skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some OS mitigations:

All: patch, encrypt, backup, track power, isolate workflow by device/VM
Network: router with OSS firmware, workflow segmentation, reduce wireless
iOS: (>A12 SoC) Lockdown mode, Brave w/o JS, daily reboot
iOS: periodic reinstall from DFU mode, Apple Configurator / MDM policy
macOS: hardening script based on workflow, outbound firewall
Windows: Secured Core device + SystemGuard + App Guard VM isolation
Windows: HP device + SureStart (f/w check) + SureClick (browser VMs)
Linux: vPro device + QubesOS with Anti-Evil-Maid
Linux: generic device + non-persistent LiveCD OS image
I actually see this as a feature rather than a bug. It's good that giant companies get too bloated for their own good and lose market share to new upcoming competitors. If this didn't happen, there would be no point in trying to innovate because you would never have a chance against the huge established companies with their money and influence. It's already pretty tough, but at least this natural tendency for bloat and dysfunction as they get older gives the newbies a fighting chance.
The design choices make a bit of a difference but most of the overhead is Defender. When you try to read thousands of files your computer spends most of its time running Defender. Turn it off and the problem goes away.
See "Bing and DuckDuckGo removed my business web site" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bing.html and "My website disappeared from Bing and DuckDuckGo, Part 2" https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/07/25/my-website-disa...

[EDIT] I just published a new blog post "Bing and DuckDuckGo removed my business web site AGAIN" https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bing2.html

Sigh.
Instead of energy, it should say amplitude(and phase since it’s an inherently complex thing).
Depends on how you define “glacial” - America hadn’t been a true democracy long, we only passed the 19th Amendment in 1920, and most ppl wouldn’t define an election where half the population is ineligible as democratic.

I first discovered this piece in 2016, in the throes of a deep depression at seeing how the sausage is made on K Street.

These two paragraphs are what grabbed me most, as someone who began to form memories as the USSR crumbled:

>Mr. A has a life that is established according to a certain form of personal behavior. Although he has no money, his unostentatious distinction and education have always assured him a position. He has never been engaged in sharp competition. He is a free man. I doubt whether ever in his life he has done anything he did not want to do or anything that was against his code. Nazism wouldn’t fit in with his standards and he has never become accustomed to making concessions.

>Mr. B has risen beyond his real abilities by virtue of health, good looks, and being a good mixer. He married for money and he has done lots of other things for money. His code is not his own; it is that of his class—no worse, no better, He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would.

The real issue IMO is that history is oddly cyclical - probably due to mass media overfocusing on body counts like those in Hitler’s Germany rather than regimes like the GDR which had fax machines, modems, and a secret police who made the Gestapo look like amateurs.

We forget how close in history totalitarianism is, partly because of measures like “no child left behind” that ensure kids today won’t have the free time to develop true critical thinking skills.

(By accident or design? I couldn’t possibly comment.)

- Greg
Good old self hosted jenkins still does the job…
Nix is really cool, and gets even cooler with NixOS.

To answer your questions: On the second run all packages are saved in the local store, so it's super fast. Language specific dependencies are treated like all other Nix packages, so Python dependencies can depend on Node, etc.
I don't consider it practical to take any countermeasures to the possibility of this threat. I think there's a ~10% chance it's a backdoor, and if it is, there's a 98% chance it would be at the behest of a branch of the US government, and I'm not currently an adversary of theirs.

(This is not an argument for mass surveillance, it's just a practical assessment of the risk).
IMHO an under-explored bit of intuition is crops in the frequency domain.

If you want to try this for yourself grab a megabyte of photos of “conventionally attractive” selfies and a megabyte of selfies chosen at random and gzip them.

I’m personally not all that symmetrical so I don’t compress all that well. But I suspect you’ll find that “pretty” people compress better.

Same experiment with pop music vs serious jazz, same result.

I have a pet theory that everything from caffeine to alcohol is cropping in the Fourier domain.

