skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not Minixy derivative, there is no Unix-like, it's access control is hybrid of traditional role based and capability-based on distributed OpenHarmony operating system base with a distributed file system, on a distributed operating system distro of HarmonyOS. And the kernel module structure is far different on MINIXY https://codedocs.org/what-is/minix-3
HarmonyOS 4.2 uses mature security defense mechanisms such as SELinux, Seccomp, Namespace, and Capability (iOS 17 uses Sandbox and Entitlement to achieve similar effects). HarmonyOS NEXT has designed a CAPABILITY SYSTEM on top of existing defense mechanisms to restrict access to kernel functions and verify IPC permissions.

In HarmonyOS NEXT, kernel objects are used as carriers for data transmission during IPC communication. The CAPABILITY SYSTEM ensures that only those with the capability to read from or write to kernel objects can receive or send messages through these objects. As a result, the content of messages cannot be accessed by malicious processes. DarkNavy ethical cybersecurity group in China tested Huawei's HarmonyOS Next custom kernel earlier this year with a report released in June. https://www.darknavy.org/blog/avss_report_kernel/ and the toolchain is exposed: https://harmonyoshub.com/harmonyos-next-leak-exposes-the-in-...
That just seems like an attempt at mind reading to me. Maybe that’s just their writing style? Maybe they’re just fed up with having to deal with the same anti scientific nonsense all the time?

Seems a waste of effort trying to attribute motive to such things. Just read what they have to say, verify what they say against their references and then make an inference based on that. Don’t see why tone has to come into it at all.
The plastic industry is basically an extension of oil
I think if someone finds low fats good for them, then there isn't much reason to shout it from the mountaintops

If someone finds high fats good for themselves, then they might feel lied to and want to shout it.

That may be reason for what youre observing.
>A government that mandates a specific shared plastic bottle designed to be recyclable would be much, much ecologically effective than switching back to glass.

Given the thread we're in that bottle will some type of unimaginable cancer after 30 years and in 2070 people will be talking about how big plastic captured government.

Glass on the other hand is the definition of inert, who cares if it's more expensive if it keeps us alive longer?
What “best practices” are you even taking about. Point to one piece of bug free software that performs a useful task. I’ll wait.
Qualcomm may have the market but Apple has the profit.
one is based on an entire industry of people working in so many conflicting fields that it would boggle the mind if they could all be bought, and the other is based on one person who built their fame on being contrarian without a lot of evidence.

I think the question still makes sense, why people are willing to ignore a ton of evidence from a lot of different unaffiliated people and focus on one article by one person that really doesn't add up to much of an argument - I think the answer is just that this is what they want to hear, so it must be right.
I come from a generation greatly impacted by this.

Fat was bad. We got reduced fat milk, everything was fat removed stuff. We at margarine.

But the breakfast cereals were laden with sugar.

To this day this trend continues. I saw a box of cookies at Fry's the other day. Reduced fat! But same calories as the non-reduced fat box, just less fat and more sugar.
This is nonsense. Consumer workstations were proprietary. The internet was made by government grants and us.
That opposite of what Einstein said
I think a lot about this in the context of video game minmaxers/netdeckers who just copy a researched, optimal behaviour. It's completely alien to me but some people really get a kick out of just being an implementer, following rote instructions exactly to the letter.
I didn’t even know this lol.
I was talking about picking them normally.
I am certain there are already established practices for "freelancer" liability since this kind of employment happens a lot in other industries.

However I'd be cautious when it comes to these finer details. It's where business liability insurances and lawyers a wise investment.
Thank you! I tried looking for a link in the HTML source for the archive.is page but couldn't find it. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough...
Absolutely, I didn't mean to suggest that every single Mesopotamian thought that the Epic of Gilgamesh was the truth. But even looking at non-devout Christians today, I don't think many of them would call the Bible a work of fiction - they view it as something less than an accurate account of history, but not at all as fictional. I would bet that if you asked the majority of Christians, even the non-practicing ones, they'd believe Noah was a real person who really did worship God, and maybe even faced some kind of flood, and probably lived to an old age - even when they don't believe that he built an arch that literally housed two of every animal on Earth to traverse a global flood, or that he lived for 900+ years.
Not now that AIs can generate music that sounds like any composer.
The hokou/education thing is pretty clearly one way though, correct?
It's possible... but if it's open-ended what you're supposed to solve (eg, "security") it seems hard to be confident you won't be run into the ground trying to satisfy unlimited demands.
Such misanthropic language! Have you considered not being a cunt?
> point taken about the seasons

They have not provided examples; for all it seems, their suggestion could attack the use of "we do it twice per year, so we called one the Summer event and the other the Winter event". Which is just a fuzzy adoption of the terms for practical reasons. Not an «oversight», not a «mistake»: just a quick neutral labelling for calling things some way.
Industrial ranching/farming
This is very cool! Would love to speak with you more about your solution. I’ve been reviewing a bunch of different Influencer Marketing platforms and have some feedback. Feel free to hit me back at rich.j.krueger (at) gmail.com.
Sharing and discovery is a fundamentally human act. It’s not noise. Celebrate people that want to learn, share and develop ideas.

