skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is immensely useful, but perhaps they are no longer a net positive to society. The goods and services they provide are certainly useful. But their status as a monopoly prevents a flourishing, competitive market that could address their failings. Amazon as a product is arguably poorer in quality than it used to be: just look at the state of their spammed-out reviews, scam products sold on their platform, etc. Their logistics offerings (built on poor working conditions) and AWS have certainly improved compared to the past. But other aspects have fallen short.

Maybe we shouldn't speak of companies as being "net positive" or "net negative", but rather speak of what could be improved if there was more competition, more companies, more market. Less monopolies.
Nitrogen fertilizer is what I was talking about. Atmospheric nitrogen is combined with hydrogen from natural gas.

I can't really say why Russia would also be a large supplier of potash and phosphate, except to guess that they wanted to cover all of the relevant bases in a market in which they were a big player.
> I am arguing that LC/FAANG interview does not do a better job at filtering them out.

You're talking of gigantic tech companies that actually have a business interest in getting that right and you just assume that haven't done any studies about that. If you want to argue they're wrong, fine, but the money is against you on this, so more proof and arguments would be welcome.

I think we all agree that no interview process is perfect, but you're basically claiming that they're all equally bad.
You're literally asking for more death and destruction. Just think of what you're saying. Russia wins this war no matter what and the pointless cheerleading from the media and some politicians has been nothing but disposing of Ukrainian lives for the sole purpose of getting some type of bizarre revenge on Russia who they believe got Trump elected, or something.

Sending more and more weapons only prolongs it and adds to the body count. A humanitarian mission to remove those at risk from the areas Russia wants to invade would be a far better response. Sanctioning Russia is fine but shooting ourselves in the foot by refusing to buy their fuel is ridiculous and destroying our economies leading to real people losing their livelihoods here.
Single-sign-on stuff can be fixed by redirecting through the authenticator domain and passing the token or whatever back as a url parameter.

> You can turn them off.

Of course I did, long ago. The issue is that they're on by default. And defaults matter a lot because most people don't change them.
Because, as we have seen here, most of the green solutions to our industrial problems are not really viable at scale at the present moment. If they were this war would have been trivially ended since Russia would have no power over the developed world.

This war is a perfect object lesson in exactly how dependent we are globally on fossil fuels. That we are more decades than we have left away from solving our hydrocarbon problem. And that if we do happen to cross peak oil in a few years (which will actually be good for climate change) the result won't be a transition to green energy but global war on an unprecedented scale.

People paying close attention have been pointing this out for decades but dismissed as "pessimists" by green idealists.
right, they want to draw people to the appletv app and entice them to subscribe to appletv+, via, for example, a tie-in with "ted lasso". in any case, they'd most certainly roll up those mls subscriptions into total subscriber numbers in any investor relations as "proof" of their strategy.
I don't get why this isn't a fair criticism. My city has both spent a record-breaking amount on homelessness and yet still has record breaking numbers of homeless. It seems worth pointing out that these programs might not be doing what we think they are.
Nobody is blaming the homeless. You are the one bringing that to the table.
Ok, I See how this works in theory. But until I see an exploit that uses this method in real life to extract keys (or maybe any memory content) from a server running real life workloads, I am extremely skeptical. How much samples are needed to get anything useful? And wouldn't the time required to acquire these samples be longer than the time required to detect the attack (or even all keys to be shifted)?
> Not sure why you include java in that, as you mostly get a standalone file. No such thing as a jre in modern java deployment.

Maybe I'm behind the times, but I can't figure out what you mean here. As far as I know 'java -jar' or servlets are still the most common ways of running a Java app. Are you talking graal and native image?
What's the impact on AES-NI specifically? If hardware AES is impacted and no microcode updates are coming, this would be bad news.

Assuming ChaPoly needs expensive masking mitigations and AES-NI is safe, ChaPoly just became a lot less attractive, too.
That is the nomenclature in the United Kingdom, but outside we don't consider Scotland England, Wales or Northern Ireland to be countries. They are part of the United Kingdom, which is "the country" for our purposes.
"One planet" is a slogan without meaning because we're already one planet, so the reader is forced to interpret it in the most likely way it was meant - as one world government. The mention of being super left wing, and the context of the EU makes that interpretation far more likely.

"The EU is certainly one model you can achieve unification at large without one huge government as it consists of many smaller governments coming together."

