skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We would containerize everything if we could! But our infrastructure components usually live outside the security boundaries our container interface sets up. The proxy has to be able to talk to every app, not just apps in its own organization, and it needs direct access to other infrastructure components. The orchestration code needs to be able to launch Firecracker VMs --- it can't itself be a Firecracker VM.

We can design around all these constraints! We just haven't gotten around to it yet. I think there's a general consensus that hiding things inside Firecrackers is a good design, and we'll do it where we can.

Elixir runs great inside Firecrackers. The idea behind Firecracker is that it introduces a minimal load, by dint of being ruthlessly simple. When you run an Elixir app on an EC2 instance, you're running hypervised as well (and probably by a hypervisor that's less efficient --- not a knock, Firecracker is Amazon code too).

The thing that makes this doable at Fly.io is that we run our own hardware, so we're not trying to nest VMs inside VMs. Of course, that's what EC2 is doing too. So whatever your intuitions are about things that run well on vanilla EC2, they should carry over to us.
There are things called fuses on AVRs that cannot be changed by running code but can be set and unset multiple times by an external programmer. These are apparently different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efuse describes the mechanism of action: "eFuses can be made out of silicon or metal traces. In both cases, they work (blow) by electromigration, the phenomenon that electric flow causes the conductor material to move."
If someone said "we have a right to food and housing," would you call them "batshit insane"? While I agree that we don't have a right "speak [our] minds and voice [our] opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned," you (and the author) are adopting a style of argument where certain positions are subjected to intense scrutiny. The first paragraph of the NYT op-ed doesn't stand up under that scrutiny but the rest of it does, more or less.

The blog just gets weird:

> It’s good that the Times is worried about speech-suppressing laws promoted by some conservatives, but it’s terrible that the Times is gullibly accepting the Right’s deeply dishonest assertion that it doesn’t engage in the sort of behavior it calls “cancel culture.” There is no serious argument that conservatives refrain from “cancel culture.”

Which part of the following quote from the op-ed claims that conservatives "refrain from cancel culture"?

> How has this happened? In large part, it’s because the political left and the right are caught in a destructive loop of condemnation and recrimination around cancel culture. Many on the left refuse to acknowledge that cancel culture exists at all, believing that those who complain about it are offering cover for bigots to peddle hate speech. Many on the right, for all their braying about cancel culture, have embraced an even more extreme version of censoriousness as a bulwark against a rapidly changing society, with laws that would ban books, stifle teachers and discourage open discussion in classrooms.

None of it! It says that conservatives have taken cancel culture further.

The author is worried that agreeing that cancel culture is a problem will help the right. But he does agree, so he does his agreeing in a roundabout way while heaping scorn on the op-ed. The overall effect is unpleasant.
It turns out, for basic computer use cases, like scrolling on a website, motion clarity matters. My holy grail (for something usable from current PCs) is

- fast pixel response (CRTs are close, but the light to dark transitions fail)
- strobing, or a refresh rate that is high enough such that there is no blur (240Hz still doesn't fix this)
- at least 100Hz or so (perhaps only because I haven't used stuff over 144Hz enough yet)
- non glossy without grainy artifacts
- retina pixel density
- no viewing angle issues
- *at least* as good contrast as a 90% dead CRT I got in the trash
- no bloatware in the monitor or whatever they do that adds tons of input lag for no reason
- no local dimming type artifacts that (obviously) local dimming causes, but more importantly what the alpha OLEDs have
- low minimum brightness. most LCDs even at the lowest settings are far too bright
- the option of warm color temperatures
- perfectly flat screen, and pixel sharpness, for the sake of being fair (but the latest CRTs almost pass)
- no backlight bleed
I’m a total noob but offered my development skills in trade of archaeological domain knowledge, so just getting familiar with the code base myself atm :) if you/your friends wanted any sort of intro to the team I could arrange that as I’m in a slack channel with some of them!

Fwiw, it’s mostly a tool for parsing and processing this ‘Jan no’ data schema https://poseidon-framework.github.io/#/janno_details
If you think burnable fuses to prevent downgrading is interesting, wait until you see the black magic that Apple cooked up to prevent iPhone downgrades.

No fuses there - just an incredibly complex mess of nonces, digitally signed tickets, and secret generator keys.
I should've mention that I also have NoScript and I am using Firefox, if that may of help to you. NoScript has google tag manager, google adsense and a few other stuff related to both google and amazon blocked always.

As for how often I open twitter links, is as often as they make it to HN front page. So something along of one twitter link around every 2 days.
Per the excellent explainer/demo video, this is inspired by the Japanoise scene. The creator makes art. It'd be interesting to ask any artist if a specific part of their work was really necessary. I imagine you'd get quite a range of answers.

https://www.theglow.jp/guides/a-brief-guide-to-japanese-nois...

