skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shit, I once got a colonoscopy in the UK's NHS without sedatives nor opioids.

It freaking hurt a lot which apparently shouldn't have. That gave doctors the clue that I had IBS and a very sensitive colon apparently (I didn't have anything wrong from what they saw).

All future colonoscopies I've had, I demand to get knocked out. Better for everyone haha
It is striking that such a backdoor in seemingly safe OSs like Linux and FreeBSD, is nearly completely unknown one year after the revelation. No social media outcries, no mention on the TV, no debates, no comments from people like Torvalds and Stallman (though I by no means imply they were direcly involved).

The reason why is remains a "secret" is that the whole matter is deeply, deeply political.

We are amidst a new Cold War -this time between the US and China. The sole purpose of this backdoor could be exactly to spy on the Chinese government or corporations.

Yet we all know that the NSA would not limit the use of the backdoor to that.
I know what I’m going to bring up in my CMMC compliance call tomorrow.

The university I am an information security engineer for has been working for years to become CMMC level 2 compliant.

Penn State using public cloud (assuming Azure) and the commercial Office 365 would place them about 18-24 months away from being able to pivot to GCC or GCC-High. That is assuming they have the staff and capabilities to do this.

That doesn’t include all of the policies and other paper processes that need to happen.

Hopefully there are consequences for this level of deception.
with green threads, every result is "delayed" and available exactly when you want it (i.e. as indicated by naive reading of the control flow in code)

> eager execution, interleave multiple concurrent tasks

green threads give you that for free

> deal with blocking

blocking is an implementation detail; both async/await and green threads can be implemented on top of either traditional blocking IO, or callback/non-blocking IO

I'd be even happier to discuss concrete code blocks / examples, that's where the superiority of green threads truly shines
AAPL can, but doesnt. A lot of hand waving over hardware, is misdirection. AAPL can curate limited support for consumer hardware same as their custom hardware, but they dont want to negotiate AND stop relying on ridiculous markup. The issue is momentum. AAPL has demonstrated this is the way and gaming...with new random features becoming popular based on consumer hardware breakthroughs, doesnt feed into their existing, stable, pipelines of profit.

TL;DR Gaming is partially fed by innovation in hardware and AAPL hates that.
I think it also has a lot to do with it being much easier to actually play the sport/game.

When the pros are not playing you can just play yourself. With football/etc playing the game in a proper competitive setup is quite the hassle. In Dota or CS you just get 4 of your friends and press a button and in 2 to 3 minutes you are playing.
The title is wrong. The 2b has nothing to do with the fraud. 2 completely different organizations with sperate IT systems.
I did title it that way at first but ended up changing it at the last second, ended up shunting it off course.
But if you have too iterate too much, you get fired. If you don't have to iterate at all, we call you a 10X engineer and promote you.
No need to even resort to personality attacks on Putin; the actions of Russian forces in Ukraine are clearly shaping up to be more of a state level attempt to undermine future potential for Ukraine than they are an attempt to "improve" Russia by taking territory, or "helping" Russian speakers in Ukrainian territory.

Putin/Lavrov cannot afford for Ukraine to be a long term success, another East Slavic, ex-Soviet rival to their own regime and not under their domination.

Mass minefields, constant artillery bombardment, destruction of civilian targets/infrastructure, confiscation of assets, children. The goal is not to win, but to ruin Ukraine and drain its resources and future prospects. "If we can't dominate it and control it and profit from it, then nobody else will.". The speaker of the Duma stated this explicitly last week:

https://nitter.net/Gerashchenko_en/status/170229435004080989...

They don't need to "win", they just need Ukraine to "lose."

In the context of this kind of strategic/ideological position, the demolition of the dam -- even if accidental -- makes perfect sense.
Also, the phrase "out of 50 books tested, 45% had" sounds like you want someone to mistake that for 90%.
Likely, another case that end up only netting maybe one or two people with charges after the process is finalized.

