skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was envisioned in a science fiction story or novel decades ago, but I can’t remember where I saw it! It might have been a novel by Robert Heilein. It was just mentioned in passing in the story, but since that time I’ve wondered if it will ever be realized; I thought it might take the form of a small robot about the size of a June bug that would slowly crawl around in one’s mouth while we were asleep.
You can’t of course know, but modifying the mask of a modern chip (millions of dollars by itself), slipping those mask(s) (you need many, one per layer of material) into production to target a subset of devices, in a way that lets you inject faults and lets you own the design the FPGA is emulating, is nuclear power level. And would imagine they would not risk it very often if at all due to the fallout it could cause.

A microcontroller on 130nm? Different story probably. Still crazy hard
Stores are certainly trying to maximize profits, but how optimal they are about it is going to vary.

Who's doing the best job in maximizing profit - the gas station selling lots of gas at $2/gal, or the one across the road selling far less at $2.50/gal? (I don't know, but surely one is doing better than the other!).

In other countries where "no reason" returns are not the norm, are stores missing out on profit they could be making by adopting this policy and adjusting prices accordingly, or is it the American stores that have it wrong?

If all stores in unison dropped no-reason returns then there's be no competitive reason to drop prices, but if only one or a few did it then presumably they'd have to (else why pay same price for less flexibility). More to the point, they might WANT to drop prices as a result of this reduced cost-of-goods since that'd be a way to attract more customers, as non-stop "10% off" sales attest.
Acrobat in a virtual machine that you don't connect to the network?

Most malware these days can't function without internet connectivity. The exploits typically connect to a server to get the rest of their code because they don't want any pesky researchers getting their hands on stuff.
Maybe they will switch to DirectWay Land?
It's good I guess, but I will not convince myself that a button saying "Lockdown mode" will casually side-step the entire legal and surveillance machinery built up in the U.S.
How in the world do you invent (or at least properly commercialize on a mass scale) a feature like MagSafe and then remove it from your laptops?

Jonny Ive made a lot good decisions in the days when he worked for Jobs, but my theory is that Jobs kept him from being a complete idiot. Tim Cook lost control of him and it went downhill massively after that.
As I mentioned in another comment[1]. I got credential errors accessing a Samba share using Wayland, worked fine with Xorg.

No idea what Wayland has to do with Samba but I'm back to running Xorg yet again.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32007533
The benefit of microservices is that you can divide areas of responsibility among teams and (theoretically uncouple the change processes for each)
It's a bit of a shame that you started another LoRa based messaging system instead of contributing to the several existing projects.

None of them has achieved critical mass, and none of them will if everyone interested in the subject insists on making their own.

Andreas Spiess covers several mesh networking/messaging systems here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6m6fS8bxU
Alberta has a neighborhood that stores heat in the summer for winter use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community
The RTE of turning electricity into heat (or hot water into hot sand into hot water) is pretty good, most of your problem will be environmental losses between the heating station and the end-users.

It's not going to be as good as a heat pump, but they don't work very well in very cold climates, and storing electricity (or energy that you turn back into electricity) is expensive/lossy/difficult.
Apple made 25 billion in profit in 2021, so the equivalent of a 300K income donating $1200 dollars.

To stave off tedium, it's still $800 at a 1/3rd tax rate. These numbers aren't pocket change any way you slice it.
ISPs are not held responsible
$300k is not the developer net income, in the example
Unless it was some kind of false flag to encourage trust, the US government asked less than nicely via the FBI and Apple told them to pound sand.
Ask HN: Is there a good calendar for VC/startup events in SF/Palo Alto?
Tried some meetup.com events but it wasn't what I was seeking
Did it, though? I don't think I've used a Delphi/VB-based application like... ever? I've made some myself back in the day and fiddled around with my friend's university assigments, but I can't think of any real world application using it. Maybe you have some examples?
Exactly; it was novel not weird. And if it had prevailed over FB it would have adopted a slicker, uniform ui by default sooner or later (maybe let old heads keep seeing version 1 like Reddit does).
Sand is non-corrosive and doesn't expand significantly at 500C (it takes temperatures ~3x that to get it to melt). That doesn't answer the "why" completely, but those are probably some of the factors.

Edit: the article doesn't explain how the "battery" works, but my intuition is that the sand doesn't move. It's likely merely heated and then passively heats whatever actual transportation medium is used (likely water).
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[Author of original article here]

That fork of GNOME with a Win9x-style UI exists: it's called Cinnamon.

