skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you overestimate how resilient any of the cloud providers are to a massive gray failure. Lots of west coast infrastructure will flap. The survivors will have other priorities. I am going to revise my statement, I predict! a partial or nearly complete failure of the internet across multiple continents when this earthquake goes off.
Thanks for replying!

If I understand correctly, GATs are about being able to change compiler assumptions about data types in user code? Generics acting on the compiler?

How is that helpful? Is it that you're trying to skip all the language boilerplate around creating objects? Are there any risks/footguns to that approach?

Generic type-driven code makes my head hurt, let me know if I'm somewhat close
There have been many chess variants and I always feel that adding randomness is a little sloppy. There is one awesome variant called 'retrospective chess' - the piece you move dictates how ALL your pieces move on the next turn. Crazy checkmate, instant pawns to queens, a whole new intuition. Mindbendingly good.
Removal of temporary mitigation in Windows updates requires compliant devices
For every 1k companies who think they'll be the next Amazon, probably 1 is. Program to reality, not ego. Get walking down before you run.

Normalize your database in a practical way and you should be able to scale fairly well into typical growth. Bad database designs are the most common culprit I see.
kids left highschool knowing more math in the 70's than college graduates do now
If they were "customer obsessed" even though they are not doing development of a service, they would lauch it anyway in all regions.

By not doing this, they make it hard for their customers to be multi-regional.

It is easy to spin "customer obsession" any way you like.
I was going to say "and how light we could make a car", but then i actually looked up some stats, and this was news to me:

http://web.mit.edu/sloan-auto-lab/research/beforeh2/files/Ma...

Car weight declined sharply from 1976 to 1982, then started creeping up again, but cars in 2010 were only about as heavy as cars in ~1979.
Definitely an AR native but he might have been from the Ozarks rather than PB now that I think of it.
Ruby has also gotten on that bandwagon.
I don't have the answer to either question, I'm afraid.
Compiler "optimizations" aren't necessarily improvements. Optimization patterns, however, can be nicely enumerated. This is from 1971, Frances Allen and John Cocke. It looks like a classic paper. See previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24067436
The PRC recently surrounded TSMC with ships, soldiers, missiles, and aircraft.
Which is nonsense, the whole point of insurance (and why most people should purchase insurance) is to pool risk so to cover high costs that most can’t afford for themselves.
This is genius, it will be like a frequent flyer program but without any significant possibility of customer loyalty

People will justify paying higher rents than they would since they're getting some of it back as these credits. Flow will incentivize holding them & eventually they'll shut down and everyone's credits will just disappear into thin air!

Better than a web3 pump & dump, no need to hire expensive crypto engineers.
> “the general public’s trust in science”

Science is /= fact or truth. Science is a process.

There should never be a “trust in science.” In fact, science only works if nobody trusts anything and every experiment is questioned and repeated. If this doesn’t happen, then that’s when the general public should be concerned.
He said magnesium, not titanium.
At the federal level nominal rates are lower. Effective rates are a lateral move or slight change depending on your bracket. Unless you're rich enough that progressive taxes (e.g. income and property) dominate your tax burden (most 20yos are not this wealthy) overall tax burden in most places is way up due to the proliferation of regressive consumer taxes and government fees that are basically taxes in the past 70yr.

The above paragraph is a broad brush statement and does not apply to all jurisdictions and situations. The prior sentence shouldn't be needed but is.
I have a 2011 13" Air that has been mine, then my wife's, then my kid's. It has been thrown in backpacks, dropped, stood on, you name it. It's still going strong, and my kid still pulls it out to play some Mac-only games every few weeks.

I've got a 2014 15" MBP. It's had the screen replacement (free), and a bulging battery got me a new lower case & battery for $200. Still my daily driver.

OTOH, my wife has a 2017 MacBook which is on its third keyboard/lower case. Both the replacements were free, but it's a PITA to have to take it to the store and be without it for a few days while they swap in the new one.

