skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobile games are so terrible I don't even bother shopping for them anymore. Now that phones are powerful enough to emulate the PS2 and Switch I can spend the rest of my life playing games that were designed as games.
"an ocean of copy-pasted apartment buildings like Hong Kong"

That's an incredible way to frame place for people to live. You may find that aesthetically disgusting, that's your right, but I find the legally mandated suburbs of an expensive city to be morally disgusting given the impacts on the environment and poor people.
I’ve spent more than I’m willing to admit on Clash Royale back when it launched. I was in a bad place mentally to resist the lootbox dopamine cycle and I’m lucky it didn’t damage me financially.

Now I don’t touch micro transactions which means most mobile games are off limits. Apple Arcade has some decent mobile games because it doesn’t allow micro transactions.
You might enjoy 'The High Cost of Free Parking'.

See eg https://www.econtalk.org/extra/free-parking/

(Also https://www.econlib.org/archives/2006/02/economics_of_fr.htm... and https://www.econlib.org/archives/2010/08/why_is_there_fr.htm... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking )
Last year I spent a few K of my play money to buy some really nice editions of works I always wanted to have, used. Many of those are Easton Press, some Folio Editions, some Suntup, etc. On AllOfCraigslist I found someone in mid-west? Or maybe south-west? don't remember anymore selling their library of Franklin/Easton nice books for essentially about $20 a pop. They had hundreds of books, I think I bought a couple of boxes, like maybe 30, 35 books? I spoke with the guy on the phone (craigsist across state lines needs that, right) to discuss payment and shipment, the books are fortunately not a big scam target for that, anyhow, the books showed up, all having lovely stickers inside "From the Library Of *** ***). I asked what happened, he said they bought them for their son who mostly never read them, and they didn't want to feel sad after looking at them anymore. They're much more appreciated here in my house, where all but a few have been read by now.
Wars happen because each of the two sides think they can win.

In this case, the US is obviously confident it can win. This one is easy to see in this scenario.

China on the other hand questions the commitment of the US: “really, you’re going to go to war to protect Taiwan? It’s China! What do you care?”, and this could be true if geographic and geopolitical realities were different.

But what the CCP somewhat and I think many Chinese citizens misunderstand is that Taiwan isn’t just some island. Taiwan is a crucial linchpin to all of America’s presence and legitimacy in Asia.

So for China (more so Chinese citizens) it’s just some island that belongs to China anyway. Of course China would win and take over because Americans don’t really want to fight or think they can win right?

There lies the miscalculation that leads to the war. It’s not about Taiwan the island, it’s about existential foreign policy for America. The US is extremely determined to maintain the status quo. China misunderstands this and thinks that an invasion over Taiwan won’t lead to an actual war because they don’t understand what the war is about.

Note: When I say China, I mean people who question whether the U.S. is determined to fight a war over Taiwan. Certainly main Chinese including leadership in the CCP understand what’s at stake, which is why they haven’t undertaken an invasion as of yet.
That’s true.

But the difference between the COVID vaccines and seatbelts is the data — hence why you hear that argument about COVID vaccines, but not seatbelts.

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/thailand-study-of-young-a...

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/here-is-the-data-behind-a...

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/doctors-in-canada-are-dyi...
CGI sucks. Monty python had the best special effects.
I didn’t read fearmongering from OP’s comments, just speculation.

I have no idea about the liability issue. The more interesting one to me was the government vaccine mandates last year (medical vs legal interchangeability, eua vs approved).

Interestingly, according to Pfizer the 08/23/2021 originally approved Comirnaty formulation (PBS buffer) was never available: “… These NDCs will not be manufactured. Only NDCs for the subsequently BLA approved tris-sucrose formulation will be produced” (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/iis/COVID-19-related-c...).

The updated Tris buffer Comirnaty formulation was FDA approved on 10/29/2021 (https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download, Page 8).

