skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was not the admin, it was BO. While the award was challenged, the government could not expend any funds on it.
Battery tech has been improving steadily on various fronts over the last decade. The changes are incremental but happen frequently and have added up a lot over the years.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
It seems entirely plausible that this is a simple implementation bug.

PF is not the thing that does actual networking, on any OS.

As far as I understand networking and firewalls like PF, you essentially have the lowest level, where the kernel/driver puts bytes onto the channel.

Then you have the various userspace networking interfaces for various transport mechanisms, TCP, UDP, QUIC, etc

Each one of those is doing

<transport protocol specific thing>
<send the bytes>

The <send the bytes> part is below where your firewall stuff is going to happen, so I'm going to guess (I have never written kernel level networking because that stuff seems like relentless misery) that it means that every transport implementation has to independently have some code that looks like

packet_data = <build the packet>
if (auto firewall = current_firewall()) {
if (firewall->should_block(packet_data))
return E_BLOCKED; // or whatever
}
kernel_send_the_bytes_yo(packet_data);

Or something like that, all super super pseudo code of course.

Anyway, if that general concept is vaguely accurate then that means every time someone brings up a new transport protocol that another opportunity for this to get missed. Not saying its good that such a thing is possible, or that not catching it is ideal, just saying it seems like a plausible path to this kind of bug happening - Hell, I'm not even sure it would be the first case of an OS missing PF, I have some vague recollection from the distant past?
> If I give someone a sample docker-compose file, they can immediately run my service regardless of OS

_if they're already bought into the docker ecosystem_, this is true. if not, then they first have to go read up on docker first: figure out how to install it (OS-specific), enable the docker system services (i think systemd more or less standardizes this step), configure a user that has permissions to manage docker deployments (also frequently OS-specific), etc.

not saying docker is or isn't a worthy tradeoff between balancing distribution work between the code authors and the OS packagers and the users. just don't blind yourself that it is another thing that users have to learn before they can use your stuff.
Was said a bit in jest, but in seriousness - only if you publish the hash and dox yourself, or the attacker gets your hash from a DB, some identifier, and finds you. That was the joke - in this case the comment does this. (I have no idea if or how much doxxed I didn't check)
Doing the bare minimum is both legal and ethical though. If it wasn't it wouldn't be the minimum.
The question is: "do you censor some content?"
It seems to me Twitter has a policy that seems fair, but is applied in an unfair way, if that makes sense. Basically, if they don't like someone, they ban them for violating policies that thousands of others violate daily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions

A quick scroll through that is pretty telling they have no interest in allowing conservative people on their platform.

Were most of them banned for cause? Probably. But again, there's thousands if not millions not banned for identical or worse behavior.

So my 'diversity in thought' comment means just that... differing opinions. Even if some opinions are stupid.

I think one giant problem today is that having an opposing opinion on many topics is called out as 'hate', which is a super broad and often misapplied label.
The interesting thing a out graph properties (like the emergence of connectivity, giant components, Hamiltonian paths etc.) is that they happen as "phase transitions".

A classic example is cuckoo hashing: You want to know how many edges the random graph of hashes can have before it contains a cycle, since that's when you need to rehash into a larger table.
You might expect that this number is "pretty random" in that you sometimes get a cycle with few edges or sometimes have many edges but no cycle.
However it turns out that it very predictably happens exactly when the graph gets to a certain size. In the same way as 1000 coin flips very predictably have 450-550 heads.

What's so cool about the theorem is thst it proves _any_ property you can think of has _some_ sudden threshold like that.
Scammers used AI-generated faces to pose as a Boston law firm
This is a pretty fluffy piece. I'm not trained or versed in the domain, but ML models try to optimize their classification accuracy based on a number of inputs. "Truth" doesn't come into it. There might be some pathological inputs that cause errors, but this has nothing to do with "truth" or "purity of heart".

Someday, a neural network might be compelled to produce suboptimal output to further its own hidden agenda. Interesting sci-fi plot, but that doesn't seem to be what this is about though. That's about the closest I think a machine could get to being able to talk about "the truth".

This is just about adversarial inputs making the machine wrong. It doesn't seem to have the philosophical weight the title suggests.
When twitter started taking the blue checkmark away from people as "punishment" I saw that as nonsensical. The blue check was to confirm the account was real, and not an imposture. It wasn't supposed to be a signal of "quality." The first person I remember they took the checkmark from was Milo Yiannopoulos. I still don't understand the reasoning for this.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40511058/most-twitter-execs-didn...
Just don't collect any data and enjoy instant compliance. You're not supposed to hire expensive lawyers to tell you how you can spy on users safely, you're supposed to not do it in the first place. Most read-only websites have no actual need to collect data.
Possible Case of Mysterious Child Hepatitis Found in Japan
> What is the scalability of dang?

