skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can but to my knowledge law enforcement in the US anyway have only done this once for a national security incident in the real world outside of a lab. If you have any links to this becoming common practice outside of a lab demo or security presentation on their own hardware I would be interested to save in my own documentation.

They can also buy cases that have anti-tampering controls that force a poweroff if the case is opened but that is getting into more costly edge cases. The hardware exists but is not datacenter operations friendly. It is also possible to force a wipe of ram on a clean shutdown but one must assume this won't be. As one example the feds took Mega's servers from Equinix after yanking out the cables and out the door they went.

[Edit] I should add for completeness sake there are kernel boot options to clear memory space before allocation and after de-allocation with a performance hit. Both are enabled by default on modern kernels now.

init_on_alloc=1 init_on_free=1
> Is that possible anymore?

Absolutely. I don't buy cars that were made relatively recently.
> The most we could say tech did was allocate just-in-time logistics outputs a little more efficiently

No, the most we could say is millions of families could stay in touch across high-bandwidth lines; online shopping was already a reality that needed a bit of a scale up; secured remote work was possible for many millions of people; etc etc. Try and imagine the same pandemic, but no one has a laptop, all shopping is done in person apart from what Amazon already stocks, and that's only in a few countries, most things are paper based, and every home has sub-1Mb internet and no way of doing a video call at the push of a button.
> Wozniak's point of view is very uncommon in the rarefied slice of the population that he inhabits.

Exactly.
Gigantic heat caverns in Mustikkamaa have now been filled with water (2021)
This energy storage system near Helsinki, Finland operated by Helen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Oy) might be interesting for HN readers. Some facts from previous article (https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2020/mustikkamaa), not sure which one would've been better in url field: District heat is stored in two rock caverns in Mustikkamaa. The temperature of the water in the caverns varies between 50 and 90 °C. The effective volume of the cavern storage facility is 260000 cubic metres and energy capacity about 11500 MWh. The charging and discharging capacity is 120 MW. The discharging or charging of the heat caverns at full power takes four days. The rock caverns will decrease Helen’s carbon dioxide emissions by 21000 tonnes per year. The stored heat can be used for balancing demand peaks and that way cutting fossil heat production, for example, in cold winter days.
The emails are user facing. So if, say, the ISP were to detect Microsoft servers connecting and serve them back a mailbox with a single email in it instead of the user's real mailbox, then the user would open Outlook and see just a single message. Ideally non-threateningly titled "MICROSOFT HAS STOLEN YOUR PASSWORD" and containing clear instructions on how to switch back to direct IMAP.
Name one branch of physics that can't do without philosophy, in the following sense: at a typical American university with a graduate physics program that prepares its doctoral students for a successful professional career in that branch of physics, philosophy classes are a required part of the graduate curriculum.
Writing on the internet, especially by folks in tech and business, has become 99.9% self serving. Zero value add. It's at the point where there is meaningful signal - if someone writes online, there is a very good chance they are untrustworthy and should be avoided.
Correct, which is why I don't buy them.
I draw the line at spaces, usually, because functionally there are usually spaces around where I care to have alignment.

But also, since I'm writing a character stream, I care about being able to see it as a monotonic stream of distinct characters (which is why I hate hate hate ligatures for e.g. "!=") and moving characters a tiny bit doesn't break that.
For me, I think proportional fonts are the way text was meant to seen, and monospaced fonts exist to accommodate the limitations of computers, printers and typewriters.

Why is that? In text or punctuation?

For words it’s more readable. The punctuation is designed for coding. The numerals are still monospaced.
Ah, fair, I missed that.
I would argue, all four.
Are there any known examples of this actually being done by law enforcement or government and working?
> Being able to lie

You’ve lost me from the start, this is 100% bad faith argument. This is against HN guidelines too, the mods have confirmed that parroting Dr. Hipp’s hyperbole is not welcome here. The irony is that calling it a “lie” is pure hypocrisy on your part. You already know that rebase wasn’t invented for the purposes of deceiving anyone, and you’re already aware that nobody using git is under the impression that commits won’t get rearranged (rebase is proof of that), nobody is expecting git commit dependencies to represent the historical order events happened in, because that’s not the way git works and not what it was designed to do, which means you are the one lying here. If you don’t know or can’t talk about git’s design in terms of what git designers were actually intending, then Chesterton’s Fence, you don’t get to tear it down.

