skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on if they are using 64 bit or not. The 16bit VDM was deprecated on that move from 32 to 64. Which is the majority of most installs these days.

What is kind of neat is every windows application/dll is a valid DOS application. The first part of all of them is a valid MZ DOS 16 EXEcutable. Windows just treats it as a skippable header and reads the real header that is about 100 bytes in and then decides which subsystem to fire up (win3x, win32, OS/2, etc). But if you take a exe compiled today with current tools and put it on a DOS 3.3 box it would run the exe and print out it can not run (the exe has that in there).

Also from that era not all DOS applications were exclusively 16 bit. Many were hybrid. Just to have better control over the memory space instead of using segmentation was usually worth the speed boost (as well as the bigger registers). Windows from that era usually had extra 'pid' file where you could basically tag the executable as 'hey you are about to run a 32 bit app get out of the way windows oh and support dpmi while you are at it'.
Yeah, that doesn't work. Or rather, that's both not necessary and not sufficient.

You are now at the mercy of the fiber operator. He will be the one that gets all of the profits, and who is going to crush you. You just added some random extra parties that add almost no value, but you are required by law to deal with them... what is not a big issue, because they are in a competitive market and won't give you any trouble.

What does work is regulating the hell out of the fiber operator. At the extreme, making it answer to you instead of to profits. And that works the same whether the internet service is bundled or unbundled. (But then that creates some other problems, nothing is trouble-free.)
Also makes me think of the quote often attributed to Churchill though there is no evidence he said it.
"Americans will always do the right thing ... after they have exhausted all the alternatives"
That was my exact thought as well. They are not real spiders, apparently, but they sure resemble them.

It's interesting that I had not heard of these at all until about fifteen minutes ago.
...the company famous for shuttering anything that doesn't make ridiculous profit margins is not a good example for that.
100% instant availability. In cities like Los Angeles where public transportation takes 3-5x the time if an option at all, this is a necessity.
> Why do they even do research into emissions? Who cares?

Their research was more about protecting their revenue streams. They took actions based on it - to derail public discourse and actions into climate change. That's reason enough why anybody should care.

> Shouldn't an independent organization be doing the studies anyways?

That too did happen. But there were so many instances in which such research was scuttled and their results discredited.

> They take oil from the ground and sell it, whether their customers want vaseline or unleaded gas, do long as it is legally permitted and they pay all the taxes, what other obligation do they have?

> But did they break the law? Is there corruption in the government or academia? Then start by rooting out that corruption.

Oh! So, now the argument is that they did all that just because the society is corrupt and allowed them to do so? No consideration for all they money they pumped to corrupt public discourse and institutions? And don't hold them responsible for their actions until all corruption in the world is rooted out? That's a very disingenuous and frankly dishonest argument that anybody can raise to justify misdeeds.

The fact that they knew about the consequences and the actions they still took to bring the world to the brink of an ecological disaster are well known and documented. I'm disgusted by the fact that people are still calling for giving them a free pass when we're realistically looking at bleak economic future and a man-made mass extinction event. The society be damned if we forget and whitewash the actions of certain groups that brought such misery to the entire planet.
Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet
Yeah, for me at least. I feel like that would make a meeting more awkward, not less. Also, if I were in the new hire's shoes, scheduling a meeting that's essentially about criticism would make me more anxious, not less. And the time gap between
the scheduling of the meeting and the start of the meeting might be pretty fretful. If someone just lays out what they want changed in 1 or 2 sentences, I can immediately know that it's not some big problem they want to meet about.

At the same time, I would feel bad if I found out that I had really distressed a new hire in a code review. And I do try to soften things when I say something that I anticipate might be perceived as harsh in a way that I don't intend. (I use emoji a lot, I DM people, and I tend not to use standalone sentences that end in periods except in email. I use parentheticals and qualifiers, make jokes, etc.) I do schedule meetings to go over things including criticisms/problems/objections, but only when I feel like it would be faster and more natural, or I think it's really essential that I make a realtime demand on someone's attention to get their input.
You don't need hearing to drive. Deaf people drive.
Looking for a laptop for my Dad more recently (early 2023) there were no models with less than 1080 that were not also incredibly crumby in other respects (dog slow eMMC drives, too little RAM to run current Windows well especially once it swaps to that slow drive, awful looking keyboards, etc.). We checked for lower resolution screens because with his eyes higher is pretty pointless (and it might have reduced the price) but went with 1080 and set it to be scaled in the OS.

> In 2014 you could get a phone with a 1080p display

You can buy a full laptop fur a fair amount less than many phones with high-resolution screens though, possibly more so back then. What spec was his machine beyond the screen? Also: most people are closer to their phone screen in use than they are a laptop, perhaps making the case for higher resolutions there stronger.

