skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the typical e.g. janitor or cafeteria worker at SpaceX has access to ITAR, as SpaceX seem to have alleged before they got caught, then their ITAR security is pure theater.

Why? And why the smarmy elitist discrimination and condescension towards janitors or cafeteria workers? Why would they not be an important part of an organization, professionals capable of getting background checks, appropriate training, and being trusted to keep their mouths shut too?
I always thought the word "contract" in crypto was more of a metaphor than an actual contract. Kind of like how filesystems have "folders" even though the "folders" in a filesystem aren't anything like real folders at all.
Yes, but my old phone was also an unlocked iPhone, so it was harder to play games around usage or subsidies.
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> The company also urged users encountering these BSOD errors to file a report using the Feedback Hub.

> To do that, you will have to go through the following steps:

> Launch Feedback Hub by opening the Start menu and typing "Feedback hub", or pressing the Windows key + F

Something seems off here.
Wouldn't be surprised, Elon's tweets have angered a lot of rich and powerful people. Surprised they've not found something to jail him for yet.
Pake: Turn any webpage into a desktop app with Rust
Immigrants go to cities because there are jobs, not because they are blue.

As an aside, when you think of selecting a vacation destination in a foreign country, do you prefer to go to rural areas where you risk negative attention based on where you were born?

Would you do the same when selecting somewhere to live?
That's a great idea. It would be easier to know if anyone done what you want, get a better overview of the current knowledge.
Also immediately thought about that episode. I think it is a good sign that the app fatigue is becoming a mainstream topic.
Gallup's article about their poll is at https://www.gallup.com/workplace/509759/remote-workers-organ..., and the WSJ article is archived at https://archive.is/8vyZv

'People who work from home are feeling more disconnected from the larger mission of their employers.

In a new Gallup survey, the share of remote workers who said they felt a connection to the purpose of their organizations fell to 28% from 32% in 2022—the lowest level since before the pandemic. The findings are from a survey this spring and summer of nearly 9,000 U.S. workers whose jobs can be done remotely.

By contrast, a third of full-time office workers reported a similar sense of connection, nearly the same as last year. Hybrid workers clocked in highest, with 35% saying their companies’ mission made them feel their jobs were important.

The findings have broader implications for businesses worried about remote work’s effects on employee loyalty and team productivity. For now, many workers say remote work affords them the ability to focus on their essential duties and avoid some of the extracurriculars of office life. This leaves it to companies to try to foster that sense of connection.

In short, more remote workers appear to be approaching their jobs with “a gig-worker mentality,” fulfilling the basic responsibilities of the role rather than anticipating the broader needs of their team or company, said Jim Harter, chief workplace scientist at Gallup, which has tracked worker engagement since 2000. Most professional roles, he points out, tacitly include expectations that go beyond the actual work, such as mentoring others or spurring innovation.

“That’s much more likely to happen if they feel they’re part of something significant,” he said.'
Are you asking me to google for you?

Throwing out lots of questions doesn't assert anything at all.
> It's not compromised if you set a PIN/passkey, aka use it correctly.

The issue is that you have to go out of your way to set it up this way. Last I checked, you couldn't just add a PIN. You had to enable it through GPO.
Search for founders on LinkedIn.

I have seen a bunch of sites similar to yours. I think you need to better differentiate yourself.
Yeah, sure that works in the specific machine I happen to be using but this doesn't come up enough for me to remember to do it everywhere.
Yes 90%+ including 94% of the homeless population have a cell phone. You are making the choice to be in the minority of people who choose to inconvenience yourself. The Amish have the courage of their convictions and never felt the need to ask the government to force their beliefs on other people.
Wtf.. Come on its just ms getting kickbacks for deprecating hardware.
Yes and no. Mostly no IMO

The memory encryption features are a solution to very specific problems.

If the CPU is able to access the memory, then any exploit that gains the execution context of the legitimate user can also access the memory.
If it doesn't, the normal memory access control should be enough.

I'm iffy on how well they protect against the various side channels.
Mostly because I haven't looked far enough into it.

IME it protects against cold boot attacks, a theoretic attack of a logic analyzer on the memory bus, and potentially to some degree unbounded reads. But the latter only with very limited gadgets.
Edible insects market growing investment based on climate and security benefits
Reality has a left-leaning bias.
I did find solutions for my problems on Mac, but the solutions were hard to find, poorly documented, subscription based or a combination.

Meanwhile on Linux it is generally fairly easy to find what you need in the documentation or in the forums. It can be a bit more involved when using some very niche tools but it's not worse than the average Mac app I had to deal with.