It's OK and it's quite popular. It's a lot more customisable and versatile than GNOME's own GNOME-Classic or GNOME-Flashback sessions, but it's still really quite clunky compared to, say, MATE or Xfce.

If GNOME-Classic or GNOME-Flashback worked a little better, so that one could rearrange panels and add/move/remove controls and so on, I suspect that there would be no need for MATE to exist.

I personally find Xfce to support more of the customisations I personally want (such as a vertical taskbar with horizontal rows of components and controls) than MATE, or KDE come to that.

Wayland, for me, delivers nothing I really want. I read about variable refresh rates, HiDPI support, smooth flicker-free animations and so on, but I don't actually want or need any of those things. I don't get flicker or tearing as it is, and X.11 does all I need: seamless multihead support with 3D acceleration, and so on. I frankly prefer a minimum of animations and fades and so on.
Dhivehi is currently not supported, unfortunately. We view this as a starting point and are committed to expanding to many other languages as in the spirit of our project name.

Full list of currently supported languages can be found here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2...
I would be considered a senior FE engineer, and I do interviewing at my employer. I recently interviewed an individual for a L6 role (senior engineer) who didn't know how to listen for clicks on a <button>. What's going on?
Yes but many things on iCloud are E2E encrypted.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
The point isn't that it has flaws, but that its description is wrong. "Non-human eyes" -- normally understood to be OCR -- read it just fine. I think most of us were expecting something that disrupts "computer eyes" (e.g. because of deceiving overly narrow "tricks" that neural networks use to identify characters) but left it readable for the typical human (like an easy Captcha).

A more accurate (and helpful!) description of the problem you're solving is that this disrupts text parsers. That is, any program that just reads this in as text won't see the "real" letters (unless it's been pre-programmed with a specific reverser, etc.) and thus will frustrate, say, text search.

Which, on that note, I notice elsewhere you mention this being a solution applied to document submission in legal proceedings. In that case, the assumption might be that one side wishes to run text searches and assume its compatible with that. In that case, this could be viewed as non-compliance with a judge's orders, so FYI.
Conceptually, I agree that it's cool, but oh man are there going to be some indecipherable formulas showing up in spreadsheets once the power users start using it.
Many servers have guis.
I do not know why anybody would believe any claim by Apple with respect to security without overwhelming empirical evidence supporting their claims. The default assumption in commercial software security, supported by literal decades of abject failure by every player, is that commercial software security is atrocious. To claim anything more than trivial security is a extraordinary claim and thus demands extraordinary evidence before being accepted.

Apple has demonstrated no such evidence. In fact, the opposite is the case. Despite decades of assurances that their systems provide meaningful security, every single year we see their security torn apart by individuals and small teams with budgets that do not even constitute rounding errors to a Fortune 500 company. There is exactly no reason to believe they have meaningfully superior technical expertise with respect to security relative to the default standard of the industry.

However, this should be no surprise to anyone as the security certifications that Apple advertises for iOS [1][2] are only “applicable where some confidence in correct operation is required, but the threats to security are not viewed as serious.” [3][4]. I mean, look at [4], the process used to certify their security is that their evaluators typed search terms into the internet and verified that every vulnerability that turned up was patched, that’s it. There is no requirement to even do a independent analysis that it protects against attackers with a basic attack potential, that is done at the next higher level of security that they could have chosen to certify against, but did not.

To be fair, Apple has historically demonstrated the ability to certify against AVA_VAN.3 which demonstrates resistance to attackers with a enhanced-basic attack potential, but they have failed every time they have ever attempted to certify against AVA_VAN.4 which demonstrates resistance to attackers with a moderate attack potential. It should be no wonder that they can not protect against moderate attack potential threats such as individuals or small teams, let alone high attack potential threats such as large organized crime and nations.

If Apple wants their security claims to be taken seriously, they should start by demonstrating their ability to protect against moderate attack potential threats via the internationally recognized security certification process they already use and advertise. Until then, the only thing we should trust is what they certify they can do (protect against script kiddies), not what they have failed to ever achieve in a auditable manner (protect against moderately skilled attackers).

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/sccc/security-certifications...

[2] https://www.niap-ccevs.org/Product/Compliant.cfm?PID=11146

[3] https://www.niap-ccevs.org/MMO/Product/st_vid11146-aar.pdf#p...

