skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue with that scenario is that some hack of a Mac in developer mode will get reported in the media in big scary headlines as "All Macs finally hackable" - (which would technically be true but it'd be missing the fact that developer mode would have needed to be enabled). And then the flood of Grandma voicemail messages would startg.
Can you imagine anyone proposing this for the ordinary financial sector? The hardcore libertarians would approve, but nobody else would take such a proposal seriously.
For me, it was an invoice crossing over my desk many years ago.

- Questioned it.

- Started reading county and city ordinances.

- Realized that there was an opportunity.

- Confirmed it by making open data requests for the data I needed.

- Learned I can't sell for shit even w/ the perfect service/product.

Overall, I obtained data from over 20 sources to validate the idea, build the lead list, and attempt to sale the service/product. I'm not happily on v2 of it and have someone who can actually sell, which I'm stoked about!

Although I haven't hit success and financial freedom yet w/ this thing, the skills I've gained due to the research, data sourcing, spelunking of the data, and attempting to be a salesman has lead me to many other successful projects.

Tangent: Products and services serve a need. Find something that makes your curse and make it simpler or something. Cast a wide net of interests and find something that pisses you off and then try and make it not piss you off. Once you do that, see if there's a market for it.
I would totally agree but isn’t the uninstall a one time thing and then you never deal with again?

If Apple News keeps advertising to you after you uninstall News then Apple has overstepped and should be held to account. I don’t hold it against them showing Apple News content on the Home Screen / Notification Tray iff Apple News is actually installed.
Those boundaries exist because they're mutually beneficial. If the state is derelict in its duty to enforce them, it's not obvious to me why the individual has a moral duty to either the state or the bully to simply endure injustice.
> For the bit stream, flux transitions can never be closer together than two consecutive one bits,

For the GCR encoding here, yes (also FM and Apple's GCR). But MFM ("double density") was contemporary, in use on the same media, based on a doubled sampling rate and a minimum of two sampling clocks between flux transitions. A bunch of logic ones there is encoded "101010101010..." (and zeros would be "0101010101...", etc...). Fancier RLL hard drive controllers woulds soon push that to a minimum of three, too. (And surely higher, but by that point the flux encoding had become a trade secret behind interfaces like SCSI or ATA, so it was never documented).

"It's complicated", basically
I met someone who was recently retired and who had built their dream. The guest bedrooms were immediately the left and right of the entry, at the end of whi h a giant open living room dining room and kitchen. Opposite the entry is another set of double doors which separated the garage+masterBd.+distillery, with another door to the master at the end

Guests could come and go and you wouldnt even need to acknowledge them if you didnt feel like it. And you wouldnt hear them.

I remember thinking how odd it was that I was looking into a bedroom as soon as i entered and ive only ever thought more and more how great an idea it was for intermittent visitors.
I don't think my comments are particularly whiny; that comes across as a "no, you" response. I'll accept callous but I don't wish you harm, in fact I hope you find success and fulfillment in your post-Facebook career.

> Your statement that I wish I could continue to work for and enrich Zuck is false. I was regretted attrition.

Perhaps you should make it more clear in the blog post that you left of your own accord. People who are not familiar with the Facebook org chart might not understand that when you say "My team — Probabilistic Programming Languages — and indeed entire “Probability” division were laid off a couple weeks ago" that you yourself are not included in that set of people who were laid off.
you can build great relationships in a fast
paced environment with very senior and very
junior engineers thrown into the ring together.

Er.... yes, absolutely. I don't think that's being disputed. Certainly not by me.

I'm referring to the way it was done as described in his article. That is not a recipe for success. Or, at best: success achieved a lot less efficiently than it could have been.

I've mentored quite a few younger engineers and it has gone both successfully and poorly.

At a bare minimum, it requires a time and attention commitment from the mentor. Unless the job is so trivial (or the mentee so advanced) that the mentee can learn just by hanging around and watching.

When I was a dishwasher in a restaurant (hey, a fast paced environment) it was very easy to train the other new kids. I didn't exactly need advance notice. When I was a cook, it took a little longer. Engineering is slightly more complex.
Looks like to the hard part is ‶handl[ing] all the locking and concurrency″ with a pretty interface; that it satisfies the definition of a monad is a convenience because the `do` keyword requires it, but so would it be if it satisfied any other one, wouldn't it?
This is an unscientific platitude. No more or less.
I agree. At a minimum it’s reassuring that if you feel it’s ok to give your kid a phone at 9 you’re probably not doing significantly more harm than if you waited 3 more years.

