skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We disclosed our findings, together with proof-of-concept code, to Intel, Cloudflare and Microsoft in Q3 2021 and to AMD in Q1 2022.

Why did they choose to disclose their findings to just two software companies (Cloudflare and Microsoft)? Why not other software companies like Amazon or Google? Or developers behind open source cryptography libraries?
ALM: America Loves Monopolies
Didn't www.neocities.org just re-organize?

Collections of its predecessor's web sites, geocities?

Where better to leave letters?
I'm reminded of when Jobs got rid of the Icon Garden to discourage nostalgia.

http://clarus.chez-alice.fr/c_applegarden.php
Cool but this product naming sounds like some scummy antivirus from 2001
yes that and cost savings is why we have them in the first place but the effectiveness is low so there needs to be a tweak.
Yes. Hope so. What a bad idea that is.
Are electric toothbrushes better for your oral microbiome?
> many dog folks are super dismissive of the idea of cats being smart and I'm not sure why that is.

assessment of intelligence is often based on comparing animal intelligence to human intelligence. Dogs are adept at communicating in ways that humans understand. Cats, on the other hand, have an unhuman mind, and don't seek empathy the way dogs do. They do it in a cat way. To understand the intelligence of animals, truly, we should let go of our notions of human intelligence, and seek to enter animal perception as it is; not to correlate our perceptions with theirs, which would limit our understanding.
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Is It Possible to Beat a Virus That Moves Faster Than Science?
> If you don't sell a franchise, you have to pay your workers. Better for workers to pay you.

I mean, trivially, I'll pay a lot of money to work someplaces if a good percentage of that profit goes to me.

How much would you pay Google upfront to manage the adwords on websites in the .uk space if you got to keep 95% of the profits?
FTX is already planning to do that.
If sleep is consuming a lot of battery it's more of a hardware/firmware problem. Because during sleep at (at least the sleep states that Linux supports!) nothing is actively running, only the memory contents are preserved.

What could also be is that it's not actually sleeping.
Zuckerberg has more money than God at this point, yet he still shows up every day. Is he really motivated by tacking on another bunch of billions? I suspect not.
Australian aboriginals have been orally passing on their history for thousands of years. Perhaps you could interest them? https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/about/k-12-policies/aboriginal-t...
The thoughts of this article resonates with me. For the past few years I've been wanting to create a desktop operating system that fully embraces component-based software, kind of like an updated version of OpenDoc for the modern era, and also eliminates the dichotomy between programmer and user, much like Lisp machines, Smalltalk environments, and the original vision of Unix.

Originally I was thinking about creating some type of modern Lisp or Smalltalk desktop environment in the spirit of Lisp machines and Smalltalk VMs such as Smalltalk-80 and Squeak. In fact I considered doing all the work inside Pharo or Squeak, though I'd like to code in Common Lisp. However, lately I've come to embrace Stephen Kell's paper "Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk." I believe a system that is widely used is inevitably going to be a multi-language one, because different languages are most appropriate for different problems. For example, even though Unix has been implemented in C for most of its life, software written for Unix is written in a variety of languages. I'm thinking that instead of building a system entirely around Lisp or Smalltalk, I build a system, possibly leveraging the ideas of Plan 9, where processes are highly reflective and are capable of metaprogramming, but protocols instead of language constructs are used for communication, and facilities for supporting reflection and metaprogramming are done at the protocol level instead of the language level. While it may not be as elegant as Lisp- or Smalltalk-all-the-way-down, it will provide most of the same features.

The hardest part is finding the time to do all of this, since I'm busy with a full-time job and other hobbies. But hopefully I'll be able to work on this piecemeal over the next few years.
Big water cutbacks ordered amid Colorado River shortage
It’s clear the secure enclave was a genius move a decade ago.
> Scotland overwhelmingly voted remain. Scotland also is not represented by the Tory government in Westminster.

