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Gasoline Prices Reach $5 a Gallon Nationwide for the First Time
Have you tried to use indexdb on Safari?
Gaming, and watching TV sometimes may not be complete waste of time. But both are addictive, and can easyly make your life miserable.
> - Ability to install a custom kext to make the PACMAN Gadget work. The exploit requires access to undocumented registers on the M1 that are apparently not accessible from user space, but this is a bit unclear.

^ This is not the case, you can trigger these from userspace in valid syscalls. The same behaviour was in spectre.
Ask HN: How can I use money to make money?
As it stands for me, I work 40 hours a week for $20 an hour… which is more than enough for me to be comfortable and then some. I get that that’s nowhere near the money most people on here make, but I am only 20 years old.

I have the advantage of being extremely flexible, I can make changes in all sorts of ways to optimize for a certain goal… usually it’s only my own discipline (or lack of) that stands in the way.

Lately I’ve learned that I have a taste for an expensive lifestyle and I want to explore that angle a bit more which is why I’ve been looking for ways to use the money I already have to invest and get a return on it.

With time on my side, I don’t mind making investments that won’t see returns until a few years down the line, I just have no clue where to start.

I don’t care about being filthy rich, I want a GTR not a Lamborghini.
Sounds like this guy did the correct thing.

I am sorry it didn't make it, but, as the author points out:

> Human nature sucks.

Yup. I have to design for human nature, and it can be immensely frustrating. I can tell you that this scar <pulls up shirt> was from when I neglected to plan for users misinterpreting an icon button, and this scar <rolls up sleeve> was from when I thought that a verbose help screen would help users understand a somewhat abstract concept, but this scar <drops pants> was from when I assumed that users would cut me slack, because I'm such a nice guy, and was doing this from the goodness of my heart.

This is the main reason that I'm glad he pulled the plug:

> and the team ready to quit their day jobs
Speaking for NLP in particular, and based on my experience, one doesn't publish in conferences "as a matter of principle". One does it because it's how everyone else in the field works. No one I know in the NLP field cares about Nature - if you want to get the broadest audience, you submit to one of the ACL conferences.

The one problem I'm aware of is those who want to get positions in universities that don't know how the field works, because their selection committees tend to complain that you have no journal papers. If that's your plan then you can submit to journals such as CL. But again, that's not where the broadest audience is.
100% chance.
Haven't seen any of those on Android so far, so I don't see why they would appear for iOS. Hell, I've barely even seen websites do that on desktop (Microsoft Teams being a notable problematic web app here) and I'm on Linux+Firefox. The only real exceptions so far have been applications that choose not to support Firefox because of its abysmal market share. It's often easy to find working alternatives for those, though.

The only reason devs would show a "download chrome to use this" prompt would be if Safari were behind in support for the necessary features or if Safari's bugs are too much of a hassle to support (i.e. lack of push notifications, lack of web FS/BT/serial if the web app needs that, or a lack of provisioned browser storage that the mega.nz website relies on).

What I expect to happen, and what the recent expanse of the webkit team suggests is already happening, is that Safari will get better once it gets competitive pressure from Chrome and other browsers.
Are IoT and Smart Home actually *that* huge?
Did anyone really believe that the Stock-to-Flow model would be a correct predictor of price? That seems awfully naive, it's just some pseudoscientific nonsense.
"because there are an absurd amount of races in nearly all of the popular libraries"

This is fud, I ran the race detector with a lot of popular lib and I never found issues like that.

But since you're claiming there are issues everywhere, do you have examples?
After graduation I emigrated from Spain to the UK at first, then to Canada, in order to make a better living. I succeeded beyond my wildest expectations, yet I have mixed feelings about it.

In my twenties I was young and hungry. It felt like an adventure, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work on projects that didn't exist back home. It was also a way to achieve independence and prove to myself that I had what it took to succeed alone and compete with what I perceived to be better educated engineers.

In my thirties I started to notice how I had become estranged from friends and family. My parents began to look old at first, and eventually weak and frail. Those fears turned true when I lost my dad in my late thirties. I've heard other people talk about the shock of seeing your parent age in discrete increments every time they travel back home, so I know I am not alone in this.

Now in my forties I finally have some free time to look back and wonder whether it was worth it. From this vantage point, a simpler life close to friends and family looks pleasant, but at the same time I figure that if I had stayed then I would have always wondered what it would have been like if I had moved overseas.

So, it's complex. These days I'm thinking of possibly going back to Spain. It has better weather and food, if nothing else.
This also needs willpower which you need daily to fight it.

Over the last couple years i have seen older people who had good focus completely taken hostage by smartphones making them victims. It's normal for people to watch TV and be on the Phone half the time. I've seen lifelong sport fans who watch sports and are more on the phone than with their eyes on the match.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

I would identify these things and just try new activities the can counter that and de-accelerate.

