skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's at least one plugin for LLVM to obfuscate strings from binaries [1], and for Android there is DexGuard [2]. The general idea is to make life as difficult as possible for reverse engineers, crackers and whomever else - hardcoded stuff just showing up in "cat .binfile | strings" is about the first thing I do when investigating some random stuff, and there's tools like binwalk that can automatically do stuff like extracting PEM certificates and other easily identifiable content.

Of course they can all be reverse engineered by hand, if you figure out the scheme used you can write yourself an IDA or Ghidra plugin/script to automate the process - which assumes that the method doesn't (subtly) change between different builds of the target. Or you can attempt to intercept memory accesses of the application. But that's tedious, annoying and complex busywork that no one really wants to do.

[1] https://github.com/tsarpaul/llvm-string-obfuscator

[2] https://www.guardsquare.com/dexguard
They did create some things of lasting value though, like Rust.
Yes, but for example a 10Gbit/s pipe is about 3PB of transfer capacity per month which is about 150 000$/month in S3 traffic. A 40kW UPS which can handle about 2 racks (2x42U) of high density servers, with a generator cost about 50k$. A redundant link with your own AS so you can BGP should cost about 5k$ per month (at least here in switzerland).

Of course it really depends on the application, but if you host something like a streaming video service where bandwidth is the main factor, you can quickly reach a point where self hosting is cheaper.
Why do we need that for photo, video and audio? If it's about the general public believing something false, they're not going to check the watermarks of random internet content or trust anyone who says they checked it. If they really want to know, they can go to the source and if they trust that person or organization, they can also trust the content they published. If it's about use in court, we already have a system for that - the person who recorded it appears in court as a witness and promises that they didn't alter it then if it turns out they did, they can go to prison.
I discovered Rory Sutherland this year and he’s awesome. I recommend to anyone checking out his TED talk or book.
> It does. It enables traceroute. Your entire argument is defeated by the fact it gives you this functionality.

The entire argument? You're discounting the entire post based on this one semantics disagreement?
It's funded by its main competitor.
That's really where you see that no answer is right across the board.

I worked at a very small startup years ago that leaned heavily on EC2. Our usage was pretty bipolar, the service was along the lines of a real-time game so we either had a very heavy work load or nothing. We stood up EC2 instances when games were lice and wound them down after.

We did use Lambda for a few things, mainly APIs that were rarely used or for processing jobs in an event queue.

Serverless has its place for sure, but in my experience it have been heavily over used the last 3-5 years.
Blind trusts are hardly a guarantee.

Trump put his kids in charge of the trust. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-children-busine...

Romney had a friend handle it. https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mitt-romneys-blind-trust-blin...
At least in my experience, when I've heard that the "mainframe is going to die", it's specifically referencing the IBM ecosystem - COBOL and friends.

To me it looks like the author is grasping for straws when saying "well, a server rack is just like a mainframe, so the mainframe is not dying!".

To me it's the opposite: yes, a server rack is just like a mainframe. That's why the mainframe is dying - a bunch of servers can do the same work much more cheaply.
I know your question is rhetorical, but for those that might find this information useful...

https://ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
I am in Switzerland where you have 25Gbit/s for about 70$/month so I understand that this might be an exception. But even if it is 10 000$/month, it is still widely cheaper than cloud bandwidth.

https://www.init7.net/en/
90% of 2010’s Mozilla employees are gone. Most core employees are gone. Most Firefox-era developers are gone.

Most PM and directors were brought in after firefox got big.

They can’t even find a CEO.

The people who made
Mozilla great are now working somewhere else.
Deniability for accurate and true reasons is just a subset of plausible deniability
8.8.8.8 is in many places. It's hard to get a list of exactly where[1], but the more places you can traceroute from, the more places you can add to your list. For 8.8.8.8 in particular, if you've got probes in major PoPs, you can probably get response times of 1 ms or less and be pretty sure that Google has a presence there. Of course, if you get a longer response time, they may have a presence there but your network may not have their local advertisement and your query routes elsewhere; or maybe the response from Google is being routed through another location. Traceroute might help debug a longer route to Google, but it'll be hard to debug the return.

For dns steering to unicast ips, you can get a reasonable idea of where the ips you can see are, although you'll need to make dns requests from different locations to see more of the available dns answers.

