skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, the VTB bank case recently was interestingly. VTB was sued in some complaint about the downing of the MH-17 flight but despite OFAC providing an exemption for legal services the law firm they chose couldn't get any bank to process their payment. Maybe some sharp legal mind will argue that sanctions have a chilling effect that can violate the accused's right to counsel.
The pandemic made oil drilling + refining look like a bad investment, so the industry underinvested in new oil resources. Then Putin cut the oil and gas supplies to the world in an attempt to extort Europe into standing aside and accepting his conquest of Ukraine.
We can debate if I've used "hacked" loosely without giving too much thought to my comment, but my point is that whoever did this (on a few flights, allegedly) has "gained unauthorized access to a computer system" (which broadly fits most definitions I find). Besides, unless I missed something we have no idea if they just paired with Bluetooth or did something else.

Maybe I'm off-base and they're just risking an airline ban, but it seems (to my uninformed opinion) that doing that on an flying airplane is playing with fire that the airline won't sue and that, if they do, it'll be a clement judge which won't make an example out of them for messing with an airplane's computer, safety critical or not.
> When phone cameras were very bad, you were guaranteed to get a better camera with any standalone one; even a point-and-shoot Walmart special. No thought was really necessary beyond price. But now that phone cameras are better, you have to work at it to find a worthwhile standalone camera (and that camera is much more expensive, relatively).

I don't think that this analogy stands up quite so well - if your camera has removable lenses, it'll be better than a phone. It will be expensive, although given the price of phones these days, the phone is actually probably more expensive than a beginner mirrorless. But analogies are known to be fragile when stretched.

> Or another way of reading it is "it used to be easy to be a snob! Just pay more and you're guaranteed to get some good shit!" and now that 'trick' doesn't work.

> I think there's a deeper thing here, which is the "desire for secret knowledge", almost a form of gnosticism or something. We want to "know a secret that isn't widely known" even if it doesn't actually really help us any.

This makes a lot of sense to me.

I mean, it's completely foreign to me - I only care about being or getting better than yesterday. I don't care at all about how good I have it in relation to other people. But I understand that that is very motivating to a lot - perhaps most - people.
Wasn't PUBG originally an Arma3 mod?
This is bad news for those Nerf guns that shoot large balls of plastic foam with lightly compressed air. (Or is compressed air excluded from "other propellant"?)
Depending on the technical means used, it might not be proper to consider it to be hacking in, say, the CFAA sense, but you're still not supposed to do things that have the result of preventing a flight crew from making announcements to passengers. Even if you did those things with an otherwise perfectly legitimate means like playing a sound with a cell phone, playing a sound with a tape recorder, or playing a sound with your voice.

I would be happy to agree that the CFAA is overbroad. But disruptive actions toward flights and aircraft are quite reasonably punishable under other theories, when they could plausibly create a risk for aviation, regardless of the means.
> while Apple simply blocking any competition on iOS (everything is Safari under the hood) is fine.

I see people using Chrome on iOS - they use it not because they think they're running Blink/V8, they use it because Google brings their own password syncing and UI to it. Same for something like Firefox Focus.

Is it really anticompetitive if allowing a different rendering engine would result in less than (maybe) 0.01% of users actually switching due to the change?
probably not for most use cases, but I build some fairly large projects. it's nice to interact with a 16C/32T xeon node through an ultrabook. downloading tools/assets runs at the speed of the datacenter link rather than coffeeshop wifi. if nothing else, my battery lasts longer this way.
He bought a ton of it too, still, just less than he wanted.
Living in any state with a monopoly on violence isnt free. What's your point?
> then shouldn't person B not be able to decrypt the message?

The RNG example is a way to create keys that make it trivial for "C in the middle" with the RNG details to extract the contents. They are still valid, just not useful as keys.

The Juniper attack and Dual EC exploit is a good real world example of compromising an RNG for passive decryption, although Dual EC was designed to be like that.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hovav/dist/juniper.pdf
Check out the Ontario grid. 91% zero-carbon. [1] Quebec at 99%. [2] It's hardly a subsistence lifestyle up there. You've just got to, you know, execute on it. This accounts for 60% of the Canadian population.

[1] ON: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr...

[2] QC: https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/pr...
I suppose all of my fellow machine code programmers here are too busy discussing politics or something. I look forward to participating yet again, using my custom machine code development tool to write very compact and very efficient little games. I've so many ideas for games built up over the years, but must settle with the reality that implementing all of them in one month is unrealistic. Regardless, I aim to get two or even three finished, and as always will document my work in detail on my website.
> Trump announced his intention to fill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve “to the top” on March 13 [2020] as global oil prices went into freefall amid the coronavirus outbreak as governments issued stay-at-home orders that have obliterated fuel demand.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-usa-reserves/d...
If you have exceptionally good eyesight and skinny fingers, then any browser should be fine, just like on a desktop, using the mouse only. Once the on-screen keyboard pops up it would be even more difficult.

