skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That incident did not provide proof. A text string is not a program. Given that over the last 20 years no one has shown that there is any code for the fantasy backdoor is near proof there isn't. Reversing the binaries and demonstrating such a backdoor would make one famous.

So no, this is not proof. At this point the lack of proof is near proof no backdoor existed.
> Security! Glitches! those are all lies - that could have been fixed.

How many years did Adobe have to make those security fixes, though? And yet Flash was probably the #1 security threat for people using a web browser.

I agree that Jobs' reasons for wanting to kill Flash were not particularly altruistic, but it either needed to die, or Adobe should have completely open-sourced it and/or documented everything so people could write compatible (and open) compilers and runtimes.

Depending on proprietary software for things you want to keep runnable for years and years is just a bad idea. If Jobs hadn't been the catalyst, Flash would have died for some other reason, eventually. I can understand that OP perhaps didn't see that at the time (I'm sure I've made the same mistake myself long ago), but that would seem to be inevitable.
All components eventually fail.
To maintain a system operational, one needs to be able to fix or replace failed components.
Replacing a high-tech component made 50+ years ago (like a vacuum tube) can be prohibitively expensive even for military.

At some point, it becomes cost efficient to replace the complete system, or at least large components, with modern equivalents.
The West gave (and continues to give) Putin money in exchange for his oil and gas, which allowed him to arrange Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014 and completely destroy the opposition in Russia with this money. The West completely ignored all of this (when compared with the current sanctions). And now the West has decided that only the Russians are to blame for this, and it is Russians civilians alone who must fight Putin and his forces, created with the West money, even after the destruction of the opposition. But the West is completely innocent. OK.
There are many great and economically profitable ways to capture CO2, the only problem with them is they impoverish the wrong people. (More correctly they don’t make the right people even more rich)

> It only makes sense to capture co2 if you have already prevented everything you can.

Like I said in another thread, it’s this kind of stuff that makes net zero never happen as many people, like yourself, are inherently opposed to CO2 emissions.
Thanks for pointing it out. I am lowkey panicking about what to do next, and I feel like the next steps need to be taken asap. So in this brainfog, I didn't immediately notice the criticism of the parent comment. I really appreciate the call out.
depends on how this plays out. If the west gets it act together and helps Ukraine it may be postponed indefinitely. If they start making side deals with Russia and ignoring Ukraine while they start taking major losses 6 months to 2 years. If full scale war breaks out between Russia and NATO 3 months (we will be to busy to do anything about it or they will think that). If nuclear war starts it to chaotic to tell, but if say its a limited exchange and both make it out unbombed and they aren't all dying of radition poisoning from the fallout whenever they want.
Right, benefits include performance gains.

From HN:

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/

In addition to security.
How CNN verifies social media footage from the war zone
It's still on the CDC's recommended immunization schedule

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
My reply above to your NSAKEY stuff applies here too.
Now imagine that all this fear is just a cherry on the relocation cake for an average middle class Russian.

Purchasing two flight tickets out of Russia right now, using rubles that have now devalued 50%, will cost a monthly salary of a senior developer. Booking hotel for two weeks abroad will cost the same. Half of all the flights out were now shut down.

Those who are lucky to still keep their jobs (many people are not) — those are competing the clock as their chances to get out reduce every single minute. People who lost jobs and have no liquid money investments are totally f*d.

I closely know at least two people who have relatives in Ukrain and now have no resources to support them, and they get fear-mongered into submission by new criminal laws and these random border controls.

Me and many others write more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30580767
I have actually won against doomscroll. I used to spend 5-6 hours per day, and it peaked at 10 hours per day for some days of the year.

I realized that doomscrolling is not only clever algorithms trying to get me hooked, but also a symptom of deeper problems that I had.

And I realized that I was unhappy because I spent most of my doing things that I didn't like. I was deep frustrated. I did not want to spend my brain's precious energy on doing things that I didn't want to do.

I changed my path. Stopped caring about outside forces. Became happier. This was the hard part.

The easy part is what I learned from Cal Newport's book "Deep Work". It asks you to implement timeblocks. I implemented a 20 minute timeblock for browsing social media. I would not touch social media outside that timeblock. It really worked. I implemented timeblocks for studying, coding, personal time, and the resistance towards doing these things weathered away once I started. So, the urge to doomscroll went down, too.

I read some books, and consumed other resources that talk about our mind and our brain. Also some books on Theraveda Buddhist teachings. When you see your "self" as a bunch of neurons contextualised by your environment, outer stimuli, and as these are bound by biological laws, you stop being hard on yourself. You forgive yourself, gently. Then managing emotions, urges, etc. become easier.

