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> Can't edit kernel parameters from the firmware's own boot selector though can you.

Yes you could, if the firmware did let you change the Unicode string (some firmwares let you do crazy things)

> UEFI has effectively replaced all that with a proprietary boot process. The vendor is now in complete control; want a usable text console, or to access the firmware via an external monitor? Vendor doesn't give a shit. Want to access the boot loader via the serial console? Oh you must be an enterprise, let me direct you to our sales staff who won't give you the time of day unless you've got £thousands to drop into their pocket.

You are over dramatizing the current situation. Just boot to a UEFI shell and you can do all that. There are many.

If all you need is to edit the cmdline parameters, add an initrd containing a busybox + kexec to show the currently entered parameters and either keep booting as is, or edit them and kexec the kernel with the new parameters.

It's something a bit like what zfsbootmenu does to let you select the root filesystem you want, and it's much more powerful than a UEFI shell since you get the wide set of drivers linux suppors, and the even wider set of tools you can run on the commandline.

> Don't get me wrong, I'd love to replace GRUB with systemd-boot, but these are very real impediments to me ever doing so.

The #1 impediment seems to be your lack of desire to reclaim freedom, something easy to do if you spend a few hours learning about UEFI payloads, initrd, kexec etc.

Get in touch by email and I'll help you.
This is quite true but I like to think that the stimulating feeling can be learned.
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Better to apply the guidelines to actual HN comments.
Considering how many decades the people in Mali, Senegal, Niger, etc. begged the French to go back to Europe...
Notice can be given in the form of severance.
Explainer: Will Twitter layoffs violate U.S. law?
Here is my prediction. After raging for awhile and trying other apps that will all disappoint people will log back onto twitter again to get their dopamine hit and that will be that.

For verification it will no longer be a status symbol for anyone and will let Twitter get higher ad rates as they will be pushing to self verified real people. Say pay a higher ad rate for advertising only to verified users.
"With stocks, you're purchasing future profits. That puts a floor under things."

There is no floor for stocks.
Well, as tradition I maintain a watch on postmaster and webmaster
at... so I'd hope for a friendly heads-up. Basically well done.
George Hotz, a.k.a. ‘geohot,’ is leaving Comma.ai for a lofty AI project
The post is not saying much. It should have been a tweet. "No, it won't work, and thus it's bad."
> The first amendment isn't even particularly strong protection - it only forbids Congress from restricting freedom of speech, but doesn't set out any specific rights, or preclude states from setting their own laws restricting rights.

This has been true when 1st Amendment has been passed, but has not been true since SCOTUS ruled that 14th Amendment incorporates 1st Amendment for states. Today, states are just as bound by 1st Amendments as the federal government is.

> but it also explicitly recognises freedom of access to information as a right: you have a right to inform yourself, and the exercise of that right cannot be limited by any form of censorship.

That’s interesting, but what does it mean in practice? Can you give me an example of a situation where this right applied in Portugal? I want to know if this would actually protect us Americans from something that the government is currently not prohibited from doing.
It does not provide any additional value, since that can be faked as easily as the screenshot. Any validation requires something from Twitter end-point, that they check and verify publicly that it actually existed at that time… but that does not work since we are going against removals made by Twitter in the first hand.
Pretty much, modulo jurisdiction of the domain registrar itself.

A quick search turns up some related discussion from the EFF, though not precisely answering your question:

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/if-government-cant-get...>
> But, what is gone? Twitter was a unique spot where journalists, celebrities, titans of industries, your family, friends and co-workers, would join a daily mosh pit filled with a mix of truly important cultural moments and the most inane things you’ve ever seen. [...] Twitter will likely go from Elon’s new toy that is too difficult for him to play with, to being passed on to his legal and finance advisers to sort out.

Regardless of your opinion on Elon, it's simply too early to conclude that this is "likely" to happen, or that all those people will stop using it.

For those old enough to remember, major social media platform changes have happened and users have sworn that it was (effectively) the end. Sometimes they are right: see new Digg causing a mass Reddit migration, or banning adult content on Tumblr, turning a dying platform into a dead one. Sometimes they are incredibly wrong: see new Reddit[0], or, amusingly, people who claimed that Facebook switching to an algorithmic news feed instead of chronological was the end of the platform. I can't remember how long ago that was, but I imagine Facebook has increased in userbase and value 3 or 4 orders of magnitudes since that change.

[0] Yes, I'm aware old reddit is still accessible, but the vast majority of the userbase is on the mobile website or app.
> It's like there's a breed of person who is just "board member".

