skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That description is a misconception, IMHO.

First, it's an investment; it's not taking away money; it's not robbery. It has a return, a benefit that generally exceeds the cost (I'm not sure how much I paid to fly Cassini to Saturn, but wow was it worth it). People make investments all the time and are happy to do it, in everything from houses to the local homeless shelter to a new computer.

Second, people normally and frequently participate in group decisions, even though they rarely get exactly what they want. To suggest that anything besides an individual choosing alone is extraordinary - that isn't how people really operate.
There is, but that's a waste of my time, when we could all just use normal words.
$160 for a decent pair of Bluetooth headphones puts the AirPods pretty much right in line with similar products. And while the audio quality isn't the best on the market, it's certainly not "crappy", especially for wireless headphones, and the microphone is the best in its class by miles. Also, the box it comes in is decidedly not shiny.

Anyway, I know shitting on Apple is the cool thing to do on tech forums, so great job going for the easy upvote with such a cynical comment - I'm sure you'll reap that sweet karma.

But, you're overlooking what makes AirPods such a satisfying product to use: they are incredibly convenient. They're small enough to carry in your watch pocket, and using them is as simple as popping them out of the case and into your ears. Nothing on the market so thoroughly considers the experience of using headphones, and that obviously counts for something.
And judges' results are checked by appeals courts. If a judge is found to, consistently, base their decisions on some illegal bias, they can be impeached and discharged of their duties. It's unfortunate for their victims, but it's small scale.

When you move biases from one person into a whole system, be encoding them in some poorly considered model and executing it at scale, then the process of correcting it can be far more difficult (though problems should also arise much faster so it shouldn't persist as long, but that's only in theory, not practice).
Why don't we have a subscription based, non-tracking, ad-free social network yet??
Oaths don't really mean much if there's no recourse to not following them
I agree with you. Many tales in startup-post-mortem say, "we ran out of money." The mods preface those with, "running out of money in only the proximal cause, that is, the immediate final event before shut-down. The real reasons are seldom only ' ran out of money'"
Is this "the last bug?" You can't know that.
The truly hilarious thing about the Python 3 switchover is that they didn't take the opportunity to remove the GIL at the same time they were making all the other breaking changes.

I guess rewriting all your code is one thing but rewriting it under the assumption of concurrency is just a bridge too far.
This has nothing to do with servers.
Software falls under Process which is one of the four patentable subject matters for utility patents: Process, Machine, Manufacture and Composition of Matter. So software is patentable in the United States. However, software can also fall under the abstract idea exception and thus not be patentable.

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2106.html

Enfish LLC v Microsoft is the most important recent case. In its decision, the Supreme Court suggested that claims purporting to improve the functioning of the computer itself, or improving an existing technological process might not succumb to the abstract idea exception.

http://www.patentdocs.org/2016/05/enfish-llc-v-microsoft-cor...

That's your dividing line. My guess is that Fraunhofer's MP3 patents improve a technological process and are valid.
You could have specialized in a more applied field though? Math is a big place and plenty of people get their hands dirty with useful things.
I was also banned from the pfsense subreddit for same reason.

https://i.imgur.com/NR87PO6.png

Their employees are major tripping. I asked them a simple question, why do we need AES-NI hardware crypto if we don't use VPN's or anything that uses AES? And he refused to answer then banned.

Honestly I do not want to use it anymore and I shant be recommending it anymore to anyone.
I've been using Homebrew for a few years now, but I've gotta admit that recently I've been intrigued by MacPorts. Can anyone that has tried both extensively share their thoughts, and possibly explain why they're using one or the other? I read up a few comments online from having googled around, but I'd love something more recent.

One of my complaints with Homebrew (and most system package managers) is that it treats all dependencies as equal. If I install X, which depends on Y and Z... I'd expect Y and Z to be removed when uninstalling X. If anyone else is frustrated by this, I'd suggest checking out homebrew-bundle [0]. The idea is simple: you create a Brewfile and you use that to track dependencies. Instead of installing stuff from the CLI, you add entries to your Brewfile and run "brew bundle --global". Sadly it won't do any automatic cleanups, so you have to run "brew bundle cleanup --global" to get a list of extraneous packages and remove em manually.

Another obvious benefit to using a text file is that you can annotate it with reminders. "What did I install this foobar tool for?"

I think migrating towards a shell environment which gets configured using idempotent scripts can help reduce bugs and lower the barrier of entry to people less familiar with the ecosystem, as well as make it easier to get your own system up and running. In the last few weeks I started toying around with nix [1], which seems to promise that... Although I'm still finding my way through their ecosystem.

