skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given current sanctions which blocked even supposedly Russian made CPUs - which actually were made in Taiwan - the has country declared the goal of "technological sovereignty(independence)", basically back to USSR, and in several years we can expect more of similarly older tech chips from Russia which will be of archaeological interest like those USSR chips in that and other similar posts/articles.
What does it mean for the backdoor to be "poorly detected"? I would think "poorly implemented [thus easily detected]" makes sense but not "poorly detected." Unless maybe this means that the backdoor is so well hidden that it's not detected by backdoor-detectors?

EDIT: yes this does seem to be the case:

> A distinctive feature of SessionManager is its poor detection rate. First discovered by Kaspersky researchers in early 2022, some of the backdoor samples were still not flagged as malicious in most popular online file scanning services.

I still can't help thinking that the detection capability lies in the detector(s) and it's not a credit to SessionManager as much as it is a fault of the detectors. Is it just too new to be fingerprinted/identified?
I feel like the liquid fuel problem is much more manageable with a proper heirarchical transport model.

Railways are easily electrifiable (century-plus proven technology). Rip out the Interstates and run networks of higher speed and local rail systems. Electrify existing freight corridors.

Then you're just using liquid fuels for the relatively short last-mile journeys to or from a rail station. That's far less of a range anxiety problem, so even an old Leaf with 75km range will suffice for many.

The problem isn't the technology, it's the political will to be able to say "No, you shouldn't/can't drive anymore" to hundreds of millions of people.
They might get away with it in rich areas, but they will not get away with it in poorer areas of cities. As a matter of fact, I bet they don't even try.
Philly did this too, though in the recent years the city started bringing some lines back. Heck, when the full tram network was around a 100 years ago, it could take you pretty far out into the suburbs, while today you either have to take the train which comes every 30-60 minutes or drive.
A quick history of data fetching in JavaScript
Fsd isn’t as hard when you have tons of LiDAR cameras, radar, and super high definition mapping.

Tesla is the only one working on real world FSD that doesn’t rely on all that stuff
Some interesting reading:

https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...

https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-c...
I don't agree with the court's recent decisions that the 2nd amendment is a guarantee of personal, individual firearm ownership.

Still, I just don't see how that's going to be rolled back given the last decade of court decisions.

But hey, maybe I'm being short sighted.
How do you know until you steelman it?
Man, thanks for doing all that work.
This is a very good technique for rational inspection of an opposing argument, and a powerful tactic in debate clubs and mock trials.

But it’s still a heady, rationalist approach to communication and will often stir up feelings of distrust, frustration, or resignation in the normal, everyday people that are pretty sure they’re right and see you doing intellectual performance art with their words.

Of course, that’s also what makes it a very effective way to get under the skin of online trolls.
I actually just built a $4 FM receiver kit that uses the headphones for the antenna.

It was very common in previous decades because it was cheaper and allowed more room in the device (the alternative was the metal “pull to extend” antennas).
Ergopathic,

from ergodic:

> 1. (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state.

> 2. (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in which every sequence or sample of sufficient size is equally representative of the whole.

+ -pathos

Ergo, ergopathy: Of or relating to certain emotional processes in which every sequence or sample, given enough time, cycles back to said previously experienced state. "Cyclical" or "circular" feelings.

These are the emotional cycles we've become accustomed to after learning through the motions a few times, usually during growth. It contains all the emotional processes that you can describe as "The known steps of <ergopathic object> are <loop steps>." Think about the common ergopathy of romantic relationships; of grief; of starting a new job; and leaving one; what you do on Sunday when you're down; how you speak to that friend to calm their nerves or cheer your kid up; where you prefer taking important calls… There is also the more rhythmic ergopathy of natural cycles, such as solar (24h and 365 days) and moon-related, that some individuals feel more keenly than others. There is a sense that, once you've been through enough of them, you've been through all of them reliably enough.
It also shows how none of our governments seem to care to prevent companies from testing dangerous products on the street with other unwilling drivers
"Overnight"? It's been a decade. Maybe not a decade since these screen-sharing APIs were developed, but that's a part of the problem too, no? Wayland was designed from the start completely neglecting normal every-day use cases.
I've never been able to figure out how to open a file by passing the filename as an argument to the program you're opening. Apparently there's no ccp.com available. It's fine if you're using WordStar, which lets you view the files in the current directory; impossible if you don't have a menu interface to open a file.
I see your point, but in defense of the metaphor: in your world, we have 1 and 1 but they are not equal.
I had some opinions changed today following a lengthy discussion with someone about a controversial subject.

It's amazing what can happen when you don't assume someone who believes different things to you is an evil piece of shit.