That's not really what the EU is. The EU is a One Huge Government that has taken over some of the powers of the Less Huge Governments that Europe already has. It isn't a talking shop or forum for collaboration. It's a government which creates laws and enforces them. The fact that it doesn't control everything yet doesn't make it not a government, and the EU's core supporters are like ivolimmen - they want one world government and see the EU as a step towards it.
The last thing Coinbase is doing is customer service...
Many would argue that US tactical intelligence is overrated, as well. When's the last time the US fought against a near-peer?
> > Why did Intel ask for a long embargo, considering they are not deploying patches?

> > Ask Intel.

Indeed, I really found this unnecessarily snarky on their part. I don’t think Intel was acting in bad faith.

In my experience, security researchers are very /particular/. They like telling everyone that no matter what you do, you are vulnerable for umpteen reasons, whether practical or not.
You have to take "rates of homosexuality" with a huge amount of skepticism considering it was often illegal until recently and could even get you killed. You have to assume any data from the 70s or earlier is severely under-reported. Any research into the subject was also taboo, frowned upon, or even actively discouraged, or outright disallowed.
Why? Presumably your product works, so at best you'd only have like 1% (20) customers with issues on any given day. 1 customer service agent should be able to attend to 20 issues in a 7-8 hour shift.
We've still got "Stickies" though not quite the same level of fun, granted.
Either the rock gets sold and the income is realized and the taxes are paid then, or the rock ends up being worthless and the loan margin called for possession of the rock and the remaining value is taxed as income. Either way the taxes get paid in the end.

Tax deference is not tax avoidance.
You have to sell the business to pay the tax. That is why wealth taxes are pretty dumb without carve outs for many kinds of assets.
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Then why don't we set the cutoff at £10k instead so that the very poorest have a chance?

Or set the cutoff at just above the poorest person's net worth. When they make some money they won't be the poorest any more and next year it will be updated to the new poorest person's net worth. That way we make sure everybody has a fair chance at getting rich.

Or is it possible that those who have a demonstrated history of wealth creation are actually better at it, and we're all better off if they continue to do more of it?
In the good old regulated economy, individual depositors of a bank are protected by the FDIC (up to a certain level), and have no reason to engage in a bank run.

Now, if all those individual depositors instead give their money to some unregulated entity (USDC), and that unregulated entity gives $50 bn to a bank, and then one day turns around and says to the bank "hey, I'd like my $50 bn back", then the bank might not have that much at hand right now. And since the unregulated entity is not covered by the FDIC, individual investors might have an incentive to engage in a bank run.
jokes on them I disable turbo boost on all my machines because modern portables can't handle turbo boost anyway.
Global fire detection using satellite imagery from Sentinel-2
> There are plenty of people in the world who would think that anything over $500/month is way more than enough for one person. Should your compensation be reduced to that amount?

This is an absurd slippery slope, and a bizarre appeal to "plenty of people" to boot. There is a significant and categorical difference between $500/mo and $1 billion. You undermine your own point by not addressing it.

In fact, if there were a wealth cap of $500/mo as you posit, it would take over 150000 years to accumulate $1 billion, which frankly only reinforces how excessive that amount of money is.
I meant more that every single user of Twitter now gets 10K robot followers. Then we're back to square one (or worse) and it is hard to stand out again. The platform would likely collapse at that point.
Even if true, it's just not smart cause the Biden administration will be voted out due to consequences of the drawn out conflict.
It has been a long time and happy to see you back again!
Thank you for this work!

I've been involved with minidumps in one way or another since around 2010. Was at a startup at the time that had a browser based on Chromium and we needed crash reporting for our own app. So I wrote a pretty simply backend that received minidumps, ran them through the breakpad processor and shoved the output into Splunk. That was our crash-reporting system.

Circa 2013 the company gets acquired by Yahoo which at the time was using Crittercism for its mobile apps but Yahoo wasn't happy with it. Somehow I was now the mobile app crash reporting expert at the company though so I built a whole new in-house crash reporting solution.

For iOS I wrote an SDK around PLCrashReporter because unwinding stacks on the client works out way better on iOS than dealing with a minidump.

For Android I had to deal with both JVM (er, Dalvik, er ART) stack traces, easy enough, but also native code crashes. For the latter I used breakpad's crash handler and minidumps. But it turns out that minidumps from Android devices are almost useless for two reasons:

1) If the crashes originate in managed code or calls into managed code you can't trace back through the managed code frames from a minidump. Especially if you don't have frame pointers.

