skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very happy to be with hubitat. It’s OSS and not user friendly, but it mostly works with most devices and once it’s running I don’t have to maintain it except to restart (twice in about 3 years)

I also like that if I did want functionality enough (Eg: graph of temperature) I could probably figure out how to write a plugin.
I read this as not about running a scam, but failing to help the people dealing with the cleanup with their work. A sort of procedural sanction.
English announcement by the Norwegian Consumer Council:

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/e-58-million-fine-for-gri...
Fun fact: You know the "Hidden Figures" women who did the intense calculation for the military and space programs in the USA before computers were powerful enough?

GPS was one of those systems needing intensely calculated orbits, Dr. Gladys West was responsible

https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/170746...
You're not wrong, but you think too small. Ads existed well before the internet, and are so ingrained in the world at large that as a thought experiment this is up there with "what would we miss if we removed the concept of murder/books/good/etc. entirely".

What does "the concept of ads" mean? Is it advertising if I say "I bought a really great hammer from place, you should also get one if you want a great hammer" to a friend? I literally cannot think of a world in which you can only remove ads and not blow up literally every paradigm of how we deal with resources and their distribution.
Ah but Porsche is not Porsche but instead Porsche AG and Porsche SE.

It is pure insanity in need of many flow charts.
1. The index > PT_FPSCR test isn't good enough:

int ptrace_get_fpr(struct task_struct *child, int index, unsigned long *data)
{
unsigned int fpidx = index - PT_FPR0;

if (index > PT_FPSCR)
return -EIO;

flush_fp_to_thread(child);
if (fpidx < (PT_FPSCR - PT_FPR0))
memcpy(data, &child->thread.TS_FPR(fpidx), sizeof(long));
else
*data = child->thread.fp_state.fpscr;

return 0;
}

It is testing the original signed value of type int, which could be negative, and therefore convert to a huge unsigned int value manifested in fpidx.

(Also, the function risks integer subtraction underflow in "index - PT_FPR0". If we pass in the value INT_MIN, subtracting a positive value from it is undefined behavior.)

It looks like the original author knew that the -EIO test is too weak, so the converted unsigned value is tested again.

Regarding 2, accessing fpscr using fpr[32] is undefined behavior (out of bounds array access), which is probably why the original code is refraining from that, but testing for that value and separately accessing the member.

However is also this bit of uncertainty (I have not fully drilled into). On 32 bit PPC, that PT_FPSCR is defined with an extra offset of 1:

#define PT_FPSCR (PT_FPR0 + 2*32 + 1)

I suspect that this is due to PPC being big endian; the + 1 displaces the index to the lower half of a 64 bit word. This also tells me that this fpscr register must be 32 bits on PPC32?

Thus, even with the range check in place, out-of-bounds access past the array is possible if user space requests the [64] index since the range check is testing for below 65. The [64] index isn't fpscr, but the upper half of u64 fpscr.

There is also the aspect that when we assign to fpscr, the whole 64 bit value is assigned, not just half of it.
Advertising has been around for more than 2000 years, maybe there is actually some want for it in enough people. To be notified about things without actively looking is not an insane thing to want.
Yes. My attitude is that I've entered into a commercial exchange with my employer. They pay me money and in exchange get a set amount of my undivided time and attention.

They have no legitimate claim over what I do during the time that I'm not being paid. I may contractually agree to certain narrow restrictions (such as not talking about the company or the details of my work), but generally, my time is my time to spend as I see fit. In my worldview, any other stance is my employer making some sort of ownership claim over my life. That's unacceptable to me.

If what I do in my off time adversely impacts my performance on the job, then my employer can reprimand or fire me for poor performance.
An Admin’s Guide to Better Business Acumen
Most people I know who actively use Quora are in the 65+ demographic. I've asked what's keeping them, and it turns out they have much more tolerance for things like sponsored posts and mandatory signups than most users would
'Holy Grail' of Northern Lights Turned the Sky Blood Red as Far South as France
Perhaps then just make it available for someone else to set up and run their own servers. Maybe they did. It's what I would do.
> the difference between ASCII and binary files

This one is a bit confusing. In DOS/Windows land, files are just files, always binary. The distinction between "ASCII" and "Binary" only exists at the time you call "fopen" (a C function), then failing to open in binary mode causes it to mangle your data by inserting CR before every LF.
What does it even mean to "ban advertising"? It's amazing how people just blurt things out without even thinking about what they are saying. So I can't talk about about any commercial product anymore casually with friends?
That sounds like a bug. I have an M2 Max and battery life is excellent. Maybe not as good as my M1, but not far off. But it's a lot more powerful, so if I ask it to do resource intensive activities it can definitely drain the battery in a hurry. Running LLMs, in particular, is devastating for battery life.
> If you don't think that all ads are bad, then I think you may agree that sometimes, ad targeting produces more useful ads.

