority of the cost is missed optimization due to having to compute partial states in connection to overflow errors. The checks themselves are trivially predicted, and that's when the compiler can't optimize them out.
Such scams have always been true for whatever reason. Ancient Rome had specific laws around pretending to be other people, suggesting it was a big problem 2000 years ago. If this is used to justify removing anonymity from the internet, I doubt it will be the real motivation for those pushing it.
So I built a very basic prototype app to explore an idea I had using Flutter (imagine something like a time boxing system where you track how frequently you get distracted). Spent a couple days roughing it out, and then I was able to load it onto my own Android device to start testing. Literally just plugged in my device to my PC, confirm the prompt on the phone, and then `flutter run -d <device_id>`. I also wanted to send it to my brother (who has an iPhone) so he could start playing with it too.

So I had to pay Apple $100 to open a developer account. Then sign a bunch of contracts. Then register an app ID and generate certificates. Then bundle the app and submit it to appstoreconnect. Then wait for a bunch of automated checks to pass and tell me that the app ID is missing entitlements. Then figure out what that even means, attempt to fix the entitlements, and run through the submission again. Then set up testing groups and invite my brother to test the app. Then I have to "submit" the app for approval for testing. And a couple days later finally get approval from Apple so that I can start testing it. And that's the short version; there were a bunch of nonsensical Xcode quirks to deal with.

For context, I've been an iOS developer for a decade, and it still took me the better part of a weekend to get through it all, even though I know exactly what to expect. And this is so one fucking person can try an app for me.

I hate Apple. I don't know how else to put it. I don't think they're evil, I just think they don't give a shit about their developers. Did you know their bug tracker is private? I'll find some weird behavior with, let's say UITableView or something, and spend all day trying to figure out what subtle thing I'm doing wrong using their comically poor documentation. And then somewhere buried in Stack Overflow I'll find someone saying "oh yeah that's a bug in the framework, I submitted a radar 2 years ago". So there's some bug that they know about, and I'm not even allowed to see that. It feels hostile on their part, and it makes me feel hostile on my part. I think Paul Graham was right.
Right. I mean I literally want to be co-owners of a business with one other person. Not hire a bunch of subordinates. A literal business partnership.
Rust dropped the GC before reaching 1.0, it was the best decision back then as the memory management evolved. But right now as it guarantees backward compatibility, only new features are allowed to be added (although a lot of new features are coming without new extra syntax).
Kind of, I lost count of how many extensions exist currently, and some of them are incompatible.
Clang has a nullability extension and associated nullability sanitizer:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AttributeReference.html#nullabil...
I'd hardly call some oligarchs starting a website an "uprising". The technology is pretty cool though I'm hoping more people are making smaller communities rather than everyone relying on massive super platforms with opaque governance
I've found the same. If you contact an authority with serious questions about the subject they are an authority on, they will generally respond in a positive way. Keep in mind, this is very different than kids asking a math PhD for help with algebra homework - algebra is not their specialty and there is no reason to contact them specifically about such things.
Since we'd be adjusting it to fit, perhaps Tailored Swift would work as a name?
I didn't like her either, but I was trying to explain why it's not a good performance.

Should someone have spotted this and replaced her? Maybe, but her scenes were not crucial enough for anyone to care to tell the director.
Would be so kind to share an example or resources to learn about this?
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