skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well re "hard physical evidence" the Chinese ordered all samples destroyed, and the databases were taken down or erased, so I guess if the evidence is destroyed they must be innocent, right?

I disagree about science being "discovering the consensus". It's like that Nazi book they brought out 100 scientists against Einstein. In my prefered definition of science Einstein was right and they were wrong even if the consensus there was that 'jewish science' was bad.

Not sure about "conspiracy theory" - if there's a real conspiracy and the theory is correct does it still count?

As to evidence of what actually happened, you can't get any more qualified virologist than Baric and it came out in his testimony to congress in January that he was the source of the idea to insert a furin cleavage site at the S1 S2 junction in sars like coronaviruses and was interested in the cleavage site in feline coronaviruses some of which are amino acid identical with the one in covid. (testimony 4720 on approx). There are something like 1000 natural viruses like covid and none in nature has been found with a furin cleavage site.

Assuming covid was natural and came from the market isn't it a remarkable coincidence that Baric proposed a virus with that exact never before seen modification to be done at the lab down the road? I mean of course it's natural but what are the odds of that? Man's a genius.
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> Just taxing leaded fuel more wouldn't have made the transition as quick; [..]

What makes you think so?

You don't have to get rid of leaded fuel completely to get most of the benefits. If you get rid of 99.99% of leaded fuel, you reap approximately 99.99% of the benefits.

And in fact, leaded fuels aren't banned for all applications. So whatever benefits we have gained, we have gained with some leaded fuels still being in use.

Btw, we allow deadly externalities all the time. Driving your car, whether ICE or electric, at all is a stochastically deadly externality for pedestrians and cyclists and other drivers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program for a successful program of trading in externalities.

Why is lead or CO2 from cars special? We still allow lead from some other engines, and we allow lead in eg solder and other applications. Wouldn't it be more efficient to have a uniform tax on its emission into the environment, instead of a ad-hoc patchwork of bans?

> [...] just taxing ICEs more won't force manufacturers to switch to electric and hybrid models quick enough. The threat of a ban will.

How quick is quick enough? And why wouldn't a high enough tax do that? If you tax carbon emissions high enough that ICEs effectively cost an extra millions dollars to run, wouldn't that effectively have the same effects as a ban? (A handfull of billionaires might still run some ICEs for fun, even at those punitive taxes. But they are a rounding error.)

In any case, my point was more aimed at making the life of polluters harder, instead of giving subsidies to electric cars. In my view, a tax on emissions is best, but a ban on ICEs is still better than a subsidy or an explicit mandate for electric cars. That way you don't distort the decisions between riding your pushbike vs moving close to work vs riding an electric car.
Lol EVs are a joke, and politicians will be forced to admit it. Toyota knows exactly what they are doing, and it is to provide us with cars that meet our needs. They also make what is arguably the most reliable and well-tested hybrid, the Prius, and they could make EVs. Toyota's CEO has said that EVs can only serve 30% of consumers, and he's right.
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Seems like some products use software based indicator where it draws directly to the OLED and others use physical LED? Ive tested iPhone 13 Mini which has software light and 2023 Macbook Pro seems to have a traditional LED. They seem to operate differently as I explained in my other comment.
You are right, those are two completely different things. Some people are more concerned by one than then other. Some the other way around. However the technology exists. Children are living and will be living in the world in which that technology exists. They need to figure out how to live in this world. The same way kids of previous generations figured out how to live in the worlds they were born into.

And even in the context of abusive relationships, sometimes the more tools the abuser has, the more secure they feel in their abuse, the less impactful is their abuse on daily lives of the abused. The abusers get worse when they feel like they are loosing control.
I'm not convinced that all Stripe IDs are wholly random strings. I just decoded the base62 part of four genuine "acct_" objects, which at 16 characters are just shy of representing a 12 byte value (log2 62^16 =~ 95.3), and they all have a leading byte of "00000011" and two of them even have a leading 32 bits that is very suspiciously close to an epoch timestamp of a couple of years ago.

There is a similarly suspicious pattern in some of their longer identifiers, invoices for example at 24 characters (ca.143 bits) all seem to have a first byte of "00000010".

Even in the article you've linked to, look closely at the IDs:

pi_3LKQhvGUcADgqoEM3bh6pslE
pm_1LaXpKGUcADgqoEMl0Cx0Ygg
cus_1KrJdMGUcADgqoEM
card_1LaRQ7GUcADgqoEMV11wEUxU

Notice the consistently leading low-integer values (a 3, then three 1s)? and how it's almost always followed by a K or an L? That isn't random. In typical base62 encoding of an octet string, that means the first five or six bits are zero and the next few bits have integer adjacency as well. It also looks like part of the customer ID (substring here, "GUcADgqoEM", which is close to a 64-bit value) is embedded inside all of the other IDs and then followed by 8 base62 characters, which might correspond to 48 bits of actual randomness (this is still plenty, of course).