Typically known as "capitalists", the bourgeoisie, the 1%, etc.
Well, it's not like decades-long delay for green card processing is something that surprises you - it is known long before you set foot in the US. Why would you plan your life around the assumption that somehow the issue won't apply to you? Also, H-1B visas are relatively short term (6 years tops) so that's the time to figure out your green card chances and life plans. Finally, it's not like love somehow totally strips you of the ability to think rationally. If it is, it's not love, it's obsession.
[this is not legal advice]

Practically speaking, if you are in the US, you could download stuff from zlib and get away with it - I believe that's not illegal. Hosting on the other hand is.

Using torrents to download is legally also hosting, albeit some random parts of what you are downloading yourself. So to stay legal in the US, you can't really use torrents.

Maybe some enterprising person in Russia or China can become a reseller of hard drives and preload them with chunks of libgen ?

I mean, it's sad that the greatest country on earth has a sneakernet gap with Cuba [1]! ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal
So many pluses and minuses... getting themselves food versus the mess....
My read on the libertarian, free-speech Twitter pitch was that the mainstream media typically uses a straw man to dismiss it.

If you start with the proposition "Anyone should be able to post anything on Twitter"...

... and want to get to "Everyone enjoys reading Twitter," then there's a lot of black box space in the middle.

You can have the most vile things on your platform, but your userbase self-censors. E.g. crowdsourced shadow-banning / down-voting. Or reputation with verified identities underneath.

Or just... more transparency.

Empowering the public to data-mine Twitter opens some interesting windows to a platform that has terrible things, but empowers interested parties to fruitfully research who they're coming from.
Bwahaha, I take it you’ve never actually been near anyone who has done that, let alone done it yourself?

That’s total fantasy.

If someone is really really good, it can look like they’re not doing much for anyone who doesn’t know what to look for, for the same reason a ships captain who is looking like they aren’t doing anything is usually a really really good one.

The folks who directly interact with them often are well aware of this, but in a large org that may only be a couple percent of the organization.

Because they set the right culture to get things done smoothly, they’ve hired and trained the right leaders to make sure the right decisions get made (and oversee them appropriately), they chart a course that produces the right outcomes without a lot of drama, they delegate what they need to, but not things they should not, have problems dealt with proactively before they cause major issues, etc.

If you see a ships captain running around looking busy all the time, or even worse, dealing with major issues all the time, that’s a terrible captain.

Same with a business unit leader.

Paying attention to what needs to be paid attention to for all that to work correctly, and integrating that into the correct action is extremely difficult.

Especially under stress, and with constant distractions, which that level in Tech has a huge amount of.

It is very difficult to find someone who can do it, and they command a premium because of it. Hands on experience with the tech and people over a long period of time is a huge help, but just being around awhile is no guarantee of success. The filter is very harsh.

Lack of someone who does it effectively, or if they lose their ability to be effective, gets really obvious really quick, and has major consequences for the organization.
> How, just -how-, could anyone want this disorder?

Because they don't understand just how debilitating it is and how much trauma it causes a person. It's absolutely shit, especially for those of us who find out later in our lives like both of us apparently. Aside from the normal issues that go with it, now I'm also plagued by the thought of how things could have gone had literally anyone picked up on it when I was a kid.

I don't think it's about being cool, at least not completely, I legitimately think some folks want at least some struggle in their lives. Something to fight against, something to give them...purpose? I'm honestly not sure, but I know if they did have it they'd do everything they could to get rid of it.
This is true in a phase three company that is in efficiency and future cashflow harvesting mode, but in practice you end up doing shorter term things too involving a crisis of people or execution.
> This endeavor will be one of their lasting legacies: taking a much-loved, revenue-generating cornerstone of the web and smothering it within weeks

One can only hope!
With debt interest he needs to squeeze money NOW versus in the future. In either case he overpaid severely for a company and now needs to squeeze money out of it at some point. Point stands that this is 99% Elon.
Their posts on Linkedin are being bombarded by recruiters. So yes.
Yes, but complex systems are always changing and in some ways in a constant process of degrading. A lot of the biggest companies are growing exponentially faster than their processes and it ends up being nearly impossible for the tooling and supporting software to keep up. At that scale all the automation software you buy off the shelf won't scale with you. With over a billion dollars a year in surplus infrastructure costs, I would have to imagine Twitter is at that scale.
Yeah I commented on this on the last thread by this company on here, but it's like literally a demo of a fake news / misinformation machine. Content that sounds stylistically like the parroted speakers but is just factually incorrect or misrepresentative of what the speakers would likely say.