It’s a fun experiment, try it out!
And that's why the workers at Kostal in Iserlohn are now out of a job. Doesn't really matter what was chosen if you can't afford it, unfortunately.
100% with you on the entirety of your last paragraph.

I generally use a device as an access mechanism; a configured window into the data. This configuration is the only thing lost when a device is lost. No data, no function, no service. Configure the replacement device and continue as you were.

Virtualisation and Docker-isation makes backups and restores almost enjoyable.
There are not a lot of net positives for mankind coming from colonialism.
The hot water heater might be on, that's I think 1800 W. We have a clothes washing machine and dishwasher as well, they both get up to 2kW each but only for a few minutes in the cycle. The built-in vacuum system I've never measured, but wouldn't surprise me if it's 1500 to 2000 W, though I don't even think it works right now. I suspect that the microwave oven is in the same power range - 1500 to 2000 W. There's a desktop computer that's sometimes on, it's probably good for 300 Watts with the LCD monitor. Add maybe a dozen light bulbs and phone chargers and a small fish tank pump and the refrigerator, it can get up above 5 kW at times and I sure above that if we're really running three or four appliances at once.
Because you assess the risk as being low and don’t care that much about low risk things.
This is one of the reasons I like to architect networks for netbooting (so no remote media needed) plus force every physical server to boot UEFI-only - because UEFI supports serial console properly, unlike BIOS, so I can just use IPMI Serial-over-LAN support.

Combination of those two generally removes the need for any of the advanced features that required custom clients or even a Web browser
You make some very wild claims in your post. Requesting supporting evidence supporting is not a "gotcha comment" - it's a sensible thing to do when confronted with such - honestly pretty conspiratorial - claims.

And no; it's not a journalists job to investigate every accusation out there; journalists - and people tend to forget this these days - ought to have credible sources.
Elon wants to redefine the term as well but for the purpose of a coordinated witch hunt. People like using shadow ban because it sounds more malicious vs. content that is no longer actively promoted by a company. It's hard to claim you're a victim if the reason is you're just not that interesting or popular.
> 2008 happened because clearly the banks do have that incentive. The only thing that stops them are the regulations.

2008 happened because banks overestimated the resilience of the value of housing collateral that backed their loans to an economic downturn, meaning they got back less than they lent out, not because they had any incentive to inflate money supply pretty much indefinitely, which they obviously didn't do (I mean, if they really had no practical constraints on money creation, they could have solved 2008 for themselves by loaning unlimited amounts to pump house prices back up again...). Inflation wasn't even high in 2008.

> The role you so much focus on is called being 'lender of last resort' to private banks. Private banks use it only if they can't get money cheaper anywhere.

And how do they get cheaper money elsewhere? They borrow it on the interbank lending market, the one which the central bank actively intervenes in to set the base interest rate by buying and selling bonds in sufficient quantities to drive the rate up or down (Why does the interbank lending market even exist? Because the 'lender of last resort' makes lending spare reserves to other banks a low risk activity equivalent to exchanging them for government bonds) Seriously, I suggest you read TFA which explains all this rather than continuing to insist that it is wrong ...

> That the thing they do most often but not their most powerful tool.

It's their most powerful tool in normal circumstances, and how monetary policy works. Preventing private credit creation isn't a tool, it's a nuclear weapon, and one most likely to be introduced and enforced by a government department which isn't a central bank...
It's really not.

The patterns of rainfall are changing. But that's just a matter of needing better infrastructure or moving crops around to follow it.

It's also important to note it's a renewable resource: when you use 1l of water, you don't "use" it forever, 99% of it just goes back into the water cycle.

"Place X will be out of water by 2025" is great clickbait but it's totally untrue.
I always assume my personal machine is compromised.
> "To find the energy at a particular frequency, spin your signal around a circle at that frequency, and average a bunch of points along that path"

You're going to need a longer sentence...

