skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 5th Circuit Can't Wait to Lock You into Scammy Subscriptions for a Little Longer

This headline is inherently inflammatory (flagged for that reason); the court has not even heard the case yet; and lastly, there are no shortage of good reasons why a court rejecting a new policy should not be interpreted as opposition to the policy.

(My favorite example: If a child is kidnapped, and we know with 100% certainty that child is in a certain neighborhood, who cares about breaking down 100 doors? Are you siding with the kidnappers? Doors can be replaced but children can't, you know!)
It's in the comment
That’s very disappointing and Namecheap should investigate and take legal action against this seller if there was fraudulent activity. If there isn’t a consequence there isn’t a point to their website.
Speak for yourself. I also hate the car.
Robustly to what? The registrar doesn't and shouldn't have to know every possible consumer of its data, so looking at it and saying "that looks like code" is probably way, way more foolproof than any other solution (assuming that someone does actually look at each one).
A question about using this call:

Chrome is the one who wants it. But you can’t unmap sealed pages because an attacker could then re-map them with different flags.

So that basically means this can never be used on pages allocated at runtime unless you intend to hold them for the entire process lifetime, right?

Doesn’t that mean it can’t be used for all the memory used by, say, the JS sandbox which would be a very very tempting target?

Or is the idea that you deal with this by always running that kind of stuff in a different process where you can seal the memory and then you can just kill the process when you’re done?

I’m not familiar with how Chrome manages memory/processes, so I’m not exactly sure why this wouldn’t be an issue.

Is this also the reason why the articles about this often mention it’s not useful to most programs (outside of how memory is set up at processes start up)?
2000ish
Which is just one example of how long this has been a solved "problem."
"I want fugu!"
They aren't; they're motivated to ensure ice-cream machines are only fixable by them. Still a perverse incentive. It makes zero sense for a company to be motivated to have their own product... not... work.
I definitely remember the 1990s differently.

They still had endorsements, but it just wasn’t spelled out that way.

Instead, just prominent opinions, hit pieces, etc.
That is some fancy backpedaling.
Maybe to avoid ambiguity between I and l?
FYI that redirects to google.com when referrer is HN
It seems to me that every new rhel release has more switches to throw to get my things installed and working.

It's especially a bit extreme when systemd gets the syslog denial.

How do we dial this back?
I'm not sure if this quite fits your workload, but a lot of times people use `git` when `casync` would be more appropriate.
Ah yes, I'm extremely glad that both myself and Charles Koch have the equal right to buy ads. I see no problems that could ever occur because we're equally legally allowed to spend unlimited money on political advertising.

Now... How many ads will 5 bucks buy? I'm pretty deeply in debt, but I could probably skip a meal in order to fully exercise my political freedom.
The Megaflood that created the Mediterranean
Related. Others?

McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken and now the feds are involved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832988 - June 2024 (2 comments)

FTC and DOJ want to free McDonald's ice cream machines from DMCA repair rules - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39717558 - March 2024 (177 comments)

McDonald's ice cream machine hackers say they found 'smoking gun' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38657192 - Dec 2023 (230 comments)

The Real Reason McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38232983 - Nov 2023 (2 comments)

iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37325200 - Aug 2023 (6 comments)

Why McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken and How to Fix Them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37319841 - Aug 2023 (3 comments)

iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311239 - Aug 2023 (301 comments)

Ice cream machine hackers sue McDonald's - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30527939 - March 2022 (154 comments)

New emails released in the McDonald’s ice cream machine lawsuit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29325507 - Nov 2021 (138 comments)

Ask HN: Are McFlurries suddenly back now that lawsuit is pending? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28581906 - Sept 2021 (14 comments)

McDonald’s unreliable ice cream machines reportedly under FTC investigation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28407525 - Sept 2021 (41 comments)

Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26936774 - April 2021 (234 comments)

The Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932344 - April 2021 (3 comments)

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines–and Started a Cold War - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26874436 - April 2021 (4 comments)

I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861623 - Oct 2020 (420 comments)
The man dissed the ThinkLight(tm), other than that fair dinkum..
Declarative configuration predates Nix, there are many far more popular options both before and after Nix, and generally declarative configuration is only ever popular/used in a few specific domains/niches.

I remember being enamored by Haskell in college and I asked my professor why pure functional languages aren't more popular. His answer really stuck with me. He said: because reality is stateful.