[4] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CCPART3V3...
Right but if you ask someone whether that situation is murder I bet most people would say yes. And I bet they would apply the same logic to someone on death row or with a terminal illness.
so one thing that I do to counter point 3 is by having multiple non-english characters map to the same english character and I pick a random one each time. Depending on the input, there can be ~10 or so characters mapping to any single english letter. If you're advanced enough to know about a substitution cipher, you'll figure out how to convert to an image based PDF and then use OCR on that. The reason I have the multiple mappings is so that if a layperson was trying to find all instances of "Billy" they could copy those characters and then search for "Ҽҙӈㅰベ", but the other instances of "Billy" might have the codepoints "Ҽтぃぃヴ".

Again, its resistant to built in PDF Reader OCR, not bulletproof. I'm trying to thwart a crawler or a script kiddie, or a 50 year old divorce attorney. Not the denizens of HN.
People bank blood. Why not faeces?
Is that how millions of drug money get made?
For a lot of folks dealing with getting something working, its way more useful to have the most likely spot where the error is occurring spit out for them like this.

Stack trace is useful, especially in understanding how the code is working in the system.

But if the goal is solve the problem with the code you've been working on, existing traces are way too verbose and if anything add noise or distract from getting to productive again.

I could see tracebacks get swifty terminal UI that shows only the pinpointed error point that can be accordion'd out to show the rest.
"Some reason"? Isn't it pretty obviously taxes?
What about using a reseller that sells 'refurbished' enterprise rack mounted servers? Years ago I bought quite a few machines from xbyte.com
Presumably, because sand can be heated to above 100C.

Given Newton's law of cooling, it's not entirely clear to me why you want your thermal battery to be heated to above 100C... But I'm not an engineer - I only play one on TV.
Is the returned MagSafe the only way to charge these new macs? Or can you choose to use either MagSafe or usbc?

Honestly curious.
Scientists Tracked 77 Species for Decades to Reveal Secrets of Long Life
Tells me the poster has work experience.
From the post:

- Although C3 mostly conforms to C syntax, the most obvious change is requiring `fn` in front of the functions. This is to simplify searching for definitions in editors.
C++ didn't discard that idea entirely, you can have a struct tag and a function with the same name and you need to be able to do that in order to use stat().
The parent was simply explaining that lockdown is not intended for a person who buys computers from Craigslist in order to enforce security.

Your mitigation is not a mitigation against being singly targeted. There are so many attack vectors in a computer outside of the boot disk. The computers sold on Craigslist should not be considered secure, since there is no level of trust in the supply chain or the state of the hardware.

For ex: If you are being directly targeted, a nation-state can purchase the computers from your local Craigslist, rewrite their bios, and list them for you to purchase. Then flood Craigslist with 100 other compromised machines.
You can sink solar power into it in the summer and use the heat in the winter.

With intermittent power like solar and wind you probably want to be able to sink it somewhere useful.
> What's nice about it, and maybe hard to quantify, is how this limits air pollution in the city.

It should be simple to quantify. If gas is used for heating I can't think there would be any improvement.

Local heating with a heatpump would be an improvement if the power supply mix is greener than gas only, maybe worse if the power is all coal.
My guesses:
- Water would either require a tremendous sized reservoir, or infrastructure capable of withstanding the pressure of superheated steam
- superheated steam, and even water to an extent, has corrosive chemistry. Sand is basically inert.

Those are just guesses though. I'd love an engineer who works on this to break down the real reasons.
I agree that it seems very weird, but as a user all I know is that the exact same steps that works using Xorg does not work using Wayland.

And as a user, that's all I care about.

edit: This time might be SMPlayer, last time was perhaps Firefox, and so on. I've tried Wayland at least once a year for ages, and every single time I have to go back because something is broken.
Mainly for European teams? (Pricing is in EUR)

1Password and LastPass are actually pretty lacking for teams but this product goes far beyond the two of them into data etc which is not necessarily a problem that I would expect a password manager to solve.
[Article author here]

It's a holiday in the USA, meaning little news from there, and for 2 days where I live in Czechia. It's a slow news time of year. That's why. :-)
Rent price spikes may be coming to an end
I do ask questions. If it's a smaller meeting within my team I'll always ask questions if I'm not following. It's when it's department-sized meetings that I struggle. In these I find it harder to follow what's being discussed and I also need to balance my need to ask questions with the need of the meeting to proceed smoothly.