Obligatory XKCD “Ten Thousand”
https://xkcd.com/1053/
I feel like we are in a point of time where science is enshittified so much, it will be almost impossible to come back to a reasonable and sustainable interaction with the world and ecosystem around us.
What about it is either ambitious or progressive?

They’ve not even met the goals they said they would meet 3 years ago.
What's your definition of a car person? I don't care for the guy, but having multiple modified super cars and building several custom trucks in the past -- he seems like a car [truck] person to me?
I’m curious why does your ire land with the government, instead of landing with the sugar companies that took over the government?

Do you view it as a failed promise that they would represent you and that that was something that should be expected given history?

Is it a moral failing of the government person?

I suppose the confusing thing to me is that people who rail about the government, are simply complaining about the power of companies to control it.
But "opinion journalism" isn't news, it's editorializing. So you accept news that is effectively propaganda as long as it's "independent" from the outlet ownership?
What has VS Code got to do with any of this?
> They shot up after I started eating a lot of non-veg food. And after they shot up, I stopped having depressive episodes.

do you know the parable of the drunk gentleman looking for his keys under a streetlamp at night? a policeman asked him where did he drop his keys, he pointed at a dark alleyway further away, so the policeman asked why he didn't look there instead, he replied "well there's no bloody light over there".

is it possible that you were deficient in some other nutrient, possibly even a trace one like some metal ion or maybe just some amino acid, and that's what caused the improvement in symptoms when you started eating flesh again? is it possible that you simply enjoyed the taste and then felt better about yourself? or any number of other changes in your life at the same time - taking more time cooking your meals, learning new recipes, trying new spices with it, etc?
Well, I'm glad you exist to push the Overton window even further anyway. A lot of people are trying to claim that what's being pushed now (opaque data) is open source. I'll be satisfied if I can at least aplroximate the training witb whatever is online at the time I were to do it.
Obviously untrue? Washington states cannabis black market is destroyed and the benefits are manifold. The judicial system no longer deals with petty possession charges, and the selective enforcement of cannabis possession laws is a thing of the past.
If this actually becomes law, it instantly makes it too dangerous to bother for me to ever ship software into the EU again.

Under this law, consumers can claim compensation for damages caused by defective products without having to prove the vendor was negligent or irresponsible. In addition to personal injury or property damages, for software products, damages may be awarded for the loss or destruction of data. Rather than define a minimum software development standard, the directive sets what we regard as the highest possible bar. Software makers can avoid liability if they prove a defect was not discoverable given the “objective state of scientific and technical knowledge” at the time the product was put on the market.

Look the the liability standard they are pushing! Not willful negligence, not reasonable care, but rather it sounds more akin to “could the bug have even theoretically been prevented given perfect information and unlimited funds”.

Yeah, no thanks, I’m human, so I won’t be accepting that level of liability for words I write into a text editor any time soon.

And kinda mind boggling that anyone who knows anything about how software actually works wouldn’t see this as completely batshit insane.

A more reasonable standard (malicious intent or reckless disregard for human safety would be a good starting point) would go a long way toward fixing this.

This current standard would get any developer sued out of existence by armies of AI lawyers long before you can ship a patch when someone complains that your software divide by zero bug caused them “damages”.

And get a load of this;

Burden of proof: When the injured consumer is faced with excessive difficulties to prove the defectiveness of the product or the causal link between its defectiveness and the damage, a court may decide that the claimant is only required to prove the likelihood that the product was defective or that its defectiveness is a likely cause of the damage.

There’s a reason why EU GDP has completed stagnated versus the US, and the EU tech sector is a virtual rounding error in the world… and this trash mentality is a big part of it.

But wait, it gets worse…

Circular economy: When a product is repaired and upgraded outside the original manufacturer’s control, the company or person that modified the product should be held liable.

Bye bye downstream distro patches! And knowing the EU, they’ll say that “import Foo from Bar as MyFoo” is a “modification” and try to make anyone with cash in their pocket liable for any bug in any dependency they link to…

Online platforms can be held liable for a defective product sold on their platform just like any other economic operators if they act like one.

Bye bye app stores! Of course some will probably cheer this blindly ignoring or not comprehending the extraordinary value creation app stores are responsible for.
Just one ^n. Supermassive black holes are expected to have completely evaporated by 10^100 years.
>In my experience for B2B the people that are going to steal from you were never going to pay anyways.

