skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A state controlled data harvesting and algorithm propaganda machine is not the equivalent of a private market app.

You could easily even argue this doesn’t come under any first amendments rights because it’s obvious TikTok is an adversarial foreign government controlled entity.
At least for normal kids back in the day, you got little booklets with codes printed in them and they were pretty opaque as to how they were obtained.

There was a guide with it that more or less said to try random things and that maybe F would have more effect than 0 but it gave no indication that I can recall of how the device worked or why F might do more than 0.

Of course now I know that it's just modifying bits of memory (and how that can screw things up...) and that if you're doing a life counter or something, F is a bigger number, but yeah, it was never remotely clear to me as a kid what it was doing.
They made a decent go at it again in 16 and 32 bit protected mode. The GDT and LDT along with task gates were intended to be used as an hardware object capability system like the iAPX 432's.
This article isn't about websites going offline. It's about websites dying of 'natural causes', meaning the author or site manager lost interest in updating and maintaining the site.

There's much more to the soul of a website than the datacenter where it's hosted. I doubt if the handful of mirror.xyz 'decentralized' sites I see popping up will still exist in 5 years' time.
Yes, but usually of a species that was thought to have gone extinct earlier.

If dinosaur bones were found in 55 million year old strata, that’d be news :)
I really really like the most unused insults on that chart. Scumwit. Trumpnozzle, Wankclown
I spend way too much time on TikTok, and have noticed that the Chinese propaganda is about 2-5% of my feed. It should be removed for that reason alone.
The regulations include being completely subservient to the state.

The US could make something similar to eliminate Chinese companies in terms of democracy vs dictatorship: pass a law saying that social media websites can only operate if their employees have the right to vote in their own countries.

Then TikTok would be banned because it does not (/could not) follow the law.
You are correct. I think what the parent post means to refer to is 'managed/web hosting' where the provider provides a set up install of a web server (and in many cases cpanel access)
That's a fair criticism. I'd very lightly push back that sifting through some random links might very well be worth your time if you spend a large amount of time in an RSS reader. I also think it's table stakes for a good feed reader to make it easy to add/remove feeds, for the sake of sampling new ones.

There's probably a better way to discover than sifting through large lists with zero commentary, but if you're starting from literal zero, a big list isn't an awful place to start.

It'd be interesting to seed some pagerank-like crawler with blogs you enjoy, so you could use its outputs as your "try this out" list. I've experimented with building something like it in the past, it's an entertaining task for sure.

Some bloggers also have handy pages designed to give you a high-strength outbound signal, e.g. https://jvns.ca/blogroll/. It's worth seeking those out, where they exist.
Step 1. Replace sensor

2. Replace ECU

3. ???

4. Sell car for scrap

Haha.
Well that’s a disingenuous punt of a response:

You can always fork it and start your own teeny-tiny forked Bitcoin network and pretend like the Network Effect is irrelevant to liquidity, right?

Who needs liquidity?

The truth is cryptocurrencies are like anything else that is a network: The people who control how people connect to and participate in a network will effectively exert some amount of control over the network.

I’m sorry, but there is nothing magical about crypto-coin networks and blockchains.

If there’s one thing you can learn throughout history, it’s that power in networks have a tendency to consolidate and that networks have a tendency to break down and be replaced with new networks.

There is nothing inherently special about the Bitcoin network or any other crypto network that makes it immune from being controlled by either internal or external influence.

If you think there is: I’d appreciate you sharing what you believe are effective safeguards.
I went down a similar path (Solarflare, Myricom, and Chelsio; Arista, BNT, and 10G Twinax) and found we could get lower latency internally by confining two OpenOnload-enabled processes that needed to communicate with each other to the same NUMA domain.

We architected our applications around that as well. The firm continued on to the FPGA path though that was after my time there.

