skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't this a list of all FreeBSD vulnerabilities over time?

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/ or

http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/index.html

Missing one of the infrequent emails from the security mailing list would be hard but my boxes also email me about vulnerabilities they are exposed to so it would be very hard to ignore them.

I am sure there is room for improvement though.
Round it up to most summer vegetables.
What about cucumbers that have been cut open?

E.g. salad cucumbers[1] are long enough that it's not uncommon to use a half at a time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber#/media/File:Organic_G...
lol “shadow operation” what? This house was built before cryptocurrency was even a thing. It’s an old AT&T switching hub that was disguised as a house so as to not make it an eyesore in the middle of a neighborhood.
Sadly, those who produce the technology (ie many on this forum) will happily sacrifice the environment to retain the power dynamic.
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> configurable user/group/shadow database access, providing getpwnam() et al. functionality by communicating over a Unix domain socket with a daemon

If this were compatible with the nscd protocol, you could use the daemon with unmodified musl (or appropriately configured glibc)… feels a bit like a missed opportunity?
As a rule of thumb – just store everything how the supermarket does, they want produce to last as long as possible too.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, oranges – you'll find them all unrefrigerated
You can't just realloc you way out of your buffer overflow, when this will invalidate existing references to members in the old allocation.
> If you took the Soviet union to be a totalitarian society, we could name Mikhail Bulgakov, Stanislaw Lem, etc.

Bulgakov was driven into poverty, despair and early death at age 48 by relentless harassment by Soviet authorities. Many of his works, including the masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, didn't get published until decades after his death. He himself burned the first version of the manuscript, fearing execution if anyone found it. He later rewrote the manuscript from memory, coining the famous catchphrase "Manuscripts don't burn".

Harassment and censorship of talented writers was the standard and not exception. The USSR did not produce these works, but failed to fully suppress them. They were like flowers that kept penetrating the asphalt even under the most hostile conditions.
I'm fairly sure that not only are they social, their society is hierarchical, which would make it easier for them to accept humans as "top horses".
If this thing can put into mass production, what is the excuse to not generate electricity only by solar panels?
Yes, but it is important to remember that the information that contradicts 'Russian propaganda' is 'American propaganda' and there is no particular reason to prefer one over another.
On security issues from massive Internet appliance vendors, you can safely assume it is malicious, though it might not have been placed there with knowledge of the vendor itself (i.e. it's very likely a state actor)
I came here 45 years ago to say this, but for some reason my comment is only just showing up now.
What NetBSD's focus is to get it running on all possible hardware so yea that's why they really haven't gotten it to be much more different than any of the other BSDs.

Since OpenBSD's purpose is to make one of the most secure UNIX platforms that's where they generally break things. They also anticipate security holes related to speculative execution like disabling hyperthreading.
Do US consumers buy less Made In China stuff than EU ones?

According to ustr.gov, US imports from China in 2022 were worth $562.9 billion.

According to eurostat EU imports from China were 627.3€ billion, so a significant difference (note the currency).

As a rate of the total import/export they are actually quite comparable.
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You're not wrong but misguided.

Consumers voted for this a long time ago, people want cheap s*t. There are manufacturers that do take pride and their products can last a lifetime if not easily repairable. Guess what, nobody actually wants it. (except the HN crowd aparently).
I wouldn't really call "cool stuff on the internet" the tech industry, as much as I'd love to claim it.
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https://youtu.be/5nUYHROVOmo

He mentions the main issue for a physical interface is that screens aren't necessarily available in the required dimensions.
> at this point the returns are diminishing

Welll... Tandem perovskite cells have been tested up to 35% effective while your traditional ones are 20-25%. So for same labour cost you'll get 50% more returns...
Nikon's new $2,500 Z6 III has the first partially stacked CMOS sensor
Of course they do, the AI allows us to gouge the customers out of so much more. You must be new to this capitalism thing.
> List voting might work as an alternative to single member districts.

But now you don't have a cardinal voting system and that's even worse than single member districts.

> It doesn't solve the problem that there is still exactly one chief executive. You can try making that a committee but that has other downsides.

Committees are dealing with it the wrong way. The right way to deal with it is to take away all of the executive's power. Constrain the national government from doing hardly anything and instead pass local laws to do whatever you want to do.

