skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This too. Maybe Google is willing to say something like "okay, for the duration of today, no WEI for you"; but unless they're doing something a lot more clever than the spec suggests, the "fallback" could very well be "retry the request until it succeeds and sends an attestation token."

Google would need to make holdbacks persistent enough that you couldn't retry them and get a different result. Even if they do, there are other problems, but... I mean, randomly failing requests is definitely not enough to guarantee that attestation would be optional. And there are no details I see in the spec that suggest to me that Google is planning to do something different.
Gratuitous Hitler invocation usually is.

This type of trolley-problem questioning doesn't work for getting a clearer picture of HN moderation. HN is not a letter-of-the-law kind of place. There's no comprehensive doctrine covering all cases, and it would be foolish of us to try to make one.
Quite. It was very noticeable, and it was one of the reasons that people in the South resented the North and so were keen on secession. It's that pride that keeps one from admitting to making mistakes. I think many in the South understood unconsciously that industrialization was the future, not slavery, but they couldn't bring themselves to admit it, and the local slave-holding interests were culturally powerful. It took a long time to break that culture.
> Many people (both poor and rich) are leaving china, places with sharia law, and moving to the west.

The countries with the highest per capita immigration are in the middle east, not in 'the west'.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-immigration-by-co...

Do you think they are moving to the middle east because of their love of sharia law? Or do you think they are moving they for economic opportunities?

People move to 'the west' for the same reason tens of millions of europeans moved to america in the 19th and 20th century. For money. We were the land of milk and honey or that's what they were told. Do you think millions of italians, germans, irish, etc came to america for the nonexistent classic liberalism?

People come here for the economic opportunity that doesn't exist in their countries - much of the time because 'the west' invaded, destroyed or destabilized it. China being one of the many countries 'the west' invaded, destroyed and destabilized.
> I don't totally understand the concept of having an everything app. Isn't the OS the "everything app"?

The web browser is an everything app on your desktop.

As Marc Andreessen said at the time:

> Netscape will soon reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers.
>> they do not have scientific knowledge of the background theory

One of the co-authors of the 6-author-paper, Hyun-Tak Kim, is at least answering questions about superconductor theory on Quora starting five years ago, whatever that counts for.

He states there "I am studying the MIT mechanism in strongly correlated systems, the high-Tc mechanism in cuprate superconductors, the MIT devices, and quantum transistors.".

https://www.quora.com/profile/Hyun-Tak-Kim?share=1
I’ll add a fourth: these services will inevitably be hacked, their data added to multiple darkweb data dumps, and circulated among nation states, hackers, and advertisers for the rest of time.
I do wonder to what degree we could hard-partition caches, such that speculative prefetches go straight into CPU-specific caches, and doesn't get to go into shared caches (e.g. L3) until it stops being speculative.

I also wonder to what degree we could partition between user mode and supervisor mode (and provide similar facilities to partition between user-mode and user-mode-sandbox, such as WebAssembly or other JITs), with the same premise. Let the kernel prefetch things but don't let userspace notice the speculated entries.
I am in no way an expert on CPU design, but one way this might be possible is to use "memory tagging" in the sense that CPU execution pipelines are extended through the CPU cache (and possibly into RAM itself) by "tags" that link the state of a cache cell to a branch of speculative execution.

For example, a pre-fetch linked to a speculative execution would be tagged with a CPU-specific speculative execution identifier such that the pre-fetched data would only be accessible in that pipeline. If that speculative execution becomes realized then the tag would be updated (perhaps to zero?) to show it was actually executed and visible to all other CPUs and caches. In all other cases, the speculative execution is abandoned and the tagged cache cells become marked as available and undefined. Circuitry similar to register renaming could be used to handle tagging in the caches at the cost of effectively halving cache sizes.

In a more macro sense, imagine git branches that get merged back into main. The speculative execution only occurs on the branch. When the CPU realizes the prediction was good and doesn't need to rolled back, the branch is merged into the trunk and becomes visible to all other systems having access to the trunk.
Third party providers like Pantheon and Acquia will make their own deployment pipelines and manage pushes and pulls etc for you. The code (theme, plugins) is usually version managed but I don't believe the content is. Normally you'd pull the prod DB down to dev, then push dev code and prod DB together to stage, and then run regression tests (auto and manual) on stage. Then push to prod and hope no editor changed the content in a breaking way in the meantime.

