skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I guess the best way is for you to email me. I have created a throwaway email here so I don’t dox myself too bad lol

coffeefarm@sightglass.foundation

Drop me a line there with your contact info. I am available on FaceTime, telegram, WhatsApp, and signal or on email of course.
some bechmarks from 3.1, 3.2 3.2 with jit

https://www.solnic.dev/p/benchmarking-ruby-32-with-yjit
I did some tweaking with my benchmark.

I picked 11 threads due to my CPU having 12 logical cores.

With 100 threads and incrementing 10 at a time, the LockBenchmark achieves 3,482,053 requests per second.

With 100 threads the lock free benchmark achieves 17,754,858 requests per second, 10 messages sending per synchronization event at a time.

In other words, the lock free algorithm scales better.

LockBenchmark code
https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...

Lock free actor2 algorithm
https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...
Oh yes, I didn’t mean that protests never happen — I was in one of the cities with protests as they were happening. I only meant that I think it’s unlikely we’ll see more large-scale protests related to Covid.

Edit: and thank you for your first-hand input on Taiwan.
The use of the secret key is part of 1Password’s operational security - a target full of worthless data is less likely to be breached:

https://blog.1password.com/what-the-secret-key-does/
Some people are physically incapable of focusing on things that bore them. Not because they don't want to, but because they can't. What for them?
> Both LastPass and Bitwarden (and 1Password) support 2FA.

AFAIK it doesn't help if your vault is in the hand of someone who obtained it from a security breach on lastpass/bitwarden side.
- There will be further dramatic increases in AI capability as large firms deploy multimodal large transformer models designed for things like text and image completion. These will enable language understanding for huge models grounded by it's relation to images. Even more powerful will be the models that have ingested large amounts of captioned video as well as text and images.

- New strategies for fast online learning will mean a few ML systems towards the end of 2023 that seem strangely "alive".

- Teslabot makes progress and so do a few other humanoid robots as the increasing power of AI motivates the creation of robots that can take advantage of those capabilities. Militaries will invest heavily in humanoid robots.

- China will successfully invade Taiwan, leading many to conclude that the US hegemony in the region is over. AI-generated and promoted propaganda will play a large part in motivating the hot war between the US and China. Hopefully this war will not be as devastating as we imagine it could be. Perhaps some anti-war efforts can also leverage AI.

- due to the above, USD status as reserve currency may become hotly contested, especially in the east.

- By the end of 2023, text-to-NeRF will be able to generate realistic depictions of humans of any type in any pose or behavior requested. Radiance field video generation will start with short but ultra-realistic clips.

- The first orbital flights of Starship

- A large number of generative AI startups will become popular. Some of them will connect into API hubs like Zapier, find ways to decompose, supplement and take full advantage of the limited memory of the LLMs, and enable surprisingly complex tasks to be handled by combining multiple agents and/or subtasks. From creating full web and mobile applications and games to spec, to truly useful customer support bots, and a huge range of new types of advice and entertainment built in these systems.

- NFT space will see huge trend of custom orders generated by AI.

- Twitter will integrate payments, Mastodon and other decentralized networks will integrate cryptocurrency.

- Very serious effort to counter the rise of China's CDBC with an open cryptocurrency-based alternative.

- as economic problems accelerate, socialism will see a huge increase in open popularity in the US.
Yes.

This happened to me.

I made an account, not using a phone number.

I then did not use it, for something like a month.

I posted - and the account was suspended, I was emailed, "you have violated our T&C, please provide your phone number to validate your account".

I may be wrong, but to my eye, they were attempting by deception to trick and force users into handing over their phone numbers.

I explained I had no phone number, and I had not posted at all, so it was hard to see how I had violated the T&C, and the account was unfrozen, and has been fine since then.
> but it's unfair, that we should take the money from those who work and give it to those who don't

Its minimum income. Not maximum income. If someone wants to go retire in a remote 3rd world country, living with minimal comforts with his/her ubi, I have no problem with that. A fraction of the money going to such a cause is much better than people working like slaves to survive or going homeless if they dont want to. I want a society of people that does things willingly. Not through coercion over survival.
That's correct. On NT/Alpha context switching was done in ntos\ke\alpha\ctxsw.s, which was regular kernel mode assembler code. A PAL call was made but it simply set the new Teb and Pdr; two or three lines of code. I've never seen the PALcode for VMS or OSF/Tru64 but the NT PAL for swpctx was designed so that alpha assembler code in NT looked as much like the mips code that davec wrote. It made the port easier that way.