It may not be an ideal study (a few hundred kids, 5 years, whatever else people are identifying) but it’s far better than random anecdotes from people who have their own biases as to what age is good/bad.
This is a favorite of mine, I find myself returning to it from time to time and using the concept to frame how I prioritize throughout the week.
I wonder if Netflix, in their programming, has really already gone down the road of what an ad-supported streaming service would look like. They don't really have much in the way of premium content or lots of new Hollywood movies (maybe the US is different, I've watched in Canada)

For a premium content provider, ads are a non-starter, here it almost seems like they've oriented themselves towards being a content-shop that just creates some minimum vehicle that gets people to watch ads, before actually having ads.
I'm with you on that, but if 10 years from now, her emotional health is fine and she doesn't lose sleep over it, then long-term the damage to her may have been minimal?

I think the idea is that poor mental health outcomes would be a proxy for a large fraction of the wide range of issues phones could cause.
The title of this post contains the words "attack" and "salvo", aren't such adversarial lines being painted?
Because his Democratic friends told him to. They want to remove the label "Major Democratic Donor" from all of SBF's negative press. How do you not see something so obvious?
hahahahaahahahahahahhaahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

10 years ago people would have called you paranoid
now you're already too late
yes. QE was through the banks, they filter loan applications.

stimulus was direct.

but the important thing is that the supply chain issues were already in full force. COVID shifted consumption from services to products, put a lot of logistics people out of work in an already stressed sector, plus China's zero covid plus their financial problems decimated products supply.

then demand shifted back. wages started to rise

millions are missing from the labor force (died, early retirement, low immigration numbers)

and this all combined with the fucking war (which led to an energy market shock, which absolutely rocked everything)

..

well, it's just not the same game at this point. 2008 recovery was too little both fiscal (ARRA) and monetary (QE was new)

this was okay, then Trump wanted one more check... and it was not means-tested.
Bacon comes from a pig. Anything not from a pig can be bacon-like and delicious if it wants to be but it will never be bacon. Tons of plant based alts are delicious, it just factually incorrect to call them meat.
Yes, but "[w]e believe that a service of this importance will benefit from feedback at scale" will just make advertisers unhappy.

To state the obvious, I don't think they are reading the room very well...
They've probably fired so many people that they wouldn't even know _how_ to run A/B tests even if they wanted to.
Yes but you have to scrape lots of websites instead of a single one. You can also control which information you list, so long as it allows customers to reach you quickly.

As a consumer, I really appreciate the imprint law. I don't do business with websites that omit it.
Indeed, category theory is as much about “boxes” and “arrows” as astronomy is about telescopes!
Nueralink Show and Tell
Book Review: First Sixth of Bobos in Paradise
Sure it is. You're asking for sideloading apps. Guess what, that exists. The choice is there for what you're complaining about.
So I ask for a translation and it fails because it times out, giving me an error. And you call that good programming?

I get it that the server translations are better, but currently I’m not seeing any translation at all. You, Google Translate developer, should catch the error and show the offline translation instead.
Years before these systems came out I thought of building a similar zero trust style system and I realized the level of attack that I would be putting myself under and the insecurity of JavaScript due to extensions, mitm, and client side malware made it ridiculously unpalatable. You would have nation state attackers coming after you as well as your nation state demanding you grant access to them. It felt pretty brazen to me that these companies came out but they did well. I still think it's an incredibly juicy target and a bad idea.

I at least know if someone broke into my physical safe.
Just because it is in Apple's interest to work with security researchers does not mean they do so. Many such cases.
Some of us actually like the meat taste, and this is orthogonal to the ethics of it.
While your criticism is valid it's pretty generic and is focused not on this particular issue, but the media as a whole. I don't think that's the correct thing to be talking about right now. It may even distract from the actual conversation about FTX.

The media coverage about FTX is extremely odd.
Where can I read about this? I’m not familiar with their history.
"Stop buying Apple if you don't like it"

I'm afraid this is not an option most app devs can even entertain
What are you talking about? This shows $700m of gross profit: https://s22.q4cdn.com/280253921/files/doc_financials/2022/q3...
yeah but you're also knowledgeable about all that shit and 99% of people with Android devices won't use alternate app stores. they'll download apps from the google play store, use google services, stream on google chromecast, watch things on youtube tv. google and/or samsung will get all that data and that's how they make money.
I to am wondering what features are missing?
late....
Also, phone ownership is an imperfect measure of phone use; for spending multiple hours a day on social media, it's a good proxy, but for other things, less so. I have a (well one that I know of) child who was exposed to hardcore pornography in 2nd grade from the phone of an older student.
With all this stuff, it sounds like the country is telling you that they don't really want you there. Why do you insist on going someplace where you're not wanted? You're not a citizen, so you don't really have a right to complain about the immigration process. Perhaps look for a country that actually welcomes immigrants?
I would imagine the US Pinoy population is drastically smaller than the LatinX one.
I think that would be better stated as in totalitarianism, the totality of morality is supposed to come from the state. Fascism is only one form of totalitarianism.
"Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?”