It's not a great system.
Aren't all psychics pretending to be psychic?
It is being downvoted because it is a silly idea. These systems are ran in cooperation with the state, who in turn would just un-OTP your plate at the time of scan. That means average citizens are the only ones who would end up with less data.
> Regardless of its implementation

Implementation is very much part of the rules. Apps cannot download and execute external code… unless it’s JavaScript in a browser.

Nothing in the article suggests that WeChat apps are not plain websites, so it seems that they don’t know the rules nor the alleged rule breaker’s technical side.

I wouldn’t exclude that WeChat really does get a pass from Apple, but the article does not clarify this important point.
Can you register cars under a company or other shell entity? I feel like the only way to get around this kind of stuff is to have layers of abstraction above your identity.
Plenty of people think that they are psychic. We all think, at least on some dumb lizard-brained level, that we can continue to steer the bowling ball after it's been released.
The MPL or the BSL would be a better license. The best would be the MPL with something like Facebook's "700 mil mau" and above requiring a support contract. The Mangas corps benefit the most from mold given the inherent size of their C++ codebases.
>you would think no one uses Facebook anymore

Facebook Marketplace is a killer product imo. Depends on your location so probably not in the US where Craigslist exist, or Gumtree in the UK, but in a lot of countries the digital classified market is very barren. Facebook Marketplace is basically filled up the niche perfectly. I really like it and use it almost everyday, pretty much my only use case for Facebook nowadays.
That's like claiming color has no physical concept, because wavelengths vary continuously, and our language about color doesn't perfectly match the underlying physical reality.

"What do you mean 'green'? Two sharp peaks at 520 and 540 nm? One 30 nm wide pseudo-Gaussian with mean at 530 nm? Is 564 nm still green, or is that yellow? What about 567 nm? It is a term without meaning."

See also: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_compon...
Sometimes slippery slopes are real.

Part of the job of web specification development is to determine what potential bad actors could do in the future. If a spec was proposed that easily allowed blocking users from certain countries, I would want that listed in the potential risks. Mitigations and technical requirements are introduced into specs all the time that only exist to stop a potential future attack.
My tin-hat alter ego says the three letter agencies are creating these companies for the sole purpose of then purchasing the data and skirting the law. But that guy is crazy. ha ha.
The usual mitigation for safely using sqlite in PHP projects is as follows:

- Have a .htaccess to block it. Only works with Apache of course but that covers most shared hosting.

- Have rewrite rules that takes precedence. Only works if the user enables url rewriting (automatic only on Apache)

- Part of the sqlite database file name will be randomized. eg sqlite_xJ4D6e1E3.db. That usually works well but I suppose in theory it can be bruteforced...

- The documentation will recommend it should be placed outside the webroot but the installer won't do it automatically because it can't safely assume the user has access to the parent folder. Realistically not that many people will end up doing that.

I, for one, am still excited to no longer have to deal with questionable plugin to use wordpress on a mysql-free server.
> as an interviewer I would bring it up in the interview to point out that he'll have to work with whatever tech stack we use, and should we switch to Rust, would it be a problem?

And you'd have no problem with your coworkers always keeping a gun on them? This seems like a recipe for a workplace incident
Humans have tried all kinds of value transfer systems for thousands of years. Giving someone "tokens" (ie. currency) to convert that into whatever they want, or need has been the most flexible version of whatever has come before it. What one person needs to thrive is not the same another person needs to thrive, so who gets to set what that level is?

I'd be skeptical of any system where there's no opportunity to get ahead as people will either find ways to take advantage of the system and screw others over, or the system becomes unsustainable as populations shift in size.
CO2 or a carbonate seems to be key.

Lithium ion batteries are like semtex or rocket fuel, their weakness is they cant be dispersed easily due to their solid compact nature unlike petrol or diesel or gas vapours which can all be dispersed easily, typically with water, and to transfer heat.

A hose that produces a fine mist of water has water droplets with greater surface area with less volume of water which then enables the heat to be absorbed by the water.

So the problem seems to be dispersing or containing the reaction to limit damage.
Bruce Lee famously used isometrics, using a bar attached to a chain, attached to a platform to stand on.