Interesting Raymond continues to mention NT/Alpha now and then. If you run into him mention I have a collection of NT/Alpha artifacts and anecdotes he might be interested in.
WASM allows you to run code “isomorphically” on the front and back end, which is a convenience that will be hard to resist.
Even more absurd. There are no Indians who are white in any sense of the word.
The irony of the Twitter Files, which showed Twitter leadership going through a painstaking process of determining what sort of actions they would take and the impacts in both directions of taking vs not taking an action, before coming with a decision, being released at the same time as ElonJet was banned, with a post-hoc made up BS policy of banning “doxxing” (which ElonJet wasn’t, by any definition of the word), followed by an arbitrary decision to ban certain 3rd party links with that arbitrary decision then being arbitrarily partially rolled back (?), was way too ridiculous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126789

I replied to your comment here.
Anyone can include a slashing report in their block, but it does nothing unless the block is approved by a majority.

If we imagine a 90/10 split of opinions that leads to a hard fork, the 90 majority can either be satisfied and with their fork and be nice or they can stonewall the 10% fork and refuse to approve any blocks that supports the idea that they deserve to be slashed. Because the only thing that can punish the majority is the approval of the majority. And because allowing another fork to exist reduces the value of the other forks. And because it would just be nicer if instead of having two forks we just kicked out all those annoying validates we don’t agree with.
It's not a very optimistic picture is it? Definitely feels like we're heading in to one of those "things are going to get worse before they get better" periods
Your experience in Belgium is similar to what people describe when living in Germany. Apparently, the fines for telcos are insane when spam calls occur. So there is a strong incentive to prevent. Is it similar in Belgium?
That statement sounds a bit exaggerated to me. A 4090 can do ~15000 H/s, to reach 2 MH/s would require well over 100 4090's, it definitely isn't as easy as the author claims.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606428769731878913.html
I require laptop or tablet use in the contract-drafting course I teach. That's because a great deal of each class is spent in small-group problem solving of the "what would you do" type, based on the assigned reading and addressing realistic scenarios that can arise in practice — and of course a lawyer would use a laptop or tablet to look stuff up when necessary. [0] Over the years I've developed an extensive catalog of such problems; students have said they really like the "in-class study groups" approach.

[0] When I was a young lawyer decades ago, I overheard a senior partner in our firm — one hell of a lawyer and a great guy but sometimes a bit moody — scold another associate for having guessed about a point of law that could and should have been checked. The partner's voice rising: "Why do you think we buy you the [expletive] books? It's so you can look these things up!"
He isn't that smart, and this won't help Twitter or him at all. It will further erode trust and possibly cause the stock to dip.
Sorry that you're feeling down buddy.

Hoping you have a better 2023 and are able to look back on this comment this time next year and appreciate all the progress you've made.

Were all counting on you.
> Can't really remember one for this year.

One not massive in numbers, but massive as impact was concerned: oil refineries, only 2 months ago.

It impacted the whole country for weeks. As the Gilets Jaunes happening didn't even involve any strike, I guess this one qualifies even better.
You don't need to verify.
> I suspect most people in general aren't like that. They just sort of exist, not knowing what they even want to learn or try to avoid learning if at all possible.

There is a saying about this: You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

So what if there are people like that? It is not like everyone must learn. If they don’t want to they don’t have to.
Yeah beacause the system we live in does provide wealth and security for the poor, for sure!
> Wtf wtf wtf. This would be considered wildly insecure even by the standards of the 80s

You aren't wrong, if true that's certainly a mistake on their part. Practically speaking though as long as the passwords are randomly generated it probably doesn't matter, i.e. if you think about what the IV and chaining are doing in CBC. ECB is just as good for encrypting a random stream of bits; CBC just makes sure the bits are random before passing them into the cipher. Of course the optics are still terrible.
Ritalin? Therapy?
On Old Age (2020)
Yes. Google (and probably many other companies at this point) ask for your previous passwords as part of the account recovery flow. It's an additional factor to help establish that it's you and not a scammer trying to "recover" it.

So it's a good practice to save old passwords. Some password managers make it easier by having a password history feature, usually on the account's detail page.
Freaking onslaught of no-code widgets and webapps using OpenAI API
I found that most such people didn't originally plan for work from home, so their experience was predictably horrible. Also during the pandemic daycare/schools were closed, adding to the problem.

Meanwhile me and other young dads who did plan for remote work have now a designated room for an office and children at daycare/kindergarten for most of the day.

Until my child was old enough to attend daycare it was indeed chaos, but with just one you can get used to this. It's much like having a co-worker who likes to chat a little bit too much.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/109569533436686804
Before all the nitpicking starts I want to point out this part, which I found most interesting:

> Everybody knows about the hedonic treadmill: once you’re moderately happy, it’s hard to get happier. But nobody has ever really explained why this happens. People say things like, “oh, you get used to good things,” but that’s just a description, not an explanation. Why do people get used to good things?