Then create elected positions responsible for different portions of the government. Directly elect the Attorney General and the heads of the major government departments. Let the President be like the Queen of England -- a figurehead with minimal responsibilities.
You could use multiple services for redundancy, ie keep a repo on github/gitlab/bit bucket, i think they all have import / export features into each other to keep issues and stuff
Can someone explain the downvotes? This is still one way to get satisfaction.
I actively collect methods of information organization, so "which have I studied" is too broad to list in a comment.

Learning resources - the greatest learning resource is teaching yourself how to learn, and understanding how your personal learning system works.

When I go to learn something:

- I don't use just one source. I look at multiple sources, comparing different perspectives as part of the learning process. No one author will explain things in "just the right way" to make things click.

- I build a dynamic MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) "framework" as I learn a subject, which can organize every piece of information I might need to save. If a piece of information does not fit the framework, the framework is changed.

- I use image search to quickly find different perspectives of a particular concept.

Information organization recommendations: In general, I would start with "the basics" - a process - even if you're sure you understand it well. See if you can organize what you know into a MECE framework, and find out if your understanding of the information is "siloed" (based on a condition, such as context). Ask yourself how broadly you are able to apply your understanding, or pick an "unrelated" subject and organize it from a process view as an exercise. Look at different models of a process and which components are always included, and which are not.
As in ipython to python. Datasets does this but for me it feels too heavy.

A simple shell with autocompletion and history can a long way as my main quick-and-dirty sql explorations
Now the next big thing in home solar will be home batteries. BYD seagull Chinese car costs less than $10k it has a 30-32 kWh battery where as a Tesla powerwall costs around $9k for 13 kWh. With feed in tariff restrictions being added home battery market is going to explode.
Fred Hebert's eulogy for Joe Armstrong always moves me to tears: https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html
Apps are a huge dealbreaker for anyone who isn't a frequent customer. They are are a huge hassle on first use, pretty much guaranteed to be privacy-invading, and won't stop nagging you with annoying notifications.

Ordering a "big mac with fries and a coke" at the drive-thru window takes less time than reading this comment. Why would anyone want to spend five minutes installing an app, creating an account, figuring out how the app works, and finally placing an order?
> ending its partnership with IBM on automated order-taking without an expansion

Aka some IBM b-team screwed up yet another implementation, but the contract language prevents McDonald's from saying so.
someone linked this in the comments

http://www.savefoodfromthefridge.com/p/humidity-of-fruit-veg...
The main disadvantage of this approach is that to free memory, you must terminate the program. This is fine for a program which runs for a second, but is unusable for long-running processes and servers where you want to free memory after finishing any memory-intensive task so that everything else that your machine is running concurrently gets memory too.
It could have been deliberate, at the behest of a 3-letter US agency for example.
I used to have a window mounted unit from a small company. It worked wonderfully in my bedroom.
I much rather assume it's cost cutting in combination with poor testing practices. Which is also more likely.
Huh. I was not aware of this - will give it a go, thanks!
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> U.S. grades are Fancy, Extra 1, No. 1, No. 1 Small, No. 1 Large and No. 2.

Not sure why, but I feel happy that "Fancy Cucumber" is a formal definition.
Serious Eats did some digging and decided this is a myth.

https://www.seriouseats.com/why-you-should-refrigerate-tomat...
Are Robert Linn and Linn Smart Computing related?

Can't find any link between them. Maybe they are eponyms?
What tools and services does one use to do this kind of testing?

Where does the data come from?
It's kinda wild how frequent screw-ups like this with companies like IBM and Oracle are and that companies never learn.
Those tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. were likely refridgerated all the way from the farm to the supermarket display, including in the supermarket's back rooms.

The supermarket is also simultaneously optimizing for other considerations like "do our consumers like bringing a sweater in the middle of summer to visit the produce section"?
States and localities can pass their own laws but they can't remove the federal ones, and federal laws preempt state laws. Naturally large corporations then make a point to capture the federal regulators.
Don't supermarkets go through their produce really quickly so multi-day storage isn't what they're optimizing for?
Thank you for replying. One thing my company (global 700k employees so a big firm) really REALLY doesn’t like is sending corporate IP like code and also competitive things like proposals into an LLM. We use Azure which legal begrudgingly allows but they’d prefer nothing. Remember appliances? I bet there’s a market for a metal box containing an LLM that an enterprise could stick in their data center. “Cloud” is pretty well adopted but something about an LLM API makes enterprises nervous.
Inside China's humanoid robot factory [video]
I like the idea of "apologies" -- sometimes the best thing a program can do is to try, and if it doesn't work then re-try, maybe with a small change guided by the user.

