skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s because those planets are incredibly far away. The distance is so huge, there is no way to even picture it. It would be a single pixel on any telescope we could conceivably build. What we can do though is measure the chemical composition of their atmospheres. This could be very interesting if we found some hallmarks of life on a rocky planet.
>You just have to re-enable that CA if you have a model that has Device Guard enabled by default.

I run Linux on a used ThinkPad I got on eBay and I have no idea what this sentence means.
In the case of darknet markets, value is created for all participants, otherwise the deals wouldn't happen. There's no coercion involved.

The externalities are debatable, but I think we can accept that drug trade in the onionland has less negative externalities than drug trade on the street.
People are upset about Spotify trying to own the podcast market. Meanwhile Web video is already in the position everyone dreads podcasts reaching, and has been for its entire existence. Assuming folks aren't wrong about RSS-based host-anywhere podcasts being better than having the entire market controlled by one provider, seems obvious video'd be better with the same model.
Oh no, not again.

If there are enough of these attacks that don't involve ARM (I know some do), then I see a bright future for ARM servers.

[edit]: Curious to see if Zen3 is also affected - if not, that would be great news.
> The $50m is how many they are going to spend in ads, it's fixed.

How is taking a second look at the amount that you'll actually donate and seeing that the proportions will generate some backlash and possibly result in negative press a bad idea to have?

I assume that the donation also comes from a particular budget allocation, which can be adjusted as necessary.

> They want to reach theses eye balls, and increasing the amount donated won't increase the amount of eye balls.

"Company A donates $10 to charity."

"Company A donates $100k to charity."

"Company A donates $1m to charity."

I doubt that each of those would result in equal amount of attention, though I'll concede that with a marketing budget like that they can probably make even $100k seem like the best thing ever to the casual observer. I'd say that there's still a certain scaling to the "newsworthiness" aspect, rather than a binary yes/no choice.

At the end of the day, it's up to them to choose how much they'll donate towards any particular initiative and how much they'll spend on popularizing this initiative, both factors having a certain impact on the effectiveness of that campaign.

Of course, without a doubt they've done analysis of this and found that $100k is the optimum amount to donate, so that they can play it up as this great initiative, without donating more than they desire, seeing as they're not obligated to. And that exact amount is what a lot of people take issue with, especially when compared to the aforementioned marketing budget.

It seems like some parody of a corporation-driven society.
yep. A big WTF from me when this happened. lofi streams have replaced SomaFM for me for several years now.
Why have such a thing ad why tolerate it - I mean get rid of it or tell whoever owns it now to fix it. What is the value of these things?
Of course, I get it, but we are allowed to admit that to the average person so far it looks like more of the same.
Ask HN: How to do hands-on practice of system design?
I am looking for a way to get my hands dirty on all those theories of system design.

There are lots content to read but I find it hard to gain confidence until I do some hands-on.

Please suggest any tips, resources for doing so.

I build many small to medium web applications.
Are there any legit sources for your accusations or is that some weird urban legend?
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Secondly, podcasting seems to be centralising recently on things like whatever-Apple-podcast-store-is-called and Spotify, so that analogy isn't great.
Except when it doesn't.

2 examples: World of Warcraft and Netflix.

WoW had FOSS implementations of server patches, with different success. It eventually lead to Classic Vanilla, Classic TBC (1st expansion), and soon Classic WotLK (2nd expansion). Each of these spanned ~2 years of content.

Netflix is an easy example. Together with everything else streaming services it gets pirated.
It isn't one or the other. Work on Wasm GC is ongoing and separate from this.
How about this one, by a user from here?

https://blog.wolfd.me/hubble-jwst/
> Even on Android we see remote attestation being bypassed quite easily in most apps. Some banks and payment providers are harder to trick, but I don't think there's a version of the system that hasn't been bypassed yet.

You do not need to guarantee that it can't be bypassed. You just need to ensure that it is annoying for the average advanced user to bypass it and that's it -- the damage is done.

And for example I have had to change banks already, and I consider myself a pretty advanced user...
Is Remote Enjoyable?
Need a really big mirror, like size of planet to start with.

Another neat idea is to use the Sun as a gravitational lens. But you you would need it put it way past Pluto to get proper focus. So maybe another hundred years to get tech and resources to that point.

https://www.space.com/earth-like-exoplanet-imaging-with-sun
The very rough equivalent in computer terms: a 1997 PC computing something and taking a week or so to do it and returning the answer: 3.

The same by the 2022 version: 3.14159265358979323846 in a few milliseconds.

Both the speed of the computation and the resolution of the result are what makes it impressive, not the fact that the nature of the universe does not change fundamentally when viewed across a longer span of time.