What’s so sad about this is you and other Fossil followers are stuck on the bogus bad faith argument, lowering yourselves to attacking and name-calling, when a good faith argument exists and is just waiting for you to adopt it. You don’t have to repeat this stupid hyperbole. There are good reasons to consider other DVCS designs. There are ways to talk about and justify and sell what Hg and Fossil do without trying to villainize git and git users. For your own sake, and for the sake of setting a better example for other Fossil fans, try to find the strength to shed yourself of the negativity and explain why other systems are better than git while maintaining the stance that git was a good design for it’s time. If you can’t do that, then seriously, consider the possibility that the thing you’re arguing over actually isn’t better.
A good bow takes that much effort, but a primitive bow from a stick works. How would you make the pipe for that gun - you have a lot of modern technology invested into that pipe.

Which is to say if we got sent back 200k years to anywhere in the world of our choice, after 3 months in a library studying the books of our choice, the bow would be easier to create.
> free

There is the one trap-word. I am practicing a firewall-hygiene from the good-old ZoneAlarm days. If I don't need the software to 'get out', it is blocked. I only allow my Outlook to 'talk' to my mailbox carrier to bring in the emails. All other target IPs are blocked. So it can't 'phone home'. But again I'm on Office 2013 (and it still tries to phone-home).
APIs are stable with-in major version numbers. Major releases allow for API/ABI alterations.

* https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/versions/
Well, considering that the ages when this was expected of political leaders were also far more violent and had far more endemic warfare than modern times, maybe this actually isn't a good idea.
>Medieval English longbow archers only used such high draw weights because their arrows had to penetrate thick steel plate armor

Experimental archeology shows that this was not the case. Arrows could not penetrate thick plate, and could only defeat plate armor by shooting a large number of arrows and hoping to hit a weak point. The Youtube channel "Tod's Workshop" has done many tests with reproduction bows/arrows/armor, designed to replicate typical equipment and technique (featuring archer Joe Gibbs shooting an impressive 160lb draw weight) from the Battle of Agincourt era. Medieval plate armor was highly effective.

Good introduction video is "MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED! - Arrows vs Amour 2":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds-Ev5msyzo
Productivity app Superpowered pivots to become a voice API platform for bots
instead of a deque or circular buffer, wouldnt it make more sense to use a span?
> I question a 30% developer fee for using Steam

Devs are free to move to Epic Store/Microsoft Store if it bothers you that much. That's the beauty of PC, your computer is not tied to a single store.

They don't because they know those stores don't have the market share Steam has. The people have spoken.
Oh yeah, please don't get me wrong. My original reply isn't to take away what YJIT accomplished. It was mainly to reference that in the past YJIT used more memory but maybe starting with Ruby 3.3 you won't have to think about that aspect anymore, even for apps running on a low spec machine.

I can't even begin to fathom at how much work and testing must have went into YJIT to make it work as well as it does. Thank you!
I don’t think so? I personally don’t use that feature :)
Correct, Sweden has moved forward and is no longer just a manufacturing economy.

My question to you. Would you rather drive a Swedish made car or one from Mexico?
The video says there is an extra world, so yes more puzzles.
I don't understand this. Don't all Linux processes "run in RAM"? It sounds like what they have actually accomplished here is eliminate all disk I/O requirements from their DNS service, i.e. it works against a read-only mounted root filesystem now. That's not really the same as "running in RAM".
I’m not saying that there are no upsides with the Nordic model. But like any system, it also has downsides. How you feel about those upsides and downsides largely comes down to personality and (largely political) values.
I assume this pin will use GPS? It’s not always accurate. Sometimes the GPS is off. With a phone screen, you can better estimate where you’re standing by looking around you and then comparing what’s on the map.

For example, the GPS is almost never accurate in Hong Kong, when I visited.
>switchdeck

pretty sure the switchdeck is just a dbrand skin?
Sure. Running an OS that is carrying a lot of legacy OS X with introduced bugs and cruft. I love *nix and hope to keep using it for a long time more. But if you plunked 2002 me into modern day, apple’s offerings would be pretty cool but not what I’d expect after 2 decades.

You could buy a desktop with 4 gigs of ram in 2010.
That doesn't mean the Epic Store is not profitable for the developers.
This is no longer the case on recent versions of windows 11, if there is no connection it will simply block you from setting up until you connect to the internet.

There is a way to bypass it on W11 Pro, you have to boot with ethernet disconnected, then once at the account creation screen hit Shift+F10, enter `oobe\bypassnro`, reboot, and start the setup again and it will allow a local account.

At least for now, they'll remove that soon I'm sure.
This from the company found liable for deliberately slowing their stuff, for all their proprietary dongles, for getting rid of the headphone jack, etc. etc.

