skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a lot of discussion about Android and its various downstream distributions. Many folks are also confused with "security" and "privacy" distros!

I wrote this post (and rant) to clarify what these mean - and how we got to this point. It's a worthy discussion, given the relative stability of these distros.

Please let me know if you have any additional suggestions for the article - I can edit it pretty easily!
That's a solid analogy. I would argue the same is true of any currency. Buying Euros gives me no ownership of Europe, unfortunately, and the only way I can profit from doing so is if someone is willing to buy those Euros from me for more than I paid. All of which is true also of Bitcoin and Beanie Babies.

"The SEC argued that unlike collectibles, when a crypto token is purchased, the owner is invested in the network or enterprise behind the token."

Same when I buy Euros, I'm invested in the health of the Eurozone economy. The federal government's definition of security specifically excludes currency. It DOES however include derivitaves of currencies, so if Coinbase sold unlicensed Bitcoin puts (which may be the case, I really do not know) then I think there might be a solid argument that they were selling unlicensed securities.

I'm by no means a crypto fanboy, and I think it'll never be anything more than a ponzi scheme, but to call it a security is ridiculous unless you call other currencies such too.
> Untrained people can't be inside the flight zone

What kind of training makes you immune to being sliced in half by a tether?
Why is cybernetics quoted?
Completing the Silk Road bike race on a cargo bike
Isn't this kind of unethical? There are plenty of people/companies running ads that are just trying to get some traffic and you're costing them money.
It may functionally stop all new projects (although I doubt that it will get that far).

I don't see anything implying that existing projects approved under the old framework would need to be re-assessed and shutdown though. That was my main point.
Because breaking even isn't stocks going up and to the right. If shareholders aren't seeing good returns on building a portal, it isn't gonna be a good time. That is true for most of these companies. Good will and analytics alone isn't enough for investors.
There are two key points of contention I have with your argument, which you have posted multiple times verbatim.

1. The whole point is Nuclear does not have to cost this much, thus your comparisons are irrelevant. China’s build costs are substantially lower so it can be done.

2. For a not-insignificant percentage of the global population that can consider mega projects of this scale neither wind nor solar are reliable enough during peak energy season - the winter - to use even massive battery packs like you have described.
Sadly, not even close to the biggest...

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/red-army-trophy-art-germany/
Have also seen cases where this extends the contract period for the customer because a change was made to the account. /grimmace
Speaking of queues, any book on in-depth practical queuing theory? This book is highly recommended by many people, including those on HN: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/PerformanceModeling/book.htm.... However, a reading group by seasoned researchers said the book was not necessarily practical on production systems: https://emptysqua.re/blog/review-queue-theory-book/.
Interestingly, I have a very different experience than you. I simply have a script that sets up the server. I keep updating the script to make it better each time I hit an edge case. At this point, it's pretty bullet-proof. Updates are automatic and so I can leave the server running for months without any intervention.

Due to my love to shiny things, I keep wanting to find an excuse to move to a PaaS but I can never find a sufficient justification.
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#statemen...
Correct. Demand is all that matters. This BS is just supply side economics for liberals.
I don't think it's uncharitiable, and it was in response to a lawsuit, not regulation. It points out exactly what you said with the quote from the judge.
This would already be illegal under false advertising laws. There may be other use cases that are similarly objectionable but that are not covered by these laws (because they don't involve advertising, for example).
> I felt sad for the guy. It’s awful going through life never believing in anything.

Being an idealist is fine, but being a dick is not. This article took on some personal schadenfreude after I read this line.
"insert a disk controller card into Burrell's Apple II with the power still on, without glitching it out"

Now that's cold calling without any introduction whatsoever ...
"trying to replace native code with web pages? "

No one wants that. But many like to write their apps only for one plattform - and then still have them run allmost everywhere.

The web is the best we have to achieve this. And this will greatly improve the possibilities.

