skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this akin to the Sketch Pricing Model - https://www.sketch.com/pricing/
Nothing new...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...

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

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/19/21011527/retail-tracki...

https://liveramp.com/

to name a few
Hey, I wrote the blog post under discussion. It's good to bring suspicions! But yeah, the rarest situations aside, there's not going to be any relevant performance impact.

For one thing, in production, for a given key, the process tree will be "climbed" only once by any calling process. Thereafter, ProcessTree will cache, in the process dictionary of the calling process, either the value it "finds" in the tree, or a provided default value. For any later requests for the data, the calling process will find the cached value in its own process dictionary with a single, local lookup.

Along with persistent terms, a process looking in its own dictionary is as fast as data access gets on the BEAM. Faster, for example, than reading from the global application environment. In situations that warrant micro-optimization, the process dictionary is something to be leaned into, not away from.

In considering the initial "climb", we're talking about accessing the dictionaries of maybe 10-ish parent processes. In typical situations like mounting a LiveView, time spent climbing the tree will be dwarfed by other factors.

The main theoretical performance issue of climbing the tree is copying the full contents of other processes' dictionaries into the space of the calling process. Unless there's drastically large amounts of data in the parent dictionaries, it's not going to matter. Even then, OTP 26.2 introduced a new API for accessing specific keys in the dictionaries of other processes. Once an upcoming Elixir release supports 26.2, ProcessTree will integrate the new API, and the theoretical impact of copying full dictionaries will no longer be an issue.
ST-DOS
It's an HN classic! "Fuck the poor" is probably the most consistent sentiment expressed on this board. And any opposition to this is met with "they aren't really poor!"

Like they would know.
> Laws like you propose tend to age poorly.

And court cases don’t?

There was a court case against IBM over anti trust that started in 1969 and it was finally dropped in 1982 because the world has moved on.

One of the issues in the current case is already irrelevant - Cloud gaming that Apple has addressed.

Another issue was whatever you call the mega apps. Apple has allowed that for years and Microsoft, Google and Facebook all moved away from the mega app into smaller apps.
Yeah, it seems like great grandmothers at least would have been reasonably common as women had children so much younger than today. If women have children at 18, you could be a great grandmother in your 50s. There would probably have been the odd great-great grandmother as well.
In what way is this not the democratic process? It's a law under consideration in a state. Is Connecticut not a democracy?
An enterprising person could probably design a casing for a solar powered Pi and stick it to the top of the kiosk.
Some of the people who currently fly economy would start flying business, but a huge number of people who are currently taking Greyhound buses, driving, or choosing not to travel at all, would start flying economy.
> A better fix would be to just make transit more attractive, not make driving less attractive.

I agree, but at least this makes them relatively correct, if not absolutely.
I'm no legal expert but it seems like this data might be subject to FOIA requests - or at least should be anyway. If it is truly anonymized (yeah, right) then it could be released publicly.

I'm not really sure what the general public would actually do with this data - but they paid for it so they should have access. Even better would be to not collect it at all. Is there some way to increase the cost of collecting/storing data like this so that more municipalities/organizations will just consider stuff like this "not worth it"?

Even in cases where courts have found that the government (or their agents e.g. a police officer) didn't have the authority to surveil the public without a warrant they were able to purchase private data and construct a parallel chain of evidence that didn't involve the warrant-less surveillance.
Look up Network token - or EMV token.
This is incorrect. Rust is a reaction of iron and oxygen. Salt accelerates the process because it is ionized, but not necessary. You can flash rust pure iron in seconds with distilled water.

Furthermore, ice alone is basically inert at the timescales that we experience. It would take eons for pure ice to react enough for visible rust to form. Even if it was cold enough for salt water to freeze, the difference would be negligible because salt and water separate from each other as the water crystallizes into ice.

Also, we salt the roads here. Our freeze/thaw cycle is more frequent allowing for rust reactions to occur throughout the season, whereas a colder climate will only see reactions in the spring. There is no shortage of rust here.
When Soofa started, they managed to get USB-charging benches installed around the Boston area.

The concern I raised at the time was that the company was being allowed to install general purpose equipment housings in prime heavy-foot-traffic locations -- and the company could use these to deploy surveillance capitalism equipment they controlled.

Looks like that's a direction Soofa is going in.
Half of what kind of car? Perhaps a Pagani Zonda R (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagani_Zonda_R)? That's a car and it's priced at around $2m.
> Not in a transparent way, generally speaking

There are ways to get around that.