I do still pick up SolarFlare cards off of eBay for home lab purposes.
Personally I think whether something is state controlled or not matters less and less the larger corporations get. At the end of the day it still comes down to a large power imbalance between these entities and average consumers and citizens.
You seem to be very good at pontificating while completely missing the overall point.

Of course the software license is not related directly with privacy and access control. But there is no way that a private company will be able to offer a global social network while keeping user privacy a priority. The moment that any single company becomes big enough, they will either exploit the data for their own benefit (like Google/Apple/Meta/Microsoft/Amazon) or they will be pushed into it by some government.

Our best alternative is to have not to trust any particular company, but to use federated/distributed services, and the easiest way to have that is by ensuring that we are supporting and adopting open standards and open source systems that can be hosted by many different players.
> You may not be trying to choke people, but you're doing it anyway by defeating emissions controls. You can justify it all you want, just make sure you understand the consequences.Those "micro-regulations" as you call them exist for a reason.

But that’s my point. I had my vehicle tested using the applicable defined protocols and it’s not violating the standard. I don’t think the regs are an adequate standard on NOx for urban areas, but it still passed when tested under simulated driving conditions. I didn’t defeat the sensor output (OBD-II interface) to pass testing, I just tuned it to report all the deleted gear was still in place (this turns out to be a feature in the vehicle config, so I didn’t have to hack anything). Otherwise it wouldn’t have progressed through the test. I wasn’t doing all that to get an emissions cert because I don’t need one, I just wanted to verify I wasn’t creating a monster...
I run a community for people who run marketing services agencies. We didn't have an online forum, and things like Slack just didn't seem conducive to long-form, quality discussion.

I was very close to using some vBulletin type software, but we went with a platform called Guild which I can recommend.

You have to pay for it, but there are no adverts and it's very smooth.
AArch64 is, effectively, a totally new instruction set. It was designed to allow for fully regular decoding, unlike AArch32 & Thumb, which is a big part of why getting those off of the chip is a big win – it's not just the decoders you clean up, you can now make your pipeline and speculation deeper because you can peek N instructions into the future without having to decode the N-1 instructions in front of it first to figure out where the Nth instruction lies. That's part of why you see AArch64-only designs like this and the A12+ cores with much larger reorder buffers.
Since it would bring on global catastrophe and civilizational collapse, spaceflight would end too.

Fortunately, it would collapse and blow away before long. Unfortunately, that would make things even worse, for a while.
Zeche Zollverein is an industrial complex in Essen, Germany. Shaft 12, built in the 1930s in the Bauhaus style, has been called the "most beautiful coal mine in the world":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein_Coal_Mine_Industria...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein_Coal_Mine_Industria...
Learning HTML was too hard so I made a compiler instead
Jim, this is Radhika, and I am the PM for Bazel. I would love to learn more about building docker images using Bazel and your painpoints
> with the "object ID" just being the masked first part of the address?

Doesn't that imply the minimum-sized object requires 4K physical ram?

Is that a problem?
> Which Americans are crying foul?

On this website, many of those with FAANG in their financial portfolio or on their CV. More generally? Virtually nobody.
The point of profit is profit.

The whole premise of the VC/PE business is profits, just with different risk strategies.
The Cambridge Analytica "scandal" was just marketing by Facebook. It's no different than a billboard company putting something outrageous (e.g., advertising bull fighting) to prove that people actually pay attention to their ads.
Thanks! Yeah exactly -- I actually believe that one of the most fundamental issues with traditional writing instruction is that it focuses on writing tips, which are mostly useless because everyone's first draft of anything is always bad.

Writing instruction should instead focus on writing faults so that people know how to actually improve whatever they initially wrote down.

I discuss that notion more here:

https://brevity500.com/about/

Part of the reason I went public this early was that I wanted to work directly with people to provide them feedback on their own writing samples. That will help me better understand this site's users, but there's a selfish motive also: it will help me gather writing samples to use for the next ~490 games that need to be built.