Edit: My app will soon finally use no more html elements. It is not a "webpage".
It should enable much more performant (and battery friendly) 3D content on the web. WebGL has a level of synchronization in the main render loop of the browser that is just not the right way to do it, and WebGPU fixes that.

Additionally it is more suited to GPU based compute, which can be used to accelerate neural network inferencing, though not quite as well as dedicated NN accelerators which are fairly common these days.

I would tend to agree that the business case for these things is not as strong as many would like though, and things have a distinct habit of ceasing to be interesting the moment they are widely achievable.
If you don’t know how bad it will get, how can you balance the negatives of remediation?

For example, if the world was ending next year it might make sense to turn off all fossil fuels and eradicate most of the human population. But if it is only a few degrees per century we can consider… better options.
> Is there like a high council of crypto wizards that keep checks and balances on each other?

Not exactly, but certainly there are some crypto wizards that would love to get famous for figuring out how to break the so-called trusted algorithms and libraries.
Wind energy is the fastest growing form of power in Finland.

Plenty of hydro too. Enough to push electricity prices below zero in may 2023.

Luckily youve also got a choice of nuclear reactors built by Russia or reactors where you get the privilege to fight with France over whose responsibility it is to pay for the billions of euros in cost overruns.
Texas has created a private right of action to sue for damages of $10,000.

That is, if I know my neighbor performed an abortion, I can personally sue them, and get $10,000 (plus attorneys fees).

So, the answer to your question depends on if you define $10,000 as material or not.
They are probably alluding to antisemitic conspiracy therories.
Twxttxr is getting pretty close now - maybe in some ways surpassing Digg in awfulness.

Specifically the massive level of pornbot traffic, and algorithm changes that seem to be intentionally surfacing posts to adversarial users who will then go on the attack.
Border-solid can indeed be inlined but black is a color i think not all agreed on.
I like #252325 but some will go for #030303.

Also, it's like building your new and shiny app with i18n in mind. Do you really need translations when you are the only user? Probably not, but development is also about trying to predict what will happen next. classes helps you to grow.
If I remember correctly (and I followed the discussions on LKML at the time, but it was a long time ago), Reiser4 was not merged because it had some "cool" features that could cause problems.

For example (again, IIRC), it allowed directories to have hard links. Al Viro was adamantly against it, showing that this potentially creates some very serious problems. In particular, it allows for cycles in the directory graph (it's no more a tree), and Viro has shown that detecting or preventing such cycles may by prohibitively expensive, and undetected they would cause any program that does directory walking (like search) to loop infinitely.

This was not the only problematic feature, just the one I remember more vividly (in part, because of Al Viro's caustic argument style :-) ).
The Baker Act is similar, it's seen widespread abuse, even against high school kids.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2021/03/16/misuse-of-florida...

I remember seeing a video where a police said something to the effect of, "I've had enough of this, I'm about to Baker Act him," referring to the person arguing about his rights. I wish I could find it.
Sure. But saying they’re not obtuse is obtuse.
I'm hoping that immune therapies for cancer continue to improve. My dog got an experimental immunotherapy for his Hemangiosarcoma tumor (which is incurable). Due to the advanced state of the tumor (he had to have his spleen removed in emergency surgery due to the tumor, plus it had spread to other organs), he was given a 2 - 4 month survival time, he's on month 4 now.

There's not enough data to say if the immune therapy is helping (he's on traditional low-dose chemo as well), but it seems promising. The company (Torigen.com) is focused on animal treatment for now, but sees applications for humans in the future.
It just safe to assume that these videos are staged, until proven otherwise.
You would. But would the venture capital firms you would need to bank roll the infrastructure and upstart costs be fine with this. I imagine most of them, might be fine short term with low percentage (to eat market share), but eventually they'll ask, why can't we take 30% like everyone else?

I do think this is why EpicGames only takes like 12%. It isn't really good will, or it is surface level goodwill. Its market share. They'll eventually crank it up to 30 like all their main competitors.
I just something I can subscribe to and money goes to sites I visit in a reliable way. And the sites should stop showing me ads, but I'll even take that as optional right now.

