skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you say loophole, do you mean the fact you have no 5A right against self incrimination once you are grAnted immunity? Or something else?
I'm far from a biologist as well but we're talking about an unknown future. We're entering an era of personalized medicine. Maybe you can't target an ethnic group but you could target a specific person. You could theoretically poison the water in a whole city to target one person. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But in 10 years? 20 years? 50 years?
Author here. Did you miss the part where users can load arbitrary programs into the "new custom TPM"? If we can do that, solving all use cases for all users is very easy: just write the appropriate program whenever a new use case pops up. This is not supporting a subset of current users, this is supporting all users. Every last one of them.

Believe me, given the current complexity of the TPM 2.0 interface, writing a custom program for any single use case is not any harder than wading through the current TPM documentation. Given suitable crypto libraries I'm guessing it's quite a bit easier in most cases.

> However, there's no Tillitis chip in my laptop or my desktop

Yeah, that's the thing with new approaches: they're new. Now if someone made an HSM with the same pinout as a discrete TPM, with a DICE-aware approach under the hood, you could plug it on your motherboard today.
One always has the right to remain silent, for any reason. Compelled speech is immoral. (And rights do not come from the government)

The people telling you otherwise are not interested in protecting you or anyone else.
The guy happened to be a photographer, but his being subpoenaed and held in contempt had to do with him refusing to testify against his corrupt DEA brother. He “pled the Fifth” to avoid, in his own words, testifying against his brother, which is not what the 5th Amendment protects. His lawyer claimed he was pleading the 5th to prevent accidentally perjuring himself, but there’s no such thing as accidentally perjuring oneself. Prosecutors have to prove you willfully and knowingly told a falsehood.

This is just someone paying the cost they have to pay to protect their criminal brother.

Seems like due process working well AFAICT.
Everyone? It isn’t psychologically healthy to objectify people as sexual objects, and it puts women in danger.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_comics for a visual equivalent?
Ok but if it was 3 m^2 of panels and if the energy needed was 100 Wh per mile then it starts to look possible. That's Aptera's solar vehicle design. I'm not saying this is currently reality, but in this case 1 order of magnitude doesn't feel so insurmountable that we should dismiss the dream. The article is pretty clear EV applications are a longshot example.
>If I think my neighbor's a dick, I don't need to hold a trial by jury to decide if I'm allowed to disinvite him from my BBQ.

A moral defense of social practices shouldn't rely on a dubious analogy between a major scientific conference and someone's backyard soirée. Human affairs do not separate cleanly into "governance" and "private".

>there's some other bad stuff mentioned, like harassment of the author and some shitty assumptions that her own work was secretly Geoffs, and that's to be condemned, but that's separate from the main thrust of this post.

I don't think it's at all fair to the author to reduce harassment directed at her to a parenthetical in a post discussing her experience in research. It is very important and speaks to the prevailing cultural norms.
Bootstrapping is a fine alternative to VC and more appropriate for many businesses.

But it isn't hostile to want a return on your investments, and investors are not operating as a charity to support the local economy, although that does incidentally happen as a result of investments.
> To get that, sometimes you need -ffmast-math, sometimes said undefined behavior, or code patterns which translate to better code for the processor you target.

> Rust doesn't allow any of that, moreover limits me the way I can write my programs, no thanks.

I'm willing to prove you wrong here. Can you give some concrete examples?

For -ffast-math you can most certainly enable it, but AFAIK for now only in a localized fashion through intrinsics, e.g.:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/intrinsics/fn.fadd_fast.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/intrinsics/fn.fmul_fast.html

So instead of doing this the dumb way and enabling -ffast-math for the whole program (which most certainly won't need it) you can profile where you're spending the majority of your time, and only do this where it'll matter, and without the possibility of randomly breaking the rest of your numeric code.

Personally I find this to be a vastly better approach.
Rights don’t come from your government but the protection of those rights does, so tomato tomato.
Read the links and their citations before you jump to conclusions.
"Among leading academics also, it's not unusual to find those without formal undergraduate degrees in CS. Many come from mathematics backgrounds, including several Turing Award recipients."

Before 1975, computer science degree programs were pretty thin on the ground. Most of the Turing Award winners have degrees in physics, mathematics, or electrical engineering, which were closely related to CS.

Fortunately, today, you can become interested in CS topics and easily find a CS program without going through one of the other disciplines.
TBH I didn't read the article, just the title alone got me going. Haha

That also drives me crazy is when its super obvious artists on instagram (where btw it's quite difficult to find very good inspiration) all have a very dark moody or "weird" style when its obvious it's covering up lack of drawing skills. You cant mess up a nose when you draw a 3 foot long nose and call it your style!
Nitpick: When you refuse to testify against your spouse you are invoking spousal communication privilege, or spousal testimonial privilege, not 5A.
I suppose so, I just find it funny really that my bank has less password requirements than most (if not all) online services I use
I ran into a drawing instructor like that. Now I can laugh about it. I was fortunate that I didn't have to ever, ever choose to take another class with that guy. His focus was his dinner. He was still there. But busy.