Either way, my experiences have been uniformly positive with Apple's service, and whatever issues exist with the underlying hardware, if they're Apple's fault, I've had no trouble getting replacements for free.

All anecdata, I acknowledge.
It actually just is, if we're talking about purchasing power of an individual, which is pretty much the only thing the average person cares about
> It's really difficult to build a useable security product, and Signal has done it successfully.

I'd argue it hasn't. Signal still has no way of backing up your chat history (with photos, etc). Lose your phone and it's all gone forever. The PIN that the app annoyingly tells you to set up does not serve as an encryption key for your backups. There are no backups.

Once again, if your phone dies (this happened to me recently), all your data in Signal is gone forever. And there is no way to prevent that.

In this day and age, I consider this unacceptable. That is not a "useable security product".
Not saying that healthcare spending isn't an issue, but it doesn't seem like a major contributor to the problem of gen Z being poor. They're not exactly at the age where most of them are racking up huge healthcare bills from chronic illnesses.
The US government spends more on healthcare per capita than any other OECD nation. We are just being robbed.
The US federal government also spends more per capita on healthcare than almost every other nation.
Using Rust to scale Elixir for 11M concurrent users (2019)
This bothered me a lot, so I contacted the department of health and requested the opt-out form. They emailed me back rather quickly with the form, but boy does the text of the form try to dissuade you!

"I understand that there are numerous benefits to public health in retaining residual NBS samples. Residual NBS samples are the only available opportunity for a complete population study to be conducted since there is a sample received on virtually every baby born. In addition to this, the NBS sample is sometimes the only remaining evidence available to the family from their child if their child becomes missing. The main benefits to NBS sample storage are:
• Quality assurance and improvement for the NBS laboratory.
• Research for new technologies and for detecting new disorders.
• Research for new treatments and cures for major childhood diseases.
• Population incidence research on disorders and environmental contaminant exposures.
• Parents can recall the specimens to help determine the cause of an unexplained death of their child (SIDS).
• Parents can recall the specimens to aid law enforcement in identifying their missing child. "
What are you talking about? What "technological innovation" would Adam possibly bring to housing that improves social cohesion and affordability? Like, an app?
I'll put it this way, if I would have met her... Just two or three months later, my life was in a phenomenally better state.

There was no reason for me to tell her on a second date or whatever about all of my problems.

I was a stupid 19-year-old.

Now I know, you just don't need to tell everybody everything. Particularly when you don't know the person that well, it doesn't help them to know what you're going through.

It's all love though, after my first girlfriend dumped me I probably went out with like 3 or 4 other girls within a year or so.
I returned my X1 due to poor thermal performance, bad Windows drivers, and incomplete Linux compatibility. I switched it out for an M1 Air which has been my favorite machine of all time.
In practice everything released at defcon sees its last commit within 24H prior of the presentation. An unfortunate reality.
Should have bought an ASUS instead.
That's incorrect.

If anything, banking and lending regulation have only increased since the boomer era. We made it more convenient, but we also made it harder for businesses to trap people in bad loans.
No house, car, utility vehicles?

How about your body? Medical and life insurance are nearly universal.
Glad the DOJ approved that merger. Look at all this new content we're getting!
Something to do with encrypting using a hash of the round number and pair encryption based off a chosen chain's public key. I'm still processing the pair encryption bits.
Has anyone tried their hand at replacing a cracked screen/display themselves?

I've looked at the ifixit videos and it's just a lot of screws to remove, but seems doable. The main thing is that for spending $300, I cannot tell on Ebay/Amazon which sellers are actually selling legit display assemblies versus those that are "offbrand" or have some issue where the Truetone setting is no longer available (to name one issue they point out).

It's even hard to tell whether the unit you order will have the Apple logo on the aluminum cover.