> Now we might have an answer: people get used to good things because they’re always imagining how things could be better. So even if things get better, you might not feel better. When you live in a cramped apartment, you dream of getting a house. When you get a house, you dream of a second house. Or you dream of lower property taxes. Or a hot tub. Or two hot tubs. And so on, forever.
Is it connected to wifi? I would assume that for many of these devices it's cheaper to sync the clock over the internet than to include a realtime clock
> origin of those magic constants that get used to initialize those functions.

For others interested, the magic constants are normally truncated binary of a known constant like e or pi, derived from famous texts, roots of small primes, etc. But the reasoning is that these are common, simple to reproduce numbers that can't be chosen to produce desired results. A.k.a "nothing up my sleeve" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number

Sha256 is using some prime, but other hashes and systems don't and it doesn't matter at all in this context. They just needed a simple random initial value. I'm half convinced op is trying to use cleverly worded half truths to troll us.
> If everyone behaved like that, our society wouldn't have the wealth needed to make anyone's lives comfortable and secure, except for the lives of the rich

The society today already has the means to make only 1% of the population work, and still keep the comfort level for everyone as it is.

We are making people waste their lives away creating imaginary wealth to bump up the stored imaginary wealth in financial institutions only to keep the existing economic system going.
Can confirm :(

Edit: because I was (until very recently) a daily active user and had niter=5k. Didn't even know about this setting until the hack.
"runleo just executes it without confirmation"

I'm feeling lucky!

This is one step beyond `curl | sh`. Bold move.
Can you expand a bit on how apps like Palantir could be used for this?
3a Although any "Putin replacement" could end the current Russian folly in Ukraine, if only to put a "under new management, I don't own the last guy's mistakes" stamp on their rule; but a viable replacement Russian leader is quite unlikely to be "Western-Friendly" in general. And there would then be Trouble at some point in the future.
Writing Neovim Plugins with ChatGPT [video]
In addition to 7Wonders:Duel, mentioned here already, a few other good ones are Jaipur, Patchwork. I've also been enjoying Kingdomino recently, which works equally well as a 2 player game (2-4 players on box).

You might like this list[0], which uses BGG's "best for X players" vote, but BGG is biased towards heavier games.

[0]: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/48970/best-two
To add onto this, the reason ECB mode is so horribly bad, is that it produces the same cyphertext for blocks with the same plaintext.

This allows an attacker to detect repeating plain text segments, e.g. reused passwords.

The Wikipedia article on block cypher modes illustrates this problem rather well [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation...
Two double dots
It would be interesting to learn more about where OSM is now, and how Overture is likely to affect the situation.
Why is this even a setting exposed to users? Shouldn’t this be entirely up to them to manage the correct work factor?
> when it's proven

Don't invent false realities. Nobody proved nothing as such. The Finnish experiment and others showed that there is no relation in between ubi and unemployment.
> Braking the rules damages the economic utility of the chain, so the Ether on the chain where the validators colluded to break the rules would be worth less, as a result of their actions.

So you’re going to create a new fork, remove the money from the majority of the wealthy stakeholders who are governing the system, and expect this one to be be seen as legitimate? The one that is explicitly giving the finger to the wealthy?

Good luck!
Another language in intensive in-person classes.
FUD - No it doesn’t. Just renew it every 10 years or whatever max renewal is available. Absolutely no requirement to do it every year. You will also get multiple minders and grace periods if you forget too.

That’s not to say ‘most people’ should have their own domain, but renewal is one of the least tricky aspects of domain ownership.
It’s actually a positive feedback cycleZ those who still answer the phone are more likely
To be easy victims.
Oracle Cloud "always free tier" has 24G of memory, 4 ARM CPUs, 200gb block storage, 200g object storage, a load balancer and some database stuff (may or may not be useful). I've been running a 4x node Kubernetes cluster for over a year, mostly for fooling around with.
And condoms are only 99.8% effective, so let's not use it? You can always pull out in time or verify checksu^W^W Plan B?

> But really most of all I live in a world of Git repositories

That's great for you, but 99% don't even know what Git is, just like checksums, cryptographic hashes, Merkle trees, digital signatures and reproducible builds.

You just miss the one imortant thing: ECC isn't that helpful where you have the means to check and verify the data. ECC is the only way to at least know what something is happening with data when there is no way to check.

To give you a slight idea I would tell you an anecdote from my L1 life almost two decades ago:

I visited a client who claimed what the PC was working erratically and constantly threw weird error messages.

