skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the opposite problem with an iPhone last week: it called 911 all by itself. I was in a different room so I didn't hear any warnings. Instead, I heard the "It's the police! Open up!" accompanied by banging on the door around midnight.

Since I had recently washed the phone (it's supposed to be water-resistant), my theory is that some water got into it and was completing the contact for the side button. There's an iPhone 'feature' that does an emergency SOS if you hold down the side button for about 10 seconds. I've since turned that feature off. Unfortunately the "side button being constantly held down" problem is persisting for me, sending the phone into recovery mode whenever it turns on; I may need to scrap the phone.
Disagree on the last point, I'm a university student who spent 1k on a MacBook Air, and I don't have a console or gaming PC because I can't afford it.

I study Computer Engineering, so having a good laptop was important. Prior to this I owned refurbished ThinkPad running Linux which cost me around $500 but had multiple issues with performance and speed, to the point where buying an M1-class machine was almost necessary for me.
And its worked for 60 years. I would take that over anything else.
$900M gaffe: US judge says Citigroup can’t recoup Revlon payout (2021)
> But it's Amazon, it's a synonym for toxic.

Eh. This article was about Google.
I don’t think my family would have made it through the 80’s without a chest freezer. I own a smaller one now that has occasionally been awkward to site when I was an apartment dweller but it’s still worth it.

When bread was on sale, often 3 for 2 sales, we’d buy six loaves and stick them in the freezer. Meat was almost always whatever was on sale.

They are not expensive, but they take planning or at least putting off some other big ticket item u til they pay for themselves. What the poor also can’t do is afford to experiment on things that may or may not pay off. That money could have been spent on something else. Including a little bit of fun. VCs aiming for a one in ten success rate sound like madmen. To this day I still scratch my head at that.
I assure you alphabet isn’t looking for a buyer.
It'll be interesting to see how this (and the Meta layoffs) are reported on, compared to the to weeks of non-stop outrage over the goings on at Twitter
That's an interesting perspective. I've always seen it to be the opposite, particularly when playing many Japanese video games: signs everywhere, tons of over-emoting both verbal and physical, exaggerated everything, lots of noises, ridiculously large numbers that must be flashed all over, lots of visual flashing. Lots of particle/special effects. Just a ton of really inexpensive dopamine for retaining capture of low attention span.

Not that any of this is inherently wrong. I'm not judging it (and I often enjoy it). But I think there's a sufficiently strong example of the opposite in modern Japanese culture.

What's interesting is, I think, we're both describing "very high information density" but seeing it as a result of high attention span, or low attention span. Heh!
There's Just Too Many Damn Elites
The long run being three months
Every "why" question on the Internet contains at least one wrong assumption. Here's yet another data point.
How is this relevant to Google's plans in this case?
There’s also no reason you can’t isolate the recording server too. Don’t let it initiate connections to the internet and limit incoming connections as much as possible. IE: Only allow connections from a specific VLAN or VPN client IP range.
> I'd argue the complete opposite. It's very meaningful for me to distinguish whether a program works correctly, crashes due to running out of memory or loops forever.

Great. And the entire field of static analysis is available for you to do this. But when discussing the formal consequences of the halting problem it is just completely pedantic to show up and point out that actually you can run Coverity and it'll spit out some pretty useful results on most programs.
The article mentions that the director made a previous science fiction film, The Tunnel. But i don't think he did - that was made by someone else, and it's about the construction of a trans-Atlantic tunnel which ends in disaster [1]. He did make F. P. 1, about the construction of a mid-Atlantic airport island which ends in disaster [2]. I note that The Tunnel was re-made in English (or re-adapted from the source novel) the next year [3].

Seems there was a good market for films about disasters under the Atlantic (or North Sea, at a pinch).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1933_German-langua...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.P.1

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1935_film)
Dunno whether I'm having more fun watching the Musk bonfire, or the FTX collapse.

