skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a modern phenomenon.

In the first few decades of electronic computers and programming languages, having an addition or any other arithmetic operation that would not signal correctly the overflow exceptions would have been considered as completely unacceptable.

Computers without the right hardware implementation appeared initially among the so-called minicomputers and microcomputers, i.e. the cheapest computers, which initially were intended for things like industrial control or peripherals for larger computers, where it was supposed that competent programmers will take care to use appropriate workarounds for the hardware limitations.

Unfortunately, this kind of implementation of the arithmetic operations, without appropriate means for detecting overflows, intended initially only for the cheapest products, has spread over the years to all CPUs.

Even if from time to time there are news about some horror story caused by a combination of weak hardware with the lack of appropriate software checks, it appears that there is no hope that this unfortunate hardware design fashion will ever be reversed.
This is pretty much the correct assessment of the situation.

However in this instance the public have great empathy with Ukrainians fleeing to safety.

The issue here is that the present government is never actually any good at predicting problems before they get bad, and are always reacting far to late.
This is so much fun. I love the simplicity of the original feel of the game. No need for fancy graphics, etc. for it to be enjoyable.

And I'm amazed at 0 browser issues or weirdness. Takes me right back to my Tandy 1000.

My only wish it had the help stuff to remember how to resolve some of the problems in the city. I can't remember if that was in the game or in the book back in the day. I have housing and unemployment problems but have unpopulated residential, commercial, and industrial blocks. I know I'm missing something but my memory from the 80s/early 90s is failing me.

Instantly remembered to slow it down after a while to maintain roads and rail, get to nuclear power ASAP, keep industrial away from residential, build parks, and all of that.

Will need to start over again after a bit with better planning :).
Russian armored train spotted in Ukraine, as roads too dangerous. WW1 Tactic
Thanks. Great resource.
I voted the other way, but ultimately you have to respect the vote to an extent.

If the Leave campaign knew that they were going to deliver something other than what they campaigned for, and it's reasonable to suggest they did, then that's fraud, and the whole thing should be declared void.
Initial NFTs were just pointers to some jpg on a vm somewhere no? Very "secure".
> “Science feels and acts like a kind of religion a lot of the time.” Minsky had heard that one before: “Everything is similar if you’re willing to look that far out of focus.

this breaks down when you remember that contemporary science emerged in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries out of the work of people like newton and kant who saw themselves as engaged in a (partially) theological pursuit.

> You’re not allowed to ask, ‘Who made God?’

this is actually a pretty active inquiry in theological circles, and one of the sources of difference between Christian sects. although us Christians tend to frame it more from a creationist perspective as "what sort of entity is God and what bearing would that have on the way we see God's creation and custodianship of the world". much like with science, faith does not preclude curiosity for the reigious.
> Have the Russians proven they are weak?

Yes. They have shown they are not well organized, have poor leadership, have defective planning, are terrible at logistics, have poor discipline in the ranks.
A Christmas Carol is also not a real story but it is a great masterpiece helping us think about life.

PS. I'm Bulgaria born, I know very well what it is like being under Russian influence or Western influence but thanks for the reading material.
Only last year the UK government opened a visa scheme for 2.9 million Hong Kong citizens to claim residence in the UK, and fast-track their UK citizenship.
It still amazes me that some of the biggest (and many might argue innovative, progressive) companies like Apple but also Google and others, still struggle with basic tenets of 'work' and its future. Remote work is here to stay (and is not new, by the way); that part of the debate is settled. What remote looks like, however, is going to be an amalgamation of opinions made between CEOs and executive leadership and their HR departments across many companies and the response people have to it thru retention, etc.

Having led, grow, and work on remote and hybrid-remote teams for 12+ years now, I almost feel like I just repeat myself all the time when I say the right answer is about flexibility and choice at the team and individual levels, not at a corporate mandate level. And also, maybe it goes without saying, focus on results and outcomes rather than arguing how the sauce has to be made. People will be creative in many settings and supporting them and helping them navigate how they work best (whether that is in an office part-time, full-time, or fully remote) is going to be winning solution. Not biblical commandments like "Thou shalt be in the office 3 days a week."
Everyone agrees double standards are bad.

No one believes they have double standards.

This is like when people post trite aphorisms as if it's some sort of mic drop moment. As if the aphorism can't possibly apply to them as well. No, they're the chosen one, elected by the self to bring the wisdom to the sleeping masses.