As for if its available, I guess you would have to go check a few pharmacies and ask if the Pfizer vaccine they have is labeled ‘Comirnaty.’ Some articles from the end of last year say they couldn’t find it, but who knows now. I have not looked into this at all, and to be honest I’ve already spent too much time searching this stuff up today so I’ll leave that for another person.
Specialization is the greatest source of efficiency.

Almost every organization has more people in support roles than in line positions. If not directly, then indirectly. If the "overhead" is not high enough, the people who are supposed to do line work have to waste their time as incompetent janitors and secretaries. That's a very common situation in universities, which employ many administrators for regulatory reasons but often don't have the money to hire enough support personnel.

If you want to pay grad students $100k, then the grant must be $165k. Or maybe $180k to allow the grad student to focus more on their research. Maybe the sum can be a bit less, if you manage to reduce the regulations and reporting requirements. But then you have to accept that a larger fraction of grant recipients will misuse the money or spend it on research many taxpayers would consider frivolous.
So the Taiwan invasion is pretty close, I presume
I've always wanted some kind of curation of products that are obviously designed better than the rest (for better or worse). They often have a price tag but functionality to match. Of course, the required functionality is not the same for everyone can often you can make do with the cheap good enough. You always need to choose, just the same as product design I guess.

Some of the best I've had:

- Crumpler Backpacks (Dry Red No 5 & an older model I don't remember the name of)
- Bellroy Slim Wallet
- Bellroy Passport Wallet
- AirPods Pro
- UniFi AC Pro Access Points
- 2018 Subaru Outback Premium
I have a fork that reimplements spacebar heating.
Every significant disease can have longstanding impacts. Damage is often cumulative. Actual causation can come via many routes. One person might have diminished physical fitness due to weeks/months laid up with the disease. Another might have impact from various drugs/treatments administered during the disease. Others might come away with diminished organ functionality (heart/kidneys etc) that in turn stresses other systems. The "what doesn't kill you" mantra is just that. It isn't based in science. It is almost always better to avoid getting sick in the first place.
Check out Forget Me Not - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forget_me_not...
> There are billions of Linux systems in the world.

There are not billions of Linux servers, desktops and phones, probably high single digit millions or low double digit millions, but I suppose if you include microcontrollers, perhaps.

One should be able to configure Linux to reconfigure itself any which way one wants it on reboot without making fundamental changes to all Linux systems everywhere. OP really can't figure a way to run a custom configuration script on reboot? RLY?? I would consider this academic on BSD. Is this something that systemd broke, that one can't pump the special settings back in, and they are just lost on every reboot? Then never reboot. Problem solved. Otherwise, init ftw.
Very cool and well executed. After a few clicks I got, not a street, but a cool view of rocky sunrays from the middle of nowhere in Australia:

Simpsons Gap
https://maps.app.goo.gl/kB5xtFyZJpwLKT4c8
This would be a beautiful dream
When things like tax revenue-per-acre starts adding up, it’ll also be more affordable to live in denser areas.

By removing zoning restrictions, some communities will start becoming more walkable & mixed-use than others. Since it’s more cost efficient, it’ll be cheaper to own a townhome in a dense area than an equivalent townhome in a sprawling area (after the market equalizes & we can keep up with demand, because it’ll be sky-high for those walkable townhomes at first). But if zoning is reduced, supply will start to catch up.

People in sprawling communities will start needing to pay more for taxes for things like road maintenance etc since they have much higher costs per person than a dense area, further starting to push people to favor dense areas. Are people willing to pay the actual cost of living in remote areas like suburbs?

