skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should stop all the current Meth marketing...that'll solve the addiction problem for sure.

What are all these scenarios where policy makers have absolute control of how drugs are sold and consumed? Meth is illegal, as in we don't allow "marketing" today. But if it was legal, it'll only be the marketing that will be the potential problem? What is the point of these arguments? The low enforcement/legalization options have been tried in various places in various ways, not one has gone well. Besides magical thinking, what is the actual argument that legalizing drugs makes it less of a problem?
Imagine trying to write secure code in C by hand.
I remember “discovering” shift and add as a high school student for doing multiply by 40 (a useful operation for screen mapping) as an improvement over the more naïve x×y = x+x+…(y times)…+x.

But seeing the table of squares thing, I see the genius of being able to take (x+y)²-(x-y)²=(x²+2xy+y²)-(x²-2xy+y²)= 4xy and what a brilliant piece of math that is.
If you had any experience with this at all you would realize how profoundly ignorant it is to conflate the downstream effects of meth with adderall. Anyone reading this please please do not make this mistake.
If other manufacturers were licensing the OS. Like Microsoft and Internet Explorer back in the day
Emigration to Japan is well nigh impossible
And how do you propose to do that?

By isolating them?

Okay, how do you do that?

Put them in already overcrowded prisons where there aren't free cells, because the prisons are full of people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses?

Put them in treatment centers...that don't have the beds? Or the staff?

Or do you intend to cut the supply, using some technique which has been undiscovered by US law enforcement, fifty years into the "war on drugs"? Or, any other developed nation for that matter?

"just" take away their meth, and you have the nerve to accuse me of pointless exaggeration
So they dont look at precedents in court system in USA ?
What were you traveling with that they detected?
> a mobile app which a majority of people in the US will be able to use

Even using Apple, you can't do this, because you need a separate Android and iOS app already.

Big picture though, I don't think you really have a "right" or entitlement to just access everyone.

You're not entitled to use someone else's business, even if it's a good one. You can't just go and sell your product in the AT&T store, you need to agree to their terms. Even if you make a phone that only works on the AT&T network, you still need to agree to their terms.

You can't sell in Target or Walmart or Costco or even Amazon just because you want to. Oh and you may be quite disappointed to discover many of them take >30% cut too.

Apple thinks of the iOS App Store as another storefront, and you need their permission to put your product on their "shelves". The courts agree.
> The difference being that Apple isn't strong arming other companies into using their App Store.

They do. It's either Apple store or you go out of business, if you are developing a mobile app.
Bit of trivia:

The first Macs (or maybe it was the Lisa) had DO IT instead of OK. The people in the focus groups testing it got annoyed that they were being called dolts.
The annoying part is, that this ends up going back to the lowest common denominator. Where users that wont install another program end up being the boat anchor dragging everyone else to the bottom.
I think sometimes the point to make something illegal is not to stop it. But to make the behavior unacceptable to do in public.

Maybe we can craft better laws that just enforce them get aspect.

But if it is flat out illegal then some amount of trying to hide it will occur. As a result, maybe those two meth heads would have not been wondering around in the public where they will harm others.

Making legal and taxing it would still result in the meth head problem, and potentially increase bad behaviors associated with getting money to buy the higher taxes drug.
You're just acknowledging that this solves nothing but you still seem to want to pursue it anyway
What’s to stop Google from locking theirs down, too, at this point?

Or would that be illegal since it was originally open?
> Do you think an addict considers the closure rates on assault cases before harming a stranger?

Actually, yes. These people are not instinct-driven animals completely incapable of thought.

Similarly, if you know that drunk driving is very likely to get you caught then you will do that less than if you know there's 0% of getting caught.
It remaps it to Ctrl-G, which won't work in every program, but is a fairly standard shortcut in text editors.

xkb: https://github.com/berwynhoyt/wordstar-keys/blob/main/xkb/ws...

xremap: https://github.com/berwynhoyt/wordstar-keys/blob/main/xremap...
Ah, thanks for the additional knowledge. I’ll edit my comment for clarification.

Epic Games v Google is going to appellate now, though, isn’t it?
I'm obviously not talking about people with multiple instruments because they're looking for a particular effect. I'm talking about people who have 2 Juno-60s they can't really play because it's just money and "I'm a musician...you should see my studio" is a pickup line that worked that one time.
Software attestation of hardware is just pointless anti-competitive behavior.

Hardware Attestation however can have an actual security benefit.

If beeper was able to attest without hardware, Apple isn't doing hardware attestation and it's therefore just anti-competitive.
Well no, the problem is transit-poor environments that force every old trip to be a car trip [1]. What you're asking for is recompense, what I'm asking for is a system wide permanent fix.

