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Yes packages are reproduced and signed. I get that and this is fantastic. That is not the big gap I am talking about which is making sure the expressions themselves even use the correct sources and are not tampered with. Making sure the central signing key is not compromised is pretty critical too, but that can be mitigated with independent reproduction servers that also sign, requiring a minimum of 3 before a new package is trusted.

As for Debian, maintainers must still all be part of the web of trust with an application process and a registered key in the web of trust to contribute packages. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer#step_5_:_Keyring_up...

Arch also still has each maintainer sign the packages they maintain, and there is a similar approval process to earn enough trust in your keys to become a maintainer, so there is a decentralized web of trust. Then you add reproducible builds on top of that to almost complete the story.

Signed reviews would remove the remaining SPOFs in debian and arch but sadly no one does this. Nix however does not even allow -optional- key pinning or verify signatures of any authors that choose to sign expressions or their commits, so NixOS is way behind Arch and Debian in this respect.
That's absolutely fascinating! The use of single-molecule fluorescence to verify rotational motion is indeed impressive. I'm curious, how do you think this groundbreaking technique could potentially impact future research in the field?
Minor nit: author keeps referring to the CPU as the Motorola 68k. It was always formally known as the Motorola 68000.

(And if you insist on using k it should be capitalized.)
Does this apply to all emails including transactional? What I am supposed to do if a user requests a password reset but unsubscribed from our emails?
Most of the spam I received these days is from gmail addresses these days.
Nintendo doesn't include it in all their controllers either. Kind of a pain when you have to walk over to the console to turn it on if you're going to use the snes controller. Also frustrating that only some games will let you access the home menu with those, even if they otherwise work fine. (Especially the Nintendo provided emulators! Game boy works fine with a snes controller, but if you want to switch to something else, it's a hassle) F-Zero 99 supports it well though!
Be awarez they will not remove your DNA data from their databases.
Also an incentive to sandbag: ship a costly feature, then next quarter ship the savings.
Seems a good alternative for a hobby like telescope for astronomy.
Intellectual property shouldn’t be a thing. If you still have it after I’ve supposedly stolen it from you, then it’s not real property. The easiest test of consistency is simply to ask about both piracy and AI training data. If you support IP in one case but not the other then you’re a hypocrite. There is no third option where your support of something depends not on what it is but who it benefits.
They can't just block speech using bots as the excuse. It's up to the government officials to provide a channel that allows free speech as the law defines.

I imagine this will more likely raise issue with the use of private social platforms for public statements rather than whether they can block comments.
Maybe soon we'll see DNA Scrambling as a Service
I'd go all in on the most nefarious - hacked data could be used to design a virus that only kills people with one particular genetic trait.

I'm pretty sure there's an uber dystopian horror movie in there somewhere.
Climate change is not a single disaster waiting to happen at t=x, but a gradual process. There’s plenty of evidence suggesting that extreme weather events like wildfires, floods, and storms have been increasing in number and severity in recent years [1]. Some people have already been directly impacted, most are indirectly sharing the burden of the societal costs.

Unfortunately, humans collectively are very shortsighted, and it’s hard to communicate issues with seemingly intangible or long-term consequences. So we continue to argue pointlessly while slowly boiling like the proverbial frog in a pot.

1: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate/climate-and-ext...
What I like so much about the Grug piece is that it’s full of nuance and humility. It’s not pretentious.
>My question back would be: why _is_ child labor the only alternative to extreme poverty or starvation?

That's been true for virtually all of human history. It was true even in the 20th century in agricultural parts of America.

> Why can't adults be paid a sufficient wage to avoid starvation, or why can't our society provide for these children without requiring them to work?

Those people don't live in our society, they live in some other society that doesn't generate the kind of surplus required to enable children not to have to work.
The two HDMI ports are worth it for me.
I have a project with Raspberry PI 400 in multiseat kiosk mode.

It has two monitors, and an extra keyboard and mouse.
The microHmdi->HDMI cables you can get for 2 dollars each.

It paid for itself in saved electricity bills in about a month (it replaced older computers and I set it up just when electricity went through the roof here in Europe).

On the other hand I did not need wifi or bluetooth. But wireless, and the extra HDMI probably does not add much to the price. I think Raspberry made reasonable choices regarding ports, etc.
is there a way to emulate drag-and-drop on a (touch-based) Chrome Android?
No, because you're not infallible, you'll merge some crap, some things that are outright wrong, that your reviewer might have caught and that slight delay is less painful than dealing with that commited mistake - whether it be an incident in production or 'just' confusion when the next person in that area has to work out if your bug was for some reason intentional and what might break if they fix it.
Github, NPM have all the signs of EEE. For Github they already gave the misery of PAT and TOTP. Corporate hoops planned for NPM as well. Especially sad, as NPM is/was the best package/dependency management system ever created.

