skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always been suspicious that there's extra, "latent" first-party instrumentation code in consumer OSes that, when activated, does some additional "innocuous-seeming" metrics-collection, along existing metrics-collection channels, but that is actually just barely enough to be identifiable (in a way that's only apparent if you're a security researcher and you think really hard about it); where this switch is either activated per-device during system updates or virus hot-scan pushes, or per user for cloud-connected user accounts by monitoring a policy flag on your cloud account; and where these mechanisms in turn are activated by state actors telling the OS manufacturer to do so, to then collect the resulting metrics and de-anonymize the device owner.

I mean, it's what I'd do if I were Apple and/or Microsoft, and I knew that the US government was constantly compelling my employees through National Security Letters to do a bunch of extra off-the-books work to enable transparent one-off device-specific wiretaps. I'd productize that wiretap process, to get my employees' time back.
Apple cans ZFS Project (2009)
1 Dead, 16 hurt after SUV crashes into Hingham Apple store
> What was it lately about Apple now being valued at more than all the other SV giants combined?

That it is not true.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/
it needs something between Yellow and Lime, like Olive. that one transition is not as smooth as the others.
Well, he just introduces rudimentary technology to ancient humans and then stands back for thousands of years to watch it evolve.

He feels guilty that the chain of technological progress eventually leads to Hiroshima, but I don't think everybody would agree that it's his responsibility.
For the record I am not one of these people. I did, however, discover after 40-some years on this planet that I am intolerant of soy. I removed it from my diet and I feel so much better, although I am constantly disappointed that it has infiltrated so much food.
When I was using Windows around 2012, when I had a very low amount of computer experience, I would commonly wipe and reinstall Windows due to how often it got filled with crap.

Now I have a couple Windows installs that have been going strong for years. One of 'em has shady proprietary Chinese factory flashing tools on it, and a full development environment for TI graphing calculators. That was my old computer; I don't use either of those tools anymore so my new computer doesn't have them.
Wouldn't such an exchange be a good use case for a smart contract?

It would make it very transparent, if the exchange is honest. As a history of all bids, payouts and judgments would be recorded on a blockchain.

It probably also would do away with the KYC, so everybody could participate.

And nobody would have to give away their private data.

Thinking about it ... if the smart contract would let users post new bets as tokens and appoint judges, the whole thing would be eternal. Individual users and judges might come and go. But the platform would live on forever and the history of bets would be recorded forever.
The UI of windows keeps getting polluted with things I have to dismiss (once), but the kernel continues to get better than it was, in ways that make things way better as a gamer and much more palatable as a hobby dev. I'd rather have a windows computer and WSL for work than the shitty mac I use, and I write python for a living where windows is straight up unsupported except by third parties.
Now that some ATMs let you choose your denominations, I get all my cash in fives. Even $300 (pretty much the outer limit of what I ever want to carry in cash) in fives comfortably fits in my wallet, and you avoid most of the headaches of trying to make change for larger bills.
I believe the current WG14 charter is here: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2611.htm

This text is still in force, it seems:

“
13. Unlike for C99, the consensus at the London meeting was that there should be no invention, without exception. Only those features that have a history and are in common use by a commercial implementation should be considered. Also there must be care to standardize these features in a way that would make the Standard and the commercial implementation compatible.
”

I read this as saying that anything that gets standardized should be available in one of the major implementations. In practice, most of the qualifying features will have been implemented in both GCC and Clang in the same way, so for most users, there is not much benefit from standardization. Some may feel compelled to support the ”standard” way and the “GCC/Clang” way in the same sources, using a macro, but that isn't much of a win in most cases. Of course, there will be shops that say, “we can't use feature until it's in the standard”, but that never really made sense to me.

Things are considerably murky on the library side. In my experience, library features rarely get standardized in the same way they are already deployed: names change, types change, behavioral requirements are subtly different. (Maybe this is my bias from the library side because I see more such issues.) For programmers, the problem of course is that typical applications do not get exposed to different compiler versions at run time, but it's common for this to happen with the system libraries. This means that the renaming churn that appears to be inherent to standardization causes real problems.

Others have said that new standards are an opportunity to clarify old and ambiguous wording, but in many cases the ambiguity hides unresolved conflict (read: different behavior in existing implementations) in the standardization committee. It's really hard to revise the wording without making things worse, see realloc.

So I'm also not sure what value standardization brings to users of GCC and Clang. Maybe it's different for those who use other compilers. But if standardization is the only way these other vendors implement widely used GCC and Clang extensions (or interfaces common to the major non-embedded C libraries), then the development & support mode for these other implementations does not seem quite right.
> In all honesty -- whenever I hear "Crypto is a solution in search of a problem", I really have trouble not rolling my eyes.

