skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but you only need a couple crazies to put the fear of eco-terrorism into the heart of rich people.

Except that just leads directly to really really oppressive facism, because plenty of people already want that for various reasons, and the public news already has no qualms about calling people throwing paint on a picture "eco-terrorists" while being utterly mum about the people actively plotting to harm politicians because they aren't facist enough.

Politicians will happily jump at the opportunity to enact what they're actively trying to do.
I always had immense respect for her decision to shave her head when told by music execs to "sex it up." She was gorgeous but she was a singer. She wanted to be hired for her singing.

Being a pretty young woman shouldn't be such a ridiculous hardship. And I kind of wonder how much that radicalized her and how that factors into her conversion to Islam.
If they do that then otrer browsers will appear
> I predict that hardware attestation will in 10-30 years become a requirement to maintain an internet connection.

What you fail to take into account, is that geeks like being able to freely goof around with stuff; and that new disruptive tech evolves precisely in the ecosystems where geeks are goofing around with stuff.

Consider the dichotomy between iPadOS and macOS. macOS still exists — and still has things like the ability to disable Gatekeeper, enable arbitrary kernel-extension installation, etc. — because the geeks inside Apple could never be productive developing an OS on a workstation that is itself a sealed appliance. They need freely-modifiable systems to hack on. And they may as well sell other people those free systems they've developed — with defaults that make the tool appliance-esque, sure, but also with clear paths to turning those safeties off.

The same thing was true in the 90s with the rise of walled-garden ISPs. The average consumer might be happy with just having access to e.g. AOL, but the people who work with computers (including the programmers at AOL!) won't be happy unless they can write a program that opens a raw IP socket and speaks to another copy of that program on their friend's computer halfway around the world. And so, despite not really mentioning as a feature, every walled-garden ISP did implicitly connect you to the "raw" Internet over PPP, rather than just speaking to the walled-garden backend BBS-style — because that's what the engineers at each ISP wanted to happen when they used their own ISP, and they weren't going to tolerate anything less.

And then, gradually, all the most interesting stuff for consumers on the Internet — all the "killer apps" — started being things you could only find the "raw" web, rather than in these walled gardens — precisely because the geeks that knew how to build this stuff, had enthusiasm for building it as part of the open web, and no enthusiasm for building it as part of a walled-garden experience. (I would bet money that many a walled-garden developer had ideas for Internet services that they wrote down at work, but then implemented at home — maybe under a pseudonym, to get out from under noncompetes.)

Even if there comes about an "attested Internet", and big companies shift over to using it, all the cool new stuff will always be occurring off to the side, on the "non-attested Internet." You can't eliminate the "non-attested Internet" for the same reason that you can't develop an Operating System purely using kiosk computing appliances.

The next big killer app, after the "attested Internet" becomes a thing, will be built on the "non-attested Internet." And then what'll happen? Everyone will demand an Internet plan that includes access to the "non-attested Internet", if that had been something eliminated in the interrim. (Which it wouldn't have been, since all the engineers at the ISPs would never have stood for having their own Internet connections broken like that.)
I'm not well versed on scrapers. How do you fill their storage with /dev/random? Did they employ this tactic on competitors at one point as with the rest of your psot?
Right, but somebody has to maintain those IT systems, and if the government is anything like other huge, data-hoarding corporations, then they deploy sysadmins who have an incredible amount of access because they have to in order to maintain the system. IT systems do not run themselves.
From each according to his ability. So far we haven't worked out how to square that with human nature, and it keeps failing utterly.
That's kind of a stretch.
For real; the original paper is kinda shitty in terms of data presentation, and there's significant value to make a follow up paper to create data and try to get your name out there.
While we’re waiting for experimenters to reproduce this, it’s worth comparing this amazing announcement to the Cold Fusion affair of 1989[1]

It’s notable that the first publications about attempts to reproduce the Cold Fusion experiment all reported positive results.

It’s probably because experimenters who got negative results decided they might have done something wrong so they kept trying, and delayed, and they did not publish until later.

Those early reports of positive results were largely retracted within a few weeks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
"I already told you" and "I'll tell you later" are absolutely avoidance when asked for specifics.
Hopefully we did, and are doing, enough to avoid the very worst.

One thing that is very clear now, looking back to 1990 is that we could have done more, and squandered a whole lot of opportunities.
There were plenty millenia older democracy, including the place where the very term got its name.

And, yes, the founding fathers (...) were just like any old grandpas. They were men of state at a particular place and time. Just because it happens to be your ancestral place and time, doesn't make it anything more impressive than hundreds of other leaders in history, including near history.

