skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These new forms of populism have taken all of the counter-culture of the 1960s 70s and 80s and moulded it into some new form, a grotesque caricature of anti-establishment, denuded of any political analysis, and leaning heavily into critiques of state power and media power with no conception of capital. This is a Hippy Grotesque, Dead Heads in a post-truth fever-dream, refusing to come down from the high that is conspiracism, a sort of Peter Pan existence of forever living in your bedroom, stoned and paranoid.

Gosh, I can't believe the counterculture is opposing my culture!

I don't want to respond with just a single pithy line, but it really seems to me that's the extent of this article. There's no effort to understand what common interests there might be between self-identified progressives and far-right political parties, or critical analysis of when grab-bag protests featuring all the most oppositional groups in one's country do or don't represent a coherent political movement. It's just rehydrated 1960s-era commentary about how the hippies focus on weird stuff I don't think is important, and have political goals I find strange and incoherent, so therefore they're wrong and we've got to figure out how to get them with the program.
A well-formed, hand-written O is indistinguishable from a well-formed, hand-written zero. Literally, no amount of effort will make it clear which one is intended, short of some agreed-upon convention to use a different glyph like a slashed O for zero.

This is not true of G and 6 or B and 8. If these are well-formed, they are completely distinct.

People who paid for their post code are motivated to write the code clearly, for fear of nondelivery; but no amount of motivation will fix 0 versus O.

> The handwriting '1' looks like a 'L'.

It certainly does not. Rather, the lower case l is easily confused for the digit 1. This postzegelcode doesn't use lower case.

I don't see it mentioned that I is avoided because of 1. The likely reason is that Europeans don't write 1 just as a stick. It starts with an angled upstroke. That upstroke makes it possible to confuse the European 1 with an American 7; but the European 7 has a horizontal stroke across its stem which thwarts that problem. (I addition, a cursive 7's upper horizontal stroke is actually wavy, like a tilde.) Confusion of I, 1 and 7 in European handwriting is next to nil.
Clever hack. The style of keyboard looked old-ish to me but what really landed the point was seeing XEmacs on Windows XP:)
A Protocol for Solving Certificate Poisoning for the OpenPGP Keyserver Network
Yeah, though there are several books I want to finish reading even more than I want to start Neuromancer. Yet that's realistically also not happening. Similar with some classic video games.
Agreed, this is a bit like writing ‘developing iPhone app is painful’ but not using anny officially supported tooling.

fact that you must ship the app Unpackaged is particularly strange.
Game theory playsna big role here too.

We have a group of people like me or real investors who invest in solar. I bought a balcony powerplant. It's just 600 watts but because how the market works, I disrupt it with this as everyone else who invests in it.

Other sellers.of energy see their profits swindle and another potentially independent group sees all this free overproduction of renewable as another opportunity.

You basically have to invest if you own old power plants to not loose to the others.
By that logic plants are conscious ? What about fungus ?
It was never mentioned in the article, but this owl could have been female and might have been gravid.
One example to help think about this. Say you have 3 friends. Your friend Bob has a net worth of $1 - he is the least rich. Your friend Alex has a net worth $10 - he is richer. Another friend Ben has a net worth of $100 - he is the richest. Richest here is comparative against all 3 of them, but none of them are actually rich. Bill Gates is rich. Bezos is rich. Musk is rich. Someone with a net worth of $100 isn't.

You can still have comparisons between the rich too, so Bezos is richer than Gates and he's also the richest if you're just considering the pair. But add Musk to the mix, and he's no longer the richest.

I guess that last example looks like you have two attributes - rich as some objective "has a lot of money" and comparatively rich (richer, richest). For safe, it's kind of similar, except that as soon as you are saying one thing is safer than the other, then you are implicitly acknowledging that there are areas where the thing isn't safe, and if you're admitting that you can't also call it safe without contradicting yourself.
Is it not a bit counterproductive trying to stop people to access information that is one Google search away?

(You can also use DuckDuckGo if Google somehow decides to censor results.)
Plenty of People Could Quit Therapy
That's exactly what Beck described when he originally coined the term.
I tried to make them as easy to use as possible:

# Thin Columns
thinColumns 3
Hello world
endColumns

# Wide Columns
wideColumns 2
loremIpsum 100

https://try.scroll.pub/#scroll%0A%20%23%20Thin%20Columns%0A%...
VPNs drop your bandwidth speeds by 50% on average. And if tailscale has to use a relay server, instead of a direct connection, bandwidth will drop by 70-80%.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240531213308/https://www.theat...
Same here. It's caused by the sshd daemon being split into multiple binaries. In fact, the commit which introduced the change mentions this explicitly:

> NB. if you're updating via source, please restart sshd after installing, otherwise you run the risk of locking yourself out.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/03e3de416...

