skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, that's not how it works. They wouldn't know if they're being investigated unless the USAO told them. And if the USAO had told them they're a target of an investigation then they'd say that instead of this garbage quote. Hell they may even be working with the sdny on some investigations, but in no way does that mean they would know if they themselves are the subject of another investigation. In other words, unless Tether is somehow working with the investigators on an investigation into Tether, Tether wouldn't know they're being investigated.
Yeah, it lowered my confidence in them, to be honest.
Because of mutual incompatibility of said laws and the inappropriate exercise of alleged sovereignty.
Discussion (73 points, 20 hours ago, 36 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942103
Unfortunately both sides seem to think this of the other side equally.
Democracy dies in darkness was a promise, not a warning.
This is definitely a potential motive, but there are many of those, and we have no reason to believe this is actually what led to Bezos’ decision.
Tell that to the courts, I guess.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/business/media/hunter-bid...

Excerpt:

> The laptop and some of its contents played a visible role in federal prosecutors’ case against the president’s son, who was charged with lying on a firearm application in 2018 by not disclosing his drug use. A prosecutor briefly held up the laptop before the jury in Delaware, and an F.B.I. agent later testified that messages and photos on it and in personal data that Mr. Biden had saved in cloud computing servers had made his drug use clear.
Tech workers are Democratic. Tech owners and high level executives are right wing.
> "Bezos thinks that Trump thinks they are"

This is the key.
The OS build and cryptex binaries aligning to the hashes found in the transparency log will be made available for download. These are reconcilable with attestations signed by the SEP.

The source code provided is for reference to help with disassembly.

Edit link: https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...
Maybe he's afraid Kamala Harris will champion an unrealized capital gains tax.
No, but the binaries executed will be available for download.
Counterpoint: But surely you must not understand my ethics.
I did not. I'm not terribly familiar with it, but it doesn't look like I can do general routing with it, right? My end goal is to route between two subnets.
> Tech workers are Democratic

Not one hundred percent of them. And many tech execs are liberal. I'm talking about the larger demographic trends.
You could have created a top-level comment instead of replying to mine. I don't see how your reply is about my take on it and isn't just your completely different take on the issue.
I read that book but didn’t connect the dots here. That is terrifying.
Being neutral in an unbalanced situation means you are purposefully ignoring things that should be said and not putting on the table things that should be there. Not publishing relevant opinions pieces is part of that.

To get some distance, imagine being neutral to every candidates during Russia's last elections, and refusing to publish well researched and argumented opinions people have about the leading candidate.
Thanks for the kind words about DDlog :)

The reason DBSP and Differential Dataflow work so well is because they are specialized to relational computations. Relational operators have nice properties that allow evaluating them incrementally. Incremental evaluation for a general purpose language like Rust is a much, much harder problem.

FWIW, DBSP is available as a Rust crate (https://crates.io/crates/dbsp), so you can use it as an embedded incremental compute engine inside your program.
I'm genuinely curious - where does this end? I once was curious about whether I should sanitize dynamodb inputs, and was surprised to see zero guidance for or against.

How about things like parsing strings for serializing to binary storage?

Can everything be an injection attack?
Excellent reporting. We need more insights like this into Wikimedia's/Wikipedia's political decisions. They have power and power needs to be scrutinized.
What the BBC does really well is trash itself in reporting after scandals from within break
> This is something I've been curious about for a while. GDPR, IIUC, makes an EU law apply to things that happen inside the US (for example, EU person flies to the US and uses Facebook on US-housed servers with data stored in the US, GDPR apparently considers that in-scope for the law).

That's a common myth. The GDPR doesn't follow citizenship, even if a lot of unofficial guidance wrongly says that.

US-based businesses that aren't branches of companies established in the EU, not targeting people in the EU, and not profiling or otherwise monitoring the behavior of people in the EU are not subject to the GDPR. And "in the EU" cares about where the person's body is, not who issued their passport.

This European Commission summary of GDPR's Article 3 (Territorial scope) is informative:

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...

Here is Article 3 itself: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ (unofficial site but generally accurate)

And guidelines (PDF) about Article 3 from the European Data Protection Board: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/sites/default/files/files/file1/e...

