skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I didn't know the space was thinking about proof-of-personhood. I've been entertaining the thought of something similar for years, to solve a lot of the problems we face.

A rough and very simplified version of the way I see it working is:

- When someone is born a private-key is created just like an SSN today and a fixed amount of coins are created on that "wallet"

- The amount would be based on the actual resources of the planet that are reasonable to spend during a life (inspired by Jacque Fresco and his Venus Project)

- The protocol would have a negative income tax set at a threshold where basic needs are met, so the broke would get UBI, the rich pay taxes

- Progressive tax to prevent ridiculous hoarding where the top 0.1% own almost everything (hoarding finite resources is a work around still to be solved)

- When someone dies that money could still be inherited, or when no next of kin and no will exists distributed to the poor as UBI

- Exploiting global resources would and should be costly

- There could still be corporations but they wouldn't create new coins

I see this solving a lot of problems:

- No more printing money to solve short term problems

- Everyone starts their adult life with some coin that could go towards education, drivers license etc

- No more tax havens since taxation is built into the protocol

- No more need for many of the government agencies we have today, reducing need for taxes

- Encourages a more circular economy with less waste

It's not perfect but I think it would be a nice compromise between the endless discussions of socialism vs capitalism.
You definitely get a warning. But also there's an auto-update feature so you can set it an forget it so long as your device connects to the internet once every x months.
Yes I understand that but I was struggling to think of a sequence of instructions that would cause this secret leaking on a single thread.

But a simple example is `vzeroupper` followed by anything that writes a secret to the same register file entry would be leaked on a subsequent flush.
This part was super interesting, especially the differences between fuzzing software and hardware. I also liked the chicken bit.
Pumping from the surface, like with a vacuum? The maximum height of a drinking straw is about 10 meters. It's generally easier to lift water by pushing from the bottom than pulling from the top.
What’s a Twitter?
I believe the WSJ reported that his security clearance is being reviewed over his ketamine usage
Not sure what rock you've managed to find (please send me the address, BTW, I could use a break myself), but between being forced to buy the company, firing a vast swath of the staff, not paying his workers, and other terrible decisions on what was otherwise a floundering if beloved company, I think Elon has earned this fresh disdain.
> Now having eyes is new our fundamental definition of being a human.

Well, alternatively, everyone has a skull - it's the most human symbol imaginable.

Getting a reliable image of that repeatedly might prove tricky though.
Genius would have been not creating Google+. Which makes Microsoft a genius for not going down that path. I'm a genius for not launch a site either. You probably are too.
You are correct. Sorry, it's been a while.

What I was actually needing at the time was an arbitrary box/lasso select. Does that exist?
FuckStalkerware pt. 2 – SpyHide couldnt hide forever
Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group
> IMO, it's all headed for the graveyard

Every company will die some day.

But some companies have been around for a very very long time.

Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組, Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company founded in 578 A.D., making it the world's oldest company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi

And there are some other pretty old companies that are still around as well.

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

Now you might say, Ship of Theseus. Is a company that is over one millennia old really still the same company at all.

But philosophy aside.

If you’re gonna prophetize the death of Google (or any other company in particular), I want very specific numbers.

When? Tomorrow? This year? Within 5 years? 313,373 years from now?
Yup! I worked at a few companies that would co-mingle Internet facing/DMZ VMs with internal VMs. When pointing this out and recommending we should airgap these VMs to it's own dedicated hypervisor it always fell on deaf ears. Jokes on them I guess.
Do you have a source for this? I have never come across this debate and personally find the blackboard bold convention to be useful, as well as very visually elegant.
Edward Teller's UFO File
Spyhide stalkerware is spying on tens of thousands of phones
You are likely frequently running untrusted workloads. As javascript in a browser. I don't know about this one, but at least meltdown was fully exploitable from js.

But yes, you are fine, 5950x is Zen3.
The definition of a coup would include either a show of force or an illegal action. Neither of those is happening here.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=define+coup+d%27etat
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
[3]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coup%20d%27etat
I just happened to have the SEP article for Parmenides [1] open. It makes the claim that Plato was strongly influenced by Socrates, Pythagoras and Parmenides.

It isn't easy to understand Parmenides and there are conflicting interpretations of his arguments. But he seems to be one of the first philosophers to connect that which can be thought (or understood) with that which is real through the abstract concept of "being" (ontology). [2]

In some sense, mathematics is just a formalization of the attempt to capture the totality of "what may be conceived of by thought".

