skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have dropped NetFlix, now that I've watched Stranger Things (we hardly ever watch anything on NetFlix). I am also contemplating moving email from POBox.com to Apple, since I don't intend to drop my Apple Premiere subscription. I'm dropping Audible (after I use my three remaining credits) and Kindle Unlimited (though I'm still on the trial for that and haven't paid anything). We're keeping Amazon Prime and Microsoft365, since we literally use those all the time, and I'm looking at individual app subscriptions as they come due.

Things will get looked much harder if lose my job or retire, but my employer has never had a layoff in nearly 40 years in business.
Edge did some benchmarks with their "Super Duper Secure Mode" and found that disabling JIT improves performance more often than not: https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Sec...
We live in Digital Feudalism, and like feudal serfs, we are used to choosing a feudal lord (Google Suite, Microsoft Office 360 etc.)

To move to a free market, there just has to be something like Wordpress for Web2. Forget Web3 and blockchains (which don’t scale) but we need at least federated software (Matrix, Mastodon) but with a lot more features that we have come to expect from Facebook, Telegram et al

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/
It’s interesting that you draw the line specifically at the software serving the post. Should the individual/company own the hardware also? The OS running on the server?
I think you'd enjoy this read: https://zguide.zeromq.org
Popes too. Pope John Paul II was Jan Pawel II in his native Poland, Giovanni Paolo in Italy, and so forth. Pope Francis is Francesco in Italian and Francisco in his native Spanish.
No cure, it just conditioned me into expecting to see the little train go by occasionally.
> Selective enforcement is one of the principal ways that workers experience discrimination in the workplace.

You point is moot in this case. Staten Island is in New York State, which is an at-will employment state. Employers in such states don't need a reason to fire anyone.
> I feel that exfiltrating memory at a few hundred bytes/sec makes it extremely impractical. You'll be looking for a needle in a haystack.

Do you seriously trust it to be like looking for a needle in a haystack? That haystack becomes much much smaller if you know where to look. An excellent adversary would know a lot about kernel memory and what data to get.

Grab a few bytes for a pointer... grab a few more bytes for another pointer offset from the first... just a few pointers and now you're at the secret storage arena. A few hundred bytes/sec is just a few hundred bytes/sec away from gaining sensitive information.
Self recursion is a special case that WASM backend targets can more or less efficiently resolve the same way a human can convert a recursive function into a non-recursive one: explicitly put arguments onto your own simulation of a stack and perform the computation in a loop.

Unfortunately self recursion is only a subset of tail calling.
Ukraine is a sovereign country and they are fighting for their right to exist, Russia doesn’t believe they have that right.

Russia wishes to entirely wipeout Ukrainian culture and people from this planet.

This is less about “gay pride parades” and more about a country being a sovereign entity that is allowed to make its own decisions.

It’s clear that Russia doesn’t view a number of the post soviet states as sovereign.

Do you support this was from Russia?.

You should also know that America isn’t the only democracy in the world.
I won't either to be honest. These are certainly of the 'stars must align' category [today], I just find them interesting.

The speed comes down to time, again - either more efficient methods could be developed (perhaps in combination with other seemingly not-of-interest vulns) or simply by hardware getting even faster.

It also assumes an attacker never gets lucky, or perhaps knows something neither of us do.

I'm not sure I'd use the death/dying of Moore's Law as a mitigation strategy :P
On the other hand, managing a monetization platform (subscription billing, customer support, linking posts to email to social media notifications) is more complex than self-hosting. Not impossible, but more than most writers would want to take on themselves.
> In the US, too, it seems like there's a high amount of empty commercial/industrial real estate. Zoning keeps it from being usable by anything else.

Nope, the finance agreements keep that space empty.

Missing rent can generally be tacked onto the end of your financing. Lower rent causes the basis of your finance agreement to change and you will have to cough up cash.

So, owners are willing to let spaces sit empty for years to avoid having to paying cash (which they probably don't have) to the bank.

It's all musical chairs until higher interest rates cause a few failures which cascades through the entire system.
I know my ThinkPad gives me a "self-healing BIOS" message whenever I update the firmware (on a side note, fwupd is amazing), which according to Lenovo's Twitter is a BIOS backup (https://twitter.com/lenovo/status/1297785406239514624?lang=e...).
I don't really understand your comment. Databases are generally I/O bound workloads, almost by definition of what they do. Regardless, data structures and algorithms are equally important in databases. B-Trees, linked-lists, buffers, LSM Trees, Bloom filters, caching strategies etc are all fundamental to databases. At any rate for a long time now the low hanging fruit of optimization has been throwing money and hardware at problems - NAND Flash, more cores, larger caches, tons of memory, edge networks etc. Those options are all still there.
How are you getting so few podcasts? I never use Spotify for podcasts but it is 50% of the Home Screen - every other row. At some point they took to embedding podcasts in playlists but it seems they stopped later?