[Edit] If this sentence genuinely did what it said on the tin, the rest of the article - which give a lot more detail - wouldn't be necessary.
> If the resolution of the paradox hinges on the indefinite divisibility of space and time then the paradox is not resolved in a hypothetical universe where we have the ability to indefinitely divide space and time.

This does not follow logically. We have a sequence of assumptions and an argument. Just because there is an example of a system where the assumptions do not hold, that does not mean the argument is sound when the assumptions do hold.

And BTW, Newtonian mechanics are wrong, in the sense that they do not correspond to reality. (That doesn't mean they aren't useful.)
When I worked at an office, I used to, with a quick: CMD+CTRL+Q
Monthy Python gets it all right again.
Will Europe’s Privacy Bill of Rights Ever Truly Be Enforced?
That's a very reasonable approach.
That's why we only allow RFC9225 compliant packages on our systems!
I run the latest betas of macOS and iOS which means I get exploit breaking changes as soon as possible. I keep all the security mitigations on my mac enabled (SIP, secure boot, etc.) which helps makes a variety of exploit flows and persistent compromise difficult.

But random malicious code in user space? Well, I really just hope for the best :)
Rightfully so.

Germany is facing the danger of de-industrialization and losing their economy, they need to react fast to get energy prices back to a realistic level,
Its not the time for rosy climate goals and climate extremists(Die letzte Generation), the entire country is at risk.

Despite other comments saying Germany is wasting its taxes, the way Germany handled the gas crisis is certainly better than the UK, which ironically should've been less affected.

high taxes allowed Germany to strike new deals with Qatar, and to buy gas from alternative, certainty more expensive suppliers.
What about rich savvy users? Don't they have a lot more to lose from malware?
You are well into a philosophical discussion here but I want to point out reserve requirements are not the practical limit on lending (even when they are non-zero).

The practical limits are actually the a&l requirements of their regulatory frameworks and the expectations of their equity holders. Right now equity holders get antsy if the deposit to loan ratio gets much above .8. Their regulators will almost certainly take them over if their total a:l ratio stays above 1.

But! There are accredited US banks right now with deposit to loan ratios approaching 2 and there is no federal reserve requirement. Those banks are likely in dire financial straights but for the moment they have created money with no federal reserve requirements.
There was, unfortunately, a lot of nonsensical claims by people with no technical knowledge that Twitter would go down overnight.

But anyone with a modicum of experience would know that makes no sense. Websites of all sizes are designed to largely self operate with no manual intervention for decent periods of time. Otherwise all large websites would be down during holidays, etc.
> IBM still defines the backbones of information infrastructure

Mainframes are just machines some businesses have found it difficult to migrate away from, though they would very much like to. IBM is not the only company who manufactures them, by the way.

> GE is literally one of three major jet engine makers

That part of the GE conglomerate does well because it's floated by the defense industry and commercial aviation. In other words, it depends on government money.

> to say nothing of their more mundane businesses

I internally chuckle a bit when I see "GE Lighting, a Savant company."

> eg: household appliances

GE hasn't made household appliances, as opposed to putting their brand on junk made in China or someplace, in 30 or 40 years. They were the innovator in this space roughly around the time America put a man on the moon.

> foundations upon which the modern world depends

Whoa nellie.
In head to head games there's always someone ready to blame 'the algorithm' for their loss rather than their own performance, deck matchup, or rng. (The usual suspects.)

Game developers are not incentivized to induce losses. Losses lead to poor session length and retention. Moreover, a desire for fast queue times discourages deck analysis by 'the algorithm'. Why restrict your matchmaking pool so you can pull the strings?

The only queue manip mechanism I know of is in the player's favor. If you're on a losing streak you can be queued with others on losing streaks as a way to break at least one of your steaks and prevent you from logging off.
I don’t. Not sure why I’d do that. I find the risk acceptably low that it is. But more importantly, I don’t have any reason to fear that it is.

