skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often seen posts on Hacker News along the lines of "Stripe has banned my account," and many of them seem to be dubious at best, especially when the original poster is unwilling to disclose specifics about their website. I do even remember the last one where it was clearly a way for the website's marketplace to launder funds.

If the case is genuinely unwarranted, it's relatively straightforward to garner public sympathy by providing a detailed account of the situation: the website in question, the products or services offered, what actions Stripe took, and what steps have already been taken to resolve the issue. This comprehensive information allows for a transparent evaluation of whether Stripe's actions were indeed unjustifiable.

If I were Stripe customer support reading posts on HN that would be the lowest bar to even look at it. The OPs post is in this bucket.

In instances where a post on Hacker News does convincingly argue that a Stripe ban is a false positive, I'm confident that the community would rally behind it. However, merely asking for a connection to Stripe support doesn't fit the ethos of Hacker News. Such posts are better served by sinking under the weight of flagged posts, as they don't contribute to the discourse that HN aims to foster. Hacker News isn't a shortcut to Stripe's customer service.
In how long? Don't forget the building of the institutions that predated Yew.
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Yes, that's the general idea of individual dark matter theories. We have an enormously successful cosmological model, lambda CDM, that includes cold, weakly interacting matter. Many theories have been put forth to explain what the additional matter actually is. A few of them are actually not created originally to account for the matter in lambda CDM, such as axioms. But yes, there correct, it's the lambda CDM model making successful predictions, the individually dark matter theories are just along for the ride.

Anyway, you are free to spend as much or as little time as you like considering different speculative theories by whatever metric you see fit. I find it odd that you are a proponent of MOND theories but seem to dislike theories that modify existing frameworks and are continually refined to match observational data.
Babylonians got pretty far from what we can tell. We don't really know how far.
>> For all of human history bullies who were bigger and stronger made the rules.

It takes a unique character of not only being bigger and stronger, but also of being more generous and giving and sharing to become a leader or ruler. Leaders who were only bullies and cruel could maybe beat up or kill any individual man, but could not stand against a group and would be destroyed or ostracized if he was cruel enough to alienate a big enough group around him.
Me too. I think I paid $5 for the honor and a poster. I think I received a student discount.
That's actually really similar to the digital infrastructure I'm building for myself. It's deceptively hard. I also want automatic tagging and two way updating between PDFs and the filesystem on my laptop. You can contact me at shreyssecondbrain at gmail
Astrophysicist Avi Loeb: ‘UFOs should be the subject of mainstream inquiry'
I never knew the term “incubation” existed for it. Good to know!

I’ve found for me it’s most effective when I very specifically lay out the rules of the problem in text, go to sleep and re-read through the rules. Usually I’ll have some new idea and change the rules I made to fit this probably-better idea.

Sometimes it’s pretty interesting to see how the “specs” of the problem change before and after solution.
When AWS is in immediately adjacent buildings, it’s for the same AZ.
School isn't just about studying?
From what I know the improvement is minor but noticable. There is less ghosting, a bit more contrast and it's more reactive to the touch. The newer models can even play videos half decently (i.e. you can somewhat understand what's going on on the screen)
> For certain key subjects (history, math, science, etc), if you failed just one subject you get held back and have to repeat the whole year.

Insane
For those who are interested in getting involved with online math circles (as parents or potential instructors), check out https://theglobalmathcircle.org (Jeremy, the author of this post graduated from our training program)
same in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Firefox-anzeige-faz.jpg
https://archive.md/OD8zS - link for guys in Yurop, because the site blocks us.
Why not have systems be as resilient and robust as possible though? For example, with the implementation of crypto, now you can massively lower trust necessary for finance to function.

That doesn't mean we purposely try to lower trust. But in the rare event it happens, I feel like it's a good safeguard. Strong foundations in many ways can often enable greater trust too I think.
New terms are introduced to have a meaning longer than the replacement.