I'd like to think I'm a fairly pragmatic user, so I'm willing to accept some hacks here and there. A few days back I put up a repo [2] to show what my macOS + fish shell setup looks like. It won't track configs to clean-up garbage or anything fancy like that, so if you make any change you might need to clean up manually. But it should make bootstrapping a new system a bit easier, and it encourages you to configure all universal variable definitions in a single place so you can add notes for why you're doing whatever it is you're doing. One of the biggest benefits of maintaining an idempotent fish config is that it has great performance. Since fish shell persists environment values in a single file and it lazy-loads function definitions, starting a new session happens almost instantly.

[0] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/

[2] https://github.com/cesarandreu/dotfiles
I'm not grandstanding. I can prove it by admitting I still don't understand the rule:

If a newcomer expresses genuine surprise, are they breaking the "No feigning surprise" rule or not?

edit: typo
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The A in ARC is plain marketing speak for those that don't have any clue about compiler optimizations in RC implementations.

Removing redundant increment/decrements was a well known optimization long before Apple added that A to RC.
I've found this file on my consumer notebook:

https://virustotal.com/en/file/6754f92215f23a34aa4d34df6194b...
> make it crappy enough that nobody who cares about quality would buy it.

This is a remarkably bizarre thing to say in response to a 98% customer satisfaction rating.
Amazon sells music and lets you download DRM-free mp3s.
There's reasoning and there's justification. It's entirely possible that the reason a judge does something is not revealed by the justification they present.
> The Gentoo Hardened project maintains security-enhancement features for Gentoo, including but not limited to grsecurity

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened/Grsecurity2_Quickstart...
I still use MacPorts, so I don't worry about it either.
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> http://ark.intel.com/

It doesn't seem like you have the HTTPS Everywhere extension enabled, here's the correct link: https://ark.intel.com/
This works even absent an OS. In fact, that's the whole idea.
I'd wager we haven't seen the last bug yet, if ever.
In the US, patents on ideas, business processes, and algorithms are not allowed. However, there's a goofy (court approved) legal idea that software transforms a general-purpose computer into a single-purpose computer, and that transformation makes software patentable.

The general-purpose computer to single-purpose computer transformation cracks me up (and makes it obvious that the law doesn't necessarily have any relationship with reality): "by loading this program, a computer able to do many different things becomes a computer capable of doing a specific thing."
Hiding aliens and their technology?
Are Apple computers with Intel CPUs vulnerable?

It seems like everyone in the security community saw this coming. I hope this serves as enough of a warning to, at the very least, get Intel to stop putting spyware in all their CPUs. Ideally, this helps push large hardware manufacturers away from proprietary CPU manufacturers entirely. Open source hardware collaborations could (and should) do to Intel what open source OSs did to Microsoft. Doesn't mean that Intel will go away, but their presence should absolutely be reduced.
> You can't measure it before you join

You can generate heuristic data though. This really should be a priority for you during the interview process. They have the right to ask you very difficult questions, and you have the right to ask them very difficult questions as well.
Would you see a problem with [obscenity]DB? Or SyphillisDB? PubesDB?

If so, then you agree the name matters, "and we're just haggling over the details."
Personally, I knew that the airpods would never fit my ears right so I knew I wouldn't be buying them once they came out.

Perhaps the market is self-selecting and thus only those with the proper ear shape actually opt for them?
Is that a serious question? Social networks are dependent on network effects. Having a subscription immediately increases the barrier to entry too high for people to be able to get their friends on the same platform.
As you seem to use multiple GitHub accounts with SSH, you might be interested by the ssh_config tricks that I implemented in github-keygen
https://github.com/dolmen/github-keygen/
I think both Forth and SQL are outliers in their strangeness. Most people only have to deal with SQL on a very shallow level and barely regard it as programming at all.

Forth is known by name and reputation but very few people have ever tried to write anything in it - let alone delve into it's strange bootstrapped nature.
And zoning laws are purely local as are demographics. So the extremely wealthy burb next door with the reputation of being full of old people might actually need 20% handicapped parking especially if the strip mall has a pharmacy or outpatient clinic. Where I live, not so much, but if a small flash mob of handicapped people descended upon my favorite independent grocery store it ALWAYS has about 30 handicapped spots empty and available. I swear most of those spots have never been parked in. No "leakage strip" that normal parking spots accumulate.

A handicapped flash mob would honestly be kind of cool.
> AMD's net loss narrowed to $73 million, or 8 cents per share, in the first quarter ended April 1, from $109 million, or 14 cents per share, a year earlier.

