skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solid book. The sequel (Children of Ruin) was pretty good too.
The is my favorite example of active vs passive:

First active

> I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of nature, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Now passive:

> A decision was made to go to the woods because of a desire for a deliberate existence and for exposure to only the essential facts of life, and for possible instruction in its educational elements, and because of a concern that at the time of my death the absence of a meaningful prior experience would be apprehended.

https://theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-l...
The shared science behind ice cream, paint and crude oil (2016)
Being able to embed that in IE was just a total leap forward. Anyone who remembers the ambiguous "A JavaScript error occurred..." dialogs with zero helpful information will probably also remember the first time that Firebug gave you the actual location and file of the error. Breakpoints?! Amazing.
The rumored 15" MacBook Air may just do that. The base M2 chip is plenty fast and with the larger case they could put an even larger battery in and push battery life to 30+ hours.
That last part is important. While Intel had good fab engineers, they also relied on cutthroat business deals requiring exclusivity to get discounts and promotional support and there were constant shenanigans with things like compiler support.

AMD had to make a much better product to get manufacturers to consider it, not just being price competitive. It took the P4 train wreck to get the market to shift but Intel had enough lock-in to make it to the Core generation without losing too much market share because so many of the vendors had those contracts.
> if enough people in a community knew about it, they could 100% control what crimes are punished in that community

Yes, this is why juries are democratic: on aggregate, they ensure that interpretation of the law still reflects democratic will.

But more to the point - theoretically, regular people in a community already 100% control the law.
After running benchmarks on Intel and AMD CPUs from that era with mitigations, it's clear Intel never really had a performance lead due to design. That alone rewrites the entire "state of AMD" narrative.

If Intel only had a competitive advantage during that era because they traded performance for security, was there ever really an advantage?

I personally don't think Gelsinger is going to be able to fix their culture issues. He's been more intent on pumping stock and asking for handouts than innovating, which is part of what got them where they are in the first place, for good or ill.
Or in my case, a prediction machine that is more often wrong than right.
There is a backup plan. For corporate systems, contact the IT department. For banking, call the bank or go to a branch. TOTP-based schemes can be backed up and used on multiple devices. So on and so forth.

It just so happens that most of these backup plans are incredibly inconvenient and might take a long time and effort to get through them.
They took $160 million and turned it into nothing. Then they took $565 million and bought a successful company.

Summarized a different way they took $725 million and turned it into a business with $189 million in annual revenue over a period of a decade.

If they had just invested all the VC money they would have $1.8 billion. I’d consider that a more successful outcome to be perfectly honest. Is anyone really going to pay $5b for Fivetran at 26x revenue? Doubt.
Flash absolutely would have become more entrenched.

You get the feeling that Apple wasn't going to support Adobe's Flash plugin on the iPhone, no matter what. Too battery-inefficient, too laden with security holes. They weren't going to pour billions into the iPhone just to have it be a delivery mechanism for Adobe's mess of a runtime.

I see three alternate histories:

1. The iPhone launches without Flash, and it flops, because most of the Alexa top 500 is totally reliant on Flash.

2. The iPhone launches without Flash, just like in our timeline, and it's good enough that people still embrace it. Eventually this kills off Flash just like in our timeline, but it's a slower and more painful transition.

3. Apple agrees to support Flash on the iPhone, but only via an agreement with Adobe that lets Apple develop their own (safer, performant) Flash layer that stays in sync with Adobe's plugin via legally binding terms of the contract or whatever.

In two out of these three alternate histories, we're still stuck with Flash today.
Yes this was it thanks, I was trying to fit it around where I use GetHashCode in my workflow which is signed in .net.

As you say the algorithm was correct.
I don’t think a company where their own board of directors said they don’t have a viable product, should be valued at $5B, $4B, or even $1B
Abit disappointed to only seeing large tech companies making adtech or similar things.

Not saying these around good places to be well paid but I believe that are more important problems to solve than creating thumbsups and likes. It is also not a shame to own a large farm or serve in an orphanage in a third world country.
It reminds me Scalia’s infamous Troy Davis dissent[1]:

> This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually” innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged “actual innocence” is constitutionally cognizable.

i.e., Actual innocence is constitutionally irrelevant.

[1]https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/08pdf/08-1443Scalia.pd...
Yes it almost certainly does.

Sanctions work because they are virulent.
This really is the meat of the question.

Trials could be set up so that a jury is presented with specific questions of fact, and they must rule on those questions of fact. "The jury finds the defendant, Bob Bobson, did enter the house of Vick Victimson between the hours of 9PM and 11PM. The jury finds the defendant, Bob Bobson, did take Vick Victimson's property. The jury finds the defendant, Bob Bobson, did push Vick Victimson down the stairs, resulting in his death."