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/parmenides/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology#History

(as an aside, one of the reasons we even have the thought of Parmenides is because Simplicius wrote out a large excerpt of his work in one of his own books)
Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers soar
Almost identical drive time from downtowns of both as of this comment heh.
The main JFK speech about the manned moon landing was May 25, 1961, before a joint session of Congress. The “we choose to go to the moon” speech at Houston’s Rice University in the fall of 1962 was more a case of pumping up public enthusiasm about the very expensive program, given that polls — especially in that mid-term election year — were showing growing doubts among voters that the expenditure was worth it.
WTH, I totally 100% thought this was Musk's new company. There is already a company called X by Alphabet, what a goof.
They are different people, yes. That's why I mentioned the video as an example of somebody who isn't Tom7 doing an associated video.

I guess my text was a little unclear.
Ask HN: Where to find growth/sales co-founder?
I've built a product which helps in writing personalized messages to people on LinkedIn. It extracts information about your target person from their LinkedIn Profile, uses GPT to create a coherent pitch. It's primarily used for cold outreach, recruitment messages etc. The product is fully built and has some active users.

I'm struggling to get users and very new to sales channel stuff. I tried to get co-founder using Reddit but the mods keep power tripping and deleting the posts. Are there any other places where I can find one?
I don't use TikTok myself, but I'm curious how text posts will be prioritized in people's feeds compared to standard video posts.

My understanding is that (at least on paper) there's a minor feedback loop where getting a lot of views on a video = video is recommended to more people = more engagement = more recommendations. And conversely, if too many people scroll past a video without watching it, that video gets de-recommended in the same fashion.

So now we throw text posts into the mix. Even if a lot of these text posts have music attached, I'd imagine people on TikTok are way more likely to stop scrolling and watch a video than stop scrolling and read a 1000-character post; unless TikTok's content recommendations specifically account for this discrepancy, I could see text posts getting drowned out pretty fast.
> Honestly, not a bad idea.

There is a massive distance between an idea and its successful execution. Most of the success comes from execution, not the original idea.
>> What is “foo”? Is it an Identifier or a StringLiteral?

> Normally, it's an identifier, since there are no quotes.

Sorry, I was vague. I don't mean the sequence f o o in the input or the sequence " f o o ". I mean the string (String, str, whatever your language calls it) containing the three letters f o o, which is stored in a union type.

Sure, one can lexically-scoped-newtype it if the language supports it, but at that point, unless I'm missing something, it might as well be a sum type.
An ultra-processed diet made this doctor sick. Now he's studying why
More generally, most of them are related to speculative execution, where branch mis-prediction is a common gadget to induce speculative mis-execution.

Speculation is hard, it's sort of akin to the idea of introducing multithreading into a program, you are explicitly choosing to tilt at the windmill of pure technical correctness because in a highly concurrent application every error will occur fairly routinely. Speculation is great too, in combination with out-of-order execution it's a multithreading-like boon to overall performance, because now you can resolve several chunks of code in parallel instead of one at a time. It's just also a minefield of correctness issues, but the alternative would be losing something like the equivalent of 10 years of performance gains (going back to like ARM A53 performance).

The recent thing is that "observably correct" needs to include timings. If you can just guess at what the data might be, and the program runs faster if you're correct, that's basically the same thing as reading the data by another means. It's a timing oracle attack.

(in this case AMD just fucked up though, there's no timing attack, this is just implemented wrong and this instruction can speculate against changes that haven't propagated to other parts of the pipeline yet)

The cache is the other problem, modern processors are built with every tenant sharing this single big L3 cache and it turns out that it also needs to be proof against timing attacks for data present in the cache too.
I'm sure it does work for some people, but the popularity and success of budgeting apps suggests that it's not for everyone. The tradeoffs you mention are all of the accountability features I mentioned. The article is reporting on research that suggests that unaccountable cash spending is a problem for many people.
Something that has become abundantly clear over the past few years is that all the supposed instances of "[my beloved idol] is actually playing 9-dimensional chess; their master plan will become clear soon" are wrong, and that in every case the idol in question is actually just an idiot. That's almost certainly what's happening again here.
I don't think you're really supposed to navigate it. There isn't any real content on sites like this. They exist to check a "we have a marketing website" box, that prospective parties can basically open, scroll half way down and think "yep looks very impressive".

If you're the public, there is nothing to learn, esp if they have a sub brand that actually does the thing (eg waymo). If your an investor (?) you have actual data to review, or dont care either way.
Congrats!! Check out also CloudQuery (https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery) an open source ELT that support DB->DB without Kafka or Debezium (Founder here) :)
You've got it completely backwards with regard to OpenOffice. LibreOffice was prematurely forked from it for the sole reason that "Oracle owns it now"; what played out was that Oracle managed to relicense the entire suite to be under a single license (the Apache 2 license) while LibreOffice, to this day, continues with the triple-licensed mess that Sun had implemented. LibreOffice got popular, OpenOffice died off; Oracle handed it over to the Apache Software Foundation for it to die.
Probably eventually yes, but if you are really concerned you need to discuss it with your distro maintainers.
To identify your fallacy, replace "republican" in what you wrote with "women."