All that to say -- I don't mention it on the site, but for the near-term, everyone who signs up will get pretty personalized attention and feedback.
True. I speculated that it's somebody asking nicely before more explicit orders are issued.
Reverie Labs (YC W18) is hiring software engineers to develop cancer therapies
Yes. A pernicious distraction. We know what must be done. Distractions slow or prevent that.
I'm dying from Twatnozzle
Nim supports classes and methods.
Ok, let's start with banning tik tok.
No dicksmack, lame.
The vast majority of companies will now do this. Employees are doing the same thing, a few months ago it was surprisingly common for employees to accept but then decide not to join because they got a better offer.

In a way, this is what we want, at will employment and a highly liquid labor market leads to more fairness.
> Feel free to recycle me any way you want, I certainly won't care.

In practice, you won't be recycled. Instead you will be frozen and just piled up or left in some orbit. Uh, it's cold out there.

And to supply the energy for such recycling, sounds like some human colonization out there. Sorry, there won't be any such colonization. The health effects on humans of high energy cosmic rays and low gravity mean that colonization out there is just not reasonable, in realistic terms, colonization is just not possible.

Some instruments and robots can be productive beyond low earth orbit. There's no reasonably feasible way humans can. In practice, the result of efforts to send humans beyond low earth orbit will be no gains and some collections of frozen dead bodies that will remain frozen for thousands of years. Bummer. Embarrassing.
Each minor version of ARMv8 has a lot of optional extensions. What ARMv9 does is make some of those features mandatory. ARMv9 also includes new optional features such as Scalable Vector Extensions 2 (SVE2) and Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) (Intel SGX / AMD SEV equivalent).
The original post above framed the issue from a national-security angle.

Whether "this side" is-doing/has-done it as well is an orthogonal concern, i.e. not pertinent here. We have a small but non-zero ability to affect change on our side.
There is also Nim in Action, by Dominik Picheta
Socket.io has a great article on how you can setup your architecture to scale Web Socket servers: https://socket.io/docs/v4/using-multiple-nodes/
It is estimated that the number of intraspecies killings in humans is about six times higher than the average of all mammals.

The 20th century compared to the Middle Ages, was a peaceful affair.
It's estimated that in the good olden times about 12 percent of recorded deaths were inflicted by killing, in the century of two Great Wars, the Holocaust and some minor naughties like the Holodomor, Cambodia, Rwanda etc. just about 1.3 percent.

It seems humans don't have to be taught to suppress a "natural" kill inhibition, but to suppress a natural tendency to kill.
You know, I guess there is a reason, God Allmighty had to forbid it explicitly in almost all of his writings from time immemorial.
It's always itching the brains of his loverly creatures so much that somehow they can't let it go.

By the way, those Japanese believed wholeheartedly they did it for a greater good and it would strengthen them to inflict severe fear, pain and death on their enemies.
They didn't needed to be desensitized.
Sure but then why do they describe the term wrong in the first paragraph? That's just adding to the confusion they intend to fight. I'm not sure the author is reading this, but think it's worth rewording.
Thanks for that phrase.
Yeah, x86 segments in the protected modes were intended to be used as a hardware object capability system like the author is getting at.

And yeah, it's probably a fixed 64bit lookup into an object descriptor table.
But the SEC (and other branches) has been slow at providing regulatory clarity. So they share part of the blame.
Substack is also a way to financially support writers and artists who have been pushed out of traditional media, or are too niche to fit in mass market publications.

It would help writers and readers if Substack bundled groups of writers together, perhaps by genre/type/subject like a magazine, and for the current cost of one subscription newsletter have 5 newsletters that the subscriber/paying customer can choose to assemble to create their personal "magazine." This would allow the reader to financially support more writers/artists, which would allow more of them to continue publishing their work and grow.
No one is advocating for structurelessnes. Or at least not any more. Not (even) anarchists.
irchiver captures text on the page, and separately OCRs the screenshots (specifically, the screenshot from your viewport). So you can search just what was shown on the page, or what was in the page. Both techniques have pros and cons.