Maybe there's hope for the world after all!
Audio is pretty good for motorcycles. There are some good in-helmet mic+speaker options that let you use Siri/voice commands to navigate.
That sounds great. Any Youtube recommendations?
> indicating the importance of preserving this treasure of microbial diversity from ancient rural communities worldwide

This study (and the FA) mention losing/presrving microbial diversity, but don't touch on how we got these microbes in the first place.

I was expecting it comes mostly from what we eat and the environment, including eventually the people around us (and the mother - baby link ?)

I kinda wondered if we hadn't lost these microbes because they disappeared from our surroundings, and we'd get them back if they became prominent again, making the (temporary?) loss less impacting.
> And are you expecting me to carry bags of groceries on the train? How's that work?

What exactly do you think people without cars do, or people who live in London? Or New York City? It works perfectly fine. Or you get can groceries delivered pretty easily and cheaply.
Artificial Super Intelligence

Term coined by Nick Boström in Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)
They're almost certainly using dead reckoning with wheel rotation sensors to get the precision they need in an urban environment where radios are kinda trash.
I love that you asked this. My biologist friends often surprise me with fun animal facts, i'm so excited to see what someone says. I'm forwarding your question to a group text right now...
The speakers attach to my computer when I was a teenager produced static when scrolling content of windows, so I would disagree :D
We're at peak strawmanning. Now can we swing the pendulum to steelmanning?
In my experience, "I don't want to work on $SOFTWARE anymore because it's terrible" just means "I'm tired and would prefer to work on something greenfield". I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that (I've succumbed to it myself), but consider how much toil Wayland has created for so many people, and for what benefit after all this time?
the reverse is true. FOSS developers are free to work on whatever they want. X11 devs decided they didn't like to work on X11 anymore and created wayland instead. you don't have to like it and you are free to contribute to X11 yourself if it is important to you, but wayland devs don't have any obligations here
I've had multiple buttons fail on my Logitech mice. It is an issue, even if not everyone experiences it. (And yet I still buy them because they have some of the best ergonomics and buttons layouts I've found in wireless mice.)
It's like people have totally forgotten about the CAP theorem just because it is cars and not some kind of concurrent threading infrastructure!!
Afraid you might change your mind?
Good correction :)

Then, the robot taxi is probably not stealing you on its own, there would need to be other humans involved...
Mine get knocked out by cats running over my desk sometimes, that must count as interference
Agreed, I switched to Wayland and Sway when I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04. It has basically been a drop in replacement and has been working great!
A bike foot pump takes a standard tire about 10 pumps per psi for standard SUVs.

A bike foot pump is also extremely portable and can fit in the back of a sedan.

I use this for a quick pump for boat trailer tires (a few more than 10 pumps to get to the higher 65 psi), family SUVs, and my sports car (at scca race events)
I would think zero wheel rotation sensors and just LIDAR, which cruise uses extensively.
I mean.. as I understand it, you read specs to understand something and as I kept reading it, I have absolutely zero idea what it is or even supposed to be. What is a problem it is trying to solve? I dislike it, because I immediately assume it cannot be good for me.
Anyone can already generate proprietary code that is identical to your GitHub project's code just using copy and paste.

For people that care to respect copyright, there's a copilot setting to block exact copies of code in the training set (which only happens a tiny percentage of the time, unless you're actually trying to make it happen).

For people that don't care to respect copyright, git clone is a way more efficient way to violate your license.
Editors get this wrong when there are multiple complex and overriden functions/methods. Furthermore, they can't display things in the same way an IDE displays them. I suggest checking out a modern (admittedly non-free but open source) IDE. JetBrains displays argument names in an ineditable area next to the argument values.

When debugging it shows the values that changed in each line in an area next to the line of code. It's amazing.
Satellites would, I assume, burn up on re-enter if they happened to de-orbit. I'm more worried about them banging into one another and surrounding the Earth in an impenetrable debris field that makes future space exploration/travel nearly impossible - IMO that would be a death sentence for all of us.
Can't come soon enough IMO
The Arch wiki page for Sway is a pretty good starting point: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Configuration.

FWIW I was also an i3 user for a long time (and xmonad before that), and I’m a very happy convert to Sway.
Crypto 'derives value based on make believe', says India's central bank
I lived in Jersey City for quite some time without a car, and had absolutely no issues with every day life. On the occasion one was needed, Uber sufficed perfectly well.
"Democracy" just means rule by the elite, either via PR and manipulation or otherwise.
> Wayland is just a part of a rethink of how Linux desktop architecture works, together with Freedesktop standards for things like screen casting or window control.