I do. Ads are psychological manipulation at scale. This well predates the Internet, even. Advertisements and marketing are immoral. As long as we have them though, I will concede that better targeted ads are sometimes better than non-targeted ads. However, I believe targeting does not need to be personal to be effective, it can be based on the content the ad is placed next to, rather than the individual visiting and be equally as effective without necessitating spying.

As it stands, at best ads are malware, at worst they are concentrated form of social evil.
This paper seems to be pretty applied, but I've only skimmed the intro:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.05625.pdf

That starts to make sense to me as a sort of generalized framework for Feynman-diagram-like things. Explains why particle physicists would be drawn to category theory as well.

Feels like there's still probably a hell of a lot of dots to connect there though.
The counter point is that this is like arguing that an article about safe knife skills are silly, because you can still just stab yourself?
No. Those who use it say it's not. And the standard iOS application does not allow to work cross-platform or just via a link without registration. Try it )
Because the people controlling VW are the same that arw behind Porsche, namely the families Porsche and Piech.
> after he failed to comply with court orders to cooperate with the liquidation investigation.

this procedural issue isn’t really related to crypto

its someone that didnt show up
I used a combo of DDG (for most searches) and sometimes search.marginalia.nu (for some searches) and Google (if nothing else worked, but I think half the time Google didn't work either) until I started using Kagi.

Since then I feel I have used Google maybe once every second month and I feel the frequency is sinking.
It's not as straightforward as something like Insomnia because you have to write a script that will open a browser and pull the tokens from there.
The ideal state is healthy competition where consumers can choose to interact with the platform they want, and platforms need to reduce their cuts of revenue to be competitive.

Platforms leveraging their market position to keep shares of revenue at 30% is insane.
You can have your restricted concerns, I'm going to keep taking issue with (a) data collected being data that can get accidental public backups, and (b) ads being an unwanted imposition on my attention.
Maybe a stupid question but if songtradr focuses more on B2B licensing of music could't they hammer out exclusive deals and remove the music entirely from end customer catalog? I mainly think about licensing it to other streaming services.

People have already mentioned that some music disappeared from the catalog because artists pulled it. I wonder if this acquisition would make it more common.
Yes, but if you use dedicated IP it is kind of like pointless. If you use shared IP of your VPS provider (or Cloudflare) then yes fr
Thanks very little for the unwarranted negativity. I'm not sure how you got to the conclusion that "my process" is somehow ignorant of the existence of DHCP and DNS. It most certainly is not.
Inability to release 1.0 of any software is driven by indecision and/or a lack of confidence in the stability of your product. Nothing more. If you’re decisive about meaningful features on realistic milestones and confident that you have a stable system, there is no reason to not 1.0.
Yes, everything is in the soup called /google3.

And it's time wasted; the SWE working on the Jamboard may prefer to work on higher impact projects;

The PO as well.

For example, an hypothetical PO @ Google may have this possibility to launch a new product instead (e.g. deprecating the Pixel 7);

- New launch = promotion.

- Promotion = better salary.

- Better salary = happy wife.

- Happy wife = happy life.

Indeed, shutdowning Jamboard was the right solution from his perspective.

It's all about alignement of incentives.
>People look at that?

I can tell you that in law they certainly do, as ridiculous as that may be. Legal jobs will often ask for your law school GPA even for senior positions.
A better question is:

"How do you get legislation passed to regulate advertising when it controls almost every media and social media platform through which voters can get informed on the topic?"

And if you have an answer to that I'd dearly love to hear it - I work at a campaign for electoral reform in the UK and we have near enough the exact same problem.
Is a JavaScript array index a string or an integer?
Seems like a weak argument to me. Is that it?
The best way I think I can describe it for this audience is if Unix command line programs are a box of tools for processing text, then
Touchdesigner is a box of tools for visuals. At its most basic, you can give it video input - a file or a webcam, and do something to it, and then output it back out. to a file, to the screen, out an auxiliary HDMI port. "Something" is ill-defined, because it can do whatever you can manage to program to the input. Crop it to one corner, turn it black and white, and then put colored lines it so it looks like sprinkles on a cake. Whatever. So where it shines is for non traditional outputs - mostly LED art sculptures, lasers, and projection mapped works of art. But it can do more than that, you can build GUIs with it, and if you've ever seen a mall kiosk, or a photo booth on a Hollywood red carpet, or just seen some cool LED visuals at a club, chances are, it was built with TouchDesigner.