No Billy, you're not some warrior poet bucking the system, you're a fucking dipshit who barely graduated high school who services vending machines.
> Religious people made magnificent temples, cathedrals, songs, paintings and so on

Non-religious people may not have made temples or cathedrals, but I can promise you they have made songs, paintings, theaters, other random impressive looking buildings, and so on. The only things that really prevents the existence of more massive, impressive looking buildings is current worry about sustainability, safety, accessibility, and not having the budget of the entire Catholic/Christian/Other church to build them.
The MAD thing really just applies to Russia (China too I guess?). France was in Africa pretty recently as a non-NATO involvement [1]. The United Kingdom faced off against Argentina in the 80s as well [2].

What do you envision a non-NATO EU army would be doing in Ukraine that isn't currently being done?

Without the United States backing up the EU wouldn't Russia just threaten EU member states and make them back off? It kind of seems to me that NATO is what's keeping Europe from breaking out into a war outside of just Ukraine. Why wouldn't Russia invade Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia? What would Germany do about it? What if Russia sank France's aircraft carrier? Would they still continue the fight? Not to mention the ability of the U.S. to do logistics to help European countries supply weapons to Ukraine to help them fight. Hell, nobody in Europe believed Russia was going to do it while the United States and United Kingdom were screaming bloody murder about it.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/why-has-france-been-war-decade...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War
> High gas prices is probably this single most effective way to curb greenhouse gases

Partially. The problem is, if you allow (or introduce) a high gas price as a politician, you'll be causing social unrest - and that not just in the US where having a car is mandatory outside of the core of urbanized areas, but also even in modern places like France where precisely that was the cause of the infamous Yellow Vest riots. And that social unrest can deal way more damage long term than the GHG emissions you'd save - social unrest is how the 45th took power. Imagine a repeat of the 45th (or someone even worse)... say goodbye to anything done on the political side to curb GHG emissions.

> taking mass transit where available

Yes, the problem is that you'd need reliable mass transit in the first place. And in many areas - again not just in the US but worldwide - mass transit is either not existing at all outside of urban areas or very spotty (i.e. once in the morning and once in the afternoon as school bus). Governments will have to take a lot of money to build out that first. And in urban areas, the side effects of large homeless and/or mentally unwell people makes mass transit pretty unattractive, so again governments will have to take even more money to fix that mess.

We're all sitting on decades worth of political ignorance and now climate change, Putin and a lot of the population (the ones who deny climate change) collide together in a perfect storm event. And I'm not sure which way out it will take.
She's a vile politician, thats probably the joke
As a (partially) blind person, I agree with you, and I know that some prominent blind people have spoken out against person-first language, for example: https://mosen.org/person-first-language-it-does-more-harm-th... (seems to be down at time of writing)
There has been a concerted campaign by the American right over the past number of years to portray Russia as a conservative utopia Christian ethnostate, where they worship God, guns, and country, and being gay is illegal. This view has lead some in my family to proclaim they'd rather be Russian than a Democrat, because they feel they have more in common with foreigners living across the world under a dictatorship in another country than their own family in a different political party.
But how many countries have introduced new taxes for the rich in the last decades?
I think there are some religions that are a net-negative on society, their members, etc. Most religions are probably not in that category though. I only say this because I grew up in a cult that has had lasting impacts on my social and mental health despite leaving almost a decade ago and I have nothing good to say about that particular organization.
Unfortunately that is so. In that case I 'd recommend (used or older) laptops compatible with linux and (older) phones known to be compatible with LineageOS (or postmarketOS if you are adventurous). This "solution" may not work everywhere in the world but hopefully it will cover a not insignificant part of non EU/US/UK.

One of the best purchases I ever made was a le eco le pro 3 phone once the company went bankrupt for half the retail price 5 years ago. Bought it because it already had LineageOS support. Today it runs Lineage OS 18.1 (android 11) like a champ, it can be make to run bank apps (passing safetynet) if I want to. Still lineage OS is not a silver bullet you either need to get lucky and pick a phone with a big enough following that volunteer devs will support or scout XDA threads in order to identify those phones before purchasing.
> Almost all games today aren't just single threaded, they are laughably single threaded.

Many (maybe most, still) games have embarrassingly single-threaded game logic (i.e., there's still one "runloop" thread which manages game state), but almost universally at this point there's a separate thread for loading data, decompressing data, asset / script compilation, and audio. Many games also use a separate thread for physics as well, and some use worker threads for AI / rules engine NPC behavior as well.

Anyway, loading data is where the parallel and batched nature of modern gaming workloads comes in - almost all games at this point do some kind of constant background asset loading to avoid the need for load screens between areas. This asset loading is almost always done in a background thread and is pretty much a 1:1 match for an NVMe queue - request the blocks containing the data you need, ask to be flagged when a block has been DMAed into the memory area you want it in, and then decompress it in the background.
Read the first few chapters, and I'm hooked. If this were a course when I was in college I would have been all over it.