[1] Unless you're an insider, or maybe Google publishes a list somewhere. Their peeringdb listing of locations is probably a good start, though.
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Crashing via SIGSEGV is not memory safety.
A time when computers were very expensive.
Actually I think you're mischaracterizing and spreading misinformation about how Larry's stock sales work. Let's look at the ACTUAL SEC Filings on their website [0].
These filings show this is the "LAWRENCE J. ELLISON REVOCABLE TRUST", but being revocable doesn't automatically mean it's not a blind trust. However, several details from the filings indicate this was NOT operating as a blind trust:

1. These were planned exercises of stock options that were expiring on July 24, 2024 [1]

2. Two transactions of 1,125,000 options each were exercised at $40.47 [1]

3. The shares were then sold in declining price blocks to minimize market impact

4. All forms are signed by either Paul T. Marinelli (trustee) [2][3] or Aimee Weast (Attorney in fact for Ellison) [1]

5. Ellison is explicitly listed as "Officer" and "10% Owner" [1]

Go to page 4 to see these documents:
[0] https://investor.oracle.com/sec-filings/default.aspx

July 17, 2024 - Form4 - Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

[1] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001341439/1c6945f...

July 16, 2024 - Form144 - Report of proposed sale of securities

[2] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001341439/3bc4831...

July 15, 2024 - Form144 - Report of proposed sale of securities

[3] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001341439/0b76c30...

While you're correct that Ellison isn't hurting for cash, the evidence suggests these were scheduled options exercises ahead of expiration, not discretionary blind trust trading.

I'd encourage you to review the actual SEC filings before making claims about how Larry handles his investments...
I think its just something I do when communicating online. The other end doesn't have to be a human to be polite. Be polite to everyone and you don't have to worry about angering our future AI overlords.
https://archive.is/KdT9c
> and, to add even more avangarde to it, associate a core or few of FPGA on the same die

The use cases for FPGAs in consumer devices are ... close to zero unless you're talking about implementing copy protection since reverse engineering FPGA bitstreams is pretty much impossible if you're not the NSA, MI6 or Mossad with infinite brains to throw at the problem (and more likely than not, insider knowledge from the vendors).
It's pretty straight, he's getting rid of all the staff that won't follow his lead.
Comparing this to the recent Boeing settlement and the further back UAW one. I can’t imagine being a striking NYT employee knowing that my return to work depends on weird woke stuff.
Here people like arguing their opinions as if they're facts instead of using evidence (public proof) to support their argument.
Much simpler: make every sentence contain an even number of words. Then the chances of 10 sentences in a row to be all even is about 0.1%.
Generally speaking this works well, pending your definition of node and the interconnect between them. If by node you mean GPU, and you have multiple of them on the same system (interconnect is PCIE, doesn't need to be full speed however for inference), you're good. If you mean multiple computers connected by 1 Gigabit Ethernet? More challenging.

When splitting models layer by layer, users in r/LocalLLaMA have reported good results with as low as PCIE 3.0 x4 as the interconnect (4GB/s). For tensor parallelism, the interconnect requirements are higher but the upside can be faster speeds in accordance to number of GPUs split across (whereas layer by layer operated like a pipeline, so isn't necessarily faster than what a single GPU can provide, even if splitting across 8 GPUs).
We are in a multipolar world and the US is just one of many players. That is not policing, that is just normal behavior. What do you think Russia or China are doing in Africa?

Have fun trying to run a modern economy when your adversaries are blocking your vital resource imports and export markets.
I thought the OEMs liked the idea of being able to demand high profit margins on RAM upgrades at checkout, which is especially easy to justify when the RAM is on-package with the CPU. That way no one can claim the OEM was the one choosing to be anti-consumer by soldering the RAM to the motherboard, and they can just blame Intel.
Not really. The house takes 2% of the winnings (current polymarket fee structure). You're betting against other people, not against the house.
If you are correct and especially if you know something that other people don't know you may take a very large percentage of the pool. So this is a more "merit" based system when critical thinking and correct prediction pay well.
A flat sales tax rate is regressive. I don’t see a reason to give rich people that benefit. Roughly speaking, the effects of consumption are not linear. A private jet, yacht, and large and heavy vehicles are going to consume much more public goods (including the environment) than cheaper goods.
I tried to spread large dataset into thousands of files on S3 and use StepFunctions Distributed Map to launch thousands of Lambda instances to process those files in parallel, using DuckDB (or other libs) in Lambda. The parallel loading and processing is way faster than doing this in a single big EC2 instance.
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In this incident, as with Air France flight 447, pilot and co-pilot were holding the controls in opposite directions, and the software averages the input. In this case the warning that the controls were mismatched was not of sufficiently high priority to be issued (other warnings were taking precedence: You're about to crash). This user interface just continues to appall me.