TypeScript and VScode are there of course to make all programming as horrible as it's on Windows.
Except the argument, projected to the dimension of WMDs, is not that AI is like nukes - rather, AI is like bioweapons. Nukes are dangerous when someone is willing to drop them at someone else. Bioweapons are inherently dangerous - the more you refine them, the worse it gets; eventually, you may build one so deadly that one careless handling mistake ends the world.
No, autoignition and flash point are two completely different things.
> The novelty of these shapes hidden in images is already gone for me.

Yeah I think it took approximately 1 AI image of cats spelling naughty words for me to crest that hill and lose interest in the entire technology. It's a technique that was only ever interesting because it took effort and cleverness, it turns out.
> "owning most of the stocks" is completely equivalent to "wealthiest"

That's still not a tautology just because in practice it is usually true, and is easily disproven as such: Stock values could all nosedive to nothing, and the wealthiest people would still mostly all be the wealthiest due to non-stock assets.
Bonus points: It's drugmakers.

Our so-called "health care system" isn't about your health and welfare at all.

We have a lot of chronic illness these days because treating you forever pays the bills, curing you does not.

Are we sending this data to universities to research optimal nutrition for your genetic profile? Absolutely not.

No money in helping you eat right and live better.

Lots of money in poisoning you with their potions and blaming it on "your condition."
I agree. But that's a problem. People are easy to impress these days and don't think through what the message actually is.
It is just the way it is with Elixir - everything can run in the same process (or in different connected nodes):

See:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3oyh3g1AtQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK38-HIK6NA
Because most of your best scientists are educated abroad and immediately pair up with an American so they never have to return. (Then tend to get divorced once they have permanent residency, heh.)

Russia had a leg up on China -- NASA used to exclude PRC citizens[1] while collaborating with the cosmonauts as a result of progress on things like START

It squandered it by being totalitarian to the point it wrecked it's own economy -- no one wants to live in RU right now except those born there and the oligarchs that treat it like a playground.

THAT is why you can't build more than 40 satellites.

[1] https://osp.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/NASA-China-Restrictio...
LOL back in the late 90s and early aughts I had many friends in games. There were many times when payments didn't come in in time and employees were working for repayment promises.
General Aviation is not ultralight aircraft. That is a tiny, tiny portion of GA.
You might be right. Dave is to blame.
I Began with Sound
Sure, but Terraform Core doesn't provide any way of getting user feedback in case unexpected situations happen, or aborting while saving the current state, both of which would save me serious amounts of time.
I feel like Microsoft chooses to deal with a bazillion IHVs. Surely they have and had the resources to go vertical, but they do not seem to want to get their hands as dirty as Apple’s in hardware business.
I remember each of the architecture transitions (M68k->PPC, PPC->x86, x86->ARM), and perhaps the most vivid recollection I have of each one is that it made perfect sense at the time. In other words, it wasn't a surprise move by Apple, and I remember widespread speculation for years beforehand in the broader community (Apple users and otherwise).

PPC offered tremendous promise in the early 1990s at the same time Motorola's evolution of M68k was lackluster at best - so it made perfect sense that Apple would need to migrate away from M68k, and PPC was the optimal choice so as not to compete directly with hardware used by the PC market.

And when Intel/AMD were innovating tremendously in the early 2000s while IBM was lagging with bringing out aggressive updates to their PPC line, the switch to Intel seemed inevitable.

Even the idea that Apple should heavily develop their ARM mobile chips for future Apple products was discussed heavily in my circles since about 2016 (around the same time Intel started to stagnate their offerings). The earliest I remember was this blog from 2011: https://www.mattrichman.net/apple-and-arm-sitting-in-a-tree/.
> I thought run-of-the-mill web ads averaged out to like cents per visitor usually.

That’s because inventory is near infinite and full of fraud. Facebook has much higher quality inventory (at least for ads displayed in their own apps).
Yes, as well as a serious new test of freedom of speech. What’s your point? Technology always advances society’s laws.
Because of the sarcasm dripping from your post I have no idea what you're actually trying to say.
If you were born in a hospital your DNA is already collected[1]. You may as well benefit from it too.

Also, bringing murderers to justice is a pretty odd thing to object to.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/documents/newborn-dna-banking
That’s why they don’t do engine changes, since it is easier, yes.

What was your point point exactly?
It's weird how smart people are naturally attracted to complexity like moth to a flame. It takes years to learn to fight the urge to over-engineer.