For example, a bank could offer partial rewards for using their payment system, over Apple's. The effect would be the same as passing on the savings to the consumer.
I love the scapegoat concept, it solves problems in at least 3 ways:

- resolves pressure that builds up due to social paradoxes (don't like you but have to pretend to, have desires but can't admit to them)

- reminds everyone that it could be worse, normal problems are no big deal compared to actual violence

- and promotes bonding over a shared enemy
> So I dare say the NFT reader isn't 'broadcasting' the amount to pay. Why would it be? Your plastic card had no way of dealing with that information.

Ah but it is, and it does :)

You see those four lights that are on contactless readers? I know they're mostly meaningless to laypeople and they more or less just flash in unison to the naked eye, but they show stages of the transaction progress, left to right.

There's a bunch of two-way comms going on there, including the transmission of the transaction amount, date/time, various transaction details, maybe a cryptographic challenge (nonce), and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember, from the terminal to your card.

Your plastic card has an active chip on it, it's not just a dumb NFC tag, it is powered by the field the NFC reader is giving off. It does send a bunch of data to the terminal on request as an early part of the process, then receives transaction data back, arranges it with some internal bits of its own, pads, hashes and encrypts it using a key (usually a session key derived from a stored private key) and sends back the resulting cryptogram to the terminal. In fact your card makes important decisions about whether to allow the transaction to proceed, based on the transaction data, various counters and limits it maintains, etc etc. If the card doesn't approve the transaction (and show that approval in its cryptogram), the terminal cannot approve.

You phone does the same stuff, but obviously without needing to use the power the reader puts out.

The problem with displaying the amount before you validate, is that it would interrupt the process and require running the transaction in two halves, and it would kill the "tap'n'go" aspect of the transaction. But the phone can immediately display the amount afterwards.

Incidentally, this sort of thing is why we have rules that the terminal must display the amount in a way that's visible to the customer, to be compliant.

> It's listening for the request from an NFT reader, at which point it beams out your 'card number', and that is that.

This is definitely not the case, and if it were the case, contactless cards would be trivial to clone!
Like others have mentioned you need to find a problem first.

1) Find what people are already paying for (on Fiverr/Upwork)
2) Build a product that solves that problem

Use https://insanelygood.tools/problems for free market research
Modern four-stroke low-rev motorcycles/scooters are no noisier than cars. And lorries easily beat them in the noise contest.
>The upside is that I was a total basket case in my 20s, completely incompetent to be able to raise a child. ... Generally I'd expect older adults to have done a lot more maturing and increased ability to emotionally regulate,...

This is exactly why I don't think anyone should have children until they're at least 50 years old, and better yet 75-100. We just need to solve this "aging" disease problem first. 20-somethings just aren't emotionally mature enough to be good parents.
I had completely missed the reference! This is super interesting.
I've already submitted a FOIA – request 2024-0103[0]. I requested all raw data made available to the town since this feature was made available in 2021. If this is successful, I will submit one to neighbouring towns as well, and will release it on my blog (here[1]).

Edit: I have mixed feelings on this initiative as a whole. "Bike Counters" are frequently used by cyclists, for instance, to argue areas need better infrastructure. The question is how can it be done in a non-invasive way, and this data should absolutely be public if it's being collected

[0]: https://townforms.com/FOIADirect-BrooklineMACitizens/Public/...

[1]: https://boehs.org/node/soofa-foia
The problem with Linux is everyone who has a new idea starts their own thing, so it’s infinitely fragmented, and everyone wants to work on building new things instead of doing the detailed finishing work to actually making it good to use.

Linux could be great, if the community had a way to get organized and focus all the efforts around the things that would actually make it great for the average user. Having developers do whatever they want and hoping it all comes together in the end is never going to get Linux to the point where it’s better for the average user than macOS or Windows.

I thought Ubuntu had enough money and focus to make it happen, but that dream died years ago… around the same time as their Kickstarter phone.
You are asking for a counterexample
but I think s/he was asking for what assurances the software can provide. Is it proven to be perfect, bug free in both specification and the physical analysis?

Remember compared to you assume we
are all laymen.

It would be interesting for us on the armchairs how such software even works. Is it like (ahem!) antivirus software looking for patterns?
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You’re right. The A220 and A350 were clean sheets introduced in the 2010s.
I don’t know what exactly he’s doing spending all this time though. There are no positive results to show, including for Apple itself (it gets embarrassed quite often by App Store mess-ups).

Whoever’s actually been in charge of the App Store and running it has been doing a terrible job for a long time. Unpredictable app review durations, unpredictable app review feedback, unpredictable and grossly wrong app rejections, not handling reports about really malicious apps (that either charge like tens or hundreds of dollars per week or violate App Store rules on privacy or do something else that’s bad)…the list is quite long.