It is mind-blowing, but maybe not to the 'average person who loves space'. But if you stop for a bit longer to understand what it took to create that image and what it is that you are actually looking at (the age of the objects involved, their apparent size and the resolving power and temperature of the telescope required to make it) it becomes a lot more impressive.
You 100% did say that people should think about what their community wants.

But thank you for agreeing with me, and that freedom is doing what you want, and what people around you think shouldn't affect your decisions.
Ordered by rough annual differences per 100,000:

Infant mortality: 540-340=200 (only considering infant population)

Obesity: 69-29=40

Smoking: 92-58=34

Opioids: 14-1=13

Road accidents: 11-4=7

Suicide: 16-11=5

Homicide: 5-1=4

Infant mortality is either by far the largest rate difference if you consider the relevant population to be only infants or the smallest rate difference if you consider the relevant population to be the population at large

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/infant-mortality

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-mortality-rate

Shocking how quickly opioids became a major life expectancy difference in a couple decades while every other rate other than suicide is decreasing over time, especially since it's nowhere as prevalent in the other countries

Promising how much smoking rate has dropped in America, obviously some lag so hopefully that brings smoking mortality down a lot in the future
It's true that many move sequences can be collapsed to a single maneuver. However, the area control remark is inaccurate: controlling or occupying the 3 alleys is very important and requires careful positional play. Getting the right "lane parity" to attack pieces frontally is crucial here, as is pincer movements around the lake with multiple power pieces. You seem to view Stratego as a superficial and repetitive game, but high level play goes considerable beyond a few bluffs and mechanical exchanges.
SyncThing, BackBlaze, TimeMachine, and in the future Tarsnap
> A lot of the debt is not even disclosed

This is handwavy, conspiratorial nonsense. By what mechanism is sovereign debt concealed? How the fuck is the debt serviced if it is hidden?
> Isn't it possible that they're adults who carefully considered the pluses and minuses and made their own decisions?

Of course it's possible. It just seems unlikely that they are carefully considering unbiased plusses and minuses, and instead have been fed an astonishing amount of propaganda designed to massively inflate the amount of minuses.

You could argue that pro-union stuff is propaganda as well, but it doesn't come with an underlying threat of "we will try to fire you if you don't support us" that the anti-union stuff does.
> I can't see how you give a simple yes/no answer to that.

I'm looking into my crystal ball and seeing the ~0 people who will be able to remember the slightly different and alien-looking-to-English spelling, and the even smaller value of ~0 who will ever be bothered to use the umlaut.
This is a good answer, though incredibly depressing
I believe that the tech you mention is the same tech as used by the flat-earthers in Behind The Curve in the $20k gyroscope they bought, to try and prove that the Earth did not rotate (except they found it picked up a 15-degree-per-hour drift, debunking themselves, so then doubted the technology, heh) [1].

But, aside from the laser/fibre-optic tech, there are also MEMS [2] gyroscopes also — which is almost nanotech IMO — which are used as sensors in modern phones/tablets, and also on drones (to assist with navigation), plus various other robotics uses, and more.

MEMS gyros — often with an accelerometer (aka IMU / inertial measurement unit) and maybe a magnetometer (compass) — can be bought from folk such as Adafruit [3], SparkFun, etc. (I've got a few different ones myself), and hooked up to e.g. an Arduino or similar MCU (or indeed anything else that speaks can speak the appropriate protocol, e.g. I2C/SPI/etc depending on the board in question).

Hmm, just looked for a good image of how a MEMS gyro works, and didn't come up with what I was looking for / recall seeing before (I'm a bit pushed for time), but there's a diagram on this WP page [4].

Edit: ah, here's a better diagram [5]

[1] https://www.triplem.com.au/story/flat-earthers-spend-20-000-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectromechanical_systems

[3] https://www.adafruit.com/category/521

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrating_structure_gyroscope#...

[5] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Block-diagram-of-the-MEM...
Yes, so basically certainly what’s happening here is the crypto guy bought subscribers so he looks popular so he can charge to shill. Scams all the way down.
Also vitamin D and testosterone production
I created a wordpress post, added an image, and it generated a srcset. Every image had the same aspect ratio. What am I missing? Can you show me an example of the issue you're seeing, because if Wordpress is doing that, it's a bug, and I'd like to get them to fix it.
Tiktok is not a competitor to YT. It's much more focused on shorter-form content, and it's much more addictive. For those two reasons alone, it's not a 1:1 competitor to the Youtube monopoly.
Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September
Seems the old adage of 'if you owe someone x dollars, it's your problem. If you owe someone xxx dollars, it's their problem' applies.
Retbleed: Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions [pdf]
Well, I suppose this will not be a problem after the acquisition, once they share a catalog.
They haven't sorted it out, but it's also fundamentally not really something that Google can sort out. They have a legal responsibility to respond to these copyright claims, with major penalties if they don't -- this is from DMCA and its successors, from an era of... I don't want to say "copyright maximalism," but something closer to copyright maximalism than the balance is today.