Things like swimming, hiking, cycling are great. Paddleboarding. Watching sports live or only with friends.
Pen and paper (or whiteboard, if available) has yet to be toppled as the king of design tools, IMHO.
This was just to expose the gadget easier, there are other gadgets in kernel that you can abuse too.

The full fix will require a complete recompile of the full kernel/toolchain, if they can do any kind of microcode update (I have not checked) that allows for mitigation.
Spending goes up with compensation in general. Then it becomes the norm and you don't want to lose it. Sure you can retire but probably not at a level where you can fly first class everywhere, stay in five star hotels and stay on private islands.

That aside once people have kids the sky is the limit for giving them the "best life possible." Nanny, private tutors, private schools (and/or a house in Cupertino since it's Apple), college funds, house with good amenities nearby, etc. I probably missed some costs in there.
The most important helping feature of an ISA is to provide an efficient way to compare indices and pointers against limits, so that the poor performance of limits checking will not discourage the compiler writers and the compiler users to always make such checks.

Any decent C/C++ compiler has compile options to check all array accesses against limits, which, coupled with the good programming practice of always using indices and not pointers for memory accesses, can catch all the programming errors of the buffer overflow type.

However, neither the compilers enable this option by default nor most programmers take care to always enable it, because of usually baseless worries of degrading the performance.

Checking accesses against limits catches any such bugs at their origin, not much later when a corrupt pointer is identified by PAC, without knowing how it became corrupt.

Intel has made an attempt with Skylake to introduce some instructions for easier limits checking, but unfortunately the instructions conceived by them were just dumb and not helpful at all, so they have been eventually deprecated.

Better support exists in the IBM POWER ISA, which has conditional trap instructions.
>This is due to the water lifting the impurities off of the glass and allowing a direct glass on glass contact, at which point they fuse and have to be broken.

I don't believe this. I think it is more due to dirt on the glass that gets mobilised by the water. occam's razor...
I think it's naïve to assume the technical implementation of a monetary system will change human nature. Dysfunction and corruption are not technical problems.
The guys I work are mostly speaking English as a second language. It doesn't seem to hold them back (as far as I can tell). I'm just impressed they can do same job as me but in a second language. Hrm on second thoughts maybe that means they are held back! Maybe they'd be working at a faang aotherwise!
This is portable but not man portable.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/man-portable
Can someone explain what kind of difference being layer 3 v/s layer 2 mean? Does this mean with Zerotier I can deploy applications that don't use IP or something like that?
> then the defect is scheduled for being corrected in a new revision of the CPU

Note that Intel very rarely issue new revisions of existing models nowadays. Probably creating new masks is too expensive. They simply include some fixes in new models. Probably likewise for all vendors for high-perf but non-critical applications. And probably they all try to let the microcode cover more things via chicken bits or other methods, to avoid the risk of having to do catastrophic recalls.
Just like every other product initially launched for consumers, eventually pivoting to enterprises and forgetting about the little guy.

Seems it's impossible for people to run companies for the average consumer. Are their cash-flow really so bad they can't help themselves going into the enterprise market or is there something else going on?
In many countries , school kids are required to ask for permission to go to the toilet…
Does the m1 even have microcode ?
Apple accidentally opened access to that to the point where any website could read another website's data, that's when I discovered the existence of IndexedDB myself :)
To reiterate:

1. The article claims that Facebook's own internal research found that Instagram exacerbates mental health issues in teen girls. No surrounding context given. It implies that it's straight up harmful.

2. The actual research said that 31% of teen girls felt that Instagram made body image issues worse. 45.5% said Instagram had no impact and 22% said Instagram made it better. For the other 11 out of 12 mental health issues surveyed teen girls said that Instagram made it better, on average.

They somehow read number #2, but then wrote #1 based on that. And this type of statement been repeated over and over again online.
Bypassing if it is or not, how could we ever know how big it is if Apple is stopping anyone from even trying?
Thats a good point. Let me fix my claim: If a financial product needs "legal flexibility", it's most likely a scam.
Is there a data download? Not saying there has to be, but if there is I'm sure it's fun.

Anyone browsing (if there are multiple datasets eventually) probably wants to have some metadata about approximate location and climate of the location.
Remembering Aaron Swartz.
I am convinced that crypto/blockchains are slowly and pointlessly re-encountering the same problems that existing centralised systems and agencies were setup to solve.

It’s as if we are all disregarding the centuries of evolution that has gone into creating what we already have today. Systems that, whilst sometimes flawed, for the most part enable us to live our daily lives freely and easily. Systems that already have means of verifying people when you need to make an important transaction and that already allow for trust and stability. As the essay mentions making people the agents of their own verification with documents that you’d have to backup forever would be an absolute nightmare.