Apple hasn’t invested as much as it should on the App Store. This leaves it with disgruntled app developers, disgruntled customers and disgruntled governments.

It seems like it’s a bit too late for Apple to salvage this situation. Years and years of neglect in the pursuit of profits is finally catching up. Without an overhaul of the entire team right from the top, this down slide is not going to be arrested (it’s questionable it could be even with an overhaul, because of Apple’s thinking process and blind spots).
Security Vulnerability in Saflok's RFID-Based Keycard Locks
Speeding Up Asset Precompilation in Rails-An Experiment with Vite, Esbuild, Bun
>All-in-all, CISC/RISC debate is a mirage because it depends on the net performance of

This ignores performance is not everything.

Complexity doesn't just mean more effort; it also translates into an increase of bugs.
I realize these are public spaces we're talking about but to what extent are we willing to have our bodies and behaviors amplified, stored, copied, and otherwise scrutinized before we're allowed to feel some inherent right to personal privacy has been violated
See also the Donald Duck Family Tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_family_(Disney)#Family_tr... (though I prefer the illustrated version by Don Rosa)
Brute force text search optimizations
At least the Port Authority runs their shit lightyears better than the MTA.

Even when it's bad, the PATH is better than the MTA on its best day.
But grand claims made by technologists are nothing new. Certainly I don’t know, Ive never been in the military, but aren’t people always trying to sell The Next Big Thing to the military? Is it not the responsibility of those in charge to evaluate the capabilities and limitations of new systems being integrated into their forces? If someone said “we dont need the rigor we used to have anymore, we have AI” I see that as a failure of the org, not an indictment of the claims being put forth by boosters.

Corporate Decision Maker #2, sure, theyll get hoodwinked. They and their company may have only 50 years of experience and institutional memory to draw on. But State Militaries? What excuse do they have? War changes, but the armed forces have a long memory, and their poor decisions cost lives. Maybe Im off base, but I would expect each mistake to be an opportunity to learn for that industry. The industry has had plenty of lessons learned over the past 100 years. Why is the latest hype cycle to blame, and not those whose job it is to ensure they maintain capabilities and extensively game out scenarios and responses?

Bad bets on tech happen even in institutions with lifetimes of history to draw on, but I see that as a failure of the institution, not on the completely mundane hype cycles which occur naturally.

Obviously mistakes happen, and maybe thats what the article is getting at. But if we’re going to point fingers (not saying you are) then lets not let decision makers off the hook whose job is to prevent that hot new thing getting their people killed.
Why run a startup when you can run a business with bank loans to leverage your technical capital, comrades! Wake up from the perils of being yet another cannon fodder, for it is your time and time is our most valuable thing! Our kingdom is near, strike!
> commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate

How does this maps to adding another node in the compute

Also, why perpetual?

They are essentially data processor, they act on your behalf and should not do things with data that you have not asked for.
Not being pushed onto the tracks is also for the rich.
> they are looking to end this back and forth once and for all

You can't eradicate ideologies like Hamas through military means.

You do it by turning people against them and robbing them of legitimacy.

Instead of using the hostage situation as an opportunity to change Gazan's mind about Hamas, Israel killed ~30k of them, created a humanitarian disaster and bred an entirely new generation of Hamas supporters.
Haha true. Of course, our agreements are a bit different but practice management systems often index and process client materials.
This is fantastic! I read the Silmarillion when I was in high school, and while it was a bit difficult to get through at times, I was in complete awe of the world Tolkien had built. Seeing it all laid out like this is amazing.

(OT, but it looks like the page's character encoding is broken. And of course Firefox decided to ditch the ability to set the correct charset manually. The "Repair Text Encoding" button isn't working for me.)
With oauth/oidc, the service that's requesting the token doesn't even specify the username. What would the IdP send back if the user is not authenticated? The concern is it will just issue a token for a random user? Or that someone will break into another account on the IdP's login form?

I don't see any difference with email besides convenience. If an email provider has a bug, they might allow someone else to read your email and click the link without any notification to the actual account owner that such an authentication occurred. In fact, if a provider has oauth and webmail, the two probably use the same authentication system (e.g. they use the same session cookie and login form, or the webmail might use the oauth service as its auth). Even native email clients are using oauth these days. This is a good thing. It lets you store a token with limited permission in your email client instead of storing a password for SMTP that also gives you full permissions to everything the account can do.

Also most oauth implementations I've seen actually do have a dashboard in your user settings where they record which services you've provided tokens to, and what scopes those tokens have.