Ideally something like youtube premium, but not youtube.

Google ran some services that at a very surface level had the same idea, but actually worked in a messy and bad way, and then they gave up on it. Which is a real shame because they have the ad presence to actually make it work.

Every other attempt I've seen has way too close to 0% of the sites I visit able to receive money.
This thread is the first time I'm hearing this definition. Self hosting has always meant using your own hardware. Cloud/VPS/VMs/shared hosting or whatever else have never qualified.
Article says machinist industry failed to lobby the same way as US steel. Not that US steel is doing healthy. But at some point it's the govs foresight / job to reign in MBAs via protectionism and industrial policy for strategic sectors. As other's have mentioned, JP has MBAs too. Maybe lesson is JP Gov listened to Zaibatsu/conglomerate lobbying power.
This was a very good read! Many spot-on observations.

I actually started the design of the MRISC32 ISA before I knew about RISC-V (I even called it VRISC first, for "Vector-RISC", but had to give that name up for obvious reasons).

Initially I attacked the problem from a software developer perspective, trying to keep an open mind towards various possible solutions, but over the years I have learned lots of things and have scrapped many ideas that simply would not work well in hardware. Developing an FPGA implementation in parallel with developing the ISA certainly helped alot.

One of the luxuries of running it as a one-man open source project is that you are not bound by business deadlines and goals, so it's perfectly OK to change your mind half-way in, and let ideas and concepts mature as you learn more. And unlike the very large body that is RISC-V, you don't have to struggle with competing interests either.
Step one of securing a “pension” is making sure that the world is livable half a century from now. On that account their priorities are correct.
Had a different shade of meaning in the Soviet context from the way we use the word today - more like "Computer Science" or "Automatic Theory", rather than robotic or human-robotic or "cyberpunky".
Good idea! There's no limitation in the generation or grading, but we didn't set up the search to support this. I'll see if it's possible to enable this in the wikipedia search component.
Does that mean the judge grants the dismissal, but not with prejudice?
I believe this allows you to have cascading restart strategies, similar to what can be done in Erlang/OTP: Only after the StartLimit= has been reached, systemd considers the service as failed. Then services that have Required= set on the failed service will be restarted/marked failed as well.

I think you can even have systemd reboot or move the system into a recovery mode (target) if an essential unit does not come up. That way, you can get pretty robust systems that are highly tolerant to failures.

(Now after reading `man systemd.unit`, i am not fully sure how exactly restarts are cascaded to requiring units.)
Looking at this example:

fn dbg_vec<T>(v: &Vec<T>) {
println!(
"vec data ptr={:?} len={} cap={}",
v.as_ptr(),
v.len(),
v.capacity()
);
}

fn main() {
{
let v1 = (0u16..128).map(|i| [i; 1024]).collect::<Vec<_>>();
dbg_vec(&v1);
let v2 = v1.into_iter().map(|x| x[0] as u8).collect::<Vec<_>>();
dbg_vec(&v2);
}
{
let v1 = (0u16..128).map(|i| [i; 1024]).collect::<Vec<_>>();
dbg_vec(&v1);
let v2 = v1.into_iter().map(|x| x[0]).collect::<Vec<_>>();
dbg_vec(&v2);
}
}

# cargo +nightly clean
Removed 11 files, 7.3MiB total

# cargo +nightly run --release
Compiling vec-debug v0.1.0 (/home/neo/vec-debug)
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.17s
Running `target/release/vec-debug`
vec data ptr=0x7f47ee162010 len=128 cap=128
vec data ptr=0x7f47ee121010 len=128 cap=262144
vec data ptr=0x55c6514f3ba0 len=128 cap=128
vec data ptr=0x55c6514f3ba0 len=128 cap=131072

What happens is that the original's vectors assigned space gets reused. That's it.