Reliably producing those 720/768 displays at common laptop & tablet sizes was cheap so making laptops/tablets around them was cheap, and more than enough people thought it good enough (or didn't know better). Given our experience above, the economies of scale on 1080+ panels have changed such that the 1080 screens are in the sweet zone.
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?
Anyone criticizing this has simply never needed to stand in the rain on the roof of a parking garage typing something into a terminal prompt. That’s okay, it’s not for everyone.
I mean, of course it’s up to you to make potential clients believe you. If you give me no reason whatsoever to think you’re a competent and accomplished contractor, why would I “believe” you?
Session authentication tokens are effectively a form of credential. Best practice is to expire all credentials after a certain amount of time, because you cannot know for sure all the ways this credential might be compromised or when. It does mitigate risk to reduce the time window in which an attack is feasible / when the attacker might get the credential, and when they might start their attack. Just because you assume that every attacker has access to X, or has root on their machine, or is everywhere always, etc, doesn't make it true. Some attackers don't have a big advantage; mitigating their attacks helps security.

In addition, the kind of credential tends to dictate the expiration time. Some don't need to be expired that often. You can also mitigate a lot of the risk by requiring re-authentication to perform riskier actions, like changing email address, or authorizing payment. Combine with other methods like user fingerprinting to force re-authentication if it looks like it might be a different user.

If you're thinking "but we don't rotate passwords as best practice anymore, why sessions?" We basically gave up on passwords. It would help security if people rotated passwords, but unfortunately it's such a pain for the users that they end up doing insecure things like writing them down or incrementing a number at the end, so a compromised password tells you what the next likely one is. If they were randomly generated we would absolutely be rotating passwords still.
Some tips for prompting Llama 2
What I meant is that detection is one thing, taking good decisions is another.
Ask HN: Who's Working on an AI Startup?
Call For Startups: We're looking for 10 early-stage (bootstrapped to seed) AI Startups to be featured at The AI Conference in September.

Other companies presenting include Anthropic, Hugging Face, Langchain, LlamaIndex, Weaviate, Cerebras and many more.

To Apply: https://aiconference.com/startups/
Even more “insanity”:

z/OS (aka OS360 aka MVS) supports programs going back to the 60s and I just talked with a DE at IBM who is still using a program compiled circa Apollo 11 mission.
The original comment suggested that in their country (assuming US?), emergency vehicles have "the right of way".

I asked if this was true, and gave my understanding of my own country's laws, where emergency vehicles do not have a right of way.

I'm not arguing that exercising caution implies a lack of a right of way. I'm stating that in the UK although you should give way to emergency vehicles, they do not have a right of way and so exercise caution.

I understand other countries might be different, we're all surprising and different. That's why I asked my original question.
Outside of the "everyone hates javascript" circle jerk, I really enjoy writing Typescript. I find its type system to be very natural and pleasent to use. It's my go-to for any generic task.
Well we've seen hockey stick shaped population level increases in obesity[1] and colon cancer[2] in the last 40 or so years. Doesn't go to say it was caused by aspartame, but I don't think it can be argued we haven't seen population level effects of something.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/NCHS/data/hestat/obesity_adult_07_08/obe...

[2] https://gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/68/10/1820.full.pdf
>But most of what I like about it is great when “visiting,” not living. When I’ve lived in cities that had great public transportation it was occasionally nice; I could go downtown and get drunk without worrying about/coordinating transportation.

But commute times on public transport are absolutely dreadful.

My opinion couldn't differ more. I lived for 6 years in London. I didn't own a car the entire time. I had a zipcar membership, but I used it maybe once every 2 months. I kept it mostly not to loose my "car insurance no claim discount" of many years more than to use the service.

When I did commute by tube(underground) and train the entire trip lasted ~20min(including 5 min walk) and I didn't mind it at all. This was using one of the worst lines (the northern line). It's the deepest, the hottest and the dustiest (or at least it was back then) of the tube lines. But I got used to it pretty quickly and I actually enjoyed my very short commute (as compared with one I had before, when I lived in Staines, that was almost an hour one way).

Note that within a city like London there are better and worse modes of public transport. My favourite was definitely commuting by river (10min on a fast boat, no people packed like sardines, no hot temperature etc).

But then again I also spent few months biking to work(sadly before my bike was stolen).

Before that I lived in another large city with much worse public transport than London. I used my own car there every day. And as someone with experience of living long term in both places I can tell you I much preferred London.

That was all before the advent of remote work. Now, I much prefer not commuting at all and living elsewhere.