We need to reform the legal responsibilities of sites like Youtube to enable them to take a more considered approach.
Absolutely, these objects would be completely invisible when using visible light so it is all false color, just like a FLIR would show you an image of the infra red light emitted by an object by shifting it to a spectrum that you can directly perceive.
OK, but even that graph says we could have 100x more nuclear deaths and be at parity with natural gas plants

We'd need 1000x more nuclear deaths per watt hour to match coal.

That's multiple Chernobyl's per year. We'd be better off "decommissioning" old plants by yanking out the control rods than we are building more coal plants.
Native Mandarin speaker. I think it is better in some way. For example, there are no verb tenses. Time is conveyed by explicit timestamps.

For example, I watched a movie yesterday is "I watch a movie yesterday" in Chinese. The past-tense and the timestamp are redundant.

There is no concept of countable and uncountable nouns. Because countability doesn't make sense, as everything is made of atoms and uncountable, countability doesn't convey any meaningful message as part of a sentence and only makes a language more complex.

Verbs in Chinese don't need to change their forms according to the subject.

I is

She is

We is
Yes, and if we do a spectral analysis on a small rocky exoplanet and find a bunch of oxygen, that tells us a lot more exciting information than the 2x2 pixels you might get from an image of it.
Take threats against machine learning systems seriously, security firm warns
When will people realize that the problem is running untrusted code on the same CPU as code that needs to keep secrets?
Have you tried hiring a lawyer to send a letter to their legal team?
From the PoV of a cop with a warrant, that is effectively the same thing. The evidence they have a warrant to collect is deliberately made inaccessible to anyone at that location.
Unity uses ECS, just in a more visual way.
It is common in industry that use SAAS, modular systems, etc. Not with purely physical goods.

I'm surprised practices like these have legal legs. No reasonable finance statement/legal statement will stand behind a $3.5k line item under manufacturing for a robot to flip a switch to enable a software setting on already installed hardware.

Example w/ non-real numbers:
BMW x5 with front facing radar, dealer enabled, cost of goods sold = $31,000. MSRP = $60k.

BMW x5 with front facing radar installed, dealer disabled, cogs =$31,000.MSRP= $56.5k.

This is not healthy for a company to rely on.
I'm shocked. Who could ever have foreseen Microsoft doing such a thing?
If your business model depends on breaking the law, then society is harmed.
Even if the code is completely new, you need a lot of copyrighted material to run a wow server.
False dichotomy. The choice isn’t between an underpaid job, and no job. It’s between an underpaid job, and a well paid job with less profits for shareholders and owners.

If your particular business can’t exist and pay people well, it needs to die to make room for one that can.

And I don’t tip $20 - I ride transit or my bike. And yes it does make me feel better supporting non-exploitive systems and avoiding exploitive ones.
Data is expensive in QR land or your resulting QR code becomes larger in size, requiring more physical space to display. URL encoding has a lot of overhead. Also '\' escaping has preceded the existence of URLs. I'm not sure who is doing the reinventing here.
Also not having a great cab service is nothing compared to the exploitation of workers occurring.

No one has a god given right to have cheap taxis in their city at any cost.

The people complaining in this thread sound like the people complaining that they can't run a restaurant without paying their workers poverty wages.

People have rights, businesses don't.
Specifically I'm critical of the original post labelling any 'it is actually ok' message on secure boot as 'scaremongering'.

> Instead they declared themselves rulers

This statement logically suggests that Microsoft laid down the law on secure boot and the impetus was entirely theirs and nobody could have done anything differently.

The UEFI forum was made into a public forum for the public version for x86. Before that it was a proprietary boot protocol designed by Intel mostly for itanium but also licensed to Apple for x86 (2010 era Mac minis use efi). Microsoft were not the originators, although I've no doubt they're contributors to this and secure boot.

Where Microsoft _do_ dictate is the Windows logo program, which is distinct from UEFI. This was the discussion originally on Matthew Garrett's blog: will they or won't they leave an 'off' option (practically they had to, to boot older windows and rescue disks).

Furthermore Microsoft's Windows logo requirements, while requiring OEMs to carry their keys on the basis OEMs want Windows logo, didn't exclude the likes of Redhat or Canonical from standing up a CA and getting included. There's some discussion of this on Matthew's older blog posts: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/6503.html?thread=194919 although I think there was a better discussion on OEM inclusion I can't find.

In other words we find ourselves where we are because everyone has been content for years to simply use the shim signed by Microsoft. Only Microsoft stood up a CA and underwent the due diligence. And you can't say a free CA can't be stood up, because letsencrypt went from zero to cab root programmes in this time.

