skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Late in the summer of 2022, a California state agency announced a ban on the sale of new cars containing internal combustion engines.

I'm continually amazed at how many journalists just refuse to do basic due diligence on this regulation. To quote the 2nd paragraph of his source for this claim (his own publication btw):

> The new rule will “ensure that consumers can successfully replace their traditional combustion vehicles with new or used [zero-emission vehicles] and plug-in hybrids that meet their transportation needs,” she added.

Top-to-bottom and left-to-right no one seems to care that "California to ban all gas-powered cars" and "California to ban all cars exclusively powered by gas" are wildly different statements with wildly different outcomes.

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/cars-and-light-tr...
Powerful Spyware Exploits Enable a New String of 'Watering Hole' Attacks
This was Podcast Addict.
OIDC seems like it can reasonably help in a fair number of these cases, maybe? it's iffy because (a) the major providers, are, well, Google and their ilk, (b) SSO solutions trend toward reducing user confusion at the cost of choice--im still out on whether the common "enter your email/account identifier so we can select which IDP we use" login flow is something of an anti-pattern or not

i generally like having the option for "sign in with github" as opposed to the all-encompassing "sign in with google" (ignoring that github is a microsoft account but not quite at this point)

smaller-scope IDPs for a particular field ("ey, you work on code stuff? you probably have either a github or gitlab account to log into our code-adjacent service" or "ey, you use stackoverflow? you can use that same login on superuser") is maybe a decent middle ground, where shared authentication is more explicit than third-party cookies were
Yeah I was disappointed to see that while the ID information is hidden by default you can actually bring it up on screen in a buried menu. If they were serious they would have made it so the information can never show on the screen of the device that holds the ID.
>> Convincing a whole generation of programmers that distributed lock are a feasible solution.

> I too hate this. Not just because the edge cases exist, but also because of the related property: it makes the system very hard to reason about.

I think this is a huge problem with the way we’re developing software now. Distributed systems are extremely difficult for a lot of reasons, yet it’s often or first choice when developing even small systems!

At $COMPANY we have hundreds of lambdas, DocumentDB (btw, that is hell in case you’re considering it) and other cloud storage and queuing components. On call and bugs basically are quests in finding some corner case race condition/timing problem, read after write assumption etc.

I’m ashamed to say, we have reads wrapped in retry loops everywhere.

The whole thing could have been a Rails app with a fraction of the team size and a massive increase in reliability and easier to reason about/better time delivering features.

You could say we’re doing it wrong, and you’d probably be partly right for sure, but I’ve done consulting for a decade at dozens of other places and it always seems like this.
You're missing the point. We rebuilt the built environment based around internal combustion cars capabilities. Everything became single use zoning, so you need to drive from your house to the store, school, work, etc. None of that needed to be done (and has had severe impacts on our society across the board). If we had been limited to early 1900s electric vehicles, we could have stayed with more traditional mixed use city planning. Folks could still use cars to go where they needed, but even more importantly, they could walk! And for longer distances, take a train. Not only would we have been better off pollution wise, we would have been better off physically, mentally, and morally (not had to support middle eastern authoritarians).
Totally - my energy costs in CA with solar = generation is super-cheap during daytime but transmission costs from PG&E are insanely high.
Overt U.S. meddling began (and in a very significant way) in 1956 with the Suez Crisis.

The US had nothing to do with Israel forming beyond being part of the UN vote

True for the U.S. at the government -- but not for the U.S. as a country. One of the earliest major Zionist associations (the Federation of Zionist Societies - a forerunner of the modern ZOA) was formed in New York in 1897. The movement would continue to receive key funding from American backers, and held one of its key meetings in New York in 1942:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Conference

The movement's ideological (some would even say "spiritual") underpinnings can be traced to the mid-19th century writings of this American playwright and utopian activist - said to be the originator of the idea of resettling Jews in Palestine, predating the efforts Herzl himself by half a century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Manuel_Noah

So American meddling in the region goes back quite far indeed.
It's now just a simple frontend redirecting to Indeed.
First it was written reviews, then it was youtube videos, soon it will be short fast paced TikTok clips.
Peak PC.
Maybe you got a second chance bump back onto the front page, nice!

It looks like the issues I reported earlier have been resolved, though the second time it took a while to load (hopefully due to all the traffic!).
So use the Apple TV store (formerly iTunes Store). There you can buy nearly anything from any studio, and you pay per episode or per season. Whether the costs are reasonable or not is in the eye of the beholder but I don't feel ripped off by it.
"do you use Outlook the application or outlook.com?"

Do you have a Live account? Or Office 365? Do you open a web browser to sign in?