"This era saw noise channelled as an output for political commentary and primal instincts; motives ranging from ferocious anti-consumerism and heedless nonconformism to compulsive, exploratory introspection".

https://youtu.be/pfdja2OQKFY
Awesome! We will look them up! And happy to chat with you. You can also email us at ask@realitydefender.ai

Thank you!
In my experience, declaring the UI is not the hard part. Iterating 100s of times with minor tweaks to get the final appearance right is what usually kills me. Using something like this would requires a continuous edit,compile,run cycle that would start hurting once compile times reach >5 seconds. For all its faults, I really appreciate that web development comes with a console to inspect data and way to edit the widgets in real time and get immediate feedback.
Brain implant lets man with complete paralysis spell out thoughts
I have some sad news for you. Code reviews don't eliminate bugs.

Some times, they actually hinder the process of fixing bugs.
Yeah this is resolved with lameduck mode: https://sre.google/sre-book/load-balancing-datacenter/

Ex. https://coredns.io/plugins/health/
You need to write a plugin in rust. The builtin scripting language isn't that good.
Yuzu is a Switch emulator for computers https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu

Skyline is a Switch emulator for android https://github.com/skyline-emu/skyline

Both still require an actual console for actually making backups of your games.
From what my memory recalls, the PS2 era was when Sony started going after companies which made not just modchips, but any kind of device which let gamers use their consoles in ways they did not like. Think: Adapters which let you use PS2 controllers on an Xbox and vice versa.

Lik-Sang was (again as I recall) the primary target of all this, and was eventually forced to shut down. They were definitely the single best place to buy console modding and other weird and crazy accessories from Asia.

After the first volley, Sony and the rest started going after the smaller players, the local console modders, the ROM hosting sites, eventually even the hackers who discovered vulnerabilities themselves. 2002 was when they came for Lik-Sang and it had an immediate chilling effect, and they shut down as of 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik_Sang

By the way - chipping services still operate, but they have a lot of ways of flying not under the radar exactly, but operating in ways which make it not worth it for Sony, Nintendo from going after them. Doing their manufacturing in China (of course), sales from various parts of eastern Europe, and the direct modding services being super-small time modders operating off local sites like OfferUp, Craigslist, or sometimes even eBay. It's overwhelmingly previous generation consoles they offer services for.
They should adjust the business model to address market demand. Be a platform, not (just) a console.

Works great for Apple and Play!
Pick a dealership with an honest reputation. If you were mocked then why ever would you buy a car from such a place?
Is it possible that people in your country simply got enough DVD burners that selling DVDs on the street was no longer profitable? Or street enforcement stepped up? I think that's what happened to Taiwan, at least.

Edit: People pointed out that PS2 discs had burned sectors that most consumer burners can't replicate. But I don't think that's really a complete answer as to why street vendors went away, considering Swap Magic[0] made disc-based piracy viable again in a few years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap_Magic
They've been burned since the NES. The piracy cat and mouse game is as old as consoles.
Today's 1st party game media has a number of unique properties that are difficult to replicate with your average at-home CD burner. I remember a lot of xbox 360 games had check codes etched into the platic inner ring of the disc, for example.

A number of patches and mods came out to attempt to disable these checks, including mods for the Wii as you mentioned.
In the article, they show how you can use any language to write a plugin.
Scale matters. And in terms of sheer magnitude of insanity and frequency of its emission -- no one who has held that office can hold a candle to number 45.
>Opponents of cancel culture absolutely considered Donald Trump to be a victim of it.

I have no doubt you can find some opponents of cancel culture who believe that to be true, the point is whether this is a meaningful or influential subset next to the vast majority that believes that it's the material harm of mob action that makes the practice barbaric and harmful.

>they also argue that social media companies hold monopoly control over the majority of human communication

This is an objective fact by all reasonable measures of the words "monopoly" and "majority". Are you saying this to support their argument or to contradict it?

>being banned from them is equivalent to being erased from modern society.

"Erased" is a bit of a strong word, being banned from social media is probably for the better interests of the banned person's mental health and IQ. But it does amount to silencing, the oft-repeated example here is how telephony companies and mobile providers can't censor or degrade the service according to the content that users share across their networks. I have never seen a convincing argument for why social media is any different than mobile phones such that this doesn't hold.
Know yourself and your personal negotiation style & position. Learn to identify the negotiation style & position of others.