Edit: Already reported at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/op...
you can start using sapling today. its github compatible and production ready. as long as the new tools support github or whatever forge/hub you are using, there is no need for critical mass for adoption. This is not possisble for radical approaches like pijul, but that approach is not fully proven yet.
Send it to Mars, get the process going.
Trees in cities, just taking up valuable space, handing out shade and oxygen equally and for free, like them there communisms. Their leaves might turn red in autumn, but they are red inside all year, these woody marxist menaces!
Show HN: Mockaton – Mock Server for a Better UI DX
You sort of have to trust yourself, but verify it against what others expect.

That's the point of code reviews.

Trust me; I'm an expert on never trusting myself.
Smartphone apps are a headache for travel, banking, hotels, apartments, laundry
Secret ballot is important to avoid direct reprisal for voting the way you think is correct in the face of social pressure (the classic example is your union or your employer tells you to vote for someone you think is terrible. Without secret ballot you risk losing your livelihood for doing what you think is right) Thus you can only make sure the entire voting group has clear skin in the game and repurcussions from their group action.

forcing tax distribution is a bad idea too because there's lots of stuff it is in my interest to subsidize as a high tax payer in jurisdictions in which I don't vote (the most obvious examples being services around my factories in other states or for my customer base in other states, but there are many many other examples). I also need services in other places that are communal (i.e. I don't need a navy in nebraska but nebraskans sure benefit from the navy protecting the coasts). If you are going to do something like that it's better to clearly define government tasks and then keep levels of government out of tasks that they aren't assigned via a strong constitution.

You don't want to stop people from voting (same deal as why you want people in smaller, efficient companies making up the majority of the economy vs government and other forms of oligopoly) You just want them to experience pain from their bad choices so they are unlikely to do it again or have to really suffer to keep making bad choices so that eventually enough of them stop out that the good choice people shine through. I'm also not willing to claim their politics are garbage enough to want to stop them from voting (even though it looks like garbage to me) because I know I am not smart enough to account for all variables and accounting for all variables, at least enough to have something started to grow rapidly rather than having to start from scratch, is what all this individual freedom is great at. If I was smart enough to account for all variables we would be better government by a dictatorship of me and historically that has never turned out better than democracy on any timeline stretching past a couple rulers (this is also why we should be more agressively breaking up these large oligopolies we have let form since Rhenquist changed the supreme court position in the 70's. They aren't smart enough to have all that power either.
Unit tests testing the API - if there is no API there then the level of unit it probably too low. The purposes of all tests is to say "No matter what this will never change" - while never is a bit to strong as you are allowed to make changes any API that your unit tests covers will be painful to change, both because the tests will also have to change and so you have nothing to guide you, and also because odds are you don't have good coverage from other tests (integration tests would catch issues, but you rarely have all cases covered).

Or to put it a different way, your unit tests should cover units that have a good boundary to the rest of the system. This should sound like a module, but there is reason to have module as a larger thing than your unit (most of the time there shouldn't be, but once in a while this is useful), and so while there is overlap it is often useful to consider them different.

Integration tests cover the API, but they do not test the API (well they often use some API as well, but the won't cover all your internal APIs.)
There is already a diagram that would capture it so much better - flowcharts.
For GPT, I would really urge to try again with 0. 1 kind of starts to force it to fail.

I would say this actually invalidates the whole thing.
Marine Le Pen very much needs jihadism for people to vote for her
Camouflage is after all one of nature's most common defenses. Always be quick with patching, though.
https://www.golinks.io
Interesting product that does this for internal links.
> institutional investors

A very high % of "institutional investors" will be indexers, TSLA is 2.5% of the NASDAQ and 1.2% of the S&P 500.

That likely gets you 99% of the rationale for the holdings.
I don't understand why Microsoft puts it on the user/dev to make sure their own dependencies and "VC redistributables" are installed.

Like shouldn't Windows 11 just either have that already or pull it down as needed as it's an official MS library.

Feel I always hit a roadblock when setting up a new PC where one of the things needs that but the dev didn't provide it and I have to get it myself. Which feels weird when it's an official MS thing from their official dev tools.
I remember it being far less complicated.

I just had to pick the start time, the end time, and the channel the VCR need to be on to record. If i wanted to be fancy, I could pick the tape speed as well. VCR did the rest, as long as the time was correct (but really I just recorded for a minute or two on either side.)