I have had to ask non-technical people this and they're confused beyond belief.
Why are people going for this guys throat— distributed locking might be impossible but what is being described, distributed leasing, is totally possible and useful. There's no sins being committed here.

I might choose DynamoDB over S3 to implement this but both are fine.
Look, I’m all for getting away from naming things Microsoft Enterprise Work Application for Students and Home Deluxe… but I think they may have gone a bit too far in the wrong direction.
Beautifully, that is exactly what I was looking for.

Watching GeoHot implement tinygrad live is not the same as walking a Koan like path to understanding.
These decisions are usually not based on technical considerations or based on daily/quarterly/yearly goals. They are usually very broad, long horizon, multi year "themes" that are handed down to top level directors who are asked to interpret-implement them. The issue is many of these themes are dropped before they are fully implemented.

When Ballmer was in charge, his theme was that Microsoft should be "devices and services" company. My guess is that Microsoft now wants to be "services" company. In that light, "Remote Desktop" does not quite fit because in the future everything is an App which is a SAAS that we will pay a subscription to.
Anandtech, Slashdot, etc. These are some of the best websites that I followed throughout my career. Slashdot is where I learned about bitcoin for example. Phoronix is another. Level1Tech replaced some of these for me but the long forms are harder to come by these days.
I already kinda moved away from reading it after Anand moved to Apple. The quality and frequency seemed to drop and I lost interest.
Without the gasoline car, we would never have built the interstate system. So imagine a world where a similar amount of money would have been dumped into mass transit instead of the interstate system. Imagine a world with high speed trains between major cities and EV's for local transport.

For anybody not within 100 miles of a major city, they'd likely have gotten electricity earlier in a world which depended on that for transport. And stopping to charge for an hour every 100 miles is still a heck of a lot better than the alternative of a horse & buggy.
How climate change is expanding the reach of a deadly mosquito-borne illness
Places with water (and therefore trees) tend to be already spoken for in most of the US. Alaska, maybe? But that's not temperate at all, and is not great for the solar aspect.
I've wondered about this too. Seems 90% of people on the internet have abusive narcissistic relationships with their parents, while 90% of the people I know in real life love their parents very much.
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Physicists recently created Coordinated Lunar Time, a time zone for our Moon
The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection
Scientists identify microbes in the 'food microbiome'
Well, one trend that seems to be going in the opposite direction is how many videos / shorts now have subtitles and text by default. So that will still presumably have an effect on literacy.

Even then, I think readers overestimate the amount of people that are/were actually reading serious literature. Even when literacy and books were at their peaks, most people were reading pulp novels and other low-end books.

So while I don't really disagree with you per se, I do think it's unnecessarily pessimistic, and it's a better approach to try and approach this new media format with fresh eyes and optimism.
Kagi T-Shirts Soft Launch
Just got an email announcing this for the first 20,000 members.
The article states fairly clearly that they've lost to clickbait (and, I would guess, increasingly, to AI-slop). I.e. it was advertising that defeated them, not the ad blockers.

The fundamentally corrupt business model has grown big enough to reach its own tail and has been happily chomping on it for a while. Now it's getting to the juicy parts.
ISPs seeing the domains of user traffic is not a given. And DoH is a step toward mitigating that.

People were setting their DNS resolver to custom values before DoH.

I agree that DoH would ideally be enabled at the OS level, or that the browser flow would default to still checking host file before sending out the query.
It really is disheartening to see so many technically-inclined people berate the one browser that is preventing Apple/Google hegemony. The expectations set upon Mozilla and Firefox are so unrealistic it's laughable.

Firefox is rock solid, open-source, backed by a great organization (which has recently reinvested additional resources in it) and a joy to use imo. Also, the levels of vitriol that even the slightest bit of anonymous telemetry incurs is unhelpful and I encourage people who hold that viewpoint to really interrogate it.
Microsoft Remote Desktop for the Mac is a grid of thumbnails already. There is a list view but it isn't the default.
Everything can be O(1) if you put bounds on every operation.
Because you can't get near the pilots anymore, and because everybody assumes a hijack is suicidal and reacts accordingly.
Our economic model (is supposed to) boil down to producing our goods and services using the least amount of resources. Sure, that yields planned obsolescence and enshittification, but also cheap multi-GHz laptops and widespread Internet availability.
What's not to agree with "I didn't choose to be born"? Is there a child who asked to be born? Is there a child who consciously decided to be, or not to be, born? There's no "believing" here; it's just a biological fact: people don't get born because they want to. I really don't get what you're trying to say.
this is an important problem to work on so I'm extra irritated by this. looked for the protocol written in standard/BAN notation, didn't find it. if you don't have that for a security protocol, what is there to evaluate or trust?

- lack of a top level protocol description? Check.

- quirky codeworded modules instead of useful feature abstractions? Check.