This situation can perhaps more easily be modeled as being less about your navigation skills and more about your ability to find a nearby carvana-type service in the future, for example. It's easier. Negotiation itself isn't necessarily the thing you want to learn in a lot of cases.
For the US, nightly operations would be too disruptive due to noise and the size of coverage area. The square mileage covered in comparison to southern EU communities is massive making the idea of smaller trucks impractical.

I haven't heard much about the danger of garbage trucks to pedestrians in the past, outside of this instance, but perhaps it is a bigger problem than I realized. I will have to look into it more to arrive at a conclusion.
Are you sure that the PlayStations you had weren't modchipped? The PSX had physical copy protection (the "wobble groove") that was relatively easy to circumvent (you could manually switch a genuine game for a pirated game once it had passed the check). Modchips made it even easier by just dummying out the wobble groove check. Later games started using Sony's LibCrypt and various checksumming maneuvers to detect pirated copies, but that was all defeatable.

The PS2 used a lot of the same tricks, it was just better at it. But once consoles started having internet connections, they could start doing checks that way as well, and ban people using modded consoles.

You absolutely can mod modern systems to play pirated games. The tradeoff is that you can never use online services. That's why people don't do it as much anymore.
Can different tenant VMs access different parts of H100 in parallel?

If so, it may be a reasonable mix.
LOL, what's next, CCing a doctor or therapist so it's covered under HIPPA? If it worked for Tony Soprano...
You don't in fact have a right to food and housing. But a right to food and housing would be a coherent proposition; you could design such a right (within obvious limits). You can't do that with the proposition that people have a right to speech without fear of shame or shunning; like, the logic itself literally doesn't work. You could simply shut down anyone's objectionable political speech by saying that it is shaming or shunning; they could respond in kind. Again: this is what White is saying with his "First Speaker Problem".

I don't think you've very effectively rebutted his argument here.
Companies that are more WFH flexible will be more competitive in the job market. It’s that simple.
"admittedly anti-Christian Wikipedia"

Yep, 12 years of Jesuit / Marianist education taught me exactly that your kind of religiosity...is trash.
Yeah, this has been really frustrating for me, too. I've been trying to buy a Compute Module 4, and everyone is sold out of that as well. I'd be perfectly happy to even pay the full price to place a backorder, and just wait for them to ship it to me whenever my order hits the top of the list. I don't want to keep checking daily to see if anyone has something, and then click through to each of 5 different retailers to only find out that they've sold out again in the time it's taken me to click through. It's such a waste of time.
PS1 (or PSX) had a technique for copy protection that depended on physical characteristics of the cd, something that was not copied when you made a backup. Still the mechanism was simple enough that you could bypass this check with a modchip, or even with a technique called disk swapping, in which you could swap an original disk at the right time with a pirated one and bypass the check.
PS2 also required a modchip, AFAIK, there was not any technique to get around it.

On the next generations of consoles, ps3 and ps4 were software modded, so you could run copies, but they were loaded from the machine’s hard drive, so no cd copies were necessary.
Most hand animations are done with keyframes, because mocapping hands is difficult. And with keyframes animation, much like modelling geometry traditionally vs photogrammetry, we can't produce the needed amount of details in animations for them to look real.

Moreover, we are extremely good at spotting something off with hands movement.
> Java values backwards compatibility very highly, so if something runs today, it's likely to keep running without modification on future JVMs.

this has been the case in the past, but Java is gritting its teeth and making some breaking changes in the JDK11/16/18 era.

libraries that mess with the unsafe/internal namespaces are the most prominent example - there are a ton of legacy libraries that are going to break from that change unless updated - but there's also a big push for modules and for classes to encapsulate themselves more strongly.
The illusion was pretty good until she started talking and then it fell apart completely for me.
It’s that you’re alone in a room with a screen strapped to your face looking at pixels instead of seeing, touching, feeling, smelling, hearing, sweating, dancing, and sensing in the middle of a rave of physical human beings

It’s literally senseless in comparison, lossy digitalization of basic analog humanity ie dystopian
If it could be reset, it'd be a breaker, not a fuse. ;)
Entering a proof into a physical proof checker is mathematics. That's what mathematicians are, after all. That's what publication is, or aspires to be, anyway.
I've seen this before. The only solution is to find a sympathetic Google employee you know. They have a special support form they can use to unstick this.
This used to be common sense in the few companies I worked at around 2012.

People just pushed code. We occasionally held some review sessions to go over code and exchange comments / ideas about what might be wrong with this or that code and how to prevent this kind of mistake in the future.

But starting from around 2016, I could never ever find a company that does not have mandetory code reviews for every single commit, and this bothers me tremendously.

It's one of the reasons I don't want to work at any programming company anymore.