..and some of us can't help but roll our eyes when we hear yet another crypto use case being skirting government laws / regulations.
Yup. I was at Atlanta airport and clicked on a bunch of links from the HN front page. All the pages that were sent over unencrypted HTTP got invasive ads injected into them. All the pages over HTTPS were fine.
> No nonsense coercion

Given that the focus is on being unambiguous I found this line a bit amusing. Maybe it’s me but I can’t tell for sure whether this describes a quality of the language’s coercion mechanism or a promise that the language will include no such “nonsense” like e.g. javascript :)
I've been thinking about it, but there are already so many telegram bots that show smart contract deployments and you can look at the name of the smart contract and find the corresponding community on discord, in some periods of time they are deployments nearly every second

so it's like who is it for? its not really useful for "web3 skeptics", the goal post would just move to something even further unrelated to not having negative incidents occurring to people that interact with the contract

still mulling it over, since it takes time and effort with no benefit

edit: actually, some of the grant programs would likely support development and maintenance of this
I've used Proxmox before for running a Windows VM for gaming inside a Linux/Proxmox self-hosted server, so I could have everything I needed on one machine, software apps as well as games. Unfortunately, games started implementing anti-cheat so I stopped using Proxmox, booted into raw Windows 11 and migrated to a PaaS online for my software apps.

This software Looking Glass was great when I used it though.

> "Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a Window with Native Performance" discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27870399

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22907306

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I also used Proxmox to run macOS as its own VM, a Hackintosh basically. Nick Sherlock has great guides on how to do this: https://www.nicksherlock.com/2022/10/installing-macos-13-ven...
I would caution against grading on a curve
Does Apple charge for the curation?
While technically correct, this point of view is about a decade behind reality. Mobile devices are the de-facto computation device for most people. Fewer and fewer people have dedicated computation devices; there's no need for them if you have a smartphone.

It does mean being beholden to one of two smartphone OS makers unless you're in the technically capable 5%.
> I suspect that on this page it's needed to fix the theme or something, because the text is light grey on a white background, and all monospace sections are completely illegible.

You seem to be correct. I found a single <script> tag in the source, with the following code:

(() => {
let v = localStorage.getItem("color-scheme"),
a = window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: dark)").matches,
cl = document.documentElement.classList,
setColorScheme = v => (!v || v === "auto" ? a : v === "dark") ? cl.add("dark") : cl.remove("dark");
setColorScheme(v);
window.setColorScheme = v => {
setColorScheme(v);
localStorage.setItem("color-scheme", v)
};
})();

Though I don't see what's the point of this since the "light" theme, as you've pointed out, is completely illegible.
Woah- I am not alone on this. I have a dotcom modular system, did JI tuning research in college, and dream of buying a patina vehicle from the fuel crisis era and converting it to EV.
True, though you have to include the stock market too, that's equity. US Bond market cap is roughly $120 trillion, stock market cap is ~$45trillion. So the equity market is about half the debt market, if you exclude govt debt.

That said, if somehow you had a similar hypothetical economy but with little or no debt, the equity side might be larger.
Can I ask a dumb question? I understand the permutation argument for why using 5 six-sided dice can't possibly be fair, but looking at the serpentine example, I'm having trouble intuiting why. At a glance, removing any one of those dice looks pretty fair.
FTFY: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=German+toilet
That’s a selective quote…

> This is a pretty bad idea, but luckily even the web browser has its limits.
It's not voluntary at all, it's required by the internation convention concerning the carriage of passengers and luggage by rail: https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201101/v...

https://help.raileurope.co.uk/article/41665-understanding-ci...
Lovely!

Does it work?
Secure Maintainer Workflow
Care to elaborate? Sounds ideal frankly.
> Definitely check your stool often and for things like mucus and blood.

Here in Italy we are checked every two years at +50yo: huge lines of people dropping off their small amounts of (safely stored in an appropriate container) poo. A few weeks later...good news, or bad, in the post. Both my wife and I were a bit embarrassed at first, being relative youngsters, but the over 70s - a great day out for them.
That guy didn't really do any damage though, IIRC he basically wrote the entire Scots wikipedia himself so its not like he made anything worse.
If you are developing the backend then Pushpin[0] is the easiest to integrate with.

[0] https://pushpin.org
You know, I wish we could do something similar for iOS, but their toolchain generally drops support for targeting older versions of iOS faster than we do so. Has anyone checked to see if you can patch apps and submit them through App Store review with doctored deployment targets?
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/mdft/Chapter_Outline.html

interesting looking page. compared to ctcf, there is a lot of cool math that pops out in the dtdf case (sampling, aliasing, etc). also it's fundamentally how we deal with audio in computer systems so this is highly practical info.

it is also fun to look at the various other discrete flavors of signal processing.