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/many-latinos-say-latin...
Related:

Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531297 - March 2021 (269 comments)

Don't End The Week With Nothing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7179098 - Feb 2014 (101 comments)
The tools needed to rob a bank just went from a gun, to a baseball bat, an old tv remote, a landline wireless phone, five feet of 5 gauge copper, and a CD (preferably smash mouth).
Yes.

Gimp is forever a major part of free software history and deserves total respect for that.

Everyone is free to use it today, or just get some of the better implemented alternatives... that's the beauty of open source.
>You telling me not do to something would cause me to self censor.

Would it? If you don't agree, you should not listen. According to your view, if I told you to stop commenting on HN you would stop? I'm not forcing you to do anything.

>Me telling a theater to not host an event with a controversial figure would cause the theater to self censor.

The theater is not the one being censored here but the one censoring. When you do it to yourself, you are both the censor and being censored.

>Either way there is some external force that is pressuring for a change in expression. That is true regardless of whether they are motivated by mob mentality, identity politics, or anything else.

Me telling you my opionin is not an external force that is pressuring for a change in expression. Or, it is, but only in the hope that you yourself change your mind. I can't force you to do anything. This is known as a discussion:

>the activity in which people talk about something and tell each other their ideas or opinions[0]

>I don't know why the motivation for the speech should even matter unless you are arguing that some speech shouldn't be protected based on the motivation behind the speech.

Back to the "shouldn't be protected" argument? We aren't talking about a matter of law but of right and wrong. The law provides us a space to discuss what that means for ourselves. If people use that power to shut others down that's wrong but the most we can do is point out to those people that they are wrong.

[0]https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/discu...
And they have never had a profitable year:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DASH/doordash/net-...
Optimizing AWS F1 DMA
I have never heard of threat actors effectively targeting individual engineers who work on things that are contrary to their (malicious) interests.
> the cryptobros realize that the reason for interest rates isn’t the transaction cost or the paperwork but the enforcement arm to get people to complete the whole transaction through to the end.

It's interesting you brought that up because crypto has a similar mechanism to get people to complete the whole transaction and resolve disputes without involving interest rates.

For example, imagine person B was buying a product from A. Should A send the product first or should B pay first.

When both sides don't want to take the initiative, they use an escrow contract on the blockchain where both sides have to lock up 150% to 200% of the value of the product in crypto inside the contract.

A then sends the product.

B receives the product.

If B accepts the state of the product, he can press a button to release the relevant amount of crypto in the contract to A and refund the extra 50% to 100% he had to put up.

If B sees the product is fraud, he presses another button and both sides lose all their crypto. This disincentives both A and B from committing fraud.

There are more nuanced conditions involved so I won't bore you with the details, but the main concept is there and it doesn't involve interest rates.
This costs a monthly subscription.
The thing is, they won't pull it off, and they won't win. No one under the age of 30 wants to use a product with Zuck's face on it (or in it).
I wish there was a bigger push for integrity checking in the browser. It would be foundational to any solution that fixes that problem.

There is already integrity checking for subresources: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

Newcastle University had a proposal for website wide integrity checking:
https://github.com/toreini/DOMtegrity

Note that only 7 people have starred it on Github.
It's a whistle to signal your tribe allegiance. The word sounds backwards on purpose, so it's not used by accident.
Also, it's terrible branding. I like seaweed, it's a great snack (I especially like dulse). I also like thousands of other things that aren't bacon. When I want bacon, I'll have bacon, when I want some other food, I'll look for that. A "vegan" or fake version of something I already like is the last thing I'll seek out. Make something tasty and give it a proper name, and I'll buy it because it's tasty. Piggyback on some already popular food, I'll just be set up for disappointment
It really looks a bit less clear cut than you’re saying. First I’m not sure he’s subject to American financial laws at all since ftx was offshore. Second he has some sort of explanation of alameda just taking a margin loan and he had no idea that the collateral was worthless. Would that fly in the us? Probably not. In the Bahamas? Who knows.
There is an Immutable X grant for $100 million.
Their Q3 earnings show over $700m gross profit: https://s22.q4cdn.com/280253921/files/doc_financials/2022/q3...

Take it up with them.
This is more or less the opposite of the truth, and what you're doing here is playing a dumb semantic game with the word "spyware".
I could type out a long essay that could potentially have relevance to a few points at play here, but let me try something else.