Anyway, it's $300 + potential aggravation do it yourself versus $600 have the Apple service "genius" do it.
Warranty lasts 12 months. AppleCare lasts 3 years. Your choice.

Dell is the same. IIRC, HP was too. There's nothing to see here.
This looks like a really exciting year for the Matrix team, and it's such an important project (making secure communication available to everyone) that I wish them every success.

I'm particularly interested to follow their progress on https://areweoidcyet.com and wonder if they will support Self-Issued OIDC identities at some point. Perhaps that extension to OIDC is a bit too new[0], but it would really help Matrix's goal of decentralisation if users had portable identities that weren't dependent on big providers.

There is also work to make these SIOP identities integrate with the wider W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) ecosystem, through DID-SIOP[1], so that might create some more opportunities for interoperability.

[0] https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-self-issued-v2-1_0.h...

[1] https://www.didsiop.org/
Thru'ppeny Bit, 1550(circa) to 1971. Great coin. When chips were either 3d or 6d and a pickled onion was a ha'penny. good times. Mind you.. my dad swore it was better when chips were a penny.

having both a florin, and half a crown. So thats an each-way bet, two shillings, or two shillings and sixpence. Was there a crown? No. we don't do that. (fact: did. its the commerative coin your granny gives you)

But if you found a farthing (and I did) you could get a chewy toffee for a farthing at the shop. (the farthings mostly had queen victoria on them. Pennies, I had every George since the IV through to liz, I liked the victoria ones best) Something broke when we switched off duodecimal. Measurement, totally made sense. Currency, you can divvy up 12 so many more ways than 10, amongst people.

I totally lost it when I found Australia had $2 notes. FFS just hold two $1 notes. Then $2 coins. Mind. Blown.

3d was a great coin. Too many sides to count. Kids totally don't appreciate the weight of confusion when size of coin has no bearing on face value, or that you could be slipped something which was legally, technically sixpence, but made of silver. Not cupro nickel plate: silver. I never saw a real guinea, I know my dad did. Posh shops priced in Guineas for the extra shilling. Jenners on the high street.
I think he's saying sane businesses will stay away from GCP, leaving the hobbyists, and there aren't enough of them to sustain GCP.
I can see how it can be read sarcastically (now, in hindsight, I'm rubbing my temples), but beleive me I think he's the best the Left has.
> most physicists do believe that quantum fields are the most basic building block of our world

Do they? Maybe most theoretical physicists, because that's what they work with, they often are platonists and there is no better model. I doubt the rest, in particular experimental physicists, have even solid one or the other way opinion on this. Ontology is too much philosophy and too little physics.
I think the parent comment was saying that Google cloud is for hobbyist because no one in their right mind will build a business that depends on Google cloud offerings.
Where I think this analogy breaks down is that these models are not simply copying / memorizing the training data. They are using the data to fit a model, highly compressing the specifics while holding on to general patterns and abstractions.

I really feel like "reading lots of books" is a better analogy. (Of course its not perfect, since these systems can scale way past the number of books a human can read).
It seems like everywhere is pushing financing as an alternative to payment upfront. Even small (<$50 purchases) are being offered financing through services like Klarna. It really feels like it's become an option for almost any purchase now.
>Stop tracking people with telemetry. You don’t need to know how many users you have.

Uhhh... what? If I was in Mozilla's shoes I would 100% want to know how many users I have.

>People strip FF of telemetry anyways. Look at LibreWolf and learn.

Some people do this. Not everyone does it.
That's fair, the thing I'm looking for isn't quite a contradiction.

What I like about Zeno's motion based paradoxes is they have this aspect of "here's a reasonable model of motion, and here's the ridiculous result you get from it." There's clearly something wrong in the model, but working it out takes a while, you need someone to come around and invent series first.

After a little reading, I think I just like falsidical paradoxes and don't like veridical paradoxes.
The article is overblown but the point remains: if GCP doesn't stop shedding money, the business is not going to let it burn cash indefinitely on a fool's errand. There will be pull-back and we don't know what services (or regions) will be affected. This may be the first of a trend.