Reality is stateful. As a consequence, declarative configuration leaks like a sieve, and leaky abstractions suck. When you think about it, declarative configuration is just a DSL for implementing idempotent deployment flow, and idempotent deployment flows in general are quite successful (e.g., Docker, Flatpak, Ansible), and so declarative configuration tends to work okay for restricted subsets of those domains.
Sadly this is all too familiar in the world of specialist TLDs. I had it with a fairly short word domain name. The registrar cancelled my order, even though it was listed in their system at a specific price that I paid. I just don't think they check the data of what they're listing and instead choose to just cancel any orders that they can't fulfill.
Seems like they are over paying
This is probably the most important topic here. It reveals their bias/partisonship and turns the whole newspaper into an opinion piece
Are we sure OneWeb's marketing team didn't hire a Putin sound-alike and catfished Elon?
> And when someone's later article says n=170, but an earlier article says n=163, usually they changed their mind in the meantime, especially when the first article had to use the data from another country available in the middle of a war and analyze it with pencil and paper. Archaeology continued after 1945 and electronic computers became a thing!

> It is possible that some person might have scanned the 1985 book and posted an unofficial copy but tracking things like that down is your job.

"Usually"? This is pure conjecture. I don't suppose you've even read the 1985 paper?

It could be different samples, from different locations, which date to different eras. I believe there's a Mycenean tomb with a few skeletons at an average of 170cm, though the sample size was very small. This sort of thing is much more likely than "oops, we made a measuring error and were off by almost 10cm!!" (Were this the case, Angel would have published a correction.)

There are lots of different possibilities. It could certainly be the case that the 1985 paper is being misquoted or misused. That Kron didn't even mention the 1945 paper, when building an argument that sought to contradict its findings, speaks volumes of his so-called ethics and must lead an unbiased observer to believe that something is amiss. That is, at the very least, a clear case of cherry-picking in the academic literature.

> Archaeology continued after 1945 and electronic computers became a thing!

Indeed, yet, as I've said, a very detailed 2023 review found results far closer to Angel's 1945 results. What are your thoughts on this?
Would it be true to say that technological and educational progress makes art increasingly complex as it is easier to use a specific art medium having means to do so?

I did not think of AI generation starting my comment but here I am with my last sentence.
2nd amendment, 5th is the "right to remain silent" etc.

Still, the issue with school shootings is mostly that it targets the wrong people. After school programs, community support for troubled youth, options for local service or a job placement program for kids would all be solutions, but the youth only sees other kids at school as the problem. If the system is so screwed up that a kid feels the need to take up arms to fight against it, then they should, but school shootings are unnecessarily cruel and generally fail to lead to progressive changes; more often than not they become justification for increases in the very authoritarian measures that promote the violence in the first place.
It's still a great book because his anecdotes are so fun. The sequel was terrible though!
You perfectly summarise my relationship with food, although I’ve never taken any appetite suppressants. I spent my early adulthood competing in bodybuilding, and ever since I can’t really treat food as entertainment.

I cherish every meal I have and everything tastes amazing to me, since I only eat to hunger. Food can’t get better to me than the stuff I eat every day, so I don’t go out or spend money on fancy food. I just eat what keeps me healthy.

I’m not sure if it’s a good or bad thing that people are now able to join this camp without destroying their relationship with food through questionable activities.
Yeah, don't buy that one
have hobbies and goals and participate in community activities... I don't know how I feel about platitudes like this. On one hand, it is obviously true and doing this things will make you feel better... but at the same time I think most people already understand this and its not a matter of simply not knowing that this is a helpful thing to do.
Mistakes happen, but the process is facilitated by Namecheap and it's their name on the banner.

It would cost them relatively nothing to honor the $31 price and eat the loss, or at least the $3,900 price. If the domain holder is the one jerking them around they should be banned from using Namecheap to sell any other domains unless they honor their original listed price.
> allowing for repair of retail-level food preparation equipment

... for three years. This is so dumb. Are you going to petition the government for the right to repair every type of machine there is? For three years?

This does not seem like much of a victory.
I'm genuinely curious how this works. What constitutes a platform?

Is TikTok a platform? Reddit? HN?
Here's a great YT video on why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken:
https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4

TL;DW: there are some perverse incentives to keep them broken. Basically the owner operators are forced to use a particular brand by corporate. Corporate McDonalds has a deal with a particular ice cream machine company. That particular company is the only company owner operators are allowed to buy from, and the only company allowed to service the machines. And it's no skin off of McDonald's back for these machines to always be broken, the cost falls on the owner-operators.
This area doesn't seem too bad if you own a plane. It's perfect for a Skyhawk.
MAC for Zephyr was presented at Linux Security Summit (2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWFbxbsU3o

.. a flexible MAC architecture was created and matured through a series of research systems. The work to bring this architecture to mainstream systems [and] experience with applying this architecture to mobile platforms is examined. The role of MAC in a larger system architecture is reviewed in the context of a secure virtualization system. The state of MAC in mainstream systems is compared before and after our work.