My digital timestamping paper is cited by the original bitcoin paper, so people assume I appreciate cryptocurrencies. They're an environmental crime and a Ponzi scheme. Many people have tried to explain to me why cryptocurrencies aren't a Ponzi scheme. The poker player / oral examiner in me kicks in: They may not realize they don't understand or believe what they're saying, but they don't make sense.

Denial is powerful. People want to believe this is their moment.
It would still have been available in another canteen right next door though. Also, the canteen which did. the change was not exactly catering to the blue-collar workers he was referencing, IIRC it was an office building.
Amazon, this morning at least. edit: checked just now and they're still 20% off.
What? No. I mean, what? What??

First time I tried to get myself more into twitter I felt the same barrier as trying to use snapchat as a 30+ y.o.
Company in question is Google, not Amazon.
In the US, we have "trash pandas."

These are Raccoons. Clever little bastards. They can get into just about anything.

Raccoons also like to wash their food.
Sure. It's lyrics from a song, though. ;)

https://genius.com/The-orb-oobe-lyrics

I was curious if anybody would pick up on it, but I guess it's a pretty obscure song. Not sure where the sample is from originally, actually.
Well put! Being efficient can be achieved in many ways.

No matter how ruthless one chooses to be, there's no need to also be mean, unless one is sadistic and/or compensating for some major psychological problems.
Microsoft has always had a love/hate obsession with monopolization. In the early days, they were famous for stating that strategically they wanted to be the platform people-who-were-not-MS made software money on, because that was how you became a dominant platform.

But of course that buckled at various times (first with proto-Office vs 1-2-3 & WordPerfect, then with the 90s dominance / Encarta-era smorgasbord of random MS software).

Excel was released on Mac because Microsoft wasn't confident in directly challenging 1-2-3 (on DOS) or early-Windows capabilities. And ultimately, it was exactly the fact that Microsoft owned the OS that allowed them to dominate in office apps and browsers in the 90s/00s.

Apple has had a monopoly on two device platforms (iPods, then iOS) and has abused both of them to its own profit.

ATT didn't have a government mandated monopoly: it had a series of every-few-decades consent decrees in which it bargained with the US government to avoid being nationalized. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment

Apple has acquired a substantial amount of software and developers. They just tend to do so at the nascent product stage (vs Google and MS acquiring later). See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisit...
You do have a point. SBF might be an interesting case because he tried to get protection from democrats even though republicans might have been more receptive to him.
If your primary business is selling ads and ad spending by companies is down (a macroeconomic factor), that seems a pretty logical connection between the macro and the ad company's response to it.
Being a Man in the Marines
Used in the [postcard](https://docs.rs/postcard/latest/postcard/) crate for encoding variably sized signed integers.
> Is it tough to feel sympathy for the ordinary bahamiams who had nothing to do with this who are going to suffer the actual consequences of all this?

What consequences?

That FTX is no longer able to steal money from people and spend it into the Bahamas economy?

No, I don't feel bad about that at all.
Advent of Code: Behind the Scenes (2021)
It is easy to find windows app, that is either blurry (basically almost all installers), or is confused by hidpi (take any qt app and you have 1:1 chance it will get it wrong, like this: https://imgur.com/a/Ad0ZkmX).
> But a model of a machine with finite states is more informative and interesting for applying it to real-world computers than a model of a Turing machine.

I don't agree at all. I do static analysis for my career. Trying to model the actual set of available memory configurations of a physical machine is going to scale way way way worse for most meaningful problems than approaching this the usual way.
Note that the "rule of 3 colors" is about three hues. The full design will incorporate variations of those colors: brighter and darker, more and less saturated. Your brain actually thinks of these as "the same color", though HTML and CSS don't.

It's a design principle which is safe: it's not going to clash in an ugly way, or make combinations that are hard to read. They can be used (in conjunction with other design principles) to draw the attention where it's needed, and have the eye flow through the page without distraction.