However, many programs require a bit more planning how to deal with unfortunate situations, at least without entirely restarting. It's good to not prevent repairing an unfortunate situation from the start by baking in certain constants that can't be practically assumed.

Better than editing a static allocation, is if the program can cope with that situation automatically in some way. Next better thing, have it runtime configurable (e.g. command line arguments, no recompilation needed). I don't see a huge benefit to prefer global arrays over memory maps generally.
is wateriness not a desired trait in cucumbers?
>Do they just hire some rando code monkeys with 0 security audits?

They offer telnet access as a backdoor, so yes...
(from the URL)

XScreenSaver for Android is... a set of screen savers and live wallpapers. That's it. It draws pretty pictures on your screen. And it's free. That's the whole deal.

But in their wisdom, Google -- the most rapacious privacy violator on the planet -- have decreed that XScreenSaver cannot be made available on their "Play" [sic] store until I publish a "Privacy Policy".

For a screen saver. A privacy policy. For a screen saver.

This pantomime where Google pretends to care about your welfare would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad, but here we are anyway.

Ok, strap in!
Projects I've seen recently refused permission by the local population in the UK on environmental grounds:

- A data centre using the site of an old landfill.
- A data centre next to an oil refinery.
- A film studio using the site of a disused quarry.
- A solar farm. That one was opposed by Greens.
- A housing development, by a roundabout.

And organised campaigns on environmental grounds against:

- A cycle bridge, built next to a railway bridge. A grade-separated railway bridge, in case you were wondering about safety concerns.
- A sewage works, near greenbelt land. Not on greenbelt land. Servicing a conurbation that currently dumps raw sewage into the local river. Also opposed by Greens, naturally.

Dare I even say that, after writing a forty-five thousand page environmental report for Hinckley, legal objections - based on matters clearly covered by said report - continued?

Or everything to do with HS2? Also, again, naturally most vocally opposed - by vocally, I mean by trespass - near me by Greens.

Or literally any wind turbines visible by anyone. Including offshore.

Our local democracy, like a fair few other institutions I can think of, was built by idiots with no concept that said system could be abused, from inside (I've not mentioned bribery, have I?) and outside. And so it's a tool of abusers. If the only way China could avoid that abuse was to override the locals entirely, that's a shame. But I can't in good conscience say they've picked wrong.
That's what I remember from my Computer Science classes 2001-2002. Standard ML was hard to learn back then for a newbie especially a Computer Science newbie.
Quad9 is based in Germany which isn't much better than France for this kind of thing. They have already been ordered to implement DNS-level censorship in other cases.
> Has nothing to do with the licence, if you need a lawyer (GPL) to see the magic changes in your appliance, you should probably not trust that vendor.

Of course! But trust is unnecessary with code in hand.
I would be content if this became a drop-in replacement for the cmos/bios battery or an enhanced suspension/hibernation feature.
> So unless AMD has some secret ARM or RISC-V research division close to launch a product I don't see how it is going to survive long term.

AMD has already built ARM chips and uses a modified ARM core for their Platform Security Processor. They have an architectural license and have already committed to launching ARM chips by 2025.

Why would they need to make it a secret? And what makes you think that they are?
Hamsun was rich, famous and beloved before the war. After the war, his books were burned, his wife and sons were imprisoned and there was a huge court case which nearly financially ruined his family

> Hamsun was subjected to humiliating clinical psychiatric tests in Oslo, and having been told that he was suffering from "lasting weakened mental capacities", was eventually fined 325,000 kroner after a civil action found him guilty of NS membership.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/aug/08/knut-hamsun-ce...

> In later years, studies and inquiries have shown that justice was administered unevenly and—by today's standards—harshly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_purge_in_Norway_after_Wo...
There's a variant of of that phrase:

Don't get angry at a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes. By then, you will have had time to calm down. And you will be a mile away. :)
I think you misread their claim - they said that generic list/set would have to be classes, not modules (generic modules are a specific thing in OCaml and aren't the same as a module of generic classes).
Just for level setting.

A huge amount of people who may be users of a platform such as Facebook are very likely able to watch a video generated using a technology such as this and not consider it possibly to be fraudulent.

Even if the content is somewhat strange or farfetched, these people, the majority of people are likely to not only "not notice" there's something off about the video, but believe what is being said.