I don’t like how they play hide and seek with key features - they added lyrics, then they go rid of lyrics, then they added genius, then they got rid of genius, now they have lyrics again… why not give me both?

Also embarrassing that they have infinite resources to screw up the podcast ecosystem, yet they’ve fallen behind Amazon Music, Apple for quality and format choice (lossless, Atmos).
High-value zero days like what you're describing would not get wasted on stealing bank information from random working schlubs like us.

I think it is a reasonable approach to personal information security to focus on ensuring that you are robust to families of exploits which have concrete proof of concept in practice, and not wasting calories worrying about stuff that is (for the time being) mostly theoretical.

This advice obviously does not apply if you are protecting valuable corporate IP, or a repository of personal information, or god forbid national security secrets.
No, but the compiler may do it for you.
Maverick and Elvis were leading the box office for a while and still going strong, just like old times.
> in Android, it's basically impossible to set a countdown timer if the phone is locked

Yeah, good. That's what locking it is for.

Honestly, WTF are you talking about???
I've had that same problem before -- yeah, the title doesn't have the keywords and searching comments and browsing history doesn't help, so I know the frustration. Often when I have trouble finding a link and finally find it later, it turns out that I had an associated issue where I remembered the wrong keywords or was fixated on a slightly different idea. Sometimes it helped to ask myself why I wanted to find this article in the first place, do google searches for what I thought I was looking for, see alternative wording or related ideas, then doing a HN site search with the new keywords.
I can understand this sentiment, but I'm excited by the results we won't see: chemical spectra.

Getting readings from the atmospheres of exoplanets will give us an idea of what population and percentages could harbor life. We may even get a whiff of some tell tale signs of industry, and that would change life on earth forever.
For the metric of performance/Watt and performance/cost, absolutely.
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One example is the handling of dynamic providers. Imagine, instead of having the inventory of environments hardcoded in directory structure, you have them in a configuration setting. Or, another example, having a dynamic list of Kubernetes clusters, which you need to install Helm charts into, for which you need dynamic aliased Kubernetes providers.
"Luggage" sounds like you bring preowned (by you, but that's barely better) things on your trip. You're already having new bedding delivered to your chateau, just have your stylist have some new tailored clothes and accessories hung in your closet when you get there.

Plus that way if there's something small (like one of the watches) you particularly like, you have a souvenir you can take home as opposed to leaving for housekeeping.
But so does science research spending. Point seems to be why not let it follow directions independent of military utility.
If they just asked me to implement malloc, that would be trivial. It's when you have to implement free as well that you have to do some work.
You have me thinking about the recent “Every Complex Idea Has a Million Stupid Cousins” submission.

In that metaphor, maybe appropriation is when people go around selling dumbed-down or distorted copies that ignore the complexity and fullness of the original ideas. The original ideas are still out there, but for the people who only see the stupid copies, the majesty of the original idea is masked/overshadowed.

And my understanding is that part of the complaint around appropriation involves outsiders profiting from their use/misuse while the originators of the culture see none of the spoils.

https://apxhard.substack.com/p/every-complex-idea-has-a-mill...
I didn't mean it behaves the same, but it accomplishes a similar goal. Definitely Terramate is the better tool and integrates with Terraform Cloud unlike Terragrunt.
I'm someone else, but I just wanted to say: I hope your project succeeds.

I've thought about this for a long time and have a lot of insight into the problem, and thoughts about the pitfalls. If you'd like to talk, post an email address (can be throwaway) and I'll reach out. I'm a novelist myself, with a book coming out in early '23.

The most important thing, over the next 20 years, is making sure that the self-publishing ecosystem isn't controlled or controllable by companies (e.g., Amazon). Amazon are currently the good guys (believe it or not) relative to traditional publishers [1] and chain bookstores, but God knows what they are doing with their algorithm, and we can't let them become a SPOF for the self-publishing ecosystem.

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[1] Actually, the editors at the publishing houses themselves are a pretty good set of people (and, at least in the US, very underpaid). It's the rest of the trad-pub ecosystem--the tastemakers, the literary agents, the various sausage-makers who decide which books get celebrity endorsements--who can eat a bowl of taint cancer.
Some are hybrid plants. FBA in one section, Fresh in another. They recently opened a center in Huntington Beach that does both.
I can’t find the article right now, but I believe Ive hasn’t really been present, in the figurative and also literal sense, at Apple for over half a decade. There was a really good piece regarding this that I read probably at least a couple of years ago, where Ive basically retreated to his home, “running” things from there, and would require presentations to be done close to his home, where he would barely contribute feedback.