It's a proprietary package, with an expensive runtime, and its save files are inscrutable binary blobs. But that's my ideological OSS developer side speaking. It's used all over the entertainment industry because of how powerful it is as a box of tools. The vendor (derivative.ca) even has a jobs page, to help people who know this program find paying gigs.

TouchDesigner can make GUI applications, but distributing those applications as applications is expensive because you need to license their runtime, which isn't cheap. So it's very limited on the number of installs, even if it is the Excel of video creatives.

If it helps, the other package in the general area is Resolume, which is much more of a packaged app for VJs, to TouchDesigner's bag of tools. If you've been to a concert recently, chances are Resolume is what drove the visuals.
they also have the ability to fuzz civilian GPS while not doing so for the military... so probably, until they don't want it to be true.
>Which doesn't mean ETFs like GLD are not real. It just means that if I say I'll bet you the price goes up, we settle the bet at $100 for each dollar the price moves, that is independent of us actually owning any gold.

Whats your definition of real if it doesnt involve physical gold? An ISIN existing? Sorry if that sounds passive aggressive, i cant figure out how else to word it.

There seems to be another definition of paper gold i am missing? I always assumed it was clear we are talking about derivatives.
That is unfortunate and true.

I wish I could use Elixir as a shell scripting language without incurring the VM startup cost and losing the ability to export shell variables or create shell functions... Maybe it would make sense for someone to hack its REPL to dupe most of what one would need on a commandline
There were no explosives placed at the dam. The dam was hit with high precision artillery strikes.
I played Stadia, then Xbox live, then PC and the truth is it really depended on your geographical location and router. Almost all casual fps have some sort of auto aim built in, the ones that did not were unplayable but the ones that did were pretty good
> There are other similarities between the two zero-days. They both stem from buffer overflows that allow remote code execution with little or no interaction on the part of an end user other than to visit a malicious webpage. They both affect media libraries that Google published more than a decade ago. And both libraries are written in C, a 50-year-old programming language widely regarded as unsafe because it’s prone to memory-corruption vulnerabilities.

Is there something inaccurate or naive in this paragraph?
The fact that so many people are so mystified at the idea of designing a society we want to live in is so much more depressing than any of the problems we face as a collective.

We do not need tech innovators, corporations or pioneering extroverted CEOs to market-innovate solutions to the problems we have. We can simply lean on expertise and scientific consensus and mandate that it apply to various industries and our world as a whole, and drive society forward. The legal pen has power too and we can use it for more than just ensuring Disney has infinite copyrights, and in fact, should.

It's not going to fix everything, of course. But a lot of major issues could see huge improvements if we simply used our Governmental processes to demand them. We KNOW how to make vehicles more efficient. We KNOW how to reduce other emissions. We KNOW that certain building practices and city policies are making numerous social ills worse. We know all of these things and we know how to stop them, but our politicians are content to ride out the collapse and cash their checks in the meantime and retire before the world falls apart.
(author here) That's a good question, I should've explained it better.

Technically, the other property of a puzzle is that there's exactly one good move. If you have one move that can mate in 3 and another move that can mate in 4, it's actually not a puzzle by the strict definition of the term. So, the reason I set the depth to 10 was because I'm actually looking for the second best move to be bad/losing.

For real positions, 10 might honestly be too low to confidentially state that every other move is bad, but for mate in 3 it was a good enough and still performed well.
Sure we do. It's just not a definition encoded in law. But what the law says doesn't change my view of what's right and wrong.

If the law says I have no privacy whatsoever, all that would mean is that I need to put a great deal more effort into safeguarding my privacy.
No, the app is free, only paying for premium if you need it. The standard app is not cross-platform and is more difficult to use. I'm an iOS owner myself and know what I'm talking about )
I got an apple branded heating pad. It has a really useful mechanism for creating lots of heat, plus a full qwerty keyboard, full feature GUI and it can even be used for development.
Repairing damaged genes, and putting already existing genes (especially human ones) in people I see us doing that fairly soon. But completely new genes for tolerating other planets. That seems very far off. Not in the next 100 years, I would think.
I'm not saying we should have nothing, I'm saying we shouldn't have this.

If our policing system kept us safe americans would be the safest people in history. In fact our safety would have doubled over the last few decades, as our police spending has. Does that fit your experience or knowledge?

My position here is that this system isn't failing at its purpose but that its purpose is in fact something other than keeping us safe. We should tear it down and construct a different system, specialized towards that goal.