"Google Cloud still operating at a loss despite revenue, client wins" (https://www.ciodive.com/news/google-cloud-revenue-Q2-2022/62...). Their revenue increased but so did their losses by about the same percentage. They are still 14% behind Microsoft's marketshare. They are leaning into a niche of "data, analytics, security", which is so broad that it won't take much for their competitors with much larger market share to eat their lunch.

A year ago they said they'd be profitable by this time. A year before that they said the same thing.

It's kind of sad. All that technology and nobody wants them, like a nerd without a date.
GP is saying that insurance makes sense for things too expensive to replace on your own, like houses and cars, but not cheaper things like consumer electronics.
We have a FUSE mount and CLI. For details see: https://github.com/peergos/peergos#fuse-native-folder-mounti...
It depends on what you mean by ‘production’ of course.

Plenty of stuff runs in production as shell scripts at Google - if you’re a dev, you just don’t notice it often.

Most of the rest of the glue is Python.
This is not supported Mac OS unfortunately. I did some digging, and it was previously only possible with an AirPort hardware device as a middleman.
I don't think one potential defect/quality/manufacturing issue in a particular model invalidates an entire platform.
> Firefox needs one thing right now and that is market share or else the browser is dead in a few years.

> The most important thing is compatibility with major sites at this point. if people's banking or health insurance page reject Firefox, people are just going to use Chrome.

That's really not the primary issue, although it will drive people back to their preferred browser if that is an issue. Firefox is fighting an uphill battle against default browsers, which are Edge on Windows, Safari on MacOS/iOS, and Chrome on Android phones. You can't just say "We're compatible with all the sites that already work with the browser you use" and expect people to switch. You need genuinely useful and unique selling points that can be appreciated by the average person in order to overcome the default's inertia.
It matters when you're talking about policy. Subsidizing healtchare doesn't fix the problem of anticompetitive behavior among the suppliers, or pushing unnecessary treatment/drugs.
Almost every metal laptop I've used has been an absolute pain because of the bending. The sound of fans scraping against metal is absolutely horrible and has killed more than one macbook of mine over the years. I even had one where my touchpad would randomly click unless it was placed on a perfectly-flat surface like a desk (no laps allowed!) because of bends. I'd much prefer a stronger material to stand the test of time, even if it chips.
I'm also a big fan of the 2012 macbook pros. I only upgraded to an M1 mac end of last year.

I love that the older macbooks can be opened up and fixed if needed. I had to replace the HD connector a couple times (and learnt to add some electrical tape to stop the issue), and I recently cleaned the old CPU adhesive off and added some new (old macbooks can start to smell like Body odour!).

With 16GB of RAM the macbook performance is still decent, able to run docker and run modern IDEs.

It's a great machine. The only downside is that you can no longer update to the most recent OS versions.
Sort of. It uses secret sharing so it's not based on computation power.

And I didn't see any, but if there is the capability of onboarding new members in the network, it requires bootstrapping a new chain, I think.
The Geneva Convention seems to have been thrown out of the window in recent conflicts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Syrian_hospita...
I was curious how this could work and spotted this sentence in the README:

> In practice this means that if you trust there are never more than the threshold t malicious nodes on the network you're relying on, you are guaranteed that you timelocked data cannot be decrypted earlier than what you intended.

So I guess this just relies on a multi key threshold scheme where t nodes have to combine their keys to decrypt the data. And I assume the blockchain tries to punish participants who refuse to take part in the decryption?

If so then this seems very tricky in terms of risk because if you have more than t malicious nodes they can secretely collude outside the chain to decrypt the data before the specified time and you'd never know in contrast to the usual attacks on blockchains which are very obvious. So the chain in that regard does not and can not add to keep the actors honest in that regard.