A modern equivalent is the Isomax, which adds a strain gauge so you can see how hard you pulled, and audible feedback that tells you when you're pulling harder than your target weight. You can do deadlifts, squats, presses, rows, and so on. Even a chest press, it uses a strap made of seatbelt material and you can wrap it around your back instead of attaching to the platform.

https://www.dragondoor.com/products/isomax/

There's various stuff on youtube, and on the previous generation called the Isochain, which is heavier and a bit less convenient to work with but essentially the same. It uses a chain instead of a strap, and has a heavy spring so there's still a slight bit of give to it, which they say helps your nervous system make a strong effort. Here's one channel dedicated to it:

https://www.youtube.com/@NoLimitSquad

I recently got the Isomax and it seems to be a pretty solid piece of kit. I've mainly been using other gear so haven't done that much with it yet, but this study has me thinking I should get more serious about it.
Related - WordPress recently released WordPress Playground: https://playground.wordpress.net/ along with a wp-now command-line tool: https://developer.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/wp-now-launch-a-l...

These utilize WebAssembly (php-wasm) and an SQLite database backend to run a whole WordPress instance in the browser or a local Node.js instance.
For those unfamiliar with <insert group>, it is a <noun> of <bad people>, who are highly ideological and strongly aligned with <other bad people>, who provide major financial support and whose head, <absolute monster>, serves on the board.

Coming this August, ideological madlibs.
He has provided classified photographs, videos, other records, _and his sources_ to both intelligence committees and the ICIG. I believe some of his sources have been directly questioned by those entities as well. And they have pressed forward with this hearing and the UAP Disclosure amendment in the Senate. That suggests this is not about blinker fluid.
> One of the elements used here is phosphorus (P) which is regulated by the DEA

I would have figured ATF. What drug can you synthesize with phosphorus? (EDIT: Apparently meth [1].)

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/09/25/00-2455...
> This is made out of lead. Even if it is useful for transmission, the difficulty of working safely with lead in a factory may mean it is impractical. Or it make leach lead into the real world making it not safe to deploy.

Lead is still routinely used in many applications today, either in metallic form, from ICE car batteries, to fishing or hunting gear, or as chemical compound in different kinds of glass. And the same can be said about other heavy metals like Cadmium or Mercury. Industries also routinely work with much more nasty things than lead, so it really doesn't sound like a show-stopper.
RIP. She was an incredible women, with an astounding musical talent. Always bold and outspoken, her live shredding of the Pope's photo to protest the immorality of the Catholic church was both beautiful and iconic. It's a shame she turned to Islam in her later years, but she was clearly a troubled soul. I hope her passing was peaceful.
most scientific research is completely useless, science done for the sake of science with no real practical application
Sounds like a wonderful idea, perhaps next he can declare that he'll pick Bernie Madoff to lead the IRS and John Hinckley Jr. to lead the Secret Service.
Possible difference is that we may need far smaller number of programmers interested in dishwashers than we need for this jobs.
Does it work for them "less" if the purported psychic doesn't believe?
The word "infatuation" says enough, especially if we're talking (young) adults, and not the kind of puppy love we expect from teenagers. If you're an adult and you feel infatuated, you might mistake that for love, then check if you're dealing with a narcissist or other cluster B disordered person, and also see if you yourself are an empath or highly empathetic.
would you really not expect that people shouldn't follow you around? if i drive around the city taking pictures of you in your car, that's harassment. why can a company do it? it's one thing for it to be available for polling if there's a crime, it's another thing to sell that data to anyone
> I paid $10 each time I showed up. This could be a useful model for rarely-used software.

But it already is. Pay for a month and then cancel. Repeat each time you need it.

I don't understand why people are assuming you have to pay continuously for years instead of just paying for the months you actually use.
LLM training models
You're correct that little curious conversation is possible about Hitler. Even Satan has a better chance.

The rest of your post is a caricature but I assume you meant it that way.
I think I'm in the same boat as you, but can you articulate the 'why' behind that sentiment? (saying it's "on principle" could also be a way to not have to address that question, haha)

As in, if someone created something and you derive value (utility, enjoyment, etc.) from it, what is the basis for at some point no longer providing compensation for that utility?

FWIW, I haven't come up with a completely convincing answer, and yet I still feel like you do! Maybe there is no firm justification for terminating compensation, but instead it's more of an idea instilled by the culture, that after X years, the thing you created becomes owned by society at large just for the greater good, or maybe in recognition that your work came about because of prior accomplishments from others, or that as a society we want ongoing creativity and not stagnation.
> Is there a fundamental reason we cannot make speculative execution secure?

