skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a blog per se, it is mostly social networking, first Livejournal, then Facebook. I think my writing is decent or my thoughts are resonating with certain people, because I used to have some discussion in comment section here and there.

I am writing about everything I am interested in and about things in my life. Work is a big part of my life, so I write about work quite a bit.

I don't know if it really helped me somehow or it is just a network effect or otherwise, people getting to know me IRL and then found me on social networks. I never thought about "building a personal brand", it happens naturally.
Looking at historical US weather data, the third and fourth weeks of July are typically the hottest of the year.
I think they're aware of it. They gutted Occupy Wall Street like this.
Thanks for the article! I love lamport clocks, and the lightweight methods are cool.

I read through the article a couple of times, and was unsure about something:
When the browser resets, it does not appear to copy down the current state and clock value from the server, right? I'm basing that on this from the article:

The browser resets, all the state is dropped.
browser: settings: none, clock: 0
backend: settings: foo, clock: 2

I don't think that lamport clocks can be compared if they are not representing any concept of causality or knowledge, right? This implementation appears to be two separate integers (one for the client and one for the server), with no guarantee as to their ability to communicate with each other. One bug you discovered was that the server might have a value 2, and the client might have a value 2, but they would disagree on the state that value "2" referred to. A bug indeed!
Your fix was to handle the case where the client and server tied. However, I was left wondering: What about the case where the knowledge of the client is higher than the server, but the server still should not trust it? What if, in your example step 4, the client had made 3 changes without the ability to sync with the server?
It would be this:

The user changes the settings three times, but this time the state is not propagated to the backend (e.g. due to network hiccups).
browser: settings: none, clock: 3
backend: settings: foo, clock: 2

In that case, by the time the client talks to the server, the server would think that the client had "won", but the fact that the client had a clock value of "3" would be meaningless, right? Wouldn't you still want the server to win in this case?
> but I'd guess that most of them like their jobs and like the structure and accountability that is provided to them, and not having to figure out every detail themself.

It's also nice not having to worry about when/if your next paycheck will come in, if you can afford your health insurance, get company matches on 401ks, etc.. Freedom is free, after all. While security may be an illusion to some degree, it's a compromise for freedom that many are willing to make (myself included).

I sometimes get urges to go out and sow some wild oats, but I debate if it's worth all the effort in the end.
It was the network based filesystem that was buggy. I had an atom server as well that used the same and they also discontinued that for the same reason.

It was more of a service architectural problem than a technical one with ARM as a platform.
Twitter and CNN.
"Idle hands are the Devil's workshop" as the saying goes.
Let me quote exactly what I said in my initial reply:

“ Perhaps in the first couple months the effectiveness was overstated but that quickly changed”

UPDATE:

EFFICACY is a different word than effective.

Here’s what the news was saying: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/sanofi-gsk-covid-vaccin...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57149744

this is the ostensible reason

my guess is that it's a bit more complicated. as that article says - the average farmer gets paid 21,000 pounds from the government. I know in america subsidies keep the prices of certain crops stable. My guess is that these programs are very costly to run and often times it is cheaper for government to tell people to stop farming than continue on with their promises of paying for crops no matter demand levels.
What was obvious about it? In my experience, a lot of people seem to think that anyone with a different opinion than their own must be a russian operative.
Indeed, forums are the way to go if you value deep, long discussions.

If you want to write 2-3 comments and then thread dies, then Reddit/HM/Discord/FB Groups
This seems absolutely bizarre to me. If you're a) going to enter the low-to-middle end of market and b) do so decades after the major players, you really need to differentiate yourself positively. As a customer, getting "Good enough" in that range of the GPU market has been dead simple for a long time, even including recent semiconductor shortages.

I already dealt with NVIDIA and ATI's teething pains in the late 90s/early 00's; why would I do it again? I'm nostalgic for a lot of things from my high school years, but keeping my fingers crossed while installing the ATI Radeon driver update I got off of a PC Gamer demo disk is not one of them.
> Simmering 'fuck yous' and 'civil disobedience' I see building though, with the occasional unhinged terrorist

this has been happening since i've been old enough to remember though. "unhinged terrorist" = unibomber, the OK city bombings, the list goes on. Fuck yous and civil disobedience are basically constant with some ebs and flows around election time and current events.
I lived in California for most of my life and I remember the effects of Prop 13. Before Prop 13 the parks had recreation coaches, the libraries were open seven days a week, and schools had more than enough teachers. As is typical with any forced budget reduction, the changes were targeted for maximum effect on public perception.

The federal government went through a similar activity a few years later when Reagan slashed budgets. Everyone survived.

The state/federal budgets today are astronomically higher, even after accounting for inflation.

