skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can all take comfort in your wise words that a ball of rock will still be here even after the planet has become literally unlivable for humans across vast swaths of previously populated areas, and the planet violent has undergone a completely predictable and preventable ecological collapse.

Yes. Very wise.
It used to be more that way. It was the deregulation of the 1980s and 90s that allowed the massive concentration of the banking industry.
If that was the case, things would be different with other VCSs. In my experience, that isn’t true.

The main problem is that many people just don’t care, and view VCS as an afterthought, after the actual work is done. They don’t even know how powerful git can be when used optimally.

Maintaining a clean git history is work. You have to think about it, and invest into it. But it is well worth it, in the mid to long term.
The problem as I pointed out in another thread is that it doesn't matter if you are using something like rust.

Wasm downgrades rust memory safety "guarantees" because those guarantees are only truly enforced by the operating system.
For what it's worth, I actually agree. See: Curiosity or Ingenuity, both relatively new and far outperforming their expected life. Not to mention that I'm sure the ground-based transmitters that were used to actually fix Voyager 2 are likely not old, so it really isn't a case of "old is good" which helped in this case.

My comment is unfortunately an example where I let my late night shit-posting bleed over into HN, which is always regretted in the morning. Apologies ;)
Tor already exists!
A better title would be: despite officially leaving Russia, Apple complies with Russian Internet Censorship agency's demands.
Honestly I think these days credit unions are way overrated. The true small independent ones that look out for their members are a rarity, and non-existent in many areas. They've merged, or shifted strategies, and most of them are driving for higher profits the same way that the major banks are. But the difference is that they usually have way worse technology, and fewer branches, so you get the inconvenience of an old school credit union without the benefits. It's often the worst of both worlds. I do still have a credit union account, but I think people need to be really careful about just jumping to a CU and expecting it to be great. You have to do your research and try to find one that is actually still decent, if that even exists in your location.
> So 10 in 4? Seems... unlikely.

See the word "percentage" which you quoted and would suggest I meant 1 in 40?

Or are you doing The Internet Thing of not actually reading/understanding and just trying to look for things to clumsily attempt to dunk on without being able to elucidate whatever it is your own point is supposed to be?
As part of a drill. When I first saw that headline it looked like it might be yet another case of the F-35 having issues but this one was planned (landed, refueled, rearmed, departed).
Cool patterns. I recently used the grid-sheet one for a pet project - thanks to the author!

https://zewallet.netlify.app/
Do not underestimate the chances of a video of your new kittens getting shared amongst tens of people. Or the impact that those uploads would have on your dodgy 3G connection.

It makes sense to host stuff you want to share on sort of server in a data centre somewhere, even if you think of that server as basically a cache.

And no, I would still have no internet access when I was in a train tunnel, even if there had been a big push behind this sort of hosting.
Unraveling .NET 7: The Latest Innovations and Future Directions
Perhaps a simple solution would be a hosting service that would provide a small, basic site for free. The owner could edit the site using phone friendly tools, and people could see the site regardless of the state of the phone.

Hacker News has had discussion about a 1mb site that has offered free hosting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=1mb.co

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=1mb.site
WELLSF~1.ZIP
> The conference delays the surgery, so the patient’s surgery or other high risk procedures are delayed.

My understanding from listening to the author’s podcast, is that this is the proposed mechanism. There is a percentage of patients who were going to get better on their own anyway. But if they receive urgent care, it may cause harm.

The conclusion seems to be that there is a measurable percentage of patients who got surgery but didn’t need it and thus suffered greater harm than if they had been left alone. Because heart attacks are so critical, medical staff errs on the side of action instead of waiting. This seems reasonable, but may in fact be bad.

it’s a good podcast: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-happens-to-patients-wh...
Even with 30-day mortality this can be the case, heart patients I am sure do survive risky procedures and die two weeks later because of complications due to the procedure fairly regularly. (Not that I have an opinion on the root cause here.)
A typo. Larry and Doug weren’t a part of the “bad SCO” that tried to ruin Linux.
Do what you can where you are with what you have, but also try to prepare so that when people start dying you’re not one of them.

Clean energy and net zero trajectories are improving, but we’re experiencing today decisions from decades ago. Things are going to get worse before they get better.
Lovely project, much more polish than I anticipated.
Vicious and Virtuous Cycles
I’m curious about the right-wing news sites appearing in the blocked list. I also want to actively avoid them, but they’ve never once appeared in google search results for me.
Finally someone spells it out.
Ever since the first twitter US president I've noticed a great uptick in politicians and other public figures doing deplorable things for the sake of attention. They'd be publically called out and ridiculed for months on end, and meanwhile you wouldn't hear anything about other people at all.