"Safe" and "boring" are two sides of the same coin. I personally don't mind boring, and easily get aggravated by choices that distract. A truly great design breaks the safe principles, though usually at a high cost. (Usually, having tried and rejected many combinations.)
As far as i can tell, Hartl had nothing to do with Tunnel. What am i missing?
Well Google and Meta aren't laying off 75%
So many new accounts commenting is a bit suspicious
Cue US invasion of Ghana…
-At a former employer, the upper management managed to one-up this by telling those of us still working there that we were the damaged goods; during an all-hands meeting where it was announced that we were to acquire a competitor, our CFO managed to blurt that

'We've learned from past acquisitions, and this time we will ensure that the onboarding experience is a good one. We can not and will not end up with a repeat of our former acquisition, where the bulk of the people we were interested in, left...'

I wish I was making this up.
Yes, this is not a real story. Pure speculation. No real sources.

IMO as a Google employee, I don’t see layoffs happening. The company has started hiring again. My coworkers are flooded with interviews. We’re still having holiday parties and other “fun” spending seems to have returned. I have no inside knowledge, that’s just my own personal observation.
Yes, even i don't use Golang at all, as i don't trust any of them for long term.
Pink triangle represent. This was tried before.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-w...
Depends on your needs, but having your data & database multi-az to ensure durability can avoid you having to restart from backups. I'm thinking about an old AWS incident were they actually lost EBS data: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-aws-...
Also make sure your backups are in a different AZ (thinking about OVH ...) or region or even at a different provider.
I imagine the things people consider NSFL depend on their personality and background. These studies seem like they'd be more illuminating if they looked at e.g. rape content warnings for rape survivors.

Effects on the rest of us matter as well, but shouldn't be considered the whole story.
Why just the new products/service? You had better avoid them all.

> Why build anything new at all? Why work hard at all?

The money, Lebowski...

but also, they do a lot of interesting FOSS and published research work, which can't get "canceled".
I really want to believe but I cannot. For the majority of my life Twitter did not even exist. We did not get by any better BT (before Twitter) and AT (after Twitter) has brought as many negatives as positives IMO. There are roughly 300 million twitter users (many are bots). Even if you believe that number that is 300 million of the 9 billion people on the planet. Yawn.

Twitter gives people the illusion they are part of a larger conversation. That may make them feel important but people like Musk and Trump couldn't seriously give a flying F what anyone thinks. For them it a tool to cheaply control and influence the conversation. In many important ways it has cheapened public discourse and reduced every issue to its lowest common denominator - primarily what the average Twitter user thinks about a subject they know little or nothing about.

Will we lose some good things if Twitter went belly up - likely. We will also lose some extremely negative things so losing Twitter is not the stomach turning event some would make it to be.
I worked on a number of software projects with Eric and got a lot out of his book before that.
I'm sure you have good reasons for disliking DDD and I bet Eric would probably agree about most of them. This is what happens when ideas spread broadly. They end up getting applied in ways the originator never intended. (Jung reportedly said "thank god i'm not a jungian")

Eric's a fine writer and one of the smartest and most interesting people I've met. Nothing "snapped in his mind" and I can tell you for certain that he never tried to "force every idea into a class hierarchy" (quite the contrary! - he's very much a programming pluralist and spent a few years working in Clojure for that very reason). Nor would he ever do something as crude as trying to force a model (any model) onto software development as a whole. He's far too inquisitive and flexible a thinker.