Once you learn to see it though, it's hard to ignore. Now I can tell instantly if code is over-engineered. Unfortunately It seems like maybe 99% of code is over-engineered. The developer's incentive to maximize their own lock-in factor and billable hours are powerful forces. Even developers who appear to be totally robotic and ego-less are often guilty of over-engineering. It works on the subconscious mind. Few are ever able to escape the mindset because they are not fully conscious. They are not thinking about every single line of code that they write. They decide on some goal and then churn out whatever code first pops into their heads to get incrementally closer to that goal... Not realising that, at each step, there were many alternative paths that which were superior.
What was the legal reasoning behind this?
a counter take from me, as someone who uses adblocks everywhere possible but used to work for facebook ads department:

ads aren't inherently bad, irregardless of much data do they track. What really bad is how this ads is targeted and how much ads is delivered. I would LOVE to see relevant to my interested and situation ads. I like fpv drones and often see interested ads on instagram and led to a purchase. The problem after that I can't just edit the vector of my interests for ads targeting and keep bombarded with something not relevant to my situation anymore, and boy so much of it I see.

I really don't know why big ads network didn't move forward with user controlled ads mechanics - because we all humans buy something anyway, it's okay of being aware of the options on the market. It's not okay to mentally torture users with irrelevant, annoying and overwhelming amount of ads.
> It feels like something is going wrong here in your connecting a dog being off a leash with somehow empathy for the dog.

If that dog bites someone it dies, how is that not empathetic?

dogs are typically required to be on leashes in parks and public areas for a reason.
I appreciate articles like these because they're useful for people who don't know the background and details and aren't interested in a deep dive, but it'd be nice if the author spent a little more energy on details and correctness.

For instance, 20 bits of address space support 1 megabyte. The 640K limit in the IBM PC was due to the IBM PC's design. Also, Apple would've considered the 8086 over the 8088, considering the need for memory throughput to have a responsive, fully bitmapped display.

The addressing of the 68000 wasn't critical for the Mac like the article says; the Mac's designers took shortcuts that made 4 megs the limit for the first generation 68000 because it was easy and they had lots of space, although it really wasn't the limit because the Mac Portable can have up to 9 megabytes with the original 68000 with 24 bits of address.

The Pentium didn't compete with the m68040. The Pentium came out after the PowerPC 601. The 80486, which made it to 100 MHz from Intel (higher from other vendors), competed with the m68040.

I think some steps were missed between the power-hungry and heat-generating PowerPC and the MacBook Air. I don't remember any history showing the Air as something that Apple was trying to, but couldn't, make. The issue was that the G4 was good for its time, but there was never a proper G4 successor because the G5 was too power hungry and too hot. If there was some MacBook Air project that never got off the ground during the PowerPC years, I'd love to hear about it.

The comment about performance-per-watt of x86 versus PowerPC was only true of the G5, it's worth noting.

"Superscalar Architecture" is in the section of the article talking about, "What made Intel x86 CPUs so much better?", even though Motorola, Intel and PowerPC had been superscalar since the '90s. Intel definitely improved their superscalar implementations, but they certainly weren't unique ("to get superscalar architecture working effectively" is not how I'd put it).

The author wrote, "I had to know what actually caused Intel’s x86 architecture to be so far ahead of its competition.", but never mentions AMD anywhere in the article. If AMD hadn't seriously outperformed Intel and forced Intel to actually compete, and if AMD hadn't forced the creation of 64 bit x86, then Intel certainly would not have been an option for Intel. The Pentium 4 had the same heat and power issues as the PowerPC G5. Intel ended up cancelling the Pentium 5 and instead going ahead with a much modernized Pentium III core for their Core release which made up the initial release of Intel Macs because AMD were eating their lunch.

There are some other things, but they're mostly minor. It's a well written collection of information.
Basically the judge said the idea AI images generated are infringing on copyright is so stupid it's thrown out.

The other part of the case is if the artists copyright was violated when training the AI and they have only claimed that Stability used their art to train.
> It's been tried many times before

Can you link some specific example? That may be an interesting read.
I still have a quite short firstname@gmail.com address, and those emails were unbearable about 10 years ago. Several times, the only alternative was resetting the the password and taking over "someone else's" account to then change the email to a disposable provider like Mailinator.

Hostile? A bit, but after contacting services and complaining, nothing would get done anyway.

I ended up changing email providers because of that.
Man arrested after confusing Portuguese words for 'pomegranate' and 'grenade'
I have mixed feelings about that.

Personally, I found the mini HDMI ports themselves a downgrade. One is forever looking for adapters. However, having two displays is nice!

It boils down to whether someone is using the device like a computer.

The Pi 400 is a nice, respectable computer and I use one for development. Two displays makes sense and is high value.

Now you can absolutely use the device.

I have an epaper project in development. I have the epaper setup and attached to a Pi 3. That makes sense and it works well. Code output goes there and I have it all in one place.

I use it in two basic ways:

One is headless, using VNC to access dev tools and code located right on the Pi. I keep various wi-fi setups handy and can copy a new one onto the SD card if needed. Usually, I am powering the Pi with my laptop in that scenario.

The other is via plugged in displays with keyboard and mouse.

