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At the time they thought it would be too slow. In retrospect it would've been fine, I think. IOKit is a pretty strange subset of C++, but at least it doesn't use all those templates.
I think data-breaches could carry the death penalty for companies.

I just got a notification from some health services company that my and my toddlers data was accessed. Including medical history, diagnoses, payment details, SSN, birthday. Why was this not encrypted? Given the world today, this is negligent. The government should be able to disolve the company and give the money to the victims.

If there was a willful disregard for "common security and privacy standards", criminal charges against the executive team.

You want my personal life data? It comes with steep personal risk.
By definition a blind weapon.
My take on their comment was that it should be worth many billions if it was being run effectively but that it's not.

That doesn't mean the market is wrong, it means the market thinks it will continue to be run ineffectively.
they launch those UAVs all the time. multiple times a week, sometimes daily. So they're already trying it, they're just not successful.
OpenGL is legacy in general, its been on 4.6 for almost a decade.
If we agree that public market are the closest we can get to realtime market value, it's hard to argue it's easy to find a better offer. Otherwise, many other companies that are down 95% from their 2021 highs should just find a buyer of their companies to maximize shareholders value.

I think we are disappointed that the market is giving $ME and many other companies non-ZIRP valuations at 95% discounts, and we don't have the cash to buy them at the bottom, like she can.
I'm not sure what you're asking.

On any system, something has to start "first", and be in charge of figuring out what the heck happens next. On modern Linux systems (and I'm oversimplifying massively), the hardware hands off to the kernel which launches some kind of init system the first userspace thing. That could be sysvinit or upstart or s6 or systemd or any number of other things. You could write it in any language, though the nature of when it has to launch strongly incentivizes writing it in some kind of compiled language so you aren't having to make sure the right interpreter bits are in place first.

That thing then, depending on its level of complexity, gets to handle things like "what else do I launch" and "what order to I launch it in" and "what do I do if a service I started stops on its own".

Beyond that, your life is way easier if more than one distro uses the same thing to do this, so that an upstream package author can write "this is how an init system launches my service" and distro maintainers can use that, vs having to create and maintain their own scripts for how their init system launches a service.

So, the "point" of init systems is "something has to be in charge of userspace".
Most of them are minor ideas like the ones I just copy/pasted below. But sometimes they are longer like this one: https://hub.scroll.pub/applecard/applecard.pdf

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Nope, we don't have one yet though it would be a good idea. I'm looping in Joe for this.

Thanks for the nudge!

Nathan
Co-founder & CTO
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Breck Yunits <breck7@gmail.com> wrote:

just curious why you don't have a favicon (or maybe it just doesn't work on my computer)?

- favicon police

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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:19:24 -1000

Subject: Idea: OpenAI should invest in TabNine which uses GPT-2

From: Breck Yunits <breck7@gmail.com>

To: SArouter@openai.com

The product is one in a million. Hard to code without it now.

But the kid seems overworked and like he's struggling to keep up with
demand (https://github.com/zxqfl/TabNine/issues/179#issuecomment-547...)
Out of curiosity what would it cost to hire you to work on rdg project full time?
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That's a really interesting line of questioning! We have a mode called "embedded mode" where you run the python application first, THEN initialize the JVM and Clojure via the Python "javabridge" package. From there, you can start your Clojure REPL and experience both Clojure's IDE integrated REPL experience or the Python debugger, depending on how you set it up. This also allows you to run maximally complex Python applications and is the recommended approach for training ML robustly.

I also tend to live inside the debugger for some things but for other things I really enjoy the Clojure/lisp style "in editor evaluation" (where the result appears right after your cursor when you evaluate the S-expression).

The usescasses question is a good one. Python has some pretty good libraries. For one project, we have a (Clojure) ring server and GCP cloud resources. Using the Python GCP secret manager to access protected cloud resources allows me to have the same code in dev and prod with minimal configuration.

