skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like author of ring library tries to protect their user base from security vulnerabilities, but hit by bug(?) in cargo, which changed from warning to error for yanked libraries. Anyway, no promises until API version 1.0.
The globalsign atricle says:

> If you’re using version 1.1.1, this vulnerability doesn’t affect you

AFAIK, LibreSSL forked even before that - when OpenSSL was version 1.0 or 0.9 even. So likely not affected - unless a similar issue appeared there after the fork.
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> you are in for either very gated communities or extreme moderation.

Indeed. That's the way the world is: it is very gated.
Statistically, if you meet ten people in a bar, how many of them are from the group that is "most likely to be in a bar?"
> localStorage suffers from issues like size limits and performance

Absolutely, but _it works_ and nothing trumps working code ;). A slow and space-limited database is better than none at all!

We implemented that functionality primarily to make peoples' eyes bug out ;), but also so that folks who don't yet have OPFS can have some form of persistent sqlite databases.
How about making changes to the interface html structure/ids and same for the api. Will break any program using it, but won't bother users. Now record what accounts are silenced by that, do it multiples times and ypu have an idea who is a bot ?
Zero results for requests in japanese, russian or hebrew. Suckless they say? What content?
They already launched a "Loop" in Vegas, and it's a small tunnel with manned taxis running in it, operated by the city. And it took longer from project start to inauguration, per mile, than the Channel tunnel linking the UK and France.
>Those products you mention will also never reveive any BIOS or firmware updates (including critical security)

I sort of agree with this, but the bios story is pretty bad everywhere. The good thing about the generic topton type boards is that one can, in principle, run coreboot on them. The protectli ones are similar in spirit. I think there is/was some effort to crowdfund coreboot development for one of these.

Edit: Also, the word on the forums is that topton is just a reseller. CWWK is the odm/oem. You can try ordering from them on aliexpress.
Mine looks exactly the same because I clean it. I work paperfree anyway, since I can do engineering on the PC. I ruthlessly move everything out of my visual periphery and in a storage or a cabinet away from my eyeline.

Whether that makes me a deadened robot, or even marginally more effective than the next guy, is of course not entirely clear. It's just a compulsion. But the point is that people who are fastidiously tidy with their workdesks aren't mythical unicorns, but everyday people.
I think one issue is that the models learn by induction, not by deduction.

That means they learn the rules from the examples, but cannot reason about rules deductively.

Arguably, it means even if you were able to assemble the smallest amount of data that contained the entire array of scenarios, from which you'd learn the proper rules, it's unclear how small that would be, even assuming the most optimal learning model.

As I see it, we currently have good machine inductive learning, but are really far from any machine deductive learning.
That’s good enough to put it in a drawer. Not good enough to put it in the living room ;)
Non-Fiction / Self-Help:

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

IFS for short.

Written for normal people, not psychologists/psychiatrists. It has a very valuable core philosophy/teaching about who we are underneath all the masks of our personality(s). It closely resembles something I experienced during an Ayahuasca retreat in 2018, about the soul / inner child/god entity.

For something a little more tangible that digs in closer to the mechanism/science, see Dr Tori Olds on youtube, she has 5 videos on the topic that is incredibly powerful in understanding your own behaviours. Will take less than 2 hours of your life but can change it permanently for the better!
https://lexica.art/ has given me some great plug-and-play prompts.
I Contain Multitudes. By Ed Yong. Everyone should know more about bacteria. Especially considering we are carrying trillions of them in our body and further gazillions surround us. And yes, we are related, more than you'd think.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multi...
I don't think that's quite right, or rather you're presenting it incorrectly. When musk proposed the twitter deal he was already in the state where any acquisition that he proposed would necessarily be under exceptionally seller-friendly terms, that's why the twitter deal was such. If he already had had to present such terms at that time, what more terms could his proposals possibly provide now after this bullshit?
Try enabling shellcheck linting in your editor! It would immediately warn about unquoted variable expansions and the like. For the vast majority of "gotchas" shellcheck will prod you in the right direction.

That said, to write good shell scripts requires actually learning the shell paradigm, instead of just trying to write "Python with Shell syntax".
> Résolution was taken into account in games, to compute a scaling factor, maybe add some screen bars, and that was nearly all - fundamentally, because hardly any program was going to be used in a small, top to bottom screen at all.

Are you comparing applications or games? Because games don't have a fluid layout anyway[1], whether HTML5 or native application.

> So html was just the first one to have to do it pervasively because of desktop + mobile web browsing of the same source - but it could have happened before.

No. All the GUI toolkits I have used to produce native GUI applications since at least 1998 had support for ensuring that elements were still accessible after resizing[2]. Even in 1998, Delphi's "anchor" worked better than anything in HTML today.

