skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will not find significant fundamental hardware differences between the latest high-end Apple and Dell laptops.

> As it is, it’s the opposite: Macs run both Windows and Linux “easily”, while other vendors’ buggy hardware has to be patched over with heuristics in these OSes because it has non-conforming device names

> This is, coincidentally, also the reason it’s so hard to run macOS on other vendors’ machines

Are you not aware that OS X does various explicit checks to make sure it is running on approved hardware, regardless of compatibility and capability attestation? Apple doesn't want OS X running on non-Apple hardware.
I wouldn't go so far as to say such an idea is on the level of homeopathy—scientist certainly do induce ("entrain") the brain to certain frequencies of operation using flashing lights. The general principle is sound.

But, I would emphasize, they usually do that by first genetically modifying the creature whose brain they want to manipulate to make some of its neurons into opto-couplers. They wouldn't be doing that if there was an easier way. :)

(It turns out that—even without the genetic modification—some frequencies of flashing light do cause the brain to do certain things. See, for example, https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/flashing-light-clears-tox.... But the effects of this, from what I understand, aren't the same effect you would get by actually getting the brain to entrain to that frequency; it's maybe entraining the pulse-rate of the brain's glymphatic channels or somesuch, but not synaptic firing.)
...and he wrote astonishing stories about the remaking of man, after thousands of years of technology and emotional reworking. And never failed to put in fan service remarks about ancient heroes and villains that were characters in previous books. His entire works are collected in 'Rediscovery of Man'.
The saying goes, "a prosecutor could _indict_ a ham sandwich"
Didn't a Google researcher identify the flaw in the first case? If Alphabet (aka, public-NSA) didn't clue in the gov, I'd be incredibly surprised.
Concur. The only chargebacks I've ever won are when the customer admits something incriminating in an email, or claims "item not received" when they signed for it.

"Item not as described" is a huge loophole to get whatever you want for free. Hopefully the card issuers track repeated abuse. The banks don't even ask for proof the item was returned. Amex is particularly brazen if you want to steal free products.
And I'm sure serial killers start out with fantasies and stalking instead of melodramatic laughter. What matters is what people end up doing. The Nazis did very bad things.

And I've heard Eichman's rationalizations for keeping the trains running on time. He was doing his duty, it was lawful, nobody around him opposed the policy, etc. It's all BS to excuse his moral choices and anti-semitism.

And yeah, we need to understand how groups of people come to justify genocide and other terrible practice, but keep in mind not everyone went along with it in WW2. Bulgaria refused to hand it's Jews over. There were German police and army who refused to cooperate with the SS. It was possible to resist participating in genocide, and sometimes without consequence.
> It doesn't prevent anything, I can still rip off the content if I want to.

So, you should throw away the lock on your front door and your car too because anyone can break into those just as easily.

> If Netflix won't release their binary blob to your platform/browser you won't be able to access it.

I don't care about that at all.

> You basically got Flash, that's what you got. :D

What I got is the movie companies and the streaming companies sending me their content. If they want me to run the equivalent of Flash, that's fine with me.

A toddler would basically agree with my argument. Some big content creators want your web browser to be able to do certain things that you personally don't want them to be able to do. By not allowing them to do things the way they want, you're closing the web off to them.

Nobody is stopping you (or anyone else) from creating content and using non-DRM distribution. So you're actually arguing for a closed web, not me.
I've seen the warnings on little plaques on buildings. What does it tell me? Not a thing! It could be anything at all in a 20-some-odd story apartment building.
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The US mind programming of painkillers / drugs as an answer to everything is killing you by the thousands.

I'm glad Australia is taking steps to avoid falling into the same pit.

Sometimes, and at least on scale, a dose of HTFU can be much, much better.
Very nice. I really like your chiptunes on days 15 & 17.
I find it "funny" that internet was to bring on us the infinity of information, only for it to be curated curated curated to make it relevant. Instead of having curated diffusion, we flipped the logic.
Cool and weird! You'd think by now, they would have made some sort of agreement for one country to take it full-time, and the other to pay a modest price or give some other sort of diplomatic consideration. Guess nobody cares enough because it's so small and nobody lives there.
But traditional cures are believed more. If grandmother said it worked, then if you're taking a placebo it can't possibly work, not as well anyway. Self-reporting sucks.

A more believable study would find some way to objectively measure symptoms.
Not to mention the pictures taken as if they were riding a bull. The ideas in their presentation are interesting, nonetheless. Fuck professionalism! /s
If it was beneficial from a commercial point of view to first disclose to partners outside of the US this makes sense. Intel doesn't exist to serve US national defense responsibilities; they exist to make money.
Movie Review – Hostiles (2018)
They're distributing a couple of static videos. It's not rocket science.
I guess that answers that age-old question in Juvenal: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", typically translated as "who will watch the watchers?".
Being a (former/retired) IT Exec this kinda thing used to keep me up at night!