Below is a newspaper article I saved from over 30 years ago:

--

See Dick and Jane-and Simple Simon-Solve the School Budget

By ALICE J. GLASSER

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, there was a schoolhouse
with a few children and a teacher.
The children went to school to learn and the teacher went to teach.
It was all very simple.

Then a few more kids came, so they hired another teacher. Now, with two
teachers, they needed someone to supervise. So they hired a principal.
(Meanwhile, a lot more kids came, but just one more teacher.)

So the principal hired an assistant. But still more kids came, so they
built another school and hired another principal. And now, with two
principals, they needed someone to supervise. So they hired a
superintendent, an assistant superintendent, a supervisor of Here and
a supervisor of There. And since they needed a place for all these people,
they built their own building and called themselves Unified. And they were
happy until someone pointed out that there wasn't enough for them to do.
So they hired a director of This and a director of That to develop pages
and pages of things for them to do.

But there still was a problem. Unified had no one to implement these pages and
pages of plans. So they hired coordinators of This
and coordinators of That to decide which of the pages and pages of plans
they should implement. (Meanwhile, a lot more kids came but just a few more
teachers.)

Now Unified needed a bigger building for all their people. So they bought a
really big place. So big that they hired a few more Heres and Theres and
Thises and Thats to fill up the space. And they were happy until they
realized that they had run out of money. Their budget didn't balance.
(Meanwhile, a lot more kids came and an occasional teacher.)

So they hired a financial expert of This and a resource planner of That,
and Unified came up with a Plan to balance the budget. They would break
down all the walls between all the classrooms and once again
have just one schoolroom. Only this time there would be 500 kids and one
teacher. Of course, the teacher couldn't really teach and the kids couldn't
really learn, but Unified was happy. Their budget was balanced.
It was all very simple.

----

As chairperson of the Mar Vista School Site Council in West Los Angeles, Alice J. Glasser has been wrestling with Los Angeles Unified School District budgeting problems. By profession, she is a physician.

Update: I found it online here: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-08-me-1359-s...
The difference between "forum" and "social media" is how posts are sorted and displayed.

HN and Reddit are focused on news, the newest stuff goes to the top and disappears after a day or two.

Forums on the other side focus on topics. Threads with on going discussions go to the top. They never disappear, as soon as somebody makes a new post into a thread it goes back to the top.

This means you can end up with extremely in depth and long ongoing discussions on forums that you'll never find on social media. It wasn't unusual to find threads on IMDB forums that spanned literally decades. Meanwhile on Reddit everything gets locked from any further participation after six months and becomes impossible to find after just a few days.
but they need to have died for that. I know plenty forums that have threads that are running for months or years - because they've never gone for $threshold weeks without a post. (and in general I tend to think locking after time is bad anyways, or at least should be able to be overridden)

Whereas even within the days where it is still possible, you are not going to see "oh, this HN/Reddit discussion from last week is still active" because it doesnt get ranked anywhere based on that.
What you’ve described is an issue with the bank’s procedures, not pentesting.
You can do better than this. Draw/generate your character.

Then put that at the side of a transparent image, and use as the prompt, "Two identical aliens side by side. One is jumping"
I only log in when I want to comment. I’m logged out most of the time.
This is very good news. Finally iPhone users will be able to truly own their devices, not begging Apple's permission to install the app they need.

Now, I wonder, how would Apple try to spoil this? When they were ordered to allow third party payment services, they started insisting on racketeering their additional 30% Apple Tax directly from developers. Any ideas?
Why? Because that’s how basic market forces work.
Beej: thanks a million ! I learnt all about sockets and select() from your guide back at uni over 20 years ago. I was trying to make an autonomous model helicopter for my 3rd year project, fuel oil powered, with a scarily large rotor diameter… so I made this single threaded emergency stop daemon that listened to a few sockets, including the big red button, which would interrupt the test joystick data and write out some engine-off and neutral collective pitch commands instead.

And yes, it worked in a real emergency ! the heli didn’t have any rotors afterwards but we still had our heads.

So I guess you maybe saved my life ?
> This however isn't a reason for the rest of the world to accept this.

I guess most of "the rest of the world" will still be hindered by the price tag.
There isn't one. Land, and thus real estate, is an inherently limited pie, so any market disbalance like what we have right now can only be corrected by taking some of the pie away from those who have too much of it. The only argument you can make to the former is that it's fairer that way. If they don't find it persuasive at face value, you can remind that, once enough people are sufficiently desperate to reach for torches and pitchforks, property owners would lose a lot more that any such tax.
Nice but wrong. Sweatshops pay like shit. I am talking about good Pay in your area (greater than average cost of living). Apples and Oranges.
There's a few tools for figuring out radio stuff. The first is super simple, it just scans through the frequencies and tells you which is the strongest. Most devices will put this in their manual but it's nice to not need to have to look it up.