The remaining will have had their lives turned upside down by the process, and despite being innocent, will have suffered immense damage financially by the state.
I don't think any of the alternatives I listed can't be done on an embedded device or a tape drive though. I understand that the format is old and so perhaps many of the arbitrary constraints weren't seen as that bad at the time though.
> That's just temperature, which evens out the random probability a little of the N most probable next words.

Source? A MS exec said that creative and precise are GPT4 but balanced is a not (or not 100%): https://twitter.com/MParakhin/status/1693579775590224097
I agree, but, the way things are set up for the population, it is a badge of honor if you need dental work done and not have to pay out of pocket. It’s all been designed to control what we’re allowed and not allowed.

Getting a large amount of our medications imported from China is completely absurd.
Last year, China accounted for 95 percent of U.S. imports of ibuprofen, 91 percent of U.S. imports of hydrocortisone, 70 percent of U.S. imports of acetaminophen, 40 to 45 percent of U.S. imports of penicillin and 40 percent of U.S. imports of heparin, according to Commerce Department data. Dec 20, 2019
You prefer increased cost over decreased cost?
> also to anyone reading this. DONT POST any code to Zig issue tracker. post it to your own repo, and link to it if need be. any code you post to the tracker becomes MIT license, which I learned the hard way.

Any insight on this? How can this possibly be true?
Now full of spam? Hasn't Usenet been thoroughly clogged for 20 years?
In Europe, it's not (yet) mandatory, but lots of manufacturers have decided to opt in.
Why would you need to know anything about taxonomy in order to know fish are animals? Sorry, but no one I've ever known has made any distinction between the two.

I think maybe there is some overlap with op and the idea that "fish" is different from "meat." That's something that basically everyone said at some point.
The implication (that this many people are murdered specifically for environmental activism) sounds prima facie unrealistic. How many people are included in their definition of "environmental activist", and what is the risk-adjusted base rate for murders in that population? It sounds like they're including a lot of people from very high-risk populations. The fact that 88% of killings are apparently in Latin America (especially Colombia) is suggestive - this has to be picking up a significant amount of cartel conflict and trying to pass it off as environmentalism-related.
Phones have tb of space?

IPhones start with 128GB of space and charges a hefty premium for storage.

I would deffo not want a game to consume 40G of space
There is a link to a PDF with technical details right in the beginning.
Yes, though it's often considered a premium product. Given the exorbitant price per gram of "standard" prepared breakfast cereals, that might not be too much higher though.

Trader Joe's Muesli is quite good and reasonably priced. Ingredients are whole grain oats, sunflower seeds, raisins (raisins, sunflower oil), rice crisp (brown rice, caramelized pear juice concentrate, sunflower oil), pumpkin seeds, coconut, dried apples and sliced almonds.

<https://www.traderjoesgroceryreviews.com/trader-joes-muesli-...>

<https://traderjoesrants.com/2021/09/19/trader-joes-muesli-ce...>

It's $4/lb or about $0.25/oz, as compared with $0.30/oz for Kellogg's Corn Flakes ($5.29 @ 18 oz.).

Many stores will have a selection of "healthy" or whole-grain cereals, often smaller labels. Prices can vary considerably, especially at premium markets (e.g., Whole Foods or local specialty markets). Even general-product markets often carry these, though there are many granola-flavoured candies out there as well with sugar as one of the top ingredients, often 2nd place on the list.

The other option is to buy a mix of whole grains, nuts, fruit, etc., and mix your own.
It was not required for the PR to be merged upstream for the bounty to be awarded.

This was explicitly stated in a comment in the original issue that for some reason the Zig leadership decided to remove
You can write basically anything in any Turing complete language, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Usenet works differently.

Moderated groups are their own category and quite rare. Every post to them has to be pre-approved.