Sadly, most C-level folks don't understand that even gold-standard cyber security is far from perfect, and IT can't do much against dumb, careless users.
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> Approximately 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the United States, which represents only 5 percent of the global population

That article is borderline irresponsible with how it reports that metric.

80% of global prescription opiate medications are filled in the US, but that doesn't mean that 80% of those prescriptions are consumed in the US (or consumed at all). Nor does it include no-prescription opiates, which are generally much easier to obtain in most countries around the world (and also a lot cheaper) than their prescription counterparts.
In an article from late 2017:

> kernel 2.6.24.2, which was compiled back in 2008.

Next you'll tell us XP is vulnerable. Like, Linux isn't 100% immune, but it has a head start.
Like the contract you presumably signed that says in the event that your room was damaged they can charge your credit card?
And it still needs a different name.
Your site is fairly broken on mobile for me. I'm on a Galaxy S6 running Chrome, and in landscape mode there are a lot of overlapping and partially hidden elements. The most obvious being the top text, "Stylepills is a social repository for front-end designers and developers," being cut off.

Also, in portrait mode there is an entire screen-height of blank space between every section.
And in the best case (and almost 100% of the time) you'll just heal anyways, but won't give a shit about the pain and will actually be able to do stuff.

I think I'll roll that dice, thanks anyways. I'm generally able to restrict myself without the need for pain.
I've heard both but that particular one doesn't seem to fit the current context at all.

To take the folksiness out of it, anyone can sue anyone at any time for essentially any reason, whether or not the suit has merit.
The google drive links are still up. Has anyone tried emailing the owner yet? The email address is really weird.
It's really just a special case of the general spam problem. It costs recruiters very little to send out their listing to as many people as possible. People who are unqualified or uninterested in the specific job, or not looking, will typically just not respond. All the recruiters need to do is filter the dunning-krueger responses, pass along a hoard of largely self-filtered candidates to the hiring manager, and try to collect a paycheck.

The only real solution is to somehow make the cost of contact more expensive. I'm not sure of any way to do that other than simply trying to convince enough people to waste enough recruiter time collectively to make the dragnet approach unprofitable. And to be honest, given the churn in the industry, it might be unprofitable anyway- but there are always hoards of new graduates ever year without any particular marketable skills looking to leech onto the industry who become recruiters only to burn out after a few years anyway.
Another informatic with no legend. :|
While it certainly makes sense to discuss the difference, for a US-based audience it doesn't make much sense to pedantically point out that these aren't taxes. Social insurance contributions are mandatory, based on income, and to a state entity (though independent from the government) enforced through exactly the same channels as regular taxation (as opposed to private debt).

The important difference is that they are legally committed to a certain issue (in this case: health insurance) and can't be appropriated to something else. That should be pointed out, yes, but the word "taxes" is internationally still appropriate for that.
Great story, but the ads on this site are super aggressive. Enough so that I didn't finish the story. Pop ups, interstitials, and even redirects to other sites. Fastcompany... seriously? You're blacklisted now.
Sorry, I meant plan9 in general.
I can understand that it's probably not the finest source for summarizing research, but it is the largest newspaper, and the country's de facto newspaper of record. It's not like it's the New York Post.
That may be one factor but certainly only one of many. Look at the mid-west. Kansas is a very low tax state and yet they are seeing capital fleeing the state.
Indeed discussed 4 times before https://hn.algolia.com/?query=schemaless%20datastore%20mysql...

This also should be titled "(2016)"
Endlessly playing video which follows the main body of text you're trying to read, just to the right of the article. Distracting and with no relation to the content. If you hover over it to show an interface you can hit pause, but then the video restarts as soon as you scroll. It appears to only show once - after a reload the video is not shown - which makes me think it only affects first time visitors. But what a terrible impression to make alongside what is a thoughtfully researched piece.
I mean to say: the medical profession probably needs to be cautious with regard to how it goes about advising people to take paracetamol or ibuprofen.

We know they aren't good for you, and I know I've seen at least a few people pop them like candy.
One of the reasons the European/American slave trade was so "successful" compared to the Arabs is that Arab slave capturing and trading was typically only nearly the coasts.