Revenue rose 18.3% and losses narrowed by 33%. Title seems pretty reasonable to me?
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Isn't the primary idea of an unincorporated town that it doesn't 'exist' for purposes such as mail?
It's specifically a vulnerability in system firmware, and they provide a nice table listing the affected ranges of firmware versions.
function(teenager) { return true; }
Almost. The Xeon 3400 apparently also has AMT but that's hopefully a rare beast in DC's. It's more of a workstation chip.
The Telescript reference I understand since that was General Magic's goal with Magic Cap, but I'm not sure I see how Obliq is an agent oriented programming language. It seems to be a object oriented one.
vPro isn't a CPU, it's a particular combination of CPU, PCH (southbridge), Intel NIC/WiFi, and AMT firmware. There's no evidence that Macs have AMT or vPro.
Sublime text 3 syntax highlighting for ES6/ES7/ES2017+ and FlowType and JSX
Show HN: Builds playlists from your most listened to Spotify tracks
I wanted a way to keep track of my favourite tracks across multiple playlists so I built this at the weekend to teach myself a new language.

http://mp.soundshelter.net

(Built using the Spotify API and some basic Python/Flask)
It hasn't reduced the prices of a single SKU.
Both GCP/AWS already probably have (or had, if they were alerted before public disclosure) security teams probing their internal systems to see if they're vulnerable, and install firmware patches. The danger is more medium-to-large organizations whose internal clouds and desktop systems are impossible to patch at scale.
> I guess I just don't see making money from advertisements as an indictment of an organization.

It's not just making money from ads like an old-school newspaper did, it's 1) collecting so much data about people, 2) using it to crank the existing evil of ads (they're often highly asymmetric psychological warfare, after all) up to 11 with targeting, 3) sucking the air out of the room for privacy-respecting services with non-spying business models, 4) a bit more mundane than those other problems, but, extortion—I sure see a lot of ads for exactly the company/site I was obviously searching for at the top of my search results, and this is due to putting ads inline with search results, which forces companies to buy ads for searches that are clearly specifically for them. The inline, top-of-results ads are misleading to users and force "protection money" out of companies.
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I would guess you saw this, but just in case:

Step 1: Determine if you have an Intel® AMT, Intel® SBA, or Intel® ISM capable system: https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-5693. If you determine that you do not have an Intel® AMT, Intel® SBA, or Intel® ISM capable system then no further action is required.

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There are Xeons with AMT, at least the 3400, possibly more.

edit: E3-1200 as well, same kind of application, single CPU workstation chip.
That is correct. We will also soon release a way to copy a key from one device to another by scanning a QR code.
>"Or Ellen Pao, who sued her former employer, the male-dominated venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins

The court found in favour of KP on all counts, so not sure why this is being trotted out as an example. Is an accusation "good enough" nowadays?
It has pushed forwards the launch of its future SKUs though and pushed Xeon to the front of the queue for next fen fab space.
The thing is, we've been underestimating bridge failure potential for decades. At least with reinforced concrete bridges, corrosion is deadly and silent, and some substances took decades to slowly corrode the steel. It took unexpected catastrophic failure for us to understand how to build them better.
Simple Website Fixes – Part 8
Oddly enough I read another article, equally compelling that Google was all washed up... https://medium.com/p/how-google-collapsed-b6ffa82198ee?sourc...
What exactly are "modern design standards" required by bridges? When did the modern era start? Is there really a major moment in bridge design where the standards changed? Is there even broad agreement on what these standards are?

(Side note: the bridge pictured in the article is the Bridge of the Gods, just upstream of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. There's going to be more than bridge problems if the flow of the river takes out that bridge.)
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I'm guessing somewhere in between. Putting AMT on chips in the first place was malicious. Even if this was unintentional, it's still intel's fault.

If an intentional backdoor is homicide, and a simple software mistake is manslaughter, this is somewhere around negligent homicide.
What is your definition of free will in that statement?
I hope I'm still available in 2030 so we can snigger at it.
I'm sure there is already a price for that
That's not true. You can take a look at the Rangers right now, whose only true "superstar" is the goalie- Lundqvist.
Yes it is.

My feeling is that we have entered an age that youth is not naive anymore and would happily pay $3/month (at least in the US) for a non-tracking all-round communication service.
>So, from weak data to Moneyball in less than 10 years is actually fairly impressive.

And it's taken over every sport thereafter: soccer, hockey, football and basketball.
Uber for septic tank pumping. Hey he's out in the tanker truck and your tank needs pumping, swipe right or swipe left, either way its a business more likely to survive than most, as long as humanity continues to poop.

Another strange idea... rural monthly delivery boxes, today you get a new bespoke artisinal flypaper. Or .22LR ammo monthly gift box, do I get the frangibles this week or the varmint hunting high speeds?
Doesn't intel provide firmware that can be downloaded from kernel.org? If this is included in that you can A) wait for it to be available there and recompile your kernel or B) wait for your distro maintainer to update your kernel.

If you load firmware from userspace you can probably just put it in the directory the firmware helper searches.
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