I guess if the point is to demo the pure technical achievement it's maybe cool but there needs to be a huge 'misinfo' disclaimer plastered literally everywhere that it's for entertainment, although even then people could just rip the audio and repost it and pretend it was real.
Does any of them make it easy to (a) define & use footnotes, and then (b) render the footnotes flexibly as a default, for example as either (b.1) end-of-page (in page-oriented physical formats) or (b.2) in Tufte-style side notes (in unpaged online formats) ?
I thought NFT's were already passe'. Talk about getting behind the curve.
Arguably, the carbon footprint of those companies having to exist in the first place…
Consider: I'm going to sue you to make sure you don't steal my car. Makes sense right? You shouldn't be stealing cars so my lawsuit will be reasonable. I just want to make sure you follow through with what you should do
Playstation 5 Has Passed 25M Units Sold
Last year we changed the source format for MDN from some extremely messy, WYSIWYG-authored HTML to something that would be easier for authors to use. We considered Asciidoc and reST, and despite its limitations, we chose Markdown (GFM specifically) for two reasons:

1. We get a _lot_ of casual contributors to MDN: about 180-200 unique contributors/month, most of whom we never see again. Almost all of them can contribute much more easily with Markdown than with anything else. Many of these people are unlikely to put even an half an hour into learning a new syntax.

2. Markdown has great tooling support. For example, if we want to run Prettier over our embedded code samples, it's really easy if we are in Markdown. If we are in Markdown we will get nice formatting just about everywhere, including GitHub of course and most people's editors.

One thing that made the choice easier for us is that MDN's a very mature doc site, so we had a very good idea of which Markdown limitations were likely to be a problem for us.

If you're interested, we blogged about this project: https://openwebdocs.org/content/posts/markdown-conversion/.
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Choosing the best database primary key – INT and UUIDs alternatives
While working on a big data & distributed system, I started questioning myself on which is the best database primary key to be used in terms of performance, security and, functionality. Despite some articles on Stackoverflow and a couple of blog post around the web highlighting the pros of some identifiers against others, I didn't found a complete overall picture. So I decided to create this comparison table.

My next step is to understand the best way to not expose the primary key to the world, maybe an additional column with a public random id? Maybe encoding/decoding the PK with some cryptographycally secure algorithm in the REST API layer? Or better a key-value mapping cache layer between the public Id and the internal Primary Key?

Every insight is welcomed.
But surely if CEOs had term limits then the good ones would be jumping from one company to another, so if they think too short term then no board would hire them.

Boards would hire the CEOs that set the next one up for success.

Kinda like how term limits for the us president doesn’t usually result in that type of behavior since it would screw over their party.
The problem with cancel culture is not a free speech. It is an action, based on external pressure. Same way as "nice business you have there, would be unfortunate, if something happened to it".
Which means a lot of travel to buy food. No refrigeration = daily trips to the store. It also means a lot more discarded packaging because you have to buy highly perishable stuff in much smaller packages.
> I think it's illegal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse act.

Things that are illegal for individuals to do aren't necessarily illegal for governments to do. This is a reason why the government should be vigorously doing this, rather than leaving it to private citizens, who risk being charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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> Also, what should the government do when it finds something?

It should contact the site operator.

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> What if the site operators are unresponsive or cannot be contacted?

I would imagine that in the case that site operators couldn't be contacted, they wouldn't be contacted.
> Taste is knowing what is good — being able to recognize it.

> Skill is the ability to build — to do what’s needed to do the work.

> Taste and skill are totally independent.

This is the crux of the article, and I'm not sure what to make of it. Some people have argued the opposite as well.

When the whole argument rests on a big assumption, I'd expect some data to back it up. If I don't agree with the premise, the argument falls apart.
Warning who? The only one who cares about Twitter's revenue is Musk, along with a few of his friends.

I suppose Twitter employees might care, but they're already at maximum fear for their jobs right now.
As someone who often thinks about these kinds of things, I like the OP's "skills as floor, taste as ceiling" take. Nothing earth-shattering here, but a cool little post.
I agree 100% but I commented because I felt the article was talking and criticising the use of a vertical fridge/freezer for daily use.
Maybe tying their severance, retirement package or stock options to the performance to the companies long term growth would help alleviate that problem.
Just the Protestant Work Ethic, which is pure Calvinism.

> Central to Calvinist belief was the Elect, those persons chosen by God to inherit eternal life. All other people were damned and nothing could change that since God was unchanging. While it was impossible to know for certain whether a person was one of the Elect, one could have a sense of it based on his own personal encounters with God. Outwardly the only evidence was in the person's daily life and deeds, and success in one's worldly endeavors was a sign of possible inclusion as one of the Elect. A person who was indifferent and displayed idleness was most certainly one of the damned, but a person who was active, austere, and hard-working gave evidence to himself and to others that he was one of God's chosen ones (Tilgher, 1930).