However, your scenario may fall in-scope of the GDPR for a simple reason: the Meta Terms of Service specify that the data controller for users (and non-users) living in the EU is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, which is a company established in the EU. When the data processor or controller activities are through a company or branch established in the EU, the GDPR applies no matter where in the world the person and the data are.
We've run Wireguard tunnels that max out at 1 Gbps in AWS for years with no issues (on the AWS side, anyways). It seems like things get hairy once you want to do more than that.
"somewhat impartial"

I can not really think of any truly impartial news source. Can you? At least no in the countries I have lived in
DEF CON 29 - Richard Henderson - Old MacDonald Had a Barcode, E I E I CAR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcbAMO6sxo
There are cheaper ($5-15) ones that I have seen commonly used that aren’t rechargeable, but that’s in the US.
Maybe not so related, but the Spotify desktop client uses a link-styled piece of text after having downloaded an update — "click here to to update" — when you navigate to the updates menu, where I would expect a button instead of a regular link
There are ads in docs now?? Thank my lucky adblocks
I haven’t decided myself. My vote doesn’t especially matter because of the state I live in but I do like to vote as an experience.

It’s not that I particularly like Trump as an individual (quite the opposite), but Harris is just very unappealing to me from a policy standpoint.

I do think that the Hitler comparison undermines any point you are trying to make so maybe tone it down a bit.
> suck up to the rich guys if you want power

You don’t think this is a recent lesson? Pretty sure every politician already realized this. Since literally forever. Hell, I worked for a company whose wealthy owner had a steady stream of politicians flowing in and out of our offices promising the world for a handout, support, and help. Seemed like every week there was a tour or two for somebody. I have met literally 3 governors, several senators, US reps, state reps, county commissioners, multiple presidential candidates, sheriffs, mayors, wannabes for all and scores of political support staff who excitedly walked in my office while trying to schmooze the old man.
Yes we have a reason. Trump threatens media companies and individuals he believes have wronged him - loudly and often. If someone came to you and said they aren't going to a party, and you knew someone at that party had specifically threatened to beat them if they attend the party, do you have "no reason" to believe that the threat of a beating is a likely cause of the action (or in these cases, inaction). Especially if that person has a long history of attending that specific party?
Assuming the people vote for the party that would help them the most would be unwise.
Neutrality is a problematic ideology because it serves the powerful and the status quo, the first question to ask back is are they (an authority, an institution) really neutral/impartial?
As more normies got on the web more of it becomes about how to herd them.

In the early days there was less gain from authoritarian actions, because you are more likely to be resisted by the users of any service.

The current users don't know how to bypass restrictions, and are generally more numerous. Making authoritarian actions more valuable.

Unfortunately this leads to previously useful sites declining.
Oh no, I love my lululemon clothes. New fear unlocked. It makes sense though, these clothes still generate lint and it can only be thousands of synthetic particles and dirt.
> Every consumer of its data should be sanitizing its inputs before rendering them wherever they are using it.

This is not how the real world runs though. In the real world (outside the bubble of programmers) things are messy and a lot of stuff barely works, many people are incompetent etc.

Said otherwise, it's defense in depth.

"Should" doesn't factor in. You can't make everyone competent at the wave of a magic wand. But you can control what company names are allowed. You can't control how they will be parsed. There is one law about company names, but a myriad systems that may parse them.

This is a huge blindspot of programmers.
lol....a key tenet of journalism is objective reporting:

Objective Reporting: Journalism aims to report events truthfully, objectively, and fairly, without bias. This involves verifying facts, seeking multiple perspectives, and presenting information clearly.

Activist-journalism is an oxymoron. There are very few journalists anymore.
That's an n of one (I could be wrong but its the only multi messenger GW event we've seen, with how many events are being generated, you'd have expected more). Could be a coincidence. The angular resolution of LIGO is not exactly amazing, and we don't have a real estimate of the distance to the source of the GW? In fact, IIUC the event could be exactly in the opposite direction too.

1 for 29 by 2019:

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/phys_facpub/164/
Not if they don't now fix their machines, no. Then it's just "despite now being legal, McDonalds still refuses to fix their machine". Because remember: McDonalds is make of so much money that they could have trivially forced this though literal decades ago if they'd actually cared. Which they didn't. They could have even flat out bought the company that makes their machines. They didn't.
How so? The whole point of unwinding is to gracefully clear up on panics, how did it peak for you?

It's also not like there is much of a choice here. Unwinding across FFI boundaries (e.g. out of the NIF call) is undefined behaviour, so the only other option is aborting on panics.
Oh yeah I got that mixed up. Thanks.
When I say democratic, I don't mean the Democratic party's primary process, I mean a process by which people vote to select a leader.

Yes I agree that Joe Biden had the legal authority to step down and appoint Kamala Harris as his successor to run for President. No, I don't think doing that is democratic. What would have followed the democratic process would have been recognize what everyone else knew way in advance and stepping down early enough for potential nominees to run to be the candidate.
There was no lesson to learn, this is how it works. It is made illegal, then extra illegal, then no costs are levied for prevention, only for prosecution.