The large majority of groups (including comp.lang.c) are unmoderated. "Moderator inaction" isn't a thing here because moderation isn't even technically possible.
Good advice, but instead of a 10k emergency fund, you can be more precisely prepared by calculating your monthly expenses and using that multiplied by 3-6 months (how long does it take to find another job).
The specific places that rot varies, but the fact that governments all tend toward corruption is widely consistent.

If that weren't true, you could show me a large, industrialized country that has very low governmental corruption. You can't. There aren't any.
One advantage C++ has over Rust is that there are multiple fairly compliant C++ implementations, and the process of making them created some shared understanding of how the language actually works from an implementation perspective. There are several aspects of the current Rust language that were effectively defined by arbitrary decisions made by the implementors, which aren't really spelled out anywhere besides the code.
Tar is an descendant from file formats that were written to tapes. Recovery was to the same system & space was not cheap.
there is also an error in the maximal size: its 8 Gigabyte not 64. The last byte must be an \0. This is fixed in modern gnu and bsd tar.
Almost all happened in Latin America where individual rights, including to own and defend yourself with potent firearms, is severely limited (except for agents of the state). Without this fundamental ability and political right, lawful good individuals will suffer and fail. History is replete with examples of this basic and obvious fact. Armed minorities are more difficult to oppress.
Goodness I’ve tried it so many times, even cheating and putting a little maple syrup in it, granola, cinnamon. Still can’t stand it. Reminds me of the gloop they eat in the matrix. I wish I liked it. Do you eat it plain?
Your comment has very little to do with what I wrote.
How to Get Started with Git
I agree with the ban.

You proposed a change to a repo you do not own. You offered an incentive to 3rd party developers to push PRs to that repo. You did not wait until the proposal was accepted. You thus required the community maintaining that repo to do extra review work on a feature they hadn't officially accepted yet. You were refused, and then offered the same incentives somewhere else, with the same drawbacks on the zig community.

Even in your new offer it's unclear whether people should make changes in zig (add support for your features in zig) or in wasmer (change the samples to work with the current zig compiler, or build libraries that work with zig) to support your features.

There's a time and place to offer incentives for someone else's project, but that shouldn't happen without their approval.
As soon as it exceeds medium.
Yes and no. This is work a few years old. And as I said, the paper you cite is looking at the situation from the other end, i.e., economic effects on governments.
Love this! Simple, but satisfying to play with.
Looks like someone read Deci & Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory.
I strongly disagree. Some people have come to understand “outlier” as “temporary noise in the data”. That is very bad.

This chart shows that 2023 is clearly multiple standard deviations lower than the historical mean, and much lower than any point in the last few decades.

If your latest datapoint is a huge outlier and you have nothing to explain it you should consider feeling alarm that this is significant and perhaps a step change from historical norms.
There’s only 5 permanent members with voting rights: China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America.

You start there. You sign effectually a cyber arms treaty which makes it illegal to export offensive cyber weapons for profit. If these members can sign nuclear arms treaties (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)), I don’t see how offensive cyber weapons could be any more complicated.

Then go after the nonmembers that are profiting wildly off the offensive cyber weapons.
So there is. I guess the backdoor is distributed through malicious PDF's.
Thanks for that, I didn't realize! TwiX is really different now... :-/
I looked at the report - reading between the lines (e.g. deaths by country), this looks to be at least 90% south/central american cartel related. This isn't the saudis sending agent 47 after people - it's more like people fighting over land for coca cultivation.
You mean the environmental activist who shot a police officer?
Why does my worry about bureaucracy have to mean I want to be the victim of identity theft? I understand and agree with the value of good security practices. I just worry that assuming all software is insecure unless some very complicated and "iron clad" contracts exists and are independently validated. It's a recipe for a very inefficient society.

I actually worry that this mindset of adversarial relationships make it MORE likely for your identity to be stolen.
Drop in some fresh berries or other fruit. Also see the so called "overnight oats" (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Soc8B_zX-E or one of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yenZLqXAzng, sarcasm warning) peanut butter banana works well and there are other combinations.
Rolled oats for sure can be like that.