> Calvin taught that all men must work, even the rich, because to work was the will of God. It was the duty of men to serve as God's instruments here on earth, to reshape the world in the fashion of the Kingdom of God, and to become a part of the continuing process of His creation (Braude, 1975). Men were not to lust after wealth, possessions, or easy living, but were to reinvest the profits of their labor into financing further ventures. Earnings were thus to be reinvested over and over again, ad infinitum, or to the end of time (Lipset, 1990). Using profits to help others rise from a lessor level of subsistence violated God's will since persons could only demonstrate that they were among the Elect through their own labor (Lipset, 1990).

> Selection of an occupation and pursuing it to achieve the greatest profit possible was considered by Calvinists to be a religious duty. Not only condoning, but encouraging the pursuit of unlimited profit was a radical departure from the Christian beliefs of the middle ages. In addition, unlike Luther, Calvin considered it appropriate to seek an occupation which would provide the greatest earnings possible. If that meant abandoning the family trade or profession, the change was not only allowed, but it was considered to be one's religious duty (Tilgher, 1930).

http://workethic.coe.uga.edu/hpro.html
Heat pump efficiency drops rapidly with temperature differentials. This doesn't matter much when the goal is to heat air to room temperature, but it would matter a lot with a 600C target temperature. It's likely cheaper to use a lithium ion battery to store the electricity, then run a heat pump at the house off that. On top of that, it'll use a tiny fraction as much electricity.
No, I don't agree with you.

Solana is only worth $33 right now at the current spot rate, but at the volume that would need to be liquidated to pay off Alameda's debts, the price would crash to pennies because the amount would represent over half of the daily trading volume in Solana for the past month. (For comparison, in the stock market, selling the equivalent a single-digit % of the daily volume of a stock can tank the stock.)

Similarly, Alameda owns 80% of FTT, which has a 24h trading volume of less than 20% of Alameda's debts, and fewer than 250 active daily traders. It would be literally worthless if Alameda tried to liquidate enough to pay off its debts. And as the linked blog points out, FTT is just a shitcoin exchanged between two related entities on their accounting books, meaning that at least $5.8 billion of the value of FTT, i.e., 80% of the putative value, is purely made-up.

OTOH, as the Voyager debt was collateralized entirely with shitcoins, it's possible that the other $7+ billion in Alameda debt was also collateralized in shitcoins. If that's the case, than Alameda should be solvent because it appears they actually have about $100m in cash assets. But if not, they are legally insolvent.
How long was he in a drug induced haze for? Long enough to line up other institutional investors?
It's an accumulator for a district heating system, which are apparently common in Nordic countries.

Traditionally district heating systems use waste heat from thermal generation of electricity, which heat is free.
It's not at all reasonable to accuse someone of being on drugs when making an offer to buy a billion dollar company just because you don't like them. Stick to facts and you'll have others' support (including mine).
There's been 3 other submissions of this news with a total of 2 comments

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The terms could be 5 years long, and re-electable.
There's a ton of websites that are up and running for millions of users. That should be table stakes for running an online service.
>In the old days, paper ballots would also 'go missing' from districts known to be favorable to the other side (aka be chucked out of trucks on a bridge over a river).

The problem with electronic voting, however, is that it takes roughly the same effort to change one vote than it takes to change millions
Are we not allowed to voice our opinion on your words in the form of an upvote or downvote? I am assuming those are buttons you never use on hackernews yourself.

Sympathy can still be something you can have for people you disagree with.
Banks have been doing LBO financing for decades at this point. They get paid for the risk, and mostly know what they are doing.
Yeah, I don't think it's particularly intentional, but it is systemic. And self perpetuating - there are few co-ops, so investing in making more is a low priority.
It will likely eventually be possible to create bioweapons like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo, but we would still condemn someone for doing so, your statement makes literally no sense.
This post is in 145th position despite have 36 points in 4 hours, any reasons why it should be shadow downdovted like this ?
That's the HFT/exchange problem in a nutshell -- if you want to claim an equitable platform, then you have to artificially slow some requests to what you can guarantee for all.
Love his work. The Shape Of Jazz To Come is so good.

Free Jazz is a crazy album. Especially when listened to with headphones. Each stereo channel has a distinct quintet playing. Challenging listen for sure.
Obviously not corporate, but I believe Rome had 1 year term limits for its 2 consuls.
Something tells me that even with the somewhat stretched version of extraterritoriality that the US claims about laws like CFAA, they wouldn't try applying that to their closest intelligence/defence partner country operating largely domestically...
I think layoffs matter too. ICs may be fired more for performance reasons, but they disproportionately face uncertainty created by rounds of layoffs, uncertainty that isn’t compensated.
Ah, no idea how I missed that, thanks!