I am not a very talented engineer. I'm a normal engineer who enjoys his craft, tries to do quality work and tries to be efficient. My opinion is based on my experience using Mac and Linux alternatively for the last 5 years doing development professionally.

I have seen very talented devs using Mac, but also others that were just as talented and complained when they were forced to switch from Linux to Mac. Hell, the smartest most talented developer I have ever met (by a mile) developed drivers on Windows and he told me that for the type of development he did Windows was all right.

I have to doubt that there is any correlation between how talented a developer is and the quality of a OS because most developers I know use what the company allows them, and it's somewhat rare to be allowed to choose.
don't discount the lucky 10k so easily

https://xkcd.com/1053/
Which part, that they run blue or that they are blue partially because of immigration?

Stats that they run blue:

Voters... https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-stu...

Officials... https://ballotpedia.org/Party_affiliation_of_the_mayors_of_t...

Some analyses about the why:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/brief-hist...

https://www.niskanencenter.org/explaining-the-urban-rural-po...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/05/why-are-u...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-19/what-is-i...

It goes back to early generation of European working-class industrial immigrants, then continued with techy Asians and Indians (who were often Democratic not for economics but because the Republicans got more and more nationalist). These days the Hispanic vote (which is a lot of the "immigrants" group) still leans blue, even though they don't necessarily swing culturally as left as the white young Democrats.
> People have already made ships to run on hydrogen.

Only at a significant loss. You can go out and buy a hydrogen powered car today and pay more for the car, have worse range, pay more for energy to move that car, and have to deal with limited infrastructure. People are operating battery powered boats at a profit, that’s a monumental difference.

Limiting yourself to “free” for electricity means spending more money on equipment. Actually making industrial scale hydrogen requires expensive electrolysis equipment and having that sit idle 95% of the time is expensive independent of electricity costs. Similarly aiming for seasonal storage requires investment in storage so it’s there when you want it. This isn’t free and no you can’t just reuse natural gas systems, even just detecting small leaks requires different equipment, the demand is higher, hydrogen embrittlement is a serious problem, and the energy density is different.

You can consistently get ~3c/kWh for close to 8 hours a day via building your solar farm, but that means your electrolysis equipment is still idle 66% of the time and your still paying 3c/0.18 = 16.7c/kWh just for electricity ignoring other costs to get 1kWh of useful energy at the end.

This is why Hydrogen is currently expensive, until something fundamentally changes with the underlying economics due to new technology it’s going to stay expensive.

Nuclear has both economic and risk issue. Legislation impacted individual countries but a handful are built each year. It’s not even just disasters, several nuclear projects have gone wildly over budget scaring both small countries and free market investors. The risks are high even ignoring accidents and the rewards don’t match those risks.

Westinghouse top executives were convicted of fraud for over covering up project failures in two canceled South Carolina nuclear reactors: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-westinghouse-exe...

That’s part of a long list of failed US reactors and an even longer list globally some of which where even worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cancelled_nuclear_pow...

That said, I acknowledge politics has played a role it’s simply not the most important one. Japan was happy with nuclear until an unexpected 500 dollar bill, other countries look at that and get concerned.
I only use prepaid phones because it allows me control of billing and I can avoid hidden fees. I'd imagine the byzantine billing nightmare is a money making feature.
> "Rust previously limited the maximum number of statements run as part of any given constant evaluation. However, especially creative Rust code could hit these limits and produce a compiler error" [my emphasis]

Steve Klabnik one said he hoped Rust would be more like Ruby, and have some more weird projects. Maybe with this improvement, Rust can be more weird.
Comcast was caught lying about their coverage:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/comcast-gave-fal...

I wonder if there are similar FCC requirements for cellular companies?
> 5g is deployed via K8s

Why is this a requirement of 5G and where can I learn more?
Yup, when I was working desktop support a few years ago my manager told me to just format the drive and send it back to dell at the end of the lease, they’d secure erase it anyway and the data was safe, I never trusted that and used dd to overwrite every bit of the ssd twice with junk data, I’m sure it decreased the longevity of the drive but wasn’t my problem and it felt cool to be the only desktop support guy who knew any Linux.
Actually that would result in people having to learn multiple languages to understand the scientific literature and make the baseline more "elite", like how mathematical research used to be in french, german and russian two centuries or so ago. Its better theres only at most one extra language to learn (English) than mutiple.
This is true.

People think newborn babies know nothing. But even from birth, there are certain instincts and skills they already know, such as the ability to recognize faces.

Heck, our ability to think, analyze, etc. has come from hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Even dogs, which we consider to be intelligent, often fail at simple tasks like trying to bring a stick through a doorway when the stick is wider than the doorway. Sure, sometimes they figure it out, but not all can.
Lightweight local web viewer for MRI/CT DICOM images
Humans drive both with their eyes and ears, although Tesla marketing like to state otherwise.