Also sometimes it's just political. Maybe your workplace is a Clojure/Java only shop -- in that case, sometimes you can make the case Python is "just a library" and get some cool toys, in other circumstances where its Python only you can at least dev using your lisp REPL.

So if that kind of thing sounds fun to you (and you like emacs) you'll like this. If that sounds like hell to you, then it is!! I really tried hard to optimize around "fun" for the API, but it's also really performant, and great fun for hacking.

In particular I really love doing silly stuff with Python LLMs in the Clojure REPL.

So, tl;dr, I'd say it is really great if you are a certain kind of hacker who wants all the most fun toys and as an added bonus it also works in production.
Those are NiMHs, aren't they? WTF? That shouldn't be possible.

Any idea what prompted the explosion?
Some of the processors used in the iPhone 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max, 15 and 15 Plus are being made in America by TSMC.
yeah, it's like the shadow profiles on social media sites. just because you didn't do it, doesn't mean that someone else doesn't
Yea, this video is definitely relatable to a lot of people in a lot of ways and that’s what I love about these. They hit hard. For me particularly, I have trouble selling to stubborn management teams to delay projects just a tiny bit to allow refactoring or adjustments to automate time wasting shit, and I abhor toil to the core of my being - so I will often get into situations like this guy and be like “fuck it I’m fixing it myself.”

I’ve had similar failures as in this video, lol. As a leader and as an IC. It hits really hard. If you’re ever in this situation you have to either leave, or exact whatever measures you have to fix it. Or face inevitable burnout. Those are the only choices or you will go mad.
Sorta, but it's not as easy as they make it sound. And people will use RN even for iPhone-first stuff.
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Down to the island!
Mobile phone service is horrible in Lebanon and cannot be relied on in any type of emergency.

Also, the whole point of this is that active duty members of Hezbollah includes hospital staff and teachers. Hezbollah's civilian division is about as large as the paramilitary one, if not larger. So it's not possible to confidently state that anyone affected was part of a milita with the information we have right now.
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> And, being forced to open up Screen Mirroring would reduce its value as a moat, since someone would presumably be able to build an Android client quickly and with no reverse engineering work.

Which is everything wrong about current Apple. How far the Apple has fallen off the tree. Back in the resurgence of the Mac after Steve Jobs returned, the policy was to make everything as open as possible, now it's entirely the reverse.

If the iPhone/Mac were a competitive product as they are, there would be no need to retort to that sort of shenanigan, the whole thing would be openly documented but implementation quality would be the deciding factor.
It is not surprising that Apple doesn't want to compete because they wouldn't necessarily win, before even talking about price.

In any case, while it's a nice feature to have, it can only be considered worthwhile because all of Apple's strategies for convergence have failed pretty hard (after mocking Microsoft) and there are now too many annoying things you need to do specifically on a smartphone (because of Apps, Auths, or other nonsense of the sort).

If anything, it is extremely dumb (considering the price and marketing around ecosystem) that you cannot just use whatever data is on the phone but with correct desktop app implementation even (and especially) for Apple first party app.

As a Mac user that is getting old (I remember System 7 from my youth, and I used System 9 for a bit) I feel extremely saddened that we are now celebrating what is basically a custom implementation of VNC/Remote Desktop for a completely locked device/OS.
This feature was considered essential/basic 20 years ago, having to use it to access a limited device because a company can't figure out proper convergence, largely out of pure greed, is really not something to be happy about.

I'm sure one day they'll figure out how to make a Mac App to properly exploit all the health/sport data of their very expensive Watch products (that require an iPhone for no good reason).
But when this day will come I probably won't be a customer anymore so whatever...
Closest competitor does a lot of heavy lifting in this situation. Ancestry is the overwhelming leader in the find long lost relative space/your "roots" space. Look at https://www.ancestry.com/ and https://www.23andme.com/
23andme has basically given up on this part of the business.