That's a super interesting question. In my idealist mind, if one person can do something, anyone can do it (given reasonable levels of teaching and learning ability).

I don't think it looks like DaaS -- each company must curate their own "dang" group that has an almost gut-level understanding of the site's "sinew", or the ideals that it lives by come hell or high water.

Maybe Twitter doesn't even have a philosophy. Maybe it ought to.
This is pretty much what happens to anyone who enthusiastically enters a new field. You can tell when someone both cares about typography and is lacking in experience when they start talking about how Comic Sans is the worst font ever made or Helvetica is the best font ever made. They're both excellent fonts when used as intended.
Failure to intervene in what? Any attempt to make a trans kid cis is conversion therapy. Gender identity is part of the core of personhood, and is (a) resistant to external pressure to change, and more importantly (b) ought not be changed.
F-350s, those have many uses, among them, tow trucks, utility trucks/service trucks, boat towing, etc. I suppose some people use them as their daily driver, but I doubt that's the majority of the fleet.
It's not the nice task that halts - on the Mac, it's everything else, as if the task I started with nice is allowed to hog all resources and isn't bumped out of the CPUs when, say, the browser needs them.
I think the point is that you can strongly disagree with a statement without painting its author as incompetent. Regardless of whether that was the intent, that's certainly how it reads.
Simplicity?
The original "Funding Secured" tweet was about taking Tesla private at $420
the action held up; the court upheld it.
In contrast, this article makes it sound like windfarms being knocked offline was just collateral damage from the war: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/a-mys...
Sure, but that doesn’t mean that you are likely to find one single spaghetti or one single font that is “the best” for more than a fraction of the population. Too much variation and not enough alignment on what constitutes “best”.
This point of view is capable only of seeing things as predestined, rejects all other possibility than a cynical evetual outlook.

In the aughts, hope was in the air man. Things felt better. APIs were open, interconnectivity was hip. That mundane techndrudgery befell us wasnt a lock fait acompli back then; better ends were definitely possible, & maintained for a while.
PHP functions don't return 0, either. They return `false` which is easy to distinguish from other false-ish values using the `===` operator. They're still overloading `false` with failure, of course, but it would be unfair to say that PHP conflates all the false-ish values.
A friend of mine started at Twitter a month ago so I asked him this exact question. They said there’s no acceleration, but they will now be paid cash equivalent on the same schedule where they would have received RSUs.
What Is the Metaverse, Exactly?
We've been on c++14 for quite a while, and moved everything to c++17 a few months ago.
It's a private company. He is legally free to delete/block/censor whoever he wants from his platform.
2. That doesn't answer my question. Actually, I'm not even sure how it attempted to.

I specifically mentioned the "market price". I don't really know how these US congress persons work, and you may as well imply that the idea that they "represent" you is as much bullshit, as Musk-assigned board member represent real shareholders (and I have no problem with this implication), but there surely must be difference (and it isn't even the fact that you supposedly voted for them): unlike congress people, who can decide whatever they decide in the USA congress, the board cannot decide the market price. At least, usually. Every shareholder wants market price to be higher, and the board members are supposed to try to achieve that, but they cannot appoint the price, they simply have no such power. By definition, it's the market who decides that. Otherwise, it isn't clear, what the "not so low that the government gets involved" is even supposed to be. I fully admit that I don't understand how this works, so this may sound silly, but it would seem fair to me that since the moment company became public, nobody ever can undo that, because microscopic pieces of that company legally belong to some random people now, and they can ask whatever price they want for their share. If anybody makes them sell at any price that's less than what they want — it's a robbery.

Now, I can kind of imagine the way this could be worked around. E.g., there must be some way to liquidate the company, and hence there must be way to execute the merger regardless of what shareholder minority thinks of that. Each company gets supposedly "fair" valuation before the merge and old shareholders get specific amount of "new" shares in exchange to their old shares, which is kinda like getting the cash, so here we go. I mean, I still cannot explain myself, how this can be considered fair and legal, but I suppose there is an explanation. But even this way, the natural way to do that seems to use today's market price. So even if 51% belongs to 1 person and nobody else can decide anything (so, he basically IS the board already), how can this person offer shareholders anything else than the market price for what belongs to them? This doesn't make any sense to me. It sounds like a robbery, plain and simple.
I'm curious what the author's take on scale.ai is since he was considering building an ml-ops / data labeling company and they seem to be the most successful startup in that space.
> funding the defense of a democracy

The funding coming on my back out of my labor and my taxes.

Is this the democracy which started when it forcibly overthrew the elected government, banned a number of political parties right after that, and which just banned the second largest political party recently? Some democracy.
What? He behaves like a first class grade-A asshole. Elon is not your friend unless you're in the 10x+ billies club.