The main reason they get celebrated is because they place they founded got rich, but that was due to factors other than their brilliance.
> I'm also intrigued by how many very wealthy people are unwilling to pay $10/mo to stream music/video and/or share passwords, when I recall paying $20/CD at the record store in 1998 dollars.

I think when it was $10 or $15 a month for Netflix, and you got everything, that people did pay. The problem now is that it’s $20 a month for Netflix, and $20 for Hulu, and $25 for Disney plus, and $20 for HBO (ahem, “Max!”), and $15 for Amazon, etc. Fragmentation has meant we’re back to a cable bill worth of cost on top of the actual internet (and possibly actual cable), and half the time you still can’t watch the thing you want to watch (some seasons not currently in rotation etc).

(Also, the cable model was driven by bundling, you may not watch a bunch of discovery channel or scifi channel personally but you're paying for them regardless. Most people didn't buy that many optional extras, maybe an extra movie channel or sports or something, but, most people were never racking up $100 of ala carte services either. A lot of people would have spent a lot less on cable tv if they were allowed to unbundle.)

Anyway the “piracy is an availability problem” line isn’t always true. A lot of times it’s a price problem too. Even if Super Netflix came out with actually everything on it for $99 a month I don’t think you’d get a lot of takers. There is a number where it’s worth my time to pirate even if it’s available, it’s not like Best Buy didn’t carry music or movies pre-iTunes/Netflix, and you could always buy esoteric bands on the web etc. Netflix solved availability for $10/month and that last part can’t be severed while retaining the truth of the insight.

You might say it’s not just steam that ended piracy, but steam sales, and as they’ve slowed down so has my proclivity to spend. I’ll buy any old crap at $5 or $10 if it looks fun, and throw it on the backlog, but for $30 or $40 it has to be something I’m specifically interested in playing in the near future.

This summer sale was the first time prices have been decent in a long while, for the last 5 years the discounts have been meager and the base prices remained pretty high. 75% off a game you're still trying to get $60 for 3-5 years after launch isn't exactly the deep discount it's presented as. Konami and Capcom are awful about this.
WEI doesn't prevent bots. Bots would just need to script an attested browser via tools like AutoHotKey -- the only way WEI would prevent bots would be by preventing you from running the browser on an operating system without 3rd party software installed. WEI is a 2 or 3 month roadbump for bot builders.

WEI does prevent any customization.
Diagrams-As-Code: declarative configs using YAML for drawing cloud architectures
Here's a stat I heard a few years back: WeChat has over 50% time share in China. Meaning people in China are on WeChat more than all other apps on their phones combined.
The non dysfunctional way to deal with this is to allocate between 20% of dev time to process improvements and vote on large scale changes.
There’s a ton of electromagnets that are super cooled (like single digit K cold) so that it can maintain a large magnetic field. While this is only the first step, pretty much any application that does something similar can be replaced with this room temperature super conductive material.

Not only products would be impacted but experiments too, particularly particle experiments. All colliders need some sort of ridiculous magnetic field which uses a close loop helium chiller.

Long term wise, anything that uses electromagnetic fields would be impacted, like motors and generators. You in theory can get stupidly efficient motors (99%+) motors with super conductors.
But does it work?

Do any of the audits ever come back clean i.e. no detected defects?

Are those audits actually serious and representative of the resources available to a profitable attack? Many smart contracts manage millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions and up in value. Do they actually do multi-year audits with a team of 5 that come back clean?

Do they seriously believe and publicly state their design processes are better than the best IT systems by Google, Apple, Amazon, NSA, FBI, etc.? Because those organizations can not get clean audits against red teams with multiple people and a few years to work.

That would be a extraordinary claim, do they have the extraordinary evidence to back up that claim? Do they even have any verifiable evidence at all to back up that claim other than more marketing drivel?

If the answer to all of that is not yes, then it all sounds like a house of cards and just more “security” bullshit to me.
> My naive thought is that that labs in general aren't just going to drop everything to try an replicate every instance of someone declaring they've discovered room temperature superconductivity. Seems more like a "there's a lull in paying work, so hey, why don't some of you junior technicians try this out" thing? Anyone have insight into this?

Labs all over the world are dropping everything to replicate this. It's simple self interest.

It only takes 2-3 days and the people involved in the paper are credible.

If it's real, your lab would be at the forefront of the biggest revolution since the transistor. If it's real, there will be hundreds of papers on the topic by next year. Your lab could be the one to discover a variant that can carry more current, that could have patent on the material of the future power grid. The papers that provide the basics for how this works and the data that everyone will be using will get 100k+ citations in a few years. The PhD students that become experts in this will be in high demand everywhere.
Thank you for posting that. Her grace and defiance there were extraordinary. Peace for her.
Yes, the Commercial Crew funding was spread out over more years than NASA wanted due to insufficient budget from Congress, which delayed both SpaceX and Boeing. But Boeing has had 3 more years of delays on top of that due to bad engineering.
Imagine being able to simultaneously visit 4 retail stores and dynamically select items depending on availability and pricing, arriving back home having spent the amount of time it takes to shop at 1.25 stores while burning 1.5x the fuel of a one-store trip.