Review of non-public STM for constraining SMM, https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2018/speaker/myers/

We describe our work to demonstrate an enhanced SMI transfer monitor (STM) to provide protected execution services on the x86 platform. An STM is a hypervisor that executes in x86 system management mode (SMM) and functions as a peer to the hypervisor or operating system. The STM constrains the SMI handler, by hosting the handler in a virtual machine (VM). Otherwise, the SMI handler holds unconstrained access to the platform, which could undermine the assurance provided by DRTM or TXT.

OSS STM contributed to coreboot, https://cyberscoop.com/nsa-firmware-open-source-coreboot-stm... & https://www.osfc.io/2019/talks/implementing-stm-support-for-...

Implementation of SMI transfer monitor (STM) support for Coreboot.
From what I’ve seen, they waited a couple years longer than they should have. I expect tether deleted evidence by now
There are billions of sampling strategies for language models. The problem is that it is very difficult to empirically show that one sampling strategy is better than standard top-k or top-p sampling. Minimizing perplexity is not enough to demonstrate superiority of a particular method. The strategy suggested in the blog post has the same issue. An innovation that sounds plausible in theory, but is unproven in practice.
TRUE, FAIR POINT
Monal IM 6.4.5 released (XMPP instant messaging client for macOS and iOS)
>Doesn’t that mean it can’t be used for all the memory used by, say, the JS sandbox which would be a very very tempting target?

Multiprocessing is an option here. I think chrome uses it extensively, so that might be the play here. You need separate processes for other stuff anyway, like isolation via namespaces.
It's relevant to the article

> intended to protect children's health

It sounds like you disagree and are expressing that disagreement as a difference of understanding. Is that right?
> Exactly - a massive failure of regulatory bodies. I wonder why. It was similar with Madoff - there were people literally sending documents showing it's a fraud, and they did nothing for years.

For this to mean much (unfortunately), we have to know how many legitimate companies are being constantly reported as fraudulent. Similar to the FBI's flawless "they were on our radar" after every mass shooting event... if everyone is on the radar then it's not that informative that this person was too.

Madoff's returns were so egregious that they definitely should've been looked into despite any of this^ though. Arguably Tether should be looked into if only because of the systemic risk it (allegedly?) produces for the crypto universe more broadly. But then again... no one seems to eager to spend a bunch of investigative resources to bail out an economy of anti-government gamblers/degenerates.
Related:

The Washington Post says it will not endorse a candidate for president

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41948631
US administration issues its first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI
I wish we would just repeal the DMCA.

Under no circumstances should we need an exemption from the copyright office just to be able to repair an ice cream machine. It's not even a permanent exemption! The DMCA causes many weird problems.
My platform of choice was YouTube until they introduced shorts and took a more aggressive stance against ad-blockers. I quit initially because I was against the direction the platform was heading, but realized quickly that I didn't miss it. It dawned on me that I had been investing 8 - 12 hours of my life weekly to passively consume content that I couldn't even remember. I noticed that at any slight moment of down-time I'd impulsively reach for YouTube, it's almost like I was conditioned to do so.

At the end of the day that's what Google wants. They want you to spend as much of your time as possible watching as many advertisements as possible. Most social media platforms are adversarial. Once I saw this I could not unsee it. Warning others is pointless. They'll be annoyed or just think you're weird. Not one person I know has taken my advice, so I've stopped giving it.

Tangent aside, for me the benefit of not using social media has been that I can invest the time into what I find fulfilling. The quality of the entertainment I consume has gone way up. The downside is that it's isolating. No I can't follow you on platform X, no I cannot view the link you've sent me to platform Y. Everyone, especially in my age group, considers it strange.
Before a post like this, I would like to see that the poster has first made their complaint to the company and offered them a chance to make it right. I don't see that here.

And then there's the fact that the poster is using a 1 hour old HN account with zero history to establish their credibility.
Because you buy it as a "company vehicle" but 98% of it's miles are driven for your personal use. Whether the tax code considers that a loophole doesn't matter. It's a loophole to give a personal item the tax treatment of a business asset.

You wanted to buy the vehicle anyway, you were going to buy it anyway, but for some absurd reason you get to count a personal vehicle against your company's tax liability.
First time I read about this middle single letter, must be some invention of Amerigo U Vespucci.
That's not quite enough but yes.

(You need to prove that the system is showing you the server your data is present on, and not just showing you an innocuous one and actually processing your data on a different evil one.)
Yes, let's leave all of our important legal decisions to AI. What could go wrong?
Hey,

Co-founder of SlashID here (one of the companies mentioned above). I think we have exactly what you are looking for:

https://www.slashid.dev/blog/anonymous-users/

https://developer.slashid.dev/docs/access/concepts/anonymous...

