skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know I am not typical in that my user name is my own name. Part of me cast off anonymity on the internet though if for no other reason to keep myself honest in my postings — a deterrent to allowing some kind of alter-ego to crap post and such.

You goal seems noble and born of good faith. I'd go past that to suggest you meant 'positively' instead of honest, because honesty could be inferred.

As a counterpoint (for a very diff use case), I ran a minecraft server and had to strongly encourage young players to anonymize themselves (starting with playernames) and to not share identifying info.

I also explained I would only chat publicly because I was an adult and my chat logs were available to any parent who asked. Not quite the same thing but I was trying to example helpful boundaries. I never got any takers on the logs but doubt that bit ever got passed on.
One day, pirates learned they could get better interest on their treasure by putting it into banks than they could by burying it. But many had forgotten where they buried it and were not able to take part in this new world
In particular, all the hosts they recovered keys for seem to be some sort of embedded thing, and over 99.9% were from one vendor.
LLMs and Communicating in More Dimensions
You don't need a sneaky program, you only need a program that misbehaves on sneaky inputs.
It's missing the best option for beginners: the UPduino[0]! It's a cheaper ($30) and more capable (39 GPIOs) alternative to the iCEstick or TinyFPGA BX. There's even a slightly more expensive variant with an onboard RP2040 microcontroller[1].

[0]: https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v31-lo...

[1]: https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/pico-ice-rp204...
I think there is also a stigma and fear associated with approaching someone today. No one wants to be seen as a creep or to find themselves on social media branded as one. This frightens me very much.

https://xkcd.com/642/
One might consider Cloudflare as a very nice competitor to Vercel in terms of DX, although I suspect all companies use a ban the world approach, even banks.
But if you use your car so little why would you spend 20k on one of the worst car experience of modern history ?

You have no perf, no comfort, no status
(Haven't looked into all the software available recently, so YMMV, just some thoughts:)

The other side of the story is the availability of a low-cost/free and capable tool chain. It's my impression that AMD/XILINX wins on that.

Of course this also depends strongly on the purpose. I think open source tool chains are not yet a state that you can bigger problems with it, so if you want to get into the job market, maybe train with a vendor software. Different story if it's for home projects. And if you want to hack on the open source tool chain, all the power to you!
JRE - The Joe Rogan Experience
I remember they fixed that one, but plundervolt is more finely targeted, like a traditional glitch attack. The fun thing with this attack is we just need a little bit of corruptions everywhere, and some broken signatures might make it through!

DVFS aside, there's plenty of ways to stress and CPU and cause random errors. I don't know whether their RSA implementation protects against this attack, though.
The approach of the dark matter cloud would be seen in perturbations of orbits and its effects predicted long before they occur.

Consider --- if you use traditional physics to completely calculate the orbit of all the planets around the solar system, everything falls out pretty much perfectly --- except for the orbit of Mercury --- it is elliptical and gradually rotates around the sun:

- ~5,030 arc seconds of this rotation are from the gravity of the sun

- ~530 arc seconds from the other planets

- ~43 arc seconds cannot be accounted for by the classic laws of physics, but are perfectly explained by general relativity
I see similar articles or research like twice a year. And nothing ever comes of it.
I think a better question might be whether it prevents categories of bugs that are more likely to be exploitable than, say, the logic errors that no language could ever prevent?

Also, it sounds like your seasoned eyes would be valuable in reviewing this code.
OP I'm really sorry this happened to you, I think you just got extremely unlucky. This entire series of events sort of reminds me of the Swiss cheese model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model). Glad to hear you're doing better now, did you end up contacting your university in order to explain how their policy (among other things) affected you? Your insight might help out the next person who gets extremely unlucky.
Practicing bass guitar. I never played music as a child which makes learning as an adult ten times harder, but that won’t stop me, I see it more as a fun challenge hah. I started with piano during the pandemic, which I enjoyed, then that morphed into generally learning the full gamut of production with DAWs and whatnot. Bought a bass guitar in the summer and have been having a blast learning, I have practiced nearly every day that I am at home, and actually notice how much better I am getting. Also identifying areas to improve upon, and focus on getting my hands to do what my brain wants is a really good exercise, and a really good break from the ol’ enterprise software grind :)
I’ve been using this account on HN since 2010. I created a new HN identity because reasons [1]. Some time after I had reaped a bit of karma, I was replying to someone who was being fairly emotional (and a but irrational) in their arguments. Someone else in the thread flagged their next reply. They thought I did the flagging, looked up the domain that matched the handle, found me on LinkedIn, and complained at me in DMs on LinkedIn. I was freaked out a little.

1 - this pseudonym has followed me through many places and it was time for a change
Then they fix it and make it good.

Which can be why it can be worthwhile to file suit in small claims court or even pro se.