Scotland did not get a vote, and there are Scottish Tories, and there are members of parliament from all the regions of Scotland. Scottish people are represented better than English people in all respects.

> These are constitutional issues, and the people should be given the choice if they want this to continue or not.

I agree, I voted in the last referendum and I will vote in the next. I disagree with the behaviour of the nationalists so I will vote against them.

> I don't think being asked to chose is undemocratic, it's /exactly/ democracy. Let the people decide.

Do you think that politicians making blatant lies to the public is democratic? I'm not asking if it happens or is likely or an unfortunate aspect of politics, I'm asking if you think it should be part of the way things are actually done and if the voters should overlook it - is it democratic?
If people are worried about this then we can simply permit founders who pay taxes via ownership to retain magnified voting rights. We've already invented the idea of non-voting shares. Why is this some sort of thing that could never be solved?
I use a separate QR scanner which shows me contents and a prompt to copy/open.

Unfortunately this does not really help, most of the time it is some type of link shortener, and just inspecting URL tells you nothing.
This reminds me of how Rust 2021 switched to disjoint captures in closures (https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2021/disjoint-c...). Of course in Rust, there are behavioral and compiler error differences due to mutability and the borrow/lifetime checker, beyond merely the log output of equivalent referentially-transparent objects. Honestly I still prefer the C++ way of allowing explicit lambda captures.
Amazon isn't really cash starved. Seriously, where else but in real estate can they invest their cash without people banging the antitrust drum?
Isn’t the real
long term mitigation here to do all crypto operations on a separate chip? Rewire platform libraries to use the TPM/SecureEnclave backends exclusively. Then if you need “soft crypto” you are kinda on your own in “you better know what you’re doing” territory?
While my portfolio is -15% YTD overall, BTC is -33% in a week.

It's not even remotely comparable. I even have some stuff (Shell) that have done really well actually.

Despite inflation, US dollar is strengthening, defense stocks are doing great. And commodities are also up and rising. I-Bonds are yielding 9%+ and TIPS are doing good.

You just gotta know how to navigate a bear market.
The housing market ‘correction’ intensifies as layoffs – This interactive map
You mean MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon) companies?

It seems Netflix doesn't have a sustainable business model as they have too many direct competitors in the field, price increases in their own plans and little to no diversification in other sectors. Unlink the others MAGMA companies, Netflix is not in multiple sectors to get in more cash and are stuck in a single niche.

Hence, why out of the FAANG companies, stock compensation at Netflix crashed and they had no choice but to announce layoffs.
That may work for your own code which you can pepper with macros, but I needed to be able to capture crashes in native code I didn't write. Android itself has used a variety of unwinders over the years. Extracted versions of the libraries that have been modified to build with the NDK are here:

https://github.com/ivanarh/libcorkscrew-ndk

https://github.com/ivanarh/libbacktrace-ndk

https://github.com/ivanarh/libunwind-ndk

https://github.com/ivanarh/libunwindstack-ndk

Along with a wrapper that can use all of them:

https://github.com/ivanarh/ndcrash

It's been a while since I dealt with this and I don't recall why Android keeps changing unwinders. Looks like Sentry is using libunwindstack-ndk (well a fork of it anyway) on Android:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native/tree/master/exter...
A lot of shrimp recipes have you cook the shells in oil for extra flavor. This one is a personal favorite:

https://www.seriouseats.com/spanish-style-garlic-shrimp-gamb...

Seriously. Get some good shrimp, some garlic, and go to town on some crusty bread. It's one of the recipes I'd still eat even if it took time off my life, it's just so damn good.
I was surprised by the intelligence of a little spider I encountered the other day. As I was looking for my keys to enter the house, this little jumping spider was on the front door. As I approached the door he moved almost with anticipation. As I turned the keys, he got closer to the door edge. As I opened the door, he swung himself around the door and into the house ahead of me!

