skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree with you on SafetyNet, and the fact that it's used by so many apps that don't need it feels like a betrayal of trust.

What you mentioned about read-only media is how secure boot should be implemented, too. Or at least it's how Apple does it: all the boot chain verification code lives in mask ROM so the only way to compromise it is to either find a bug (rare and expensive) or compromise the chip vendor (very "loud", spooks don't like this). The only problem with this setup is that Apple does not give two hoots about vendor neutrality[0] and this sort of scheme requires trusted roots to be burned into the chip.

Not being able to reset the boot hash is actually worse than current Secure Boot. The problem being complained about isn't dualbooting. It's that Microsoft is making you jump through additional hoops. There's still the ability to turn off Secure Boot; that's the moral equivalent of "resetting the boot hash" in your proposal. But we don't want to make users do that; we want the machine to just say, "oh this is the trusted Linux build, go on right ahead" without any extra mess or fuss. Linux distros jumped through hoops a decade ago to get a secure boot path signed by Microsoft - not to enable it to run at all, but just to make installation and usage easier.

[0] They do provide an owner-override on Macintosh-fused chips, which is actually implemented in a really cool, user-friendly way. But that's moreso for letting the user build their own kernels rather than a serious attempt at being vendor-neutral.

Presumably in the alternate world where Microsoft hadn't signed over Windows on ARM to Qualcomm, Apple would be signing a Boot Camp bootloader that validates Microsoft keys.
And the desktop application is itself missing a bunch of features from the mobile app!
.stack definitely seems like a mistake in the context of Webassembly. I’d be interested in seeing the justification for it.
Linear Types in Haskell
Founders of Three Arrows Capital Are in the Wind
Nice. I applied for these so I could try testing our developer workstation ansible automation & even pinged our AWS rep but never heard back. Very excited to have a nice repeatable way to test bring-up of a new machine!!
I remember this from StumbleUpon :)

Something that I did as a teenager and just tried again is take a sticky note, cut a small square in it and place it on your screen, you can "refind" pictures so it's not all random. Probably obvious to those more knowledgeable than I but nonetheless amusing.
>You think you’re caricaturing my view but yes - that’s true.

That doesn't make sense though. A worker can choose not to work and do nothing, same as if the "exploitative" job wasn't offered at all. Are you saying the existence of the choice is immoral, and that someone else should decide whether or not a job is a good use of their time?
I saw a whole long thread on Twitter of screenshots of (big) creators themselves getting copyright strikes for their own work and being like WTF. It seems a lot more rampant than people may be aware...
Unrelated question, about updating rows:

when I insert rows into a table that has e.g. 30 varchar columns which are initially empty but which will be updated later (not all at once but e.g. 10 in a first round, then another 10 in another cycle, then the last 10), is it ok to leave those columns empty or should I e.g. use space-chars to fill those columns with the expected future length of the string?

Asking because I'm not sure if having the columns contents increase their size will cause kind of "row movement" (row cannot be updated in-place as there is no space to accomodate the new long string) which might(?) entangle a bit the contents of the table (e.g. maybe later the more rows are updated the more fragmented the table/tablespace becomes etc...).

I guess that Vacuum would fix such situations (if this actually happens), but maybe I can decrease the work that it has to do... . I'm just starting with Postgres, thx for reading.

EDIT: forget this, I just read here the post by "singron" stating "An update in postgres will always copy the tuple for MVCC, so it can't take advantage of an optimization like this to modify it in place", so the row gets moved anyway.
Watching the livestream i was more than surprised, that color correction actually happens in Photoshop.

Also, there seem to be multiple layer-masks involved for specific regions and objects.

I get that you can shift and composite color, based on hue, apply filters etc, but: Photoshop?

Curious if anyone can explain, that what we see is actual science or some touched up version of objects in our universe.

p.s.: What struck me the most is the absence of noise, especially for the deep field photo. Hubble took many exposures over weeks, which normally would allow for reliable reduction of noise, webb took some shots over the course of hours and there’s hardly any noise to see. Weirdest part is seeing them just “healing brushing” away some dots - how is the decision process on altering images like that?

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No surprise, there.

If anyone has ever been in a service shop, and seen a DSLR, taken apart, you would be gobsmacked at the complexity of the mechanisms, therein.

Lots of moving parts. Hard to design, hard to make, hard to maintain, and hard to fix. Also, writing firmware to control all those moving parts is a nightmare.

Ideally, the lens should be the only part of the camera with a moving part.

I'm hoping that this means that they will finally embrace the concept of a "true" software-driven camera, but time will tell...
The body can make a substantial difference but if you're using big lenses on your DSLR, you're probably going to be using big lenses on your mirrorless too. The weight of the lens is down to the optics and build rather than the mount. For me, the weight of the lenses is by far the bigger problem.