As much of a conversation killer calling people "sheep" can be, as someone who doesn't use their stuff, what is surprising about this?
There's a certain amount of difficulty in making a nuclear reactor, so going from zero to one (of your specific design of reactor) is going to be very hard. In order for that one to work, there's going to be a ton of mistakes and learning, and after all that, you have one working, very expensive power plant. But because you put your eggs all in one basket, that's basically all you can build for the next few decades. There's no going from 1 -> 10. there's no money, no political will to, and no demand for it, the one plant is just so big.

If instead we concentrate on going from 1 -> 10 by building multiple smaller reactors, we get good at building them, and we're forced to productize it just a little bit. Make the machine that makes the machine, as it were. After proving 1 -> 10, then going from 10 -> 100 becomes possible; viable, so other people and places that need it can get one, affordably (well, relatively).
For one, not doing everything through a web of public private partnerships isn't the same as central planning.
These days...I'd put their leading financial backers (& children) on the front lines instead.
Does this need a /s at the end? Your lament is that we’ve abandoned the dream of getting acquihired by big tech for… the same thing but with fewer steps?

It has to be sarcasm.
I wonder how the images in the article are converted to get this "retro" and "pixelated" effect
Humanity will win until we don't
- "Presumably the ISS is putting its waste heat somewhere"

Giant radiators:

http://claudelafleur.qc.ca/images/iss028e005676.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...

Fluid pipes are threaded through them for transferring heat. These contain mixed-phase ammonia: I believe it should condense from vapor to liquid under the radiators, the coldest point. That phase change adds a huge boost to their heat-carrying capacity.
“The semiconductor industry thought about it decided silicon was a better material platform 50 years ago.” Because we’re stuck at a handful of cores and around 3ghz clock on silicon.
That is why modern servers have the option to encrypt the DRAM to prevent this attack.

Moreover, there is also the option to have distinct randomly-generated keys for each virtual machine, to make useless the speculative attacks that succeed to peek at the memory of another VM.

AMD has offered these options for years and the future Intel CPUs will also have them.
The same people who were behind the four years of Trump/Russia investigations that yielded nothing. My favorite montage of videos from that time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ab6uxg908
The "when not pressed with other keys" stuff is interesting. I never thought about that. The only trouble I can see with this is being unable to type effectively on a normie keyboard. I've had the ctrl/caps swap for years and I regular mess it up on a normie keyboard, although it's no big deal to accidentally press caps, of course. What I like is my portable mechanical keyboard has a physical switch, so it works whatever computer I plug it in to.
Don’t a very large majority of companies fail? Is it sadder when they fail post-acquisition rather than pre-acquisition?
Am I the only one who found it very odd that someone who isn't from a euro-using country gives the net worth of a bunch of other people from non-euro-using countries in euros?
I have girlfriend from a European country, so I am not looking to marry anyone else.

It has to be some country where I can immigrate without too much hassle and without too much expenses, and without having to marry anyone from the country.
Study identifies countries vulnerable to extensively drug-resistant typhoid
Controlling a GLSL shader with a TX-6
Minimum wage requirements as I understand it, the current national minimum wage here is 23.23AUD or 14.73 USD per hour, plus 25% loading for casuals, plus 11% super annuation (basically mandatory 401k the employer pays), and 1.5-2x pay for odd hours or weekend work (depends on a few factors which rate you get). These are upheld by the federal government so it's a pretty broad and effective set value in the employment market. You wouldn't get far trying to pay less.

Some US states are around that recently which is cool to see. There is also a culture of fairness or "The Fair Go" in Australia, which puts a bit of pressure on working conditions in the right direction.

Not perfectly applied and not true for every business of course. There is still exploitive businesses who will take advantage of international students and other people in tough spots for cash in hand work or through wage theft (work without pay, not supplying correct breaks etc).
LoRa use cases without LoRaWAN
It's decent. I haven't found any better alternatives, although these days I just use the webmail from my email provider.
I’m in the market for a new Macbook. Should I get the M2 instead of the M3? The base M2 had 16GB RAM
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
Quite interesting to read the reactions to Jezebel shutting down on this British women's forum: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4939742-jezebel-b...

Apparently the site was not too well regarded amongst serious feminists.
You have a fair share of famous names in tech for a small country... You blew up Ericsson but I believe Spotify, Minecraft, Skype, Candy Crush, Flightradar are all from Sweden?
More like trying to climb a slippery slope. The natural propensity would be to backslide.
Open-source drug discovery could help us in the next pandemic
You use public data only for your external-facing products like Copilot and Bing.

You use all data, public and private, for your in-house skunkworks LLM-AI used by vetted, NDA-bound staff and execs.

Bing won't be able to answer questions like "What are the monthly active user counts for CoolService LLC?" or "What are the manufacturing processes used at Gadgetmaster International?" but maybe DarkBing will.