It’ll happen slowly at first, but just removing the current laws that prohibit that sort of development may actually enable those changes to happen automatically
Don't forget that they don't allow custom allocators. Arena allocators can be far more efficient, but aren't supported by any of the standard data structures.
History has shown that reprehensible acts can be done for the greater good. Getting Kiwi Farms off the Internet at all cost might be good, digital terrorism be damned.
People will literally rezone entire cities rather than saying we need to eat less food and workout more.
Is a "license requirement" equal to a "total ban"?
Earlier this year I had to help clean up some of my dad's books after he died. There were about 200 legal books where various relatives said "surely these must be useful to someone" so I spent hours typing a list of titles and authors and dates of publication, so someone still in the business could review them. I doubt a single one of the books was still useful. The rest of the books were obviously even less valuable - outdated travel guides, political rants, dozens of books that had obviously never been read. Overall, a depressing and infuriating experience. The only good part was that there were convenient drop-off boxes for paper recycling near the house so I could do many carloads in one day.
Chips are mostly development cost; once designed they cost little to produce and even less with economies of scale.

Cutting yourself off the massive Chinese market will cause more expensive tech in the west as there are fewer people to sponsor its development.
This isn't a discussion about housing availability. You should make a new submission about that if you want to go into that topic in depth. There are facets to this discussion that your post is glossing over; it's not a binary choice between HK style apartments or suburban sprawl.
If you just want to pay someone and move on, Datadog has great connectors, but is expensive. I hear Honeycomb is great, and they have a free tier.

(I started with Grafana and Prometheus FWIW)
I believe it's its own plural :-)
Yes, but it needs cooperation from the process. Specifically, the process needs to know how to get the file descriptor from the environment variable and use that rather than binding to the port itself. And not all services are set up to do that.
What a strange fantasy. Nvidia has no such exposure. Their products are produced using leading edge fabs which are not located in China. That board parters located in China integrate Nvidia chips into cards which are then sold to the Chinese market doesn't mean that those board partners have the IP to build the chips. They just have spec sheets for technical integration.

It's no different than China's COMAC who's domestically build airliner largely importing various Western components and integrating them. Just because they integrate the GE / Safran LEAP engine in their airliner, doesn't give them the IP or the capability to manufacturer that said engine.
Very similar to the short-sightedness of encouraging and celebrating creative circumventions of typical government checks and balances (Executive orders and judicial rulings used instead of legislature, etc.), only to be shocked and appalled when the game is flipped back on them when the 'other team' gets the ball.
"Given the right prompt you can ask for ideas for decorations, architecture, product design, advertisements and who knows what else. It's only a matter of time before it creates 3d images and gets connected to a 3d printer then we'll be able to print some of what we see."

I've written this before but it's relative to this discussion.
I'm not so sure. Doesn't seem to be hurting them much.
Intent and effect are different things. And certainly different ages call for different levels of freedom. My main critique was leveled at the company which directly facilitates the surveilance and not necessarily individual parents.

But I would hope that parents who do choose to monitor their kids in various ways also educate them (again age appropriately) on the importance (and potential safety tradeoffs) of privacy, as well as how to decide who to share their location data with (friends? internet friends? teachers? bosses? partners? police? corporations? governments?)

Again, not trying to criticize parenting decisions I have little context on, just trying to raise some discussion thoughts.
I think you're overstating the additional complexity, just a little.
This study is one of a number of different ones from the same lab (Al Aly), taking a dataset of older, sicker people (US veterans who seek hospital care at the VA), and looking at groups who had two hospital confirmed infections, vs. those with one hospital confirmed infection, vs those who went to the hospital with no confirmed infections.

Per the paper's abstract:

> We show that COMPARED TO PEOPLE WITH FIRST INFECTION, reinfection contributes additional risks of all-cause mortality, hospitalization, and adverse health outcomes

(emphasis mine)

All this paper shows is that if you follow a cohort of older, sicker people -- people who are seeking hospital care! people who were infected and possibly hospitalized in the first wave! -- long enough for them to get multiple reinfections (in this case, about 2 years, from the original Covid wave through the Omicron wave), the overall rates of a (selected) set of different health conditions goes up over time. They have not shown that the increased risk is because of Covid. The paper has no way of following the younger, healthier people (particularly in the later waves, where home testing was common) who never set foot in a VA hospital and had a Covid test, despite having Covid. There is a huge selection bias [1] problem here. There may be others, such as immortal time bias. [2]

What you would like to see in a study like this is that it is prospective (the participants were selected randomly in advance and followed over time); but this study is retrospective. You would also like to see a control against a similar illness, such as flu or non-Covid pneumonia; this study does not have such a comparison (despite being trivial to make), and resorts to using "atopic dermatitis and neoplasms" as a "negative control" instead.