To take your SEL35F18F as an example, the lens weighs 280g. The Nikon DSLR equivalent, "AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G ED", weighs 300g.

To go to extremes, Sony's SEL600F40GM weighs 3kg and so does Canon's "EF 600mm f/4L IS III USM" (admittedly, Nikon's equivalent weighs 4kg).

I'm not saying this to prove you "wrong" or anything, a Sony A7RIV weighs 665g to a Nikon D850's 1kg or a Canon 1DX Mk3's 1.4kg but switching to Sony might just be the difference between a 5kg kit and a 4.7kg kit: it's still pretty heavy.

I'm just pointing this out because when I was starting out I heard a lot of people talking about how small and light mirrorless cameras were. I think at the time this idea was focused more on cameras like the Olympus OM-D series. Amateurs/enthusiasts (including myself, who owned an OM-D) often didn't realise that one of the major reasons an OM-D kit was much lighter than a DSLR kit was that it was optically less capable due to the differences in sensor size. A big part of the reason an 17mm f1.8 MFT lens is so small is that it isn't equivalent to a full-frame 35mm f1.8 the way many people thought it was. It's more accurately equivalent to a 35mm f3.5 which could be made similarly light for the larger sensor, if anybody wanted that (but few people want that).
It's the effect of the wavelength of far infrared light being quite a bit longer.

Think of a reduction to extremes: if you have a sensor that is a centimeter square and you're trying to 'catch' a wave that is a meter long there is a fair chance the sensor will be bypassed entirely, but if you are trying to catch millimeter waves your sensor will be easily able to capture the photons.

The most practical example of this effect is the size of radio antennae, they get longer as the wavelength gets longer.
not really because you will get the same response even if there arent any layoffs for real.
Maybe I'm imagining it, but I vaguely recall reading something about Amazon workers being fired in a fully automated fashion. So there is not necessarily always a human manager reviewing all the automated warnings and pondering their validity.
I mean, it is kind of shitty, no? Surely we can do better as a society... Is the optimal state for corporations to hoard when times are good and then to feast when times are bad, killing off their smaller rivals?

In the extreme case of this, we end up in a world where quick trip buys up all available fuel during a hurricane...
> just reuploading full youtube videos from channels like Kurzgesagt (...) it's also a sign of a successful platform

No, not really.

Ripping Youtube content is trivial, so you basically have a raidable pool of high-quality content that you can re-upload and monetise, that you didn't have to pay for in any way.

If you're seeing a lot of Kurzgesagt vidoes on TikTok, all that means is that someone found out their monetisation success rate for those stolen videos is high enough that it makes financial sense to carry on doing it.
FizzBuzz in GNU Make
Not to spoil anything, but anybody else here finding these results quite underwelming?
It does because he committed a crime and is rotting in jail. That’s literally what that means. You can disagree forever about whether you specifically would accept his actions in some ideal society in your head, but that doesn't change reality. Simply, nobody is discussing the your imagination.
I'm glad :) (about that it doesn't make sense for them, not that they live in China)
> There needs to be an incentive for users to host other people's data.

And then you inadvertently host 'terrorist' materials and get 25 years in jail.

People are trying to redesign 'social networks' with no fundamental understanding of what they are, how to run them or the very real risks involved.
Amazon seems to be hiring the wrong people for the job. They are hiring humans when they really are looking to hire robots.
> After each keyfob button pressed the rolling codes synchronizing counter is increased. However, the vehicle receiver will accept a sliding window of codes, to avoid accidental key pressed by design. By sending the commands in a consecutive sequence to the Honda vehicles, it will be resynchronizing the counter. Once counter resynced, commands from the previous cycle of the counter worked again. Therefore, those commands can be used later to unlock the car at will.

Could the counter and clock resynchronization schemes in RFC 6238 "TOTP: Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm" and RFC 4226 "HOTP: An HMAC-Based One-Time Password Algorithm" have similar bugs? In implementation if not in principle?
I made this page (posted in another thread yesterday) because I was rather underwhelmed by the .gif. I think the page shows in much better detail the difference between the telescopes' capabilities.

https://blog.wolfd.me/hubble-jwst/

(If you're on mobile, you should be able to zoom in and still use the slider)
So maybe we are working towards a trilogy?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/423721
Operation Chrome Dome
Yeah, you can do this manually. In many cases probably almost as efficiently. But having this done with only a small configuration would be very powerful.
umanwizard already said what I would have said, but I will add a few points:

First, you may be underestimating the value of your expertise and the investment required.

Second, I'm glad we're not gatekeeping Linux as much as we used to.

Third, as I get older I find computer hardware less interesting. Just because someone likes to make music doesn't necessarily mean they like to make instruments.
What would an A/B test where the goal was not to maximize profit even look like? The very act of creating an A/B test is because the worker wants to improve something in search of higher profits.
You can try the model on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom

Though it requires an account, unlike other models on the hub (I guess they're hoping to get new users from the hype of this model).