If you're worried about CSRF, that's what the state parameter is for, and it's the consuming service that needs to use it appropriately, so you don't need to worry about whether the IdP did it right. If the IdP gives the wrong state back, the login will fail when your service checks it.
No idea about Apple OSes but to avoid data collection and save battery I turn WiFi off when I leave home and Bluetooth is on only inside my car. That should prevent any problem.
In addition, even if you go into the settings app and turn off wifi (which is supposed to be an actual disabling, unlike toggling the wifi in the quick access menu, which is automatically undone after a certain amount of time), it will be turned on again the next time the device reboots.
Maybe Yes?

If the “game engine” is a military sim system.
My understanding is that apple's MAC randomization tries to give each SSID a different MAC but records the mapping so that the next time you connecct to a known SSID you get the same MAC.

I can see why they would choose to do this -- it provides some privacy while not confusing most users (who might have to reauthenticate, or might no longer be in an allow list). I'd prefer to get a new one each time I connected to an SSID but I'm sure I'm in the minority.*

I wouldn't be surprised if every one of these devices had the same SSID. Why not?

* 99.999% of the population wouldn't know a MAC if it bit them on the nose, and I'm sure prefer it that way. Not an unreasonable position to take, TBH.
The term you'll want to search for is "digitizing". It's roughly the embroidery equivalent of CAM design in CNC manufacturing.

Depending on how much time you have, this video[0] is a decent in-depth overview[1] of the various ins and outs of embroidery patch digitizing. I'd give it a watch while you're on a walk or something.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/live/jATHlfz8mtM?si=Lvw-ZTq8tmLg9ij-

[1] Heh, "in-depth overview" sounds like a total oxymoron. Hopefully you get what I meant!
> A better fix would be to just make transit more attractive, not make driving less attractive

It’s a worse fix. Studies prove that you have to make driving harder. Sticks work better than carrots.
Fair enough, t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶e̶r̶m̶i̶n̶a̶l̶s̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶b̶a̶n̶k̶s̶ ̶m̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶l̶i̶m̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶d̶e̶p̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶C̶V̶M̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶n̶,̶ ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶l̶i̶m̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶p̶h̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶y̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶a̶c̶t̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶d̶s̶

(edit: forgot cards and devices can have their own limits, best ignore this comment)
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>and is an among the first PCIe 5 controller to use RISC-V exclusively.

Note that, while PCIe SSDs are new, WD has been using its own RISC-V based controllers for a very long time now

They were RISC-V early adopters, and among the first to open source their own core designs.
This was a fun read. Don't miss the follow-up article on performance optimizations: https://jacobbartlett.substack.com/p/high-performance-swift-...
IANAL but that doesn’t sound like insider trading to me. That’s more like activist short-selling à la Hindenburg Research.

This is assuming you don’t have ties to the organization that issues the token, if one exists.
> has thrown the book at those who trespassed in the Capitol

Really? It doesn't seem that way at all to me, it seems only few rioters have been given a slap on the wrist, none of the key organizers are in jail, neither is head of the moment, many of them who attempted to overthrow the government are serving in congress even now. The leader is the presumptive nominee of a major political party and openly talks about being a dictator when elected. Not one have been disqualified under 14th amendment and does not look at all likely before the election.

The extremely slow speed and ineptitude at which the system has moved so far is just astonishing and is completely counter to your point on Government moves faster, harder when its survival is at stake, compare that to say how quickly Brazil has reacted to a similar attempt by Jair Bolsonaro.

> far more serious a crime than (allegedly) raping a child because

It is sad that we have come far to these days characterize actions by foreign reporters not subject to any U.S. law whatsoever and who merely published and did not leak themselves damning evidence of atrocities and war crimes committed in violation of Geneva convention of which US is a signatory as crimes.

Also I cannot but help notice that you feel need to say allegedly about an horrific incident in which no one disputes the facts, but afford no such benefit of doubt to Assange.
I’ll check it out. We generally supported the independence claims of each breakaway state in turn. Some of that may have sort of been a default for the time given that the USSR had just broken up without too much violence, and shortly thereafter Czechoslovakia broke up fairly amicably. That probably made Clinton and his people more pro-breakup.

This was discussed a lot in Iraq as well, but I believe the worry was that the Shia state would basically be absorbed by Iran. It’s not clear that what’s happening there now is much better, but Iraq had been seen as a useful counterweight to Iran and the neocons wanted to preserve that. The only problem is that they also wanted democracy, and most of the voters are Shia, so democratic Iraq is always likely to be friendly to Iran.
also this liveoverflow video I particularly enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeAKTjx_eKA&t=937s

I'm curious how often governments (as opposed to businesses) have done this?
1940 looks like a Boeing model 377

1949 is the de Havilland Comet

1960 looks like a DC-8 (engines are closer together than a 707)

1974 is probably an A300