skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Original claim:

> You literally cannot change EU law via elections in any way in Europe

Your claim: you can vote for someone who will vote for someone who will suggest someone who can be rejected and who will then swear to ignore the wishes of the original voters anyway, and this is fine.

No it isn't. The EU is a dictatorship that like all dictatorships plays pretend and has meaningless votes for people who don't matter. Your attempts to obfuscate this core truth are impressively high effort, but mixing and matching different aspects of different democracies from around the world whilst ignoring all the ways the EU is different doesn't actually yield a winning argument.

> it is not per se undemocratic as long as the larger block is democratic

In fact placing a same-sized parliament under the control of a much larger number of people would be less democratic, as each individual has less influence over the results. But the EU isn't democratic anyway, so this point is moot.

> it's time we finally unify to the superpower we're meant to be.

And there it is, revealed in the final sentence. We didn't have to scratch deep to find it this time: the power hungry authoritarianism that motivates EU ideology. And you're in Austria no less. Every other attempt to unify Europe under a single government has led to dystopian disaster, but this time it'll be totally different!
War in Israel to Impact Electronics Supply Chain
At least for myself, I disagree that NIST could only win by not running the competition.

The impression I have right now is that they made some mistakes and in response to having those pointed out went "well, that's just like, your opinion, man" instead of explaining why it's not a mistake, or fixing it, or something.

That's what makes me suspicious, anyway.
it's really not, if you're the slightest bit strategic about it, and seek employment outside of san francisco.

i suppose that wired's editors know this, but like many publications, they will gleefully sow fear, doubt, and anxiety into people who don't know any better in order to make a small amount of money.
This seems very comprehensive, thanks for sharing :) I'm working on something similar myself which involves running untrusted user-provided JavaScript... It's a little scary but I'll definitely be taking a closer look into Firecracker. Cheers!
> I wonder what the biggest hindrances are.

Three-tiered interview system, flaky interviewers, flaky candidates, insane job requirements for mundane positions, useless recruiters, fake job ads, "hybrid" work?

It's a bloody mess and it has always been. My best interview was in 2006, at my first junior position, when the guy just asked my experience in Linux, what does "ifconfig" do, what languages I know, and I got a paid internship. They expected me to learn on the job, and I did. Now even the junior position have ridiculous requirements, and with 17 years of experience, I get ignored by a clueless recruiter because out of the 10 techs they use, I forgot to list the exact Linux distro they use on my CV, so I'm probably not good enough for them.

I keep hearing there's more demand (for engineers) than there is supply but I call bullshit. That might be true, but the employers make all the rules so even getting an interview this year felt more like winning the lottery than filling a supply shortage. And the lottery you've just won got you in the Squid Game. Now you gotta fight against 50 other candidates, which might be more desperate than you and gladly work for peanuts, 3 days in the office.

Fuck this. Even finding work as a mercenary^Hconsultant is a bloodbath. The only advice is "ask your network." If your network isn't hiring, it's back to the Squid Game for you.

I reckon even Fortune 500 CEO interviews are easier than the average software engineer gauntlet.
I'm out of the eVtol stuff now, so they can talk to Softbank themselves ;-) Just wondering if Softbank not investing in something means the thing has actual potential or it is so far beyond hope even Softbank avoids it.

Flexport is intersting, on the one hand they have a solid future in the freight forwarding and 3PL sector. On the other hand they attract investors by selling themselves as tech disruptors. Not sure if that mix doesn't create quite some tension down the road, that go beyond 20%+ layoffs.
Resizable windows are an outdated concept, full-screen applications with tiling capability (think emacs) are much better. Add multiple workspaces just as they are today and it is perfect.

Unfortunately Windows and MacOS don't really support this kind of environment very well. Sure you can tile windows, but they are still windows. When you open an application it is not immediately tiled or opened in another workspace etc.
After indiscriminate targetting of civilian population by Israel, this looks like another war crime: forced displacement. And on an absolutely unimaginable scale at that.