Based on these values it seems there's a metadata preamble in the upper bits of the supposedly "random" value, and it's quite possible that some have an embedded timestamp, possibly timeshifted, and a customer reference, as well as a random part, and who knows maybe there's a check digit as well.

It's possible - albeit this is not analytical but more of a guess - that the customer ID includes an epoch-ish timestamp followed by randomness or (worst case, left field) is actually a sequence ID that's been encrypted with a 64-bit block cipher and 32 bits of timestamp as the salt, or something similar (pro tip: don't try that at home).

My view is that either Stripe's engineering blog is being disingenuous with the truth of their ID format, or they're using a really broken random value generator. If the latter, I hope it's only in scope of their test/example data.
Last I checked it is even worse if you need a fast NVMe. 120000 IOPS will cost like $7,800 on Google Cloud.
1) How would you be able to detect that Google quality is slipping away?

2) There was a German research that it degraded [1]. I do not remember by how many percents it got worse, but how would you be able to tell that search engine is worse by 8% year by year?

3) Internet just got worse. There are walled gardens everywhere. Access to data has been more restricted for people who do not want to create accounts. Internet is not so tough for people who do not care about their privacy. It is not necessarily that Google search became worse

4) There always been spam, but it just got worse

5) Corporations are becoming more greedy. I have read about SEOs complaining that what has been previously not allowed, now is. Malvertising is more common

6) If Google focuses on big media companies, then small sites do not have revenue. Small sites are closed, and we have Internet without traffic for personal sites. Internet is getting boring if search focuses on big media companies.

7) Google is focusing on 'content', not on 'quality' content. Therefore what is 'new' is more important. Therefore you will be less likely to find a good article from 2011

8) Personal sites are hard to quantify. How would you be able that small domain with one good article is reliable? You don't. That is why Google prefers vice, or bbc news. It is just easier. There are more investor money there, etc. etc.

9) DYI projects, or game formus are tricky. They may contain Nintendo stuff, they may contain ROM files, or other untrustworthy comments. It is easier for search engines to ditch such sites altogether.

10) I am running a web crawler that indexes domains [2]. Let me assign you a task. Find interesting domains about "Amiga" using google search. How many domains you will find? I have more than 200 domains. Sure "Amiga" is a niche keyword, however that makes me wonder if I am just as inexperienced with Google search, or if Google in fact is a Potemkin Village for folks living in Matrix.

Links:

[1] https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-resea...

[2] https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
No need to go to the kernel API to create filenames that are invalid UTF-16. The Win32 API will happily let you do it.
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> I was imagining the message encoded in clear text, not encrypted form, [...]

I was considering that, but I came to the conclusion that it would be an exceedingly poor choice.

Steganography is there to hide that a message has been sent at all. If you make it do double duty as a poor-man's encryption, you are going to have a bad time.

> As such, I approached it as a toy problem, and considered detection by savvy parties to be a feature, not a bug; I imagined something more like a pirate broadcast than a secure line, and intentionally ignored the presumption about the message being encrypted first.

That's an interesting toy problem. In that case, I would still suggest to compress the message, to reduce redundancy.
I didn't understand what you disagree with.

I'm glad companies create such useful tools. I'm just saying the prospect of continuation seems to be contingent on whether it's profitable (at least in the long run). Hopefully, Google doesn't take that approach with some of its products is all I'm saying.
> since we imbue the axe with an identity outside of it's integral parts.

Typically for the purposes of ownership. So it's really part of a a hierarchical identity scheme.
> The environment meeting requirements could be part of the certification process.

Have you seen some of the stacks used these days? 90% of the time it isn't even replicable locally. And even if it did it'd break 1/2 the time.

- There are endless SaaS products that won't give an environment per developer and the shared environment is different to production

- There are so many cloud-based constructs like SES, S3, SQS, etc that replicating it all locally turns into a giant mess

- You are forced to run a local kubernetes cluster taking a long time to start and forever to debug

The list goes on. The better place to start is that people need to stop with this outsource mentality, simplify things and go back to the basics.
I think it's far more likely that it's driven by the fact that most CPUs are sold in laptops; and P/E core split lets them have better battery life.