As for myself, I need glasses and have thick fingers, so I would even think of trying.
I agree that "four times slower" may not apply in Rust specifically.

I do think the idea that exceptions are faster at runtime (at least in micro benchmarks) can be ported across languages though just due to the way exceptions are implemented. In any language, a caller of a function that can return a Result or Option always need to branch to unwrap the returned value, but callers of functions that can throw don't have these branches at all (on platforms with "zero cost" exceptions). Whether or not it actually matters in practice is certainly debatable. I would guess that it will never be a real problem for most people.

Wrt to std::optional and std::expected, I also have found them to be pretty clunky and limited, especially compared to the Rust counterparts! The lack of pattern matching is one issue, the lack of optional references is another, and they just don't integrate with the language as well since most libraries and even std functions don't use them!
This is great on an individual level for those that already have an exceptional quality of life as a safety net. Unsustainable for everyone else.

Some counties can't even keep a barnes and noble open . Today, I saw a grown man pants-down shitting in a raised concrete garden planter, feet still touching parking lot. In one of the Top 10 Happiest Cities in the USA (TM).

Yet the entirety of CALIFORNIA will sustain 100% renewable energy. HAH. They will sustain a 100% interest in the politics and policies surrounding the journey to renewable energy. That much is certain.
Almost all gun violence is international warfare. Petty crime and gang shootings are a rounding error.
The person doing it might not be on the affected flights. Instead they plant something on the plane during a different flight (or between flights if they are an insider who can get access to the plane between flights) that is hooked into the PA system and has a recording that it plays after a time delay or perhaps when the cabin pressure lowers or perhaps both (e.g., delay 48 hours than start when the cabin pressure lowers).

If the device had a long time delay or a delay based on the number of flights they might have to check many flights before the affected flight. And there is no guarantee the person would use the same delay each time.

If they pick flights on routes that have a lot of repeat travelers and the delays on the device make it so the airline has to look at a fews days worth of flights to get the suspects for each incidents then I'd not be surprised if there are may people that were on all the planes sometime before the affected flights.

The big problem I see with it being done by someone not on the flight is that surely after the first couple of times the PA system is going to get thoroughly inspected and the device would be found. The mystery would then just be "who", rather than the "how" mystery that we currently (at least publicly) have.
The modern Battle Royale mode evolved from multiplayer mods for Minecraft and then ARMA made shortly after the 2012 movie Hunger Games which provided the essential ideas all together (elimination, lots of players, must explore a huge map for items).

I think Minecraft can't be overrated as a vehicle for experimentation in multiplayer modes. Not only did the game have a huge modding and multiplayer community and have support for large player counts and maps, but it's unusually easy to create for and the game itself has no built-in structured competitive multiplayer gametypes, which means there's tons of demand for people to make gametypes from scratch and there's no built-in code for how matches work that needs to be worked around for new ideas to be attempted. Many other online games have specific ideas of how matches work built-in that reduce the demand for brand new gametypes and could make implementing a gametype where matches work differently daunting.
Pakistan's population is around 220 million, spends around 4% of its GDP on its terrorist infested "army."

Indonesia's population is around 310 million, spends under 1% of its GDP on defense.

Maybe Pakistan should think about using their money more on infrastructure than on proxy terrorism via their army and the ISI.
They could also buy oil futures now to refill over time without hugely impacting the current market price
I know deciding on the right thing to do here for your company can be a painful experience. I am founder and CTO at Prodvana (https://prodvana.io). We are building a platform that makes running things in production simpler, and we actually have a customer who is working with us, coming from Beanstalk. Shoot me an email at naphat@prodvana.io. We can help.
I'm really curious how this would have protected the government from log4shell. Log4j is (or at least was) one of the more reputable open source projects.

This kind of feels like doing something for the sake of doing something about log4shell, without actually solving any problems. And will undoubtedly result in the government paying more taxpayer dollars for software that complies with this new framework.
False equivalence. It may not be any easier for you to verify a human translator's output, but that's a far cry from being structurally incentivized to produce output which appears fluent in the target language at the expense of presenting confidently wrong.
> Because your "distribution" line-in-the-sand doesn't exist. I assume you're thinking of NPM or pypi, but ex. Debian doesn't ask people before including their packages, and ex. nixos pulls directly from those "non-distribution" channels.

Correct, I'm talking about publishing to a package index. The fact that the line is murky right now isn't important, that's exactly the sort of thing we should be clarifying and changing.

> Okay; let's also make a moral standard of paying people when we derive value from their work. I think it should be perfectly fine for us to say "did you do the bare minimum to repay the person who gave you this code to use?".