As an aside, Al Aly has a history of using a weird grab-bag of negative control illnesses against this same dataset across his various papers. One wonders why he doesn't always use the same illness as a negative control -- presumably atopic dermatitis didn't suddenly start being unassociated with Covid between his studies, right? Would the results not be the same if he was consistent? I'm guessing not.

In short, this study is confounded, and Eric Topol really needs to tone down his fear-mongering. Even if you believe the top-line results, unless you are an elderly person sick enough to be seeking regular hospital care, this has very little relevance to your risk profile.

[1] https://catalogofbias.org/biases/selection-bias/

[2] https://catalogofbias.org/biases/immortal-time-bias/
It's not like EUV is magic pixie just ordained by the gods to be unachievable by china. I would be surprised if china doesn't have EUV within 10 years.
Also LUT has its limitations... namely I use masks and vignetting all the time. Sure I could add this in my other tools but I can also color correct just fine without an AI 'assisting' me.
Dangerous, and would be of limited benefit. Being non-diabetic means your body makes enough. Taking insulin on top of that could easily drive you into unconsciousness and even death. Low blood sugar is NO JOKE.

If you're interested in this line of thinking, metformin is probably both more promising, as well as substantially cheaper and far safer - it basically increases your body's sensitivity to insulin, without actually mucking with production/regulation of same.
Thanks. There's no server behind it. It runs completely in the browser.
Guessing the location of a Google Street View in 0.1s
One way that companies get around ITAR and similar regulations for things like space grade components that have radiation tolerant features is to only rad test up to what the limits are. The components are probably much more resilient than what they are specced for but by only declaring the legal limit, companies can still export their products. The foreign buyers can do their own testing to prove the components can meet their required levels. I've done this before for a commercial chip that was rumored to be radiation tolerant despite nothing from the vendor saying so and found that it well exceeded my expectations.

I wonder if Nvidia can use a similar loophole where the chips are clocked at lower rates for export to meet the law but can be "overclocked" with hardware modifications.
State Dept. Launches International Gender Pressure Campaign
What if these sequalae aren't different from other coronaviruses?
In my experience that isn't accurate. There are a lot of folks who studied Hacking the Coding Interview and are able to use the skills they've gained, but who aren't willing to cheat in the process.
This is what I'm talking about with your inability to think for yourself. You're just repeating right wing, xenophobic, incorrect talking points. It's literally 100% political nonsense.

Leave the thinking for the ones good at it, ok? You seem to be getting a little worked up and we wouldn't want to get your panties all twisted up trying and failing to overthrow democracy again.
While Krebs may have gotten it wrong this time, I think there are some interesting components that we better understand because of the scrutiny on Ubiquiti.

The first is that Ubiquiti's opsec was subpar and contributed to the breach. This was at a time where long time Ubiquiti customers were getting very publicly frustrated that they were forcing products and users to rely on their cloud ops for authentication into local gear. This mainly impacted the products under the UniFi lineup, but it was clear Ubiquiti was testing the waters to see how much pushback they'd get by removing the capability of local auth. The two together likely made the public fiasco even more turbulent internally.

The second is that we learned that Ubiquiti did not do right by customers in their timing or statement of breach disclosure. It was a very weak disclosure and they did everything to skirt around the true situation. Let's not forget that Ubiquiti buried this into a very benign looking statement in the 10-Q files on 02-04-22 [0] (around page 31) when they knew damn well that this was a significant risk to all of their customers.