EDIT: Rephrased retribution->recompense, that is to say recompense is good, but is not optimized for avoidance in the future (i.e. a system-wide fix)

[1]: https://urbanist.co/public-transportation-reduces-drunk-driv...
Modern voting systems have to defend against process corruption where some small town somewhere goes haywire and fabricates votes. Because the number of participants in the Doge elections was small they don't really have to worry about that so the constraints on their elections were different.

I don't think there is a debate to be had that modern elections are using an optimal process. There are also a lot of good philosophical and practical arguments to giving a majority power. The system that gets the absolute best outcomes probably puts minorities into power some % of the time - but that it too complex to explain to people and the risks when dealing with large numbers of people are too high.
Yeah and imagine advertising yourself as the "most secure OS in the world" at the same time
I get technology is always advancing, but I do wonder what the landscape will look like in 10 years when a lot of these patents start to expire. As a consumer, it feels like we have been hitting diminishing returns for a while now.

Sure, they will have released 11G, and all of the ads will tell me how vital it is the government can track me with millimeter precision, but I think all of my needs were already met with a five+ year old device.
A benchmark for evaluating the cybersecurity risks of large language models
How do they prevent phishing / identity theft?

This sounds like the worst of all tradeoffs:

- Your credentials are public

- If you want to change them because they were cloned, you need to undergo surgery

- There’s a non-surgical path that allows an attacker to replace your credentials with theirs
>>Secret warrants should not exist.

>I disagree, and so do the courts.

If you live in a more hostile environment where there is no accountability from the police and they routinely shake down, physically harm and jail innocent people using these powers, for personal and political benefits would you still support that? What happens if the US finds itself in that same hostile environment?

Have you taken into consideration how bad faith players would abuse power and how to keep them from doing it? Where's the checks and balances when nobody knows what's going on?
"Deflation is bad for the economy because consumers and companies may put off purchases or investments in anticipation of prices falling further. That in turn could further slow the economy, and create a vicious cycle.

...

Food prices were a major drag on the CPI, down 4.2% in November from a year earlier. In particular, pork prices plummeted 31.8%. "

oh no, people might put off their food purchases in case food comes down more (???)

cpi in china is weighted so that 21.6% of it is food. if food dropped 4.2%, and the overall inflation was -0.5%, then you do the math and see that everything other than food was actually a small 0.52% positive inflation. this is basically fake news
This is basically just a moving the goalposts argument. The public was told that the policies would fix/help/address the problem. The public was conned into throwing literally billions of dollars at these policies and programs. And then after the programs fail, you can't just say "well of course it failed, we didn't do X and Y". If that's the case, we should never have spent billions of dollars on programs and policies that we knew would fail without X and Y.
Thank you, I appreciate the earnest and thoughtful reply!
Not a fan of either, but I fail to see how it is a monopoly. Epic has the money to make their own app store as seen by their PC games one. They could perfectly well just make their own store regardless of Google. This fact alone makes it not a monopoly. Multiply that by how many million other business can put up servers and start an app store (to crash and fail - but besides the point), and by simple logic you prove that Google does not impede competition, and the customer has always the opportunity to use other stores/app platforms such as f-droid, etc. Now, if they locked the ecosystem completely and blocked phones from running apps installed from any other source, that would be a different story. As it is, this is just yet another case of legal ghouls who probably can't setup a wallpaper on their desktop without calling IT deciding tech laws for the rest of us...
I am saying that everyone makes deals with preferred customers and volume sellers. If you think you’re going to get the same pricing when you open an AWS account that Netflix gets you’re naive.

There has never been a law that a company has to make the same deals with everyone
Wigwam: A small-but-mighty project that reduces public reliance on battleships
I don't think this is the glowing review that you think it is.
I wish I could buy an Apple Watch without screen, crown and button. Just a smart disc to record all my Health and activity data, worn under my wristwatch
> One of the more under-appreciated features of Rust is that it traps on integer overflow / underflow by default.

I think this is only true on debug builds, with --release (which most Rust binaries an end-user uses should be compiled with) it just wraps [1] [2]

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/26197104b7bb9a5a35db2...
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/60238510
Look, I get as much as the next guy that Rust brings a lot of niceties. But what we are talking about here is a project that clocks in at just over 19,000,000 lines of C (`wc -l $(find src -name '*.c' -or -name '*.h')`), code heritage going back more than 40 years, an explicit commitment to a very rich set of platforms [1], and a very limited amount of manpower compared to projects such as Linux with their insane level of corporate backing. "Just rewrite it in and/or integrate Rust" is neither easy nor safe in that it overturns everything that is already there and tested.