HTML was the last GUI development system to get this sort of thing.

[1] You can choose one of a dozen preset WIDTHxHEIGHT resolutions. You couldn't narrow the window and still expect to see all the game elements.

[2] I don't remember many native GUI applications that were broken when you halved the width, or halved the height.
This is country specific. The stock grant price and the vest or sale price are used in my country to assess gains, so you still have capital gains to pay even if you sell right after vesting
[something interesting][JoBloggs1996]

[JoBloggs1996]: ISBN:12356789 “Whatever you want to be the title text of the link here”
Parler is back in the play store.

Yes, left wing parties are not particularly keen on free speech, but the difference is that in the EU they've placed themselves in an unassailable dictatorship which had just announced it will censor content with a China style system in which bureaucrats sure in dedicated committees inside the organization. The USA has a long way to go to match even a fraction of that level of censorship.
This week I worked on the code of a customer that was passing an object into a command / service hierarchy and extracting some attributes of that object in the lowest level of the hierarchy, where a method is doing the real job. Unfortunately the new feature I worked on needed most of the methods of that hierarchy but didn't have that object because it doesn't have more than half of the data needed to build it. So, passing individual attributes as arguments instead of the object would have been the right implementation and the assumptions the code was based on were wrong for this new use case.

I derived a class from the first level of the hierarchy with only the methods I needed, redefined as empty the ones that were using the attributes I didn't have and ended up with code that passed tests. No time to refactor all the code into the correct abstraction. Time to understand how the class hierarchy worked: too much. Was it overengineered? Yes. I prefer simple straightforward code with few files to navigate to understand how it works.
In a pointer heavy language like D, a 1% loss is a big deal. I.e. it would no longer be a systems programming language.
“Leave someone better than you found them.”

It led to me staying faaaaar too long in an unhealthy relationship, trying to cure problems that I imagined myself responsible for causing. Sometimes you need to forgive yourself and move on. The Pottery Barn Rule and the Boy Scout Rule apply to things, not people.
If I understand you right, then following your logic, all programming languages are conveniences. The computer runs just fine if we give it a binary to execute. It's not clear to me where you'd draw the line.
That's the left wing perspective, not some universal truth. Obvious counterexamples: America, the internet, e2e encrypted messaging.
It might be interesting to know the subtlety if it is in the Twitter context. Is it better to look at cash, loc, and cashflow to determine if they can pay the loan repayments?
No it is not. Even if you are talking about the average software dev salary across Europe, Thibault is way more experienced, and he lives in France.
I agree. One additional detail to notice is the use of horizontal space. There are several different widths being used, depending on the type of content. (I'm on desktop.) I like the varying "full-width" image sizes, as well as the footnotes on the side. But most exciting to me is how the content gets wider for side-by-side image and text components, such as the early MS-DOS CLI screenshot. This component uses the extra horizontal space that it needs to, while maintaining flow with the rest of the writing above and below it. It's elegant and I believe it's an innovation. After experiencing this post, the typical blog or article layout crammed into a fixed-size column seems straitjacketed. It's inspiring.
Reminds me of the classic Boston Museum of Science commercial from the 70s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA3ndE42iJA&t=27s
> I actually find it one of the biggest downfalls of D.

Why? The gc is optional in D. You can use malloc/free, or your own custom allocator.
> It is simply not possible to invest in anything that can keep up with the inflation

Why not just invest in diversified real estate rather than betting on a single property and its local market? In expectation, the returns should be similar on average but with lower volatility.

I'd rather rent and put capital in a real estate investment fund. I guess something could be said for buying a property if you're very certain that you'll live there for the rest of your life, but if you would ever like to move, you'd be highly exposed to fluctuations in the value of a single asset, your home.
Inflation is never caused by there being 'too much money'. It's caused by people spending and choosing to pay the higher prices on offer, rather than shopping around, saying 'no deal' or saving.

A $100 in a drawer can't cause inflation. It's not a stock problem; it's a flow problem.

Inflation is always, everywhere, a lack of effective competition. In situations of excess supply you have very little to no inflation. Firms are too scared to push prices for fear of losing market share.

We don't need hair shirt people going around confiscating assets from people. What we need is more investment to create more capacity to supply, and anti-trust action in any areas where a monopoly has arisen.

We don't need an Office of Budget Responsibility, we need an Office of Price Competition.

The target should be to maintain leptokurtic turnover vs price curves in all markets. Then we'll have stable prices.
I Choose Elena and My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osbourne Crowley.

Can highly recommend these to any man who is wanting to better understand issues of sexual assault against women, in terms of how normalised it is, the challenges women face in being believed by other men and the long term health effects that manifest themselves after such attacks and after hiding the truth.