All in all I think the additional exposure Krebs brought on Ubiquiti at least forced a lot of the truth into the spotlight. Without that I don't think the extent of the breach would be known. Ubiquiti downplayed and chose to not respond to their customers. For that, I still think they handled the situation very poorly.

[0] https://ir.ui.com/financial/sec-filings
No other country has such fits of rage to a diplomatic visit. Pretending that having leaders of one country visit another is coercion or incitement is gaslighting.
Counting the track records … Vietnam, Afghan … apart from wasting lots of tax payer money and making the people in the area miserable, what else did we achieve?
SSO is really useful, but it does tend to be expensive. There’s a window pre-PMF where money is tight and it’s hard to justify the Enterprise plan on every SaaS you use.

Interesting note about MDM, any idea what contributes to that trend?
Auditd is a solid and very robust auditing system. Implementation in the Linux kernel makes it very powerful and widely accessible.
I think it's generally accepted that this was a copy paste of the TSMC process. I think we'll have to wait to see if they can advance this, on their own. As the other person pointed out, a good indicator would be yield.
Maybe the point is just to prevent shortages
I wonder if this policy, or the general mentality that produced it, is why webkit is so underdeveloped and widely reviled by devs compared to alternatives.

Sounds like one can push in a security bug or performance increase that is fast because it is frankly completely broken, but wouldn’t be allowed to reverse the decision at least not without finding some alternative unrelated performance increase. Features or fixes that may obviously be worth an associated dip in performance can generally not be implemented.

Under these conditions if I knew of ways to improve performance without adverse effect, as a developer I would sit on them instead of applying them because I would need a stockpile of reserves to apply in case of emergency to account for unrelated performance degrading changes that absolutely need to be made. I would also work to make sure the benchmarks were lousy and irrelevant.

Policies like this can’t be written by people with any semblance of sense. Singular mindedness on one metric and extreme policies like this can kill development and subvert goals just as lack of discipline can. Everything is a balance. Weigh performance metrics heavily by all
means, but absolutism leads to the absurd.

I guess as long as Apple holds its monopoly on keeping iOS device browsers exclusively on Webkit, it will stick around though.

Sadly having had years of an inside perspective on the competence level or lack thereof of decision makers in the non-revenue generating parts of their software business, can’t say this policy surprises me.
> sshd on your shared university server

Another attack scenario applies if the shared server hosts a web server:

If you have a shell and can bind a port, listening for HTTP requests. Example: nc -vvl 8080

Trick a victim into visiting your malicious port: http://example.com:8080/

The attacker gets the victim's cookies for http://example.com:80/ (and https://example.com:443/, if the "secure" flag is not set). And all other ports.

This attack succeeds because "Cookies do not provide isolation by port" (RFC6265 Section 8.5).

What is the fix? If only the cookie spec allowed binding to specific ports...

But an alternate fix could be requiring web browsers to only connect to privileged ports. 80 and 443, or any port <1024, thwarting the unprivileged user from exfiltrating cookies.

Unfortunately this ship has sailed and web browsers now have to support unprivileged ports forever. A more practical defense, in practice, is to consider this scenario out of scope, and/or implement application-level authentication. I am with you, and would have advocated privileged ports to defend against these attacks (with http and ssh and other services), but am not optimistic it will gain any traction. The world has moved on, and even multi-user shell servers are becoming increasingly rare (as much as I use them - still a proud Super Dimension Fortress member)
So... designed in the 80s. Built in the 90s. Never exported. And not manufactured for over a decade?
Meanwhile there's a children's crusade to pull gas shoves, furnaces and water heaters from homes.

Capturing and burning methane reduces the climate burden by a factor of 80.
Circuits involving capacitors and inductors lead you to differential and integral equations, if you want to know the time dependence of the voltages and currents in the circuits.