If people say "you can't make mistakes impossible" but not "you can't poka yoke that", it's not about the terms.

Obviously, you can't make mistakes impossible, but the intent should be clear only if the reader wants it to be clear, and it's not much difference to "poka yoke it".
As a Sublime Text user I really wish more of these tools worked outside of VS Code.
I get it, you want to point out how hard, or even borderline impossible it is to delineate who is a fascist and who isn't, because you think people use the word to loosely.

Maybe they know the word better than you, though? Maybe they're not as oblivious to the dog whistles.

Well, either way, I don't really care where "the line" is here, because Richard Spencer is so clearly over it, it's a ridiculous argument to make. Because actually, often it is quite clear.
This is an incredible write up. As soon as I saw the steps about patching mitm, I knew this would be special... wow!
If we humans are intelligent, then the analogy could be this: our brains have a finite amount of resources, RAM, the LLM context if you will. So we write things down, reference it if we need to. Vector databases can sort of do this.
Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times
https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...

New York Times runs Firefox ad
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/new-york-tim...

> The first page of the two-page ad--which is twice as large as originally planned--features the Firefox symbol superimposed over the names of the 10,000 donors

My name is somewhere in that mix. I lost the physical newspaper copy at some point in the last 19 years. but it's cool the PDF is still around.

Surprised the getfirefox.com domain from the ad still works!

In the Battle of the Browsers '04, Firefox Aims at Microsoft
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/15/technology/in-the-battle-...

> the early enthusiasm for the preview version of Firefox is a big reason that Internet Explorer's market share has slipped more than 2.5 percentage points in the last five months, to 92.9 percent at the end of October, its first decline since 1999
It has always been possible to write it in C++ since C++11, since acquire fences are cheap enough, but not in Java until loadFence() was introduced in JDK 8.

The paper you cite proposed compiling an atomic add-zero to MFENCE+MOV, which is 5 times slower than the rest of the seqlock access, just because fences were not in Java at the time and are "a very difficult-to-use and
C++11/C11-specific construct". That part of the paper has never made sense to me, and certainly does not matter now that Java has fences. Just wrap the seqlock into a primitive that hides the fence and call it a day.
Good 'ol Bugzilla. The ugliest, clunkiest, most useful bug tracker ever made
I applaud the author for the depth and detail - this is fantastic. Well done!
Probably something with a core 2 duo. Though I’m sure a 230mhz cpu will “run” Linux with desktop just fine.
Someone should look at a very different take on this space based on cause and effect based modeling.

DX based on cause and effect is a.lot more intuitive for users and reasoning agents
Flutter has had its performance issues in the past (like scrolling on iOS, and shader performance issues), and I recall someone saying that Flutter apps lag on an Android phone that is still able to play the latest games decently.

However, things are looking up with the change from Skia to Impeller and I'm hopeful about the future.
> reduce their own wealth extraction ... even if it's in the broader interest of the nation.

aka, they are being asked to make a sacrifice for the benefit of someone else. Of course they're not going to agree. No reasonable person will.

I don't see this as being wrong - it's in fact a feature of freedom and a high-rights country.
Tobii have been doing eye-tracking since 2001 and have a product for that. https://www.tobiidynavox.com/
I both love and hate the long lead-times that EU regulations tend to have. It's occasionally a surprise to me when it comes into effect after I forgot about the law.
Let’s get that taken care of, and not intentionally make things worse.
By any chance, are you behind ZScaler, or some similar "smart" proxy?
Open source CAM algorithm implementations
Looking at safety and operational outcomes, those differences in regulations don't seem to have a negative effect. So they're not sacrificing something for this efficiency it seems.

So why doesn't europe or britain adopt these different regulations and make their own system more efficient?
This write up is a great answer to the often-asked question “how do I learn to be a hacker?”. It does a great job of demonstrating the thought process and painstaking work that goes into any exploit.
The real tragedy:

> In fact, the YouTube app is zippier because fewer connections are made to ad URLs in the first place.