The really good programmers I know don't look positively at code reviews.

If you need code reviews, ask for it. If not having mandetory reviews results in a huge stream of bugs, maybe you should hire better programmers instead of cheap ones.
an odd one for me is JNLP - I have a motherboard with IPMI and they chose to do that through JNLP, which makes it an absolute pain in the ass to use the interface.
Oh so interesting!

> Along with the region specific license key data, Sony pressed a special pit into the TOC of every disc. This pit, or “the wobble groove” as it would become known, was virtually impossible for consumer grade CD writers to replicate. A CD writer laser would need to be programmed to physically move in three dimensions in order to burn the wobble groove into a CD-R. So the patented pressing process achieved both copy protection and region encoding simultaneously.

A nice game of and mouse with the modchippers described as well.
Nah, people are too greedy, this will never take off in a large scale way.
If you say repulsive things, lots of very qualified, valuable engineers are going to exercise their right to free association to avoid working with you. There is no cure for that problem that doesn't eliminate the right to free association (or worse). If you're odious, you can't make people work with you. And you don't get to decide what other people find odious.
Not sure I understand. The difference was a "penny charge" for the dealer, but not for you?
"Doomed to fail" is too strong IMO.

All the problems the author brings up, while legitimate, are being worked on.

For example, on the interoperability front, TEFCA is making big strides on government-mandated nationwide interoperability: https://www.healthit.gov/topic/interoperability/trusted-exch...

> In January 2022, ONC and the RCE announced the publication of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA). Entities will soon be able to apply and be designated as Qualified Health Information Networks.

Google also has made significant strides on deep learning on EHRs: https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/deep-learning-for-electron...
the explicitly non-discriminatory invite here might be awkwardly worded (people with accents other than mine?) .. but, overall bravo, IMHO this is relevant and timely; non-hype in other words. I hope the PIs get adventurous and look to sources of digital data from the analog world, or older instrument types, to include in this unique investigative context.
These fuses are inside the CPU itself. They are programmed in a sense much like the firmware itself is.

These fuses have always been around in microcontrollers. They are used to configure various aspects of the microcontroller operations, like startup sequences, whether or not the contents of the chip can be read out, is their voltage monitoring (brownout detection) enabled, is there a watchdog timer enabled which could reset the chip automatically if needed, etc.

It is common that fuses like this can only be set to progressively stricter settings. And the only way to reset the fuses is to erase the entire chip, firmware and all. It sounds like these fuses in the Nvidia dont even allow this.
I guess the simple reason is because then you wouldn't believe it was computer generated but it could just be a movie of two people playing chess. It needs to add a touch of the bizarre or fantastic to remind the viewer they are watching something that isn't real. Though, frankly, the talking portion was reminder enough of that.
Does that mean you turn off security-related randomizations in everything, like address space randomization and hash table randomization?
Thanks for your questions.

- The input to our models are image, video, and audio. Based on the model, we can use parts of the image (esp faces) or whole image. Yes, we also incorporate metadata for better detection.

- It's a fair concern. As quality of generative media increases, so does the sophistication of detection. Since, we fully understand how generative media is created, it gives our the leverage to reverse engg. Much like the anti-virus industry (wrt scanning), we'd need to be at the forefront of not only detection, but generation methods, re-learn models based on new generation methods, etc.
I don't think it was. If they could do better I'm sure they would have, the whole thing screams 'fake' at that point.
You’re taking the use of the word “right” to literally in this instance.

The editorial is using it in the sense when someone says “i have the right to not have my house egged by teens”. It’s more the a reference to the ideal world than some right codified in the Constitution.
They are more or less the Fortnite company. The Fortnite money printer churns out cash directly into the maw of the Epic Store money incinerator. This might turn out to be a great strategy in the long run but either way, they wouldn't be able to pursue it on this scale without Fortnite.
> We don't quarantine people with measles, even though it is way more lethal and more contagious than covid.

Yes, we do.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
Nintendo creates works of art. Facebook creates ad platforms. I wish Nintendo's consoles were less restrictive, but there are worse evils.
Depends on the need...I have a quick LibreOffice HTML template in light or dark. I include metas for mobile use in the document properties. I also have a PHP controller that can easily modify these if I need it to be more dynamic.

Otherwise I use https://picocss.com/ for some things.

For publishing I either drop the HTML file in a folder with or without a controller, or start a new endpoint by creating a new section in TXP [1] and drop in whatever HTML and txp xml tags I need there.

1. https://textpattern.com/
What's your point, Rayiner? What are we meant to do with the observation that Indian Americans generally feel like racism is not a major problem?
Bookmarks are a private way to bookmark repos :P