People will lose everything, population in the south will double in concentration, with no infrastructure to serve the >1 milion of persons that Israel is forcing there and this is just murderous on people who can't move at all.

How are they supposed to all (1 mil.+ people) move many without gas/cars/.../with lots of roads bombed, in such a short time, over such a long distance?

Unconscionable attrocity, this is.
> My interpretation leans more towards NIST making an internal mistake in evaluating the algorithms, rather than NSA pushing its agenda.

Why do you say this? The NSA has done this exact thing in the past[1], so why give them the benefit of the doubt this time?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
No Bad Deed
> People pushing this narrative that AGI is anywhere close are never people working in the space

Apart from the most famous AI developer group since near the beginning of this year, on the back of releasing an AI that's upset a lot of teachers and interview-question writers because it can pass so many of their existing quizzes without the student/candidate needing to understand anything.

I suppose you could argue that they are only saying "AGI could happen soon or far in the future" rather than "it will definitely be soon"…
Had M1 Max 64gb then moved to Air M2 24gb when switching a job. I do Java development mostly with IntelliJ and work with containers a bit. It's super fast. For most things it's faster than the old M1 Max for most things I tried.
The best part about stories like this is that I just know the person is going to go out and buy another one, even though they are now fully aware that they don't own any Apple device they "buy" and are actually just renting it from Apple until they decide not to allow you to use it anymore, instead of just buying a real personal computer.
Yeah, I tried this and a bunch of other things, it ignores them.

I also have its cousin, with an 11th gen i7. It actually exposes a choice in one of those parameters, between s3 and s2idle. If I switch it to s3 and attempt to make it sleep, it just hangs.

Neither has an option to control this in the BIOS, like some Lenovos do, from what I hear.
Protocol Analysis and Libusb Linux Driver for the Uni-T UT61B Multimeter (2014)
Thanks for your time, agreed.
Shokz products work surprisingly well and the sound has also gotten a lot better. I commend them for keeping to the same formula and iterating on it. The microphone was better than the Sony headphones last time I tried them.
Hardware vendor shipped a bios with this certificate: DO NOT TRUST – AMI Test PK
Or, even better, "you're the ballast we need to drop so we can finally soar to greater heights!".
> I’m also not a doctor, but I don’t think fasting on chemo is the play.

I'm not a doctor either, but it looks like there's been some promising studies regarding combining fasting and chemotherapy:

> Preclinical studies in rodents strongly support the implementation of these dietary interventions and a small number of clinical trials begin to provide encouraging results for cancer patients and cancer survivors.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190229/

And the "TLDR" graph and explanation:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190229/figure/...

Basically, the claim is that fasting makes normal cells more resistant to the chemotherapy, and cancer cells more vulnerable to the chemotherapy.

Granted thats "...in mice". But it's worth trying.
I second this. Linux support is good but I feel forum fatigue too.
No problem.

Looking back at it again now, I can see the intent of the original sentence where "it had an operating business" refers to i4i, but "in a manner that was..." refers to Microsoft. I didn't get the change of subject at that point.

Maybe an additional comma would have been all that I needed to figure it out: "even though it had an operating business, in a manner that was..."
CN=DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK
Issuer
CN=DO NOT TRUST - AMI Test PK
Valid From
2017-11-08 23:32:53
Valid To
2021-11-08 23:32:52

I have no experience reverse engineering or analyzing binary files and would appreciate some help!
> The more research articles I read, the more they seem to confirm this theory. This article is yet another one.

But this article doesn't provide any support for the theory that fasting is effective against cancer. It says you can poison cancers with something that looks like an important chemical, but isn't. That general mechanism has long been known. (Not just against cancer - it's a fundamental way for poison to work. If you block receptors by binding them to molecules that don't function, whatever function those receptors served will stop.)

The theory behind chemotherapy is that you take a cocktail of poisons that kills everything, but that is more damaging to the cancer (because it does more cell division) than it is to the correctly-functioning parts of you.