I think he and Cook don’t get along. Ive is honestly a bit full of himself in a non-introspective way. I believe he wanted the Apple Watch to be a pure luxury object, and not just a smart watch. I’m not really sure I ever got the love for his designs. They are boring, cold, and often designed at the cost of functionality. I’m not sure how one gets to be so famous and rich struggling at both form and function. And with Cook being a logistics person, without a personality to be found, I’m sure their meetings were probably pretty awkward.
Also did the great soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange. An under-appreciated electronic music pioneer.

https://www.wendycarlos.com/+wcco.html
Access management is required to have identity assurances. If there's no way to ensure someone's identity is secure, how do we know it's them in the first place?
I assume these are for very short passwords? It dramatically increases in complexity with just a few extra characters, is it possible then to use a password that is 3~4 sentences long to defeat this?

5 characters (3 lowercase letters, 2 numbers) 365= 60,466,176

7 characters (1 capital letter, 6 lowercase letters) 527= 1,028,071,702,528

8 characters (4 lowercase letters, 2 special characters, 2 numbers)

688= 457,163,239,653,376

so in about 10 seconds it would be able to discover the latter which is absolutely insane to me. The only way is to increase the letters and special characters.

for instance a 12 character password (8 lowercase letter, 2 special, 2 #) would yield an unwieldly number of possibilities but given you can brute force 65 trillion per second at the lower end, we would be seeing an astronomical figure.

We might also see this brute force capacity dramatically increase thanks to Moore's law and then the sky is truly the limit.

a 32 character password would be broken within our lifetime in just a matter of years.
If you're not flying first class, this isn't even available as an upgrade.
Seconding Migadu, support is also very quick and pleasant.
> Most tail recursion uses usually is trivial to rewrite in a loops.

Except for tail calls that aren't self-calls. Which for code I write is actually fairly frequent.
There is no requirement for Government to be involved in eugenics given the definition I quoted -- you put that forward as assumed, but you recognize that it can happen beyond government entirely.

I would suggest that eugenics could also happen at a local level. Specifically for the only argument I am making here, a mother deciding not to have a child that is likely to have Down Syndrome.

This is an example of non-government enforced hyper local eugenics that is currently seen as okay but maybe in 50 to 100 years may be seen as barbaric the way that we currently see the idea of aborting babies based on the color of their skin.

As another commenter noted, the reasons that some people choose to abort their children would likely be cheered as a good example of eugenics in practice from the perspective of a historical eugenics loving evil caricature of your choice. If we're being charitable, we might term this "accidental eugenics".

Given what you have written, I believe I may presume that we are both on the same page that you would potentially be upset if the government forced people to get abortions for eugenics purposes as well, but perhaps I am wrong on that.

Regardless, I am not making any arguments for or against abortion here; rather, I am arguing first that there is some necessary overlap between abortion and eugenics and second that our current view of which kinds of eugenics are acceptable may be found to be distasteful to people in the future who are even more progressive than ourselves.
There's about 500 years of history that thoroughly explain why it is not considered appropriation when non-Western people adopt Western practices. Lots of things only "go one way" when we are dealing with massive power imbalances.
It's not not eugenic https://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/
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Is that an option for the root password on Linux?
Can you expand on this? Which OSS tools replaced which SaaS and how long did it take you to do this?
Seems like saying no one is actually altruistic because they get good feelings from helping people.
Who cares? Price doesn't matter for any crypto specific use cases.

Even price stability is of marginal importance. Speculators can take a hike.
Apple's maniacal control of their hardware is what makes my phone an excellent appliance but a terrible general purpose computer.
That's a valid concept, but I thought it incredible then and now. It wasn't a pure exercise in graphics for phds, but rather one part of a movie they struggled to get made.
And not a one minute sequence, but large sections of the movie, rendered by quite primitive chips.

The fact that realism was not the goal, but a cold, rigid computer world helps explain the art direction.
Gmail, Drive, and Calendar all probably share a decent amount of backend data despite them all sharing some backend data as part of the G Suite, and the main Facebook app has almost a superset of the data in Messenger app (the only thing I can think of that might be missing is the "stories" stuff in Messenger, but I also don''t really know anyone who uses that). While Spotify doesn't have anti-trust concerns like Facebook and Google (at least right now), I'm a bit skeptical that there's any worries about having a combined G Suite app or merging Messenger back into Facebook proper being that much of a monopoly concern given how entwined they already are in the browser.
If you can directly de-reference kernel memory, sure. If you have that capability, why do you need this exploit? I'm still skeptical.
Tracking individuals across the day would have been difficult. I was walking around that day, the event lasted all day and into the night, people were wearing masks, and I didn't know any of the participants before hand. So, it's like asking "Are any of the strangers you saw at 10 am the same as the ones you saw at 10 pm?" Hard to answer.