There is a reason we have centralised systems and there is a reason we can’t escape them.
You don’t need to post a message on the chain to ‘login’ to a web3 site. But if you perform a transaction such as changing the state in a smart contract or withdrawing tokens based on your address and message meeting some ZK-SNARK verifiable condition, that is when you might need to post a message to the chain.
I learned this week that Elsevier has raised 10x the price of one of their products for the company where I'm currently working. I don't think that's why OP sent it, but I do wonder whether the two are correlated.

Edit: I checked the OP's history and he sends at least one link every hour every day for a total of about 600 links in the last two weeks. So I'm guessing it's just a repost bot.
> Vitrified nuclear waste, immersed, would become porous and friable long before its radioactivity decayed significantly.

Eh, that totally depends on what's your radioactive material. They don't all decay at the same rate, you know?
> We are social creatures. We sacrifice individual needs because we gain massive security and social value in return.

I'm not a libertarian or a proponent of cryptocurrency. But I do think we can be clearer about what being "social creatures" means.

We are "social creatures" in the sense that we seek the advantages of group membership (safety, co-operation, food stability, shelter, school), but we are not social creatures in the sense that we want oppressive control and uniformity. Our "agreement" with being social is accompanied by resentment. In some cases, the resentment is pathological. (Conformity can be pathological too.)

Homo sapiens developed/evolved language, the amazing human protocol to support co-operation. But when we ask people to say everything that they are thinking without social consequences, we discover the degree to which people can be angry, rude, willfully ignorant, and even crazy. (Consider "social media" to be both a business and an unprecedented live experiment revealing social resentment.)

The cryptocurrency movement/phenomenon is a construct with significant flaws and ardent adherents who see their own interest fulfilled in the narrative. In this, it is nothing particularly special. But by definition a crowd of people who all seek total individuality will not cohere.
I get that but they are that much (at least not 2021 papers because of Indian court case). Also for many fields (steam) the papers usually show up in preprinted repositories like arxiv, biorxiv...etc

Also there are many places to ask for a paper if you really need it like on reddit ( I don't remember the sub reddit name). people do have groups on Facebook and Twitter to ask and provide pdfs. For really desperate people with rare cases if that all does not work, sending a message to thr author asking for a version never gets no. people like when others are interested in their work.
Move over poster of New Zealand's fishes.
I wonder how Ed is doing these days...
It's cheaper for water companies to institute bans than to fix leaks and build capacity. Why waste potential profit! So what if lawns die, farms/gardens lose produce, it's not like the water companies need to care -- what you going to do harvest your own (you're not allowed!).

Same with sewage, they don't bother building the capacity, just pay off the Tories and they allow it to be pumped raw into rivers and onto shores.
meltdown / rowhammer are pretty fundamental design problems, spectre is even a pretty fundamental logic problem. It hasn't been comprehensively fixed in HW and probably will never be because it directly contradicts the need for reasonable perf on multicore CPUs (at the intersection between speculative/OOO execution and cache coherency, and both are needed for reasonable perfs). Rowhammer is also hard to comprehensively fix for physics reasons, but hopefully some dedicated mitigations plus ECC are good enough for not ultra-critical applications; some people think more could be done that could practically fix it, but I don't know if they have managed to convince the industry (and get some value from their patents in the process). So of the three, only meltdown could be really fixed by a quick iteration of processor design (and it is also workaround by the OS on old affected models, at a performance cost)
> Why would anyone complaint while sci-hub is there.

That is a hack, not a solution. As you noted, it is illegal.

Workarounds are good as a fast fix, but sooner at later we need to look at the system and fix what is not working. This not only fixes this problem but it may fix other copyright/publication/papers problems.
You are not necessarily producing value, you are ensuring you are capable of producing value in the future.
Because there are 0 successful examples for it. And as someone born in USSR let me say if you like to experiment with planned economy you better choose a country nobody will regret leaving in dust afterwards
Because they wouldn't be. A planned economy just takes the power of business owners and adds it to the pile of power politicians have. These algorithms would just 'happen' to suggest things favorable to those in charge.
Apple has budget to the requirement for allowing alternative payment methods in dating apps for the Dutch market following a lawsuit and racking up a noncompliance fine they'll now need to pay anyway.