There's nothing I can describe this as other than "trolling", yet people always look at me confused when I mention that. Trolling is just being mean to people online, right? Surely there coudln't be an ulterior motive to it, right?

I guess we never learned to stop feeding the trolls.
>If IP is ignored, no business will invest in the initial experiments due to first mover disadvantage in game theory.

Not if you belive that
Note that HTML, Shell, and SQL appear in both the most loved and most dreaded lists.
He suggests you should be able to just clone your drive and boot from it over usb-c. Surely he knows the security implications of that? In fact he neglects to mention any security reasons Apple might have for this design.

I agree with some of his points, but can’t form an opinion because he ignores the security implications.
I don‘t think there is any realistic path to those things though.
I feel like… they just shut themselves down and claimed it was hackers so they can continue to surveille high value targets without any official connection to them.

They may think that they can get more value from their spy network via darker means.
> Who are the powerful people in your opinion? Does it depend on their skin color? Their gender? Their perceived wealth? Their looks?

One use of recording is if you hire someone to do a job and they don’t do it - a recording can be used as evidence in court

Like of you hire a police officer to enforce traffic laws and they choke someone on the sidewalk
> I also remember using Kermit for a BBS file transfer once. Once.

Similar memory here. Wasn’t sure about the different protocols offered in Telix and I used Kermit once because the BBS offered it. Right after the sysop burst in on chat and told me not to use Kermit and only use zmodem.

That was basically what I did until HSLink came out and let me do bidirectional, chat, and play Tetris while waiting. Good times. Good memories.
You’re thoroughly welcome, bloopernova!

Thank you for reading and letting me know I’ve had a positive impact — it means a lot.
From the description, I don't think the term "tutoring" covers it. It was more in the nature of a master-disciple relation, such as is found in Japanese traditional arts. That was the transformational moment in his life.
Alcohol is the worst drug and my alcoholic Pts are the sickest people.

We can't treat the pain because the liver is fucked.

Most suffer from EtOH dementia.

Nearly all have pulmonary hypertension to go along with their regular hypertension.

With that goes along CHF and pulmonary emboli and other CVA incidents.

Many suffer agony from pancreatitis, which again we can't treat because of damage to the live.

Alcohol ages every body system rapidly and most of my EtOH Pts have the physiological response of somone 20 years older.

It literally poisons every organ system.
I was active during that time, but like programming languages now, I played with all the ul/dl protocols I could find, then. In addition to the ones you mentioned, there was also wxmodem and ymodem that saw some popularity in places.

I once had a chat on Compuserve with Ward Christensen, the inventor of xmodem. He seemed surprised that anyone recognized his name.
That principle is about imprisonment.

We have laws about driving properly, not because drivers are guilty of crimes.

"Chilling effects" is a better argument.

Infringing sites are already illegal, so blocking them is in realm of government purview. The objections are not about blocking these sites; they are about the ancillary risks of creating an abusable power.
It's frustrating neither Hocus or Gitpod support the devcontainers spec, which at this point should be a given if you're getting into this space.
The universe is continuous (both spatially and time-wise) in Newtonian mechanics.
I think there are two axis there. An axis of "hardness" and an axis of realness. With hardness being how scientific the approach is, and the other axis is how close the world is to the real world.

For example:

- Hard science fiction: The Martian

Mars is real, the laws of physics are the same as in the real world and are followed as closely as possible.

- Soft science fiction (here called science fantasy): Star Wars

The setting is presented like an unexplored part of the world we live in rather than something completely made up. The difference with the real world is that there are no strict rules, the laws of physics can be broken at any time if the story calls for it instead of making the laws of physics a plot point.

- Soft fantasy: The Lord of the Rings

Not only the world is made up, there is unexplained magic, but it doesn't have consistent rules. You are free to do as you like, to tell a good story is the only thing that matters.

- Hard fantasy: Mistborn series

The world is made up, there is magic, but the magic is essentially alternate laws of physics. A dragon may be present, but expect its anatomy, biology and "power source" to be explained in great detail.
> Why didn't you blur/crop/etc. them out, instead?

Because they weren't the focus of the photo and I really didn't even notice them there. And I don't believe that it matters one bit if someone is caught doing something embarrassing in public on camera. They could have been the focus of the photo and I still think it would have been morally acceptable to post it. Whether it is acceptable according to the rules of the platform it's posted on, or according to social etiquette, is a completely different question.
Now if MSFT would just ship the runtime for FreeBSD -- and it's two brothers -- that would be really nice (rather than making community members figure out how to work around the "this ought to work for you" scripts that the .NET team have published and clearly don't work).
"even if" you can change the program (and like some other comments indicated, I'm fairly certain that's not how linear memory in WASM works), WASM still runs on a "capability model": It has access to only certain file handles, sockets, etc. that are provided declaratively.