And anyway this "all of us" viewpoint is one you can have based on your experience but I can't have based on mine. My people are taught to fear the police, they are a terror to us. The only violence I have ever experienced in my life has been at the hands of police. You're asking me to believe they keep me safe when my experience and the data show me otherwise.
That IS a glorious chart, thank you; am I the only one who would REALLY want some arrows there? :)
Any and all advertising is antisocial? A bold and unsubstantiated claim.
Sold to Songtradr, a licensing company that doesn't have the best reputation according to Redditors posting about the sale.
> If you don't think that all ads are bad, then

I don't think it's at all unreasonable not to accept this premise in the first place.
You could just return the phone if it's overheating. It's only been out a week or so.
Programming Throwdown has been running since 2012 or so I believe. They've covered most languages and topics but still find new technologies to talk about!
All of these regulations impact smaller tech companies more than the big players. I've worked with literally 100 plus start-ups from seed stage all the way to post IPO. About 15 of those were EU companies.

From my experience, the experience of the US and EU companies is dramatically different. EU companies are at a dramatic disadvantage when it comes to promoting their products. It's much harder to track what's working and what's not, and more than that, there's a huge state of uncertainty. Dev teams don't know, for instance, whether this pixel or that server to server integration might get them in trouble for sure, so it just delays everything. So EU tech start-ups tend to languish in obscurity to a far greater degree, which means less of a feedback loop to improve the product, which overall means less tech wins in europe.

Start-ups follow a power law where most fail, but 5% succeed. This means you need a lot of shots on goal. When every shot on goal takes 3x the effort and cost...

It's not just tech privacy regulations by any means, but all of this together means that the gap between the US and EU continues to accelerate. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/bbotjc/eu_vs_us_gdp...

And no, I think the "privacy" gains are basically meaningless and not worth the trade-off. And I would bet $100 any time that by 2030 that gap will continue to grow at the same rate.
It blows me away that this even needs to be said. You have precisely zero control over anything in the cloud, ever. Your provider is free to lie to you, scan or monetize your data, use anything you "own" to make competing products, etc. and the only protection you have is a thin ToS that likely mandates arbitration if it gives you any rights whatsoever.

Most B2C cloud ToS documents reserve all rights to the provider. You own nothing and control nothing, peon.

B2B can be better but it's still pretty meaningless unless you have negotiated a specific side document or contract. That'll never happen unless you are a big spender. If you aren't a high roller there's numerous cases of cloud and SaaS providers destroying businesses by randomly changing things, locking accounts for no reason, etc. There is nothing you can do to compel them to care.

There is a reason for all this though. The market's "revealed preference" is that people hate system administration so much they will trade all rights, all freedom, all privacy, and control/ownership of their own data as well as pay rent forever with zero leverage to control cost increases to avoid dealing with it.

The market has written cloud and SaaS an almost literal blank check in exchange for them taking on the hateful burden of system administration and IT.
Insurance doesn't cover it, so some doctors don't bother with it. I was caught by surprise when I tried out my wife's ophthalmologist. Dilation only, no option for a digital scan, my choices were get dilated or get out. I'm not going back there.
But without any visibility into the OS and the processes running, there is no way to know what “heavy work” may be going on, intentional or bugged.
> If I'm ever in charge, I'm buying chalkboards.

You gotta be sure to get the super special chalk mathematicians are hoarding, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhNUjg9X4g8
Now owned by Songtradr. Was not aware of the shift in ownership.
FSF is not abysmal at advocacy. There was a fork in the road; the easy path was to jump in with the Open Source movement and abandon the core principles. Had RMS done that, he would have been the darling of Corporate Open Source by now, invited to Davos and speaking at TED every year, and not been cancelled by some rando college student who had never heard of or known him really. But then it would not have mattered one bit. There are hundreds of foundations doing that stuff, providing a lot of good things, but strictly speaking undermining Free Software.

It actually is painfully obvious now that what Stallman/FSF did was correct for their mission, in the sense that they knew what they actually wanted, and that Open Source definitely was not it. Thus they alienated their closest would-be allies. FSF narrative was hijacked as Corporate Open Source is a much easier sell comparatively, especially when the primary business models of "tech" companies has become less about selling software over time. When people suggest FSF is bad at advocacy, what they really imagine usually is they could have been nicer and said some of the things that everyone else in Corporate Open Source world say. If they had done it, by now they would have had no originality, added a big banner in support of Ukraine to the top of their home page, had a big DEI statement, and five random flags like every other corporate non-profit.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
It will however change whether you go to jail for acting on your beliefs of right and wrong.
What if you only just bought it?
You definitely should not send your kids to public school; that's crazy.

Anyway, as for the rest, you can pay mortgage by check in the US. No software required.

You can also file your taxes by paper.

As far as connecting to the internet, Stallman somehow manages it, I'm sure you can sort it out.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37703528