That said, within an hour or two of the meeting with the police chief protesters did enter an intersection and block it. A squad of riot police tried to disburse them and failed. So, if you want to count blocking intersections and ignoring police commands as rioting, then yes.
I can’t access it from France
Okay, lets say the current crop of CPUs is burned to the tune of 15-28%. What's next? Can this effect be mitigated in the next round of design? Is speculative execution always going to be problematic like this?

Also, what can be done on the software side? Why is Linux so vulnerable, but not Windows? Is the kernel layout in Linux statically define or something?
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Your reference to gas powered cars going that way (a bit more slowly) made me wonder about how quickly some product lines were disrupted in different industries.

First mass produced digital SLR was by Nikon in 1988[0]. So this would represent roughly 34 years to fully replace the product line with digital cameras.

First mass produced electric car would be either Tesla Model S (2012)[1] or their Roadster (2009)[2]. I'm not sure if 147 Roadster's count as mass production. So if gas cars are being fully dropped by 2043 or 2046 then it'd be on the same scale as the digital camera.

Feature phones being dropped in favor of smart phones was pretty quick. I'm not sure when major manufacturers stopped feature phone production, Nokia 3310 had a revival in 2017. So more than 10 years, but probably less than 15.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera#cite_note-busch...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#cite_note-40

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#cite_note-32
> 1. At some level of software complexity, programmers MUST start to organize data into composite objects. They have to do this because working outside of well-defined problem domains is a recipe for buggy software and spaghetti code.

Right. and FP provides NO way to composite objects

> 2. Copying memory around to enable to facilitate these immutable structures is SLOW.

Who says you have to (multiple others have pointed to resources)
I decide what to learn about, you let others decide for you.

> The news is hearsay with a veneer of officialness [sic]

(I'm guessing you meant officiality?) So "the news is hearsay," and you just get hearsay of that hearsay? Not seeing the benefit.
Are the four vs six point starbursts an artifact of the different lens / mirror designs? The Webb telescope has hexagonal mirrors, but not sure about Hubble.
This is exactly right.

If the words "decentralized" are anywhere in your marketing of a decentralized social network, you have already lost ;p

I didn't intend to mean that by making a social network decentralized it would be 10x better. What I mean is, that by making a decentralized social network it opens up possibilities that are just not possible in a centralized network (or at least very hard).

And those possibilities are real tangible benefits to users/creators that don't directly have anything to do with 'decentralization'.
It seems to me that the diet, if used for longer periods, may have long-term effects. To research the diet, I used this query [1]

[1] https://search.carrot2.org/#/search/pubmed/potato%20diet/tre...
Or you can use Debian and XFCE.
No doubt this will further stimulate development of HERF guns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon

"The first usage of directed-energy weapons in combat between military forces was claimed to have occurred in Libya in August 2019 by Turkey, which claimed to use the ALKA directed-energy weapon." [50kW laser]
What you're missing is the science and all the new data we'll find with an infrared telescope, which will come down the road. Yes it takes cool pictures, but that's just a bonus. JWT's real function is to facilitate hard science.
A great low key summary of the news is Quartz Daily Brief. A daily e-mail with hand picked world news that are informative. I find it very useful.
The whole article gives zero evidence of the statement in the headline.

Even worse, it is directly contradicted by the studies from San Franscisco where something like 15% of the homeless have a traumatic brain injury.

So, better than 1 in 10 of the homeless in SF should be in a medical facilty for starters.

However, building and funding medical facilities is expensive. So, the electorate is willing to do anything except what the data actually tells them to do. So, let's build housing and then whine when it doesn't work so we can go back to ignoring the homeless.
That's a different type of eye AF. One is AF point controlled by where the photographer is looking, the other detects the eyes of the subject.
This comment confuses me. Are you saying that their pay is good for established authors, but they pay only a token amount for authors that they classify as “starting out”? Because the rates you quote are abusive. People who accept token payments for work, out of vanity or a false concept of “exposure”, damage the market for those of us who actually need to get paid for our writing. Such people are the pariahs of the freelance world.
Graeber asserts in Bullshit Jobs that when this happens—lots of people wanting these kind of creative high-prestige, high-gratification jobs—the upper echelons of the career tend to be captured by, bluntly, trust fund kids, because they're the only ones for whom a career path that involves potentially years or even decades of barely being paid is viable. Ditto editorships at prestigious publications, non-profit work, all that kind of thing.
This is a really vague answer. Can you elaborate? What happened 500 years ago that explains why the authors are right in their attempt to ban certain ethnic groups from certain ideas?
It is implicitly already mandated, depending on how finite your finite limit is.
I'm aware. However, if that were true he wouldn't have deleted his tweets, apologized, and walked back his statements as "just a joke".