Reducing the number of apps that you use also reduces time spend in doomscroll. I gave up Facebook 4 years ago because the content was too low quality, and gave up Quora some months ago for the same reason. Now all I have is Reddit. I keep Facebook as a non-professional networking too. I open it if I have something to say to particular someone, and spend maybe 10 minutes per month on it.

I also started meditating. That also helped big time. I will highly recommend it. Books that helped-

- What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

- Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

- Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright

- Mastery by Gordon Leonard

- Learning How to Learn (Coursera)

- Mind Illuminated by Culadasa

- Atomic Habits by James Clear

- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt
Is Ukraine a sovereign nation capable of entering into alliances as it wishes or is it not?
Because he has enough money to look down his nose at people he perceives to be motivated by money?
How many inspectors have been allowed into Ft. Detrick?
> good guys

^-- found the bug
Reminds me of the classic April 1979 Saturday Night Live "Pepsi Syndrome" aka "The Amazing Colossal President" skit, where Jimmy Carter gets irradiated, and Rodney Dangerfield tells how big he is.

In my opinion, it's one of the funniest, most memorable old school SNL episodes of all time, including Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Richard Benjamin, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, and Gilda Radner.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=533858710873763

I'm sorry for the Facebook link, but for whatever reason it's impossible to find on youtube, and not included in the SNL archives. My theory is the Pepsi company got pissed off about it, and threatens anyone who publishes it with legal action.

Script and screen snapshots:

https://tmi.papost.org/the-pepsi-syndrome-saturday-night-liv...

>Dr. Edna Casey: It means, Mrs. Carter, your husband, President Carter, has become [ camera zooms in on Dr. Edna Casey ] The Amazing Colossal President.

>Rosalynn Carter: Well how big is he?

>Dr. Edna Casey: Well Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?
> Some choices are far too complex for most people to grasp. Some choices require a sense of civic duty and common will.

The results show that humans do a pretty good job and do advance, and do have civic duty (I don't know what "common will" means). IME, the problem is the people who make choices like refusing vaccines and then say humanity is fundamentally incompentent. They have an easy solution!
Is there any end in sight to rising gas prices?
Lol, the ven diagram of people who can move your computer while the os is running and and people who can figure out of you also have a duress password is basically a circle.

No home theif is going to take the time to move your machine while it's running so having all the drives locked should be good.

If you're using pam, some section of the drive is unlocked.

The question is does it matter if they know you have a duress module running?

You're not really obligated to give your password in the US. (Not a lawyer but that's how I understand it)

And in situations where they know are they going to beat you after youve erased your data?

If you're worried about a machine being moved while on, you're probably best to check a canary that tells it about it's environment. ARP for a specific MAC, or DNS entry that only resolves on your LAN, SSID scan, maybe just lock all drives if the LAN interface flaps.

I suppose this would be good for airport travel and more mobile situations.
> Apps Remain Running (and Focused) After Being Closed

If you’re complaining about this, you don’t understand Mac OS.

Mac is a multi-window system. Unlike Windows or Linux or BSD, a program can have multiple windows open at once, each window potentially doing vastly different things. That is why that red dot doesn’t actually close the program. It only closes the current window, leaving all other windows - and the program itself - still up and running.

For a multi-window paradigm, this is logical, rational, and expected.
I find these apps much healthier than games, because they're easy to put down, because there's no continuity between two items when you scroll. Some games are impossible to put down once you get hooked, and even when you're not playing them you still constantly think about "I'll do this and this next time".
The problem is exactly that attitude turning what used to be highly accessible and interactive apps into elephantine "native apps" that need the latest and most user-hostile version of $BIG_OS (which doesn't run on older hardware) to do what was perfectly possible with technology of a decade ago, or even less functionality.
I wonder what is more responsible for that; the fact that people don't care about history, or that corporate propaganda has pushed them away from realising it.

The web is way more free and open than operating systems. And if you want to build a website with only HTML and vanilla JS nothing is stopping you. There are websites made in the 90s that still work today. I much prefer the web, web apps and PWAs to their native counterparts.
Obviously if reducing emissions is cheaper than removal we should do that. But building more renewable production doesn't necessarily cut emissions - it might just increase energy consumption.
'Sent as Cannon Fodder': Locals Confront Russian Governor over Deceived Soldiers
The link between intelligence and mental illness is a myth.

It's like that story people like to quote about the mathematician analyzing armoring planes in WWII.

The parts that always came back without bullet holes were the critical parts. There was no magic protecting those parts; those were the parts that needed more armor.

Selection effect.

Similarly, people who are mentally ill and able to be open about it, have a lot of critical compensating qualities, because if they didn't, they'd be invisible, homeless, institutionalized, or dead.