Once you know the frequency one option is to just take a raw sample at ____megahertz and play it back on demand. This doesn't work for some radio signals because they use rolling codes and it's also a bit inefficient (be VERY VERY careful using a Flipper with a car key fob, because they can sometimes go out of sync and you can't open your car afterwards)

The good news is, for many types of radio signals, the flipper can also determine the protocol and what digital data is being sent- so instead of playing back a 2 second sample of me holding down the "power" button on my lamp's remote, it knows it can just broadcast 0x1234 using protocol XYZ.

NFC and RFID devices are basically plug & play, although only a subset are supposed.
It is funny, if you go on Christian or conservative forums, they think the left is fascist.

My observation so far is that neither is correct about Fascism.
Chromium is open source and is adopted by Microsoft via Edge. So if Google stops working on it, I'm sure MS will take up development. I think one standard is better for developers, but maybe not for diversity.
Show me a contract where an LP gets to renege penalty free on their obligations to a VC and I'll be happy to believe you.

I have been part of 222 VC/PE deals to date (that's not a typo, just a coincidence) and not once has an LP reneged on their obligation to honor a capital call without penalty. That's not saying it doesn't happen, it may well happen, or it may have happened and it was kept so quiet that nobody picked up on it (which is somewhat believable, because it would reflect very badly on the fund).

Just to give you one example: a VC enters into a deal, signs a non-binding terms sheet conditional on doing DD, goes through a full DD and then has to back out of the deal because a large LP does not honor their commitment. The fall out from that would be massive.

What is far more likely to happen is that a VC can't find a good way to spend the funds committed capital. In that case there might be extensions of the funds run or they might end up simply not calling up the available capital. This I've seen a couple of times. But an LP that refuses a capital call I've yet to see. I've even seen an estate that was held to perform when an LP ended up with the very best reason for non-performance of all.
That's the hard question. Once you have a community that decides to so it differently, you can use democratic consensus or voting (partial exampl Vienna, lots of counter-market public housing), but to get there you either need force or political will for places like boulder (think cutting off any subsidies for private home ownership and replacing then with mandates to have public bodies or cooperatives build dense-but nice housing in their own backyard. Corruption management would of course be an issue, but at least in my country construction is famously corrupt even in the private sector...). For Honolulu I don't know...but is that actually an issue?
However an AGI derived of humanity would just be humanity right?
People get bored, So too would the hypothetical AGI/Human hybrid?

We talk of design and purpose but the AGI might be as purposeless and hopeless as every other man on the planet.
Unless that Redditor's name is Seth Rich, then you can get away with murder.
> But off the bat, iOS could force even more granular alerts to the user when sensitive permissions are required.

How does having more granular alerts actually solve this issue?

> Curious too, how you think that App Store review currently solves this issue.

Well, obviously it doesn't, currently. App Store review needs to update their rules to address this type of abuse. Uber is big but they've taken hard line stances against bigger apps before (e.g. Facebook).

> https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/apple-tim-cook-threatened-...

Sounds like a success story, imagine the alternative scenario where there was no review process and Uber could get away with this unimpeded.
I think you're onto something with the installer idea. Curious to think how it would work technically and UX-wise on iOS. Maybe users go to Facebook's mobile website to download the installer's binary. (Apple would probably just ban apps that are just installers for unreviewed apps, so Meta couldn't host the installer there.) Interesting to imagine how'd that go for them, as going through a webpage does complicate things for casual users. (And savvy users who might be turned off by it.)

Makes me wonder too if Apple might end up enforcing indirect app review outside of the App Store. They could bundle the iOS equivalent to Microsoft Defender, basically Apple's built-in security tool. It could mark binaries found in the wild as unsafe if Apple discovered them to be misusing permissions or to be malware. If iOS apps can just be sideloaded, they should still be inspectable...
It would be nice if there was a command-line tool that took a definition file (could be XML, JSON, RSS, or some other plain text format) that contained references to video files (in the case of a DVD) marking each chapter and could simply make a DVD ISO file from that. Same thing with audio CDs. I realize a non-trivial amount of encoding or re-encoding might need to happen in the process but ffmpeg has this covered, no?
From what i've seen it's all about the VRAM

if you've got 60GB available to your GPU then maybe you can get close

I'm really curious if Apple's unified memory architecture is of benefit here, especially a few years from now if we can start getting 128/256GB of shared RAM on the SoC
I don't think it's realistic. One example:

> Make core messaging functionality interoperable. They lay out concrete examples like file transfer

Google, Apple, and Amazon are supposed to design, ratify, implement and ship a universal messaging standard in 6 months? This won't happen even if they skip the first two steps and use an existing standard.

Apple ships a new iOS version in September, when this timer is supposed to start. Are they supposed to upend their entire release cycle and ship these major changes to their OS by March?