Their pitch is health. But that pitch is murky with no good hook to keep you hooked for a monthly subscription. So after they get the initial $99 from the customer, most of the value customer is going to get is already served up in the first report. Maybe their big database will turn into making cancer drugs but maybe it wont.
If Rust is one, yeah I have to fight that compiler but it's because it's doing its job and not letting me do invalid things. Not because the compiler has some feature "not yet implemented" or has bugs.
Reminds me of Cuil.

> Cuil worked on an automated encyclopedia called Cpedia, built by algorithmically summarizing and clustering ideas on the web to create encyclopedia-like reports. Instead of displaying search results, Cuil would show Cpedia articles matching the searched terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil
Your link is for the far south side, one of the worst places in the greater Chicago area, just about in Calumet City. Nowhere near and not even remotely like the area I'm talking about.

Quick edit: You're right though, it is cheaper there. Looks like you can get a 3-bed-2-bath there for the same price as the 1-bed-1-bath in the area I'm referring to. Hell, there's a 2-bed-1-bath for $40k and a 5-bed-2-bath for $140k.

Quick edit 2: Forgot to check the distance, that area's around 40 minutes from the Loop by car, an hour by bus, and 1:15 by bike.
No one is saying these were off the rack or that they weren't distributed as part of Hezbollah's operation, so I don't understand how this is relevant.
They will now need to change over to a new or backup communication system, with both the changeover and new platform bringing risks.
And then they will be 10x more dedicated to revenge. Where they may have sworn to destory Israel before, they weren't yet personally injured. It'a the same cycle of violence.
> TCE is a simple, six-atom molecule that can decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal parts, and dry clean clothes

Note that TCE hasn't been widely used to decaffeinate coffee since the seventies.

The main industrial decaffeination process currently uses methylene chloride (think supermarket or instant decaf, also decaf from big chains like Starbucks). I personally avoid decaf processed this way but I very much doubt it'll ever be strongly linked to negative outcomes like Parkinson's.

Small batch (higher quality) decaf will use the Sugarcane EA process (uses ethyl acetate from fermented sugarcane), or the Swiss water process (uses only distilled water), or the supercritical C02 process.

Of these, I favor the sugarcane EA process. As it uses less expensive equipment, it is often be done at or close to source (e.g. a local processing plant in Brazil or Columbia or even at larger farms) and perhaps because of this seems to lock in the flavor better. Swiss water and C02 processes typically involve shipping the green beans to a processing plant in the US or Europe, which adds shipping miles and takes a big chunk of the value capture out of the originating countries. Ethyl acetate is a common chemical in fruit and the amounts left in decaf coffee after processing are less than what you'd consume
eating a banana, for example.
Ex-Amazonian here, but outside the US. How come refusing to quit would lead to firing “for cause”?

Wouldn’t that be some constructive dismissal, or am I misunderstanding the US labor law?

When I was laid off through the PIP’s way just before the 2022 official layoffs, the first thing I questioned was if they were firing me for no cause, and I collected both Amazon’s severance and the government mandated severance for non-cause dismissals.
> The most batteries included multiplatform language right now is _by far_ Kotlin and nothing else is remotely close.

I've been using C#/.Net lately and I've been very impressed. Very large ecosystem and community. Perhaps larger than Kotlin. And you are not stuck with one IDE from one company.

Microsoft also has dotnet MAUI that sounds similar to Compose Multiplatform. I have not used neither so I can't speak to any strengths or weaknesses in the UI libraries.
OpenTelemetry (OTel) and the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) are immensely powerful tools. The ability to emit telemetry data from any source, coupled with a receiver that can sample, filter, pipe, and potentially reshape the data to suit any need, is a game changer. This flexibility revolutionizes how we approach observability and monitoring across diverse systems.
> Python is thus very much part of the modern statically typed languages scene (moreso than Go)

Python’s type system is substantially more complex than Go’s - it’s probably more complete, but given it’s optional nature, less sound.