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/mdft/Fourier_Transforms_Cont...

you can even extend this to finite algebraic structures. I think most fourier analysis references will have some information as there is relevance to Dirichlet theorem on primes.
How is this different from a shark cage? This is journalistic clickbait.
Looks promising. The task/calendar linkage is a good reflection of how I like to organise my day.

Any plans to extend the Github integration to Issues in addition to PRs?
About a year ago, Linus from LTT collaborated with the Facebook team to make a video about the subject: https://youtu.be/JK3eTGkX6qY

Very cool!
> I don't want to have to dig my phone out of my pocket, every time I want to know what time it is.

Funny, I actually decided the opposite - I think making it too easy for me to check the time promotes anxious thinking, especially when as for most cases, the exact time doesn't really matter that much. I think making it slightly harder to check the time is good thing for me.

Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone, and might be a bad idea if you regularly do things that really do need an up to the minute time accuracy.
Looks to be #669900. I was curious as well.
1) they probably don't get notify
2) they also have interest to say no if isn't being exploited publicly even if they are searching cases internally.
In any case the response feels solid most companies will try force update whit vulnerability a and not disclose what the problem was and then blame the public for not have the software update, this giveme security about the compaby, it's also problematic because it drains the the time of the host to update their systems.
Apple's iOS Privacy Concerns Deepen
You can go to https://archive.ph/ to make one yourself.
It seems too early to say "no one else is able to replicate it", given that the claim was only posted to Twitter yesterday, and the Gizmodo article linked to here was only posted 4 hours ago.
Algorithmic art and pen plotters - super fun and wonderful community.
Browser extensions. Not quite a website, not quite a mobile app, and surprisingly pervasive. Most people don't realize how incredibly powerful they are, even with manifest v3.

I almost fell out of my chair when I found out there were no books on how to build them, so I wrote one: https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/ It was incredibly enjoyable to go through the APIs and write about all the different crazy things they can do, and I put the best ones into a demo extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/browser-extension-....
OK but we can mitigate these types of exploits (buffer overflow etc.) using memory-safe languages.

Bad design is a universal orthogonal problem.
Always use [closed, open) intervals
Do you actually use Urbit? I just tried it recently and found it insanely buggy and slow (the most basic things didn't work, attempting to join certain chatrooms hung forever, etc.) Wondering what I did wrong or if it's that way for everyone
Add a poop knife in there too! https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/ke8skw/the_...
The App Store itself has ads[0], but some changes might be in preparation for deeper ad integrations[1].

0: https://searchads.apple.com/advanced

1: https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/11/14/apples-4b-ad-busi...
People aren't going to get better public transport or cheaper housing in the USA. I want to stay home and live and work. I've done it once before over a decade ago and doing it now as a result of the pandemic and I love it.
the problem is certain groups thrive on the American's lack of information about Indian society to spread their misinformation as truth. Caste, being a complex issue, has been reduced india to rural areas. Any cases about caste favoritism or discrimination area dealt with public outcry and government laws. Meritocracy is the currency in the new Indian tech space.

Caste as portrayed by American newspapers and "human rights" agencies is that every Hindu (they single out, even though caste problem exists in all religions in India Pakistan Bangladesh etc) comes with caste lense, which is untrue. There has been a deliberate attempt to make Brahim = white so that US left liberals can easily make oppressor-opressed connections. Reality is way different and complex but nobody wants to read sources. In many parts lower castes are in high power, and they exert atrocities on everyone else - other lower castes and higher castes. Whole India is riddled with examples like that. Person in power exploits poor person. Caste is just a tool. Again, with public outcry and strict laws, it has been relegated to deep rural areas of India. You won't find it easily in cities. What all this points to ? This is an attempt to dehumanize hindu population, attack hindu tech workers (who are micro minority in USA) and erode any goodwill around India.

Take this article for example, it doesn't go into the Dalit activists obvious misinterpretations but paints Rajiv Malhotra as devil incarnate. Propaganda pieces rarely show their teeth this easily. Any follower of reuters will form their opinion by reading such propaganda piece.

Salvatore Babones, american statistician warned about same thing -

Salvatore Babones | Demonising A Democracy? | India Today Conclave 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGkFwDk7TUQ .

For a western audience, India is becoming a fascist state even though ground reality is entirely opposite because they are surrounded by media reports which say so. If you repeat lie long enough, it becomes the truth.
Excellent points, thanks (and ref to jevon's paradox)
I'm interested in these offline systems in the agtech space. What kinds of use cases exist here? I'd love to be involved in agtech if I thought it could have a positive impact on soil health.
You have to differentiate between calendrical and chronological calculations.