I suspect you'll fairly quickly realize the problem with taking a sample size of 1 and extrapolating characteristics about a population of 10s of million of people.
And yet somehow, we all survived. This suggests the right course of action is to explicitly deprecate that use case and throw an error, to decrease the complexity of implementation.
True. Maybe it was Larry who was doing the nose thumbing to start with.
I really dislike Musk - but it does seem like sometimes - he has a really strong vision.

Tesla and SpaceX and StarLink are really impressive from a "had a vision for something on a broadly positive world-changing scale, successfully executed it" perspective.

With Twitter, I'm not sure he actually has a vision.

The best realistic pro-Musk argument you can make is that he can be a real ass, but he's an ass whose companies tend to do amazing things. With Twitter, the best I can come up with is that he had a personal grudge against the platform, and the means to take pattiness to unheard of scales.
What is speaking if not stringing together coherent words in a readable sentence?

Expecting or abstracting human characteristics onto a probabilistic black-box modeled on human behavior is a trap. It's borderline "Finder smiles so my computer is happy" logic. We have created these things to closely model (but not replicate) human behavior. This is distinctly a high-level emulation, with zero consideration for human concepts like extended memory or physical sensation.

I would say that emotion is something more intangible, that you can't simulate by taking shortcuts with math and language. If I tell ChatGPT "I shot you dead!" and it says "ow!" back, nothing has transpired. The machine "felt" nothing, it just intuited what a human might do in that situation.
Who are the ransomware gangs wreaking havoc on the world’s biggest companies?
There's also this story although I wouldn't take it too seriously

Elon Musk Reportedly Had Affair With Sergey Brin’s Wife—Ending Billionaires’ Friendship - https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/07/24/el...
The Shuttle in original form can fly on a "regular AF mission" and bring back a Soviet Hubble and land "diverted" straight into Area 51. That's the point. The thing is all built around that purpose.
Do you REALLY think gasoline subsidies and government backed 97% LTV mortgages is a free market? People were coaxed out of cities with very generous subsidies as well as race baiting (redlining)
"Liquid solution centrifugation for safe, scalable, and efficient isotope separation"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg8993

The authors show that a biological type laboratory ultracentrifuge can efficiently function as a near-universal isotope separator. Any element that can be dissolved as a salt in water -- the entire periodic table, excepting the noble gases -- can be enriched according to its relative mass. This can reduce the cost of refining certain isotopes like calcium-48 by orders of magnitude compared to the previous best techniques.

Left unsaid, but implied by its universality: the new technique is also a new approach to producing enriched fissile materials for nuclear reactors and weapons. It requires less chemical engineering sophistication than current processes which require production and handling of gaseous uranium hexafluoride.
Because that's what the voters voted for?
Oracle Attorney Disagrees That ZFS-Linux Combination Is a GPL License Violation
Congrats on your project. Reliable CDC is hard to set up.

I worked a bit on the space, focusing on api instead of DB, which is in the end a quite different problem.
My goal was to leverage LLM to auto-build connector on the fly.

I started by building a lightweight ETL, that I open-sourced (https://github.com/BenderV/universal-data).

I left the space because I realize that I didn't want to work on this problem, even though I believe in the "AI" approach, and think simplifying data transfer (or distributing compute) is one the key factor to scale data usage.
The more precise word would be "emancipate"
Centralization versus distribution.

Each person has a box in which they are essentially the sole tenant, versus a big box that has to have a bunch of sophistication to handle multitenancy.
Oh, I was talking about the joyyo.app link that Mizza posted.
Chromium still doesn't support SVG icons in browser extensions either. Not as extension's own icon or in the browser toolbar. Firefox has supported those for years. Chromium just scales the images to the nearest 16-dip.
Hard to argue Waymo hasn't gone anywhere with the number of their Taxis I see driving around Scottsdale. I see multiple everyday and I only really drive along a single road as part of my commute. I don't think they've "made it" yet, but it's impressive tech I can actually use nonetheless.
I feel like in the past others were able to keep Musk in check when he was having a manic phase. Nowadays, he has enough power that I suspect anybody who wants to stay in his good graces doesn't dare to contradict him.
And they might like to consider that a thread about it is disrespecting other readers time as well as their own :-)
What do you mean by hijacking? The page changing as you scroll down? I'm on desktop and it looks quite pretty I would say. Does it not work for you or do you just don't like that sort of UI?
The upside of those absurd metaverses is that you can mostly just ignore them, and do your own thing.
How do experienced programmers use Copilot?
Most people aren't willing to spend so much time and energy working against the algorithm that's deliberately trying to push this content that people loathe. If I have to see a bunch of toxic BS in my timeline, and spend my time blocking people, reporting them, etc., only to see more of the same moments later, what's the point?