I don't think it's an "either/or" situation, the two are not exclusive. I would like to see more funding for open source software, but that doesn't solve the fundamental issue. It's also extremely hand-wavy. Do I pay you a monthly stipend to implement 2FA?

It also assumes that open source developers aren't getting "paid". They are. Github is free, PyPI is free. You are using services for free, that is a form of payment, or at least a social contract between various developers. So it should be reasonable then to negotiate that contract, eg: PyPI saying "if you use us as a distributor of your code, we need you to enable 2FA", which they now do.

> We do that because we benefit.

Who's we? Because a lot of people don't benefit. When there's a supply chain compromise because a developer used a weak password and no 2FA people are harmed.

> We'd like people to keep giving things away even though they don't have to. If you try to impose costs on them for doing that, you'll alter the incentives so that they do the rational thing and stop giving stuff away, and/or start charging for it.

Of course, and I'd like to keep those incentives as much as possible. I think there is a very happy medium here that isn't strictly "if I publish open source code for distribution I can do no wrong whatsoever, I have no obligations whatsoever". PyPI and other distributors now enforce that if your code gets to be very popular you must enable 2FA. That is a cost, but it's a very minimal cost targeted to a small group.

What I'm advocating for is that we standardize a set of responsibilities as an industry for those who distribute code. They can be very minimal and still have massive impact.

The alternative, in my opinion, is that we'll see increased regulation, because these problems aren't going away and they're going to get worse if we don't collectively try to improve.
> My main takeaway from this is that I need to go watch The Wire

Please do. It took me a few months to get through it, but it’s worth it. The show broke many of the old conventions that were expected in a television series and paved the way for much of what we see today.
60% of Canada's population ordinarily runs on 90-100% zero-carbon power. About 24M people. All of Ontario and Quebec. It's really not that big a deal. Not sure what that gentleman's choice of pooping in a planter has to do with the electric grid unless they were like a PG&E employee or something?

[edit] refurb: 3 power plants, not 12. But of course yes it's a question of priorities. It's very doable.
These sounds are familiar to me from using “ pink trombone”, or praat, both vocal synthesizer. I would guess that a text - to - speech system is bugging out.
https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
That's all hydroelectricity - that's not a form of renewable energy that can scale to the whole planet (and virtually every suitable river for it has already been exploited).
Ontario and Quebec are relatively small populations on the world scale. The per capita usage may be high in those provinces but the overall generation required to meet their needs is still relatively low.

Also, hydroelectric dams are not necessarily viable everywhere.
That would be a very clever prank.
Maybe it even has an antenna to connect to cellular or satellite-internet so that the person that control it.
You're lucky you even get Formula 1 TV.

In australia, you are forced to purchase a streaming package from Foxtel (Australian version of sky).
For instance I found this old article "Google’s YouTube Uses FFmpeg" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831292

This may have changed for Youtube but I believe that a large portion of video services still uses ffmpeg under the hood.
I love it when Ockham's razor can cut straight through the bullshit and leave us with the simplest answer, like the clear one you provided.
Used to be near 6$ in CA. $5/gallon is roughly where it was pre covid
> show their lack of journalistic integrity.

I mean, the only thing I could see them doing is asking the flight attendants or AA, but both of those are likely hard to get an actual answers for (AA would most likely say 'we are investigating' and would never follow-up). If something is on social media and there are enough corroborating accounts, it's probably enough to write a news article about.
the pill that solves restful sleep will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars
Honestly that sounds more like a dark pattern (advertising "notifications" you can't dismiss) + what they would consider a bug (dismissing the adware on installation start instead of finish).
They claim it's 10% total loss, not 30%. And yes, it's got a cost, but depending on how things shake out, it might not be much more if any. Cables are the best way to move charge, assuming you don't have to worry about the cables. But once you factor in damage from vandalism or theft or just accidents, how hefty the cables actually are, etc, compared to having the cable buried nice and safe.

As for the difference in power loss between qi and this? Part of it is scale : they can fit a much larger diameter pad compared to a phone, which gets them much better coupling. You're essentially talking about an air core transformer, and there's plenty of transformers in the grid.
The recordings have the TikTok watermark.
Ontario + Quebec is about 60% the population of California too, and most of Ontario is powered by three nuclear power plants: Bruce, Pickering and Darlington.
Gecko was used in other small browsers in the past but it was always hostile to it, SpiderMonkey is used by some external projects but they clearly aren't interested in it (no releases, api stability, documentation, etc).
Which country are you in? Western Europe has a different culture around taking time off, and might offer different options.

For example, some German companies offer various degrees of safety for workers who want a sabbatical. If you can be guaranteed a job, it's great.