For everyone playing at home it's a style of art teaching that goes "you know what to do. get to it." (On the rationale that the brush/pencil mileage is the only thing that will do the teaching. Ugh.)
Oh wow, I could have swore... thanks.

Still though, just 4 pages of js. I guess what I was thinking is typical insane tracking framework and tracking stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
You don't tell them which keys you extracted. If they have to revoke every phone of that model then lots of normal users have them and vendors can't rely on people having phones that support it anymore, so good.

And the attacker doesn't care if the key gets revoked after they've stolen your money.
Tall words to post on a platform that had to disable comments to save on server costs.
Original paywalled source with less spicy title: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/17/evaluating-cto-venture-cap... This sounds like it refers to what we would probably call non-tech startups and is less likely to apply to tech startups.
Rust probably won’t allow me to implement a couple of lockless parallel algorithms I have implemented in my Ph.D., which are working on small matrices (3K by 3K). These algorithms allow any number of CPUs do the required processing without waiting for each other, and with no possibility of stepping on each other, by design.

In the tests, it became evident that the speed of the code is limited by the memory bandwidth of the system, yet for the processors I work with that limit is also very near to practical performance limit of the FPUs, as well. I could have squeezed a bit more performance by reordering the matrices to abuse prefetcher better, but it was good enough (~30x faster than the naive implementation with better accuracy) and I had no time.

Well, the method I verify the said codebase is here [0]. Also, if BSD guys can write secure code with C, everybody can. I think their buffer overflow error count is still <10 after all these years.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31218757
I wish we could charge modern EVs directly from Solar/DC.

This couple [1] are driving right around Africa in an EV powered from solar panels they're carrying with them, and they're using a prototype very expensive and heavy solution to get the direct DC charging to work.

I'm thinking of doing something similar, but I can't figure out how I'll do it without running around 400Ah of 48V Lithium battery. The panels can charge that using a regular old MPPT charge controller (or two). Then I'll run a big inverter (5000W) from that to get to AC power, and plug a regular EV charger into that.

Does anyone have a better solution?

[1] https://www.instagram.com/4x4electric/
I’m in the same boat as you. Its really hard to come up with an idea.

Its like when a writer starts to write something they have a writer block
Some of us worked for SpaceX for a decade.
Zero to Exit
Start Small, Stay Small
The SaaS Playbook

Startups for the Rest of Us podcast
YouTube.com/MicroConf

Indie.vc
Tinyseed.com
No, for my family growing up, nobody was going to try and read your mind, if you want something say something. For her family, they are always trying to anticipate needs. For her, if I'm not anticipating needs and taking care of them -- ie, if she has to ask -- then I'm being rude.
Also, Keys to Drawing, by Dodson is really good, with more of an emphasis leading to painting. The Natural Way to Draw, by Nickolaides, is really good for life drawing.
Not just airlines. All pilots are required to have sufficient fuel for a flight plus extra fuel sufficient to divert to another landing place.

Once in the air, you can't just pull over and park until the weather clears, or the fog lifts, or the sun comes up again. Like you can in a car.

And during the landing itself, you need to have enough fuel to be able to 'go around' for a second or third (or more) attempt on landing in poor conditions. Landing is the most difficult part of aircraft flying, you need all the extra help you can get. Silly to spoil everything by being forced to land because of the lack of just a few litres of fuel.
Excellent work! Added above. Thanks!
Who are you to say that your interpretation of that character is any more valid than anyone else's? One might see a "turned v"[0] or any other manner of meanings.[1] However most English-speaking people are going to immediately realize that it's meant as a stylized "A".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turned_v
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BA%BA
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This is why America was conceived to be a country where the central government can only exercise enumerated powers;

> because the framers knew that every organization eventually becomes run (at one point or all subsequent points) by corrupt, evil people.

That doesn't logically follow, given that the state governments can exercise more than just enumerated powers. And at the moment, quite a few of them are really, really fucking evil, with a few more being highly corrupt.

It makes a lot more sense when you view that separation of power as a compromise made to deal with the problem <one 'evil, corrupt'[1] federal organization in conflict with another 'evil, corrupt'[1] state organization>[2] as opposed to some weird conflict between <'evil, corrupt' federal government versus the people (but the 'evil, corrupt' state governments get a free pass or something..?)>.