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

As for improving upon C. I can not speak for OpenBSD as a project, but I am sure that there would be ample excitement to produce a minimal, solid C compiler with experimental security features to then serve as the default compiler for the project (heck, OpenBSD already ships with a number of less common security-related compiler flags from what I recall). Sadly, I doubt there is either funding or the hands to make that a reality.
"Monopoly is actually pretty cool" is definitely a new one but I guess it's par for the course on this site.
A Word on Statistics
Word of mouth referral into the org, last ~5 years as a security architect/cybersecurity subject matter expert, before that DevOps/infra engineer. 20+ years in tech. I rely solely on network and reputation.

Be interesting to people who can provide you opportunity, and ask whenever an opportunity presents itself. If you don’t ask, the answer is default no. Being genuinely curious and desiring to help doesn't hurt either.
Your comment has merit. Even at it's peak Roman culture was marbled with cruelty and violence. During its decline, these aspects only got worse and became coupled with corruption and decadence. But I think we should see them relative to their historic peers (Gauls, Carthaginians, Parthians), not relative to modern societies to truly see what their contributions were, of which there were many, including in law, engineering, and medicine.

Also, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xad5Rl0N2E
Apples case was not a jury trial iirc, it was decided by a singular judge which can make for a very different outcome.
K&R C / preprocessor allows programmer to muck with those definitions (as in, can wrangle C macros, functions and C's prorgrammer defined equivalent of methods) to fit definition of any/all of definitions of macro/function/methods defined above. That's why went with assembler level structure.
https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/platforms/ :

> gVisor requires a platform to implement interception of syscalls, basic context switching, and memory mapping functionality. Internally, gVisor uses an abstraction sensibly called Platform.

Chrome sandbox: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

Firefox sandbox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox

Chromium sandbox types summary: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/docs/linux/sa...

Minijail: https://github.com/google/minijail :

> Minijail is a sandboxing and containment tool used in ChromeOS and Android. It provides an executable that can be used to launch and sandbox other programs, and a library that can be used by code to sandbox itself.

Chrome vulnerability reward amounts: https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/5745167867576320/c...

Systemd has SystemCallFilter= to limit processes to certain syscall:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693366

Nerdctl:
https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl

Nerdctl, podman, and podman-remote do rootless containers.
If I were to self host an open source model like mistral or llama , are there options similar to this as an api gateway to proxy and authenticate , create api keys , monitor spends by api etc .,? How are people running open source LLM”s in production ? Thanks
An appellate ruling would precedential within that court's circuit, yes. One of the most common reasons that SCOTUS grants cert is when there is a "circuit split," where multiple appellate court circuits have decided differently on the same legal issue.

All this is beside the point, because if Epic wants to overturn the ruling in Epic v. Apple, they would (and have) appeal that case. These 2 cases are not the same, and it's entirely possible they end up winning one and losing the other.
Is it worth it to pay 30% more for everything in order to have that convenience?

Even if you think it is, other people might disagree. Apple prevents app creators from even mentioning that you can purchase content or subscriptions in a web browser instead.

I just want to be able to use the hardware I already paid for without Apple taking a cut of everything I do on it.
I don't fully understand. Are these functionalities baked into Android that only allow Play Store to use it?
Acceptance of warrantless searches. To enable greater power and wealth for the political classes.
I probably should have put this caveat in the conclusion but a couple people made some version of this point so I'll put it here instead.

I don't think behavior belongs exclusively in the HTML. There are types of webapps and complex UIs that require some form of involved state management and HTML—or, more generally, Hypertext as the Engine of Application State—is not the right solution for that. In that sense I want this post to be against the dogma of "behavior exclusively belongs in JavaScript," because I think that's incorrect and it's a pretty common view, even from expert sources that I respect.

I am, however, somewhat dogmatic in believing that web pages whose behavior can be described declaratively, in the HTML, using built-in attributes or a carefully selected superset of additional attributes, absolutely should be. This is because declarative interfaces almost always last longer and require less maintenance (I plan to write about and explore this topic in a lot more detail). A great many web pages that are not written this way could be, and suffer from an increased maintenance burden as a result.
Hasbro to cut 1,100 jobs
The critical nuance is that most of these machine learning applications have existed for a long time. We've had facial recognition for well over a decade. We've had the ability to generate text. We have statistical models for credit scoring, and so forth.

The difference -- why all of this stuff is being regulated now and not 20 years ago -- is that under current techniques, these models are just much more powerful and accurate today. The impetus for regulation is not that a given machine learning application exists, but the fact that it works really well.

The power and sophistication of machine learning models corresponds extremely strongly to the scale of data that it is trained on. If you are pro-regulation, then what you really want to regulate is not the mere existence of a machine learning application, but the scale of data with which it is created.

