skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that the sandbox escape that is now required to exploit a JIT issue has nothing to do with JIT or things Rust won't help with. Indeed, the vast majority of sandbox escapes they've found are straight-up basic memory safety issues that Rust would protect against much better than trying to harden C++. Again, there's a real switching cost and 2nd system syndrome to consider, so I'm not saying "switch V8 to Rust" but ignoring that conversation wholesale is disingenuous, especially when it's a bait and switch (i.e. Rust doesn't help with JIT issues, here's this sandbox idea that does, except we wrote the sandbox in C++ & memory safety exploits in the sandbox/runtime are easily found & paired with the JIT exploit).
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> the Amiga really was better than anything Apple or Microsoft/IBM was doing at the time

At the time. A brief moment in time, and then they had no path forward and were rapidly steamrolled. Nothing was "chosen wrong" in this aspect.
Over the past year and a half or so, I've noticed a lot more web content that starts off seeming reasonably good, even if simplistic, but after the first paragraph or two becomes inordinately repetitive, and often drifts off into some vaguely related other subject that just on the whole doesn't make sense.

I suspect that this stuff is AI-written. It could also be just really mediocre human writing, but I've really not noticed this particular quality of repetitive, drifting-off-topic writing until fairly recently.
The Linux OS literally provides sandboxing, we call the set of technologies that provide this "containers". "Containers" are not lightweight VMs; VMs are a virtualized computer, containers are a virtualized kernel.

Statically linked everything is ridiculous and will never be the future of software deployment.
Hypothesis:

What smaller businesses are using will tend to be what takes over in the future, just due to natural processes. When smaller businesses grow, they would generally prefer to fund the concurrent growth of existing vendors that they like using than they are to switch to the existing "industrial-grade" vendor.

At the same time, larger organizations that can afford to start with the industrial-grade vendors are only as loyal as they are locked in.
Why would they? There isn't any magic in libsystemd, its just a normal c lib
I love this fact! I would have never realized it
Lobotomies were done by the scientists
The game wasn’t perfect, but it was extremely stable. I remember people spamming proximity mines, but even that became fun because it was so easy to get back in and play.
>One example is the Amiga; the Amiga really was better than anything Apple or Microsoft/IBM was doing at the time

Amiga was only better 1985-1988.

I still have my original Amiga and A2000. I was an Amiga user for a decade. They were very good. I was platform agnostic, caring only to get work done as quickly and easily as possible so I was also an early Macintosh user as well as Sun and PA-RISC. And yes, I still have all of those dinosaurs too.

By 1987 PC and Mac caught up and never looked back.

But by 1988 the PS/2 with a 386 and VGA was out and the A2000 was shipping with a 7MHz 68000 and ECS.

By 1990 the 486s were on the market and Macs were shipping with faster 030s and could be equipped with NuBUS graphics cards that made Amiga graphics modes look like decelerated CGA.

After the A2000 the writing was on the wall.

Note: my perspective is of someone who has always used computers to do work, with ALMOST no care for video games so all of the blitter magic of Amiga was irrelevant to me. That being said when DOOM came out I bought a PC and rarely used my Amigas again.

What I can confidently assert is that I upgraded my A2000 many times and ran into the absolute configuration nightmare that is the Amiga architecture and the problems with grafting upgrades onto a complex system with multiple tiers of RAM and close OS integration with custom chips.

One more bit of heresy is that I always considered Sun's platform to be superior to SGI's.
The Amiga couldn't handle the performance requirements of Doom at the time (Game Engine Black Book Doom). Workbench was more fun than Windows and at least the install process that was early linux.

As much as I loved my O2 (my first professional computer), it was underpowered for the time for anything other than texture manipulation. The closed source nature of that time period and the hardware sales motion meant that you were paying through the teeth for compilers on top of already very expensive hardware. The Cray-linked Origin 200's ran Netscape web server with ease but that's a lot of hardware in a time period when everything went out of date very quickly-donated ours! Irix still looks better than the new Mac OS UIs IMO but no-Motif is a small price to pay for far cheaper access to SDKs IMO. Also, Irix was hilariously insecure due in part to its closed source nature. https://insecure.org/sploits_irix.html
Just as unlikely as…

Appellate court: decisions look legit based on evidence; at trial, please prove evidence

Plaintive: how about we just don’t have a trial…

Defendant: ffs

Something smells fishy. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve been on the wrong side of cops’ biases too many times to think they are automatically in the right; making virtually any other possibility just as likely. For example, for all we know, the defendant is actually an alien and they simply wanted to run experiments on him for a few years. Oh, wait, he actually is an alien. lol.

Anyway, I got nothing and doxing them on here without any actual evidence of wrongdoing, but insisting that circumstantial evidence is proof without even a trial is super fucked up.

I’m not a lawyer but I’ve worked with plenty of them to prove some technical shit or another for a case, even the FBI. So I’ve seen some crazy and unlikely cases in my life. This sounds suspiciously like they couldn’t pass the bar of “without a doubt” and simply gave up.

Oh, and why is a trial important? So we get to hear his side of the story. You’ve only heard one side, and he would be wise (and well within his rights) to never share his side.
But accurately estimating your rival undermines the load-bearing assumption of total superiority. Nobody can rival the greatest nation on earth.
Yeah, and OS X more or less mainstream-ized consumer UNIX as well. It gave you access to the UNIX tools in the command line if you wanted them, had a solid UNIX core, but was a lot cheaper than an SGI and also easy to use.
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Transporting Giraffes Is as Strange and Risky as It Looks
I did watch the video.

So, if I extrapolate not too shabily, we don't really move forward in core physics because science/academia fell in some sort of economic fast fashion cycle.
"the future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed."

This means there are products out there with futuristic features that will be seen as requirements for all things going forward and right now those features are niche elements of some product.

The Amiga was a fantastic device but not a general purpose device. Lots of things are fantastic at a niche but not general, and those almost always fail.

Is this also the "worse is better" truism?
isnt that what Google did ? they scraped the internet but the public/econ advisors felt the benefits outweighed copyright violations, they were just "indexers", they weren't scraping "news" they were indexing it lol

same thing with emulators and roms. somebody dumped the cartridges (copyrighted software) into ROM files to be played on emulators (copyrighted bios) but they were "archiving" and if you owned the original copy you could download them. I still vividly remember seeing on warez website disclaimer: "DMCA SAFE HARBOUR NOTICE: YOU MUST OWN THE ORIGINAL GAME OTHERWISE ITS ILLEGAL BUT YES, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD EVERY SINGLE GAME MADE ON THAT CONSOLE FOR FREE"

I feel like the same outcome will be for LLMs trained on copyrighted material. It will be "training". The net benefit is too great than fretting over "training"

tldr: "indexing" ---> "archiving" ---> "training"
Disclaimer: I work at Amplitude, where we offer a feature flagging and experimentation platform

Hey hahnbee, I echo a bunch of other folks sentiment that local evaluation mode is pretty important so you’re not constantly making network calls to figure out the state of your flags, that’s one of the biggest things.

The other thing I’d add is that it’s pretty important (esp as a homegrown system) to build user tracking into your flags so you know that for a given flag, which user saw which version at what time. This is so critical for debugging and issue resolution so you’re not left guessing (and doubly important for experiments where you want to run stats on different populations).

You probably will not be surprised to find out that we have this stuff built into our system, and that you can get started with our flags for free! So here’s my shameless plug to head over to Amplitude.com and check out our stuff
How does DBSC improve adtech at all?

The proposed design makes no mention of using TPM/device attestation and explicitly calls out that it is bound to the same restrictions that Chrome's removal of third-party cookies is introducing.

If a site (Google or other) cannot get an attestation with the key and keys are unique per eTLD then there's no new tracking vector introduced. A site can't get anything more than they can with a standard, first-party session cookie.

> just force log me off of sites after a time limit

Since this opinion is seriously in the minority as the overwhelming majority of people do not like the friction of having to log back into services, that's never going to happen for any sizable fraction of websites [†].

Thus, for everyone's security it would be better if sites adopt DBSC to prevent session-theft/cookie-theft without introducing the nuisance of constantly logging in.

Not to mention, every log-in with a password is opportunity for phishing/key-logging. If people had to log in 10-100x more frequently, that would only increase another form of malware. Only FIDO/Passkeys offer the ability to make frequent log-ins phishing resistant.

[†] - banks being a big exception since, prior to DBSC, there was no good way to prevent session-theft/cookie-theft outside of making sessions/cookies very short-lived. And they need to be worried about session-theft/cookie-theft because... money.
Prisoners are training AI in Finland – salary 4.62 euros per day
This is what I went from.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2531266/one-chart-shows-how-unpre...

Those numbers look a lot closer to my experience than yours.

All three lines show a ~50% price increase.
Interesting! There might be other unintended issues from transmitting heat, I suppose?

Even from transmitting heat to the phone's components itself or other items that are nearby, e.g. laptops: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5219578/.
The Psychology of why Farming Video Games like Stardew Valley are so satisfying
Might not be him, but there's a facebook profile with that name that happens to like an Israeli-built "publish book to Amazon tool", the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Palo Alto Networks, etc.
UI/UX is the achilles heel of many open source projects not backed by a business unfortunately. Gimp comes to mind, which has almost all features of its competitors but the UI will never let it grow.
I don’t think it was starving civilians who killed 250+ Israeli soldiers over the last six months following the Gaza attack. Do you?
I really wish they'd do movies like they made for RIM about: Cray, DEC, Compaq, SGi, Pixar. sounds like these places were either wild or strait up IBM culture or some clash or both either inside or outside. Raven and id Software would be neat too. Westwood Studios.
On Kagi, you can just use the 'forums' lens, which will include Reddit but also results from other forums you might not have known existed. It's my favorite lens.
For "challenging" sites like this, I use Brave and/or Pi-hole, depending on where I'm at and what resources I have available.

TL;DR: Kronos was a banking trojan that stole people's credentials/money. Marcus wrote part of it. That's why he was eventually arrested, years later.

However, after he'd written it, he started working in the White Hat arena, and just happened to be the guy that figured out the killswitch for WannaCry, which, at that time, was the largest outbreak of malware, evar.

Seriously though, download/install Brave and reload the article. My TL;DR pales in comparison to the details.
I love the "simplest nontrivial example" approach to exposition. I think I learned a lot from the article because it was grounded in the concrete problem "call a BLAS function from Javascript". Great post!
So since I live near epicenter, there's one thing that changed geographically very recently. Nearby round valley reservoir was being worked on for years, last fall they got the authorization to pump it back to full and it was told it might take years. Rainy asf winter though so it's pumped back almost full from already 66% to 92% now. I'm wondering if billions of gallons of water getting added nearby affected pressure on the fault. Here's today's operations data (we just had 3.5in of rain past couple days too): https://www.njwsa.org/uploads/1/0/8/0/108064771/data.pdf

EDIT: just had another aftershock right after posting this. Felt the 2.0 a couple hours ago too

EDIT2: yup usgs finally added it https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma95...
Counter-Strike died for me when community servers became a side show with GO.

Beneath the financials and player stats lies immaterial, cultural capital. Skin gambling is anti-culture.

1.6 and Source still have some older communities left...
to be fair, I have never seen a GUI that could do everything its complex command-line equivalent could do, that wasn't, in the end, just simpler and easier to use the command-line in the first place. so when people ask for "a GUI", I think a lot more information is needed about what it should be able to do.
A fantastic example of why the inherent "lack" of one party in an economic exchange is a necessary component of modern capitalism.

The only people who would be willing to use such a service are people who have likely already been systematically disenfranchised by our global economic system. Poor people.

Privacy should not be incentivized and treated as a luxury. Especially when the end result of all this training data is models which further discriminate against vulnerable third-parties and automate maximum value extraction from the average user via unprecedented amounts of emotional manipulation afforded to us by the development of user-facing generative AI. Whether through highly-targeted, ad-hoc advertisements, or discriminative insurance policies.
These are probably pretty arbitrarily priced so someone thought they'd be cute & everyone else picked up this rate.
This one looks like it's written in several different languages. I see some C#, Go, Python. Maybe there's some front end stuff too, but I'm allergic to that.
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Frankly, it is and should be treated as such. The fact that they're dodging questions about their data sources is a red flag and a pretty clear indication that they know they're in the wrong and are fighting to become established enough to be in a position to, at best, ask for forgiveness after the fact.
As always, the relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1782/

I understand that BIOS had limitations but I still think that UEFI is way too much.
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I don't know - for example, here is a video of a couple of scientists who explain in detail how they have analyzed the vaccine contents and how authorities then have reacted to their complaints:

https://rumble.com/v4n6hsn-analysis-on-covid-19-vaccines-per...

Would you still call such content a conspiracy theory?
In what sense?

The Linux kernel development model is one that embraces forking and submitting patching in a way that totally horrifies webdevs paid to mush together data transformation pipelines.

Linus and Greg KH are both very clear that you don't have to use their "blessed" source trees. You're encouraged to fork.

All of the genuinely moronic rhetorical arguments about "maintainer responsibility" are downstream from the GPLv2, which very clearly states in all capital letters there's no warranty implied or otherwise. The amount of time wasted on moot debates over that is mind boggling.
Probably tangentially, but as an atheist, i've seen attempts to discredit my view by people going after these supposed heroes of atheism. The truth is we are not a monolith, and each atheist as different to the next as any other group. I would go so far as to say that we are not even cohesive enough to be a group.

On the topic, I believe it's a yikes from me. It's not saying something new and not educative, and not helping anyone. It's one of those things that's not worth it to say. Regardless even if it's miraculously as simple as stated.
Researchers use supercomputer to improve solar cell efficiency
Google surfaces data — or it used to — LLMs and AI companies actively exploit it with zero benefit given to creators or users of the platforms they're now cannibalizing.
I assume they meant “propagation speed that is substantially slower than light in a vacuum” since that is less than 50ms between any two points on earth.
Tic-tac-toe implemented in a single call to printf
> the build-to-host.m4 macro package that ships as part of GNU gettext was replaced by a modified version that was copied into the release tarball

Am I correct in concluding that this backdoor might have been picked up sooner if the practice of shipping tarballs of source releases was dropped in favour of running builds straight off a repo tag?

I've setup and worked with many build pipelines in the .NET world over nearly 20 years and we manage fine without the concept of a source release tarball, but I realise C dev is more complex so I'm probably missing something?
Hmm, this brings up an interesting question: is it possible to eliminate or poison the data you leave behind in order to render it impossible for people to accurately simulate you after death? I'd be very interested in that.
Of course, the reason they got better so fast is volume. There was just way more investment into those platforms. Which means this explanation is somewhat circular: they were successful because they were successful.

I think a more useful explanation is that people rate the value of avoiding vendor lockin extraordinarily high, to the extent that people will happily pick worse technology if there's at least two competing vendors to choose from. The IBM PCs were not good, but for convoluted legal reasons related to screwups by IBM their tech became a competitive ecosystem. Bad for IBM, good for everyone else. Their competitors did not make that "mistake" and so became less preferred.

Microsoft won for a while despite being single vendor because the alternative was UNIX, which was at least sorta multi-vendor at the OS level, except that portability between UNIXen was ropey at best in the 90s and of course you traded software lockin for hardware lockin; not really an improvement. Combined with the much more expensive hardware, lack of gaming and terrible UI toolkits (of which Microsoft was the undisputed master in the 90s) and then later Linux, and that was goodbye to them.

Of course after a decade of the Windows monopoly everyone was looking for a way out and settled on abusing an interactive document format, as it was the nearest thing lying around that was a non-Microsoft specific way to display UI. And browsers were also a competitive ecosystem so a double win. HTML based UIs totally sucked for the end users, but .... multi-vendor is worth more than nice UI, so, it wins.

See also how Android wiped out every other mobile OS except iOS (nobody cares much about lockin for mobile apps, the value of them is just not high enough).
If the predictions that traditional search engines will be displaced by LLM engines turn out to be correct then there will have to be a reckoning about copyright. It's already difficult enough to make money by writing online, but if most content gets consumed second-hand through an LLM then it will become basically impossible. How are journalists supposed to eat if NewsGPT just scoops up their work and starts regurgitating it seconds after publishing?
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I use Jellyfin, but I also use TMM (tiny media manager) to manage my files. Jellyfin seems to agree with what TMM produces just fine.

I would like to see a slim Jellyfin that does not have any media management code at all, tbh. Just media streaming.
The "sgi" logo was a big step down from the cube, but it was a lot more attractive than the Rackable/Silicon Graphics International "sgi" logo that looked like a cheap knockoff of the previous one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics_International
Where exactly is that magical Arab country where a liberal democracy could be installed and maintained?
ed man! Ed uses a single . line to end input. You actually can't enter a single '.' (because that wound end your input) but "I was using vi and must have dropped into ex mode or something" on the surface sounds reasonable.
This was explained here:
https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...

https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...

https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...

https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...

https://vizworld.com/2009/04/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-cha...

https://vizworld.com/2009/05/what-led-to-the-fall-of-sgi-epi...
What did you work on at SGI during your brief stint?
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I vividly remember consenting to all variety of terms agreements as a 13-year old on the web in 2007. I also remember explicitly licensing all of my output as CC and embracing copyleft. It's never been a secret that even captchas contribute to the improvement of models designed to ultimately sell ads to eyeballs.

A lot of people just were not paying attention to the game being played, and so now they're getting played themselves.
20:1 is a proportionality I'd find horrifying. 1:20 is unspeakable.

There is no justification in the current situation in Gaza to justify anything close to the numbers quoted.
A fine time to re-up a donation to the Internet Archive https://archive.org/donate
> the animation and the scroll-sensitive layout (vs. just having a series of static diagrams) makes it unpleasant for me to read.

I totally agree; I don't understand the fascination HN has with these types of sites. It all feels like extraneous design just for the sake of it, rather than actually making anything easier or better to understand.
It is a rule-of-thumb heuristic, not a law.

Even if this weren't the case, your claim would remain specious. "Establish intent" and "justify attribution to malice" are the same thing said two ways.
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Quantum Physics and the End of Naturalism
> Young people should be less pampered and willing to “eat bitterness”, [Xi] said last year.

I believe this is probably a reference to 臥薪嚐膽 and would therefore be an "irregular conjugation" of the translation; if the Economist were writing about someone of whom they approve (Mr. Milei?) they'd phrase it as:

"Young people should be less reliant on entitlements and willing to make investments in structural reforms, he said last year."
Interesting, just the other day read pretty much the same question on SE: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/101591/is-there-yet-... (spoiler: the answer is "no", of you trust these folks).

Of course you can always roll your own license, but the main questions is, how are you going to enforce it in practice.
I think Lucas knows he’s screwed, he will be lambasted no matter what he does. Look at Game of Thrones, even the best written nerd series get torn apart by the nerd police. He understands that his business was always in nostalgia, it’s just his nostalgia for 50s serials, not actual Star Wars.