On the other hand when I visited for the first time I didn't enjoy London's public transport one bit. It seemed confusing(initially) cramped, uncomfortable etc. Only later I started liking it much more.
But you can't set a boolean or number to the variable. Environment variables are always strings.
The Windows 11 UI experience is opening up new markets for Microsoft. For example, Windows 11 is sold to medical schools as Microsoft Stroke Simulator 2023.
Did you mean to make that comment on this post? The article talks about getting deeper insights into the execution of Wasm modules
I'll keep that in mind for my next interview. I find it's always best to avoid jobs that discriminate in such ways, and if not using a debugger helps me to dodge a bullet, I'll consider myself lucky.
Spaces cause ambiguity with separate values like 123 456. Underscores are ambiguous with missing values due to the common use of a line segment to indicate where to fill out form values in addition to the same separate values issue as spaces.
It looks great - it would be suitable for some folks working in the OTC market to give some feedback on here. Also brokers could be benefited using the tool.
If I had to guess, it's basically going to be determined by the Dry Line -- there's basically a line down the middle of the United States where, to the west, little rain falls, and to the east, plenty does.

This line has been moving east, if I recall correctly, and if we don't irrigate more we're losing land from the breadbasket.
Anybody who thinks escaping a natural disaster in a car is a good idea will probably die trying. The people who died in the Oakland firestorm died in their cars. Car traffic suffers from a catastrophe where throughput falls to zero in the face of even slight overload.
Past time to mark emergency vehicles with beacons, and force e-cars to respect them. This seems an important pain point to address early.
Tourism provides money to these local economies, true. But what airbnb, and digital nomads, did was to subvert these local economies to depend on the to survive, turning whole cities (some of which are world heritage sites) into amusement rides for tourists.
Have you ever stopped to think what is life like for the locals who work in the resorts (to take your example), and can't afford to live nowhere near their workplace, having to commute for over an hour (in the best case scenarios) only to smile at tourists that become upset because they can't speak their language?
It's lovely to say that businesses should pay locals a decent wage, but that very rarely happens, the "decent" is a very debatable number.
And anyway, no one in the world needs your suburban US money, please keep it to yourself and your suburban US economy.
Freedom's just another word for massive infrastructure investments and subsidies which allow the personal control of inefficiently utilized capital goods.
I think 'Tony Stark complex' would be more appropriate. Feels like these people watched Ironman 2 and imagine themselves in Tony's shoes as he address congress.
It's fascinating that the author implies more regulatory power over telecoms would solve this, even though they're plainly buying that same regulatory power when it's advantageous. If "the vast majority of politicians are feckless cardboard cutouts with little real interest in market or consumer health" anyways, it'd seem a superfluous effort to give an agency more power only to sell it out later, right?
Whoa. Travellers are now responsible for all political and macroeconomical decisions on all countries/cities in the world.

#shutdownTravelling
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Just to play Devil's Advocate, short sessions may actually end up being far less secure when you consider that humans are flawed.

If you force people to log in to a system very frequently, they might get lax with security and do dumb things like stick "post-it notes" to their monitors with their login info out of frustration.
Software U2F with Fingerprint (On Linux)
This project aims to support U2F / FIDO2 using fingerprint reader on Linux (via libfprint). The goal is to have the same user experience with 2FA using Windows Hello.

This project is based on https://github.com/danstiner/rust-u2f with minor modification (see my fork: https://github.com/ngxson/rust-u2f-pkexec)

Link to the project: https://github.com/ngxson/softu2f-fprintd-docker
no conflict = no interest

reproduce the science and publish the results or move on

it serves nobody to pretend as if some random group of people are going to organically put their resources into a specific study, and then act surprised when someone that is professionally familiar with the subject matter for money eventually is doing the studies
> Q. What is acrylamide and what do we know about its link to cancer?

> A. Coffee can contain acrylamide, a chemical that is also used in certain industrial processes and has been commercially available since the 1950s. In addition to coffee, acrylamide is also found in French fries (frying causes acrylamide formation), toasted bread, snack foods, like potato chips and pretzels, crackers, biscuits, cookies and cereals, and in tobacco products. Acrylamide is classified by IARC as a “probable carcinogen,” based primarily on genotoxicity experiments in animals. In 2002, Swedish scientists discovered that acrylamide could be formed from asparagine (an amino acid) and sugar during high-heat cooking. This discovery led to intensified research into the association between acrylamide intake from diet and cancer risk in humans. In 2011 and 2014, two large studies summarized the evidence in humans and found no association between dietary acrylamide and risk of several cancers.

https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/coffee-and...