What a fantastic analogy.
This rules inconsistency (alongside unpredictable (dis-)approvals and double standards for WeChat, Roblox, and (at times) Amazon and others) came up as one of a dozen reasons that, as a solo casual game developer, _launching_ in the App Store is not necessarily the no-brainer decision it seemed to be a decade ago (despite its enormous market power) I lay out in a separate post here https://keydiscussions.com/2023/07/26/as-a-web-game-dev-poin...
I understand the desire to make changes, especially from people so close to a project. But as a user it is painful. If I could think of any positive changes in the last 20 years maybe I would have a different reaction. But I can't so I don't.

Every time I have attempted to interact with Gnome has been incredibly frustrating. I have an uncomfortable visceral reaction to even seeing a Gnome desktop.

But bad design isn't unique to Gnome. In the modern world we love data, but I think we are bad at collecting what matters. The number of times I say "fuck you" out loud to my iPhone in a day is non-zero. A good designer should care when that happens.

So, sure, move my windows around without asking. Continue with your misguided belief that you know better than me what I want. But give me a big red "fuck you" button to click when you get it wrong.
Converted the list from Reddit to Google sheet — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-RwK88uf1aMN1zFCB2kT...

Any more to add to the list?
There were, IIRC, three different post-0.9 candidate models in parallel testing to become 1.0 recently.
Also the contracts the big companies have with vendors across the country. They still purchase a large portion of their parts and talking to congress members about the jobs a program creates in their district is a strong data point.
There wasn't a famine.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/event/august-23-19...

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel.
Is it possible to disallow mobile internet (without blocking actual phone usage) and force students to use school WiFi that blocks social media?
> IIRC there were 64 64-bit registers. I had done some x86 32 assembly, and I hated always having to push onto the stack because all they had was eax ebx ecx.

Well it wasn't that bad.

The Alpha had 31 integer registers and 31 floating point registers. (it had a 32nd register that would read a zero and writes were dropped) The 386 had 6 integers registers and 8 floating point registers. But if you squinted at it right, it also had 2 special purpose registers that the Alpha need to use its general purpose registers for: ebp and esp. (base pointer and stack pointer)

If you only needed 8 bit values, eax-edx could split its low 16 bits into two 8 bit registers, ie, you could use al and ah (bits 0-7 and 8-15 of eax) as registers, whereas in Alpha, a register is just a register.

Because of the CISC/RISC thing, lots of stuff that would need an extra register or two on Alpha could be done without using an extra register on x86. For instance, code that looks like array[i] = x, where the pointer for array is in rdi, i is in ecx, and x is in eax, on x86 you can just do `mov [edi + 4*ecx],eax`. On alpha this might be something like `s4add $4, $5, $6; stor [$4],$1;`. (my Alpha is...a little rusty. I can't remember if the output is on the left or right.) Alpha needs to spend a register ($4 in this case) to hold the computation of the address you're writing to, while on x86 the address you're writing to lives in a virtual register that isn't part of the ISA.

The Alpha didn't have sugary call/ret instructions that handled return values for you. On x86 call/ret implicitly push/pop the return address to/from the stack; on Alpha you needed to pass the return address as a register.

> It wasn’t until MMX that you could use more than that on x86

MMX didn't add any registers. It just turned the 8 80 bit floating point registers on the x87 into 8 64 bit special purpose SIMD integer registers, which are more or less powerful than the 6 general purpose integer registers depending on which way you're squinting at them.
I drove past the location of the model X crash shortly afterwards.

The white lines of the two adjacent lanes made it look like there was a well-defined lane there, with the barrier right in the center.

Here's a pretty good picture of what it looked like then:

https://www.autopilotreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/m...

You can see there is no hatching to make it obvious it was a non-drivable area.

I would have expected something like this might have made a difference:

https://driveractive.com/Assets/photos/rm25.png

(that said, why didn't radar help?)
Request Isolation for Developer Environments with Signadot and Codefresh [video]
Mainly Roundup residues on GMO foods, as well as farm runoff in groundwater. EPA estimates we're all exposed to 0.058–0.230 mg/kg/day and they set the maximum acceptable daily dose at 1.75 mg/kg/day. But the available dosage science is weak.
Do you not think major insurers like StateFarm pulling out of the market will drive premiums up for the average folks?
Even more strange, it was the second time it had done this. The person filming went back and did it again. At that point I feel like the correct response is "Yep, see, it just did it again" but instead it was played up for the video. That said, I'm not pro-Tesla nor do I think FSD is ready, just that this is a bad example.
Achieve massive profits through a team's output, then thank and congratulate the team by informing them their reward for their performance is to revisit their wages next year and update it to your own index of current wage market averages
Thank you, this is a much more wholesome reading of it. I probably misunderstood the tone.