The question of 'who gets residual powers' isn't some 250 IQ bit of brilliant statesmanship and foresight, it's a just a decision that quite honestly, has gone either way in plenty of different countries, and none of them are in any quantifiable way worse off for it.

[1] Your words, not mine. I think it's a pretty childish moniker devoid of all nuance, but when in Rome...

[2] Which is actually the lens through which the founders viewed things. [3]

[3] And they have been proven so, so wrong by history. As it turns out, in a high-speed communication society, party unity tends to override these kind of extra-organizational struggles. It's why the party of states rights complaints incessantly about federal tyranny, but only when it doesn't control the presidency.
Meh. “We will never produce artificial beef more efficiently than natural beef” is not a hill most people are willing to die on.

I’m not even fully willing to say “we will not make a room temperature superconductor” or “we will not make cold fusion” as a hill I’m gonna die on. Efficient artificial beef seems downright likely in comparison.
The first time I experienced it, I was dumbfounded when someone asked "How are you?" and then just kept walking past. It took me a while to accept certain questions like this have become greetings and often aren't actually intended as questions.
Name one point or place in history where a person’s reputation didn’t mediate how people treated them.
Apparently you’ve never had to shed file size from a multiple megabyte react bundle shat out by webpacker
> It doesn't matter, anyway, because impressive failed software projects like the awful visual editor are hard to parse out of the "real work" budget.

This needs to be taken with the thought that not all projects necessarily end up good.
Tweet 2 in the thread is "buy my company's product instead".
> It's not clear who would be considered at-fault were these human drivers.

In the case of the emergency vehicle it's clear who is at fault. The emergency vehicle has right of way regardless of who has red or green light.
I thought the premise was that Someone Else already took care of those nasal demons somehow, and we're just worried about putting the register optimization back into place. So the range of effects has already been constrained to something safe. We're just adding in "sometimes it doesn't have those bad effects" to enable some optimizations, and that should have very little downside.

Options a and b are just the different ways Someone Else could have implemented their solution. I'm not suggesting how they did that, I'm taking it as the premise. The problem of "how do we make bad aliasing safe" is much much much harder than "how do we still enable normal optimizations like this after we make bad aliasing safe".
Why is Canada still charging money for this news then?
I specifically said libraries (as opposed to a centralized service).
-healthcare, etc, etc
> He doesn't have the right to plead the 5th to avoid testifying against anyone but himself or his spouse, so his attempts to plead the 5th were just nonsense

That’s not true, you can invoke the Fifth anytime testimony might incriminate you, regardless of who it is directly against. If this is founded (which may itself be contested if it isn’t directly against yourself), you can’t be compelled to testify unless the potential for self-incrimination is neutralized by immunity.

However, in this case there was no real self-incrimination concern.
> Who decides what this social contract is?

I think about this question a lot. So much of our philosophy of government is about some nebulous "contract", as if we agreed to be governed. Sometimes you'll be asked, "Do you believe in the rule of law?" Why would one need to believe in it? Is it a religion? (I think it is one, personally) Government sometimes likes to claim a "monopoly" on violence as well. One generally cannot trade or purchase violence per se, so to act like it's a market, or that a government has any truly effective means of preventing the choice to commit violence, is silly to me. Police are typically late to the scene of a crime, after all, and even with their monopoly are terrible at de-escalation or deterring.

I think the social contract is different in every society, and changes based on the makeup of the groups. It's an amorphous thing that is always referenced, but never spelled out. It irks me that it gets referred to sometimes, but I think if we have them, they should be bidirectional and mutually beneficial.

In general, I think a government who expects something but doesn't offer anything in return is merely tyrannical. If we're going to go on with these fantasies of contracts without signatures and choices without markets, then the least that can be done is for a government to act in good faith that they are protecting or improving the lives of those they gave themselves permission to rule over.

As an American I do not see my "representatives" representing or helping me.
My background is in this kind of consulting work. I'm not demeaning it.
Thanks, it actually makes sense to switch. And Spectacle is even open source, so the amount of pain is minimal.
No, it almost always is.

A library author can spend ridiculous amounts of time refining and optimizing their implementations, far more than any application programmer could afford or justify.

The designers of a generic library can't anticipate the use case, so can't make appropriate tradeoffs.

This is definitely not true. Take C++ for instance, not only is it possible to specialize generic code for particular types, but it's absolutely routine to do so. Furthermore, with all sorts of C++ template features (type traits, SFINAE, CRTP, Concepts, etc) even user-defined types can be specialized, in fact it's possible to provide users with all sorts of dials and knobs to customize the behavior of generic code for their own use case. This functionality is not just a quality-of-life improvement for library users, it has profound implications for performance portability.