Those design decisions then bubble up to server space, not the other way around.
Making a tap is super easy, you just upload a file with 5 LoC to github. I wouldn’t even bother with brew core.
Organized crime networks have insiders/hacked machines at the phone carriers where they can perform IMEI lookups in the carrier database to get the subscribers phone number.
I agree! All managers should have been mid/strong engineers at some point, and have developed stronger soft skills to become a leader. Without the technical knowledge and understanding of the processes one can't have the needed credibility and trust for other engineers.
I’ve used A.I. To generate documentation for a collections of functions, generate boiler plate, find tricky bugs, helped me solve complex problems that I’ve been trying to figure out for a while, do code reviews to figure out better ways of doing something.

On the image side of things I’ve been using stable diffusion to do style transfer animations and turning sounds into images.

For me it’s been both productive and fun.

The luddites were wrong and got butthurt, if everyone had their mentality we would still be riding horses and using abacuses.
Sorry, this will be very hard to do. You can't really try and segment images based on lines as the tables probably varied. The floor plans and things... this data is very very challenging.

I would suggest your best bet is waiting 2 years for the next version of LLAVA to come out which may have capabilities to interpret very accurately on device. The progress with LLAVA has been fast recently but for now it's still a bit too inaccurate.
I used to think the “killed by Google” meme was exaggerated, but this doesn’t look good. Why go through all the trouble of developing and promoting a VPN service as part of Google One, to eventually shut it down? If Apple is able to do it as part of iCloud, then why not Google? It’s like Google is launching new products without any strategic thinking, to eventually realize the product is not a good fit for them, after having wasted their own resources, and more importantly the time and attention of their customers. Google is slowly but surely destroying their brand. Which is kind of sad.
what is "mostly irrelevant in 2024" quoting from?
the site uses the phrase "Encrypt your text using the SHA256 algorithm" which is a bit of a misnomer.
> The problem for that scenario is that running your cars with electricity seems to be getting cheaper relative to ICE?

Currently for me it's cheaper to buy gas than drive electric.

It's only cheaper if you are well off, have you own drive lane and can charge off solar panels, might even be cheaper without the solar panels but if you can afford your own drive lane or parking spot you have those as well. Here in NW Europe that's a minority and the vast majority does not have this advantage.
Memorably, someone in the UK recently dismissed over 100 studies because they didn’t perform double blind RCT. Which is hilarious when you consider the studies were about gender affirming/reassigning treatments.
> The benefit of things running faster on the cloud is tearing away

Was that the benefit? I thought it's reliability, scalability, etc.

I remember having a FAST shared server for CI. "Someone" was in charge of it. Every time it went down everyone lost 1/2 a day trying to ask "someone" to reboot it.
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> dishonest cryptographers

There is a book about that, "Malicious Cryptography" by Adam Young and Moti Yung. Not about dishonest cryptographers per se, but about various sneaky tricks that could be used in crypto systems.

Anyway I'm sure you remember the notorious Dual EC DRBG.
Wow, this is surprising to me. Why doesn’t this work?
At least with Azure that's not the case. Depending on the VM family one vCPU is one core or one thread.
If they want to be ruthless, they should also highlight this bold and center at product launch in any Terms & Conditions.

This product will be deprecated and shutdown in the future if it doesn't consistently bring in $X billion within $Y quarters and within $Z operating cost. Kindly use at your own risk.
Just use zramswap if you dislike the idea of swap
It's an old typesetting term that found its way into content management systems. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/times-insider/20...
For me, the last sentence in your post destroyed everything you said before.
All of them do I think. But from experience, they can change it for your account.
I don't understand how this is any different to what we've had more than 6 years ago.

Ie: this [0] is a $300aud (maybe $200usd) LCD SLA printer.

[0] https://au.elegoo.com/products/elegoo-mars-4-msla-resin-3d-p...
Spotify hikes prices after CEO's remark: creating 'content' is 'close to zero'
Regarding quadcopters, this video by "Verity Studio" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h1Kh152ygU claims that they have developed a technology to enable drones to continue to fly a little, and then land safely, with just three motors and the fourth disabled.

But to the best of my knowledge this hasn't been implemented anywhere, and today's drones simply fall out of the sky if one motor fails or its propellers are destroyed.

Anyone know why that is? Is the video simply fake? (Comments on the video are disabled, which is not a good sign...)

Even if the video is fake, this seems like an important area of research for drone safety; what's the state of the art?
Yeah, "they also fail to mention __in it__", as in "in the title", the thing I was mentioning just before...
Why Did We Stop Building Beautiful?
Also your DNI can change. Typically foreigners get a NIE (used for the same thing but a different format), and get a new DNI if they ever get Spanish nationality.
Not sure; you can use the same character instead of a space and still get a few bits. Of course different ones would be better, but again, depends on how many bits you actually need.
The problem with lead is not that it's poisonous, but that it affects the brain. Especially in children. No amount lead is good and the other uses should be banned as well but due to rich people (those who can afford to fly private planes) it's still allowed.
Funny enough c7a is just what we chose recently for our CI runners precisely because of the better CPU performance. It's only better relatively to the terribleness of the t* types though.