I used to think that but eventually the evidence pointing to the opposite was overwhelming. It wasn't just small companies either, some of them you will have heard of.
> You can't just "try to minimize fingerprinting"

Plainly false. You can minimize the number of bits of entropy in the fingerprint even in situations where a couple of bits are unavoidable, and you can mitigate fingerprinting methods by detection and/or blocking. Browsers do this today.

The web is crucial as the only free platform for distributing software to a huge chunk of consumer devices. Apple would love to strengthen their iOS app distribution monopoly by forbidding sophisticated web apps. That's why they have dragged their feet implementing more advanced web standards and limited their capabilities when they do implement them (for example making fullscreen mode unusable for games).
But in FOSS the original project is not under any requirement to care, and may use a license that explicitly disclaims caring.

Maybe it means the original project will get forked (or perhaps helped) if it doesn't take care of everything itself.
That's the feeling I get when I see day traders on Eve Online.
Facebook and instagram industry
Another solution is to use an MMDB (“MaxMind DB”) file [1] which is essentially a binary tree + deduplicated values (same as idea 3.1).

There are several free ASN MMDBs [2,3] but you can also build your own MMDB files from any Prefix->Value mapping with the mmdbwriter library [4] or a CLI tool built on top of it like mmdbctl [5].

Assuming the ASN MMDB is fully loaded in memory, it would use around 60MB.

[1] https://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/

[2] https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/databases/asn/

[3] https://ipinfo.io/products/free-ip-data-downloads

[4] https://github.com/maxmind/mmdbwriter

[5] https://github.com/ipinfo/mmdbctl

(I work for IPinfo, but there are lots of other companies offering MMDB files).
> I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one

It's interesting to be usually cautious but then predict something so radical, and yet with no real argument other than "AI is gonna replace us".

Painting should have been replaced by photography, but it hasn't been. In my opinion, there are still plenty of people who want to write, so there will still be plenty of people who know how to write.

And maybe my opinion is wrong, because it's an opinion. But to have to transform it to a certainty, I'd have to see much, much more data than a feeling and a conviction.
That was generation 1. I think they fixed that in generation 2 or 3. Current generation is 5.
My bank is sending letters and messages telling us they will never call to "verify details" and any such call is a phishing attempt.
That is not true. You are passing on an ill informed myth.
Photons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung
> the sugar companies that took over the government

If those sugar companies now _are_ the government (after they've taken it over, as you say), the question becomes: do you like those sugar companies? Do you trust them?
This is better than blanket liability for unpaid maintainers, but it's unclear how it relates to OSS activities not "on the market" per se but nonetheless connected to the larger software market.

Two examples come to mind: donations to OSS maintainers, and OSS maintainers who provide consulting services instead of selling software. The former is arguably covered by donations not being "sales," but some projects/groups do provide invoices (with no particular obligations) to make donations fit into the sale-shaped financial slot that most companies understand.
do you know how many women died during pregnancy before modern times?
There was a lot of commotion about 2018 GDPR but it turned out to be rather uneventful, some basic practices have been adopted, very few companies were fined a small amount and the question is largely settled. For small companies and individual devs, pretty much nothing changed apart from adding a boilerplate ToS and PP to their projects.

I would expect this this legislative change to follow a similar path. If you run a business, liability is a big concern from the start and this extension of the liability scope seems reasonable overall. I'd say they even tread lightly here as "damages for professional use are explicitly excluded".
To be fair I'm horribly out of date on Windows too. Once they can ditch the worst of legacy support they'll have room to patch the holes that remain, that much I know. I'd like to see Microsoft implement something like TCC in Windows.

https://book.hacktricks.xyz/macos-hardening/macos-security-a...

ASLR on macOS has gotten a lot better, with full randomization down to the kernel since El Capitan I think. Fixed page offsets (the worst offense imo) were also removed. The secure enclave brought CMAC and PAC soon after.
You don't know. The EU "makes laws", it is then to be interpreted by the member states into actual laws and then interpreted again by the judges of those member states. So you don't know.

However, I highly doubt that EU citizens and companies will now suddenly be willing to pay for liability insurance for people they buy software from (and that will be more expensive the smaller the developer and/or company is)
Many of the reasons political polling is tricky are unique to politics, especially the poll-result-as-propaganda thing. I expect the program of only weird people talking to pollsters is universal, though.
:D I live prime but he’s creating this cult like following close to Uncle Bob did a long time ago.
Any state with a near 50/50 vote can become a "battleground" state. Only states with one party autocratic rule lose out.
low chance of what happening? us being okay/still living in a democracy 4 years from now?

i would take the other side of that bet - ie. i believe that we will still be in a democracy 4 years from now.
Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket
No pure speculation
how would a traffic protocol prevent browser fingerprinting? the closest would be traffic padding which tor does.

https://spec.torproject.org/padding-spec/connection-level-pa...
> EDIT: As usual in some Linux forums, I got a bunch of marketing replies about all the cool ideas NixOS is supposed to bring as if I haven't read about them myself in LWN and other Linux sources I routinely check on.