Bloom looks pretty exciting. It's reportedly as performant as GPT-3 (I haven't tested it enough to confirm, but what little testing I did gave okay results), but the model is completely open-source; if you can afford some cloud compute, you can just upload the model on your preferred cloud provider and just generate whatever you want from it, good or evil.

I'm expecting the coming 12 months to be pretty interesting for text generation.
To me this seems like a fairly clear-cut constitutional violation.

You are being deprived of life/liberty at sentencing, if the judge can use information/"accusations" that the government failed to prove then you are being punished without conviction.
The standard response is that after entering the password the user will notice that the boot fails to complete to the expected Windows instance. In a high security environment this boot failure should immediately be flagged and investigated and the machine considered compromised.
SSHPortal - Jump host/Jump server without the jump, aka Transparent SSH bastion
So is the price for used SLR equipment (lenses) going to go up or down due to this announcement [edit: apparently speculation as no official announcement has been made]?
I wasn’t looking at it from work, I don’t have an office job right now (see profile).

Perhaps you just weren’t aware that neither of those things are prerequisites to warning others about the high probability of seeing such images? You’re allowed to care about SFW/L beyond work contexts, and it’s helpful to alert others who might care.

It feels like an attempt at invalidation when you expect someone to not even be able to warn others about content simply because some people might not care about whether it’s in that category. Hence why it comes across to me as outrage: you have to feel pretty strongly to oppose a mere warning.

It’s kind of funny how common trigger warnings are, but when I mention the possibility of an image set being surprisingly unfiltered and having frequent NSFW/L content, I have to rehash the entire concept.

Also, I would say your work is unusually lax if you see nothing wrong with pulling up bikini images there. (Similarly unusual deficit of empathy, while we’re at it.)
> In the first link, I don't see anything there that demands the images all have the same aspect ratio.

It says "the smaller image is a scaled-down version of the bigger image". If you scale an image down evenly, it will have the same aspect-ratio. In case you're going to pick at the wording: I know that it's the intention of the spec authors and browser implementers that all entries in the srcset have the same ratio.

> even if all the images in the srcset have the same a-ratio, that doesn't mean that ratio is the same as the ratio in the markup + CSS. Yeah, you can assume. But why risk it?

The last section of the article discusses this.
I could understand pricing dynamically-updated things like self-driving features as a subscription service (someone needs to train newer and better ML models; update maps; etc) but something _fixed_ made into a subscription is just tacky.
I asking if she’s actually having a hard time or not ffs.
I wish these creators with other social media presence would use their platforms to move their audience to something besides youtube (they can even keep their youtube presence).

Content creators are the only ones with the power to build up a competing platform such that youtube has to stop hurting the creators or risk losing their monopoly status as the de-factor video hosting platform.

Imagine if this content creator chose an alternative and linked to it in this tweet and everyone else started doing similarly. At the rate youtube is harming content creators, doesn't seem like it'd take long before users instinctively checked the competitions site anytime content gets taken down which might eventually turn into overthrowing their monopoly if they don't fix their issues.
I'm pretty sure I had this idea 5+ years ago, but I'm not sure if it would have had any traction without Wordle paving the way.
Understood, i've been following this forever and am super excited to see where it takes us. I'm just saying we are allowed to admit that to us these pictures look like more of the same despite knowing that they are very much not.
How I Manage Work-Life Balance in the Remote-Work Era
You really should improve the quality of your sources before you start presenting things as fact.

"Seemingly" doesn't really do it for me, especially not when there is a concerted, well financed effort to pull the wool over your eyes.
Use a global lock in the context manager.

Or use a programming language that doesn't rely on libc for locales.
If that is the case, maybe there should be some regulation that compels employers to post full and transparent costs and actual incomes for its employees, all normal costs considered. Then workers would be more likely to make the decision that is best for them, without the possibility of being tricked by the numbers.
Nobara, a Fedora Derivative, focused on gaming and ease of use
Doesn't appear to be, additionally Windows deployments are not affected.

Per Intel - "Note that Windows systems are not affected given that these systems use Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) by default which is also the mitigation being made available to Linux users."
I don't recall the exact details but it was something like reverse DNS not being set properly combined with some other spam scores. While this is a best practice it definitely isn't followed by everyone I want to receive mail from.
"Your instances, hand them over."
Most of the complaints I’ve seen are around the face/eye tracking. Improved in the second generation and even more so in the Z9 but still not quite on par with Sony/Canon.
> Burning your capital (i.e. your car) to the ground was a sensible choice given the other options.

But that brings us back to the top. If you're going to burn your car to the ground, why not burn it by driving it to an employer? The farmer at the edge of the city has been paying $25-30 per hour (even pre-pandemic), sometimes more, to anyone willing to show up – and still, nobody shows up.