Welp, the usual deal, just some ugly software or a virus. In the first 3 minutes I got like 5 errors about failing to load a .dll from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM33\USER32.DLL, nothing unusual, just need to.. WAIT. Why system33? Stupid virus masking for a well-known folder? Doubt. So I go to C:\Windows and I see:

System32
System33
System34

If you are a smart fellow you probably already understood what that was a bit-flip error which somehow managed to be in the in-memory copy of MFT of the system drive. And this is the only reason the user noticed it - because sometimes programs wouldn't start and sometimes there was weird error messages. If that error was in the data area of some program - it wouldn't be discovered at all.
Yeah I was a daily user until about a month or two ago. Didn't even know about this setting, and I still haven't figured out how to change it in the mobile app. But mine is definitely set to 5k. Still in the process of changing all my passwords...
That and all the damn politicians… who of course exempted themselves
> This had an unfortunate effect of creating a group of people who never worked and all they did was raise 3-5 children.

You dont seem to be aware that such programs are designed to have people raise such 5-6 children while doing nothing else in order to bump up the declining population. And if you think raising 6 children is not work... boy...
How can you tell it’s from 2021?

Even if it’s a nothingburger, putting out bad PR for FBI and CIA has got to make you some powerful enemies.
ECB mode somehow still gets used, Zoom also did it. I think this is a result of many developers not knowing much about encryption and then selecting the simplest option from their language's standard library.
Of the founders, those lacking the mature skillset to scale and run a proper business, stay around too long or have too much influence, the results can be pretty ugly as well.
What, in the Twitter Files, is worth retaliating against?
I have seen people building small drag and drop interfaces to convert media with python, tk, and ffmpeg from prompts with a couple of sentences.
> Around the same time, it's clear that there are more than 200K Ukrainian dead and all Narratives of them winning the war or even maintaining a stalemate are gone, even from western media.

I am curious as to what leads you to make this prediction?
I am not certain the point of this, tbh.

I am discussing the mentality of the opposition in the US and the reasons they cite where the EV solution does not work for them. If your government is committed to making it work by 2035, that's a different matter. The US government has made no such commitment, they only discuss mandates. All of the pain, none of the gain.
> true human nature that 3rd worlders see daily.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-...

That's the objectively proven human nature. Not the randian nonsense. And that's what 3rd worlders see every day.
I'm not estimating at all, it was a made up example to illustrate reduction in inflation. It even says simple example.
This seems to refer to a language virtual machine rather than an actual VM. Like the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
I suggest going to boardgame meetups to try games before you buy. I also recommend the second-hand game market to both buy games cheaper and sell on games that you don't want anymore, keeping costs low. I fine-tuned my collection in this way.
Off on a tangent here, but I downvoted this comment because it doesn't really add anything. On what basis can you confirm it? Do you work there? Do you have deep expertise in the domain?
Did you see the other staff page?

https://fr.receptio.eu/operationalstaff

There's a Noemi, who seems to also moonlight as a stock photography model elsewhere:

https://www.westend61.de/en/imageView/HOXF02297/portrait-hap...

(Some staff pictures might have been swapped by mistake, which... still says something, perhaps?)

The bookshelf behind many of the "staff" appears to be itself from a stock photograph:

https://www.eclectuals.com/literaryservices

The attorney himself might be a stock photo - they might have kept the original Italian description in the ALT tag:

https://www.therrawreport.com/about-2
The FBI and CIA were driving the removal or soft-censoring of speech that the US government didn't like. People spent a lot of the last decade saying that this never happened and that Twitter was just a private company operating on their own, instead of being the censorship arm of the government and in many cases staffed by ex-government...

Also, I wouldn't call Twitter's original moderation fair or balanced. There were clearly voices within who thought they were trying to fit policy to decisions they'd already made post-hoc. (Unfortunately if anything it's even worse now.)
Those don't look like predictions, more like a wishful thinking of a person with close ties to russia
It's about conserving the source code of applications that used to be scattered across the pre-github Internet. I was a bit confused at first. ;-)
Would users from those countries even be able to use their local phones for verification?

I would have assumed any kind of banned interaction with the USA’s baddies list countries (e.g. Iran, Syria, or North Korea) would apply to allowing users to sign up with phone numbers as well.

Though I guess there’s always cross referencing known contacts of expats and dissents.
For many communities on Discord you must verify to gain entry.
> 2. The web continues to fracture into separate Euro, Sino, Russo and Americano nets due to increasingly different views in privacy, surveillance, freedom of speech etc. SV companies are slow to pick up on this.

You forget the emergence of the creator economy, smaller communities and the move to the early, syndicated nature of the early 2000s Internet. That internet has no problems with any of those. All of the issues you list were created by establishment actors for their benefit.
Is "resembling Jacob Rees-Mogg" (Eton, Oxford Hist.) supposed to mean anything other than "picking your father well"?

> “Get a sense of what you need to get ahead, but don’t internalise the notion that what you are assimilating to is superior.”

That's what is necessary in the US class system, so I'd believe it in the UK context. Are there any class systems where this advice does not apply?

> "Alpha children wear grey ... they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas ... all wear green..."