So to walk through your requested example…

You store a TAI time stamp of when you originally chose a specific date/time and then you store either a chronological time stamp (the TAI value) or a calendrical timestamp which is a struct/dict/etc storing the desired year month day, time and timezone and notionally the calendar system unless you want to assume the Gregorian calendar and risk confusion with Julian calendar dates which are still in use for astronomical record keeping. With these two values you can calculate what to change in the struct to account for any time change, a day not being fixed as a number of seconds allows accurate calendar calculations. You increase the day value and make sure you don’t have to “carry” a month in the months column.

Yes this is more calculations when modifying a value compared to just adding a bunch of seconds but that’s the issue at the heart of this problem, calendars and chronological elapsed seconds are fundamentally different and we computer programmers tried to take a big shortcut by using a single seconds value for both… and thus… here we are with the present state of affairs.
> Apple is fundamentally transforming into an advertising company. The difference between them and ad companies such as Google is that, with Apple, advertising is baked into almost every single product.

It's nice to think this is part of a transformation taking place at Apple. In truth, what is transforming is our perception of Apple. It's not like Analytics has recently changed how it operates.
This is awesome; prediction markets have made massive strides recently, with applications and implementations being useful from crypto to sports to politics.

I'm surprised if there wasn't already a pool of smart contracts out there basically already emulating the space.

The obvious first principled questions come to mind: definition ambiguity in the event and thus result, the Oracle problem confounds this by essentially either giving leeway to the market deciders or by using a concrete agreed upon source of truth, such as data published to .Gov domains and other government/market API's.

The need for human capital to moderate/adjudicate claims is apparent, but would vary per domain. No need for a human to decide on public CPI data (assuming no wrongdoing or mispublishing on the .gov part), and this could be further minimized by making clearer positions/events that eventually are glued to a dedicated Oracle API.

Definitely an area that could be implemented quickly but haphazardly in an unregulated/cryptobro fashion via tokens and smart contracts, but cool to see its been developed above the table.

Cool economic calendar too, I have been looking for exactly this.
https://kalshi.com/economic-calendar
I'm a big user of https://predictit.org/. But they are getting shutdown soon, so this is great.

One thing I'd suggest: add pictures to the events. Makes it much easier for me to navigate and identify markets. I.e. a Biden picture next to a Biden event.
I think you may run into the halting problem here.
What’s up with all the task managers lately? This feels like the fifth I’m seeing in the past 2 weeks.
OwU is a cute name :3
Neat platform. I think geopolitics, currently is, and will likely be a heavy driver of market moving events over the next couple of decades.

Any plans to support that space more deeply?
There's an article (on modifying mice with hardware debouncing) that talks a bit about this:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hack-mouse-click-do-it-...

> This is one more example of perfectly good theory not getting used in practice to save pennies per unit and also to perpetuate planned obsolescence. That is, sales would drop if you no longer needed a new mouse every two to four years as a result of glitchy buttons.

FWIW, the [1]Zaunkoenig brand is where I first heard about this. I have their M1K and M2K mice, which are really nice. (I am otherwise unaffiliated with them)

[1]: https://zaunkoenig.co/blogs/blog/zaunkoenig-m1k-firmware
Maybe it's true if you only consider tech companies in the bay area (silicon valley)? Apple is 2.3T.

GOOG (1.2T) + NVDA (.38T) + META (.29T) + ADBE (.14T) + CRM (.14T) + NFLX (.12T) = 2.27T

Oracle makes or breaks this if you still want to consider them a Silicon Valley company (the headquarters was moved to Austin last year)
Circe was magnificent. The audiobook is beyond perfectly narrated by Perdita Weeks.
Thank you! That's a good suggestion, our next integration is JIRA but we'll definitely add Github issues at some point as well.
Disney executives staged revolt against ousted chief Bob Chapek
Meh. Urbit. That's not a weird technical scene, that's a lightning-rod for arguments about code of conduct at conferences and whether you're a fan of Bergson / Popper-esque Open Societies [cf. "The Open Society and Its Enemies" and "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" vs. J. S. Mill "On Liberty"]
You may know that that was made into a 1990 PBS Nova episode, “The KGB, the Computer, and Me”, starring Cliff Stoll himself.
It's good for everybody to use ssl, but people writing essays about their hobbies aren't responsible for shady public wifi endpoints.

At least in FF there's a setting to force you to click through a full page warning to enable visiting a site without ssl. I use it, so I can be aware of my risks.
Competitive programming!

20k+ contestants per contest, around 1-2 times per week: https://codeforces.com/contests

In terms of "scene", there are exclusive discord channels that you can only join if you have above a certain rating (usually candidate masters and above). Probably the highest average IQ community that I'm part of and they discuss stuff beyond competitive programming.