This implies that the first part of your comment is correct, but the second part likely is not.
because it's a text editor that's already fully capable of editing text. not every thing needs to constantly evolve and add features at a break-neck pace.
I'm not sure how well "like to tinker with new paradigms/programming languages" correlates with "really good", though. Some of the best people i've worked with were quite conservative technically (some weren't keen on this new 'Java' thing), but were masters at finding the right way to approach problems, being conscientious in their work, etc. The correlation coefficient probably isn't negative, but it's not 1 either. 0.3?
>The same WHO that said COVID-19 did not originate in a Chinese lab

Actually a group of scientists published that on Nature Medicine. Fraudulently though, and under tremendous pressure from China and Nature.

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-proximal-origins-mu...
So because people don't share the same opinion as you, you're going to leave? Peace out.
AFAIK, the US doesn't have it anymore, and it's common for their ISPs to sell access to their clients for big service providers.
Tough night for Cruise as they were involved in another accident with a car running a red light: https://twitter.com/miss_elenius/status/1692458035644653768
>There is a cost every time a user has to re-authenticate. There is a cost in resources to handle the extra authentications. There is a cost in complexity to maintain and extend the system doing authentication.

I think this is definitely where the security trends in modern IT have gone very awry, as it _is_ extremely annoying to be an end user having to work with modern IT security practices. Off the top of my head:

- MFA everywhere means that if you have any issues with your alternative authentication devices, you are completely locked out of your work and probably your life until you get that resolved

- broad and vague block geo-based block lists means users just flat out cannot access resources depending on where they happen to be, which means service desk tickets, investigations, and ultimately people who cannot access non-sensitive data they should be able to just because of where they are physically located

- CAPTCHAs can lock entire classes of persons out of specific services as the CAPTCHAs aren't easy for these classes to perform on demand

- SSO/SAML authentication pages take you on a whirlwind tour of dozens of randomly generated authentication pages meant to establish and pass your authentication back to a central location, and it makes it impossible to tell from the URLs themselves whether or not it's suspicious or not unless you know the specifics of the system in use; this is particularly bad because this is exactly what it will look like if you click on a spam site in a search result or a compromised webpage. how is a user supposed to know when they've accidentally gotten tricked into a compromised authentication page? the uniquity of SSO for logins is nice, but it also means that as a user, I expect that I can be taken to an SSO from just about anything, so how am I supposed to know if the entry point from page X is legit compared to the entry point from page Y?

- a corollary to requiring multiple authentications even from the same device (looking at you Microsoft...) is it creates uncertainty as to when I should expect to have to sign in; if opening a link to a report requires me to authenticate or just accessing an internal web portal requires additional auth, why should I be suspicious when my colleague's account gets compromised and an attacker sends me a link saying "hey, we need to respond on this form by EOD; don't have time to explain in full, but it's pretty straight-forward. I'll follow up in a few hours when I'm done with another item"

- Edited: another corollary with SSO means that getting auth'd once means you get auth'd a lot. While you should need to configure additional security and checks on more sensitive services, since you're already auth'd through the main means of identification, it's often trivial to get the access by normal means or to social engineer access

It really sucks to be an end user in such environments, and it's just too easy for IT security to absolutely lock out legitimate users who are following the policies as best they can with earnest intent.
Are you sure we can't?

I'm pretty sure there are people who live alone like up in the mountains or out in the wilderness alone and do just fine.
You can also use that sort of maps to send data via physical mesh net just hopping from one phone to another, never touching a isp.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133485 1 day ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133485 3 days ago
No the comment is right, LA is almost 50% hispanic today. A lot of the development for certain neighborhoods honestly looks similar as parts of Mexico. (The more single story, working class, chicken wire and plaster parts of LA at least)
NHTSA is investigating whether Tesla's "autopilot" system has trouble detecting emergency vehicles with their lights flashing (and thus is more likely to hit them). Cruise might have a similar perception problem.

See for instance:

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2021/INOA-PE21020-1893.PDF

"Since January 2018, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has identified eleven crashes in which Tesla models of
various configurations have encountered first responder scenes and subsequently struck one or more vehicles
involved with those scenes. The incidents are listed at the end of this summary by date, city, and state."

"Most incidents took place after dark and the crash scenes encountered included scene control measures such as first
responder vehicle lights, flares, an illuminated arrow board, and road cones. The involved subject vehicles were all
confirmed to have been engaged in either Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control during the approach to the
crashes. "
Soundproofing my studio
Mike from Sidekiq kind of does this with his Pro [0] version -- offering a "more reliable" job queue via Redis' RPOPLPUSH among other features. He still uses license keys and a private gem server to distribute the premium features, afaiaa [1].

[0]: https://sidekiq.org/products/pro.html

[1]: https://www.mikeperham.com/2016/05/17/commercial-gems/
> Speaking of telecom regulation, whatever happened to net neutrality?

There was a good verge article on this

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23800161/gigi-sohn-fcc-no...