At that point I decided if got this spectacular show, he can enter my house and do whatever he wants.
I'm not convinced that "make a lot of money" and "add value to society" are incredibly well correlated.
I think dogs have better social skills since they (well, wolves) evolved to form packs and help each other out. This can make them seem more intelligent.

Cats are worse at communication as they evolved to be more solitary.
If I get to vote then it is my business, else I wouldn't or shouldn't get a vote.
This has me thinking of a mitigation technique and that is: deliberately slow down the Internet connection of your company/vendor/whatever such that large volumes of data take an age to grab. Just like setting your language to Russian on the OS to stop ransomware from running (an old trick). Fast connections are a liability in some cases and in malware ridden machines it just makes exfiltration easier. Not saying damage won’t be done, but in some cases deliberately throttling connection speed is a win.
It's the teams' faults and not the network. Most franchises that have blackouts have negotiated exclusive broadcast rights in their local markets.
Anthropomorphism is the curse of our intelligence
I just use firefox. It tells me the url first. That and ublock origin on mobile keep me from anything seriously bad, at least I think
Private companies ruined the internet by creating millions of jobs?
I caught a young mother raccoon in a live trap a few years ago. The process of releasing her was interesting. She maintained eye contact with me the entire time i was handling the cage. She used her front paws to stay upright and positioned to maintain said eye contact with incredible hand-like dexterity. It was clear she was trying to predict how i was going to move the cage and was doing a good job.

In my limited experience oldet raccoons tend to be much more aggressive, making lots of noise and showing their teeth.
I am not by any means calling it an absolute. But the data points tilt in favor of working through the pain and difficulties instead of throwing in the towel at the slightest speed bump.
> It also turned out to not be the inflation hedge I originally assumed it would be.

This is a common misconception. I've never understood why people have had such unrealistic expectations of Bitcoin's price performance during the initial phase of inflation.

There are two types of people who buy Bitcoin: one that holds it for the long term and the other that treats it as a speculative investment, perhaps even swing trading with it. Access to cheap borrowing and a dramatic increase in the money supply has overpriced Bitcoin as speculators buy in. It has to correct.

Now, as the money supply begins to shrink and access to cheap debt comes to an end, speculators are forced out of the market. They need cash to cover their debts. Thus, as all markets begin to fall, Bitcoin is going to fall with them. A lot of us have always expected this to be the case. Eventually, once the speculators are washed out, we'll hit a floor. We might be there already. We might have a way to go. But there will be a floor.

The correction across all markets we've seen so far is just a market adjustment back to reality. Meanwhile, the debt bubble hasn't really started to "pop" just yet. We've seen record levels of debt lately, corporate debt in particular. Now we will begin to see over-leveraged companies begin defaulting on their debt as they head into bankruptcy. This will be the real crash. The full scope of this is unknowable. But there's reason to believe it will be historic.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin has no debt. Bitcoin doesn't care. Bitcoin will just keep on being Bitcoin. At some point, people will begin to notice that Bitcoin is the only thing that's not falling anymore. This will be the moment of change.
It only feels weird because there is a concerted effort to make you feel that way. It is absolutely identical to property taxes on homes, but that doesn't make people feel icky in the same manner.
Why do dogs seem to ‘understand’ us to an extent but we struggle to understand dogs?
Love the Divio docs system. AKA https://diataxis.fr now. I regularly mention it when explaining basic docs strategy to stakeholders. Pretty much all professional technical writers subscribe to an organization methodology like this, they just may not use the Divio/Diataxis name. Also Divio/Diataxis did not invent this idea: they just did the best job explaining it.
And? Is it true?
It’ll be cool once more knowledgeable eyes translate these papers and data into digestible bits for the rest of us. There’s a large release of papers released along with this and findable from the link.

My prediction would be heavier elements increase in occurrence in near the center of the galaxy. But, huge grain of salt.
Why exactly does glucosamine only having a minor effect on pain, collagen degradation, joint function, etc. preclude it from having an effect on cancer outcomes?