And it definitely costs hundreds of dollars per month. Just ran the calculator and 8 VPCUs (to keep the rough laptop analogy) comes out at $316.
> Consider this use case: I have a test program which executes some unit tests, it creates some temporary files. I want the temporary files it creates to all be removed when it exits, even if it core dumps. But while it runs, I want those files to easily be accessible to subprocesses it spawns.

For this precise use case, what if you deleted the last run's temporary files at the start of the test program?
Missed opportunity to research how internet influences violence and SA.
We’re upvoting links to NY Post now? This place is spiraling fast. Have a look at the author’s archive to get an idea of the level of journalism that just ended up on the front page:

https://nypost.com/author/andrew-court/
Foreigners change from a NIE to a new DNI if they get Spanish nationality. So their ID number changes then.
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Reddit prefixes their IDs with t1_ for comments, t2_ for accounts, etc. That sidesteps the renaming issue.

Though I believe they mostly do it because their IDs are sequential, so without prefix you wouldn't easily notice if you use the wrong kind of id. They also only apply prefixes at the api boundary when they base36 encode the IDs, the database stores integers
> In the context of the article it's not all boomers that are being decried, it's specifically political leaders that are not taking climate change seriously.

Yet, they chose this title to join the hate bandwagon. There's no chance they weren't aware of what associations this title will provoke.

> The greatest change, on the order required, won't come to pass via individual recycling or otherwise discreet choices, it needs to come at scale from policy that leads changes in energy delivery, usage, recapture, et al.

Indeed, this must be a major part of the equation, but isn't the climate crisis so serious that environment-conscious people should chip away wherever it is possible? Specifically, flights have a really high carbon footprint, yet I don't seem a meaningful shift in behavior, no matter the age. This is the hypocrisy, young people making no sacrifices to their personal life, yet jumping on any opportunity to blame the old generation that they didn't sacrifice parts of their comfort for them.

But I don't want to play the blame game. It won't help find a solution, only spread hate.
Human-induced warming in 2023 is 1.31, showing the natural variability was a large part of last year's 1.43 warming. Also, emissions have not risen above pre-covid levels in 2022, hopefully a sign of emission starting to decline in the coming years.
I often turn PNG into base64 because there is a different cursor or buttons on the page, and sometimes I store them in HTML, along with styles. since the templates do not exceed a couple of tens of kilobytes, this is quite normal
Cults seem to have a fine time with this.
> Update, June 4, 2024 (03:50 PM ET): Google has responded to Android Authority regarding the controversial clause in its service and repair terms and conditions that allows the company to keep a device sent in for repair if that device has non-OEM parts. Google has assured us that it will not keep phones sent in for repair and that it is changing the wording of its ToS agreement to reflect this better.
Not all grapheme clusters have composed forms so normalization doesn't actually gain you anything here.
Support is not a one time thing. It's perpetual. Bugs will happen, feature requests will come, especially with Linux, cause there is no such thing as standard Linux. Nobody has to support your things for free. Support it yourself. Wait, that is hard work? Well...

This entittled atittude is how open source maintainers get burned out. If you care about OSS, stop it. Get your hands dirty.
Thank you for the suggestion, but it seems that the device has no over-temperature protection.
The oral history of Demonware and the growth of online gaming in the 2000s
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Many, many countries do not.
> Cloud providers have structured their compute offerings around dollars per core. This creates the incentive to deploy the densest possible core count processors, and zero incentive to make those cores faster.

I think your take is too conspiratorial. There are plenty of good justifications for this sort of approach. One of the selling points that stand out is that the bulk of the threads/processes don't have high computational needs and act more as event handlers, and typically they stay idle while waiting for IO, which represents the bulk of their workloads.

Why would you waste your budget on high-performance cores if most of what you do is sitting idle while waiting for data?

There's a reason why things like node.js are a success.
The problem is the boring, insulated tribal family members suddenly need to compete with the entire world for their families attention.

Of course they’re gunna struggle
>Lin tried to swap his bitcoins for harder-to-trace monero before cashing out the cryptocurrency at an exchange, the criminal complaint points to timing and amount correlations that nonetheless allowed the FBI to follow his funds to a crypto exchange where he allegedly liquidated the dirty funds

The police was somehow able to trace the ransoms received by the psychotherapy Vastaamo hacker despite his similar efforts of blockchain hopping. Likely same technique.