For example, compare `std::unordered_map` to any well written C hash table.

std::unordered_map is a strawman. There are a plethora of generic C++ hash tables which would match, if not soundly outperform, their C counterpart. Also, even if we blindly accepted your claim, then how do you explain qsort often being beaten by std::sort or printf and its variants being crushed by libfmt? What about the fact that Eigen is a better linear algebra library than any alternative written in C?
I agree.

As an example: The Xbox Series X, their newest flagship model, is fully backwards compatible with all of the Xbox physical CD games from all Xbox systems. Just pop the CD in and you are good to go.
Agreed looks really cool. Would love to see this become the future of mobility.

The one thing I hate about car culture is that people (logically) tend to buy the car that fits all their use-cases, even if some of those use-cases occur less than 5% of the time.

For example, when I buy a car I want at it to be able to seat at least 5 people, ideally 6-8. And I want it to be able to carry my furniture if I want to buy some, and stuff I need for a camping trip.

But if I look at the distribution of use cases:

People: I seat 1 person 90% of my trips (e.g. daily commutes to work, groceries). I seat a single partner or friend 8% of my trips. And I seat a whole car 2% of my trips.

Stuff: I buy on average 1 big piece of furniture a year, but typically can have it delivered. I buy 3 items 2nd hand online that I like to use a car for picking up. I move homes every few years and my car isn't really big enough.

Camping: I spend 10 days a year hiking in nature, of which 2 travel days.

So all in all I'd be completely fine with an Aptera type of vehicle for all but about 20 out of 365 days, or about 5% of the time. On those days I need something bigger, a car, or even a van/truck.

I honestly can't wait till we get to a place of seamless renting of vehicles you happen to need that day. Economically it should fundamentally be the cheaper option: sharing production & maintenance costs across multiple users, and increasing average time-in-use vs idle-time, should decrease average cost-of-usage for users. Plus it means you can rent a smaller & cheaper vehicle for 95% of the time, and rent a bigger & costlier vehicle 5% of the time.

This should certainly be cheaper than everyone having a fleet of large vehicles 100% of the time, which sit mostly idle 90% of the day, and are mostly empty during the hours you are using it at partial capacity.

Of course renting vehicles isn't seamless. They're not always available, near you, expensive etc. But every 5 years it's getting better. And once self-driving really arrives (supposing it does, for 90% of trips), I think it'll accelerate the move away from the PC or 'Personal Car', to a 'Mobility Pod on Demand' type of model. Perhaps Aptera like vehicles will remain as the minimum personal car for those 95% of trips that you do with 1 or 2 passengers.
Someone ran the gzip binary on Linux just fine: https://twitter.com/stderrdk/status/1692652013711221045
Why would an introvert be more likely to have a heart attack from being alone? People stress me out so much. I imagine less stress would lead to fewer heart attacks.
I know Pete Abbamonte. Smart guy
It's from the same microservices ecosystem, and it was mentioned in the article. That's why I brought it up.
I started as a regular developer and got pushed into DevOps early. From what I've learned and experienced, most devs overestimate their knowledge of how to roll out and manage infrastructure. Having some team to at least serve as a check on their whims can (sometimes) lead to things getting done better the first time around.
We use cows for the same purpose - we eat them instead of shoveling grass straight into our mouths, even though in some strict sense the grass contains more caloric energy.

Or, we eat vegetables even though the energy in them is less than all the solar energy that falls on them.

But of course the calories in grass and sunlight aren't accessible to us. It's not impossible to imagine some parallel situation where human biology - perhaps genetically modified - is useful to transform some source of energy into a more usable form.
The Wikipedia article is very vague on what Zaum even is. But it does compare it to the Dada moveme minus the silliness. Dada was mainly about nonsense poetry and breaking literary conventions. It originated from Switzerland during the first world war, so around the same time as Zaum.
Honestly, my brain turned off the moment I remembered that Spartains were known for their heavy armor and not for dressing up like Chippendales dancers / male strippers.
Neoteny is a product of the safety-oriented culture and single parent-families and low-fertility rate.

If you're having 1 kid vs 10, you'll be way more protective. A 100 years ago, if a horse kicked and killed a 8yo in the village, no one would bat an eye. Today, no chance the kid would be allowed anywhere close or without constant supervision.

From Admiral David Farragut's life: "Farragut was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. Navy on December 17, 1810, at the age of 9. [...]Farragut was 11 years old when, during the War of 1812, he was given the assignment to bring a ship captured by the Essex safely to port."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut
I just realised the other day after many many months that one can scrub through IG Reels with the bar at the bottom.
I think the intended difference in tone would be that between

> "Can you run the SQL update in prod?"

(optionally with "please" appended) and

> "Run the SQL update in prod"

(or something like that)
How do I invest? Only half joking.