Wanted to mention it here because I become more aware each passing week of the blindspots in the HN community regarding the struggles and perspectives of women.

If you want to get a bit out of the male dominated tech bubble and learn about some drastically different experiences from your own these are highly recommend.

Edit to differentiate the two books: The first is basically a memoir of the author in terms of her own experiences with assault and chronic illness, where the latter is a sort of collaged memoir from multiple people.

The latter is definitely the more powerful book and the breath of experience juxtaposed with the commonality of those experiences is very effective. If you're only going to read one I go for My Body Keeps Your Secrets. However there is enough that builds upon the first book, I Chose Elena, that I think it's definitely worth checking them out. The vulnerability shown by the author when she reflects on ICE in MBKYS is breath taking
How does it compare to the 1st edition?
From the Telegraph obituary: 'Kathleen Booth, who has died aged 100, co-designed of one of the world’s first operational computers and wrote two of the earliest books on computer design and programming; she was also credited with the invention of the first “assembly language”, a programming language designed to be readable by users.'
Onwards to Jordan Maxwell, then? If so, also check Michael Tsarion.

Keep in mind, all this stuff is fiction, sort of magic realism in the garb of documentary exposition, and scholarly dubious research.

But much more enjoyable than hollow earth or flat earth stuff!

My favorite bit of it is the presaging of the Dyson sphere in the “energy grid” that surrounds the earth, limiting life form travel.

Even better than their theory of the moon as a manufactured satellite.

Goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: make sure you don’t treat fiction as fact too much :) This stuff can be mentally corrosive.
There is not only personalities like Trump, peoples like Silvano Trotta, Christian Perronne, Astrid Stuckelberger, Christine Cotton, should also be unbanned if he do things right. All theses peoples have switched to Telegram, but they might come back on twitter if Musk is serious about free speech and unban them. With their followers...
In a 2021 /r/Chess AMA Thibault responded to this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/comment/gu9az...
Demand for art is far from saturated. Most people have vivid imagination and would like some physical representation of that. For the dozen of amateur creatives there are nearly as many who wish they could get access and have the time to learn a way to express.

Anyway I think the scare about AI generated art is misplaced when it comes to art as a general concept. It is after all merely a tool and a tool can suppress art. Plenty of abstract art was already not limited to technical mastery and could have been made by a computer yet abstract art didn’t disappear and artists weren’t displaced.

The Japanese and Korean illustrators scare however is not misplaced. It comes from how the industry is structured. For every credited artists or directors, you have a whole team of assistants and illustrators who have a technical role and produce parts of the image imitating the desired style. This, I could see replace by AI and as it is the entry level position for a career in the field, it would significantly modify its functioning. These people are scared for their livelihood and they probably are right to be.
Is it possible that both CIA intervention into public discourse and foreign entities with unknown interests with reach far greater than the largest media outlets in the country[1] are both not ideal? And that one does not excuse the other?

1: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...
> Ah yeah but the "tail" on that arrow is much longer! The one I see in Linux and BSDs appears to be literally pixel-for-pixel identical to the Macintosh one, though I haven't exactly done a closeup comparison.

They are quite similar, but there's more pixel differences between current Linux/BSD pointers and the Macintosh pointer than there are between the Macintosh pointer than the Alto one (roughly 1 pixel difference).

IOW, Macintosh is closer to the Alto one than it is to the Linux/BSD ones.
This isn't correct. You pay CGT on the difference between grant and sale

The one loophole is to sell with 4 weeks, that is CGT exempt.
Ok, how about "scrollable page" as the underlying mental model?
You didn’t say your computer desktop was tidy! I think there’s a place for in-person documents. Perhaps I’ll have a nice tablet at some point, but I haven’t yet replace pencil and paper for creative doodling.
Amazing idea and initiative. Definitely recommending it to all the professionals/students.
Note that it is also in bad faith to post these accusations without references and with a throwaway account. Did one person create this letter? What is this company? I am not aware of any that sell Gitea.
There are some complex problems out there, but the vast majority of requirements are rather trivial, no? Heavy websites that don't do much, but with enough javascript to harm usability seem to be an issue HN readers agree on. Opening a car glove box is another simple problem that now has complex solutions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRB0gbYO3fE). Isn't it weird how those things come about? It can't possibly be incompetence, nor would it be outright evil.