By the way, Eric's way of programming and of thinking about programming was formed in the Smalltalk world, well before Java existed. Like a lot of the Smalltalk diaspora who ended up working in Java (and experiencing it as a kind of exile from the powerful and flexible Smalltalk environments they were used to), he thought deeply about what the differences were and how the Smalltalk design culture could be (partly) recovered and reshaped for these other technologies. A lot of creative work came out of that, not just DDD (e.g. Ward Cunningham's work, which led to Wikipedia).
user/application level or os/runtime level?
C doesn't have automatic granular memory management.

sbrk, registers and runtime stack are forms of memory management. (unix inodes via pipes, OS envirnment, and files)
For me one of the best things about PCs for gaming is access to lots of old games and long tail stuff...in fact I rarely play new graphically-demanding titles. That said OpenEmu on the Mac is the slickest emulation manager / front-end I've used on any platform and DOSBox-X runs fine on my iMac. But I still keep a gaming PC around.
All cloud providers are NOT equal here. Amazon over-provisions and sells the excess capacity as spot instances.
It's not per year, it's a one time purchase with lifetime (well, "lifetime") updates.
I was always told, "If your feet are wet, and you can see pyramids, you're in de Nile (or a fountain, in Vegas)."
Bahamas is one of the large international center. So politics are well aware of what is crypto.

The politicians in Bahamas cannot even remotely consider that crypto is a scam because it would open the possibility that they get charged by whoever is a victim (e.g. in the US).

They will put the blame on FTX and that they are victim, but the problem is not only FTX, it's crypto and greed.
The world is getting older and growing slower
Fork (https://fork.dev) is my go-to. One time payment, super clear UI.
Vint Cerf was right. The internet is dead. What we have now is the splinternet, where a lot of countries have giant Galapagos intranets.

We can all thank China and Cisco with the innovation of The Great Firewall for this
Twitter thread about the work by the author: https://twitter.com/paytonjjones/status/1563950340944560128
Citigroup recouped the payout on appeal. https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/citigroup-wins-appeal-ove...
But who will determine when more computers are needed to figure out what's available to give to more customers because there's been a spike in demand?

Computers don't fix everything. They just allow you to f*ck up bigger, harder, and faster, usually in the most banal way imaginable.
A live, interactive REPL for coding these would take a weekend to implement and add orders of magnitude to the accessibility and UX of this resource.
If we’re talking about the Bahamas being unable to catch a break, there should be mention of the nasty direct hit they took from hurricane Dorian in 2019, from which some areas are still recovering.

The storm basically sat still over Grand Bahama for 24 hours as a Category 5 storm with up to 185mph sustained winds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Dorian_in...
There’s a rather big gap between “exponential time” and “forever”!

I routinely solve instances of problems in EXPTIME to solve practical problems with no difficulty…
What a ridiculous accusation. They would never do such things.
damn this Turing guy sounds like he really knew what he was talking about
Is he drawing conclusions based on those 13 red dots, which appear to be as randomly distributed as all the other countries' dots?

Seems like a case of "as you can see from this completely random graph there is a clear correlation..."
Does NSFL mean "Not Safe For Life"? I wasn't familiar with this term before and have never seen content labeled with it.
Is your old refrigerator an energy hog?
Yes, but where is the focus on effort?

Compiling for each possible OS / OS variation in order to run things to support the few hundred lines that actual do what interested in

or just the few hundred lines of code that actually do what interested in.
You should be good to go except for debugging accounts billing monitoring habits documentation security evaluation …
I think we all agree it shouldn't. If I remember correctly, the code had special cases for emergency services just so this wouldn't happen.

That said, if I install a carrier's app on my tablet that enables calling and adds the necessary emergency services support, I don't see why it couldn't be used as the fallback for emergency services. Sometimes I have WiFi but no mobile signal (VoWiFi is finicky as hell) so if I need to reach emergency services, an "internal dialer only" approach would actually prevent me from getting help more than it solves the problem.

The code was buggy and not tested enough. Teams didn't specify that it could handle emergency calls. The method that sorts the apps that are capable of dealing with emergency phone numbers simply forgot to verify that the numbers in the list were all emergency capable: https://medium.com/@mmrahman123/how-a-bug-in-android-and-mic...

If I install a dialer, I expect it to be able to dial 112/999/911. I don't expect it to try to re/activate the vendor dialer I disabled, switch my system settings to give it its call permissions back, and call the number. Hell, with multiple dialers, this behaviour may even cause a loop by itself.