Their talents and abilities aren't caused by the illness, they are what is critical to compensate for it and make it safe to tell others.
It’s written in Rust (don’t shoot the messenger)

LOL, I think the anti-rust stuff is more a backlash to those overzealous rustaceans who demand mature C or C++ projects be re-written in rust so they can be 'safe'.

I think new software in rust that does useful stuff is cool as :)
Force of will. Really try, commit, get involved in this goal.

It won't be easy because you'll be changing some habit. But with time you'll learn how to appreciate books again.
It occurs to me you could do something like this by creating a dummy user and enabling a user service on login (systemd). I don't think this is the best method, because you can't predict all the ways to login without a shell. Just a neat idea for generalizing it.
your logical fallacies include:
* 'good guy' with a gun
* mutually asssured destruction
* american exceptionalism

yes of course all nuclear WMD states (not just the biggest) need to abandon this losing game.

The good news is the rest of us have called time:
https://banmonitor.org/tpnw-status
Complete useless and waste cpu/mem/electricity/time
Reposting this at the top level of the thread, because when I asked previously deeper in the comments, I was told it was posted in reply to an account that a lot of people called out as a potential state actor spreading misleading information. And I genuinely need help with this, as this window of opportunity seems to be closing fast. Sidenote: i really appreciate people pointing out the potentially malicious account in the comments. With that in mind, below is the modified copy of my original comment.

Is there anything that can be done now to ensure that the access remains after this block goes into the effect? Internet is my only way to contact my father living there, and today I was walking him through a VPN setup. But now that I’ve read these news, I am not even sure if this will help.

The only reason i am asking here is because the time is ticking, and once the block goes into the effect, me and him will be completely cut off, with me having zero way to assist him or even make sure he is still alive. So it is pretty much either pre-emptively taking care of it or being stuck hoping that he will figure something out on his own. And I would rather leave as little as possible to a chance here, given what's at stake.
This isn't only a matter of antivaxers. If you're in a country in which Polio has been eradicated, such as the US, double check that you're vaccinated. Various vaccines are no longer recommended because of the virtually nonexistent risk.

I know that Africans receive the TB vaccine as part of our regular schedule, where many developed countries do not.
Right, but the source product is sugar a C6 compound, and the fermentation pathwasy removes carbon atoms. This process is building up from C1 so methanol is a possible side product. Or at least I bet that is the concern
and this exemple show either the writer don’t understand how macOS really work or he just trying to force the Windows way unsuccessfully
Do you play them the moment you wake up in the morning?
only if you are self sufficient and not facing a opponent that has more that enough fire power to carpet bomb the entire island from a distance or more soldiers than you have bullets.
Related to this but somewhat tangentially, I’ve been trying to figure out how I could programmatically determine if I look “busy” and engage Do Not Disturb for a period of time (roughly pomodoro interval) so that emails and alerts can’t distract me. The problem is that when I’m doing rudimentary code my interactions can be rather intense and obvious, but the more technical the problem the more I slow down, mulling things over in my head or wondering why we wrote code this bad and why it hasn’t broken before. I can be pretty deep in thought at this point and not showing my tools much to go off of.

In the end I think just making a pomodoro tool that automatically disables alerts until break is by far a simpler and more accurate prospect.
A lot of people talk in broad strokes because if you use their marketing platforms you can see exactly what data is being mined. You can posit their ideological, political, and personal stances. Their friends, family, and pay more to reach people that are shown to influence them. You can choose their region, their income, their habits, hobbies, and kinks.

You can quickly create an account and look at their self-serve ads. There's no reason why anyone needs to try and "guess" what these tracking tools can do. You can just go to the endpoint of that collected data and just see what you can target.

It's better now but before you could do EVEN more. But better in the sense that someone who needs a limb amputating to stop gangrene setting in is better.
One thing I heard and have had great results with is pre-melting the butter and skimming off the solids
My understanding is that this is covered by the "effective type" language in both C99 and C11[1].

malloc itself is specified to return a void pointer, but the effective type established during assignment circumvents what would otherwise be UB via aliasing[2].

Edit: Specifically, the reasoning is:

1. Allocated objects have no declared type;

2. 6.5.6: Objects with no declared type have the type of their accessing lvalue

3. 6.5.7: Access of a stored value is valid for lvalue expressions that are type compatible with the effective type.

So there's no UB here. `malloc` itself doesn't need to know about the effective type produced by the lvalue, and C (at least C99 onwards) respects that type for strict aliasing purposes.