I suspect with the mind and also life, we will eventually come to the conclusion that they are just human constructs, and either everything is conscious/alive, or everything inanimate, depending on how you look at it. Similar to how Goedel found the boundary of math and Wittgenstein philosophy.
I thankfully have never had the displeasure of working with a business unit that explicitly ignored compliance with regulations.

i know they exist. i just havent, personally, had that experience, thankfully.
Is it safe to back down and allow Russia to take Ukraine? A similar thing seems to be happening now on a smaller scale. We have a rough idea that they have larger ambitions. I don't think the west would back down if Poland were attacked, but again I have to ask... who specifically would retaliate on the behalf of Estonia and Latvia? I guess it would be a true test of NATO membership, but based on their reluctance to shut down Ukrainian airspace I don't see it happening.

Also, keep in mind that Russia is already spreading FUD about Ukrainian dirty bombs (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-without-evidence...).
Yes, it's always the midpoint calculation. Everybody forgets that (low+high) could overflow. It's trivial to work around once you know - just replace mid=(low+high)/2 with mid=low+(high-low)/2.
Why would any serious team use flutter over React Native for their apps?
Just as the US was feeling threatened in the 60s with the Soviets trying to put missiles on their doorstep in Cuba, Russia also feels threatened by NATO and the EU alliances inching closer towards their country. Just because many people choose not to listen, doesn't mean that Russia hasn't been talking about this exact kind of thing for the last 20 years or so.
I'm Jew. I was in Azov battalion at end of 2014.
Don't election winners always deliver something other than what they campaigned for?
This is a great question that id like to discover the truth of.

My guess is because Russia is not, and never has been a democratic country, and perhaps there are many nuanced conflicts regarding that difference that im not educated enough to understand or find.
We can do plenty about it, kill the evil people, quit being a fucking pawn.
> Any suggestions how to unbreak it?

I wish, but no. My biggest take away from watching economies and governments get borked by people who don't know what they're doing is that anything I could suggest will probably make matters worse. I'm a software developer, not a specialist in societies.
> Power hungry people are always going to seek power, and they're always going to be better at it than people who aren't likewise driven.

From this Republicanism draws it's power. The powerful want to rule over other people, so devide the nation into many small states, give each a leader and let the people choose where they want to live. This forces leaders to compete with each other for head count. These socal climbers are naturally competitive with one another so they will go to great lengths to gain more population.

You have the benefits of a large country for things like national defence and natural disasters, but without the strong federal government that ends up homogenizing the states.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism
Europe was rebuilding after WW2 and it only started presenting a somewhat united front 30 years ago.

The EU is barely a confederation, let alone a federal state.
Same here. No idea what I'm supposed to do with it. I think it's just an MVP at this point.
"Certainly the war in the northeast has proven incompetent,"

Eh. I don't understand others military analysis. Russia is doing the right thing to just sit a convoy north of Kyiv. Ukraine doesn't have air power anyway. If they rolled into Kyiv it would be a urban combat meat grinder. They are better off waiting until the forces from the south and east meet south of Kyiv. Then they can surround Kyiv and shell it to rubble [what they learned in berlin]. Wait for white flags, then roll it. Ukraine needs to wipe out that northern convoy NOW.
US soldiers weren't being slaughtered by the thousands
"Doesn't that taint them at all in your mind?"

Sit back and think about how leaving that thought unchallenged -- not looking for and appealing to the good in politicians -- leads inexorably to the kind of collapse of democracy that you nearly experienced less than a year ago.
Piracy is only “analogous to theft” if the “thief” is making a choice between paying vs. pirating.

I personally don’t know a single software pirate who would have actually bought the things they’ve pirated. Mostly they just would have gone without the software, probably using some free alternative instead. There’s no value lost by piracy here, because there was no potential to capture value from these users in the first place.

Pirates are often teenagers without a single dollar to their name to spend on software, but all the time in the world to explore shady websites for warez. Later, once they have money, they buy software!
Unlike a sports game with voluntary competitors, you should judge a military operation early, preferably even before the aggressor plans it. Sounds like Art of War 101.
What would be the purpose of an EU army?

The defensive roles of the army are (broadly) to protect the sovereignty of the government, and to protect the borders. Though most European borders are accepted by the governments controlling both sides of them, the sovereignty of the governments is far from assured. Every generation, heck every decade, sees new challenges, new techniques to subvert and undermine, and new foreign political change campaigns. The army protects against that. Broadly.

If you're thinking about an EU army being used to defend non-US nations (e.g. Ukraine) then I beg you to consider that the purpose of the army is to defend the nation. An army that puts its nation at risk by going out and protecting others is actually harming the nation. Even if the US likes to do it, but the US can afford to do it because it has two nice big oceans buffering it from aggression.
Attacking a NATO member in a significant manner would trigger nuclear war. That's the actual meaning of the alliance, the treaties make retaliation compulsory, if the action is a clear attack by a nation-state. Refusing to carry it out would immediately result in effective disbandment of the alliance, with massive effects on the economy of Europe and the US.
> The weak don't deserve the products of their labor if they can't defend it. We've seen this as a fact of life since life has been a fact.