That's because "I think X sucks/is useless" isn't really a very useful comment in terms of the HN guidelines unless you're inviting discussion about the merits and drawbacks of the solution.

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The other day, I upgraded my Ubuntu and it broke my display manager for some reason. I spent several hours debugging it. Given that investing in a niche technology where you won't get as much support as for e.g. Ubuntu (or even mac/win) has its own set of drawbacks, that isn't enough to make me switch to NixOS (problems like this really only ever happen every couple of years), but I do think that this isn't something that should normally happen. With NixOS, it would have been easy to rollback.
What-The-Cookie: an open-source tool for finding hidden trackers in any website
If you're not going to read the documentation, read a blog post:

https://medium.com/flutter/accessibility-in-flutter-on-the-w...
> Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't mean they don't understand you.

This is generally true of course, but here the complete non-engagement with parent's arguments shows either bad faith or actual lack of understanding. It's more likely to be the former, as the concept is not that difficult to grasp, and quite widely accepted. Heck, even the wikipedia page on EEE has chromium as an example.
Several are missing due to their choice to show only one per country...
Tests are not just for breaking your code. Writing passing tests is great for regression testing, which I think is the most important kind of unit testing.

If your goal is to break your code, try fuzzing. For some reason, it seems that the only people who do it are in the field of cybersecurity. Fuzzing can do more than find vulnerabilities.
Sugar is often blamed for the obesity epidemic in America. But the data--anecdotal and clinical--shows that high-fat diets do not perform better compared to low-fat diets for weight loss.
Is farmed fish sustainable? The sad truth behind a seafood industry promise
the companies were owned by shareholders who profited handsomely.
> Now they just have to exfiltrate the keywords describing the images instead of the images themselves.

I'm not sure how a bunch of probably-correct keywords that miss a lot of the important aforementioned details in the image is more useful than the image itself, or it's metadata. Both of which would be lost. My point applies equally with respect to image classification, too.
obviously AI
If you got the software itself without paying, then you aren't really paying for the software. If you buy consulting or warm fuzzies later then that's something different.
This is just doomerism and painting with a planet wide brush. IMHO it's not so simple.

There has been much laudable and scientific progress in the past 50 years. Higgs Boston discovery and mRNA vaccines being two that come to mind.

And examples of progress that science helped start and then international and national institutions brought to the masses: Smallpox eradication, HIV treatment, lower childhood mortality, etc.
I gave this a shot using speech-to-speech¹ modified so that it skips the LLM/AI assistant part and just repeats back what it thinks I said and displays the text.

For longer sentences my perception is that Moonshine performs at 80-90% of what Whisper² could do, while using considerably less resources. When trying shorter, two-word utterances it nosedived for some reason.

These numbers don't mean much, but when paired with MeloTTS, Moonshine and Whisper² ate up 1.2 and 2.5 GB of my GPU's memory, respectively.

¹ https://github.com/huggingface/speech-to-speech
² distil-whisper/distil-large-v3
The chaos of California is not the outcome of some mysterious Yankee vs Scots-Irish cultural battle. It’s simply the weather. Bums and drug addicts from all over the country descend upon California because they can comfortably sleep rough and sit around outside all day because it’s not humid, extreme temperatures are rare, and much of the year is rainless. That’s it. Sometimes people look too deeply for answers to social phenomena when geography is the answer.

By the way, geography also explains the culture of the Scots-Irish. This area was the natural limit of Rome’s ability to settle because it was the beginning of open moors that were much harder to control by central authority, so they gave up and built Hadrian’s and Antonine’s walls. It makes sense that once the state finally became strong enough to assert a hold over these areas (shortly after the development of the printing press), they fled to Ireland and then America to continue to enjoy their anarchic lifestyle.
When there's a revolving door between the two, there's not really much of a difference. It's simply a distrust and distaste for the American elites (public and private).

There are some elites that are self sacrificial and view other Americans as countrymen and not units to extract from but they are very few. As somebody who rails about the government, it's fundamentally an elite problem. You can propose any system you want, but if those running it are rotten it's not going to work.
Back in high school a teacher told us this "fact" as well and I remember being very surprised because it did not match my experience at all. Many times have I tested this theory since, e.g. when waiting at a pedestrian traffic light, looking off to the side so that the light is on the very edge of my peripheral vision, seeing if I can perceive it turn green and always being able to. Of course this is not proof that there are no people who can't do this, but I definitely know that I can see color at the edge of my peripheral vision and I've come to assume that this just varies from person to person.