... but they do not. Juries decide on whether the entire crime occured. Guilt or innocence. Moreover, they aren't generally required to give reasoning for rendering their verdict, and only in cases where there is no rational train of thought possible to determine a crime was committed may a judge overrule a jury's finding on the issue of guilt. The full power of finding of fact of "Did any crime occur here" is in the hands of the jury.

I know of someone who sat jury on a case involving someone shooting into a home. Jury found the defendant guilty of reckless endangerment, but the interesting thing is that the jury's reasoning on the topic was that any discharge of a firearm in a city, by virtue of the denseness of the city's population, with no backstop and no planning on where the bullet would end up, should by default be reckless endangerment. I think one could easily find folks familiar with firearms who would disagree, but it doesn't matter. The jury has the power, in that case, to decide "common sense" dictates that's what the words "reckless endangerment" mean.
None, because it doesn’t block sunlight.
I’m not sure that there’s been a ton of cases exactly like this that have made it to court. If someone asked you to pick between [maybe going to prison] or [definitely not going to prison], which button would you press?
I'm assuming that the problem for Github is that they can't reliably know which of the contributors are "currently part of" TornadoCash and which ones are unrelated people who just contributed code some time ago, and since they absolutely must block the former, in the case of uncertainty the only safe option was to block everyone who seems related.
In our network there are no developers. That would be a different usecase which would require different policies.
All tools required by staff are online and autosave everything.
This in fact is another reason why proper restarts are enforced nightly, as most browsers with multiple tabs of heavy web apps start misbehaving very quickly. Forcing a nightly shutdown of browsers is an added bonus of proper shutdowns.

Be aware I am in a corporate environment, with all non technical users, and all services online.
>All telecom equipment has "legal intercept" hooks to allow full monitoring by law enforcement in whatever jurisdiction the devices are sold in. You don't need special backdoor chips

Aren't the data on chips and with telecoms pretty different? Feels like government would want to monitor what someone is doing on their computer and their communications.
not really! these debuggers let you collect logs & traces from your running applications and you can put/delete your tracepoints on-demand without stopping and redeploying your applications. what's more, they are a lot more lightweight compared to APMs and some of them even aggregate collected stack informations with telemetry trace ids.
Probably because with work at home there’s no WOL.

We disabled sleep to improve battery life and address a personal safety issue. There are many failure scenarios between various builds of Windows 10 and shitty drivers. Devices often wake up in bags and spin up fans until dead.

Normal scenario is that the battery is dead in the morning. In one case, it melted the compartment material in a bag and was deemed a safety hazard.
and what were those dogwhistles?
> What do you mean, "has to"? The point is that judges have discretion.

Well, the justice system has a number of types of discretion:

(1) Determining facts. Two first-hand accounts disagree, which do we find most believable?

(2) Discretion granted by lawmakers. This person has been found guilty of X and the law calls for a prison sentence of 3 to 15 years depending on the facts of the case, how long should the sentence be?

(3) Discretion in how to interpret the words of the law. For example, if a farmer grows wheat to feed to his own livestock, and it isn't sold and doesn't cross state lines, is that still "interstate commerce" because otherwise the farmer might have brought feed on on the national market?

You're never going to remove (1) or (2) from the legal system, of course. But some people would say (3) is a question of politics which should be resolved through the political system - not through the justice system.
A jury is not required to explain the reasons for their verdict. In many, probably most, cases the judge won't be able to tell that the jury convicted for improper reasons.
If you think of other humans in the same way as inanimate objects that provide you things I suspect you might be a sociopath.
The linked moderator comments explain it in detail and it's not really conversation if you're just recycling a stash of prepared commentary, linked or pasted. If you don't have much new to say, link it or let it be.
I wish there was something to make smaller vehicles more palatable. Where I live everyone drives huge vehicles. They need the AWD or 4wd for traction in the winter. They probably don’t need to be F150 size and above for that though. I’m thinking like a weight/size tax on registration.
Rust's assumption is that it's the compiler's job to reject all wrong programs (usually with a helpful diagnostic). In C++ the assumption is that it's the compiler's job to permit all correct programs.

You obviously ideally want both, but that's not actually possible when you have a language this powerful. So, Rest's choice means sometimes (more rarely these days but it can happen) you will write a program that is correct, but the compiler doesn't believe you and rejects your program, you will need to alter it, perhaps after alterations it's actually nicer, but equally perhaps you feel this made it uglier or slower, nevertheless you have no choice in Rust (well, you could try waiting a few years, the compiler gets smarter)

However the C++ choice means sometimes (maybe even often) you will write a program that isn't correct and the compiler gives you no indication whatsoever that there's a problem, you get an executable or object file or whatever out, but what it does is completely arbitrary. Maybe it works how you expected... until it doesn't.