2) You basically cannot get the symbols for all the different flavors of Android. Without symbols any stack trace that breakpad reconstructs is pretty useless.

Eventually I abandoned minidumps on Android and instead unwinding on the phone using corkscrew, wait no, libbacktrace, wait no, libunwind. But that still doesn't give useful stack traces very often. In the end, I ended up capturing logcat output when restarting after a crash which actually tends to have the most useful stack traces.

Which is all to say, both Apple and Google make it really hard for a mobile app to find out why it crashed. Both Android and iOS create a crash report for any app which crashes, but the app can't access those. So we're all shipping apps with third-party crash handlers built-in that try to capture a stack or minidump in-process and make sense of it later.
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> If it's a matter of quality of air

Should be fairly easy to check for correlations across neighboring urban vs rural regions.
Well yes? Is there any indication, given Putin’s back to a wall that he would not order nukes as a final fuck you ?
It is literally the exact opposite. Escalating the war in Ukraine by going "all in on sending howitzers, MLRS and other heavy equipment" is exactly what the defense companies want.

It's genuinely amazing to see the mental gymnastics here to come to the conclusion that buying fewer weapons is exactly what the defense contractors are lobbying for.
Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative
Thanks for the link, that's great to know about AWS.

I don't think all other VPS providers are that good about things - googling around for some other definitions of vCPU (in VPS context) I see a lot of examples of 16 thread server CPUs handling "128 vCPUs".
> The top 10% of the population hold 70% of the total wealth. That's just crazy and unsustainable.

Been sustained so far throughout all of human history.
If the frequency scale is known to user applications, I presume jittering response times proportional of the scale factor just before write() would be effective.
> any object measure, the sanctions have filled the Russian Government's coffers and made Europe much poorer

With you until this point. Higher energy prices have in no way made up for the loss of Russia's reserves.
I understand what you're saying, but reread what you said and replace "medication" and "pill" with "cocaine". Amphetamine can be used in the same manner and for the same perceived reasons.

Granted, I am happy for you and I think drug laws are ridiculous.
LGBT rates among zoomers is shockingly high to me. 20%, double that of millenials. Millenials are double that of Gen X. I tend to believe there’s a genuine biological phenomenon going on here. The next generation should be just starting to establish their sexual orientations. The data should be interesting…
I'm not as wealthy as them but I have never, ever had this feeling: "It hurts to see Bezos and Musk in yachts" Why does that hurt anyone? Doesn't it just help the people that make yachts and work on them?
You can say the same thing about all of these attacks. That they are tedious ways of collecting data. The problem is that computers can be made to repeat operations, over and over again. Leaking keys fractional bit by bit or what it is. That's why the attack doesn't work against someone's laundry machine - unless it's connected to the internet, that is.
> after a certain age you stop chasing big dreams

I have "certain age" and must strongly disagree here. Those who stop never were big dreamers in the first place, or had their morale crushed by eternal bad management. "Age" itself is not a factor. If anything, age gives confidence, wisdom, focus and autonomy to pursue one's goals.

Age also means you also realize that you're gonna die one day (soon) and that you'd better get your shit together if you're gonna have any kind of meaningful impact within the short timeframe you're alloted on this ball of mud.
One world government would be so ineffective, totalitarian and corrupt that it would be in a state of either constant uprising or permanent heavy handed suppression. It would definitely not be "peaceful" except in the sense that an effective police state is "peaceful" because anyone who suffers from it is crushed, before they even get to the point of being able to disrupt the peace.
Reflections on a Decade at Heroku
Wasn't this guy one of Paul Graham's darlings? Weren't the "geniuses" at YCombinator invested in this pile of trash?

I would really like one of those "insightful" posts from pg telling us how to pick winners right about now.
Sure, we can start by applying that cutoff on those with the most £10k's to spare.
My understanding is that the "lunar gateway" is a politically expedient chance to get an ISS replacement on the budget ledgers. It has good technical reason to exist just as an ISS replacement (which must deorbit a lot sooner than we'd all like; some of its warranties are "coming due" as they say).

> And stopping there on the way to another planet would be hugely wasteful.