Because then you’re in their legal department which often at least responds.

Or you get to foreclose on the local branch.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclo...
So, what's the next best alternative to Matrix?
This really sucks. I have always had great hope for the Matrix protocol. The AGPL isn't my favorite open source license, but it has its place... but a CLA? That is a complete nonstarter. No one should ever sign a CLA that gives a company more rights to your contributions than you get from theirs.
Unfortunately it was mostly demolished by the explosives used to dig it up
Howdy fellow intellectual/addict!

Currently I'm reading Michael Pollen's "Botany of Desire" about how how plants interface/manipulate humans (spec: Apple, Orhid, Marijuana, Potatoe). There is a salacious passage on sexual reproduction strategies, involving bees ("flying penises") and this plant that "play resists" the bees entering — and then author Pollen ends his description of this interface by suggesting: many people might see this as the bee penetrating the coy defences of the flower, but in fact it is the flower manipulating bees.

I'm gonna give you the first recommendation free, but the next one'll cost'ya =D
Print media -- seriously. There are vanishingly few types of paper-based products left besides mass-market paperbacks and a handful of soulless conglomerate-owned magazines that may disappear tomorrow.

Just like there are small farming collectives out there, I'd love for there to be micro-magazines and short stories on paper, made cheaply and distributed to small mailing lists with a single stamp (not an email newsletter!). PDF versions available for long-distance readers.

Something, anything to counter the overwhelm of ad and email popup-ridden "content blogs" and walled garden platforms sucking everything into their in-house LLMs.
I think one thing that helped git early on was that its concept of branches were just really convenient.

For me I'd say it's that git doesn't fit my mental model and Mercurial does - it's that mercurial gave me a smaller mental model that (at least back when I used it heavily) allowed me to do what I needed.

Even as a fairly experienced and advanced Git user, Git requires me to keep more state in the head and at, from my point of view, unpredictable times needs me to extend the model. The strange thing is that this is despite having a very simple model at the lowest levels of the system.
What nightmare scenario are you envisioning? Now stop, go back, and examine who the bad actor is in that scenario.

Leaving such powerful tools in the hands of secretive organizations or uber-wealthy individuals is a guarantee for bad outcomes. Distributing the tools, the know-how required to build and service them, and the benefits of their use -- that's the antidote.
Right now the Trails series (trails in the sky, trails of cold steel)... I think it's an old and new series isn't it?

Also a surprise like was Blue Reflection, if you watch its trailer it doesn't even look too dynamic but it was great fun.
If I'm not mistaken: The two projects were started by the people that founded Element. When they founded Element, they transferred the projects to the Foundation, to make them more independent. Now, they're taking them back and relicensing them with a reciprocal license (AGPLv3 + CLA) instead of a permissive one (ALv2). I assume this is about other companies using Synapse and Dendrite without contributing back, so now Element wants to be able to sell licenses for the projects, or get contributions. See https://element.io/blog/element-to-adopt-agplv3/ for more details.
The podcast is called "Geladen" and is in German language: https://geladen.podigee.io/
What we actually needed was the USB standards body to mandate this information on the USB cable for it to be labelled and sold as USB.
TIL Atlantis was larger than a quarter the planet and then mysteriously vanished without a trace.

Seems legit.
I just built myself a sim racing rig with triple screen setup. Will be signing up for iRacing soon.

I'm tired of being productive and "on".
I think it's pretty obvious that Plato's literal description is complete nonsense. What makes these historical fables interesting is when you ask whether they could be based on real events. Because sometimes there are real historical events that match them in some central details, despite being completely off in others.

This is a field of speculation of course; there's never any hard proof that the author was influenced by those events, but the similarities are intriguing nonetheless.

Other, similar examples:

* King Arthur and Riothamus

* Noah's flood and the flooding of the Black Sea (or more likely a massive flood of the Tigris and Eufrates)

You can never prove that these events did influence the author, but it's intriguing to speculate that they might be.
I’m fascinated by the possibilities of trading as a video game instead of a way to make money. I’m building a stock exchange to prove this idea. https://github.com/sneilan/stock-exchange
a topic often seen on Hacker News - the Julia language

I find Python to be useful but excruciatingly verbose, particularly when you get to using NumPy and Pandas. I like the syntax of Fortran/MATLAB/GNU Octave so here's to hoping that Julia can take over some of this workload. I also use R extensively (and love it) for data analysis; glad to see Julia's capability in this space also.
I'm passionate about the game I'm making. Completing 2 years this december. Doing progress one step at a time.
You've made a jump from the article - it doesn't say it was a lie, it says that it wasn't accurate to say that Coutts decision didn't involve considerations about his political views. They're not the same thing.