Even if LLMs aren't good enough to deliver those answers today, they might be in five or ten years, and in the meantime you want to fill the pool of data you're going to feed it.

Cynical speculation? Yes. Eventually possible? Maybe...
What on earth are you doing to make that happen? Either you’re use case is thrashing the SSD, you have a faulty part or you’re exaggerating.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-google-ustr-lobbyists... (not better: paywalled)
You will never find me in my dynamic backyard writing such tests neither - I will write normal tests and they still expose type errors.

And, if you do not write tests, there is a bunch of other problems that will surface, which will not be caught by the compiler itself. What I'm saying is static types give you feedback loop:

write code -> make the project compile -> fix bugs

while the dynamic ones give you:

write code -> fix bugs (including type ones).

Obviously, YMMV. For me it works. And to be honest, from my experience nothing is more brittle than a type hierarchy designed early in project lifetime and then fixed repeatedly until it "works", but again - to each their own.
If you're gesturing in the general direction of the Israel/Palestine discourse, I would agree with you that the eagerness with which a lot of that has been stifled in the public sphere is disturbing. But it's also still going on regardless, even on HN.

And I still wouldn't hold up Omegle as an example of the same class of problem. Freedom of speech should cover political disagreement and debate, but it shouldn't cover sexual abuse.
> but if everyone must fear violence coming back at them, that's a pacifying force

This isn’t self-evident. In fact, evidence suggests that more guns leads to more violence. But, we continue the experiment in the U.S.
Labelling the garage delivery as only to Amazon's benefit is a bit disingenuous. Package theft is a pretty bad issue in many places so having deliveries dropped behind a locked door is also a benefit to the user.

As for your security concern it's not unfounded but if your garage is built like most in the US there's probably already a locking exterior grade door between it and the outside because a garage door isn't that great as a security barrier to begin with unless you remove the pull cord that unlocks the door from the carrier.
Well... yeah, your behavior is that of someone who has Stockholm syndrome. I'm not saying this to be hostile, but there's a world of difference between "I accept this because it's the best option for me despite the drawbacks" and "I don't mind getting price gouged because the big tech company has to make money somehow". We all make business decisions that aren't ideal (because we have to), but you don't need to lick the company boot while you're at it.
> nRF5 is indeed inferior SDK of the 2 (thus abandoned). Also I dislike that a big chunk of the stack there is a binary blob. Regarding the code organization, not sure what toolchain you used, but the latest recommendation for nRF5 (Segger studio) could make it fairly easy to do this, but manually opening the project config files and changing them, not through the GUI.

Yes, I ended up editing the .emProject files by hand. It worked, but it felt like I was doing something wrong. I assume that you are referring to the soft device blob? Has that been abandoned in nRF Connect?
Also everything by Ken Liu (China) and Nick Harkaway (UK), and the Iain M Banks "Culture" novels.
It's murky whether the outputs of OpenAI's models can be copyrighted at all.

Further, even the model weights, if released or leaked, might not qualify.

Even 'steal' isn't quite the right word for the allegation of the malum prohibitum 'crime' of 'intellectual property infringement'. That's especially so if the disliked use isn't a reproduction as described in current law.

You might have a better case trying to extend the fuzzier concept of 'moral rights'. The distaste for the training, without it crossing the specific lines in copyright law, more closely resembles that vague form of IP.

But hey, you have in fact offered a sort of emotionally-rooted argument, albeit unconvincing, rather than the grandparent's unargued mere conclusory opinion that no valid contrary arguments exist.
“Money is a database for exchange of goods & services.“

This is more true in the last couple decades than it ever has been
Hopefully people have a better reason than simply getting off a purported bandwagon.

I was engaged with the early stages of a project where one of the founders wanted us to base a payment platform around FreeBSD. His reasoning boiled down to "Linux is too popular". The consequences of this choice would be significant, and that just isn't a justified position so I bowed out. The project, unsurprisingly, was a failure.
> Fair enough, but you’re just changing the premise.

Because the "true and cursed" immortality is not on offer. Spending resources to extend our life is a possibility. Spending resources to better understand what aging is and how to extend our youth is. Getting cursed with immortality is not in the cards.

> The word immortality has a specific meaning, even if you don’t like what it is.

Ok. You can have your discussion about your fantasy concepts. They are fun! What should we discuss next? How many duck sized horses we would fight just to avoid being cursed with true immortality? It is all good with me as long as we don't try to draw real world conclusions from said fantasies.
That is precisely the problem.

The average human is ignorant of almost everything. So why then do we select a tiny number of people to make laws concerning everything?
If you're paid better working in the private sector selling your experience back that sounds like a big factor in why we wouldn't keep experience in house.
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