Would love to see the DEF CON presentation but I couldn't find a video for it. Didn't even spot it in the DEF CON timetable.
I learned this lesson the hard way with a roof install :(
I reward AWS with my business and tolerate GCP when necessary.

What's funny is there was a core of engineers back in 2009 who understood everything necessary to get the technical side of Cloud to be competitive with AWS, and mostly succeeded, but by then, it was clear that Google simply didn't know how to market to enterprises. The whole thing was a squandered opportunity and I simply did not understand at the time (2009-2011) just how unprepared Google's leadership was to expand beyond ads.
My mother, a baby boomer ('48), worked as a waitress part time to pay her way through college in her 20's.

My dad worked for ma'bell, and earned somewhere around $150k in today's dollars as an high-school-educated lineman when he retired (and was then hired back on to train). And that's with a fully funded pension plan.

So, even if they were in the workforce earlier (they weren't, I (as a genX) was working part time in college at 18, my wife full time), the workforce was very different.

The times, they've changed.
You can create special purpose languages which lean on type safety heavily to just outright forbid this sort of error at compilation. "This is an untrusted input byte, those range from 0 to 255, so the rest of the code must work for all values in that range or else that's a build error".

Languages like that aren't going to be suitable for writing a whole web browser or a desktop operating system, but they might well be enough for the Titan chip. This is the sort of work where the compilation is tricky (definitely wouldn't fit on a small ARM core) but the machine code it spits out is much the same except safe.
> Housing is another red herring, of course, because the average new American home is 2x bigger now than it was in the 70s. Roughly speaking 1 square foot of the average home costs exactly the same as it used to in the 1970s. [1] And the average family has become smaller. So yes, housing is more expensive in big cities but that's because of zoning as Mr. Andreessen will tell you.

Just because houses have gotten bigger and families have gotten smaller, doesn’t mean you can buy an average 1970s house in major cities for the same inflation adjusted price. A lot of those old homes are either gone, extremely expensive, or situated in different metro areas than younger generations live in today.
It does feel inevitable because at some stage, young people aren't going to care about supporting rich older people and check out of the boomers preferred systems of politics and taxes.
It’s pretty much the same as today when you consider inflation and interest rates. People love to believe homes were basically free back then but they weren’t. Interest rates were super high and people still paid the same percentage of their monthly income line today.

There has been sone warping to be sure in and around metro areas people want to live in. Those areas were being abandon back then. Most places in the country are really cheap.

But overall it’s about the same.
Its a bit confusing. I guess the overall point is that its someone elses computer?
"Looking that up" is giving me too much credit, I just clicked the link :)

I don't think it's disingenuous, just out of touch. The author is 75 years old; he probably didn't recognize a 2000s-2010s pop culture pun.
> I remember everyone was sort of in awe of the numbers and generally had a pretty positive sentiment towards the success. However, I'm not sure I can craft a really clear narrative that connects this back to stagnant wages. But it seems related.

The relation I can think of is the tech giants obviating away many instances of labor that were being sold.

Email, travel agents, streaming, GPS mapping apps, etc all let people do a lot more with the labor of a lot fewer.

But that is not solely the domain of tech giants or tech companies. Automation has been happening for decades, along with outsourcing to countries with cheaper labor.

Since prices (wages) stayed stagnant, one can conclude that the supply of labor increased more than the demand for labor.

Edit: another factor increasing supply of labor is women joining the workforce
Things have been bad for the young for quite some time. It all started way back in the dawn of neo-liberalism. Since then, productivity has been raising without salaries growing as much. And worse than income concentration, we've seen an absurd level of wealth concentration since the late 80s and early 90s.
Late Gen-Xers were already pretty much fucked.
There is a major difference between an organization with shared ownership and management through democratic processes and an institution several decision-makers removed from that. It is not clear that private investigators without privileges of monopoly on violence should be worse.
This bitch don't know 'bout Pangea?