While your attempts to create direction/meaning/etc. for yourself have largely, by your account failed, it seems that you're sufficiently responsible to maintain employment doing software development. As you say, it gives you something to do, and for whatever reason, it makes enough sense to your mind as a motivator to keep at it for the long term.

What if you were to get a dev job that's 100% in-office? Yes, it's forced interaction, but unless you're ultimately a sociopath or something, you'll create enough context with people to potentially form some friendships that can extend beyond work hours. Don't be like a sad puppy following everyone around and don't be an aloof hermit hiding in your cubicle or whatever setup there would be -- both of those things would halt any progress. Observe the social environment and look for opportunities to get involved in the ways that you may be interested in without forcing yourself to be the opposite of who you think you are. If you don't know what you're interested in, then observe until you start getting some ideas. You have the ability in you -- being a software dev requires some level of imagination.

Maybe there's a delivery team monthly bar meetup -- go to that. Maybe there's a department-wide softball match every quarter -- go to that. Go and give it a try, and if it doesn't work out, at least you'd have the satisfaction of having tried.
Eventual CMYK support was announced back when I had hair. Today I'm pretty sure that CMYK still isn't supported, though I think there might have been some recent advances in that area. Non-destructive editing was supposed to also become a thing with GEGL, but that never really materialized.
i wasn't invested through ftx but I did use blockfolio for years, which was acquired by ftx and now is now seemly not working which is too bad because whenever I felt like becoming depressed I would just open it and look at the sea of red and remember the days when it was lush green fields of cash I was looking at
The risk is really overstated.

The I-485 would have to be rejected, or, you lose your job after the I-485 is filed. Even then if you maintain yourself for 6 months after the I-485 was filed and your employer doesn't withdraw the approved I-140, you can find a new job under AC21; or get lucky with no interview request or RFE.

The pain point is that you won't be able to travel after I-485 filing until your Advanced Parole turns up and you'll depend on EADs if you want to change jobs under AC21.

You could have your Green Card before you even win the H1-B lottery.
This is awesome, maybe I can finally stop texting myself links to PDFs to read on my laptop.
> they did nothing

I know this is meant to be a bit of a swipe at the police, but I mean... what can they do? You'd have to subpoena at least 3 entities to find the creep, and then potentially have to extradite them. A guy I play video games with used to be part of the FBI's cybercrime division and he always laments how difficult it is to go after people (he works in cybersecurity now). I hope to have kids one day, and I can't imagine how difficult it is to be a parent in the age of texting, Instagram, and Tiktok.
There’s a “we’re hiring” banner at the end of the article… oops.
How much should you worry about security with a setup like this? I have reasonable Linux skills, but I wouldn’t want my VM to get pwned because I forgot to update it.
My apologies for any misunderstandings - I was using a the physics to mean a physics sandbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_Simulator

> Tabletop Simulator is an independent video game that allows players to play and create tabletop games in a multiplayer physics sandbox.

> ...

> Tabletop Simulator is a player-driven physics sandbox, without set victory or failure conditions. After selecting a table to play on, players interact with the game by spawning and moving virtual pieces, which are subject to a physics simulation. Online multiplayer is supported with a maximum of ten players. Aside from spawning and moving pieces, the game includes mechanics to assist with common styles of board game play, such as automatic dice rolling and hiding players' pieces from one another; other mechanics aid in administrating a game, for example saving the state of the board or undoing moves.
Branches add control flow which can inhibit other optimizations, such as vectorization. Compare the codegen of these two functions to double the first 64 elements in a u8 slice: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/hccWGv889

The unchecked version is fully unrolled and vectorized using multiple registers. The checked version must use a loop.

Part of what's going on here is that panics are "recoverable." If the out-of-bounds write occurs at index 61, this will panic, but the writes to lower indexes must have gone through. This means the panic cannot be hoisted out of the loop.
it's not unprecedented, and don't forget the supply side issues.

inflation started to really blow up when the energy prices did

arguably the effects of the stimulus were masked by the big unemployment due to COVID, and when it decreased enough for the wage rises to start to get felt the spiral started, and the Fed acted late (because in the post 2008 recovery they acted too fast)
I wanted photoshop to become a graphic artist around 22 years ago. Didn’t want to pirate it. Friend suggested gimp. Use Slackware as a distro.

Spent a couple years recompiling X11 and tons of debugging of Linux issues.

And that’s how I launched my career in developer / sysadmin.

20 years later in a “wait. What happened to my original career idea?” Moment, I finally took some art classes at a local college.
The DMCA anti-circumvention provisions apply only to technology that protects content covered by the DMCA; it doesn't criminalize arbitrary sandbox breaks.
MS only. I wasn't using linux at the time.
Am I, though? If Chrome sends unknown telemetry back to Google without telling the user up front, how is it not spyware?