@prvc while you do this volunteer fanboy work of defending him, given the opportunity he'd just as soon eject you out the nearest airlock. It's sad really, he's essentially a Borg with a malfunctioning emotions implant.
Netflix streaming has such absolute garbage movie selection compared to Netflix DVD service, Amazon Prime Video, and Youtube.

That's why I left it. I struggle to find any good movies on there.
The Washington Post (among others) were rightly skeptical of a tabloid fluff story with no details, corroboration, or expert analysis about a mysterious harddrive with an implausible backstory somehow in the custody of Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani, dropping immediately before a presidential election.

Their skepticism turned out to be well founded. There’s really no story there. (This was similar to the non-story of Hillary Clinton’s email server, Russian-hacked DNC emails, etc. of 2016 which turned out to be completely anodyne and routine, but became the intense focus of months of news coverage and whipped partisans into a frothy frenzy based on wild lies/speculation.)
> There should be a rule that you have to make it through 1 century without creating 2 dictatorships before you can even say anything about allowed or forbidden speech.

Lies and incitements to violence were a significant factor in Hitler being able to assume emergency powers, so you could argue that Germany learned a valuable lesson from one of its dictators.
I feel like there’s a market for a publishing service that could partner with popular blogs and websites. They could either allow articles to be selected by the user or the partner site, which could then be auto-paginated and printed being being posted to the subscriber. Hell, sell a service where you will curate articles based on used interests. Add some relevant Twitter threads for letters to the editor.

Partner sites could also benefit from some increased subscriber revenue, and ads could actually be relevant again (remember when Scientific American advertisements were kind of cool and industry related?).

Call the prototype
deadtreepress.io or something.

(I recognise the environmental implications, but I think paper and postage can be sustainable in some regions. Maybe you could integrate offsets into the price?)
Ask HN: What's the most user-friendly way to share a 3D model online?
While I deplore the way that Trump and some members of Congress attempted to undermine the election results, the 1st Amendment contains no exception for such actions. You should read the Constitution.
If your RAM exceeds the size of your tables and indexes, that data will be served from RAM in any modern relational database system. No special config usually necessary for the speed but you don't lose everything when the power goes out, unlike tmpfs/ramdrive option.
Deals like this are all about leverage. Who has the power?

The poison pill would force Musk to be a "good actor" in the negotiations. You want negotiations like this to be friendly and not become a hostile takeover.
Here you go, see references within as well. Apparently the DOE did some studies about the effects of nuclear weapons on reactors and oil refineries in the early 1970s:

> "...the staggering radiological consequences of destruction of a nuclear reactor by a nuclear weapon...put the radiologic damage potential of a fair-sized nuclear arsenal into the hands of any nation or terrorist group with a single, ten-kiloton bomb (170)"

https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/RMI_Brittle_Power...
If You Want to Leave Twitter Because of Elon Musk, These Are Your Options
Yeah, I know, but he claims to be a free speech absolutist who is doing this because he doesn’t believe in censorship. That’s the point I’m making.
I agree that there is no such thing as "the algorithm." It is Twitter in its entirety. And with that I have a wild question. Can Musk make Twitter fully open-source on GitHub?
To clarify I meant chill as in not getting into heated politics or religious debates. If the claim is people can't find meaningful friendships without wedge issues being a cornerstone, then I respectfully disagree. I've had these before, but as mentioned the issue was moving and getting older when people drift apart.
In the case of the F-350, it’s about towing and load capacity.

Sure, you want to project a certain image, but you might also need to tow Very Large Objects.

This is definitely not the case for the Hummer, which has less tow capacity than an F-150.
Sure, agreed. But neither does banning people on Twitter. That’s the point.
The board probably got a preview of Thus's quarterly call. Everyone then decided poison pill is not worth it :)
Calling twitter political, to me, is a joke. I view it as immensely vastly neutral, the one open zoo of all the public.

That some of the public activity is political is an happenstance incident, deserving little more note than that there are super popular (by their scale) cepholopod communities on twitter.

And "the algorithm" and the moderation are incredibly tolerant, extremely accepting & broking only the few things which they legally feel they must.
> For years I've wondered why renewable energy hasn't been considered under the auspices of national security.

Energy independence used to come up more often in US elections until prices collapsed in 2014ish and the US became a net exporter of refined petroleum products. The whole “Nuclear Renaissance” that began under W. was derailed by insanely cheap natural gas production, so it just kinda fell off everyone’s radar since people in the US considered the problem solved for the time being.
You have two options. Call up a local machine shop (check Google), ask if they do one-off parts. (They probably won't); then ask them if they have any solid recommendation for a local small-time machinist that enjoys one-off work. They probably have a couple on speed dial for jobs that aren't worth their time.

You can also checkout cnczone.com , practical machinist and a number of hobby/home machinist Facebook groups.
There's a bit of nuance here. Major shareholders wouldn't say "elon can buy twitter."