Amazing how "may not be able to retain" collapses down to "do not deserve" here.
This was explicitly Nixon's approach, and it didn't really work at all

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Because the relative date function that powers that label rounds to the nearest year (it also treats 360 days as a year):

timeAgoFromMs(ms) {
const sec = Math.round(ms / 1000);
const min = Math.round(sec / 60);
const hr = Math.round(min / 60);
const day = Math.round(hr / 24);
const month = Math.round(day / 30);
const year = Math.round(month / 12);

From https://github.githubassets.com/assets/javascript/node_modul...
> Given the past history of the continent

Europe's past history of war and military technology is what allowed it to advance faster up to the point of industrial revolution and then to colonize most of the world...

Europe needs conflict to thrive, but as an European I'd prefer this conflict to be external to Europe. An EU Army would at the same time make internal conflict exceedingly unlikely (no/impotent national armies, all resources dedicated to EU Army), and allow Europe to start re-involving itself productively in external conflicts.

A de-militarized Europe is a castrated Europe, doomed to lag behind and wither away.
I’ve never been to ukraine, I didn’t commit any war crimes there, honestly!
Putin has unequivocally shown that conventional diplomacy and Western institutions and values are a force for good overall. They provided the right response at the right time to a war of naked aggression.

It will be interesting to see how the Rogan and timcast crowd reacts, and how many remain stranded on the wrong side of history.
Here’s a long thread: https://twitter.com/Tom_deWaal/status/1498310064117059585?s=...
Potential buyers are not just in the "I will pay for it" / "I won't pay for it" categories. There is a middle who would be willing to pay for it, but if they can get it for free, will do that.
It is challenging. I’ve been part of a project that took a product from idea to brick and mortar consumer retail in about 18 months and it was a lot.

You’ve got to become an ad-hoc subject matter expert in many different areas, or be able to find and hire those people. This is everything from electrical, RF, design for manufacturing, mold design, packaging, logistics etc.

In my experience finding a manufacturing partner is a challenge, big ones are usually not interested in a low volume product taking up their assembly line space. They’ll usually want some contractual guarantees about the number of units and it’s going to make your eyes bulge the first time you see it.

Call a lot of people, ask a lot of questions, and get introductions from every possible person you can. A lot of manufacturing is old school business and relies on past experience and transitive trust to start a relationship.

I really loved the challenge, but this kind of thing is not something to step into lightly.
Finding a pricing model that's just right
Does the need for that even exist today? It seems like everything has drifted to web and continuous deployment, the very concept of desktop applications and releases has disappeared.
The evidence is in the fact that no one supplied them with any aid until they went "oh shit, Ukraine is still standing," 48 hours later.
Yh. It would upset the Brexit populous
It's been part of american culture since the 50s to accuse people of being in league with the russians. so no, they aren't friends.
> Attackers have no control over the --privileged flag

Maybe, maybe not. It really depends on the environment. If one's orchestration system allows an attacker to supply arbitrary arguments to a runtime, then it's quite possible that a container could be run in privileged mode without explicit authorization.

Good CI hygiene is part of the solution, but again, a comprehensive approach is needed.

The thing that makes `--privileged` an attractive nuisance is that the container runtime usually runs as root, and so it's literally a mechanism for trivial privilege escalation if the agent trusts the request being given to it, and container agents are rarely configured to require authentication of any sort. (The typical default is to run without TCP enabled, and where the Docker socket has some sort of group membership required.) Compare with the traditional UNIX privilege model, in which non-root users don't get privileges, and escalation happens through an agent like sudo(1) which typically requires re-authentication unless you're explicitly adding `NOPASSWD` to the sudoers(5) file.
The first 15-20 years of my career were spent as a hardware/embedded engineer and I'd like to add a few notes to the list above:

5. Unless you've got very specialized instrumentation, the power supply and case will dominate your costs. Per step 2 above, these will also dominate your timeline if you include an internal power supply.

6. FCC certification is also probably needed if your device is consumer oriented.

7. Expect development, time to first article, etc to be much slower. In my day, we couldn't have customers update their Flash-based firmware so we had to guarantee the hardware was perfect AND that the firmware was perfect. In your day, you still have to make sure the hardware is perfect and the reality is that very few of your customers will ever update the firmware (so it has to be perfect with each version.

8. For a small business, hardware returns are not only painful but have real costs. A recall will put you out-of-business (and if you're not careful with your corporate structure could put you into personal bankruptcy.)