So I trust that regular caution and OS security reduces the risk to an acceptable level but mostly I don’t fear anyone reading or destroying my data because I have backups and it’s not sensitive. Sure it would be scary from an integrity perspective, but not in any other sense. Even constant access to my machine and everything I do wouldn’t be a big risk.

So if I’m affected by a ransom Trojan (most likely scenario), I’m happy to just wipe my machine.
It’s at least a fuck up with poor communications considering Twitter still hasn’t communicated what is going on
This touches a little on philosophical difference, but I have found that one major difference is the quantification of uncertainty. Bayesian models, being based naturally around modeling a probability distribution, easily enables the researcher to make claims such as "I am 95% certain the mean lies between x and y, given the data." On the other hand, neural networks, decision trees, and other models more associated with ML than Bayesian statistics do not have this capability built in. (Though there are variations and techniques to build confidence intervals and such with them.)
I’ve been fairly comfortable since I moved to Mac’s - maybe I shouldn’t be so comfortable but I do mind what I click and open
‘People crying' after layoffs at Amazon India; employee describes grim scenes
My interpretation of that paragraph is the following:

The money that you don't deposit but you pay a company eventually also ends up in a bank account, of the company, of it's employees, of it's suppliers.

From the banking system point of view it's the same money amount, just split differently between accounts.
M$ is such a black box. At some point getting on their spam list, for no reason and still I’m not 100% certain, is the reason I stopped self hosting email.
cough CME cough
Edward Shishkin has kept plugging away at Reiser4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4 .
Does this install dependencies on a per-script basis? Can different scripts' dependencies conflict with each other? I think I saw this when I initially put together the list, but I didn't include Ruby because I wasn't sure how it worked.

I'll add Ruby if conflicts are normally impossible. (If conflicts are possible, the method is equivalent to shelling out to the language's package manager at the top of the script before the imports, which you can do in most scripting languages.)
Alpha-Zero trained on its own generated data. It turned out that disregarding human data allowed it to become unbeatable in its domain (Go).
Wow. I think I've used your circle generator on that other site without realizing it. That sucks. I've bookmarked yours now!
> batteries (notably LFP) ... but expensive to scale with power electronics;

Can you please elaborate on the scaling costs ?

I have been told that packs will output 400vDC as-is. But turning this into a grid AC connection is "complicated" ?
Don't know if SQLite has a feature or extension for that, but MS SQL Server has one:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/b...

Not sure how much use it gets though, I never hear anyone talk about it, including Microsoft folks.
Hmm, actually, my aging Mac always asks me to install something whenever I connect my newer iPhone - I don’t like that at all, it’s not at all what I’d expect from an apple device, but I always am coming to realise that apple devices really aren’t what they used to be - quite sad
That claim sounds more preposterous than it actually is, considering that databases and filesystems are both just software using the same hardware in a different manner.
Worth pointing out the shuffle twice thing is only for Best of 1 to reduce the variance so it is similar to Best of 3. It’s strictly a casual format though.
The V instruction set extension of RISC-V started out from efforts at creating an open alternative to GPU compute. So at least in principle, you just need something that exposes a framebuffer and everything else can be done via software rendering. This VisionFive-2 chip does not seem to implement V, but future chips likely will.
Great to see this. Tons more to explore in this space, especially with strides in commodity AI performance.

Best demo I ever saw was ecologist Tom Ray showing Tierra ALife at the MIT AI Lab in 1991. Was a signal for the beginning of a new era, the end of GOFAI and the start of automatic machine trained performance.

Evolution's effectiveness in optimization/efficiency dynamics that Ray first showed in Tierra have been demonstrated in the closed world game players eg AlphaZero but deploying them in open world large scale environments remains open.
Note that betas sometimes fall behind public releases when it comes to security patches.
I'm not actually going to make the forum so don't have a detailed plan.
Having lived through the 80's, and being the target audience for this Mario/Zeldo show, I reject most of your comments.

Yuppies, or Boomers in their prime as working office class people, have nothing to do with this. Perhaps, other than being parents.