Have you tried steel-cut oats? They are wonderfully chewy [0]. I usually mix a little rolled oats into some steel cut.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel-cut_oats
I would be interested in knowing which threat model we'd be considering to draw this conclusion.
For a while, the Internet Archive built a book scanner that rests the book in a V-shaped cradle. A volunteer turns pages by hand and lowers/raises a pair of glass panes that gently press the pages for imaging by a pair of DSLR cameras on an angled mount. The whole assembly isn’t automatic, but can be easily operated by hand.

https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-sc...
I'm glad your communication with them in the aftermath was respectful.

Good that came out of your behavior, though: I learned that the Bytecode Alliance is just really bad at communicating historically, but has been trying to improve that and actually has been pushing forward WASI preview 2 quite aggressively, making a ton of progress on it.

Someone linked me this roadmap video[0] in which they say:

* WASI Preview 2 ships by the end of the year and is largely usable now

* Two people are working on WASM threads

* VMWare has been working on Garbage Collection in wasmtools, and is working on getting that running in wasmtime

* Components are isolation units for threads, memory space, etc. It means a WASM module can use components without being aware of threads. Components are named, versioned, etc.

* They're considering resource and handle types (I assume for e.g. externalized file handles)

* Once WASM GC moves forward, it will also go into components.

* WASI sockets, WASI HTTP, clock, filesystem, RNG are all in scope for WASI preview 2 around Fall.

* wasmtime and a JS web implementation are in scope, so two implementations of all this.

Sounds quite promising compared to what was happening in the past! Now I wonder why WASIX is a thing instead of pushing forward with WASI given they've been changing for the better?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_O95zOJbs
The landing page is a bit weird. I‘d expect stuff to be clickable (e.g. „Install software“) but it’s not and the text is very generic. Not a goof first impression, sorry.
I honestly didn't know anyone still actively used Usenet. I thought Google Groups was quite valuable as a tool for reading historical data from decades past, now that most ISPs don't include Usenet access. I wouldn't have expected spam blocking.
If this is just the standard CMMC clause getting inserted with all government contracts, then they are not actually required to meet all the security standards all at once. They only have to have a plan to meet all the standards. So saying that you are compliant when you aren't here is not a requirement for a contract. It's just lazy.
This format was developed a long time ago before the luxury of (a) experience and (b) newer more capable storage hardware.

It's really strange to complain that a legacy format is full of bad features for modern tastes and hardware - how do you think it was worked out what bad and good features of formats and hardware might be?

The history in the Wikipedia page that I linked is instructive.
I know there are more important parts of this story than the names of the individuals involved; but I can’t get over how the guy’s lawyer is named “Darth Newman”.
Hello,
I am the creator of Sheetsbear. Thanks for sharing the link. I hope this is useful to many folks out there. Looking for any feedback that anyone has on the tool.

Technologies used: Vue 3, Sqljs (Sqlite + WaSM)
I made two PRs to get the app running on Linux. Unfortunately I now run into bleak/bluetooth errors (maybe related to bluez or missing firmware?)
I think it's mainly because American's (really everyone) is getting savvier about health. 20 years ago, Kellogs could have convinced the public that their cereal were actually healthy through TV ads and such. But now with the internet it's impossible to convince anyone because the facts about sugar are out there and people are changing their behaviors.

If I had to make a bet I'd say in the next decade of so, Kellogs and other cereal manufacturers will kill off most of their cereal brands, keep a few well known brands around, and make a shift to the "healthier cereals" space that's occupied by these smaller players and private labels.
Is it just me or is that an insane amount of money to be handing out?!

At first I assumed it was a typo…
Agreed on all 3 points here, thanks for sharing your thoughts, super helpful

Following your feedback, perhaps community bounties should be by default only shared with maintainers, and then the maintainers can choose whether to complete them themselves [1], or make them public, or disregard

This approach would prevent situations like the above and hopefully also helps with FOSS sustainability

[1]: https://twitter.com/algoraio/status/1703115434055082086
He shot and wounded a police officer
I tried those recently. They are a bit too sweet for my taste (though are somehow low sugar).