No outlets have retracted the claim that he didn't meet the wealth criteria, and nobody has claimed that Coutts lied about him meeting the threshold. In fact, every outlet that I checked today stil claims he didn't meet the wealth criteria, and that the CEO resigned because she discussed details of a client's account with a journalist, e.g. [0]

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/26/business/alison-rose-natw...
This assumes that speeding is what takes lives. As long as everyone is going the same speed, things are relatively safe. I don't think more laws are the solution that we should look for, or that ignorance is the cause.

Honestly, in the U.S. we should be raising speed limits.
I had a think about how you could best deal with this and then realised I was probably just designing a worse Nix.

I think, unfortunately, the Debian model just can’t scale to the sheer volume of what it’s being asked to do. And, as pointed out by one of the original posters, it’s not clear what benefit creating a common standardised version of lodash buys anyone.
It does surprise me that there isn’t more direct gamification used by companies, at least by startups. Even something as simple as using a 2D basic RPG “company space” (instead of Slack, Google Docs, etc.) would be fun and visually more interesting than using a bunch of apps that all look exactly the same.

While I am a little skeptical of current-gen VR tech, it might be cool if companies in the future have custom-designed digital VR workspaces.
Not knowing it doesn't make you a bad software engineer, but knowing it certainly will make you better(unless you've been writing CPP for 30 years).
It also works against the analogous technology for ARM (2017):

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical...

The researchers made an app that can run as a normal user and extract the hardware enclave’s private key.
No, it does not matter if fixing a Tesla is expensive, as long as their insurance doesn't cost more than third party insurance. Quite the opposite - more expensive repairs probably means more margin for the insurers. They are going to get the money back from premiums anyway.

Actually all car companies have incentive to lower repair costs because people look at the cost of insurance when they buy a car, but I don't think it's a big consideration for most people when they are deciding what car to buy. It's normally a negligible cost compared to the repayments for the car.
Berkshire Hathaway posts a 40% jump in operating earnings, cash pile of $157B
It's kinda the point, though. Runtime GC as in Python allows you to handle these problems during... runtime (which means you won't encounter some of them at all when learning - which is good!). Rust explicitly attempts to handle them at compile time, so the surface area of potential problems you might run into during runtime is much bigger.

Rust with GC is somewhat like ocaml with ...; instead of let ... in.
What? I wish I could report your commment
BattleBots. 250 pound robots with 70 pound steel blades spinning at 250mph fighting each other? Yes please.

Besides for the absolute mayhem, the planning, driving, and engineering that goes into these competitions are insane.

Some fights to give you an idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORDg67i70IU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx2aJMISaP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaTIreDG45M
Small companies can move fast and change direction.

Medium companies can move at a moderate pace and can change their direction with minimal delay.

Large companies move slowly and change directions slowly.

A whole countries governing apparatuses....

The bigger something is the longer it generally takes to move but because of that it also has more inertia once it does start moving and is harder to stop.

So you better make sure the moves you're making our a good one when you're big.
Drawing at least 30min every day using Line of Action[1]. It’s relaxing and fun to see improvements over time.

I’m also writing my own tools in Elixir for playing around with LLMs. Currently exploring ways to efficiently chunk documents/code/webpages so that I can create embeddings for them.

[1] https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing
Thank god I'm not the only one to know that. Peoples keep talking about the awesome efficiency of Apple software but this happened to me and I trashed quite a few SSDs.
Supposedly macOS is more efficient with the hardware but having built hackintoshs I know it is the reverse. Apple fanboys are so confident in their bullshit that it is hard to trust your own experience.
For clarity I am still a macOS and Apple user. Not for long though, I won't buy new Apple hardware until they change their ways. Got the iPhone 12 mini and deeply regret it, even though the physical format is pretty nice.
you mean like concrete where the sand is silicon carbide

'epoxy granite' is a thing
I love these threads:

- Learning to use Emacs better

- Common Lisp

- Clojure

- Getting better at chess

- Rubiks cubes and solving them faster

- Indie gaming and fighting games at the moment
I wonder how we are from a Rust UNIX userland. At least we wouldn't have to implement a C compiler!
Re-re-reselect: Simplifying React state management
That's helpful! Have to say, 25 EUR feels quite cheap considering it's storied reputation.
Except that many of those women aren't real, and the ones who are are getting hundreds of messages a day.

The opposite is true on campuses. There are now far more women than men at college. Outside of IT/engineering, the ratio is around 3:2 and very favourable to men.
Chomsky's analysis of society, and the media, is common across radicals of all political persuasions. They need a theory to explain why their radicalism isnt popular, despite being "obvious" -- so you have false consciousness (marx), manufactured consent (chomsky), class envy (ayn rand), etc.

What Chomsky leaves out from his analysis is that he himself exists: a member of the elite, central to vast amounts of elite discourse. His ideas aren't marginal and indeed, in many ways, mainstream.