The only issue in here that needs some care is forcing vendors to ship all approved CAs, not a minimum selection they care about.

Bootkits are a minor issue now as othe commentators have insinuated because of secure boot.

There are other advantages, too. With secure boot and tpms remote attestation of some systems at least becomes a bit more reasonable. You can also have the same bootkit resistance under Linux if you're prepared to put in a little bit of effort.

Sure if I had my way we'd have prioritized MTE/PAC over secure boot but there you are.

So let me sum up. Yes, what Lenovo is doing is bad, and if Microsoft are really proposing ditching third party signing then they deserve another massive antitrust suit. Looks like Matthew is again pretty much the only voice in the Linux world trying to make something practical work.

I am saying that it should always be the case that you can disable secure boot and it should always be the case that you can manage your platform keys. I also think they should ship the UEFI CA by default and offer the option to opt in to secure core as part of Windows' OOBE if they feel so compelled.

But there is a non profit neutral third party already and no Linux distro (or the Linux foundation) have pushed for CA inclusion that I know of.

UEFI and Secure Boot are here to stay unfortunately. That's not going to change (and that's more of a comment on the design of UEFI than SB).
Probably fishing from the golden age of Facebook sharing.
RETBleed: Leaking root password hash from /etc./shadow
I'm honestly not sure how you someone can look at those two photos side-by-side and think they're the same. Hubble's is like slapping a 360p cam rip on a 4k TV.
> I would guess their profit is based on some people choosing to enable the future.

They would not risk breaking even or losing money if people opted out more than expected. The base model with the feature disabled must be profitable on its own. It's just basic business.

> More choices for the consumer.

It's a false choice. Creating the illusion of choice is not progress. If I stood in front of your front door with a gun in hand and asked you to either pay a small fee every time you leave, or a large one-time fee to leave whenever you want, well, before I arrived you only had one choice and now you have two. Are you better off?

> What's the issue?

Capitalism generally drives progress due to competition, but it should be heavily criticised whenever it stunts progress. Simple as that.

Providing more features at the same or lower cost due to economies of scale is great progress. Artificially disabling those features with software to try and squeeze out more profit is not progress. No doubt they will also go after anyone who tries to bypass this software lock.

This is the same logic behind printer manufacturers trying to lock out third party cartridges and refilling. It's wasteful, anticompetitive and regressive, not progressive.
(er, sorry, it's 2Gbps down and 1Gbps up for $100/mo)
Your understanding is incomplete. The ban on fertilizer imports itself was triggered by dwindling forex reserves. While it did make things worse, it's not the root cause or even the major factor.
You mean Aotearoa?
Yes, on closer inspection, you are right. The camera threw me off.
I think there's a finesse to it where the bigger company can in many ways adopt the smaller company culture, leave it alone, or bring in their own unique and not bad culture. Big != sucks, necessarily. Some of the other comments have insightful examples.
Isn't that an app engine URL? I know Spotify is on GCP.
Unless you know what you're looking at, most if not everything looks mundane. It's only with perspective that we can grasp the beauty of things like these, or just other things, like ants.

To most people, ants are just an annoying bug. But to scientists (and curious non-scientists), ants are endlessly fascinating creatures. Together with scientists who speak to "common folk", even they can understand the beauty in how ants work.

That's why outreach and education is so important. And sometimes the beauty doesn't come from the direct thing (like these images, although I'd argue they are beautiful by themselves too) but from the indirect implication of the thing (time to acquire the picture, the data gathered to "draw" the picture, the community for even enabling this picture from being drawn and so on).
wouldn't that simply turn into " we are not allowed to talk about layoffs" standard response.

how is this helpful.
Nice! I put together a single file offline HTML version [1] with a demo [2] using only a CDN-hosted QR library.

[1] https://gist.github.com/ianobermiller/9f17f1022bc75c2228d742...
[2] https://bl.ocks.org/ianobermiller/raw/9f17f1022bc75c2228d742...
Struggling loanDepot to cut nearly 5k jobs in 2022
Cheat Sheet You Need
You're not following me. I'm not saying youtube channels should be podcasts. I'm saying that the problem with YouTube is its monopoly, driven by coupling hosting and discovery in one platform, and a podcast model that separates those would improve the ecosystem and solve most of the problems with YouTube being able to dictate terms for an entire super-popular form of creative content.

> Secondly, podcasting seems to be centralising recently on things like whatever-Apple-podcast-store-is-called and Spotify, so that analogy isn't great.

Right, and podcast fans largely hate that trend.
> he experience of seeing the image rendered by the lens on the ground glass in “full screen” with your eye’s superior color depth and dynamic range is really something.

Sure, but it's not what you end up with once you stop looking at pretty projections and hit the shutter button.