Fasting looks like applying that theory in reverse; starvation seems likely to do more damage to you than it will to a cancer, because the cancer already draws its nutrition from you. If you stop eating, it can still do that, but you'll be getting even less than you were.
[Facepalm]

Daydream: A new law puts legal liability for the consequences of hard-coded passwords on the manufacturers and their distribution chains. (The latter so Amazon can't sell root-holed crap from Lucky Good Fast Router Co. this week, then that company vanishes and Amazon sells amazingly similar crap from Good Lucky Fast Router Co. next week, then that company vanishes and ...)
Name an shame, in a systematic and constructive way. Great idea !
I'll definitely be a contributor once it is live. Not to troll any opponent, but to point out some issue publicly that companies are purposely ignoring (and gaslighting people trying to raise the issue)
Thank you very much for that, my G9 hovers around 5 W idle which is not great. I will try these tweaks.

Note that there is a GUI app called "Power Statistics" that shows the evolution of power consumption on battery quite well. It still uses data reported by the battery which is not super accurate but works well enough when looking at say an hour of data points.
> Textual syntax can be implemented a layer up, if the input to the interpreter/compiler is not text but a data structure.

If you designed the languages and interpreters/compilers around it. Neither Python nor Javascript are, though.
Cryptography: <reference> is incorrect because <logic> and should therefore be <statement>. This allows a ciphertext produced by X to be breakable in 2²¹ operations when 2¹¹ messages are known to the attacker.

Paranoia: NSA bribes the independent reviewers and is backdooring the whole thing because everyone knows the military and intelligence services are two decades ahead of public research and we just don't know what the algorithm flaw is yet, but I'm telling you, they're keeping something behind!

I am not saying djb (or anyone) does the latter, example is given exaggerated for illustrative purposes only. The cryptographer's example is also exaggerated, as it does matter how algorithms are chosen and there's a measure of subjectivity involved. Still, I would not say that paranoia is the job of a cryptographer.
Actually no, it's was not an story but a blog post from an user
With all the locks, DRM and hostile Software in place - an Apple device is never yours really. You are always on the mercy of corporate apple.
Okay then. Please give some links to the following.

– Lambda calculus tutorial that gets you up to what you need to understand the referenced paper in 15 minutes

- A description of Hoare notation that I can also understand to adequate depth to understand the referenced paper, also in 15 minutes

- A description of classical logic etc. etc. 15 minutes

- A description of intuitionistic logic etc. etc. 15 minutes (presumably in how it differs from classical)

These would be very useful. If you can also explain them in a way that would allow me to use the information I've learnt in an hour to do something useful with programs like represent them, transform them, verify them against a specification, I would gladly spend a couple of weeks or a month doing that, genuinely.

If you can't do any of these things, please stop posting how easy it all is
> tl;dr: until there's a religion that worships some AI as a "god", there won't be any "AGI".

I fear you may be correct. Though now I'm thinking of how AI have been gods in fiction, and hoping that this will be more of a Culture (or Bob) scenario than a I Have No Mouth scenario.

(And if the AI learns what humans are like and how to behave around them from reading All The Fiction, which may well be the case… hmm. Depends what role the AI chooses for itself: I hear romance is the biggest genre, so we may well be fine…)
The marketplaces rather than the products.
I have not seen glaring UI bugs until I switched to Apple. Given how little features they offer, you'd think they can do better. I have not seen such bugs on Windows. Windows it's like a bazaar somethimes but at least it works and you can do whatever you like. Apple only had hw build quality on their side and that is true only for their laptops now.
> Their biases are amplified instead of averaged out by the opinions of the many.

Have you looked at the biases of the many recently?

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
Oh god, this is terribly difficult to rid of hidden variables.

Mushroom consumption is probably also correlated in Western countries with higher social class, for example, but not in Eastern Europe. Or maybe it used to be but isn't anymore, the whole thing is ghastly to unpick.
It's in F17C and F16... have yet to check the older ones

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550-AORUS-ELITE-rev-10...