It is secure in many, many contexts. For example, I have no concerns about speculative execution if I'm running a database or service, which is great since those are the areas where performance matters most.

Where it's troublesome is when you need isolation in the presence of arbitrary code execution. My suggestion is that if you ever find yourself in that scenario that you manage your cores manually - ensure that "attacker" code never crosses with anything sensitive on the same core. If you need that next level of security, enable the mitigations.

Pinning your cores is going to help a lot with the mitigations anyways - the TLB doesn't have to be flushed in circumstances where the same process on the same core is switched in, or something like that (someone please explain more, I forget and I don't want to look it up right now). There's some process context id cache blah blah blah, the point is that you can improve things if you pin to a core.

I think basically you're right. Instead of removing an amazing optimization let's find the areas where we can enable it, understand the threat model where it's relevant, and find ways to either reduce the cost of mitigations or otherwise mitigate in a way that's free.
But it the meantime while there exists no such robots, or while the prototypes get stuck downthere. Someone has to manually fetch them, and do the job. It's not very enticing and I don't think there will be many software engineers ready to suit up, to dig one out.
> Yeah, and for me at least there is often an element of PTSD from childhood and early adulthood trauma which guides these daydreams, and it honestly sounds like the case for the author here, if I had to wager a guess I'd assume most of these daydreams are rooted in either some kind of direct trauma, or a some desire which is propelled by a hidden underlying trauma.

I have MD but not ADHD and I know my MD is directly trauma related: My earliest memories of my MD from age 4 or 5 involved me being adopted by/having loving caregivers.
AWS announces generative A.I. tool to save doctors time on paperwork
skinny body despite plenty of food? or normal body composition with 15 - 21 % fat? muscular? weight lifter?
> Men aren't impervious to sexism either.

Given that GP didn’t say they were, why is your first instinct to assume that anything OP didn’t mention, in what were fairly obvious examples, was specifically excluded?

> Young women are working ridiculous hours as well.

So are the elderly, why are you excluding them?

And so on.

Come on. There’s absolutely no need for the ridiculous pedantry, and it adds less than nothing to the comment chain. Be better.
With the development of shale oil and gas, the U.S. now has hundreds of years' worth of proven natural gas reserves.

The end of oil has been predicted for 60 years and it's never come. It will come some day, but right now it looks like we're very far from exhausting shale oil.
I'd love to read a good analysis of how much the vaccine contributed vs the attrition among those more vulnerable, along with a look at the final vaccination demographics.

People are still so polarized though, I expect the really interesting information is a few years out until it's somewhat settled.
Runs great on my 10GB 3080 FTW3. ComfyUI moreso than auto1111.
Dart is still around. The Flutter framework is growing in popularity.

Apple already built and shipped this same feature last year, so they're not opposed. MS? Probably gonna love this. Mozilla hasn't said anything on it (yet at least). I'm not expecting any of those players to save us.
Not a ridiculous question. I have routinely eaten too much throughout my 40+ years, in part as a reaction to adverse childhood experiences- eating was a way to escape. To be fair, I haven't quantified "too much" with measurements and numbers, but with how I feel and how my clothes fit.

Eating until uncomfortably full, rather than the "hara hatchi bu" ("to 80% full") I heard about in Japan, has been my norm, and I'm paying for it now with acid reflux, GERD, and probably an over-accumulation of toxins (micro-plastics, forever chemicals, heavy metals, whatever), along with the extra cost of buying more than I need to survive and feel good.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my guess is that our bodies can only digest so much food before peristalsis moves it out. Were I processing my solid waste for the garden (with soldier fly larvae or heat, etc) we'd have some decent, though costly, humanure (I do use my urine for the compost pile).

I feel best when I eat a massive salad (with all sorts of good stuff in it- sprouted grains & legumes, nutritional yeast, homemade ferments, oil and vinegar, garden greens and roots, sometimes meat) for brunch, a smaller meal mid-afternoon, and nothing else; this way I feel full all day (fiber is important for this) and empty enough before bed to be able to sleep through the night. When I get too stressed I eat emotionally, but I forgive myself and keep trying. Eating a cookie feels good in the moment and bad later on, while eating a salad takes more effort to do but feels both good in the moment (I like chewing, and the taste) and great for my mental health long afterwards.

Because agriculture is a contributor to climate change, eating just enough, with occasional celebratory "harvest feasts", feels like a good thing to do.