With mechanically joined controls, it is impossible to have this happen. I think if I were designing a modern aircraft, I might retain physical linkage for just the reason.
The Federal government and state governments paying ~$10k to people who buy Teslas is the definition of a subsidy. People wrote $50k checks to Tesla and got $10k from the government for doing so.
I’ve tried reading streamed parquet via PyArrow with Duck, and it’s been pretty promising. Depending on the query, you won’t need to download everything off HTTP.
Making Larry lose money while you sleep, truly a reverse Uno :)
Why is MOAT capitalized like it is an acronym? It links to article that does the same thing. The supposed acronym is never defined.

It is the word "moat".
This is the first thing I’ve ever read that has me considering spinning up an OCI setup.
You realize if China is launching ICBMs on US cities we are simultaneously deploying nuclear weapons against China and it’s the end of the world… right?
Lol. Your solution is to change a bunch of recorded money transactions? Oh shoot I messed up. Let me just change all these cash transactions temporarily to stripe. Oh shoot I also messed up my sales tax for these geographic regions. Let me just change all the dollar amounts temporarily. That’s hilarious.
People living in the forest (who’s doing this exactly? you didn’t specify) are not the problem. Wildfires are a natural event meant to bring balance to an overgrown forest. All of CA suffers from this so why force only some to pay?

Since CA tends to be a rich state, I vote that those living in SF and LA pay 75% of the required fees, and the remainder of the state pay the rest.
The subject of this particular app isn't the point. It's the economics of the app business in general.
Data gravity is helluva force
Defensibility re: companies is well studied, by Hamilton Helmer who and his grad student did case studies of several hundred "defensible" companies and identified 7 "powers" that help companies defend against specific competitors. Note that each power is only applicable towards a specific competitor, and not as a blanket statement. The powers are 1. economies of scale, 2. network effects, 3. counter positioning, 4. Switching costs, 5. Branding, 6. Cornered resource and 7. process power.

I highly recommend Cedric's writing on the topic (behind a paywall) https://commoncog.com/7-powers-summary/
Traceroute has helped me solve a lot of problems quickly and easily.

A few weeks ago I was volunteering for a local political party and they had several services down. They had no idea where they were hosted, how they were hosted, why, etc.

I ran traceroute on all of them and within minutes I was able to tell which ones were hosted together and approximately where, and when I brought that to the team it was enough information to jog memories and map IPs and WHOIS data to various services, data from email searches, etc.

Without that it would have been a lot of guesswork, possibly for days.

It turned out most of them were hosted by a service which moved their accounts to a new IP. One other was hosted elsewhere and turned out to be broken for longer than they realized.

Absolute chaos.
The first time we tested cutting the power back in the day, the backup generator didn't fire! Turns out someone had pushed the big red stop button, which remains pushed in until reset.

That would have been a major problem if we'd had a nighttime power outage.

After that we ran regular switchover testing :)

The other time we ran into trouble was after someone drove a car into the local power substation. Our systems all ran fine for the immediate outage, but the power company's short term fix was to re-route power, which caused our voltage to be low enough for our UPS batteries to slowly drain without tripping over to the generator.

That was a week or two of manually pumping diesel into the generator tank so we could keep the UPS batteries topped up.
I'm not sure why I would take the advice of some random blogger over Warren Buffett.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_moat
Hahaha, wow. The other products on that page do a wonderful job of disagreeing with parent’s explanation.
???? so what is?
> Shop talk and banter are fairly universal. Any difference is going to be a target.

Just that it's "universal" doesn't mean it has to be that way. For fucks sake we all exchange 40 hours a week (or more) to our employers, on top of overtime and commute. There's no reason at all anyone should have to put up with unprofessional abusive/discriminatory bullshit from anyone, no matter if customers ("Karens") or coworkers.

At least the young generation got the message, this time they have the numbers advantage to actually demand meaningful change, and we're seeing the first effects of it - particularly in the trades, that fail to attract new trainees despite pretty competitive wages.

(The next thing I'd love to see on the chopping block is corporate politics, it's utterly amazing that everyone knows at least one horror story where endless amounts of money were wasted, sometimes entire companies sank because two middle manager paper pushers thought their fiefdom wars to be more important than the success of the company at large... but apparently investors/shareholders seem to not care even the tiniest bit)
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An M4 Macbook Pro 14 with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB storage is $2,199... a Lunar Lake with the same specs is $1199. [0]

[0] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-vivobook-s-14-14-oled-lapt...
>Why haven't some EU and/or Latin American countries funded a Web browser in a meaningful way, in an effort to be less under the thumb of US tech companies?

As with many things, it's just like Dark Helmet said in Spaceballs:
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

Not to say that the US (or Mozilla or Google) is evil and the EU and LATAM are good (LATAM in particular is a really screwed up place, with a few exceptions that aren't as broken like Chile), but while the US obviously has its problems and does really stupid stuff (see the current election), other places do incredibly stupid stuff too (see Germany disarming, shutting down all its nuclear power and trying to make itself dependent on Russian fossil fuel energy). Honestly, I think the main reason the US is still doing as well as it is (see the strength of the USD) is because everyone else is so busy shooting themselves in the foot with a shotgun.