Another thing to consider: rule two of investing club is "don't time the market". You may wait your entire life for the right conditions. Some people do. You can also take the plunge and hope for the best.
The Odd Lots on this suggested the same thing, using their buying power to sell spot and buy long-dated to straighten out the price curve.

[edit] Pretty sure it was this episode. [1]

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?...
To some extent, the forced downtime is a benefit. Instantly refeullable vehicles enable fatigued driving. It's not even healthy to be sitting for that long as a passenger.
It could also be a maintenance person who has access to other parts of the plane. Did all the flights go through the same airport at any point? Or what if it’s something a flight attendant did? If so, it could even be flights through different airports.
Why the focus on open source?

The reason log4shell had such a big impact is because of how ubiquitous it was. Sure being free gives OSS a bit of an advantage in becoming ubiquitous, especially as a library.

But there's also plenty of proprietary software that is ubiquitous as well. And proprietary software has plenty of bad security bugs too.
And in this case, we were supposed to listen to the same "doctor" that caused hundreds of thousands of AIDs deaths in the 80s by pushing known toxic and harmful "medication" while simultaneously blocking proven helpful medications. All because he gets kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies.

Why does that sound so familiar?

Whatever, guess I'll just defer to authority.

A panel of authority figures is no excuse to stop thinking. They can be misled and corrupt like any others. All people need to think for themselves and question authority now more than ever.
Open up, it's the IRS. We're here about the crypto tax you dodged
Counting my monitors and the small network switch on my desk, I can hit around 750-800 watts sustained with a 5950X and a 3090 running compute intensive workloads as measured at the wall by a power meter.

So yeah, there's plenty of head space but I have also hit circuit breaker issues recently on a proper (non consumer) workstation so the limit is fresh in my mind.
Helicopter rotor blades can vary their angle of attack.
I did not downvote you, but to give you some feedback, I really don't understand what you are trying to say.
Or the pranker has air miles.
I am diagnosed with Narcolepsy, N1. It's a complete nightmare honestly. The main issue is I get TOO much REM sleep and basically almost zero NREM 3 sleep.

I enter a vivid dream state within seconds of closing my eyes when sleeping. Sleep paralysis almost every day multiple times a night. Pure utter terrifying demonic nightmares and hallucinations to the point where at its worst I was too afraid to even try and sleep.

I've basically been chronically sleep deprived for about the last 10 to 15 years but was only recently diagnosed a couple years ago.

It's very debilitating at 33 years old and there is only one real drug that actually addresses the issue. Xyrem, really GHB, which just forces your brain to get deep sleep. It isn't a cure, but it's the closest thing we got right now.

The disease has basically ruined my life but Im thankful to be where Im at. A lot of others with the disease aren't so lucky. Especially if you have no access to any real medicine.

Your brain will just continue to fry itself without the needed restorative sleep.
> Assuming US can print any value of USD out of thin existence as they have done multiple times in last 20yrs

The US doesn't do that. You're probably confusing the increase in the US debt with money supply. So long as the economy grows (as it has over the last 20 years) then the debt is not a problem
New 'Wolfi' Linux Distro Focuses on Software Supply Chain Security
Assuming US can print any value of USD out of thin existence

Based on events this year it would appear the US can’t do that with some pretty severe domestic consequences?
I was once in an elevator and the emergency phone starting ringing. I answered and it was a telemarketer trying to sell me a newspaper subscription.
Omar would also realistically fizzle out. He would either get killed or end up killing innocents by accident. There's only so many times intimidation works without serious incidents.
It only happens if you check "compile to binary" there, so I think the linker is actually doing it.
*citation needed.

Oh nevermind.

US Field Production of Oil: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

US production in 2022 is up 29% over 2021 (when Biden took office)

US production in 2022 is up 22% over 2020.
connect your phone to a 50" 4k TV/monitor and use a Bluetooth keyboard
Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products
Yep that's super deceptive. I guess if you pin it to swap it's not terrible with a latency that low (optane is ideal for a swap drive, super low latency) but it's not really the same as 24gb.

also, current-day: this "intel processor" being the new name for the low-end processor is fucking lmao, did raja's marketing buddies burn the whole place down already? oh my god imagine using your primary brand name as a sub-brand for low-quality products

like man intel marketing has never been all that on the ball, but wat
Nonsense: https://www.ktvu.com/news/californias-average-gas-price-rose...

This is an article talking about how $5/gal was breaking records. It’s still higher than that now.
> If now wasn't the time to use the strategic oil reserve when exactly was?

the strategic reserve is for times of national defense. As long as it's lowered, we are more vulnerable to expanding threats from Russia and China, with potential disruptions to supply lines.

Otherwise, it's good for our oil prices to fluctuate with the market, things cost what they cost.

The strategic reserve is so we have ready access to oil at any price; it's not big enough to buffer very much of world market consumption.