- promoted by an intelligence agency? Check.

I'd be really interested in novel solutions to this general problem, but how is this one not dumber than Urbit?
‘World’s largest’ piracy ring Fmovies shut down by police in Vietnam
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i think it hinges on what is a threat vs what is mitigation.

should people be informed, thus enabled to respond, or should people be etoliated, and kept ignorant of even requiring a response.
Yes you could sit in the third seat, the jumper seat, with this. I feel like one could already sneak something malicious through TSA (this already happens and if you attempt it enough times eventually you'll get through), but being able to sit in the freaking cockpit behind the pilots who assume you're another pilot is CRAZY.
Thanks! See above — I don’t think this is exactly dynamic shape support.

My definition might be wrong, but I often think of full dynamic shape support as implying something dynamic about the computation graph.

For instance, JAX supports a scan primitive — whose length must be statically known. With full dynamic shape support, this length might be unknown — which would mean one could express loops with shape dependent size.

As far as I can tell, shape polymorphic exports may sort of give you that — but you incur the cost of compilation, which will not be negligible with XLA.
Author here, that's great to hear!

Well, if you're looking for good REPL resources, I just happened to have done a 3 hour Julia REPL Mastery for a previous JuliaCon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLXEUt5KLc

I should shrink this a more bite-sized version at some point.
Lead-acid power is what the EV1 came out with, so something similar to that could have existed in the 1960s. Cheaper vehicles would have been closer to golf carts or electric bikes, but it would have been possible.

Because EVs didn't have the range of gasoline vehicles, EV concepts in the old days usually included something like overhead catenary power lines, or in-road induction or other "3rd rail" type charging on freeways, in order to sustain longer trips.

Let's try to keep in-mind that 1960s cars were horrendously unreliable, not starting when you turned the key because they were too hot or too cold, requiring obscene amounts of maintenance, etc., so a trade-off of range in exchange for an immensely reliable vehicle is something many people would have been willing to make, too.
The iPhone 5 Review (2012)
Cool. After all Wordpress is very performant and secure /s
We have reached an agreement with the US AI Safety Institute
> In the case of mourning, we've done it since before we could write, and many animals do it too, so it is unlikely we'd stop.

We and other animals tend to mourn those that we personally knew and were dear to us. This situation is a bit different, as it involves a surging share of dying people that were left with no close people to mourn them, or even simply notice their absence.
[Nit: Not "your compiler's" but "your library's." The C++ Standard Library is generally provided by the compiler vendor, but it's not built into the compiler, except for tiny pieces like `std::bad_alloc` and `std::strong_ordering`.]

The implementor has far less freedom than your answer seems to be implying. The standard specifies, for example:

https://eel.is/c++draft/priority.queue#priqueue.cons-4

> The constructor calls make_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp).

https://eel.is/c++draft/priority.queue#priqueue.members-5

> emplace calls push_heap(c.begin(), c.end(), comp).

And so on. In fact, if I weren't trying to "yes and" you, I'd say there is essentially no implementation freedom. In particular, the user-programmer is allowed, at any point, to extract the protected data member `c` and verify that it is in fact heapified in the same way that `std::push_heap` would have heapified it.

That said, std::priority_queue::pop is specified to behave "as if by pop_heap followed by pop_back," and in fact the vendor can do better there, by using Floyd's "bottom-up" algorithm. LLVM's libc++ switched from the naïve implementation to Floyd's version back in early 2022, thus closing a feature request that had been open for 11 years at the time:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/79d08e398c17e83b...

I think the other two major vendors had already switched by then, although I'm not sure.

The implementation definitely does not have the freedom to switch from the mandated heap-based PQ to any alternative kind of PQ, including but not limited to (TAOCP §5.2.3) "leftist or balanced trees, stratified trees, binomial queues, pagodas, pairing heaps, skew heaps, Fibonacci heaps, calendar queues, relaxed heaps, fishspear, hot queues, etc."

I once wrote an STL-style implementation of Fishspear, with some analysis of its pros and cons.
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/05/23/fishspear/
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Looks like SBCL plus libraries. The author, vindarel, is here on HN.
You seem to be concluding that because the problem is difficult if not impossible to fully solve, there’s nothing that can be done at all.

You’re also suggesting that because something cannot be perfectly formalized, there’s no value in exploring the problem given what we do know. This seems problematic.

Regarding ethics; the point is not that consciousness is somehow itself responsible for ethics. The point is that despite our incomplete understanding of consciousness, we use our first person lived experience as a basis for collectively formulating rules about how we interact with other humans. The fact that I can’t formally prove that anyone around me is conscious or what it even means to be conscious doesn’t mean I should feel free to treat those people as non-conscious objects.