The magic phrase in the C++ standard is "Ill-formed, no diagnostic required". For example suppose you try to sort some floats in C++ 20. That's ill-formed (floats aren't in fact Totally Ordered but the function signature says you promise they are) and no diagnostic is required for... whatever it is your program now does. Maybe it crashes, maybe it works fine, not their problem, good luck with that.

Now, probably if all your floats are like boring normal finite reals like -2.5 or something this will work fine, there's no practical reason it wouldn't, but who knows, the C++ language denies all responsibility. So it gets to be very "optimal" here since it can do whatever it wants and it's your fault.
>but it's glue...

Which is also made from the dregs of the meat industry.
Pareto principle. Focus on something that matters and is actually happening instead of nonexistent hypotheticals.
It’s a gray area. These sanctions went against Tornado Cash, the entity. Does that extend to core devs? Anyone who did a PR? That’s the question GH’s counsel has to interpret.

> deletion of accounts seems more like a CYA move than a strict obligation.

Microsoft is prohibited from giving any good or service to a blocked entity. It’s very possible their lawyers will say “the easiest way to meet this obligation is to delete accounts related to the blocked entity.”

The legal system is CYA, after all.
That bit about 'having to design for an extremely unreliable and inefficient society' sounds like Cold War Western propaganda. Soviet designs were not made efficient and durable because of that. They were made efficient and durable because that was the default for engineering until capitalism discarded that default and forced profit-maximizing designs that function over bloated specs and planned obsolescence. Otherwise in late 19th century and early 20th century, every country was more or less doing similar engineering design.

Also, the science and engineering curriculums were much heavier than the US ones. Just check a few Soviet science/eng textbooks that you can find online.
Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg believe Big Tech has too many employees
Youve taken a lot of liberties and assumptions with my post here.
I dont do any of those things you mentioned, only enforce a nightly shutdown.

Nothing to do with laziness. As other people have often mentioned on HN, in the real world of understaffed underbudget corporate IT you need to do what you can to enforce things which make everybodies life easier.
Go through the whole list and figure out which of these services really requires your phone, and which you have set up on your phone because that seemed the easiest path.

Tell your workplace you're about to switch from carrying a phone to a landline: what is their fallback option? (It's about 50/50 whether they have one, but they definitely should.)
It was built for AI driven container orchestration, configuration synthesis from high level constraints.

Yes ML workloads is particularly complex, because they have both batch oriented data flows (training), and service oriented data flows (inference). There aren't many systems that can adequately express both.
If the matrix project was run by terrorists then your comparison would be accurate. It is not however. Tornado Cash however is run by a group with the express purpose of money laundering which is a crime. This difference is important and is why they are now sanctioned and Matrix is not.
GCC 13 will support Rust.
I don't know. I can plausibly read it (knowing nothing about the man) as self-deprecating. A realisation that he's bound by what the law says, even if _he_ finds it unjust.

For example, if a jury finds a defendant guilty of some crime, because they really did it (let's say Aladdin stole some bread from the supermarket and it's clear beyond reasonable doubt that he did indeed), and the law dictates that the _minimum_ penalty is 10 years, then a judge is bound. It does not matter one iota that both the jury and the judge feels this punishment is excessive bordering on ridiculous; in that sense, it is 'a court of law' and not 'a court of justice'. It's not self-serving, it's self-denigrating: Awareness that the judge/jury can't just decide together how to proceed.

That's what jury nullification is about: If a jury member realizes the judge is going to be forced to give a to them utterly ridiculous sentence if the jury finds the defendant guilty, you can simply decide to find them not guilty even though you are well convinced beyond reasonable doubt that they are. Now they are meting out justice and flaunting the law. The jury can actually get away with this (as this news article again shows); a judge absolutely wouldn't be able to.

NB: Current SCOTUS seems to just do whatever the heck they feel like, flaunting all plausible readings of a given law, deference to expertise, and precedence (e.g. how modern SCOTUS opinions often write that Stare Decisis is meaningless – saying that it matters "unless it was wrongly decided" is a euphemism for "it does not matter", of course). So specifically modern day SCOTUS? They seem to think they are beyond the law. It also shows how I really, really don't think you _want_ a court to think itself a court of justice, meeting out excessive punishments because they feel that is just, and letting defendants clearly guilty of egregious acts go free or nearly so for some imagined reason. It also means that any clash with the law has utterly unpredictable consequences. By definition, minimum and maximum penalties clash with the notion that a court is 'a court of justice' instead of 'a court of law'.
I remember really struggling with the IE Dev Toolbar. It was infinitely better than nothing, but it paled in comparison to Firebug.
I hate it. They have been phasing out web for years in the EU.

Banks mostly but these days employers too. Getting a separate device, or multiple, seems like the least horrible options to me.