I guess large shallow boats such as this were part of that "success".

edit- wikipedia confirms that Clotilde transferred slaves from Dahomey which is now in modern day Benin.
Honestly it failed to grow with general consumers but it's been a pretty huge it with those who know about it. I got one for my wife and she loved it but literally nobody knew what it was and most people mistook it for an Apple watch.
This video is interesting I thought, on the topic of beating roulette, about the Eudaemons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYIGGBXlTL8 'Beat the Wheel'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaemons
pronounced "she-males"
The timetable is a bit strewn throughout the article, but from what I can make out:

June: Google reports the problem to Intel.

Soon after: Intel/Google (unclear) informs related businesses (Lenovo, Microsoft, Amazon, ARM Holdings, others?).

Jan 3: Vulnerability leaked ahead of planned Jan 9 reveal.

A 6 month window where apparently nobody informed the US Gov. I'm legitimately kinda surprised - if it were a small window, meh, but clearly they (and every other government) would have wanted an earlier warning since they'd likely be vulnerable. That's a gigantic window for the info to leak and an automated exploit to be built (just look how fast it happened when the news became public).
The boxes aren't determined by color, they are by ancestral continent of origin where groups had been somewhat separated genetically for tens of thousands of years.
Bricks itself? You can run the watch untethered if you want, it even has a perfectly serviceable airplane mode.
Ed Thorp also wrote the seminal work on card counting, "Beat the Dealer" (1962).
Now you're begging the question. In the original anecdote, we started with something we know based on observation—that very few IKEA products end up in stores selling recycled goods—and are offered the conclusion that this is because they shortly end up in the landfill due to their quality.

However, you've now taken that (flawed) inference and are presenting it as the starting point—as if it were an axiom, rather than the very thing that is in contention.
The Undiscovered
We perceive visual stimuli as distinct events (up to a certain frequency), but when hearing, a 40 Hz sound isn't perceived as 40 individual sounds per second.
> I'm extremely hacked off that the high school I'm sending my kids to requires students to have an ipad

My nephews in primary school had android tablets but had to get new ipads (second hand not supported) for the "programming" class that was introduced with proprietary drag'n'drop programming software. A raspberry pi would not only have been much cheaper but would have had much more potential as an educational tool.
Going Manic with a FitBit
I think the article tells the opposite story. She's not necessarily entitled, just misinformed and mistaught. She's been taught to rely on pain meds instead of using them as a supplement to understanding the pain. I think it's more of a piece on education related to pain and meds rather than a study on boredom.
Cue the anti-drug (really, anti-medicine) comments from all the people who have never encountered chronic debilitating pain, either personally or in a loved one.
The kernel is simple and sanely designed and interfacing with it is done through the filesystem in, again, a very simple and sane way. Your displays are configured by a simple <10 line shell script at boot time that writes plaintext to a device file, rather than a gargantuan graphics stack that's controlled with binary device files and ioctls. Filesystem namespaces are lovely, and make the filesystem cleanly organized and customized to the logged in user's needs and desires. I have a little script that clears my current terminal window: `echo -n "" > /dev/text`. The libc is small and focused (non-POSIX), and there are only a handful of syscalls. The process model is really sane and straightforward as well. Playing an mp3 file is `mp3dec < file.mp3 > /dev/audio`.

To open a TCP connection, you use the dial(3) function, which basically does the following: write "tcp!name!port" to /net/cs and read out "1.2.3.4!80" (/net/cs resolves the name), then you write "connect 1.2.3.4" to /net/tcp/clone and read out a connection ID, and open /net/tcp/:id/data which is now a full-duplex TCP stream.

There's this emphasis on simple, sane ways of fulfilling tasks on plan9 that permeates the whole system. It's beautiful.
The "/s" at the end means it was sarcastic but I usually only see that used on reddit
> The decision to ship the watch in an inoperable state is coercive.

Actually it's merely practical; the OS ships with a known save OS that's capable of booting up and connecting to Bluetooth to get an update. It's also the OS that it reverts to if it gets stuck in a boot loop.

It's a perfectly reasonable engineering choice.
Retron 5 hacked to dump ROMs
Well, comparing Inferno and Plan9 only makes sense to a certain degree. Inferno includes a VM, and it was designed to compete with Java, whereas Plan9 was conceived as a replacement (or evolution) of UNIX.
In Ireland, ibuprofen and aspirin are available OTC in pharmacies, but only paracetamol is available in supermarkets.
Isn't that true for most complex systems overall, (software or otherwise)?
Two words: German Romanticism.

Although the article‘s premise seems reasonable (given the author‘s origin, the USA, being renown as prone to prescribe pain killers and psychotropics for the most menial things[1]) - a similar bias must be outlined when trying to understand the German perspective: That we are still romanticists.