> Trying to create any sort of formal ideas around something that cannot be measured, quantified, or evaluated in any way, shape, or fashion

The fact that I’m having this conversation with you is a rebuttal to this.

You’re correct that there is a particular kind of measurement that we cannot currently take, i.e. some kind of lower level diagnostic of consciousness itself, whatever it is.

But I disagree strongly that there’s nothing to measure or evaluate. Just one simple example, but why is it that we all seem to experience pain? And how is it that we agree pain exists? Why would most people understand a question like “how bad is the pain on a scale of 1-10?”

We have drugs to help mitigate pain, and we have stats about how efficacious some drugs are vs. others, when one drug is more appropriate for a given situation, etc.

How does any of this exist if we have no way, shape or fashion to measure conscious experience?
> The R & D would have started much further away from a usable product. Maybe we would have got electric cars earlier, but not as early as the 60s or 70s.

Electric cars were a usable product in 1910, superior in most cases to the alternative of a horse and buggy. If they hadn't been outcompeted by gasoline cars they would have gotten better continuously and would never been unusable or inviable.
The proponents at the time weren't just promoting lead BEVs, but also things that never stopped being electric or steam they just stopped being used/built in American cities like trolleys/light rail/tram lines because ICE offered more "freedom". They were calling for a return to good old mass transit options, which would have still been strongly in living memory in the 1960s in most American cities.
RIL about how the ebpf verifier attempts to prevent infinite loops given rule ordering and rewriting transformations.

There are many open query planners; maybe most are hardly reusable.

There's a wasm-bpf; and also duckdb-wasm, sqlite in WASM with replication and synchronization, datasette-lite, JupyterLite

wasm-bpf:
https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/wasm-bpf#how-it-works

Does this make databases faster or more efficient? Is there process or query isolation?
> PET's were pre-consumer-Internet and pre-BBS, so if someone was in a position to damage your machine, they were there in the room with you. There was no risk of random network viruses.

This makes me wonder. The beginning of the Windows XP era saw an abundance of worms, and the eras immediately following it saw plenty of RCEs on systems where admin privilege was typical.

With only a handful of BIOS vendors and most of them having ROM update utilities that worked under Windows, I'm a little amazed that we never saw widespread malicious code that just purposely bricked machines upon the next reboot.
Globally distributed critical infra isn't free.

"As of March 31, 2024, we had 172.5 million .com and .net registrations in the domain name base."

https://investor.verisign.com/static-files/2412702e-e744-485...

"1865 instances operated by the 12 independent root server operators."

Verisign maintains root servers at 209 locations.
("A" and "J")
https://root-servers.org/

Latency
https://a.root-servers.org/metrics

13 root servers
https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers
Other options include port knocking and "no cat" (a web or email interface which selectively pokes holes for ssh based on magic incantations).
EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone
>...or you bought them ad hoc one by one at the newsstand...

100% This is what is missing. I don't want to subscribe to the New York Times for £90 per year because I only want to read about 5 to 10 NYT articles a year. Why can't I pay £1.50 for 15 articles? That would be about the same as buying a physical copy of a paper from a newsagent; if I buy a physical copy I probably read about that many articles from it before it gets recycled. Instead I either don't read the article I've found to or I try to find it on the internet archive which is really irritating. I would like to read articles in a range of papers; say 3-4 UK broadsheets, occasionally some international papers like the NYT, Le Monde and a couple of trade papers. If I subscribed to 4 UK broadsheet newspapers I would already be paying >£400/year in newspaper subscriptions. Who does this? I can't understand why newspapers can't see that no-one wants to be spending that sort of money and why they can't come up with a better solution. If the problem is card fees on micro transactions why don't they club together and create some kind of patreon type thing that agglomerates transactions together?
Loved their MacBook reviews. And then eventually quit doing them.
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Deep cycle lead acid powered vehicles have some significant costs in usability and maintenance, and in a world where the oil price can just jump by a factor of ten as it did in the OPEC crisis, we might have paid them if we weren't insulated by the world's largest domestic oil industry and military hyperpower, and also if we weren't increasingly owned by the auto & energy industries.

More relevant would be everything that isn't a car. Most of the world wasn't built with huge-tract low-density single-use zoning. They walk or take the tram to get most places. We were busy literally paving over our tracks and sidewalks.
You forgot that in US kitchens are huge. Could be bigger than typical studio apartment in a crowded EU city.
DirectML Expands NPU Support to Copilot+ PCs and WebNN
Group (1) also wants their adversaries to feel confident that the encryption promoted by (2) is secure, so that they use it to communicate candidly.

It that respect, (2) is just a mouthpiece for (1), provided there’s a back door or vulnerability that only (1) knows about.