Radicals are, generally, rationalists -- starting theory-first. But in matters as complex as society, you need to be an empiricist.

If you study 'popular opinion', consent, etc. as an empiricist you do not find these categories: elite, media, etc. Rather there are shifting groups of people, each with their own interests, engaged in a competition to have their interests realised.

When fox news called Arizona their viewers left them -- so fox jumped on election denial precipitating events which led to Jan 6th. What is the analysis here, say?

Well chomsky would always 'find his enemies' in the elite: trump down to his base. Whilst this analysis is partly correct, it doesn't explain the existence of trump in the first place: his base chose him. Rather than any prior 'political elite'.

The conspiratorial analyses of radicals always ends up with 'and this is why people don't subscribe to my view of the world' -- it is itself a political project to 'manufacture ideological consent' to their own world view. A mechanism they fail to notice.

A scientist in these matters has to have basically no political project whatsoever, and not bend their empirical analysis towards their status and away from the status of others. And indeed: how many political scientists are there, by this definition? nearly none.
I thought nobody wanted to work anymore
Just write "unsafe" and use debugger.
What we really need is to stop the USB-IF's reign of terror
Are they really dysfunctional though? If these institutions are the best we have, then by definition they are not dysfunctional until something better comes along.

I feel like most bitter people lack the understanding to be that genius who makes a difference. Those who are usually conformed first and become a revolutionary later when they were ready.

What I tend to see are desperate people playing the lottery with their beliefs and just following whatever negativity is trending because it seems better than doing nothing. The vast majority of reddit is like this for example.
Related to this, a group did fascinating work using a "CT scanner to uncover the hidden engineering differences between" Lightning cables.

https://www.lumafield.com/article/usb-c-cable-charger-head-t...
related: If this is how they work, why doesn't google offer a private service to allow publishers to have content indexed while still protected?
Sounds like the usual "need more DEI training" to me. There's precious little sign of that working...but it's a reliable legal defense, and it lets the company avoid all the third rails around this subject.

If a company somehow wanted sustained, real-world results - I'd suggest setting up a network of male senior managers who had multiple daughters, with 3 directives:

- Try to reduce sexist barriers to female leadership by 50%

- Try to ease the worst 10% of the sexist jerks out of the company

- Keep the whole effort secret
Depends on what you want.. XMPP as a protocol is somewhat comparable, but I like the Matrix model better. You can still use the Matrix protocol without adopting this new corporate fork, though.
A surprising number of the cultural myths that have entered western canon were born out of obvious fiction. The Holy Grail and Fountain of Youth being prime examples.
Not really (although thinking now!).

My dad's a master jeweler, I've always wanted to make a fancy Orrey with him.
It’s a bit complicated because they rise and fall by word of mouth.

People will say things like, “everyone on Tinder is gross lately but I’m going out with someone cute from Hinge Thursday so fingers crossed”. And their friends will download Hinge/be more likely to delete Tinder if it’s not working for them either.

Maybe the ideal situation for the apps would be to match you with a steady stream of short term partners who turn into good friends, so you both say good things about the app and also keep using it.
Home automation. I always had an Alexa and a couple of WiFi switches, but I just discovered the rabbit hole of Home Assistant, Zigbee devices, flashing devices to get rid of cloud capabilities and install your own firmware, and the whole ordeal. Haven't had this fun with tech in a while.
Are the proportions in the first large image of the article off? Somehow the bear looks too small to me, compared to the rails.
Some TPMs are FIPS-140 compliant and go through 3rd party audits and extra screening. If you purchase a device that is compliant you can then retrieve a certificate of compliance. Some TPMs can be made compliant with the appropriate firmware update.

If you don't trust FIPS then you could support open source TPMs and help audit them.

Other than that if you care enough about it and had the prerequisite skills and money, you could develop your own TPM (the interface specifications are online) and run your own trusted and audited Linux system.
Home of the longest pleasure pier joins public sector leak club
It’s interesting to me how many online people seem to not understand the implications of this sort of stuff on an intuitive level. Maybe I am the paranoid type but once something goes public these days it’s basically available to anyone in the present and future forever. “Anyone” being state actors like you mentioned down to bored teenagers looking for fun. As the ability to capture our data evolves our autonomy is being eroded, grain by grain.
I'm really enjoying Scavengers Reign, but I can't help but feel like the local biology is a bit too absurdist. Or the amount of consistently lucky moves some of the characters would had to make to discover some weird quirk of that alien life. They had been there for maybe weeks or months, but somehow discovered that if you climb inside of the belly of this particular creature and twist some of his internal organs that it will release a light producing egg when you hit them against a hard surface? Or that if you attach this tentacle sac to your face that you won't inhale some fungus gas.

Very creative, but a bit hard to believe. Perhaps the timescale of how long they were stranded there could have been increased a little bit.