These regulatory bodies can and often do have an effect on large corporations if the punishment for ignoring them is set high enough.
I wonder how many of the anti-crypto people will stop using this argument when Ethereum completes The Merge and we get rid of PoW. Specially the gamer crowd who will finally get access to cheap GPUs and will go on to collective "waste" orders of magnitude more energy playing games in comparison with the network of validators.
Doesn’t NFC work just fine for most third parties? I have various cards that all work for payment, including a third party credit card (ie. not Apple Pay), mass transit pass, a student card which has payment functionality in addition to key card access to doors. I guess Apple still has final say-so, so an individual can’t create an NFC for her home, or is this possible now? Then again, when it comes to zero-knowledge, do you really want Apple knowing when you open and close your doors? From a privacy perspective this is a double-edged sword.

The browser for me is still an issue. I know the question is more broad, but if Firefox could run natively on iOS, I’d feel substantially better about Apple’s promise to be more privacy-oriented. I don’t expect their platform to have zero telemetry, but it is larger projects like this that speak volumes to me because that indicates they at least entertain the notion of privacy for people who care enough to try to opt out of tracking (versus the many many individuals who are unaware or don’t care).
They are from user pov just separate networks where you can deploy separate copies of services, replicated db cluster nodes &whatnot. Each service handles (knock on wood) an az becoming unreachable/slow/crazy independently. Which can become fun with service interdependencies, and a mix of your self implemented services + AWS provided ones.

There's high level description at https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio...
As a young person it is easy to take for granted your parents' health and see old age and death only as as some remote future possibility, instead of the relentless proximity that it is.

I wish I had traveled home more often. Then again, work left me with very little energy left and the only times I took an airplane was to visit my aging family. So maybe there wasn't much I could have done.
As with all drugs, it’s more fun to abuse them then simply use them.
I'm still amazed that this whole algorithmic stablecoin hype as really managed to make Tether look reputable in comparison.

"Well yes, we might be pulling most of our money out of thin air, but at least we're not pulling all of it out of nothing like the new guys do".

Based on that, I wouldn't be surprised if the next thing is that something even more sketchy and handwavy than algorithmic stablecoins will appear and continue the scam.

Self-collateralized stablecoin futures?

Multi-pegged multi-chain coins with auto-arbitrage?

Probabilistic stablecoins?

I have no idea...
On my own company, when single, and living in my one room apartment? Absolutely.

If you’re around 20 maybe. Before you’ve already developed a hair-trigger on chronic disorders.
I'm wondering why their enterprise clients are ok with this though. I would have thought they'd get more pressure from them since most businesses would not want to lose all their attachments if there's a problem.
Agree with your sentiment. If we don’t change the underlying incentive structure nothing will change.
It's a massive example of how Apple inserts themselves as a toll collector on an entire industry which they are largely unrelated to.

Let me pose it to you this way: if you are developing an IoT product, the only way to have a UX competitive with Apple's own offerings is to pay them a toll on every device you sell. In return, you get a couple dozen bytes of data Apple prevents other apps from accessing.

Does that sound like anti-trust regulation is operating as it should?
Archived for future readers here: https://archive.md/QboEJ
Many are saying there is no recession now or coming soon and point to various figures to prove it... This ignores deep structural problems that have been covered up by QE. QE itself was a cook the books kind of scenario to provide liquidity... Then it became impossible to roll it back once companies and the market got addicted to the money.

So now we approach a point where tightening has to happen because both the Federal Reserve and U.S. Govt have run up the balance sheets and debts to very high insane levels not meant for "peace time".

Now as they attempt to roll it back, certain issues start to appear. First due to lots of factors... main one likely being generational bretton woods style changes to the global economy and the reserve currency used. The only argument against this is that China, Russia and maybe most of OPEC moving away from using dollars to handle various transactions tends to cause certain unexpected issues while that is happening.
One of those is inflation since for mant years it has been one of the United States main exports...

So while all of this is rolled back or changed, it reveals all of the existing structural problems that were never really addressed...

All of these factors either mean a big crash or a controlled demolition of the whole QE system and a global reordering of trade.

There are far too many factors to control and many more are not controllable. So expect a crash.

To determine when this is likely, maybe watch the repo and reverse repo market rates. Since 2020 they have increased steadily, now in trillions of overnight funding needed, and continuing to grow. This could quickly lead to something not often discussed where the Federal Reserve loses the ability to control interest rates.
It is kind of a paradox, balance sheet growth -> liquidity -> inflation -> higher borrowing costs -> more balance sheet growth.. This process cant go on forever...
Many metrics exist to watch it but the idea that the Govt will one day say OK we cant fund repos tonight, everything financially will be locked up by morning... like 2008 but worse..

That Paul Volcker guy had a lot of good ideas that they tried and failed to implement since 2008. Maybe those will deserve a second look, once all of this is over. Point being, nothing was fixed since the 2008 crash and as soon as the free money runs out, it will be obvious.

Also, inflation kills democracies more often than anything else.

May you live in interesting times.