The law does not prevent attacks it lowers cost of prosecution by clearing up the ambiguity about whether this was illegal.

I'm not sure I love that, but that's how it always seems to work. Otherwise it's just another "job killing regulation".
The BBC recently wrote a piece on the executives at Harod’s who kept Mo’s pervert behaviour secret. Don’t think they done yet that for the many perverts they have kept secrets for.
There is no working theory of self that works for humans either so not sure what your point is.
Tobacco smoking has been on a downward trend since at least the 70s, from 50 to 13%, and taxes have steadily gone up since then in real terms, but I'm surprised to see that the period when the government raised taxes the most is about the only flat part of the curve.

https://ash.org.uk/uploads/Smoking-Statistics-Fact-Sheet.pdf...
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tobacco-bulletin/hi...
> We cannot deduce Bezos’ motives from Trump’s vengefulness.

Why not?

You personally can refrain from any speculation, if you wish, but it's nonetheless the most obvious explanation. Moreover, your own speculation is implausible:

> perhaps this is a return to more profitable and credible roots.

This last-minute backpedaling makes The Washington Post look much worse than an endorsement. The new non-endorsement "policy" wasn't announced in advance. It came only after the editors had already drafted an endorsement of Harris, and at least one editor resigned as a result. The Post now appears less credible rather than more.
While the AI focus these days is on LLMs, AFAICT, the NPUs and GPU accelerators are just generically fast MUL, and MAD machines with varying precisions, which should help any AI, and even non-AI tasks likes image filter kernels.

Getting hardware to enable faster AI processing on phones should be good thing if used for useful tasks, LLM or not.
If only we could get rid of the "Return to Office" being pushed by corporate , this could turn out to be great for young families.
The problem for BBC is that it's government-funded. It can't really take a stance without potentially upsetting the next government.
And yet here we are without an endorsement. Significant by your own admission.
I like that many people here have speculated that Bezos simply wants to avoid the ire of a possible Trump administration. This is very charitable, so much so that it ignores another reasonable guess a person could make based off of the same objective information that we all have — that this action is an endorsement, and the person that chose to endorse a candidate did so because he wants them to win.

On one hand you can imagine that Bezos somehow wants a Harris presidency but doesn’t want to appear that way out of fear, but that sounds more fantastical and wishful than “The guy whose company is currently trying to wholesale eliminate the National Labor Relations Board(1) likes Trump’s policies and wants him to win”, especially when you think about what’s going on with the other guy(2) that’s trying to destroy the NLRB.

Sometimes when people indicate they want something to happen it is because they want that thing to happen.

1

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-joins-companies-ar...

2

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-leaps-into-the-meme-history-bo...
> That’s why we are seeing less and less innovation and diversity compared to the 1980s to around 2000

You think the pace of innovation has stalled and the tech industry is less diverse than it was 20-50 years ago? Really?

Having cut my teeth on the tech of the late-seventies, that’s not a perspective I share. I have long been impressed with how fast new tech makes it into our grubby little hands. From my perspective, if we were stuck at the pace of innovation present during my early days, well, I think it’s not unlikely we’d still be using feature-phones and WAP gateways so we could tinker with that new mobile-internet stuff everyone’s raving about.
A rational person would know that many past promises or reassurances offered by Donald Trump have proved to be empty, worthless and even costly to their recipients, as documented by countless legal actions.

If Bezos believes what Trump has told him behind closed doors, then his companies are in the control of a sucker, not just a coward.
Possibly - I can't tell you though, because the official company registration website isn't capable of searching for that.
Most of the matter in food comes from water H2O or Air CO2 + N2. Nitrogen fixing bacteria are literally getting that nitrogen from the air not the soil even if they live in the soil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation

Modern agriculture uses fertilizer for extra nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K).

Plants also need a few trace minerals from soil but it’s a tiny fraction of their mass Iron, Calcium, etc and can also be added back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_flour

PS: There’s some really destructive agricultural like sod that’s literally shipping soil, but the premium pays to replace the soil.
25.68% if we're going to be precise about it.

Compared to S&P500 38.78% in the very same period.
Yes. Abort early in unit tests, core dump so it never makes it to prod
> I wonder what would be an effective countermeasure against stuff like this.

Good, trustworthy governance.

I think its childish to try and make an ungovernable internet. Nobody actually wants to live in an ungovernable world. We want fraudulent credit card charges to be reversable. We want the parents of the victims of Sandy Hook to be able to get alex jones to shut up.

I don't think pushing further to make the law impossible to enforce on the internet is the right direction. The right direction is to step up and work to make good rules. And maybe that means sites like wikipedia or google don't function in countries where the government has values incompatible with liberal democracy. That's fine.