While archive.org is fantastic, it can only capture pages that are both 1) publicly accessible (i.e. no social media content) that it happens to crawl, and 2) static content (you're out of luck if the content you want is loaded dynamically, or changes depending on user input).
Someone mentioned Penn & Teller's "Fool Us" show. You won't learn any trade secrets, but you'll sure discover that they know them.

A magician does a trick, then they come up and whisper to him what they think he or she did. You don't get to listen in on that.

If they can't figure out the trick, then the magician gets to be the opening act for them at some show. Occasionally someone does fool them. Not often, though.
What happens when your 200 browser tabs are all looking for updates?
Please no more internet laws from the EU. At least that 250 year old document doesn't require us to click a cookie popup on every site visit.
Right, which means on top of lower incomes, people in "the rest of the developed Western world" also pay higher taxes. And yet they still somehow have higher savings rates.

It's a cultural issue.
Verbosity overhead? Nim is very close to Python.
Reminds me of metro stations in Moscow: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/31...
They took them away, too: Z8 is a thing.
Here's the thing - women getting an abortion is a condemnation of our system. We had the opportunity to do all those things you suggest. We failed. We had all the motivation in the world to make it happen - save the children. Provide a viable alternative. We failed. How you think continuing to fail in solving these problems and then forcing women to have unwanted children is going to lead to anything good - actually it tells me you're most likely to be evil and simply aren't aware of it since you're accustomed to thinking of yourself as a good guy. Lucky for you I think Hanlon's Razor applies.
The newsletter hype cycle is over anyway. Substack was the name on everyone's lips when they were buying off big-name writers like Andrew Sullivan. That's faded, they have yet to land any big hitters organically.

People are having to tighten budgets and cut gym memberships, newspapers, Netflix and Spotify subscriptions. Substack isn't even in the mix there.
Douglas Crockford favours spaces in this great talk https://youtu.be/En8Ubs2k1O8
In general. Most time is spent on command line in so-called virtual terminals (VTs) with no graphics layer and no GUI. All programming is done without a GUI or IDE.

I do not use a terminal emulator^1 inside X11, or something like X11. I no longer use X11. Nor do I use VMs. I write scripts and compile programs on small, underpowered computers.^1 IME, switching between graphics layer and console text VTs (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+F2) is slow, so I have learned to stay in one context. I prefer VESA textmode on older computers and something like VESA textmode on newer ones.

It would be nice to have a framebuffer instead of GUI where I could view images, watch video, etc. without having to use a different computer or switch contexts.

1. I do use a terminal multiplexer (tmux).

2. If I wrote scripts and compiled programs on a larger, more powerful computer I would be less sure that they would also compile quickly and run fast on smaller, underpowered ones.
No idea, but consider that it could be a enum + bitfield rather than strictly an enum.
Jordan Peterson Is Fascinating and Dangerous
More ordinary than you know: ignorant half-measures, half thought through, but promoted already.

Fewer ordinary days at MIT would be a plus. A few days of actually thinking beyond hare-brained scheming would improve MIT and its graduates.
> I understand your concern, I honestly do, but Americans are always the first to cry foul when others, such as the EU, put measures in place to curtail the amount of data collection that happens by US firms (you even made that complaint about China yourself).

What? Why do you think American people care that Europeans have better digital privacy laws? And why do you think that those that do care are angry at Europe??
> elongated rabbits

That eat meat.
I never said it wasn't a problem.

But destroying the internet by ending all concepts of privacy and anonymity isn't a solution though. It's what every government wants, and they'll give you whatever sob story is necessary to trick people into thinking it's for their own good. It's not.
Yeah, but we see much more of it again.
I like that Trump is a pejorative.
I'll take "slightly clunkier" before "extremely locked down and limited in unthinkable ways" any day, and not just for Android, but in general.
Microwriter: A portable, one-handed word processor with 6 button keypad (1978)
Maybe? If you just round up each "object" to 4k then you can implement this using the current PTE on x86_64, but this removes the (supposed) advantage of only requiring a single PTE for each object (or "object cache" lookup entry or whatever you want to call it) in the cases when an object spans multiple page-sizes of data.