The problem is that there is a clash between what users want to see and what the company's algorithm wants you to see, and it seems like there's strong evidence to conclude that Musk and his platform are trying to push the kinds of things that a lot of people don't want to see.

So yes, you can spend the time and energy to self-curate and find people who have interesting opinions. I could also go to a white supremacist march and find people who have interesting things to say about classic Dr Who episodes or who have the same passion for Dungeons and Dragons as I do, but I'm not going to tolerate all that toxic crazy to find them when I can go literally anywhere else. In the end, you're still stuck in a cesspool trying to filter out the content that Twitter really, really wants you to see. If I have to work at not seeing the stuff I've explicitly chosen to see, I'm going to find anywhere else (or nowhere).
I don't necessarily think his plan to turn Twitter into WeChat for the west is /doomed/ to fail, although it seems highly unlikely to gain traction, but it's certainly a bold plan to turn the flailing social network around into something that could be significant and I respect the ambition.

Throwing away powerful branding is just a hilariously bad call.
You underestimate the value of being able to "goof off" as a young adult. Focusing 100% on studies and friendships, likely moving away from your hometown, and living what may for many be some of the most free (liberal) years of ones life before being put in the machine of economy.
and how about playstation 5 ?

and also xbox and that thing from valve?
I admittedly can be sharp in bug reports for obvious breaking bugs with companies like Adobe and Microsoft. I know what it's like from the other end— I worked as a developer for a decade, and before that, I worked in code-level support in a very large dev organization for a few years. Frankly, a lot of the shit I shoveled in support was totally justified, and sadly, the squeaky wheel does often get the grease. Often you don't even make it past support unless you become an "irate customer."

That said, it's pretty clear when you're up against an org like that, and communicating that you are angry because you are experiencing hardship from an unresolved issue in software that you license never, ever warrants personal attacks; implications that the developers are lazy, stupid, or disorganized; implications that they're maliciously withholding fixes, etc etc etc.

And beyond that, there's no excuse for being cranky in bug reports for free software or in small fora like issue reports on repos that go directly to developers, or anything like that.
Search for: Leader of Turkey censorship twitter
Somehow the naming obsession reminds me of the antics of self-promoter (and fraud) Kim Schmitz, who targeted being "Dot Com" or "Mega".

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/kim-dotcom/
> There's no mention of distribution, which is a huge advantage for rust since it compiles to a static binary.

Frustrating article. Not only does it levy unfair criticism against Julia, it misses on one obvious legitimate complaint.

Rust can be compiled today, no caveats.
It feels like that all Musk wanted was to destroy twitter.

I really don't understand why Twitter really wanted to sell it to Musk. It always felt like a bad idea.

I understand that it was probably a matter of money and law or whatever, but I wonder how the former twitter execs are feeling about all this now.

I never really used twitter, to be clear, but to sell anything to somebody who clearly seems unfit for it because he just made an arrogant, seems quite like a bad decision. I wonder if they regret it.

Although there is one benefit in this story: it shows that Elon Musk is a clown, and as he initially did not want to buy Twitter, it seems like he is taking revenge by destroying it, which is an even better proof. Capitalism is really really awful. This story is a good example why capitalism often doesn't work.
Not disagreeing, but these aren't just toddlers, but insecure toddlers who have never been told no and think people pushing back is equivalent to hate. A normal toddler who has caretakers who are loving and accepting does not respond like this.
The uk has less inequality than the US but middle class (and somewhat poor) Americans can still have better living standards in many ways just by being richer. Reducing inequality may improve median incomes a bit, but growing the economy could have a bigger impact (ideally the growth would benefit people at least reasonably equally in relative terms). Achieving net zero is much easier if you are richer and can therefore spend more on new energy generation, batteries, interconnects, car fleets, etc.
I think Musks turning point was when he randomly accused the Thai boyscout guide of being a pedophile. Since then his image has been continuously circling the toilet.
>"This isn't the same as experiencing the emotion and then finding a way to express it."

How is it different?

Aren't people just expressing sadness in a way that they've been conditioned to do? If sad, do sad things. Drink alcohol, put on a sad song list, reach for comfort of nostalgia, etc? I can't think of many novel ways to express sadness.
Isn't that completely torpedoing your point though? Elon might have had a head start but he still lapped me 16 times on the way to where he is now.

If everyone had the exact same head start he did (or didn't, it seems disputed), we all wouldn't have achieved what he has. Just because he had a head start that we would all have liked to have doesn't mean we all could have accomplished what he has.

It'd be like dismissing an MLB pitcher throwing a perfect game because his parents could afford to send him to private coaches.