It might not be the most desirable work, and maybe you're not quitting your developer job over it, but compared to losing money driving for Uber because you're in a crunch? You're not losing money making $25-30 per hour in an employment situation, even with some commute required to get there.

As we have discussed multiple times, not all locations are the same, but the question: "Does Uber treat its drivers like gold in some markets?" remains outstanding. There is an implication that Uber is exploitative everywhere (perhaps to varying degrees), and if that's the case, why so where the job market seeks workers elsewhere?

> It isn’t exploitation, unless someone else is getting rich off it.

That's not in line with the common definition of exploitation, and even if you want to use your pet definition, saying that all client-worker relationships are exploitative isn't particularly useful.
We shouldn't allow to inch towards this kind of situation if for nothing else than for not sliding the Overton window in the wrong direction.

It's either a neutral organization signing certs which you then have to accept by default, or you get fined. Those are the only acceptable scenarios.
Adsense held my funds for 6+ years in a never ending loop of bank account not valid->can’t edit this bank account. Same kafkaesque maze of non-existent support. Beyond frustrating.
One day it just suddenly let me fix the issue. No idea why.

Your point is spot on, if you don’t have a huge social media following you might as well be invisible. This has to change, hopefully via law. Because it isn’t just a google problem.
Failed hedge funds aren't new. Can someone with more knowledge explain why liquidating this one is so much more difficult than traditional ones?

What's the next step here, SEC lawsuits?
Distinction between singular, dual and plural. Only few spoken languages nowadays share that same trait.
I actually believe it's referring to Assassin's Creed 2. It had to check in with the central server to see if a legitimate copy was being played, and the way it was cracked was basically going through every possibility where the check can fire off, recording the request/response, and having the cracked version play back the appropriate response to the request. It basically had to be exhaustively played to get to a point where all the request/response combinations got recorded.
> Does this suggest we can expect enforcement of IP protection to fade everywhere someday soon?

It could also be the other way around: in order to expand to new markets, Chinese companies will be obliged to comply with patents/copyrights laws. You can see that for instance Tencent and Huawei are AOM members, they can't simply use AV1 without license ...
Older AMD, Intel chips vulnerable to data-leaking 'Retbleed' Spectre variant
To me they do not and I am probably also an 'average person who loves space', in fact I'm blown away by the results on display here and it is way beyond my expectations. From a tech perspective this is humanity at its peak.
1150 light years away! Imagine how much more details can be detected for stuff within 50 light years.

Really, they should be already building 2nd James Webb. I am sure even 10 of them would get 100% utilization for their whole lifetime. I can only imagine what kind of needless political game is happening around prioritization of time slots for it.

Or start working on next-gen, bigger, more resilient etc. It costs peanuts compared to any significant CERN upgrade and we have so much room to progress in astronomy (aka understanding our home, this universe) just by getting more data and resolution.
I had a lot of WiFi QR codes around the house and in the office. People seemed to often just ask for the WiFi password instead of bothering to figure out how to scan the QR code. Maybe things are different post-COVID where QR-code menus became the norm for a while, but in the past people seemed to not really care or understand QR codes.
So glad I have permission to not get conned. /s
Webb's primary camera is infrared, so there is by necessity a choice to be made with how to present the data for humans who can't see in infrared.
They were showing a pathological case where there are a very large number of columns and table scanning is the only option the optimiser has, so in most cases it won't matter significantly (removing the need to scan at all will fix that, by adding indexes or altering the query to make filtering and joining clauses sargable).

This is more an interesting experiment than something you generally need to worry about, and if you do need to worry about it there are other things you may need to fix first (do you really need 1,500 columns on that table, is there not a design that is orders of magnitude more efficient generally thus making this issue measurable but insignificant?).

PG could be refactored to make these cases much more efficient, but the developer (and QA) time required would be much better spent elsewhere and the changes needed may impact the performance of other operations that occur far more regularly in both good and bad designs.
China also imports expertise at the high end.

Real value that Russia can bring to table for China is wheat production.
> compared to states that take an active role in their own development.

I'm not sure I follow your argument. Which non-European states do you think do this well?
https://github.com/zxing/zxing/wiki/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-n...
That is the big downside, it takes a while to get invested in it, especially these days when there's a thousand other things optimized to pull your attention.

Once you get into them though, they're some of my favorite games. NetHack might be the most absorbing game I've ever played, and there's a few others with that art style that came close.
It is like Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's list, "I pardon you"
I suspect, up, but I'm no expert.

Photographers are a funny crowd. They have both the artist, and the craftsman. Some will not ever want to change their toolset, while others, will jump right onto the bandwagon.
So if they point this thing at an exoplanet and it has advanced life will we see a picture much the same as when we see a photo of earth taken from the space station? i.e. city lights etc?