Checksum is using CRC16
Everybody says "floating windows are dead", but I fail to get sold on the tiling concept. For people working on 3 windows, that may be acceptable, but if one's juggling 10 windows on a couple of desktops, things get hairy fast.

Window resizing also helps a lot of things in terminal. Sometimes programs write log lines so long, I have to resize the terminal wider than the screen itself to make sure that every log is written in single line to be able debug things with some efficiency.

Also, not everyone uses GNOME. KDE has very nice features for floating windows like "dim inactive" which makes working with many windows a breeze, while effectively cutting eye strain, because your average screen brightness is lower, without turning down your lighting. Also, enabling window shadowing convincingly raises active windows over others, so brain's depth perception can isolate said window pretty easily.

Both ways (floating and tiling) have advantages over each other in some use cases. I use an hybrid approach (manual tiling of floating windows with snapping), but the scenarios I prefer tiling is really rare, I may say.
luke here, thanks!
In agent-like app sure. But how would you detect connections from multiple client instance?
> where the total value for society delivered by successful experiments makes up for the cost of the failed ones.

I disagree. The successful experiments are negative to society just a few years after some startup wins in a niche. The world would be better off without Google, Facebook, Airbnb or Uber now that they already "changed" the market. Every tech dominance becomes society-negative over time.
> I wonder what the biggest hindrances are for software development to become this way.

At least for our application, it's hidden/non-explicit dependencies and domain knowledge.

By hidden dependencies I typically mean that process X has to be done before process Y, or similar. Meaning you sometimes can't just rearrange things. A substantial integration test suite could help, but it's a tradeoff. Though often it be tricky to test, as it could depend on customer systems we don't have internal access to.

Domain knowledge is also needed for much of the code. Of course this could be offloaded to a senior, but then those tend to be the limiting factor. For our team, it's been more effective that all the devs have substantial domain knowledge.
Macs lack expansion ports.
> (A ∧ B ⇒ C) ⇒ (A ⇒ (B ⇒ C))

> Since this logical formula is a tautology

You forgot to say 'obviously' /s
I don't understand what's this about actually. You can't just go around accusing people of being rapists without evidence. And if there's evidence, go to the police. What's so special about the hacker community to especially have "problems" in this area?

Also, he quotes some US studies about 1% of rapist being convicted IN THE US and then argues about some even in Berlin. Justice system isn't the same worldwide and I guess its effectiveness would vary.

Such presupposed accusations are very bad for the community as a whole. And sometimes, even after a court verdict, they are still false, viz the tragically comic trial of card. George Pell (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/26/rise-...).
Aka React.
I know, so why produce all that MagSafe e-waste?
> if the method becomes scalable

the machine learning stuff is cool, but it's important not to discount the apparently pretty manual labour still involved in the virtual unwrapping:

> Early in the summer, a small team of annotators (the “segmentation team”) joined our effort. They began mapping the 3D structure of the scroll using tools initially built by EduceLab and improved by our community. By July we had segmented and “virtually flattened” hundreds of cm2 of papyrus.

So, it sounds like it was about a month or two of work, for a single scroll. Although, it probably could be partially or fully automated too, with some effort. Already they developed some tools to help, and I guess it's the kind of task that gets easier after you do it the first time.
Classic Mac OS drop shadows were opaque, hence a lot cheaper.

I don't think OS X is a good example of your point because resizing windows was incredibly sluggish for a long time. I always figured it was somehow due to the combination of live resizing plus ubiquitous compositing, but I never understood why it was so slow.
Well yes you can sell shares, maybe not all of them at once if you have enough. Still not sure what your point is, that doesn't mean wealth is not extremely unevenly distributed.
More info on subatic.

Idea for the first one came when a client wanted to host some videos which were to receive very high traffic. Easiest solution was youtube but youtube adds friction. All other hosting platforms wanted for bandwidth or number of hours of streams. Cheapest solution I found was transcoding and hosting on cloudflare R2.