--

For another way of making the point: consider the phrase you used, "a ban on using machine algorithms to make decisions that affect a persons life". Examine it like an adversarial lawyer: what's the threshold for "affect"? Everything affects a person's life. Does Google Search work under this standard? It uses a machine algorithm to decide what to show, which can affect the user's life. Does Netflix's film recommendation work? Does Spotify's recommendation work? Okay, you want those things to work, but you don't want [insert other purpose]. You're going to find that the lines are blurry everywhere you look, and that makes for really difficult regulation.
It’s interesting that none of the desperate arrangements were lower fees; the closest being ability to upsell preexisting subscribers (off apples platform)
Do you have some stats to back up the implied claim that homeless drug users significantly raise assault rates? Portland is a very safe city AFAIK.

Either way It’s less about “we should let people sell meth” and “we should let people sell meth if the only other option is just jailing them” IMO. obviously no one wants to see or be homeless drug addicts taking up public space. But we don’t really have a ton of options without systemic change
On top of the other replies, the million threshold impacts smaller scale investment than VC as well.
There was a story in 2015[0] where someone was able to reproduce the fingerprints of the German defense minister from a photograph.

>Jan Krissler, known in hacker circles as Starbug, used commercial software called VeriFinger and several close-range photos of von der Leyen, including one gleaned from a press release issued by her own office and another he took himself from three meters away, to reverse-engineer the fingerprint.

[0] https://www.dawn.com/news/1154284
Because decades ago, "figuring it out" entailed visiting a website and downloading a software installer. Why is Apple expecting everyone to forget about that and pay them the difference instead?
Ask HN: Why is FRED down so much lately?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org

It seems like it's down every night nowadays...
> "May I die like a dog rather than hurry by a single second a sentence that isn’t ripe!"

Lol, sometimes I feel this way about the code I write.
High quality superglue is removable with a “debonder”. Here’s an example product:

https://bsi-inc.com/hardware/un_cure.html
Austin is quite visually impaired friendly. The Texas School for the Blind is here and I often see people walking around with canes. You also won't trip over anyone sleeping on the streets, save a couple of places downtown.
> If Singapore's economic and social policies were successful, surely people would want to move there?

Yes, this is not a hypothetical. Are you under the impression that people don't want to move there?
They do, but not proactively. You have to bring a case before the court for the precedent to get considered.

Lots of things that are legal/illegal are only so because they haven't been tested in court. Precedents are also specific and sometimes the details of a case make it different enough that the precedent does not apply.
It’s not a zero day. It’s insecure by design. There is a huge difference between parental control and snooping.

You really think you are going to ask a child what are they doing every second and what they talked about and they are going to tell the truth?

What’s stopping someone also from surreptitiously installing the same snooping software on another adult’s phone?

It’s not less clear. There is no reason to allow this type of software to be installed on a phone without a clear indication that it is on there.
Why isn’t it table stakes to accept PDF? Recruiters have been caught using Word to make false changes in a candidates’ résumé.
You can do it by any number if you toss in addition. If you’re multiplying by a constant, you can factor it out.

For example multiply by 40 (coincidentally the number of characters per line on common microcomputers), you could shift to multiply by 32, shift to multiply by 8, and add them together. Took some additional storage but was faster, particularly for 16 bit, than a general routine.
And this is why people on HN make horrible product designers
> You're the one who proposed the regulation ("particular establishments or at home")

I am?
Website seems to be suffering from hug of death. https://web.archive.org/web/20231212021652/https://workingfo...
It runs as a privileged app.

It uses that to install new applications and update applications installed by other app stores without the OS-level confirmation, probably can't be uninstalled on most Android OSes and perhaps some other things.
If only you could convince the people you'd like to see in power to agree. There's much more that could be said about how willing those you apparently support are willing to put the machinery of government power to work treading on everyone that doesn't tow their line, but that discussion is unlikely to move anyone here.
>Basecamp runs ~18% faster with YJIT.

Thanks, Unfortunately it doesn't state ~18% faster than what? I assume YJIT 3.2?
So what's the speed up compared to non-JIT CRUBY?
The best part is how it's marked as a tourist attraction on Google Maps with 14 5 star reviews, despite only one person ever visiting it.

The article kind of glosses over how inaccessible this place is. Rob Mark got extraordinarily lucky that the water level got high enough to boat to the area because unlike the jungle, the water is way too cold to survive for very long even during the summer and there's no solid ground for miles at a time like in a tropical jungle. It's all bog and peatland as far as the eye can see.

Unless the government clears helicopters to rappel people down, he might be the last person to visit the area given climate change.