It LOOKS like there is more because the capacity inflates. But capacity is written in terms of sizeof(T), not bits

(0u16..128).map(|i| [i; 1024]).collect::<Vec<_>>()

the capacity (and length) is 128 times an array of 1024 of a u16. We then re-use the same underlying array which has a CAPACITY of 128 times (1024 * 16) and put in a u8 (the cast). So each item went from 1024 * 16 to 8.

So previously we had 128 * 1024 * 16 = 2,097,152 bits.

How many times can we put 8 bits in a capacity of 2,097,152 bits?

262,144

How many times can we put 16 bits in a capacity of 2,097,152 bits?

131,072
Concur with Notes and Bixby Routines. Discovered and tinkered with them three months ago. I was missing a lot, actually.

Given I’m more Power User than average user, I’m also in favor of vanilla as possible, but it’s not like an extra icon away from home and Edge Panels is really uncomfortable for me, I don’t even feel the presence of a lot of those extra applications I don’t use.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39045153
Day to day corruption is a problem. And if we had a solution, it would be known (the concept of bug bounties goes in the right direction, perhaps). I think this is a fundamental problem and research opportunity with the legal forms for institutions and staff incentives.

Even "winding down" doesn't necessarily need to be a problem. It's all in the "how" it's done.
> immigration didn't write down people's names at all

Technically no, but the immigration system accepted names that must have contained mistakes and were presumably used as part of the naturalisation/documentation process later
What about art in museums all over the world that is requested back by the country of origin?
Right, but it sort of needs to be hockey stick growth for the math to work out at the VC firm. So, like, fine, you can glide into a steady state of comfortably running a company over the long term; that's great! You should do it if you can! But you can't go pitch that to investors, since you're basically pitching a loss for them.
Lock oneself in a broom closet and devote every ounce of your energy towards proving results at the absolute fringes of modern math (with the very real prospect of a nothingburger result for 4+ years of work) and suddenly one starts to crave the simplicity of manual labor with immediately tangible results. I knew an ecology grad student whose thesis involved manually tagging hundreds of hours of video of worms moving around on leaves and after she handed it in she walked into the Canadian wilderness and basically dropped off the grid.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39045153
I am a bit surprised that this story hasn't made the news in America. Or the earlier farmer strike in the Netherlands.

I don't know if you are aware that American farmers also get a discounted tax free diesel fuel which has red coloring added to it. That way if a mechanic works on a non-farm vehicle and notices that the fuel is colored red then they can report the owner.

https://www.ricochetfuel.com/blog/dyed-diesel-fuel-vs-regula....
Parser IF Disambiguation Hassles
This is the difference between security vs archival perspectives.

For security you should assume someone recorded it indefinitely.

For archival you should assume nobody recorded it including the original creator.
Great! I was waiting for the framework 16 but at this point i might wait a bit more and re-evaluate
Bitcoin proponents still sell it, TODAY, as "anonymous" and not pseudononymous
He is probably alluding to the Khazar hypothesis, according to which at least part of the Eastern European (and thus Ashkenazi in general) Jews have Khazar ascendancy.

The scale is very much subject to discussion, but genetic evidences[0] support the core idea.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/5/1/75/730630
Just to be clear, fundamentalist Mormon means he had multiple wives, and most likely lived on a secluded compound or in one of the surrounding areas of one of these compounds. Your likelihood of interacting with such a person is near zero.
Right, but you more or less have to lie to raise money for that strategy.
There's a lot of feature gap between C and C++. Many including me like to program in C but want just a _little_ more safeguards, syntax sugar and some established ideas (like defer) that improve the programming experience.

Now there are languages like Odin, Zig and C3 that are trying to fill that niche but having C evolve slowly to accommodate such users is also a great idea.

C99 added Designated Initializers which IMHO is probably the most innovative declarative syntax to initialize anything and it took C++ roughly 20 years to adopt such a thing (and then they had to nerf it).
Title is a little misleading (for me at least), this is not one of the many cases where a group of young people sued their government for a broad violation of their rights. This is a more narrow case where the plaintiffs said the government is supposed to consider emissions impact when approving oil and gas projects, and did not. There aren't really any youth directly involved.