Having arbitrary sizes objects will likely be possible in hardware - it's just an extra size being stored in the PTE if you can mask out the objectID from the address (in the example in the original post, it's a whole 64-bit object ID, allowing a full 64-bits of offset within each object, but totaling a HUGE 128bit effectively address)

But arbitrary sizes feels like it pushes the issues that many current userspace allocators have to deal with today to the hardware/microcode - namely about packing to cope with fragmentation and similar (only instead of virtual address space they'll have to deal with physical address space). The solutions to this today are certainly non-trivial and still can fail in many ways, so far away from being solved, let along solved in a simple enough way to be implemented that close to hardware.
It is not uncommon for people whose work involve a lot of death and suffering to indulge in dark humor. It is not that they don't care, quite the opposite in fact.
that would be one heck of a dicksmack if you ended up lame afterwards.
Key moments in Flint, Michigan’s lead-tainted water crisis
You're received lots of responses pointing out why this is inaccurate, but one point I didn't see covered was that the degree of confidence required in "distinguishing a good answer from a bad one" as a prospective employer is _much_ lower than that required as a founder. Additionally, evaluating whether something is good is easier than coming up with something good.
The waste is purely a political issue.

In the left corner we have a coal plant. In the right corner we have a nuclear plant with the same output, as well as a reprocessing setup.

They run for a year, both have produced waste. We dig identical landfills for both of them and bury the waste.

Next year we need to dig a new landfill for the coal plant, but the nuke one has plenty of space left.

10,000 years from now the nuke landfill finally fills up--but the first waste we have put in it has decayed to ambient and no longer needs any special storage.

Accidents: The worst nuke has ever done is no worse than normal operation + unfortunate weather has done with coal many times. With even halfway decent safety measures we should be looking at Fukushima as the worst likely event--and note that the death toll ascribed to Fukushima is purely political, had they not evacuated the city the expected death toll was zero. I wouldn't advise farming around there for a while but otherwise it should have been life as normal.

Weapons: At the nation-state level you can't prevent this. At the terrorist level there's a pretty simple defense--your reprocessing plants put some of the waste back into the fuel. Most of the waste that builds up is irrelevant to the reactor, it's a few neutron absorbers that cause the problems. Take those out, put the gamma emitters back in. Even new fuel rods are therefore wickedly hot. Since both the reactors and the reprocessors already have the robotic equipment to handle the wickedly hot spent rods this causes only very minimal issues, but it makes stealing material very dangerous and very easy to spot--you can't hide a gamma emitter with any shield you can smuggle out.

I will object about the small reactors, though--we do *not* want shipboard reactors for civilian use! To keep them small enough those shipboard reactors are fueled with weapons grade uranium.
Dear Europeans; Please stop threatening that and start actually doing it. Please. Americans taking these American companies down a peg seems completely intractable. Please Europeans, you are the best hope we have. Ban American tech companies!
No, it’s just politicking.
If you read that link, it's specifically for ARMv8-M microcontroller class cores. ARMv8-A has no similar program.
Sure it's not sleight of hand?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/v4r8ex/ex...
I'm sure the NYT editors were cackling at this story. It wasn't too long ago that there was a huge worry that paid newsletters were going to subsume a huge portion of the subscription market for professional newsrooms. Substack was offering guaranteed contracts to writers worth more than their subscription revenue could justify in order to bootstrap a network effect. The classic VC strategy of selling dollars for fifty cents. That ultimately backfired because they were indiscriminate about who they let on their platform which raised hackles from some writers who saw it as a platform for unsavory opinions.
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