I think you're right though. There have been a few occasions in my career when I have seen corporate narratives form around projects I've led technically. In those instances I know with certainty that what's being said is mostly corporate BS that dances around the specific what, whys and how's of the problems we're solving. But to your point, that's probably for practical reasons. A lot of the time the details I'm concerned with from day to day just aren't that important as you move up the org structure.

I guess what I'm confused about is how other people seem to follow along in these meetings. I don't understand how some people seem to know everyone and about every project. Even if I have some awareness of someone or some project, I rarely know enough to follow much of what's being said, and certainly not enough to contribute anything useful.

I know I'm doing something wrong, I just don't know what it is. I do try to pay attention, but that doesn't seem to help me much. I'm worried it's more to do with the fact that I struggle with vagueness and corporate discussions are full of vagueness.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm following along more than I realise and it doesn't really matter that I don't know all the details about some project. Perhaps it's not that I can't contribute to a discussion if I don't know any details, but that the only contributions I care enough to make would involve details. For example, you don't need to know what [project xyz] is to ask who's leading it or if there's documentation on confluence.
I find district heating in Copenhagen to be good value, and it seems to be a good deal greeted.

https://celsiuscity.eu/district-heating-prices-highly-compet...
Trusting someone else with your families health or safety is a mistake. They will never care as much as you do.
Data from Drake's Landing in Aberta has a COP of 30 (30kw of heat per kw of electricity)? The heat stored is waste heat - otherwise lost to the atmosphere, so storing it until use is should be compared to typical heat pump COP of 2-4.

https://www.dlsc.ca/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community
Those are a lot like containers though.

Mac .app files are not just binary (MACH-O), they can include libraries, "frameworks", etc that will override what's loaded from the system. AppImage is even worse [1]. .exe are usually setup with an installer that trigger the side-by-side assembly mechanism, pretending that the system is using the version of the libraries that you included (and growing your WinSXS folder forever). JAR files usually include all their required transitive dependencies rather than "dynamic linking" with other JARs.

[1]: AppImage official documentation: "Do not depend on system-provided resources" https://docs.appimage.org/introduction/concepts.html#do-not-...
Text version (makes checking whether this is new for you easier, and doesn’t force ads on you (except for, possibly, a Wikipedia fund raise request)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_prisoners_problem
Advice. Don’t bother if you have a monolith. Just keep trucking on with it and partition your stuff vertically with shared auth and marketing site.

Fuck microservices unless you have a tiny little product with a few million users. Which is almost none of us.
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The official name is assignment expression, which can be good to know to find documentation. Here's the PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-0572/
what other entities would really have access to the text resources that FB & Google? outside of a few other large companies I can't imagine many
C++ is a monsterous cruel joke compared C, but if you’re just looking for some syntactic niceties, nothing stops you from writing C in C++.
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The US managed to lower the smoking and all tobacco rate dramatically among new smokers. ECigs reversed this course.

The development of alternatives had nothing to do with new smokers (kinda obviously). The advertising and taxes did, of course.

"For the children" doesn't make sense as a fallacy here. It's children that vape. Some adults switched to vaping, but that number is negligible.

> have they all "proven their products are safe?"

The FDA approved 23 eCig systems using the same methodology that they used to not approve Juul.

> is it just an issue of money

Juul is owned by Phillip Morris. Other eCig brands owned by other big-tobacco are among the 23 approved.

It's not weird. It's a first-mover who cut corners and their competitors didn't.
Alluded in the article: his stuff is categorized as “self-help”. As a social phenomenon, “self-help” is believers-only. Since de Botton’s academically inclined, it’s probably the best of a horrid torrid bunch?
Yes it’s deserved but I’ve been in management for a while.
Given how much health problems are caused by coal power plants, not sure it is that great to live near one.

But if you have to have coal, it makes good sense to harvest the energy rather than wastefully pumping the steam into cooling towers.
Let them build those machines and the f they are any good we can steal all their ideas. Turnabout is fair play.
> That's simply not their goal, function, or purpose.

For Disneyland and McDonalds its obvious because they dont use words and concepts that overlap and contradict established science.

You can't expect to re-use existing terminology and have the previous users be okay with ith.
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Do you really trust your average IT department to make an informed decision about whether WebKit JIT is currently secure or not?

In general, no.

For specific website or web apps, yes.
To add to this: the whole point of the private right to action is so that anti-abortion groups can target individuals in order to create precedent-setting cases. This is a mechanism that is designed to be used by well-funded groups. The threat model here isn’t some rando deciding they want to sue you, it’s a team of determined lawyers that absolutely will take your case as far as they possibly can.