Program guide was always in the sunday newspaper as its own booklet or in the daily newspaper.
I'm sure he'd join you in minimizing the importance of precedent today but my comment was a direct quote of Alito
Like a finger pointing to the moon.
That's he-aac so 56kpbs is not that bad, it gets dicey below 32kbps when you need tricks like parametric stereo. But he-aac's spectral band replication does add metallic taste to everything, i would agree
If you are right about the allocations, then I think the worst it can do is deadlock since the locks aren't recursive. Deadlock in sigalrm could still lead to a DOS since that might prevent it from cleaning up connections.
"Sensible" is an odd word when it comes to investing. What is sensible for one person would be reckless for another, and overly cautious for a third. People have different comfort levels with risk, different timelines when they might want to use their money, and different goals for their lives.

If you might want to retire soon and start spending your money to support yourself, then "investing for the long term" is not sensible. You need stability, not an extra 5% that comes with a risk of a bubble popping. On the other hand, if you have enough money to live on outside of these investments, and are just trying to make higher numbers appear on statements but it would not harm you in the slightest if those numbers crash for 5 or even 10 years... then sure, it probably is sensible.

Most people fall somewhere in the middle, and want diversified investments so that if one piece crashes, the others hold up, and you get a return that is in the middle, with a risk level in the middle.
The end of the post links to two jsfiddles:

> If you want to try out SmoothLife yourself in your browser, I made a few jsFiddles which illustrate the basic principle. Here is a Fourier based implementation that follows the discussion in this article pretty closely: http://jsfiddle.net/mikola/aj2vq/

> I also made a second WebGL/GPU based implementation that uses a discretization similar to that proposed in Rafler’s original paper: http://jsfiddle.net/mikola/2jenR/

The jsfiddles seem to still be alive, but the "Run" button doesn't work for me. Anyone have any luck with them?
I inherited an ancient project that had literally tens of thousands of test.

I reviewed hundreds of them, tried rewriting dozens of them.
Eventually, realize that essentially all of the tests were just testing that mock data being manually manipulated by the test gave the result of test expected.

Absolutely nothing useful was actually being tested.

Some team spent a couple of years writing an unholy number of tests as a complete waste of time. Basically just checking off a box that code had tests.
I Play Chess 40 Times a Day. Because I Must
In which browser? It's a live view in Chrome and Firefox.
Absolutely. Outlawing the "meaningful content algorithms" would go a long way towards solving this problem.
> those darn users may have other ideas

Getting those ideas in front of you is the job of the product team.

It isn't your fault if the guy writing the ticket refuses to talk to the users/and or/you.

"Ticket meets acceptance criteria, please submit a new request for this new feature."
Aphantasia: What Imageless Minds Tell Us About Consciousness
If you have a verification step behind the llm that proves semantic equivalence between the original code and the llm output I could imagine scenarios where it can be beneficial.
> Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!

As someone who doesn't know this kind of stuff well, will this cause OpenBSD to have to update the statement above?

https://www.openbsd.org

EDIT:

TFA says:

> OpenBSD is not vulnerable.
RegreSSHion: Remote Unauthenticated Code Execution Vulnerability in OpenSSH
If they expire in 5 days, that's 1/6 of a million.
Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator
A good idea is the backend or the cloud could be a paid feature for this application.
1. It would be nice to see examples where GPT-4o was inaccurate, but best performing models were accurate.

2. It would be nice to try again with 0 temperature, as I do a lot of structured data extraction. In my experience 0 temperature should always be used, and it can make a huge difference. Temperature of 1 essentially means that it will start to pick tokens with lower probability of being accurate...
When I tell people I live in Berlin, they often make a face and disparage it for being an "ugly" city - and to a certain extent I agree with them... if they've only visited the tourist heavy central areas (Alexanderplatz, Friedrichstrasse, and much of Mitte), where there is a notable lack of greenery.

What I try to remind them of, is that there are more parks, gardens, and forest here than any other capital city, and that those areas will go toe-to-toe beauty wise with anywhere.

Additionally, as temperatures rise (and there's a lack of indoor refuges due to AC being uncommon), finding respite among the greenery is one of the only foolproof ways to cut the heat here.
OpenBSD isn't vulnerable, from https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion....:

> We have not investigated any other libc or operating system; but OpenBSD is notably not vulnerable, because its SIGALRM handler calls syslog_r(), an async-signal-safer version of syslog() that was invented by OpenBSD in 2001.
Tests are akin to scientific experiments. They test hypothesis and try to falsify claims. They shouldn't be seen as ground truth, but ways to gain information about what the system claims to be doing. In this sense it makes sense that tests will become obsolete or evolve with the system, because the model and domain upon which the system is based also evolves and changes with time.
> In 1999, I built a completely custom Win32 GUI for a (brandable) chat application

Given that it’s windows, it might still run today, so it likely is still possible
> I'd think they're immune to the cult-of-personality effect, at least if approaching that stock from a fundamentals perspective.