So yes, I totally agree: theoretically it should be pretty simple to just fork Firefox (or Chromium, though I think the former is a much better choice so we don't the whole web dependent on a single browser engine, if for no other reason), poach some current devs, hire some new ones locally, and then become the new "open standard". But good luck getting some national government (or even a group of them, like with the EU) having some vision and backing such a move.
Many negative comments here, but the notion that food might be less nutritious is certainly interesting and worth exploring, even if this article isn’t the end all be all. As mentioned in there, apples are sold up to a year old, and I know the same is done with potatoes. We have global issues with soil quality and depth, produce is selected for transport instead of taste (which is why grocery store tomatoes are gross but garden tomatoes are amazing) and other practices like breeding chicken that grow twice as fast as they used to.
Officers of company's schedule the sale of their stock to signal in advance their sales to preempt insider trading concerns.

And as you found, it's managed by a trust.

So I don't understand the point you're trying to make.

Are you suggesting someone should let their stock expire ($0) that's worth $322M?

It seems like you have an axe to grind and I don't understand why.

That's all I'll say on this topic.
Fantastic podcast interviewing the author: https://thesearch.space/episodes/1-the-poet-of-logic-program...
Then leave it. This is so tiring to hear the same shit over and over again. I never even signed up for Twitter but God it's miserable hearing it be the nonstop fascination of every news site on the internet. People are going to unconsciously use whatever platforms appeal to them and opportunistic rich people are going to keep taking advantage of them. Remember the YouTube protests? Yeah.

Seriously, what is all this hand-wringing going to do? Convince Madonna to sign up for fucking Mastodon? It's time for the closet parasocials to admit they have a problem and move on. Or don't.
Did they buy a mauve colored database? I hear mauve has the most RAM.

Edit: it's a Dilbert reference. PHB thinks he needs a SQL DB and Dilbert asks what color he wants.
This was my experience exactly working on a welding crew when I was 19. We worked 12s 6AM-6PM (or 6PM-6AM if on a night shift) and often worked longer. The longest shift I worked was nearly 20hr, which was great because every hour past 8hr was worth 1.5x.

"Safety" was "watch the fuck out and don't get hurt." I didn't have access to a respirator even if I had known enough to want one.

I did have enough sense to listen to the old guys who said your body can't take that kind of work for more than about 15yr without starting to break down, and that I should go to engineering school instead.

There was one (1) female welder that crew of at least 20 and she put up with a ton of overtly horrible stuff. She was also incredibly good at welding, I saw her once burn an entire 7018 rod without looking, no helmet, just by feel, and the slag came off in one piece.
I think a better framing is that all such devices should be heavily taxed, but devices meeting open standards are eligible for tax write-offs.
Another thing Steve Jobs talked about was how programming teaches you how to think. That’s usually my first thought when thinking about showing kids programming.

I think about the PB&J demo a lot. For the magic, maybe have a button that spits out a ready to eat sandwich (this can be faked). But then you could go through the demo of having all the ingredients and let them tell you what to do, while you take them completely literally and butcher it horribly. This is generally pretty engaging and funny for kids. Then you can make the link from the logic behind the scenes to the magic on the front end.

I’m not sure of that’s too abstract for 3rd grade, but that would be my idea. You probably need to find something that isn’t PB&J, considering the peanut allergies these days.
Not superior, just more generous. And if they don't see you as a large corporate customer in line to sign a contract then they have no use for you on their platform.
This is the most important thing.

Tools should be in control of their owners. If not, the owner becomes the tool of those that control them.

Old computing had a very philosophical bend this way - the open source movement was about empowering individuals.

I don't think that's coming back - at least not in a non-cynical version. A new thought has to exist.

Old tech companies had a business model of selling a product to a customer.

The change occurred with advertising. It's now the core business of the biggest tech companies. With that, the perspective of how to be successful as a tech company changed. Manipulating the customer through marketing, suggesting, and nudging is now the model.

When manipulation is your business model, you're no longer improving the world.

How do we get back to aligning companies with their customers?

It's not fate that manipulation dominates. It's just one business model. And probably not the greatest one.
That doesn't really have anything to do with how it works though. I was looking more into its actual operation as a browser.
The real winner is going to be a framework that, during dev, transparently materializes CTEs to temporary tables so you can iterate on them like you’re saying, while continuing to harness SQL for the end product.
Oh wow, this was just from a couple weeks ago. Nice one.