I do both of those with Pi 3 and 4 devices.

The Pi-400 needs the display adapter and though I have not lost or broken one yet, it seems to me simply attaching an adapter permanently to the computer would make a lot of sense.

This thread makes me want to 3d print a different case so that I can incorporate the adapters properly and just expose HDMI slots like we see on the earlier devices.
Sure, but more conservative and balanced approach still puts you in really decent shape. 4mm instead of 6 maybe.

So that's not the problem, the problem is with the idea that you start max contribution in your 20s and keep it up. To a first approximation, nobody does this.

The real way that people run into trouble with voluntary saving (tax sheltered or no) being relied on is something like this:

20s : bad salary, don't save much

30s : making better money but getting married and having a couple of kids

40s : man those kids are expensive, putting college funds together, saving a little bit. oh well at least we're building house equity.

50s : huh, we should think about saving. finally can live a bit though.

60s : oh crap, no way to catch up
They used to give whoever was on call for the week $200, we had a guy saving up for his wedding so he offered to be on-call for anyone who didn't want to be on call. It was a good deal for him and everybody was happy. It's amazing how cheap companies are today, for $10K you could make a lot of people happy.
I can't find any pricing information on your website. Even FAQ tab labeled "Pricing" has zero info. Do I have to signup to find out?

[1] https://www.boldvoice.com/frequently-asked-questions
> if they are not breaking the law, are they really blameworthy?

This mindset needs to die.

Yes. If you do something ostensibly immoral, it's still bad even if it's legal. It's still bad even if other people were going to do it if you didn't, anyway. It's still bad even if there's negative incentives that ultimately led to it. It's just still bad in general. If you have a reasonable decision and you choose to do a bad thing, you still chose to do it. It doesn't matter either, if a single person made this decision, or if a corporate board made this decision, or if a bunch of people in an angry mob collectively decided something.

What you can do is explain why it happened, but that doesn't mean that there is absolutely zero social responsibility to have. All that something being legal means is that it's legal. Something being legal doesn't necessarily mean it's good. Something being illegal doesn't necessarily mean it's bad.

We've conflated what we've come to expect from corporations to the standards we must hold them to. The standard that a corporation should live up to is indeed much higher and significantly more nuanced than "technically not breaking the law."

I'm not suggesting that I believe in no regulation. Regulation is clearly valuable in many cases, but I believe that it is clearly not inherently good (duh, bad regulation is everywhere) nor is it inherently the only solution to any class of problems. Believing that companies should not simply maximally exploit what is technically legal while still regulating them when they do abuse the system is possible and I'm pretty sure if we don't start thinking that way, we're even more screwed than we think we are.

Even if some corporations amass unthinkable amounts of influence and power and fundamentally escape the pressures of social responsibility through this, I still think that it's necessary to fight the learned-helplessness mindset. If absolutely nothing else, I think everyone is at least responsible for ensuring the bar doesn't drop so low as to allow this kind of thought process to remain "normal". It should always be thought of as abnormal, and as the threat to liberty and democracy that it clearly can be.
I expect it to be less engaging/pleasing and more instant article-filler material. To actually make something artistically interesting still requires effort, just a different kind of effort. The vast majority of these sorts of images will probably be uninteresting gags and background art.

In a way, the same is true of photography and digital art already, so this isn't a total condemnation (that is, most pieces have almost no value). I just don't think this particular kind of image generation is going to be a vehicle for anything noteworthy.
The Education of Robert Putnam
There's a dystopian sci-fi tactical espionage action game (from 1998!) that features exactly this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTjI2LV0Tus&t=56
Can you reliably tell the difference in a double blind test?

And choosing to compare against AW1 rather than a newer title which still didn't require this kind of bullshit (like Control) says enough about what kind of faith you come into this with.
Yeah, it looks pretty similar to me too.

I haven’t read up on vector DBs but I wonder of k-d trees would be a better fit?
Everyone here has a negative take. Yet, when people post that cutting edge drugs might save their lives you all want drugmakers and the FDA to move faster.

What is it?

Do we want to save people's lives or not? This is critical data for developing new drugs.

Keep in mind all of the people who did this, said they want their DNA to be used for research. If you didn't opt into that, you can still use 23andMe! But your DNA is never used. What's the problem here? I volunteered my DNA. And if there was a government scheme for people to do so that so that we can help advance medical science faster, I would sign up tomorrow.

Do you want to live longer? Find a cure for your grandparent's cancer? Find a cure for multiple sclerosis? Find genetic markers for autism? etc. All of these require data.

The hypocrisy and knee jerk reaction on HN about these issues is astounding.
They do concrete work in Canada in freezing temps all the time. It just can't be "too cold" or even the insulation / heating isn't enough. But in general 38F is "laughable" so to speak ;) Seen them do it in sub 0 (C of course, it's Canada) all the time.