In “modern” type systems, is completeness considered more important than soundness? The success of TypeScript suggests it is.
One issue for me is the state of DRM for video, at least for Raspberry PI OS (on a Raspberry Pi 5). I don't know if this is an issue on other flavours of Linux.

I currently use a MacBook Pro laptop which is great but very expensive if you need a decent amount of RAM.
Oh sorry there are actually huge performance benefits over a services based approach, because you're using the same memory space instead of serializing. This is particularly enormous for ML and data science space because of the work Chris did on hyper efficient mapping zero copy mapping of numpy arrays to tech.ml.dataset tensors.

Not even GraalVM has that! Not yet, anyway.

So there's a lot of easy perfomance synergies over microservices, but I'm the kind of dev where I tend to prioritize fun over performance as long as it's "performant enough". Fortunately, Chris (author of libpython-clj) is an ex-Nvidia performance obsessed dev though so the performance there is on point.
> 2,750 wounded

Absolutely insane. Imagine this many Israeli had been wounder by Hammas attack.

Disgusting move from Israel to keep civilian causalities minimum! This is no excuse for 'collateral damage'
I'm 99% sure they were referencing evangelion's use:

https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Life

(which if you haven't watched it's strange but I think for most hackers you'd vibe with it)
This blowing while you are fueling up your car.... hmmm
To those wondering why the quotes are given, I assume it's because no 23andMe system was compromised.

The data was retrieved via credential stuffing, which is trying username/email and password combinations from other data breaches.

It can be argued that 23andMe should have had stricter login requirements (e.g. require MFA, require longer passwords) and by failing to do so they were responsible for the leaked data. Or you can argue that the users didn't protect their own data since they didn't use long, secure passwords that were unique per website.
I had a great Windows firewall like this about 20 years ago. It would pop up a dialog for every network request from an app. You could block or allow based on port or destination, or "block all". It was amazing, because as you say, it made it very obvious when an app was trying shady shit.

I would love to have that back, but I was never able to find a firewall so hostile to the user experience of the general population.
Poking holes in the fuselage of a jetliner isn't going to take down a plane. Consider the cases of a turbine fan blade taking out a window, the case where the MAX door panel blew off, the cases where the cargo door came off, and the 737 "convertible" case. You'd have to take out a large part of the structure to bring it down.

Take a look at all the photos of B-17s taking severe combat damage yet returning home. Jetliners are a lot more redundant today than the B-17s were.

However, if the hole took out the flight controls, or set a fire, then the airplane has a big problem.
I may be missing the point of this, other than maybe being able to bypassing some network filtering. At first I was excited, thinking perhaps it's browser based and that it somehow bypassed CORS. But upon further inspection, it's piping everything through their domain. I have no idea whether or not they're trustworthy. I would not be submitting any credentials with this.
(Author and implementer of the Swift Int128 proposal here)

There's lots of one-off uses for 128-bit integers scattered around systems programming (and programming in general, I just happen to come from more of a systems background). Individually using a pair of 64b integers for each case is totally workable, but eventually life is easier if you just have an Int128 type. There's not really any one use case that drove their inclusion in the standard library, rather lots of times that we were saying "it would be kind of nice if we had this".
Looking at the traffic, isn't this literally MITM'ing all your traffic? This actually should be marked as [Flagged]; there's absolutely no reason why anyone should be using this.
Let’s say for each one of these Hezbollah casualties, you replaced the pager with 4 infantry attacking them. Civilian casualties would be far higher. The fact that they couldn’t “see” the target at the time of detonation is irrelevant.

The videos I’ve seen are of the pagers exploding and someone standing less than a foot away being unscathed. Incredibly sophisticated and precise.
It's possible to pipe stdout to syslog through logger by modifying the exec args. But I'd rather take journald's word for it.