I then went down the rabbit hole of building youtube in the cheapest possible way.

The app is built with api endpoints in mind so a future mobile app can be built in future.

Other use cases : video embedding, personal video storage, corporate training materials, hosting courses.
This was my first thought. How sure are we that their model isn't just over-fitting and finding letters that aren't really there?
I still have the installer lying around somewhere, do you need it? :)
https://gekk.info/articles/images/explorer/98_explorer.png

All this crap to the left in Explorer windows that takes up space for no good reason. Active Desktop. Uglier icons that are inconsistent with the many older Win 95-style icons that remain everywhere in the OS. It's not that bad on the whole, and you can reverse most of it, but it's a bloating and bastardization of the (unironically) finely honed aesthetic of Win95.
And yet I guarantee the Linux computer that's been sitting in my closet for 10+ years will boot up just fine. As would it's Windows partition. As would the old MacBook I don't have anymore. Those are a lot more analogous than cars or gardens.
UEFI, GPT partitioning, verity boot and systemd on Linux have unexpected ties to Microsoft.

The trend is that its becoming more and more difficult (due to reimplementation costs and dependency lock-ins) to do Linux in the non-Microsoft way.

XDG, UKI and UAPI Standards are also written by people who are getting their paycheck from Microsoft.
US Must Be Ready for Simultaneous Wars with China, Russia
aside from which the idea that learning initiatives are all as simply equivalent as touching hot stoves is idiotic.
Everything makes more sense when you believe it to be intentionally orchestrated by someone or something. That's why this way of thinking is so popular.

Edit:them/it
Enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM) software is an excellent solution for complete, simplified contract lifecycle management. A CLM system designed for corporations centralizes a company's legal agreements into one spot that automates operations, fostering clear communication and effective cooperation.
A commented translation is available under the title Pythagoras. Legende - Lehre - Lebensgestaltung as a book and as open access here: https://rep.adw-goe.de/handle/11858/00-001S-0000-002D-B3AD-5...
A common finding since it became feasible to estimate social network status is that a student's learning is split in half between the effort they personally put into learning (homework, showing up to class, etc) and their social network status (who they talk to, how many do they talk with, how frequently, etc). This should not come as a surprise as it's common knowledge, at least in stem, that you aren't going to solve the problems all by yourself, study groups help. What's wild about this is that I couldn't imagine Facebook plugs their employees into computers disconnected from others to complete their tasks. Why would you assume this would work for students?
Can you pay for your esim with cash? Countering terrorism is a poor excuse for buying things not available for cash. And I hesitate about compability the idea of dumb phone which not lures you to use Internet services with idea of esim which basically is a some account in a social network.
Remember when consoles were touted as having none of the disadvantages of PC (no patches, no loading times, "it just works"), but what we actually got was consoles that are suckier than PC in every way, but instead PC gaming being gimped by consoles existing? (e.g. Fallout 4 having four choices at any point in any conversation has zero to do with "writing" or "game design" and everything to do with a controller having 4 buttons)

So yeah, if it's shittier and allows even harder rent seeking, it'll be the standard in a few decades. Don't count on quality being a factor, gamers are the kings of Stockholm Syndrome and there isn't any hoop you can't get them to buy and then jump through.
Because Dual_EC_DRBG was very heavy handed. It was driven by NSA itself (and based on a paper named "Kleptography"!); the backdoor was obvious; and they had to ~bribe~ monetarily incentivize companies to actually implement and use it.

Meanwhile, both NTRU and Kyber are lattice-based, and their designs came from honest attempts. To be an NSA effort, there would need to exist an exploitable flaw in Kyber, but not NTRU, known only to the NSA. And it's not like NTRU as a whole got disqualified; only the fastest variant did.

That's the problem with spy agencies, you never know what they are capable of. But if it was an NSA effort, it would be, by far, the most subtle one uncovered so far.