My main issue with them is that Kelloggs uses glyphosate (round up) as a drying agent at harvest time.

If I could find an organic version, I might buy them again.
> “Research has shown again and again that Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the forests and therefore play a fundamental role in mitigating the climate crisis,”

Where can I read more about this research?
The reason is growth. A sysadmin will make sure the lights stay on and the place doesn’t burn down, but they aren’t creating a new revenue stream. And when all these companies need to grow forever, they need to be creating new things, which developers do and sysadmins don’t.
Of all the features most Java devs (and ex-Java devs) desire, algebraic types are near the bottom.

How about intersection and union types? (NO, sealed classes are not a substitute for unions).

But, yeah, in my view JDK 21 is a a disappointment. I rarely want pattern matching, but I would like properties please and records are nice, but actual tuples are more useful. Etc.
The problem I see with criminalizing drugs (including sell, posses and transport) is that drug addicts and abuse is mainly a health issue.

There's an underlying reason why those people start consuming that shit. Same as with sugar/obesity/diabetes here in Mexico.

Once you make it ilegal, suddenly you created a criminal issue. You've created another problem for yourself and split your resources to fight both problems now.

I would rather prefer government/society focus only in the underlying health issue. And disappear the criminal issue by making it 100% legal.

Imagine if suddenly refined sugar became illegal in Mexico, suddenly the government would have to fight not only the obesity epidemic, but also the sugar trafficking criminals.
Your fear is counterproductive and you need to realize this as hard as it sounds.

If your fear blocks you from doing a good job the chance for you to get fired is higher.

The fear itself also blocks you from thinking which you need to do to take the necessary actions.

Accept first that this is 'just' how it is and yes it would be tremendously shitty and a lot of work if your worst case scenario happens BUT it would happen anyway.

So what to do?

1. Accept your situation. Talk to your partner you are not alone and together this problem already is smaller.

2. Start spending time on things which can help you: reduce house hold clutter, cleanup your CV, work well in your day job, rethink a nother country (Canada, Germany, etc)

Good luck!
Most of the alternatives you suggest are implemented in PAX, which is an extension of the tar format. The EoF block is useful if the archive is written directly to physical media without a filesystem: it lets you determine where the archive ends.
Because you aren't paying unity for each copy you sell, you're paying for each time a user installs the game, which will basically always be much higher than the number of copies sold. I regularly install my games on 3-4 different machines. My activity would cost the developer 3—4 times as much in unity licensing.

Unity has clearly stated that they will charge for reinstalling, installing on multiple machines, and implied that pirated copies also count.

If you get unlucky and your game is popular with pirates, you're suddenly paying for a ton of licenses on copies of the game you never even sold.

You can quite literally script a process to repeatedly reinstall a single copy of the game to rack up unity charges for a developer you don't like.

That's not really very reasonable.
I make it into granola. It really doesn't take very long and you can vary the flavor to your liking.

Or something like oat flour pancakes. You can even make a bunch ahead of time, freeze them, then reheat in a toaster in the morning.
What makes you think they will do that? Especially considering that Russia's source of soft power in the developing world is their willingness to sell offensive weapons without asking ESG questions.
If I was trying to clearcut a forest or build a dam in South America I'd happily point my finger at "cartels" any time something unfortunate happened on my land too.
The term "backdoor" in the title is misleading. What is described in the article are a series of what most here would describe as "rootkits". There is no evidence provided of any malicious modification of the Linux kernel or distributions before the user receives them. I don't think that anyone would think that Linux (or any other OS) would be safe after an attacker had obtained complete control of the system.
You're missing "recusal" as a reason, saying they can't report objectively on it due to closeness to the sources.