Obviously this should be replicated and if not replicable, should be dismissed. But it's perplexing to dismiss it out of hand because its effects weren't strong enough for an array of other totally unrelated health outcomes.
These days blackouts on streaming services are due to exclusive broadcast rights on local networks. Teams aren't (usually) dumb enough to black out the entire region because of bad ticket sales. They learned that it creates a negative feedback loop that kills the local fan base, the Chicago Blackhawks are a good case study.
I'm trying to think, do we have ANYTHING that gets even close to the criteria of 10k years? Yes, there's the bible and stuff, but that's not even close to 10k years old. It might be impossible on earth.

Your best bet may be to come up with some mathematical representation of the haiku, like the arecibo message, and send thousands of copies of it into the solar system, and hope that 10k years from now we will have the technology to find and decipher them.
Fred's blog, and Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good are invaluable, but on the topic of production systems, his ebook Erlang In Anger (https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/) is excellent as well - honestly it's hard to overstate just how much good he's done for the community in terms of documenting and philosphizing about Erlang, architecture and operating production systems. He's solid gold!
Sorry I'm not really following. Yeah Taiwan's treatment is problematic but that's a larger issue with the United Nations as a whole and not something specific to WHO...
It was in the early 90s
You're really letting your partisanship shine through. Late term abortions are so exceedingly rare that they don't warrant serious discussion. They are exclusively happening when the risk to the mother is extreme, or the fetus is already dead (or has something like Trisomy 18, which is painful and 100% fatal within moments after birth, should the fetus survive long enough to see the outside of the womb).
Yep. But sadly Haskell does give you more rope to hang yourself with. Refactoring and normal development is so easy and then people use all that power to go nuts. Such a shame.
This hasn't stopped people from complaining about things. My grandparents are constantly complaining about how the inheritance tax is going to prevent them from willing their timeshares to the family. Even if we show them the IRS website they don't believe us when we say it doesn't kick in below $12m.
Me too. I’m still here!
I mean, why work myself into the ground if I can no longer benefit?

That's a good question for the current situation -- why does Bezos still go to work? Once you have $100B, what tangible benefit do you get from more? Surely he's not doing it for the money, another $1B, or even $100B isn't going to change his lifestyle.
Not questioning the need for RCTs, but they have their own issues. Like, let's say you do a RCT and it shows an effect, but then in a large epi observational study there isn't any? There would be some problems to work out.

RCTs are great but can have problems with generalizability to real-world conditions. Ideally you'd study both.
Uhuh. They have more neurons. This does say exactly nothing about "smart".

There's also the small matter that while dogs have more neurons than cats in general, they have significantly less neurons allocated to their cortex. The study you likely refer to talks about total brain matter.

It is, in short, a dog lovers argument.
There are a lot of us. But we are a minority in the Haskell world I think.
Do you have any assets along with that 12k, or does that 12k just go quite a lot farther wherever you are? 12k renting in Canada would last me a few months, spending frugally and splitting rent. Once that's gone, I'd have no assets, no investments, just homelessness looming on the horizon. So it would provide a bit of runway, and I'd choose whichever of a set of offers if I received them, but it's very rarely the case that there's even one option. If you've put money into a mortgage over that time, or an investment account, or your cost of living is extremely low while your prospects are good, then sure it's just a low risk lifestyle choice I'd also favour. If you can't whether a bad storm though, you don't want to be caught outside during it. Every time I'm in that position, I take the first month or two and try to find something I really enjoy. But that never goes well, and I'd sure as shit hedge my bets and take the job at FAANG if it came about, especially if it's the only choice available.
I was rather disappointed as well. The original *bleed attack had private keys coming right out of the response stream, but this hasn't demonstrated anything close to that. Sure, the theory is sound but the practice seems to be more of an educational setup.
I mentioned Catalonia's, it was not legitimate or recognised by Spain. I sympathise with their movement but it's not relevant here, anymore than if I hold a vote in my bedroom to set up my own state.