I was once a huge detractor and naysayer of WASM, but now I'll readily admit that this is the way security "always should have been done".
>In the Coquimbo region, the mountain town of Vicuna reached a top of 37C, the Liceo Samuel Román Rojas weather station peaked at 35.4C and Monte Patricia reached 31.5C.

See the article didn't manipulate facts, you accidentally did. There's more than one weather sensor in the area.
I agree that overexposure is a problem, but I can't support censorship of truthful information.
Here are some resources

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/3-tools-from-sociocracy/

https://patterns.sociocracy30.org/consent-decision-making.ht...
Most scifi I've read with FTL usually has some explanation that isn't pure fantasy. For example, I just finished reading A Fire Upon the Deep[1] by Vernor Vinge, and the in-universe explanation for FTL in the novel is that different regions of our galaxy effectively have different laws of physics, which is (admittedly somewhat handwavingly) due to the density of the interstellar medium.

Sure, FTL travel is never grounded in our understanding of physics and the universe, but do you really think our understanding is anywhere near complete?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
I think you have that reversed. For the past few years, credits if you could get them were basically free money given the very low interest rates and the tax shield. Meanwhile VC wants shares. You are actually selling parts of your company, it’s not only about control.
I've been writing some science fiction that interpolates where things are going with the Internet and online surveillance (ala 1984 v2), but reality always trumps fantasy; this one hadn't occurred to me.
Reading this article makes me want to set up an old school BBS with door games like BRE, Legend of the Red Dragon, and Trade Wars 2002.
> you have no expectation of privacy when browsing the internet

Uh, yes I do. And a very reasonable one!
It's private data about the victims of criminals and thieves.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-hoel-on-aristoc...
Rabid people here hate Musk after he said he wasn't left-wing, this is not going anywhere.

(https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1687520435825745920)
Weird? How? That's standard around here.
Folks with CEO or "Founder" in their bio have always looked uncool imo.
Ask HN: Why wasn't Thunderbird v115 packaged for Fedora?
I've been using Thunderbird for a long time, and I'm rather surprised to see that Fedora still has v102, instead of the latest version, v115. Anyone know why this is happening?
Fwiw the first web browser was developed for NeXT
Thinkpad T480 remains my go-to recommendation:
https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for...
Veganism is actually a spectrum, as one can always find some connection to animals and their suffering. And you don't need to buy into it, you can go with your own definition.

To me it sounds you have just a bunch of excuses to avoid actually doing anything.
There you go:
No, most countries don't have very aggressive libel laws.

EFF has a post about online defamation laws and one of the examples they go into is Vogel v Felice where the claim was about videos that used titles like "Top 10 Dumbasses" among other things. They got away with it because they couldn't prove actual malice and because despite nobody being want to be publicly known as a "dumbass" it's not a statement that can be proven true or untrue.

They also go into how private and public figures are viewed differently. It's all very interesting and worth reading. Also I had no idea insurance was now covering online libel claims for small businesses/bloggers. https://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamati...
Nope. It's data from their victims
We need more forgiveness in this world
lmao literally the same second
Somewhat the same issue as the hilariously named "experts exchange" site back in the day.
It was moderated. I know that’s common here
The fight for the right to repair
What's really scary about this, is that it can be edited by anyone before being posted online to make you either look like a victim or an instigator. It's then picked up by the media (which apparently are just influencers or Redditors now). People will always view that initial video as fact, even after the full evidence is posted. This can ruin the rest of your life, the damage has been done.

While editing videos has always been an issue, it wasn't possible to gain notoriety, make money, or instigate racial/class/political/whatever warfare as easily as it is now. You just need to post an edited video and whatever side you want to instigate, you can.
"most used spatial computing software worldwide"

They are jumping on the Apple train I see
> The intersection between the set of chronically online people who see this content and the set of people who actually vote is much smaller than you might think. Voter turnout is consistently very low among young people, despite how actively interested they may appear on sites like Reddit.

Not all chronically online people are in the young voter bucket. There are Boomers with terminal Facebook brain and a lot of Redditors have accounts that are almost old enough to vote in America.
I think it’s quite evident that we are going to blast beyond a global temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

As long as the purpose our our existence is GDP, economic growth and shareholder value, noting substantial will happen. We will never take real, substantial measures because that would hurt shareholders too much. The USA doesn’t even feel a need to care about the poor and homelessness, how can they care about something abstract as climate change?