I've used iPhones for years, and I'm totally down with these bullet points. But I think we can all chuckle at the timeline, given the scope of this.
The closest you can get are

Documentary from the set, starts @10:00 https://35mm.online/vod/kroniki/polska-kronika-filmowa-64-26...

Similar surreal movies by same Director/Author:

https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/sanatorium-pod-klepsydra

https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/osobisty-pamietnik-grzesznika...
> And I'm sorry but if quantity written had any relevance on one's seriousness as an author then Stephen King would be the greatest English-language author of all time.

While I would never reach for that kind of superlative, and I definitely don't think it's related to quantity written, I do think Stephen King is an exceptionally good English-language author.
You're absolutely right. I think the way Amsterdam does this is instructive: nearly all cycling-trolley crossings are completely perpendicular, and all cycling-automotive crossings are isolated and separate from any nearby trolley crossing.
We see this all the time in healthcare. MRI imaging machine that cost 500k 20 years ago still works fine but only on Windows XP. Cost to rewrite the software for windows 10 is more than 500k so rather than paying for that instead they firewall the shit out of it so it can only talk to some printing / output device.

That’s just one example. Medical machines are expensive as hell and companies don’t want to rebuy or constantly invest in something that works and does one thing well.
> They might require Google to stop adding so many new features to Chrome so Safari and Firefox can catch up

I'm genuinely not sure if this is satire or not.
FYI usually banks keep accounts “shadow open” for upwards of 6mo in case a charge comes through. So you still may get over drafted.

These sort of schemes will probably make chargebacks harder to use than just closing the account that would do the billing. If the card is leaked/frauded than you’re already legally protected. If you just want to avoid the act of cancelling an account you opened… then you’re playing into the arms race that is making these things harder.

> but first party misuse, which can account for up to 75 percent of all chargebacks, is when a cardholder disputes a legitimate purchase that they intended with their issuer. This includes customers refuting valid purchases such as long-forgotten recurring subscriptions

If you agree to a purchase, and sign up for something re-occurring, you’re committing to it. You have to tell the business to stop charging you, you can’t just stop paying.
I saw WhatsApp dialer on hacker news recently and wondered recently if it would be possible to set up a router like service for WhatsApp. Kind of like Ciphr.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78v8z/ciphr-encrypted-phone...

Not looking to do anything illegal, just a way to minimize meta's data collection. For example, you send a message from WhatsApp on your phone and its go to a labtop set up with the router/relay and then the message goes to the target. This would this stop meta from tracking movements, metadata, etc. Meta would still know the contents of the message and to who sent it / read it but using WhatsApp that's to be excepted. Also if this is possible their are a number of other things that you could do. Any thoughts?

Are their any other WhatsApp websites/apps that are worth looking into?

Any help would be appreciated

Thank you.
They won't become homeless. They will have to move after selling and incredibly expensive house. As opposed to those who are homeless but are not receiving any tax benefits for not having a home, they will have capital to rent for a long time and/or buy a new one in a cheap area
That's been largely the impression I've got from my US friends who moved to the UK. They're all fed up off the political situation and decided to leave.

Then they get here and realised they should have flown about 200 miles East
I had really great experience using SAT solvers on these machines. It was a dual socket 80 core ampere system https://twitter.com/Anno0770/status/1527414408242155523?t=AV... .
This is nonsense. Users would be free to stick to the Apple app-store and apps. What it means is those that wish to install from alternative locations, can.

Competition in the app store space is a good thing. Competition generally is a good thing. This is what it is about.

Scaremongering this kind of nonsense to suppose walled-garden ecosystems (that primarily benefit the gardener, not the plants) is a stretch.

It's the same with payments. Why should Apple not only dictate what software I can and can not use on my device, but also force those developers to use an officially sanctioned payment API so they can take a fat cut?

Congratulations to the EU indeed, for the right reasons.
Raptor Computing to Launch “Arctic Tern” as an FPGA-Based Soft BMC
>If you create a product that people are searching for and genuinely want/need, it practically sells itself

My adage is this but more generic:

It's way easier to sell someone something they want than to convenience them to buy what you're selling.

This applies to anything. The way to advance at work is to give your boss exactly what they want. The path to a happy relationship is to find someone looking for the traits you have (and vice versa). Sell winter coats in NY and not Fla. Buy the house that meets your needs. And so on.
The biggest shock from this is that decreasing mortgage applications reduce the total sum of money in circulation thereby destroying wealth explicitly.

More Money is created by banks via mortgage loans than QE by the fed. As more existing loans are paid off, the money is removed from the pool due to reserve requirements.

Dropping house prices create a credit freeze that can only be resolved by excess QE but QE is not happening anytime soon unless....