Nouvelle-Calédonie is in the Pacific, not Europe, but I'll give you that one because it makes your argument look like a giant stretch.

> I am sure there are others

Forgive me, but are you expecting me to take you seriously if you can't be bothered to look it up? I could characterise my time on HN as wasting time, but I don't engage on here for a total waste of my time. Please, give me and everyone else here more respect than that and put in some effort, even if you don't have the knowledge or expertise or insight. At least that would be understandable and forgivable.
We spent an inordinate amount of time understanding the ins and outs of PDFs as well as pushing the limits of HTML, web fonts, Canvas, and SVG rendering. Tough space but was a blast to figure out!
I've met damn few people on the pro-choice side who were pro-abortion, no matter how you'd like to frame it. We just don't trust the government to be involved in this very personal decision.
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One question I find can help is "What's the worst that can happen if I make the wrong decision?"

If you enrol to a university and hate it ... well, you can drop out / change majors / return to your life again, perhaps in a matter a months.

If you don't enrol? Well, in your own words, you "would be miserable".
An odd way to attack the problem would be to demean the personal liberties of someone else based on nothing other than your own personal feelings. I don't see how either of these lines of argument achieve any useful or realistic end state.

It's a topic almost perfectly designed for a useless shouting match.

Meanwhile. In the 1950's, citizens in the US were expected to pay around 50% of the cost of running the government. Corporations paid 25% of the share and the rest were import and other use taxes.

Today, citizens are expected to pay 85%. Corporations pay a mere 7%, and they enjoy reductions in the other tax categories more readily than citizens and consumers do.

The elite business class billionaire CEO is just a symptom of this problem, and a fraction of the overall class anyways. Tiger Woods just joined the three comma club recently.. what was his original sin?
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Okay, interesting. I'm guessing those people typically had many normal shares too, right? Otherwise if they're given a fairly small financial stake, and have no skin in the game -- I'm guessing that most investors wouldn't like that?
Hehe.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it was part of a speech he gave in Miami at the same conference he announced El Salvador was going to make it legal currency.

Could be wrong of course, memory is a tricky thing.
Thank HN: WhatsApp Ban Reversed
A couple days ago I posted this thread about my wife's WhatsApp account being randomly banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31707349

I'm not sure whether the exposure from the original post helped, but yesterday the ban was reversed with this message:

> Hi,
Our system flagged your account activity as a violation of our Terms of Service and banned your phone number. We value you as a user, and apologize for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused.
> After reviewing your account activity, we’ve removed the ban so you should now have access to WhatsApp. As a next step, we recommend re-registering your phone number on WhatsApp to ensure you have access. You can visit our website to download WhatsApp or the WhatsApp Business app.
> You can learn more about how to use WhatsApp responsibly in this Help Center article.
> Note: We don’t provide support for unsupported apps, devices, or versions of WhatsApp, or jailbroken or rooted devices. Learn more about our supported operating systems in this article. For more information about unofficial apps and why we don’t support these apps, you can refer to this article.

Naturally no explanation of what account activity supposedly triggered the ban, and the bit about how to use WhatsApp responsibly sounds like them implying that something was done wrong, but at least the ban was reversed.
> I'd personally just declare: "I have low money and I had to fire your laptop service, thanks for the work of getting it to me, I'll be keeping it now."

I think you could then expect a knock on your door from a couple of police officers. [1]

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/v9acuq/l...
This was done in Guangzhou where I lived for years until 2018. The incidence of smoking amongst males still higher - gut guess of 30-40% adult males are smokers in the city and province. So in their cohort one would expect to be seeing still living relatives of young adult smokers who are also smokers.

Interesting that it’s sold as supplement for joint and related tissue repair and yet first big science study with observable results is about cancer.

Other interesting point is that it’s study of cancer. And that is simply because China still has huge numbers of smokers and the health cost is stratospheric.