I suspect it's a subconscious process where we like to build a framework that appeals to us, where we get to be 'senior' and shape the world the way it is convenient for us. The antidote is a clear commitment to simplicity, to meditate over Picasso's Bull and apply that to our work.
People who understand the problems tend to be disinterested in those being paid to 'manage' them. I think that's the foundation for most of the issues.
A lot of pages did this on the day the gdpr came into effect and a few still do it.
the gdpr can be easily summarized: don't collect, share or process data without consent or reason; have someone in charge of data protection, give the customer a way to request the data you collected and if the customer wishes and it doesn't collide with regulations you have to delete or change the data
I would expect to be able to find another 1% slowdown somewhere in an implementation of another "system programming language" - would that also disqualify it from being such a language?
It was an interesting read. Didn't feel that this person really followed their own rules about pre-owned. It wouldn't be for me, it feels like a very stark style.

I got a really nice large wooden desk for cheap from a store in the US when I lived there, it was <50% retail price because of some bad surface scratches. Here in NZ wooden furniture is stupidly expensive. I've just finished, nearly 10 years later, resurfacing it. Plenty of space for crap on top, plus three drawers to hide cables, hankies etc. I've got one of those Aeron chairs. It was my chair at work years ago and then through the company being bought out, remote working and bad record keeping it ended up being mine.

The most important thing for me about a working area is that I can have all my stuff close by. Guitar on one side so I can take a music break from work. I usually have a painting on the go too as another rest from work hobby, so I've got a crappy easel on the other side. It's not the cleanest area, but it's the first time in my adult life that I've had a space just for myself.
Neat, now they can sell cheaper single wing planes. Value for money !
> Even a man for a while much richer than Elon, Bezos, couldn't muster much in terms of cultural relevance for Blue Origin than a PR stunt with William Shatner.

When/if Blue Origin starts actually launching ships to orbit and then landing them, they'll gain a lot of relevance.
Nothing major in the EU has ever been done without consensus.

That's why so many exceptions were made for the UK when they were members.
Well, US having the dollar as a the world's reserve currency has it much better in general when it comes to inflation. Just look how Euro has been free falling. I've had an opportunity to observe inflation, followed by hyperinflation, then attempts to fight it with sky high interest rates bringing up massive unemployment and collapse of a lot of businesses. All this happened in the early 1990s in Poland freshly after the communist system went bankrupt and had no choice but to agree to transition to some form of market based economy(with lots of perks for old officials of course - that was the price of peace).

It is interesting because back then the method used to fight the inflation was a list of interest rate hikes, followed by privatisation of a lot of state property that was sold for peanuts then liquidated(snapped very quickly by various people "with connections"). However, the tax burden was quite low (no VAT at the beginning, and the huge majority of businesses activity was in the "grey market" anyway). It took years and years for the situation to improve. Of course as with everything in economy there were many factors that led to the crash, not just interest rates.

However, it is interesting to see how the current government is taking an opposite path to "fighting inflation". There are some interest rate hikes, but no where near what they should be to quash 20% inflation which we have now. Instead there are various attempts to "buy time". "One time" extra benefits for the pensioners have been quite generous. Laws to help borrowers by forcing 3 months of repayment holidays on mortgages were brought up. VAT for food was taken to 0%, taxes on fuel were lowered. A subsidy for house heating fuel was created, freeze of electricity prices for people and businesses that keep within certain usage limits, direct subsidies to high energy consuming industries. Of course all those things are available as tools, because the country went into this period of time with pretty good finances, but still it is very interesting to see if this "alternative" approach allows the relatively small peripheral economy survive this recession and keep its one of best in EU unemployment rates for long. Especially in light of having to double its military expenses and various expenses connected to the War.
If you are able to access aliexpress, you can try https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804596515777.html.
Practically speaking, and the way things are going, I think you're absolutely right.

But theoretically, countries can ban your product if it doesn't comply with local copyright laws. That can mean that say any video game, movie or tv show made with AI generated models that break copyright laws in say US could be banned from being sold in the US.

You can even go a step further, and sanction the company, blocking all payment processors that are looking to process payment in the US from disbursing money to that company.

So in practice I think you're right, and I'd advise that artists, developers and everyone else braces themselves to it and find ways to stay marketable and relevant even in the age of AI, but in theory it's just a political thing, and if there was real will to do something about it, it could be done.
I won't be worried about the speed of a Garbage collector. Rather focus on its efficiency. Actual work done per cycle per byte.

Collectors can run on a separate core and show double the speed, but then you have to halve the total number of working processes on your machine. Thus total work done per cycle remains the same.

Or it can just be lazy and run collection half the time, and thus show half processor use. But RAM use will then double for the same work load. At the end actual work done per byte of memory remains the same.

So focus on efficiency. The user can utilize the spare cores and RAMs for paralyzing their work, or for more work.
Yes, I’m British and when American friends first used the word “Telephone” in conversation I was very confused.
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