Major shareholders don't care who owns Twitter. They don't give permission. They only care about the return on their investments. They often represent limited partners or are part of a stock fund, and have their own fiduciary responsibilities. Or they just want to make their own money.

In this instance, major shareholders would go to the Board and say, "show me your plan to increase the stock price to over $54/share within 12 months." This could be by finding another buyer, having a roadmap to introduce new products/enter a new market, raise prices, or even acquire another company. Shareholders would evaluate the execution risk of said plan vs. the zero risk of "Elon gives me $54/share tomorrow" and decides what is best for them.

The shareholder then weighs in to the board: "I don't believe in your plan, if it comes to a vote I will vote in favor of Elon's offer." Repeat that for all of the major shareholders.

In this specific case, from everything I've read Twitter had no compelling roadmap, no other buyers willing to make an immediate offer, no strategy, troubled leadership, a 10% decline in stock price, and prevailing economic headwinds. No one believed they could beat Elon's offer.

So the board looks at the intent of the preponderance of the shareholders and rapidly realizes that they would lose any battle for control of the company. It would cause huge distraction and possibly open them up to lawsuits for not meeting their fiduciary responsibilities.

The board then goes back to Elon and decides to accept the offer.
DOGE is a problem, but global warming pariah BTC, and WEF project ETH are fine?
I strongly disagree. The message passing semantics are a pretty core part of why you can write pretty complex metaprogramming in Ruby and, without writing a lot of code, make a lot of stuff happen. And even somebody who "doesn't care" about that is critically indebted to it--because that's how Rails happens.

This is not always for the best, of course, but I reach for Ruby pretty consistently when I need to do that sort of thing--often in a dynamic programming context or where I'm binding a lot of state to present a straightforward DSL to an end user (which Sorbet helps with quite a lot, too). Sometimes, for practical reasons, I'll do that sort of work in TypeScript, but the result usually has a lot more sandpaper to it.

Crystal...just isn't that. At all. It's a fine language for what it is; it doesn't just offer anything that Ruby, TypeScript, Kotlin, and Rust don't, so I have no use for it. But it's definitely not Ruby and it doesn't even smell like Ruby.
- Down voting button, this allows people to express disagreement without feeding the trolls and deranging the conversation.

- More visibility to smaller tweeters. My feed is full of boring/dumb comments from "big tweeters" that get thousands of likes because of their large number of followers. Smart tweets from upstarts often get little to no viewings.
I dont know if toy examples prove anything about productivity. I never quite understood what makes Ruby more productive. Dynamic types?
Morbo the Annihilator has finally had enough of people building windmills to try to keep the Earth cool with big fans.
> Is Golang "ruthlessly productive" for interfacing with complex relational databases?

neither is ruby lol.
To me, it obviously seems to be a toy project to have fun and build personal projects with. I don't think Drew plans it to become a language aiming for serious adoption. And while I don't ever want to have anything to do with it, I'm glad people are still having fun making languages to build things for fun with other like-minded people.
3D television was supposed to be the next big thing. I’ve used a VR headset before and it was neat but gimmicky and disorienting. People don’t like wearing things on their head over their eyes for extended periods of time for entertainment. I hear arguments about it’s a generational thing or it’ll catch on the more you use it but those have been said before about wearables. Ears seems fine but I think there’s something very different with covering your eyes that will be a blocker for mass market appeal.

None of the mass market metaverse things people talk about are actual problems people have. Anything that is an actual problem (remote VR surgery) isn’t mass market.
Apologies for the slow response. It isn't the hard or the easy parts, to me. Seems it is more the repetitive versus quickly done parts. A long climb up a hill? I'll be chatting in my head rather quickly. A series of up and down? A hill that varies? I could see those keeping me occupied.
Well, if you want to use SQLite, you keep it at the application layer. That's an objective truth.

What is better, depends on what you are doing, and is not a simple choice in any way.
To follow up I would love to be able to group ALL of the info pertaining to a subject.
Lol this is completely wrong.
> But not convicted!

Nah, they all determined he did it. Republican Senators like Lamar Alexander were all quoted saying that both times, they just went on to say they didn't care or they think he learned his lessons.

> How many convictions have they gotten - after more than a year - of these "insurrectionists"? Zero. A few plea deals that are now unraveling. But sure, keep bang that "insurrectionist" drum.

Over 150 by my count. The Oath Keeper who was Roger Stone's bodyguard that day pled guilty to actual sedition!

It hasn't rolled up to Alex Jones and further up but it will, since he was intentionally leading people around to the east side for an attack on Pence by claiming Trump would "give a second speech" there.

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1503855795951312898

If you wanted to actually follow this, which is kind of a waste of time but might be educational(?):

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/04/04/the-evidence-needed-fo...