I swear on LG TV that webOS runs at a smooth 60 FPS when it's not connected to Wi-Fi and slows down as soon as it phones home for whatever telemetry and ads LG intend to serve me...
We Don't Need a New Twitter
Can’t be worse than Github Copilot so i’m giving it a try.
Yes, that's a great idea! Just hold on while I pay my attorney on retainer $10,000 to draw up and review that contract for enforceability and loopholes. I'm also depositing $50,000 in my "rainy day" savings account to pay another team of attorneys to litigate the contract each time it gets contested or broken. Thanks for the advice!

/s
My first impulse with this new wave of tooling is to poke at the privacy policy, especially given there's only the free trial version available...

https://about.sourcegraph.com/terms/cody-notice seems generally reasonable though, so that's appreciated. Wouldn't mind a more transparency/confirmation on who the partner LLM entities are (Anthropic?), and some verbiage on the downstream impacts of their terms.

Should be interesting to give it a test-run with some embedded projects.
Could always switch!
There are many cases of people dying from blocked emergency vehicles, with these sort of obstructions.

I’m certain if you were in an ambulance, dying if a heart attack, you would look out your window to see the non violent protest, give a thumbs up, easily make peace with leaving you family behind, and breathe your last breath with a smile, knowing you were part of “democracy”.
I understand what you are saying.

I think compasses have more utility than opinions drawn from different terrain.
The Automonk
And one protection against that is to map the key into another space using a random (or close enough) key for that transformation, perform the calculation homomorphically, then transform back.

This is often too expensive, but it does come up as a possibility in some zero knowledge protocols.
Presumably `Anthropic and OpenAI` according to various documentation.
Google does not want to pay Mozilla less. They don't care about Firefox's market share, it's virtually 0. But in the moment Firefox disappears, Chrome will be undeniably a monopoly. As long as Firefox exists, Google can easily deflect such monopoly claims - they even "encourage and foster" competition on the browser market.
Sounds like we're just trading a known evil for an unknown one
According to the FAQ,

"Cody has one third-party dependency, which is Anthropic's Claude API. In the config, this can be replaced with OpenAI API."

https://docs.sourcegraph.com/cody/faq
If a kid is a bully then the parents organizing the group can kick that kid out (as a last resort). Additionally if a child is being bullied they can tell their parents and the parents can take action directly, this can happen publicly but there's a lot of layers of administration making it non-trivial.

In a way the group homeschool can be thought of like a small private school, it's just simpler to handle personal problems in a small group.
Well if nothing else, the AI could help you write more unit tests.
Even a 0.5% speedup is worth hundreds of engineer-years if it's in the common case for a popular language.
Practical parsing with Flex and Bison (2021)
Only around 25% of gunshots are fatal to humans
Yeah, I've seen those stuck in loops where they don't see an obvious mistake.
In some more mature fields of engineering most of the practitioners are maintainers.

Think of chemical engineering, each of the existing chemical plants are run by a team of engineers. Their job role is akin to “maintenance”, but they are still viewed as essential. They probably bring in more profit than those few who build/design new plants.

With the trend now towards extremely expensive compute systems, like large language models, will we also see the trend in ML where most of the engineers are working on “maintenance” rather than designing/building new from scratch?
You could effectively replace animals or bald eagles with humans in your sentiment without any reduction of truth. Does the implied feeling remain?