That said, I am actually actively trying to grow my engineers into somewhat of mini product managers themselves.

It’s going quite great so far— the more they get exposed to users and problems, the more they are taking ownership of their work.

I don’t hear things like “the user doesn’t understand” anymore, but rather “I tried to make it clear to anyone who uses it”.

They started coming up with features and changes that were way more brilliant than anything I could come up with. And also interviewing developers (who are also target users for us), performing small tests to validate hypothesis, and so on.

And they also started making little jokes in customer calls to keep users’ mood up! Some users even thanked us for letting them test our early “broken” work-in-progress :D and apologized for not testing well enough. The first time I saw this, it was crazy!

I am so incredibly proud of them!
This problem is not solvable through capitalism without strong regulatory burdens placed on emitting carbon, a solution that oil companies actively "seek" because they know it will never happen, and their marketing directors are on video saying exactly that.
Currently equipped to handle .txt and .json files. can easily be modified to handle other formats.
The last line of the paper says this discovery will lead to a new age of humanity, and they aren't joking.
You can connect an IMAP client to Gmail and retrieve all your emails.
>Yes. That even one person makes money doing a thing is strong evidence that it's possible to make money doing that thing.

Which would be relevant if the question at stake was whether it's "possible or not".

As opposed to the question whether people should focus on that market as a good market, where relatively more opportunities and money are than other IT areas.

Or did you thought those writing the post didn't already know several examples of companies making money selling tooling, and they didn't change their point, because the possibility of it was never what they were talking about?
I don’t know enough about this but shouldn’t the entire superconductor be floating above the magnet? Why is one part still attached (or maybe attracted) to the magnet?
The intent behind the vDSO style interface for syscalls in Fuchsia was primarily to avoid baking specific syscall mechanisms into the ABI, hopefully to allow future changes to the mechanism without breaking binary compatibility -- which was defined as ELF linkage against libzircon.so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_radio_frequenc...
> It's only not been near-universal to experience at least one severe famine that kills many people you know, in a full human lifespan, in the Western and (relatively—this goes back a while) developed world, since like 1600 (thanks, potatoes and corn!).

That's phrased that kinda weird, so am I correct that it means: "Before circa 1600, it was near universal that in one's life they would experience severe famine that kills many people you know" ?

I think that's too strong of a claim. If someone survived infancy and childhood, they often lived a decent lifespan (though childbirth and war killed many adult women and men, respectively). I don't think "severe famine" was so common that almost everyone would experience it at least once.

This isn't something I've studied so I'm going off the small bits I've read; is there anything to support that claim?
I love this album and especially the Heroine track.
Are you stating that they did not have FSD on and simply faked it for the views?
Does anyone use SafetyNet "right"? I assume not due to the user outcry issue.
Meta Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf]
Cloudflare never, ever misses an opportunity to loudly advertise what they are doing.
This seems great and super useful!!
> As usual, a thousand word essay on Google's WEI without ever mentioning that Apple sailed that ship silently

The "look! there's a bigger asshole over there" defense.

Never a winning strategy.
There is already a bunch of exceptions for lead, if this is useful with no alternatives they would probably just add more exceptions.
Arguably the most popular use case is that smart contracts are used to create decentralized exchange services. See: Uniswap.

They are also used extensively in the crypto sub-genre called DeFi, or decentralized finance. One of the most popular implementations is called Aave, which allows one to take loans out (i.e. give the contract Ether as collateral, receive an amount of USD stablecoin in return) on a given set of assets.

Of course every NFT you ever heard of is essentially its own smart contract (specifically one that implements the ERC-721 standard of functions and public variables), though I'm not sure that qualifies as a 'good' use case. ;)
Good luck defining race, culture, or ethnicity. They are all referring to tribes of nebulous constantly changing characteristics, that people can not only move between, but exist in multiple simultaneously.
I started programming in assembly using AppleSoft Basic as a glue language in 1986 as a hobbyist in 6th grade.

By the time I was in college for two years, I found other things I enjoyed much more than programming. From 1994 to the present, coding has become no more than a method to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter.

I spent the first decade and a half of my adult life as a fitness instructor and running with friends as a hobby.

My wife and I now travel half the year, “nomadding” flying between cities every three weeks.

I still spend of time after work at the gym of whatever hotel I’m at.