Hit me up if you want to chat more: v@slashid.dev
A person can't, but there can be multiple people with the exact same name, with different birthdays (or even the same!) so DoB isn't guarantee to be unique without some other identifier.
I would argue that endorsement while currently normalised, is not normal.
This is an interesting take on the concept of Ikigai - https://www.lkazphoto.com/blog/photography-and-ikigai
I am just hazarding a guess, but since he is going at it alone, probably under 7-8 grand. Note there doesn't appear to be much differentiated tech, just a need for a competently constructed platform for his market.
Big picture answer? Not really. You've heard of Seattle's weather, right?
uBlock is your friend unless you're in to that sort of thing. Not that there's anything wrong with it...
Pinned and grouped tabs would never have existed.
I find the mental load in C very light and I rarely use a void pointer in C. I also like headers, they give a clean separation of implementation and interface and enable very fast compilation.
I think that's generally the case. In Aesthetic Theory (which is fairly inaccessible to the general public, probably best to read this[0] article instead) Adorno suggests that art mediums progressively annihilate each other as technology advances and the condition of possibility for an artwork is also the destruction of all previous works of art, both solidifying them in the history of art and also restructuring it entirely around the artwork itself, which contains all previous art historical ruptures inside it.

[0]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/
It might be something silly like the number of items in the Branches dropbox menu.
I'm not completely sold on it, but one of my friends is adamant that this approach powered by hydrogen deposits make all of our climate change issues (and other societal issues) into non-issues. I just wouldn't want it if it isn't done equitably.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/potential-geologic-...
Nah, you get around needing an explicit theory of mind with the fictive "reasonable person." Most systems of criminal law place a lot of importance on both mens rea and intent.
Port forwarding doesn't count, right?
One thing (that was done in 2013) would be to standardize the format of the card, so that name is in the same place no matter which (EEA) country it's from.

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

The other thing is to list out the field names in all 27/30/33 languages and flag those for double checking. Theres probably few people named "drivers license". Finally, just take a photo of the whole ID so even if the wrong value is entered initially, the right value can be recovered later as necessary.

None of that is foolproof, but it doesn't have to be 100% foolproof, just not totally broken.
The USA has this weird dynamic where it thinks it is better at all the things where it is not.
It has nothing to do with "maturity" and everything to do with just hierarchy in general. There is something to the old XKCD joke: https://xkcd.com/435/ because the disciplines really are divided like that. You have to know physics to do chemistry well. You have to know chemistry to do biology well. You have to know biology to ... etc.

Whereas to do physics well you need only mathematics. Well, at least, to do the theories well. To actually execute the experiments is, ah, more challenging.

So I would argue the Standard Model is pretty much the only thing in all of human knowledge that depends on no other physical theories. It's the bottom. Shame it's pretty useless (intractable) as soon as you have three or more particles to calculate with, though....
So don't sell. Open an account on GitHub and post the procedure there
> So can someone give me elevator pitch that if we are CRUD Web App, why Nix instead of Puppet/Ansible + Docker Containers?

For better or worse, Nix forces you to work out the exact dependency tree of your entire system. It can be a pain but once you have it, if one part of that tree changes, nix can rebuild only and exactly the parts of the system that depend on it. That goes all the way through from packages and libraries to systemd services and application config files. That happens safely, reliably, is extremely cacheable, and is done in a way that can actually be perfectly reverted to a previous version. You can build docker images with nix and the result is very small minimal images (it's effectively a `FROM scratch` every time but with a potentially even better layer structure that again can be more cacheable than a typical Dockerfile setup).

From a security perspective, Nix can be a huge win since it gives you such precise control over what's installed on your system and makes it simple to track, every part of it checks cryptographic hashes, etc. But yeah, most security teams don't know what to do with it yet and probably don't have the tools to deal with it yet.
Sorry, the word "territory" was merely an (unsuccessful) attempt at a pun on the notion of "atlas" used in the theory of manifolds. (In your example, the straight line segments are the "pages" in such atlas, and the circle - the manifold - is the "territory.")

It would seem to me that the properties of the circle are not emergent properties of a bunch of line segments; rather, the circle is something else entirely, whose shape is forced upon it by its own nature. Another example that comes to mind is the so-called "fiber bundles," whose own topology in general can be much more complex than that of a "trivial bundle" (simply the product of two spaces - the "base" and the "fiber"), although locally they all do look "trivial."

None of this, I am afraid, has much to do with what you said you are working on. In the realm of software development, the only emerging properties (or non-trivial topologies) are bugs.