Empathy is required when dealing with animals that are learning, in various ways, how to survive in the world that we have reshaped for them. It shouldn't be a surprise that some of the ways are not purely symbiotic.
that's not really a "flaw" in protobuf; the protobuf is Working As Intended by decoding the field in a different place when you modify it.

i am not sure how one could possibly characterize that as a "flaw," since protobuf is a field-numeric length-prefixed protocol in the first place. it makes a (reasonable) assumption that bytes won't be messed with over the wire, leaving integrity to the reader, so even if this _was_ a flaw, it would be a flaw in the YouTube app for iOS, not in protobuf...

since it isn't a flaw, it isn't an "exploit," unless you are referring to the fact that youtube's protobuf exchange on their iOS app isn't checking hashes for returned payloads.

i suspect after this post they will
I don’t normally comment on this sort of thing (I don’t have kids, am not precisely “normal” (whatever that is) and dislike speaking publicly on sensitive topics, anonymous or otherwise), but this touched a nerve for some reason, so I’ll throw a couple of things out there for you to consider:

1. Parents are not the only ones who push their own desires and beliefs. Thought experiment: how many members of the group that decides the curriculum vote Republican or Independent? Scuttlebutt (unverified by me) is that most folks in US schools and on US school boards are Democrats. Regardless of one’s opinion on political matters, that (if true) would suggest a certain uniformity of thought, and the likely presence of a conscious or unconscious agenda that would then get passed on, deliberately or otherwise, in the resulting curriculum.

And that’s before we get to the general tendency of many groups (regardless of type) to naturally attract like-minded souls in the first place. I only used political affiliation as a visible indicator of the phenomenon (assuming that the rumors are true about Democrats and schools, which as I said, I don’t actually know ;), not to promote one or another party, and not to imply that it’s anywhere close to the only factor.

2. IMHO, schools, public or private, do not fix social issues, and in a certain subset of children, may actually create them. I say that as someone who was never homeschooled, and yet has significant issues socializing (though I’ve learned to hide that fact in public over the years, and have a good career). Your thoughts on friendship resonate with me to a degree, and school did not help it one iota. Probably made it worse, actually.

I won’t go into my personal opinion on “the right answer,” because it’s irrelevant in the end. I have no kids, and thus no skin in the game, nor do I actually know “the right answer.”

Just some food for thought.
I don’t think this is true largely because an experienced text editor user will generally have access to most of the same capabilities in a different form. Where there are differences, the win sometimes goes to the ide, and sometimes to the text editor, but generally people adapt their tools to themselves, and themselves to the tools, and in the end it shakes out to be about the same level of productivity.

I’m not convinced that people can easily switch though. I’ve met people who never really get the hang of working efficiently in the “Unix is the IDE” style of using text editors, and I can say from personal experience that I’m just never going to be particularly good at IDEs. I suspect that each tool simply appeals to a different personality type- and that’s okay as long as our projects don’t lock us in to something and we let people have the flexibility to use the tool that works for them.
I feel like either

1) the author thinks there are obvious ways to decrease the entropy of the coin flipping example and expects these to be so obvious to the reader that they don't need enumerating to exemplify the approach he has in mind

or

2) the author is pointing out that in the coin flipping example the entropy is already so close to zero as to render efforts to reduce it absurd, and believes that this is so self evident as to need no explanation

In other words, the entropy of this article is ~ln(2). I suspect some energy could be usefully devoted to reducing it.
> So basically they're just idiots.

Because they’re asking for more access to public transit, reconsidering the US car culture, and improving quality of life in the city in general? Less cars means less pollution, less noise, less traffic, better health, more livable districts… How is that idiotic?
In a previous role I was tasked with increasing the lighthouse/pagespeed score across some web properties. After some iterations and very little improvements we would be asked what else we could do. Did we need to speed up the backend? Could we lower latency, etc…

The solution: I set up a query param that would disable google tag manager. All of the crazy tracking and telemetry stuff we didn't control was the biggest issue.
I'd say Sass support is less important now that we have stable support for css variables, and recently stable support for css nesting.