We are perfectly capable combining both inputs and act accordingly. An AI system can easily learn how to combining visual and LIDAR input to make the right decision given the circumstances.In the end it is just a decision tree.
I've worked in or with companies doing mixed ITAR and non-ITAR work for my whole career, they've all managed it pretty well. If you have competent HR they mark people as ITAR-eligible or not. If you have competent facilities people, they install prox card readers or cipher locks for physical access control (if it's a shared space, if you can have separate buildings may not be necessary). And if you have competent IT folks, they use standard access control mechanisms to segregate ITAR data and ensure only ITAR folks (really, this is easy because it should just be project folks) can access it.

Is it a pain? Yes. But honestly other than HR tracking ITAR/non-ITAR people it's things everyone does already. You have physical access controls to keep people out of areas that don't need to be in them, and you use digital access controls for the same in your data systems today. So one extra group has to track one extra flag (ITAR/non-ITAR) and otherwise everything works as it already works.
Janitors in particular -- because they're responsible for handling waste disposal. Including paper waste. Paper that frequently has sensitive information on it.
> If you're comparing two physically separated frames of reference it makes sense to talk about "this many seconds here corresponds to that many seconds over there"

Even that comparison doesn't make much sense because, as raattgift already pointed out in the comments[0],

> Reciprocity in Minkowski space is relevant.

So from observer A's point of view the clock in observer B's frame of reference will tick more slowly, but from observer B it will appear the other way around.

This is sounds contradictory but the reason for this is that observers in different frames won't even agree on what a valid time measurement is. This is called relativity of simultaneity[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37250897

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity
Anything is possible, obviously, but in the current way we understand life, it's not likely.

I am unaware of any understanding of evolution or early life on Earth which supports an idea of some giant contiguous life-form.

That said, Mars is not Earth, and our definition of life is ever evolving (is a virus alive? is fire alive?) so, again anything is possible, but not everything is likely.
One thing to look for are programs that use advanced techniques as opposed to programs that are just simply clear or well-commented. For instance, instead of learning a new programming language, you should learn how programming languages are made. Most of the secrets that computer science majors know that you probably don't were learned in compilers class.

(Unfortunately many people are chasing the Holy Grail of "functional programming" and never finding it because "functional programming" is a pale shadow of what's possible when you understand how compilers work: this is how Common LISP and scheme are so much more profound then, say, Haskell)

It's a little out of date but I was lately thinking up about the Scott Adams adventure games of the early 1980s that were written with a specialized interpreter which could be implemented in BASIC but was also implemented in assembly language for better performance. See

https://ahopeful.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/digging-up-adventu...

If you tried to implement a game like that directly in a language like BASIC you would be driven nuts because that kind of game is fundamentally "object oriented" in that there are a number of things like rooms and items that are all mostly the same except they are different in some ways and trying to code that with IF, THEN and ELSE is bad enough even before GOTO gets added to the mix. The thing is that GOTO becomes quite benign and even useful when it is used to implement interpreters.

So back in the day you would study systems like that to stretch your skills, today I would look at compilers and related technology, like the Jena rules engine.
> that release finally made UTF-8 the standard text encoding

This is a bit of a reach unfortunately. UTF-16 (most often broken WTF-16) is still the standard text encoding on NT. The manifest change only makes A-suffixed functions always do a "UTF-8 to UTF-16" conversion, instead of the unhelpful "local codepage to UTF-16" conversion. Sure, that's better, but:

- Microsoft has expressed no interest in switching the actual underlying encoding to UTF-8, they will likely never do so in NT.

- A-suffixed functions only exist for some Win32 API. Newer Win32 functions are defined only taking Unicode strings. All COM, WinRT and native (Rtl/Nt) APIs use Unicode strings as well. The UTF-8 API surface is actually quite small - one might have to step out of the UTF-8 comfort zone in practice.

- Performance is being left on the table. Transcoding still has to be done, it would be more beneficial to at least keep it local for optimization purposes. The most trivial, yet still important use case: constant string conversions can't be optimized across DLL boundaries.

- Unlike, say, DPI awareness mode, there is no official API to change this behavior at runtime. It has to be done through the manifest, a compiler implicitly embedding such a manifest into every executable it produces is not ideal.

TL;DR: It's an improvement, but just barely, so bumping the minimum version just for this "feature" is not worth it IMO. Just bite the bullet and convert to UTF-16 if you have to, it's conceptually simpler and likely faster, too.
I wonder if OP is just soliciting inputs for LLM training.
We got symbolic AI sneaked into the connectionist model by making a graph of thoughts. A graph can explicitly implement any algorithm or data structure.