And the poor, not the rich, will be mostly affected by climate change anyway so is there really a problem at all? /s
But how do you know you’re in the right area? You could be linearly improving a really terrible solution, whereas random chance could take you somewhere completely new and better.
Yes that’s also my thinking.
We’re at war on many different levels apart from direct military confrontation. The US is currently very fragile on many levels. The constant political bickering between the only 2 parties is one of them.
The limitation in the case of science fiction is that something could be hard, we just don't understand the underlying rules of the universe that would make it possible.

The authors of course don't know this, as they are limited by current human understanding, but they could inadvertently be writing hard fiction that sounds soft to us.
Groups which consider themselves as very intellectual can commit the worst atrocities. Just look at communists.
> They could have been the focus of the photo and I still think it would have been morally acceptable to post it.

No. No it wouldn't have been.

You have absolutely zero need to post any picture online. It is a choice; a choice to further humliate the individual, possibly even causing them greater distress.

People who post pictures with justification like yours have caused those who are the target of the cruelty to commit suicide.

You do not need to post anything on social media. You choose to do so. And by choosing to post an embarrassing moment, you are the problem and you are morally in the wrong.
If it's something that you use for a large part of your day, then there is nothing weird about it.
Hm. There are several reasons for this I can come up assuming good intent. You could shuffle this data towards security researchers or the police to identify and notify affected people. It could also contain information which enables or simplifies secondary attacks against the service. Or it could contain data allowing to attack other related groups.

All of these are too big to decide and analyze in the moment the attack goes active and visible in the infrastructure. You'd just dump it and then wipe it and figure it out later.

It's certainly a sensitive dataset and it doesn't feel any kind of "good" for literally anyone to have it. But to me it's not slam-dunk just evil.
N-dimensional event correction logic is also likely to be a lot more complicated than two, which you might be able to handle exhaustively with just a bit of care (and without breaking out the logical proof systems)
> The compiler merely tells the operating system what should be done - it can't really enforce it.

I really don't know how to parse this statement. `.rodata` is not a guarantee, you can almost always change the memory protection of pages your program owns, on almost all OSes (including Windows).

Rust also doesn't make guarantees about this stuff, either. `.rodata` is more borne out of the need to put certain data in certain areas of flash memory depending on the platform. It's also a feature of ELF, not Rust. It's also not even required. The flags specify how the memory is used by the application, not how it's meant to be mapped (though usually the ELF loader will map it exactly how it's specified to be used).

I'm writing an OS. One of the stage 1 bootloader tasks is to load the main kernel as a module. It's in ELF format. I can choose how the ELF segments are mapped into memory, and as long as they're mapped 1) in the right places and 2) with at least the access flags they're specified to use, the program will work correctly.

Further, with Rust in particular, unless a safety contract has been violated within an `unsafe{}` block, I am guaranteed as a contract of the compiler (barring compiler bugs) that anything marked as `const` and thus most likely put into a RO segment will not be written to by the application. That is not a guarantee C can make, and thus not anything an OS can rely on, anyway.

Again, I don't really see your point. I think you're conflating why operating systems have memory protection flags. They're there to help, not to guarantee. You can only guarantee so much, and if you're writing code like what you have in your C example, then the guarantees fly out the window.

I don't see how it's WASMs job to check memory read/write correctness for you. The _whole point_ is to make it as fast as possible whilst being as much of a sandbox as possible - "sandbox" here meaning your application should operate exactly how the language (not WASM) specifies it to work, whereas the environment is locked down to allow for only certain operations and accesses to resources (which has nothing to do about language specifications).

Thus, unless I'm completely missing your point, I disagree with your suggestion that WASM is doing something inherently wrong here.

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To answer your question directly, barring using something like Rust (which I would recommend people do anyway as it's just a good language regardless of its safety guarantees, but that's a personal and subjective opinion), don't incur undefined behavior in C, and don't rely on the underlying system, if any, to protect you against UB.
https://archive.is/Rbj96
Wells Fargo does something unethical, damaging, and arguably unforgivable every couple of years. It boggles my mind that anyone would knowingly and willingly do business with them.
Apple is against anti-war movement? Interesting...
No, in some cases it's actually better.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2021/10/13/apple-ip...
In the late 1980s, I got online. I refused to use my real name anywhere. I said, "Someone could run this Usenet group off to tape, restore it some time later, index it, and somehow make that available." I was derided as a paranoid fool. And yet here we are. One of my "handles" is still visible in a help file from 1993.
This is precisely why we shouldn’t dismiss skeptics about the cause of climate change as “climate change deniers.” Its clearly maligning - someone who doesn’t deny the climate is changing is obviously not a climate change denier.

If we don’t understand all the variables we’re probably going through make things worse. Given how complicated weather and climate are and how are models are not perfect, that seems inevitable if we embrace geoengineering.