https://caniuse.com/css-variables

https://caniuse.com/css-nesting
I guess self-medicating with marijuana actually works, to a certain extent!
Also, look at you, Jesus, being the arbiter of who's got emotional IQ - the people who follow your exercise routines? People you like? I'm not speaking to you, but to anyone reading this: Anyone like the person I'm responding to, who jumps to assign judgment of some failing on those that don't go along with their program (or implies someone who doesn't go along with the group must be flawed or weak) is a narcissist and a sick control artist, and a bully who's just learned to use fancy language to make you feel bad about your absolutely 100% natural inclination to reject and call HORSESHIT on the metaphysical group crap they're selling. You, pal, just revealed yourself as one such peddler.
que Confucius change quotes
Very nice writeup. I was kinda hoping to find a way to MITM devices that don't allow the installation of custom CA's. I have some IoT devices that do not expose a local API and only exposes the data through the cloud, and would like to capture the device to cloud traffic...

I guess the only way to do that would be to dump the flash memory, replace the CA and reupload the dump to the device?
3 years ago I tried to run any modern distro on Pentium 3 (without compiling anything by myself). It appeared I wasn't able due to "invalid opcode" error inside systemd. I switched to Devuan (Debian fork without systemd) and it boot and was as usable as first raspberry pie.
Good to know that there are books addressing this as well. I have the impression that the topic of complexity is not discussed enough, neither in the academia nor in the private sector.
IANAAnthropologist, but I'd still wager that:

1. It's still most-associated with death, dying, and danger versus almost any other symbol one could pick.

2. Reverence or trust comes from it being their own ancestors rather than unidentified skulls of strangers involving unfamiliar ceremonies or no ceremonies at all. Taboo criminals leave skeletons too.
They’re not talking (I don’t think) about adding a flat 1, they’re talking about something like this pseudocode I believe:

timer = SomeScaffoldThatTimesAFunctionAccurately()
result = timer(Do Crypto Thing())
wait(1-timer.elapsed)
return result

So the idea in this scenario is that every operation would take 1 second.

The first obvious drawback of this from a practical point of view is speed. You need crypto operations to be extremely fast so although you could reduce the constant time somewhat it would still be very difficult to calibrate the timing in such a way as not to totally nerf performance. The delay you’re introducing here is required (as I understand it) on every branch and possibly other places so there are thousands of these required in order to do each user-visible crypto operation.

Secondly if you think about the way the attack works, the jitter the attackers are observing to obtain the leaked information is very small so you would need an extremely accurate timer in order to be precise enough not to still leak the jitter.

As I understand it the actual defense against timing attacks is not that different from the above, just that the timing is precomputed and then the delays introduced to be exactly correct. My understanding is it’s generally something like

If some_conditional:
Do some operation that takes 2 cycles
Delay for precisely 1 cycle
Else:
Do some operation that takes 3 cycles

…
Continue

For example, say you are testing a password. You could do

Def brokenPasswordChecker(password, attempt)
For i in len(attempt):
If attempt[i] != password[i]
Return false
Return(true)

But if you do it that way, then attackers could observe that you return immediately after an incorrect character and use that timing to gradually deduce the prefix of the password until they have the whole thing. So instead you do:

Def maybeLessBadPasswordChecker(password, attempt)
Bool result = True
For i in len(attempt):
If attempt[i] != password[i]
result = False
Return(result)

…which does the exact same number of comparisons every time so this same attack doesn’t work.

This is why you need help from the language/compiler or to break into inline assembly - lots of compiler optimisations will “helpfully” elide the delays you are introducing specifically to make the branches take the same time so they are once again vulnerable to timing attacks. So you need something so you can force that not to happen.
But that's not in California so it doesn't matter.

(/s)
Didn't mean to come across judgy :(

Apparently the ancient Greeks didn't have much, if anything, in the way of symbolic algebra or calculus - what we mostly think of as "maths".

Instead their normal tool for mathematical logic was geometry. An educated Greek would have used geometry much like we use algebra.

For most of us, given a non-maths problem (eg physics, chemistry, almost anything in real life...) the first thing we do is express it as an algebra problem, and solve that. The ancient Greeks used geometry in a similar way.