My understanding is that the scientific missions are less what they'd "stop there on the way" and more what they could eventually consider to "start there". At least some of the "lunar gateway" plans I heard had some complex "fabricator" goals, to assemble and build bigger modules in a "cheaper" in orbit than if they built it on the ground and shipped it all at once straight to the moon. I don't know how many of such plans remain on the books and I don't know enough of the science behind some of the proposals to know how viable they are (I do know that the growing body of inflatable modules research on ISS was pretty neat and supposedly related).
I used it for a while and it was life changing. I learned a number of lessons about how my mind makes things harder, and since, have been able to for example shop at the grocery store when before it was infeasible.

However, I felt I lost a subtle intuition edge.

When I stopped I was a mess, until I found Chen Style Tai Chi, which somehow mitigated my worst symptoms without any (negative) side effects.

From there, I’ve been able through (simply aging) and deliberate practice of various techniques to make it so ADD is rarely an issue for me anymore.
> Thief and chop shops are separate specialties.

Right. It's unclear if that distinction is understood here.
"Reduced yields" and "higher meat prices" is a benign way of saying "people may starve to death".

What may be an inconvenience to you, a probably-rich person on the global scale, who can afford to outbid poor people when food gets short, is not necessarily just an inconvenience for others.
The cold war is over. There's no need to hide that which everyone knows and accepts.
MLS will steadily grow over the next decade, of that I have no doubt. I think soccer in America has a ceiling, though. NFL and NBA will be #1 and #2 for a long, long time, but MLS could surpass NHL, and maybe MLB by the end of the decade if its momentum continues.

In any case, I'm so geeked over this deal. MLS is the only league I enjoy anymore. I dig parity and salary-capped leagues, and soccer has this suspense about it where every minute matters unlike most other sports. Great pickup for Apple.
> The bipolar-level manic highs and depression/lows are very real.

I've had to be very careful about NOT using those terms when talking to doctors and psychiatrists. As a layperson that description seems to fit, but it causes huge red flags for medical professionals and they freak out, resulting unnecessary tests and evaluations for my kid.

The key term for the "manic" phase after the meds wear off is "Rebound Effect". Also when the dose is too high the generally accepted term is "zombie mode" or "zombie-like". Calling it an "overdose" will really cause people to freak the fuck out.
I don't know what it is, but it seems something is not right.

On the one hand the US is asking the EU and allies to stop buying oil and whatever from Russia. A few large retailers pulled out of the Russian market due to perceived pressure to do so. We tell India (traditional non-aligned country) not to buy from Russia, we chastised Brazil for buying fertilizer from Russia (despite our objections), we tighten our own embargoes and then we're like, ahhhhh, nevermind..... WE'RE going to buy from Russia.

Is it lack of coordination, foresight, credibility, it's something.

I am now going to imagine the hysterics Pelosi and Schumer would have if Biden suddenly and for no reason declared himself an "R". At this point maybe he should to save the Dem party.
Here's the option I'm familiar with (siblings have others too):

https://github.com/malthe/pq

Doesn't have all the plumbing you'd want, there is a wrapper (https://github.com/bretth/django-pq/) that seems to give you an entrypoint command more like `celery worker ...` but I've not investigated it closely.
I've been chatting with some friends whose company shut down recently, basically with no warning. They are getting recruited like crazy. In my opinion that's much preferable than to being left go as part of the 20% lowest performing employees. This reads like a "culling of the herd because we can use the alleged upcoming recession as an excuse" event. I'm not sure the generous severance makes up for the "you are not in the top 80%" label.
A lot of people here commenting about shared hosting in clouds, but I don't see any actual text that shared environments are more vulnerable.

It sounds like a black box timing attack that could target my laptop, my phone, my server, anything that does cpu frequency scaling and is performing a computation that is susceptible to this attack.

Is that accurate?
That's all undefined behavior, under POSIX at least [0]:

> The vfork() function has the same effect as
fork(2), except that the behavior is undefined if the process
created by vfork() either modifies any data other than a variable
of type pid_t used to store the return value from vfork(), or
returns from the function in which vfork() was called, or calls
any other function before successfully calling _exit(2) or one of
the exec(3) family of functions.

So sure - you can do these things, but they have very little defined semantics after vfork().

It is true that Linux describes the semantics more clearly, so perhaps on Linux it is safer to use.

[0] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/vfork.2.html
I think so. Cigarettes are enjoyable and Oxycodone is on the World Health Organization's Essential Medicine list.[1] You can also drive your Tesla off a cliff, or attack someone with a knife you bought from Amazon. The possibility of risky behavior doesn't necessarily make a thing useless.

In the interest of full disclosure I enjoy the occasional cigar.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxycodone