skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea. It would only be effective against timing analysis if all clients connected to the wg server use this constant bandwidth mode (otherwise your traffic could be identified through negative correlation against other connections).

It would also have to be aggressively rate limited to make it practical for anything with a battery over wifi, even a constant 2Mbit is not ideal for wifi and will cause a lot of battery drain since radios are most efficient when they can do burst communication. Or maybe it could be limited to bursts at some interval for better bandwidth, or better efficiency (but not both)... that would also make it easier to manage the traffic since it's no longer real-time.

I doubt there is any way to configure wireguard to behave like this, it has quite a specific purpose and wireguard's design focus is performance and security rather than obfuscation from traffic analysis. Maybe it's not necessary to modify WG if the traffic can be manipulated just before the WG interface...

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Talking of timing analysis, this was the side channel in specter/meltdown that was demonstrated to extract cryptographic keys from JS in the browser. Browser responded by just lowering the resolution of JS timers and introducing noise.

Maybe this would also be sufficient for a wireguard connection at the cost of slightly worse latency performance. The tricky part is how the timing resolution would be tied to activity on the WG server, i.e you would need the packets to be spread out further and further the less activity there is on the server, so you actually end up with better performance the busier the server is.

It would also come at a performance cost to routing which would be forced to hold on to packets artificially.
I'm sorry if it felt critical or condescending, it certainly was not the intent. If anything, I just want people to experience that coolness the same way I did.
>as to have never allowed anyone near you

So what you're saying is this is unworkable. I mean decades ago private investigators were working with miniature digital recording devices, I can only imagine they have been reduced to sizes that are embeddable and undetectable in almost anything.
This seems to logically resolve to "unions wouldn't form, because workers would be preoccupied by starving", which may unfortunately be true, I'm not sure.
I don’t agree with that at all. While I do think HN discussion has become generally more negative I still almost always find interesting or useful stuff in comments. I think they’re a valuable way to check the pulse of the tech community.
Project management is definitely ripe for new competitors. But the pricing sales form dark pattern is so frustrating. Why do people do that? Does it really increase engagement? It legitimately pisses me off, and I'm the decision maker on taking on this kind of software or not.
It is the pretext for becoming a central bank.

First they will move payments off of government currency and onto crypto. Then they will move payments onto their own crypto. At that point they can issue credit and modify the money supply at will.
i wish they actually got snaps working before forcing them
Yeah, it's an unfortunate name collision. From Chimera Linux FAQ[1]:

The system also has no relation to ChimeraOS, besides the unfortunate name similarity. ChimeraOS used to be called GamerOS and renamed itself to ChimeraOS later; however, at this point Chimera Linux was already in public development with its name in place.

[1] https://chimera-linux.org/docs/faq#what-about-chimeraos
>Even the brand name “Autopilot” is misleading, NHTSA said, conjuring up the idea that drivers are not in control.

Ironic how the Verge forms a union of Autopilot and FSD crashes in their headline to further convolute the major differences. As much as we blame Elon for naming Full Self Driving, I also think the media is responsible for tacking all Tesla modes together to get clicks.
I understand the link, but not your comment.
if it installs
Tech people tend to be good at tech (duh), but not as good at relating to people. Well, government, politics, and civics are all about relating to people - many of them who are different from you, and different from each other.

So, as you say, the tech people are unsuited for this role - maybe even uniquely unsuited. But they don't know what they don't know, and in blissful, arrogant ignorance, they decide that of course they'd be great at it. They wouldn't. They'd be terrible at it, even at local government.
I spend a few hours a day manually editing photos of shiny stuff to remove certain reflections—mostly reflections of the photographer.

This is tech I could use.
Also it allows for endless pointless online arguments about it not being a tax!(I think it is a tax in everything but name).
Ok, it seems we're both right in a sense. They do release obfuscation maps to help modders. However, they are adamant that this does not make Minecraft open source. I'd also be a bit surprised if they include in those maps the source of DRM/online activation components (relevant to the original topic).

https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/1169242801508376582
As has the entire USA, and probably much of the rest of the world.
I haven't seen any TV coverage of this at all.
If you're a programmer, not just struggling with basic arithmetic, I wrote a book: https://pimbook.org that ramps up in complexity.
Safari doesn’t seem to be particularly optimized in that way, judging by its reloading behavior. If Apple itself doesn’t do it, who will?
Dependency visualization could be valuable for managers in complex projects, so are they your ICP?

For ICs, the biggest feature would be not having to use the tool; to have it infer everything from the tools actually used for work.
If Stripe is still private, how does YC get its ROI?
All I'm saying is that if we're all eating so much to the point of killing ourselves surely we can eat a bit less of meat if it reduces pollution/water use/viral infections.

It's not like eating meat multiple time a day or even every day was a pre requisite for human life. I don't remember last time I ate meat and I'm fitter than 90% of people I meet in my day to day life
Rbfx: Lightweight C++17 game engine with C# scripting
Doesn't this potentially create security problems if process lifetime is very long? Changes to the certificate store on the system will potentially not be picked up?
you know most SUVs are really sedans with tall cabins? All crossovers are sedan unibody chassis. Here is a list of truck SUVs, which have actual frames.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/which-2022-suvs-built-on-truck-...
Thank you! To repeat a comment I saw in another thread, including sources like this should be a journalistic standard
Part A:

> provides check cashing, currency exchange, or money transmitting or remittance services

says that Samourai is a money transmitting business iff they provide a money transmitting service. Part B:

> accepting currency, funds, or value that substitutes for currency and transmitting the currency, funds, or value that substitutes for currency by any means

says that they must be accepting currency/funds/value, which they don't appear to be. They only accept instructions from each user for how to spend funds to themselves.
"NoSQL" isn't a technology, though. It's an industry category. At that level of detail it'll all seem pretty confusing, I'm sure!

Relational databases: decent at everything

Document databases: insane at saving and retrieving trees of data; bad at other things

Graph databases: insane at deep relational queries (e.g. give me all my friends of friends of friends); bad at other things

Columnar databases: insane at columnar operations; bad at other things
There are two types of passkeys (1) resident, hardware-bound, non-copyable, installed on Yubikey etc., and (2) non-resident, copyable.

Technically, by not being copyable, a resident key isn't a "Passkey," but that's just terminology and it serves the same purpose as a passkey.
With HN it depends on the topic. With Reddit it depends on the subreddit. Both have their high points and their low points. If you take the topics for which HN is very well-behaved and looked at their equivalent subreddits on Reddit, then you'll find they're likewise well-behaved.

In both cases you know exactly where the brush fires are.
> Dollar denominated crypto is still crypto

Sure. But within the context of a money-laundering article, it's important to note that dollar-denominated crypto exists at the whim of the U.S. government. It is globally subject to U.S. jurisdiction, and uniquely vulnerable to U.S. surveillance and sanctions.
> Sometimes I wish I could get an honest answer from trolls about what they hope to achieve, but of course that will never happen.

It's usually not that complicated: They enjoy provoking people, particularly people that can be reflexively upset by reading words. It's a game to them, against a party that they do not respect. The words they say might upset you, but the words ultimately mean nothing to them outside of provoking you, and the more chaotic they can make the situation the more amusing it is.
Nietzsche advocated what we would today call Social Darwinism, but his ethics was a virtue ethics.
My ISP situation is olipolistic (and perhaps a colluding duopoly once you distill it down enough).

I’m confident it’s not an efficient market and they’re charging what the market can bare, not a tight markup over their actual costs.
You may be thinking of strings where the u"" prefix was made obsolete in python3. Then again, trying on Python 2.7 just now, typing "éķů" results in it printing the UTF-8 bytes for those characters so I don't actually know what that u prefix ever did, but one of the big py2-to-3 changes was strings having an encoding and byte strings being for byte sequences without encodings

This change seems to be about things like open('filename', mode='r') mainly on Windows where the default encoding is not UTF-8 and so you'd have to specify open('filename', mode='r', encoding='UTF-8')
Some Cisco routers have/had a feature where they'd mitm every smtp connection and snip out the STARTTLS advertisement to prevent negotiation of an encrypted connection. Of course this doesn't affect port 465 use, but port 25/587 can get silently downgraded.
Especially to those of us who were edgy and cool 30 years ago.
"And it can't be skipped or ignored"

How about making content that consumers want to see?
Modeling Short-Range Ballistic Missile Defense and Israel's Iron Dome System
Text-to-SQL and its uncanny valley
Emhash: Fast and memory efficient C++ flat hash table/map
There are plenty of apps that I install from .deb files:

Slack, Parsec, Steam, Chrome, etc.

There are more, but the point is if you go on their websites and click download you get a deb package. Sure a Flatpak or a Snap would be better, but consider the audience of Ubuntu and these apps. If it isn't intuitive it's a fail. App distributors need to get on board and start shipping things that aren't Debian packages.
There is proposed EU legislation that (at least when I looked at it a few months ago) explicitly defines expert systems as for regulatory purposes.

> The issue is that encoding human knowledge in if statements is hard to scale, so it doesn’t seem to be on the path to general artificial intelligence, but fundamentally it is still automation of cognition.

If so, then so are many things that automate what people do or know. Its getting very close to saying if statements are AI at least in some cases. If I ask a client what we should do at a particular step of a process, then code their response as an if statement, is that "automation of cognition"?

Expert systems are somewhat different from simple if statements because they infer from data - the steps are not rigidly defined. However they do have some advantages over things like LLMs for many purposes: they can be analysed/understood and are predictable. I would far prefer to use something something like a medical diagnostic system that used an expert system rather than an LLM.

My first paid job was a prototype expert system, and after a few weeks work it was doing a fairly simple industrial diagnostic task pretty reliably and it did lead to a production version that was used for many years.
What is a person?

It is a practical question. Sometimes we need to have or choose a hard answer to make a decision. It inevitably isn't going to be solved formally.

Any more than what is the dividing line between a chair and not-chair. Many patterns we encounter have fuzzy non-formal edges.

Perfect consensus is impossible, but any consensus is valuable. So we invent and argue about the "best" way to "understand" these things.

These arguments are partly objective, partly subjective, partly emergent, and partly just farmed out to favorite "authorities" or social pressure. But important and unavoidable.

--

At the highest level, even how we percieve reality is important. It impacts our values, our motivations, our ethics, how we cope with events, etc. Trickling down to every day choices.

"What is real?" ends up being an important question, no matter how lacking in formal rigor the answers we each have are.
Not even on Windows?
"arcane" is not at all the same thing as "not good", anyone who uses a command line is writing bash
> Google the stories of people getting parasites from lettuce grown on a "small organic farm" downhill from the pig sty.

It sounds like the problem is maybe farming of animals in general? Obviously a farm being small and organic doesn't automatically equate with everything being fine. Even on factory farms animal waste seeps into groundwater and can cause tons of environmental issues, which reminded me of a report from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNutjzkXDqY
> Ubuntu Pro

First time I'm hearing of this and just barf
ApiFunctionA is UTF-8 capable. Needs a run-time switch too, not just compile-time.
Right, but this is an OS breaking bug. Not a desired superfluous feature. Not having capacity to work on it means they are okay with releasing a distro with OS breaking bugs; or lying. Either is a bad look.
while some cars are disposable... in practical terms, engineers designed crumple zones which make modern cars significantly safer. Crumple zones are not repairable because it "crumples". Couple that with air bags, and its easy to make replacement cost less than repair.
Yes, believe it or not, government is not always maximally evil, corrupt and incompetent at all levels, all of the time.

We live in a complex reality full of nuance, not a cartoon.
I agree. Having this added to CoCs is a method of trying to enforce compliance to a controversial ideology.

Those of us who reject the idea that women and men are to be redefined in terms of "gender identity", and consider this to be a sexist belief system, either have to pretend to hold this view or be excluded from participating.
I agree and admit I probably didn't phrase that too well

>Philosophy isn’t a method for directly determining facts, but trying to determine what is factual is intrinsically linked to a philosophical foundation of ideas.

Absolutely, although I would add that it seems to me that the majority of people don't distinguish the axioms that underpin our current understanding of the universe (e.g facts and objective "things") as being strictly an upstream philosophical decision leading to our downstream science from just science itself.
> Moving money should not be called laundering at all

Moving money--or even obfuscating it--isn't a crime. It's a crime to conceal the source of illegally-obtained money.

> if the money were to be used to perform criminal actions where there is a victim, then those criminal actions are crimes instead

They are. But they also create an additional crime because money laundering helps criminality scale. (Petty crooks don't launder their money.)
Or you can possibly decide to shut down whatever service is vulnerable.
Yes, HDMI-USB-C dedicated cable directly into the laptop.
Hmm, Jira clone number two hundred and seventeen. What makes this one special, besides the fact that it gives me "Server Internal Error" right now?
The standard is has two flavours; one for each of the two main contributing companies' graph query languages.
> Think about how many times Hacker News commenters decide to start spouting patently fascist bullshit. Now keep in mind this guy used to be part of YCombinator, the company that runs Hacker News.

Um, don't assume a political commonality between YCombinator-the-organization and Hacker-News-the-community-of-posters. Most of us here have an affinity for tech, but politically, we're all over the map. (For that matter, the majority here thinks the openly fascist are dangerously insane.)
> I said the dollar amount isn't meaningful. Because the original claim was that "crypto, much less crypto from Russians, hasn't been a meaningful contribution vector for Ukraine."

Your saying isn't reasonable because you are talking about tangential things to cryptocurrency. Ability to donate from/to some dissidents despite of crazy thugs is meaningful. Amount of donated funds by Ukrainian anti-Russian adventure is not.

> It means crypto is being used to send U.S. dollars. The Ukraine example is not a case study for crypto delivering value add at scale.

It is as reasonable as to say that USD is being used to send Bitcoins. Why not, aren't you able to buy Bitcoins with USD?
hahaha. this got me.
I haven't worked for Amazon, but have a few acquaintances who work there at different levels of hierarchy (but not very high-level execs).

To comment on quality: Amazon software divisions have very few QAs per developer compared to many other large software corporations. This doesn't really mean they test less, it just means their developers are tasked more with testing. And... they don't like it. Frankly, we've developed s/w development culture in which QA is relegated to people with less ability and less aptitude. Most developers would be afraid of their resume mentioning a QA position, as that would imply some sort of deficiency. So, the reason isn't really the lack of testing or even as you suggested, talent retention (Google does even worse than AWS at this, for example), it's low morale.

Also, when Amazon first came to Israel, for example, they didn't just offer competitive compensation, they beat everyone, even very high-paying places by something like 25%. It took petitioning them and signatures of a lot of local / international companies to get them to tone it down, as they would've disrupted local job market substantially and have a lot of local employers in a pickle. So, at least, on this front, Amazon invests into talent.

From yet another perspective: Amazon, from the inside, looks more like a typical US s/w company. That is, lots of red tape, IT department that's trying to make developers' life miserable. Rigid hierarchy. Orders come from above, feedback never propagates back to the management. In other words: they pay a lot, but want you to shut up and do what you are told, don't get creative, don't challenge the PRD, or you might not do so well in the yearly review.
Because changing Python to silently prefixing all IO with an invisible BOM isn’t a good idea.
> But now it's just about as hard to setup as the old payment processors were.

I don't understand that complaint, because the simple features are still simple. For example Stripe Checkout or Stripe Payment Links are even easier than setting it up back in the days.
"a computer screen that works in front of a window or on a sunny day instead of using the embedded electric light. A desktop screen that is resistant to function at night times. [...] The screen’s light source is now the environmental light or daylight."

Ah, a gameboy! Why didn't you say! This brings back memories
I don't know. I'm sure there is a design reason for it, but I haven't been able to find it in any of the public discussion.
Fellow Reason subscriber here. They're more balanced than most.
Or Duff’s Device
The whole premise of tracking usage is bogus. The point of public goods is that we can’t value individual benefit or prevent free riders so we publicly fund them. Roads are the quintessential public good.

Think about it this way. If you never leave your house you’re still using roads. All your goods are delivered via truck. Your trash is hauled away via roads, your mail is delivered. Home repairs need roads to access your house.

There’s no way your road trip in your Kia is putting more wear on the roads than all of those things.
Right... CC0 exists because there is no such thing as relinquishing copyright in many countries, including the United States. It's a license that allows the work to be used as if copyright were relinquished. If I create a work and license it under CC0, I still own the copyright, I've just given everyone a license to use the work in such a way that I cannot enforce most or all of the rights associated with my ownership of that copyright.
Interesting. From what I can find the pixel format is 4 polarization directions per pixel, 45 degrees apart. Even though there are 4 channels this doesn't allow to deduce the V Stokes parameter (this camera can't capture circular polarization). Technically one channel is redundant here, but I guess it can be useful for reducing error.

I wonder if an alternative pixel format, with 3 polarization directions 60 degrees apart and a circular polarization channel would be desirable for some applications.
I have a friend who is in the insurance business.

He tells me that sensor-laden cars are quadrupling expenses.

If you get a little love-tap on your front bumper, it can cost $9,000 to fix.
She has a book that expands on this topic substantially. I highly recommend it: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/
Peertube supports importing from YouTube if I recall.
Without prejudice I am not sure. It depends on you.

But, HTMX fits very well together with the traditional server-side rendered websites and probably you wont need to do much cognitive rewiring
By the time todays new cars become used, hopefully people will have figured out how to disable these features.
Personally I would never use this as I cannot see the pricing on the pricing page.
I know, that's my point. We already have a highly efficient and nutritious way to obtain meat.
Most video game AIs are if else.
Localities experimented with a policy, a federal agency agreed with the outcome of the policy, so the agency adopted the policy.

It's a functional example of letting states be experimentation grounds for policy.

Could you explain what makes this process "inconsequential"?
Ubuntu LTS 18 & 20, and decided to move to Rocky 9 for the future.
> Of course we can thrive with less meat consumption or none. How is that even a question?

A sweeping statement, that betrays ignorance of the many people that are tremendously helped or healed from terrible illnesses by eating more meat (or even, only meat). I'm not advocating everyone eat only meat, nor do I think most people would want to, but there are also MANY people who would fall gravely ill if they did so.

Again, it's fine to voice an opinion, but this kind of categorical statement that isn't supported by empirical evidence is not. I'm very well acquainted with the subject myself, having dealt with severe autoimmune issues, and if I was forced to eat only plant matter, my health would be completely compromised. It's something I have heard from thousands of others, and if you are so interested I will provide links. There is also "scientific" data to support this, though as someone who has lived through it, I don't care for it, but it exists. Anecdotes, again, by the thousands, many with ex-vegans for whom a plant-based diet took a huge toll.