Well, that's part of the problem: I think the consensus is that a lot of these solutions are bunk. Wayland doesn't feel like something you'd build a desktop with, it feels like a software API for digital signage or maybe something for an iPad-like UI. This is cool, but shoehorning it into a desktop is a bad idea. The entire desktop space has moved on, Wayland is comparatively low-tech at this point. Quartz is a good example of this. Not only is it more secure than Wayland, it supports features like app indicators and global menus controls. That's a problem. An even bigger problem is that Mutter, the official Wayland implementation, exists exclusively to support GNOME. Other desktop developers are not welcome, instead they're tossed wlroots and told to make do.

Developmentally, I think Wayland is a trainwreck. If it is a "rethink", then it should have been used to design a tablet OS instead of a desktop OS that runs desktop software and supposedly supports legacy features/apps. If you disagree, then maybe you'd enjoy Windows 8, which is a similarly brave reimagining of the future of the desktop.
What a strange idea. They are called vegan sausages because they simulate the flavour of and can substitute as a meat sausage.
This is interesting. My mind immediately jumped to how one could "pentest" a device such as this. Could one in theory implement some sort of malware that tips calls just often enough to give your betting ring a leg up?
At what resolution can you own a color? At 8bits, we can only have 256 brands. 8 bits per channel gives us 24 bits or 16 million unique brands - still not enough, but closer - either way we’re left trying to tell the difference between the brand associated with rgb(255,0,0) and the brand associated with rgb(254,0,0) which is so close as to not make a difference to most people. So we’ve either got the ability for only as many colors/brands as the average human can distinguish - maybe the 140 named colors in html? - or corporations should not be allowed to trademark colors and the idea is baldly stupid.
> Personally if my bank was also in the business of spying on financial transactions commercially... I wouldn't feel super secure about my choice of bank.

Are you aware that your (bank-issued) credit card purchase data is almost certainly sold commercially, linked to a unique identifier?

There's companies that buy mobile advertising data and crosslink it to credit card purchase data to track real-world conversions from online advertising.

I say this to reinforce your suspicions, not to discredit them.
Y'all got any of those chiggin nuggets?
1 - they burn in atmosphere

2 - each satellite is under observation by a team

3 - how many satellites do you think are there actually? Not that many, unlike the driverless cars we are setting up nowadays

4 - Earth is actually big. Satellite pouring down all at once and you'll have maximum like 100 casualties - worse case scenario if 1). doesn't happen. Cars OTOH are in busy cities. One battery to explode and can easily do 100 casualties
This reminded me of good ol happy hopeful days of youtube before it was bought by google.
See also the 'science news cycle': https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
Indeed. What was the topic?
The elephant in the room that most people miss in these discussions is that these problems aren't so much bugs with any specific part of the Wayland stack as they are limitations core to the Wayland design.

It's not going to get better, because Wayland is a broken/malicious architecture: the protocol basically does nothing useful, leaving essential interfaces such as screen recording for individual "compositors" to define and implement mutually incompatibly. This means that nontrivial applications don't really target Wayland, rather they only target a finite set of Wayland compositors (or other, completely separate software stacks) that they have support for.

This sort of works in favor of "big" DEs like Gnome, but for the rest of the ecosystem it would mean death by fragmentation.
All I said was the mindshare has moved to the new thing and that means the majority of developers did too.

Because I said complaining wasn’t productive?

This far after adoption, I don’t think it is. Fedora isn’t going to see this list and drop Wayland for X. They went to Wayland 7 years ago. I think they’re happy enough, they had plenty of chances to change their mind.

But hyperbolic titles like this one (“Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!”) are unhelpful. HN later changed the title here to something much less inflammatory and more fair.
I think that you are mistaken. In Qubes, none of the VMs have access to the GPU by default[0]. May you elaborate or provide some evidence to support your claim?

[0]: Unless you do something "exotic" like pass the GPU through to a particular VM which is not supported and explicitly not recommended for the security reasons that you are thinking about.
Have you had any lasting effects?

I've been prescribed a "fairly serious" antibiotic for a skin condition that has been plaguing me for several years (I've gotten like 5 different diagnosis and tons of different Rx). I'm otherwise incredibly healthy, so this antibiotic scares the shit out of me and I have yet to start taking it.
I completely agree that making insiders' trade public and real time (so it's legal to trade with insider info) makes a lot of sense. Information asymmetry is the problem with insider trading, which is solvable by making this info public via the trade action, and not the idea that some people are advantaged via insider info (i don't care if such and such senator or exec gets a good trade using insider info - i care that the info is late to the market and the public can't know it in time).

However, there's still one aspect which cannot be captured by such a transparent info source - the change of heart; i.e., if an insider were going to sell, but hears private insider news that makes it good to "keep" the stock, this info doesn't flow out. Inaction is also an important piece of insider info which insiders "act" on.