They are unlikely to act on the information or regurgitate it unprovoked, but likely to just remember it as a small fact they have received in the past.
Who mentioned China? This article reminded me of Soviet Union of 100 years ago and Stalin's war against landlords/kulaks.
All their examples of cucumber chilling damage are for cucumbers that were chilled and then warmed back to room temperature and held there for several days. This is an unusual thing to do; most people just leave them refrigerated until they eat them.
The Kingdom of Kongo had a civil war resulting two factions claiming the throne and a lot of victims being enslaved and being sent to South America. The monarchy was only disestablished in 1914. The ancestral story mentioned in the article is quite plausible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_Civil_War

I am not sure where Uganda comes in, possibly the king has other relatives from there.
I worked on this project at my former employer for nearly 8 months. We worked as a good faith partner with McDonald’s, only to find out eight months in that McDonald’s had never had any intention of working with us and we’re only using us as a negotiating tactic for the acquisition they eventually made for this technology.

I learned two things from this project. Our team built a complete English language model for every possible permutation of ordering every menu item. No LLMs, no gpt required.

The hilarious part is that McDonald’s stopped responding to our team and abandoned the project only about a month before we were going to tell them that it was not technically feasible to do it scale. The problem is not bad AI nor a lack of data. The problem is all of the real world interface challenges, keeping speakers and microphones working outdoors across many different climates and weather conditions, and temperatures and humidity is incredibly expensive. And on top of that, the hardware needed per store at the edge and the permanent network infrastructure required to keep everything running makes the whole system substantially more expensive than just having a single human being running drive-through even have much higher wages than minimum wage.

So McDonald’s never got this conclusion from us and instead spent several billion more dollars and another six years of R&D to come to the same conclusion.

My other take away from this project was that I will never give McDonald’s another dollar of my money. Working with over 200 fortune 500 companies in my career McDonald’s is far away the most evil heartless and ruthless company I’ve ever dealt with.

They don’t care about their customers, their users, their franchisees or their employees. The only thing they care about at all is their stock price.
You can leave them in the fridge. Just eat the rest the next day.

I don't think it is a good idea to keep vegetables for days anyway. I usually buy my vegetables the day I start eating them.
Plus there's a whole spectrum from surplus letting to mega corporate agents. There are individual landlords who own 3-6 lets, respond promptly to call-outs, keep the buildings in good condition, are cautious to raise rents, and don't try to screw you over on the deposit. They're difficult to find (partly because tenants stick with them) but they're out there and doing a good thing for society. The question is not necessarily "how to we get rid of landlords" but possibly "how do we incentivise this type of landlord vs big corporations".
The exceptions to this are also interesting to see. For example, “stainless-steel hex nut” or “designer little black dress” both violate the standard ordering, which would predict “hex stainless-steel nut” and “little black designer dress”.

These exceptions tend to arise with stock phrases such as “hex nut” or “little black dress”. In that case the entire phrase, including adjectives, is treated as the noun, with additional adjectives prepended.
Already replaced by chatgpt for me. I use it for all search. Rarely use google.

And is google's AI solution going to work out? Momentum is not on their side.
I don't think consumers value security that much.
I find it really hard to distinguish malice and incompetence in this case.
Technically interesting but unless browsers start showing the error to the user about 0% of affected users will benefit from this.
And Ireland, especially Dublin, and other large towns/cities are experiencing a housing crisis; And I can attest to the poor state of the traffic network for commuting (by European standards, I know Americans are more willing to spend hours commuting) so commuting in is less viable.
As a rule of thumb: don't store them more than a couple of days. Easier.
They would gain even more by increasing sales tax to 30%, but yet they haven't.
The problem with Haskell is that it's slow and memory-heavy (and OCaml is the same, but worse). F# and Scala (and Clojure?) are pretty much the only reasonably usable FP languages.
Sigh, autocorrupt strikes again.
ISAs do have huge implications. A poorly designed ISA can balloon the instruction count, which has a direct impact on program size and the call stack.
Drive-through ATMs seem to work.
How could a dyson sphere work without artificial gravity?
If it spun then only at the equator would there be gravity.
The annoying thing about "reallocating" is that it's mostly the price of having the flat address space (and not dealing with 128-wide fat pointers). The virtual memory subsystem already juggles around physical pages to allow two non-overlapping virtual address ranges to transparently map to overlapping physical address ranges. The implementations of std::deque() from C++ standard library usually use the similar technique but it's arguably a bit silly since it essentially pushes a MMU-like system on top of an existing hardware one!