> Is that view outdated, e.g. because of modern trading algorithms?

It's outdated or it might have never been true. It's not that much to do with modern trading algorithms IMO, but more about FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and the general market culture.

There have been many frauds, near frauds or simply unviable business models, where institutional investors fell for it, including pretty obvious ones like FTX, Frank by Charlie Javice, DC Solar, WeWork, Uber and Theranos.

Everyone is afraid of missing the next Google/Nvidia/Microsoft/Apple, so anything goes in the hope that something, anything could hit it big.

Add in the extra belief that "green" stuff (which Tesla supposedly is) is super important, at a personal and global level, with many countries enacting bans on cars with combustion engines, and there was lots of belief in Tesla. At one point they were valued higher than all other auto manufacturers combined, while delivering a fraction of the output of the smaller ones like Renault. Under the mistaken and wrong assumption that it will somehow be harder for legacy automakers to switch to electric vehicles than it would be for Tesla to ramp up production. Spoiler: It's harder to manufacture a million cars than it is to put batteries in 5 of them.

This will probably not last with the new, higher interest rate environment we're in. Maybe.
This is super irrelevant, sorry but the size is just too small
To the second point if you look at the comments carefully you do tend to see "clusters" of names that appear awfully suspicious. The most common one I see is a flood of Indian names when an Indian founder posts something. I mean, I'm happy to see communities supporting each other, but there is clearly some gaming of the leaderboards happening.
The legality of the event is know. It was illegal, as deemed by a court of law.

The question I was after is if the concept is ever moral or reasonable to deal with protestors with methods outside the legal system. Common methods are the military, but also martial law, suspending bank accounts (without a court decision), and other methods.

Current in Sweden we had recent several demonstrations that lead to riots, and historically we had major ones including one that lead to several demonstrators getting shot. Every single time, researchers and government investigations has found that using anything other than the regular legal system is counter productive, and in some cases very deadly. If the police don't do their job you get more police from other regions. In a event just a few months ago, they even got police from nearby countries to help (despite massive demonstrations and influx of tourists, crime went significant down during that period).

In general, the problem of police not doing their job seems to stem from when they are afraid. Either because of being extremely outnumbered, or in combination with poor instruction (with can lead to being afraid of doing mistakes in a political hot situation). Both are problems that can be solved by politicians without going outside the framework of the legal system.
My personal path was first learning to lie about it - then later on understanding that nobody was lying about it per se, but they might appreciate the offer of concern without actually wanting to take advantage of it. Or they might just not want to confide in a casual acquaintance.

I think the tricky and important part is actually navigating levels of intimacy, e.g. by phrasing questions in a way that doesn't ask to cross too many boundaries all at once. Conversation is like a dance, it goes better when everyone is giving and taking feedback on where it goes. In this sense "how are you" is just an invitation to dance. Don't be surprised when most people don't want to start dancing to a mournful tune!
> Okay, let's say if you know something useful with a better record.

Oh, SEL4 is without any doubt useful, it wouldn't be as popular and coveted if it wasn't, but I think you are trying to say widespread.

However, you seem to have taken my examples literally and missed my point, which is trying to judge the security of an OS by its vulnerabilities is a terrible, terrible approach.

> but it does include everything out of the box to be a web server

Sure, and so do plenty of minimal linux distros, and if you use the same metrics and config as OpenBSD then they'll have a similar security track record.

And honestly, Linux with one of the RBAC solutions puts OpenBSD's security to shame.

Do yourself a favor and watch the CCC talk someone else linked in the thread.
> I've generally come to think that unit tests should be used to baseline something after it ships

In theory, but I've never seen anyone successfully write tests after something ships. By that time much of the context that should be documented in tests is forgotten.
> I don't understand why average Joes cheer for it. Weak government oversight is going to make every aspect of your life worse.

This is demonstrability false. Where I live I'm not allowed to do any work on my house as homeowners are not allowed to get permit. I have been in construction before and have the background and experience to do a lot of work correct, but I'm not a licensed contractor and don't qualify to become one and so I cannot do any of my own work. This regulation harms me - there are a number of projects I want to do that I cannot afford to pay someone else to do and so my house isn't as nice as I want it to be.
17 Years, $700M Wasted: The Collapse of New York's Traffic Moonshot
> Sure, see any of the previous exploits for sshd, or any other software shipped in the OpenBSD default install.

Would you like to point to one that successfully utilizes a weakness in OpenBSD itself, which is the topic and implied statement of the video, rather than a weakness in some application running under the superuser?

Just to underline, I'm not interested in discussing the hows and whys of containing arbitrary applications where one or more portions are running under euid 0. I'm interested in seeing OpenBSD successfully attacked by an unprivileged process/user.