Turns out everyone wants a piece of my data I in the name of convenience. Only, it's their convenience, not mine.
They directly quoted a board member saying “there is no product here.” If there is hyperbole it’s coming from Fivetran itself.
Upthread you can see why. High drama developers will tell you that logging out will cost the company $25k a year because previous snowflake has to open notepad and disrupt their flow as they eat breakfast.

The frontline IT guys aren’t able to deal with shit like that, so a draconian policy comes top down.
... and some can be totally reflashed with mainstream Linux:

https://liliputing.com/this-dirt-cheap-4g-lte-modem-on-a-usb...
Perhaps for the greater good as this is some crypto bullshit.
Open Source Software Insight
IIUC, unless a defendant waives their right to a jury trial, a directed verdict may only ever be "not guilty." Otherwise, it's a violation of the Constitutional right to trial by jury.
I love the way that they visualize the data.
Free locking, charging 'Locky Docks' for e-bikes launch in Christchurch (2020)
Grewal vs. Grewal: What Coinbase’s GC Should Expect from the SEC
Does anyone want to dispute that Tornado Cash is a money laundering tool? When at least 20% of the money that has moved through it is already known to be ill-gotten gains, with the rest being indeterminant, it's kind of hard to say it's a anything but a money laundering tool. I've only seen childish arguments that "money laundering is a fake crime", not that Tornado Cash isn't a money laundering tool.
I was frustrated by an episode of RadioLab recently in which a marine biologist explained why an example of humpback whales saving a seal from orcas wasn’t empathy or altruism but was just an evolutionary urge to save an animal in distress because there was a chance it might be a young member of their own species.

It felt like a textbook example of not being able to see the forest for the trees; he was so focused on showing that the whale’s behavior was determined by biology (and therefore was not an example of altruism) that he forgot all behavior in all animals, including humans, is determined by biology.
Robotic Motion in Curved Space Defies Standard Laws of Physics
At least on most ThinkPads, the AMD versions lack Thunderbolt 3/4/ USB 4.0 Full Feature (e.g. including TB) so if I have a Thunderbolt docking station, it will probably not work. Nobody confirmed to me, what would work in such a setting. Will Lenovo/ AMD provide USB 4 upgrade using firmware?

Of course, the next question is the potentially asymmetric RAM on the ThinkPads with one channel soldered and one SO-DIMM slot, e.g. the 48 GB version. Will it use dual-channel until ~32 GB and then single-channel? How will the GPU perform, e.g. will it use only one slot in such a configuration. So many questions...
There were some pearls from some of the most unexpected sources(Rollins, Bourdain, Honnold, etc) in the earlier years. However, more than a few were not worth listening to, too(Gladwell, Peterson, Lazar, Walker, etc).

Luckily, since, Covid, Trump & Spotify, I don't wade through the mire to find any jewels, I simply just don't listen anymore.
Can you use Bitwarden for TOTP? I already use it for my passwords but for TOTP I have multiple apps and I hate it
Can you point to an aluminium fire that wasn't based on the aluminium being powdered, and where there were no fire enhancers (O2-enriched atmosphere, oxidizers like permanganate) present, and that sustained itself? (Because that's the conditions ars was talking about. Maybe if in ars' case the aluminium part was mostly liquid due to the short before it started burning that would explain it, but then they didn't describe it that way.)
I had a company provided 2019 dell at my last job and the trackpoint was barely comparable to that of a 2011 thinkpad. If that's the only trackpoint experience is that some people get I understand why they'd never touch one again.
My Swedish bank offers two methods. One is the nationwide e-identification system called BankID - used for loads of commerce/governmental/identification/authentication in Sweden - which requires Internet access and works on computers as well as smartphones. The other method uses a discrete HOTP-type device (with a personalized login card) which accepts a challenge code from the bank login page and outputs a digested authentication response. As far as I know, all major banks in Sweden offer both or at least one of these two methods.

In the past a lot of banks here used OTP scratch cards, and would automatically send you a new one in the mail when you used one of the 10 last codes or so on the card.
You aren't wrong, the downvote are a defense mechanism.

People can blame their inability to have a relationship on outside factors (age/genetic makeup) if physical attractiveness was set in stone and the most important thing. It's a worldview where they don't have to look at their personality or behavior critically, so its an incredibly appealing worldview to some.
Would love to know whether they're having somewhat of a free-for-all or, most likely, have a list of critical targets.

Also, whether they are on the same floor as the blue team. And how much social engineering is going on versus purely technical exploits.
Me too in my ideal world I wouldn't have a phone, but now I need for transport, food, financial services, nearly everything.
Why should they have a landline fallback?
Git-bug: FOSS Git-embedded bug-tracking has bridge to GitHub/Gitlab/Jira issues
OmniWeb was a pretty good browser and I used it exclusively until Firefox was released for Mac.
Is it available somewhere? Could it become available?