Supervisord (and supervisorctl) are like s6. I don't think any of these support a config file syntax for namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, or SyscallFilter. Though it's possible to use process isolation with any init system by modifying the init script or config file to call the process with systemd-nspawn (which is like chroot, which most SysV-init scripts also fail to do at all, though a process can drop privs and chroot at init regardless of init system).

systemd works in containers now without weird setup. Though is it better to run a 'sidecar' container (for e.g. certbot) than to run multiple processes in a container?
Why not? What practical harm is caused to you by other people knowing your DNA?
> You can use US bank accounts and other institutions.

Recently found out that this is more and more difficult because most banks are requiring 2FA with a US phone number which is difficult to get if you don't live in the states.
Oh, I built something like this as a hobby project a few years ago! Still online (with a now-expired cert...), but very likely to go down with even a bit of usage : ) Still, here it is: https://fasterbadger.com
Unfortunate that an actively cooled N100 was not in the mix, would have been interesting to see how much cooling affects performance.

Also, echo the comments on the site, what is up with that naming scheme for these CPUs?
My main app is a cross platform Flutter app. I've considered rewriting it in Swift because most of my users are on macOS or iOS but all the prototypes I've written are actually slower even after extensive performance work and the development experience makes me want to tear my hair out.
Google smartly even refuses you from attempting to log in.
Why do we never see such cheap, low-wattage CPUs with ECC memory controllers? There’s absolutely a market for these, starting with home NAS and generic servers. I just don’t get it, such a missed opportunity here!
I have a feeling that the people who would trust a product like Lumina are probably the same people who will never use flouride.
And I’m sure those same execs love to carp on about ask the sacrifices everyone else needs to make to stop climate change.
I think the part you are missing is that this was not an ordinary cellphone. These were pagers handed out by Hezbollah to the militants in their organization so they could communicate, specifically because they did not want to use ordinary cellphones out of fear of being tracked.

The only person who would be likely to have such a pager is a Hezbollah militant who is deemed responsible for secret Hezbollah information (i.e. mid-to-high ranking members). While it is technically possible that such a pager would get into the wrong hands, that would be the fault of the person who left his pager on the table or let his family play with it.
Using the normal return path vs. nonlocal returns is, I think, not equivalent unless you have a GC. Otherwise you need all that "exception safe code" stuff.

But the main difference is it's not hidden by the language; you have to 'try' any method that can return an error. Straight-line control flow in an imperative language is a good thing IMO. …but too bad about those defer statements.
Rust is hard but I've never had the compiler just throw up its hands and tell me it's up to me to figure out what's wrong.
It reminds me of IBM Plex, if you're just looking for similar looks.
Their neighbouring country whose southern region is run by a designated terrorist organisation? The same org that has been indiscriminately launching rockets at civilians towns for a year straight? Oh yeah Israel is definitely the terrorist you’re right XD
Lebanon is very generous. They have their zones, mostly in the South, Bekaa, and a specific part of Beyrouth. It is also true they have a political wing. But they also have covert enforcers outside those zones and that is what everyone else is most fearful of. They have been involved in sectarian killings tit-for-tats, for many years. Most famously, the murder of PM rafik hariri.

So, otside of those Hizbullah zones, its actually not common to see the Hizbullah yellow flags openly displayed. Or a car bumper sticker. It is for good reason. There was a civil war before, and memories run deep.
It seems you misread the headline and didn't read the article.
The implication is that the exceptions are outliers.

If your rule is that carpenters are usually men and someone goes into a carpentry conference with 1000 carpenters and points out that 50 of them are women, you get to say "exception that proves the rule" and be right.

If your rule is that carpenters are usually women and someone goes into a carpentry conference with 1000 carpenters and points out that 950 of them are men, that's not the exception that proves the rule because 95% of the target population doesn't qualify as an exception.
> Some apps are years behind on Electron today

Could you give some examples? This seems like a potential security risk.