I suppose if the good news makes the previously intended sale not happen, it _should_ theoretically also make the insider want to buy more (subject to cash i guess). So hopefully, such insider "inaction" doesn't happen very often.
Coinbase is just an s-coin casino. I don't their business with them.
Seems interesting actually. Imagine this gets enacted into law:

- Corporations put large bids on their competitors products to drive up their bids as well (colluding has to be explicitly forbidden by law).

- As the amounts bid only result in a 1% payout, a class of high-interest loans for only the short duration of the bids appears.

- One year companies do a mass dump, and let their competitors have their worst inventory.

- A "twelve sigma" event happens and Morgan Stanley has to be bailed out because of all the shit loans needing to be repaid on the spot.
Feeling like the brain cycles I was spending thinking about X v Wayland is part of the reason I decided “fuck it” and went back Windows recently.

While systemd was pretty much transparent because it happens around the kernel, Wayland-or-X was regularly in my face.

It seemed like ultimately something in my world was going to snap and break…two things I relied on were going to make a stand on opposite sides of the line in the sand.

And whatever ethical pleasure I might draw from Linux would always be tainted by the consequences of practical smartphone choices.

Ultimately predictability has high value for me and Wayland-or-X was mostly a worry.

YMMV.
Use case I'm missing - clipboard sync with a remote host.

ssh -X forwards clipboard from remote where you can use something like neovim and clipboard syncs to local desktop.

To work around you need to run local terminal in XWayland mode. Something like that for the native Wayland case would be neat.

I'm not going to boycott Wayland though, it's a pointless idea.
I don't want to say - it would distract from the more important point about how we communicate.

Just imagine the list of things you've seen flame wars about recently. It's one of those.
Matthew 6:5–6 seems relevant here...

> 5 And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

> 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

It's one thing to allow Christians to be Christians, but if they want to be Christians they need to be better Christians and pray in private.
Wacky for sure. :)

Not so helpful, though: one of the primary reasons for trademarks is to identify the source of goods and services. This plan would destabilize the link between the source and the goods or services, making it harder for consumers to know who there dealing with.
> But vegan milk, sausages, etc, are all meant to be as similar to the real things as possible so as to cause confusion.

Source? I would assume they are as similar to the real thing as possible in order to be as similar to the real thing as possible. I.e. an alternative for people who do not want to source their food from animals, but do want their food to have characteristics similar to those that are sourced from animals.
I find the screen tearing on X11 to be distracting, and it's definitely a deal-breaker for me. That and X11's comparatively poor HiDPI handling (especially for fractional scaling) encouraged me to switch to Wayland years ago. Most new laptop displays are now high enough in resolution to require some type of display scaling (often fractional) to accomodate the average person's eyesight, and I want my software to work smoothly with my hardware.
A property tax on trademarks isn't a wacky idea, any more than other assets like spectrum or land. Importantly, it should be a second-price auction; the tax is the rent you pay for withholding the trademark from the next-best coalition of potential users. If you are the only one who could reasonably make use of some asset, there's no reason for the tax system to penalize your getting the most out of it.
LOL, are you insisting that HN has a libertarian/laissez-faire ideology?

This site is BLUE.
My apologies, I should've made it clear and added a link.
Yes! Thank you! I have noticed this account constantly trolling V posts as well, amongst a few other user accounts. I feel it's fine to express concerns in one or two posts, but to repeat them for years is wrong and bullying. Is there a way to submit these accounts or report them?
If you’ve ever been tricked into eating vegan or plant based meat alternatives based on packaging alone, you might be a moron.
I read that. Good article. I'm sure there are a lot of charlatans out there.

On the theory of Skin In The Game: instead of doing these experiments like this, I would find a consistently winning poker player. Or a cop who's consistently caught suspects in lies. That is, people who've shown that they can detect lies.

It might be that they can't even tell you what they do. Even worse, maybe they fail in these artificial experiments. I'd still hire the cop who's succeeded at it.
Cities were historically unhealthy, etc, etc, as well. Yet people kept moving to them. So "most people can't afford to [leave civiliation]" is far from new. Perhaps the life everyone has been fleeing to get to cities was never what you think it is for most.
Given the article, I'm not sure "never falls asleep" is a good example
My apologies, I should've made it clear and added a link.

And indeed, the submissions are sorted chronologically. So I should've used "latest", not "top".
Could I tempt you with some Chickened Out Chunks?

https://www.citygross.se/images/products/08710522760321_D1N1...
Can you translate that? You're saying leave politics out of work, leave your politics at home, right? Or are you saying the opposite, just bring your personal politics so the workplace?