Many German doctors will send you off with „some rest“ and „tea“. Some will prescribe homeopathics, which are to some extend even covered by our universal healthcare, which makes „sense“ since a large part of the electorate believes in it. Even in IT you will regularly hear: „i feel like I’m getting a cold - better take my homeopathics quick or it will definitely evolve into one!“

Alternative healthcare is a big market here, many individuals spending 100s - 1000s € a year for the most obscure things. Which doesn’t sound much per se, but for Romanticism Germans who regularity castigate Pharma- and Medical industries as capitalistic, to throw money so willingly away kind of beats the purpose of coming across as mindful.

Anyone remembers the the Mitchell and Webb sketch about the „homeopathic ER“? Well fun fact: the Nazis did try to make this happen. In order to get rid off the evil, jewish (science based) medicine. They wanted to make homeopathy the official medicine of the Reich - including the Wehrmacht, which for better or worse, the Generals intervened against.

[1] I have no proofs for this being actually true, just the representation that the US medical system gets by German media - and many Americans
Actually the part general consumers wanted was the fitness part -- this is what put them seriously behind other more poorly designed watches like the Fitbit. They didn't see the fitness angle until it was too late.

Certainly there's no reason why a fitness angle had to interfere with the hacker-friendly architecture.
Morons -

"It can't be the economy because unemployment is low and the economy is booming." Except of course that rents are far outpacing wages and most people are getting by with make work.

Almost all the US jobs created since 2005 are temporary

https://qz.com/851066/almost-all-the-10-million-jobs-created...

I mean good lord, if I were 17 right now and knew it were only going to get worse as I got older I would be down right morose.

I wonder how these authors could be so obtuse and out of touch.

Author:

Jean Twenge

Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University

Oh I get it. The authors are rich and far removed from the actual conditions of the job market. "Fooled by numbers" indeed.
A mod to make it look prettier called "Uplink OS" was released recently

http://www.moddb.com/mods/uplink-os

but it only works with the windows version of the game
Not explained in the repo is how to root the Retron 5. That information is available at http://www.chromableedstudios.com/techninjutsu/rootron5howto...
It should be noted that Plan 9 is far from dead or outdated. The 9front developers have continued to make many improvements to the OS while retaining backwards compatibility. 9legacy offers a set of patches which try to stay closer to the original Bell Labs distribution. There are also other ongoing developments, such as my own Advanced Namespace Tools and a new grid of public 9p services.
Of course. Banning phones doesn't make any sense and computers are pretty much the same thing in the context of home. Self-moderation is critical here, though hard to do
> various explicit checks to make sure it is running on approved hardware

Er, yes, that's the "dont-steal-osx.kext" that I mentioned. My point was that thwarting those checks is a very small part of getting macOS to run on a system (and is a solved problem—if it was all that was required, Hackintoshing would be a one-and-done thing, rather than something that breaks on every system update.)

The majority of the (continuing) effort of getting macOS to run on arbitrary hardware—hardware that, by its components, should be compatible with macOS's drivers—is dealing with vendors' whack-ass "doesn't even pass static analysis using Intel's own provided AML compiler" DSDTs (which macOS rightfully tosses its hands up at, but which Windows and Linux heuristically munge into something barely passable and then use it.)

> latest high-end Apple and Dell laptops

Dell (along with HP and Lenovo) are the better vendors as far as spec-compliance goes. Really, any of the PC makers who have an "enterprise workstation" arm, have the in-house expertise for things like ACPI compliance, or UEFI compliance, or PXE compliance, etc. But other vendors? Acer? LG? Xiaomi? Razer? Better to not even try.
Can we just not have grind? I liked multiplayer back when there was no progression, you just came back because it was actually fun.

I already have a job, that's not what I've ever wanted out of video games.
My point is that the doctor said she she not only needed a week's worth of vicodin to manage the pain for recovery, but she'd likely need more.

Yet she really only needed zero vicodin. Just like the person in the NYTimes article.

But thanks for your illuminating anecdote of someone who had some procedure and ignored some medical advice and took something else than the something that was prescribed.
It really baffles me how in the U.S. the prosecution of criminal cases puts the burden of proof on the prosecution while in civil cases, the burden is on the defendant to disprove the allegations.

That seems so backwards to me.
The real solution would be for companies to start giving a shit to whom they hire and put some effort into finding them.
See Putin critic dragged away by Russian police
> Believing that some (unproven and nonexistent) entity is going to solve all your problems is completely delusional.

Have you heard of the placebo effect?
Why do you think Cal State psychology professors are “rich”?

Twenge has a salary of about $100,000/year. https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2016/california-s...

Plus whatever she brings in by writing non-fiction books, delivering paid speeches, doing market research consulting, and maybe some summer job.

That’s probably quite a bit lower than the average reader of this forum.
Army to issue PT bracelet with 24/7 fitness tracking, remote mentoring