Bugs in the core framework can't be fixed by hardcoding specific dialers, you'll only hardcode the buggy, often barely updated dialers. Even after my phone goes EOL, I can fix problems like these by simply installing a better, fixed dialer, and that's a pretty good feature in my opinion.
Add to this that the US Federal government has conducted numerous hot wars to protect USD dominance. Remember when Saddam Hussain and then Kadafi in Libya each started selling dollars for euros? War.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/petrodollar-deep-dive-wi...

But now the US is even destroying confidence in the dollar, through its confiscation of the Afgan central bank reserves (which included private citizens' deposit accounts) and distributing the money to families of Sept 11th victims; or freezing the Russian central bank reserves, even though the international settlement system was meant to be apolitical.
This kind of knowledge doesn’t spread genetically, so I imagine there must be some mechanism by which the technique is taught within the species so that the knowledge of bin chickens gets handed down from generation to generation.
This is a view of C++ outdated by about 5 years.
yeah. :-)
Sell it off... and/or offer dividends until it depletes
M1RACLES was a security flaw that was hyped as a joke, because it was such a weak bug, and yet it was hyped to oblivion. It totally does not deserve even a mention on the M1 Wikipedia page.

The flaw means that two malicious processes, already on the system, can potentially communicate without the OS being aware. Even though they already could through pipes, desktop icons, files, inter-process communication, screen grabbing each other, over the network, from a remote website, take your pick. Now, what are the odds of two malicious processes, being on a system, with a pre-agreed protocol for communication, going to need a weird processor bug to communicate over for? Absolutely nothing. It's not supposed to happen - but it's basically useless when you are twice-pwned already.

The other flaw that was found was that Pointer Authentication (PAC) could be defeated on the M1 with the PACMAN attack. However, PAC was actually an ARM standard added in ARMv8.4 that affects all ARMv8.4 implementers - the M1 just happens to be the most notable chip with that ARM version. Versions before ARMv8.4 didn't have PAC at all - so, even with that defeated, you aren't worse off than you were before ARMv8.4, so it's just a "sad, we tried, but oh well" thing from ARM's perspective.
Why do you suppose the US would want to do that?
All computer evolution up to that day happened in the 30 years prior, so how on earth could they possibly expect that their system would last such a long time?

I do recall from the time frame mid-eighthies to mid-nineties that three year old computers were obsolete. Ten year old stuff was ancient history. Never would I have imagined to be able to use Linux for 30 years.
I'm pretty sure this is indeed a significant part of it. While watching the relevant video she says she gets "overwhelmed" by the old reddit layout because of the "amount of text" (which isn't even that much) and I really do have to wonder how these people even managed to live their lives before the age of the smartphone without suffering regular mental breakdowns every time they saw a newspaper. The future does not look good.
What happened with the founders relationship?
Definitely, it doesn't feel right anymore.

I like what Tutanota does instead: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/black-friday-hype

I really like their service and their attitude towards Black Friday makes me like them even more.
I certainly don't get the feeling of a patient attention span whenever I've seen clips from Japanese TV where on top of the main action they have shining brightly-colored text and graphics popping up all over, scrolling banners, maybe a reaction cam cutting between multiple people hamming up their reactions to everything, etc.

And the websites look pretty similar in design.
Can you elaborate on the hoops? Did you use magic words? Passwords? Proof of past failure?
'Black Friday' - Another consumer's day in the year when everything gets marked up so you can have your discount.
Exactly. It differentiates e.g. gore from pornography.
Gimp takes strange turns now and then, does but gradually improve over time. It used to be that fuzzy-select would cause immense lag practically every time. Now my biggest complaint with selection is merely that the rectangle select tool defaults to centred.

If it helps, you can enable the old style icons in preferences.
Who is “we” ?

If by we you mean blue haired “journalists” losing a sense of unearned importance, then nothing of value will be lost.
Shaving 5% of overhead can absolutely make or break a company.