They could make it more efficient by implementing a kind of "hard attention". Each token should have access to a sparse subset of the whole input, so it would be like a node in a graph only having access to a few neighbours. Could solve the very large context issue. This can also be parallelised, running all thought nodes in parallel, of course each with a sparse view of the whole input making it much faster.

For example when reading a long book, the model would spawn nodes for each person, location or event of interest, and they would track the source text as the action develops. A mental map of the book. That would surely help a model deal with many moving pieces of information.

Or when solving a problem, the model could spawn a node to work on a subproblem, parametrised by the parent node with the right inputs. Then the node would report back with the answer and the parent continues. This would work with recursive calls.

The new cpu is the LLM and the clock tick is 1 token.
Because the whole point of client, side rendering is to not have session management on the server side so that it uses less bandwidth on the server provider.. that’s why you have JWTs and stuff like that.
Architecturally when you have a session management system, where state is able to be maintained per user usually up by the same thread on the same physical server. that’s going to be more secure than a horizontally structured infinitely scalable system. But there’s always trade-off between security and usability/performance
Keyword here is "forcefully", when you use an exchange, you willingly do so.
T-Mobile owns Mint Mobile.
That's true but when talking about space being flat vs having a curve, 2D and 3D visualizations are just to help explain the concept.

All current evidence points to the shape of space and the universe being relatively "boring" in that it behaves roughly like people would expect unless in the presence of a strong gravitational field.
You were not allowed to go to restaurants, hotels, cinemas or theatres. Or work in sensitive areas like hospitals (in my country this was even only true for new hires, not for people who were already on the job).
This is what "top down" coding looks like. In "top down" coding you're told what to do by the boss, given too short a timeline, and forced to push something out the door.

Congratulations on figuring out how to create a massive churn rate among your actual good engineers.
It's a little weird to me that you're telling me the thing I just experienced "doesn't match reality". You can say it doesn't match the typical experience or something, but surely what I just experienced is reality.

What me being in a relatively uncongested area means is that I'm exactly the kind of customer Starlink was meant for...
Given that XP is no_std, it seems plausible that they want to use some newer APIs in the standard library that didn't exist in older versions of Windows?
There's a Microsoft note about this issue: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/sta...

The list of affected operating systems supposedly includes Windows 10, version 22H2.
I have Verizon for my personal phone, but opted for T-Mobile for my home (5G) internet and a new iPad. I made this decision after using T-Mobile for my company-paid phone with zero issues.

Aside from a janky customer app on iPhone, I'm quite pleased. That said, I've never been to a physical location.
in larry niven's couple of sf stories set on mars, water kills the sentient, but aggressive, martians instantly.
There are many technologies which are inspired by animals found in nature as they have adapted several features after many generations, all such knowledge will be lost.
I think it depends a lot on the other details, especially how expensive the extra GC will be vs the wasted space. Hard to give a rule that will work in all contexts.

In our case, it wasn't a single hard-coded number - the input data gave us the upper bound, and the difference between the upper bound and the median case was so small that going with the upper bound worked out best.
> >...Thus, projections of future Antarctic sea-ice extent and the associated climate implications are highly uncertain.

> Point is - we don't know.

People keep interpreting "we don't know" in the same way a mutual fund information sheet says "past performance does not guarantee future performance," but in reality, "we don't know" is akin to saying "You have a stage three liver cancer and it will likely spread to some other organs, but we don't know yet which organ and when."

Some people keep saying "But the doctors can't even tell me what will happen next month! I'm probably fine."
Why do corporations always throw tantrums when called out for bad business practices that hurt their customers? I highly recommend folks read The Dorito Effect, a book about processed food manufacturing. It changed my perspective and habits on junk food.
capital routes around capital controls

news at 11
This is a little beyond the development of text-based games, but I just want to give a shout out to Ray Dunakin's wonderful point-and-click indie creations that can be found here: http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Games.html

I spent countless hours as a kid on "Twisted!", "A Mess O' Trouble", and "Another Fine Mess".

Some of these titles are being re-released on OSX which is exciting for me (and thank you HN crowd for causing me to investigate what happened to Dunakin's work!).
They are the worst qualities of both in this regard.

It is not paint in that you do not have absolute control over its application, and it is not a painter in that it is not sophisticated and independently creative.

It is paint in that it is simple, and it is a painter in that content can be generated on the fly and taking any content from it (imo) classifies as a trade.
It's exclusive not inclusive, most of the people in Wales don't speak Welsh.