The court didn't say Norway can't drill anymore, just that when you're doing an environmental impact assessment of a new oil field (which is required in Norway) you obviously have to assess the impact of burning the oil. I don't think this is very controversial.
> I struggle with the use of the word "hacking". Sometimes we want it to mean a penetration that requires exceptional knowledge and effort. Sometimes we just want it to mean "fiddled with the internals".

"Hacking" means "getting (typically) technology to do things that they were not intended to do, sometimes in a playful way". The other meaning was purposefully disseminated by the mainstream media to spread fear and hate against the hacker scene, because their knowledge about programming, computers and technology was a thorn in the side of specific groups in power.
It’s definitely not that simple. Ask yourself: why did the international committee use 2C as a limit? Why not 3C or 4C?

I suspect is is because it is based on politics and not science but I’m open to being corrected.

Also ask yourself: if fossil fuels are used to produce medicine and fertiliser with zero emissions, why would we want to stop producing them?
Not really, that is not the problem of WebGPU. The worst you can do is crash the tab. With an unstable graphics driver, there might even be the option to crash the system but that's hardly a security issue, only an annoyance.
Sorry, maybe I misread what you were intimating with the social issues stuff. I didn't really get the sense of that from the inside. Not then, anyways.
The fact that arcade still exists tells me that people actually pay for it, which is very unfortunate to see so many gullible people out there who are willing to be taken advantage of so much.
This nearby comment does a good job explaining why that doesn't really work out for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042945
Do you think humans design these chips by hand, or do they perhaps use a computer to help them because it's a bit tricky to make sure the electrons don't accidentally tunnel from an adjacent transistor if you're placing a few billion of them on the circuit diagram by hand given the scale they're at now?
Ah yes, TF2 Hats, They did start that shit for sure, but there are bigger targets for this issue like Roblox who are /really/ targeting kids
> you can't outsource plumbers and electricians

Not yet. Wonder where west would be if politics threw trades to the wolves and kept machinists. Maintain manufacturing prowess and build cheap factories.
Yes, Norway has good road safety numbers despite the weather.

Not having enough grip is an issue. Summer tires become useless when the road is very cold, or snowy, or icy. It’s physics and while driving slow helps, it’s still unsafe.

It’s not uncommon to see cars with summer tires struggling to climb the tiniest uphill roads with the first ice in October because some people forget that it gets cold every year. Good for you that you never got stuck or crashed, but it doesn’t mean it’s safe.
The worst are the small companies who say that they will keep your resume “on file”. Has that ever worked out for anyone?
That's exactly it. I'm not sure what about software in particular makes people think that it can exist without funding. People have no problem paying for a physical product, but virtual products are hard to justify for some reason.
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/ren...

The rich love using future carbon capture to justify present day inaction.
The $8.8T Cash Pile That Has Stock-Market Bulls Salivating
they are probably referencing an antisemitic conspiracy theory. I can't tell whether as a joke, or seriously. In any case, it should probably be downvoted, or dang should remove it. it's psuedohistory, invented to spead hate.
> would it be legal to notice there might be a problem, stop, and short the company stock?

Yes. As long as you don't use inside information this would be perfectly legal. It's pretty much what companies like Hindenburg Research do.

The problem you would find if you actually tried to do this is that investors pretty much don't care about security issues, so the stock price wouldn't go down after you revealed the flaw. That's even if they're publicly traded which doesn't appear to be the case here. I think it's these guys but I don't speak German so don't quote me: https://www.modernsolution.net/
Your whole second section seems like a startup pitch to solve those issues.

"Web apps for mobile".
Yes. The amount of digital data will be like, I don't know, 10 order of magnitude more than paper content. So I think archiving even 0.00001% for long term maybe tall order.
Figure's humanoid robots are about to enter the workforce at BMW
I think this is built into Excel already.

In the Excel menu bar:
Data -> Data from Picture