This show was shown during the cartoon time during each day, usually either being 6-8:30a, or 2:30p-5p. This when Mario played. On Fridays it was Zelda. That's when this abomination played (Mario was also pretty terrible in its own right). And note, unless one of your parents were stay-at-home (usually the woman in those days), your parents weren't watching it. You, the kid, was. And likely unsupervised. After all, it's a kids show during the cartoon block. "How bad could it be?"

And with the "kids not getting the references", you do not teach boys that cat-calling is good. Nor do you teach that demanding "affection" from women is good. You know you have problems when the Beavis and Butthead version is more accurate and true to what's really being said. We all know B&B is wrong, and it's funny because of that. When we're comparing official "Looking good princess, 'specially from this angle", versus Beavis' "Nice tits" , they're functionally the same thing. And it wasn't an innunendo in either case.

https://www.denofgeek.com/games/the-legend-of-zelda-animated... Puts it better than what I've said...

> Then, of course, there is the characterization of Link, which is a rather mixed bag. To their credit, the writers were successful in imbuing Link with a distinct, memorable character. Unfortunately, that character was appalling. I’m sure the writers were going for some kind of “lovable scamp” vibe with him, but he really just came off as a whiny, obnoxious, barely competent creep with a catchphrase I can only imagine was written into his character bio in the series bible, because it is used at least once per episode. At least. However, despite the fact that this irritating catchphrase that no one ever thought was charming or funny has become an indelible part of this franchise, it is not the worst thing about the cartoon’s Link. I, for one, am far more bothered by all the sexual harassment.

> And there is a lot of it. A LOT. Link is a straight up sexist creeper. He makes lewd comments at Zelda about her cleavage, harasses her for a kiss, treating her affection like some kind of commodity that he’s owed for his service (to be fair, she’s equally horrible by referring to it as a reward at the end of one episode), asks her to kiss him twice after she initially refuses, and even goes so far as to coerce her by physically preventing her from getting away from him until she gives him what he wants. And that’s just in the first episode.
Ulam's Prime Spiral
The spiral was discovered in 1963:

> This construction was first made by Polish-American mathematician Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1986) in 1963 while doodling during a boring talk at a scientific meeting. While drawing a grid of lines, he decided to number the intersections according to a spiral pattern, and then began circling the numbers in the spiral that were primes. Surprisingly, the circled primes appeared to fall along a number of diagonal straight lines or, in Ulam's slightly more formal prose, it "appears to exhibit a strongly nonrandom appearance" (Stein et al. 1964).

Now, some years earlier in 1956, Arthur Clarke randomly let his imagination speculate this:

>Remarkably, noted science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke described the prime spiral in his novel The City and the Stars (1956, Ch. 6, p. 54). Clarke wrote, "Jeserac sat motionless within a whirlpool of numbers. The first thousand primes.... Jeserac was no mathematician, though sometimes he liked to believe he was. All he could do was to search among the infinite array of primes for special relationships and rules which more talented men might incorporate in general laws. He could find how numbers behaved, but he could not explain why. It was his pleasure to hack his way through the arithmetical jungle, and sometimes he discovered wonders that more skillful explorers had missed. He set up the matrix of all possible integers, and started his computer stringing the primes across its surface as beads might be arranged at the intersections of a mesh."

But Clarke never actually tried making the spiral:

> However, Clarke never actually performed this thought experiment (pers. comm. to E. Pegg Jr., May 27, 2002), thus leaving discovery of the unexpected properties of the prime spiral to Ulam seven years later.

This all seems wild.
Gajim 1.6.1 has been released – XMPP Chat Client
What do you mean by crop in frequency domain? Low pass filtering i.e. removing higher frequency components?
I read recently somewhere that the sneaky part is a lot of these manufacturers supposedly hardcode dns settings in there somewhere.
We certainly don't have a view that the Conquistadors weren't barbaric and cruel