Maybe some day we have an internet which is actually divorced from meatspace government. When that happens, we'll need to do governance ourselves. Having no rules at all is the dream of naive children.
That seems to be often the pitfall with socialism-within-capitalism as often done in California imo - many of these socialist-ish policies only work if there's no easy "escape hatch" or it's at least uncommon. But not having access to private alternatives also often goes against free-market ideas.

Afaict, the wealthy and/or well-connected often "drive" the quality of public services - they're not going to insist on improvement if they can easily check out and pay for a private alternative.

I'm not saying to stop private alternatives, just that policies that might work other places probably don't work 1:1 in the US.
How so? I think they'd want to make a more generic name, because their success so far seems to be in gluing a couple of things not directly related to git together. These are running WebAssembly on the server and using a centralized storage backend. Even if they're laser-focused on the same problem of multi-tenant version control, I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to support using CRDTs in a similar matter down the road.
> Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want.

This is true, but it shouldn't be viewed as unproblematic. Audience capture is a huge problem, and news organizations telling their audience what they here to the point that people get siloed in their own echo chambers is one of the main reasons why things are such a mess.
Part of the problem is that the underlying systems aren't Nix, so you're replacing the easy way with the Nix way.

I wouldn't be mad if opening the system preferences and setting my timezone also updated my timezone in Nix. I am mad that I can't change my timezone when I travel, because the GUI picker doesn't know that Nix has taken ownership, so only changes in Nix take effect.
He did. There was the fake electors plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

He tried to pressure Raffensperger into finding him 11,780 votes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

He pressured Michigan election offcials not to certify Biden's victory in Michigan: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pressured-michigan-of...

Then he rallied his supporters to go to the Capitol, where they tried to stop the Congressmen from counting the votes.
I don't think there could be a more powerful endorsement of Trump so far, much more than if Bezos's paper actually printed an endorsement of him (which would have been laughed at):

It's a signal of Trump as extraordinarily powerful, a stronger signal than probably anything else I've seen. That boosts his image among suppoters - remember power is what he sells - and will intimidate many, many more into complying. What journalists and business people, or any elite, will stand up to him now after Bezos and the Washington Post - probably the second most respected news organization in the country - have bent the knee. And it makes a Trump victory look more inevitable, a key selling point for anyone, but especially a populist.

When Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong did the same thing recently, "The Trump campaign swiftly shared the ... story with supporters." [0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5163293/la-times-editor...
That advice is 90% because developers are lazy. Like we'll write

const csv = rows.map(cols => cols.join(','))
.join('\n')

because we are too lazy to write the more correct,

const esc = cell => `"${String(cell).replace(/"/g, '""')}"`
const csv = rows.map(cols => cols.map(esc).join(','))
.join('\n')

(And perhaps something slightly more efficient but slower that only quotes each cell when it needs to be escaped.)

I caught myself doing it the other day, Go has a JSON library and here I was too lazy to define a struct,

w.WriteHeader(500)
fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"error": %q}`, err.Error())

Is %q a JSON-compatible format? I have no idea without reading some source code! Almost certainly it won't \u-encode weird characters. That might be OK, I think the only stuff you really have to escape in JSON strings is newlines, backslashes, and double quotes? And %q probably handles those. Maybe it breaks on ASCII control characters...

But yeah, we are meant to always use a library because we have deadlines and we are willing to compromise a whole lot of quality to deliver on them.
one other thing i would suggest is to set up a catch-all email for the domain and see what gets sent to it, sometimes you can access accounts associated with the domain, socials etc
I like how the sets in the articles show that you cannot love your profession
> Scientific American makes second-ever endorsement, backs Kamala Harris. This is only the second time in the magazine's 179-year history that it has made an endorsement in a presidential race

The first time they ever made an endorsement was (wait for it) 2020! Everything has become political these days.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/16/scientific-american-kamala-...
The number of large C programs which have been repeatedly proven to be incorrect in practice is essentially 100%.

Still, C is unreasonably effective. A lot of large and complicated, yet mostly well-working (modulo regular CVEs) systems have been achieved in C. And that’s truly wonderful. I cut my teeth on C nearly 30 years ago and I still hold a soft spot in my heart for it.

But other languages these days are even more unreasonably effective. They need fewer lines of code to achieve the same results and they have fewer security vulnerabilities and logic bugs per line as well.
Based on reading this thread, CS education should have a few required lectures on "ways in which the real world isn't run like a computer". (Non-CS people have the opposite problem, and don't understand that a small bubble called computing operates the way it does.)