[1]: https://port70.net/%7Ensz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5p6

[2]: https://port70.net/%7Ensz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5p7
Didn't they drop it? Or de-emphasize it? I know current version is android 12 but have no clue of the name. Same for all previous. My old note 8 has android 9. My original htc I think enddd on 1.6 or something. I still have an ancient Asus tablet on android 4. Etc - I never knew or cared, and didn't HAVE to, about the cute name.
Personally I use a chain instead of a u-lock, and just throw it into the milk crate wired to the back along with my bag/groceries/whatever. The hassle is pretty much zero and the weight's negligible. And it's a ton easier to chain my bike up somewhere than it is to try and get a u-lock around something.

If you've got one of those little tiny racks the bike stores love to put on the back wheel, I highly recommend you find a milk crate and lash it on there with some wire. It will change your cycling life to no longer have to bungee everything tightly to that crappy little rack. Put your lock in there along with a bungee net to help secure a pile of groceries.
Flash is terrible in retrospect, but I used to love making Flash games in high school by myself. Amazing experience.
I haven’t seen any codebase with an actual tracking pixel in my entire career. (11 years at this point) It’s always some massive javascript file doing God-knows-what on the page.
If you get it wrong a few times they hit you with a $5 wrench and/or you go to prison for obstruction of justice.
Maybe addictive platforms could do some good and make more money if they limited the amount of content a user can see in one day, like some F2P mobile games:

* Say you can only view 50 videos or 2 hours on TikTok per day.

* If you need more, pay 50 cents.

* The free limit resets every day.

This could also lead to better payout systems for content creators.

(the exact numbers would be tweaked as appropriate of course)
>Having to work multiple jobs to keep a roof over your head, massive inflation, burnout from everything, covid spikes recently

So the consequences of inept, corrupt, and broken governmental systems basically.
> they can target better

I don't want to be targetted.

> So it’s just good karma to let them run ...

No. It's my machine, not theirs, they don't get to use it to track me. Not one single cycle. It certainly isn't "good karma" to allow advertisers free reign like that, it's letting the fox loose in the hen-house.
Exactly, we have lots of time to wait. Humanity survives pretty much no matter what we do.

Most of the waiting scenarios involve a drastic decrease in farmland for the US/Europe and larger gains in Canada / Russia.

The planet quite frankly doesn’t care if NY / LA / London lose 6 to 12 Ft of land. Even if no one moved and everyone just stayed there to drown, humanity still goes on.

The whole thing mostly fixes itself anyway once population peaks in a few decades. It’s not global warming that kills humanity, it’s our population eventually reaching zero through sub replacement birth rates tho maybe there is a saving grace where once incomes get high enough it rebounds.
> Something really weird is happening to a lot of people and I just don't get it. It isn't happening to me, so why is it happening to them?

Could it be that the social isolation from covid is aggravating underlying mental health issues?

Completely speculation follows, but if this guy was a club owner, then he may have gone from a very active social life where people basically worship him to having financial troubles and living in isolation. I've seen people living the party lifestyle going from doing drugs with friends on the weekend to doing drugs alone to cope with loneliness.
I can only guess at what is going on in Dan's head, but I think he banned mention of your "fork" of the HN community because people felt that it was being promoted in a "spammy" way. I don't think he is banning it simply because he hates competition and doesn't want its existence mentioned - if that was his reason, why are people allowed to freely discuss and link to another such "fork community", lobste.rs? [0]

The fact that your fork of the Arc language and HN forum software has the same name means the same autokill applies to it as well. I suppose if you changed the name of the language/software fork to something else, it would no longer be subject to the ban. (I am assuming the intended target of the ban is the website not the language/software which runs it.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=lobste.rs
Alas, the modern ad industry
The C64 was the first computer I ever owned. I'm thrilled to see people are still finding ways to keep it alive haha.
Solve some problem people will pay for.

SaaS is useful inside enterprises because you don't have to provision software on machines.

SaaS is useful for entrepreneurs to build businesses by chaining APIs together.

SaaS viz a vi Shopify is useful because smaller business can leverage larger Amazon like tooling.
I’ve been using ghee which works really well for high heat searing
Of course, it is. And educate yourself - Nikolay isn't only a Russian name.
Yes and McAfee was locking files for tens of seconds while it scanned. Things like Visual Studio and Notepad++ would become unresponsive after a single keystroke.
Homestar Runner is old enough to buy you cold ones.
I saw the article below on a conservative news aggregator last week.

I do believe that Ukraine has done some spectacularly foolish things over the last decade. The U.S. impeached a president over Ukraine; that should have prompted reflection on all sides.

I don't believe that any country should be invaded, but NATO members cannot intervene. Media should stop parroting Ukrainian propaganda and give us all a hard dose of realism, unless we really do want the apocalypse.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ukraines-de...