skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a multi-year transition even after 2020 but this is a step closer towards a cloud-based MAC where the hardware is connected 100%, has super long battery life and the majority of the processing is done in the cloud.
If there's one thing I think is absolutely true in the world of addiction, its that people will find an addiction. Everyone has a way to trigger a dopamine release; most of the time its multiple ways. Eating fatty/carby food; soda; caffeine; alcohol; smoking; vaping; marijuana; porn; masturbating; sex; exercising; prescription medication abuse; cocaine; video games; physically abusing other people; all of these tie back to releasing pleasurable chemicals in the brain of someone, and that's why they do it. Addiction is a foundational constant in the human experience.

Point being, you can't get rid of addiction without getting rid of pleasure. Which means, you can't get rid of addiction. So if you tell kids "don't smoke, don't vape, don't do anything, its all bad because its addicting", you're basically self-selecting what addictions our culture has labeled as "fine" without understanding all of the side-effects of the addiction. Heart disease kills more people than cigarettes and alcohol ever did; are we ready to say you have to be 21 before you can buy McDonalds?

What I'm trying to arrive at is this: I'm all for the development of safer, more accessible dopamine delivery systems. One way to look at them is that they're a gateway to harder stuff, but I tend to disagree. They will be that for some people, but those people were lost to begin with. They would have found cigarettes whether they had help from vaping or not.

I think if you accept that addiction is a constant and everyone needs an addiction, then they can actually be a net positive because they can help people avoid the harder stuff. If the only way you have to trigger your dopamine is cigarettes, then if you're not doing cigarettes you're doing alcohol, cocaine, fatty foods, porn, etc. And, really, we need more research on vaping, but from the scientific research and statistics we have: vaping might be "healthier" than all of those.

Its not healthier than doing nothing, but doing nothing isn't an option.
Economics has to come into it somehow, or else one would have to count all the beryllium in the Earth's crust (~2ppm).
sorry for the stupid question, but how is https a bad thing? and what does this have to do with hotel WiFi?
There's a big difference in phones and tablets vs productivity machines like desktops and notebooks.

The first is designed to be casual and apps grew out of a situation where there previously was nothing, while desktop OS's have had decades of external software being installed regularly. Introducing something new, especially when opening up so much potential, is far easier than trying to change existing habits of both consumers and vendors on an existing landscape.
Given the failure of ARM in the datacenter Apple would be pulling something off that no other semi manufacturer has. It's not impossible but just very unlikely.

It's much more reasonable that they'll do a "best effort" in the high end space but it won't be comparable to a Xeon. You can see the iMac Pro as a prelude to that. A beefy machine to be sure but not what you'd expect for top of the line.
But this is the way it's been as far back as I can remember. You might think reading your local news is an independent source, but it's often mostly a copy/pasta from Reuters or simply reporting that another news company said something. I never believed that my local "Action 9 News" caster was actually doing any journalism. Maybe for local stories, but for anything national they were just regurgitating the company line.
OkCupid may be even more dangerous in that regard. As far as I know they allow you to set ethnicity preferences.
You can have multiple routing tables (similar to VRFs on networking gear) which are classified into routing domains and assign different rdomains to different applications. See rdomain(4): https://man.openbsd.org/rdomain.4
How does this fuck over customers or third party devs in anyways?
You're conflating two very different things as it pertains to their actual business.

The CEO compensation is coming from diluting shareholders, he's receiving stock compensation there. That $638m doesn't cost them cash. Is it morally obnoxious to be rewarding an outsized pay package on a business that is financially struggling to survive? Of course, it's reprehensible in my opinion, however that value judgment is entirely subjective in nature. What kind of business rewards huge stock compensation plans while accelerating toward a brick wall of insolvency?

What's not subjective, is cash going out the door and being unable to keep the lights on.

Snapchat firing employees improves their extremely bad cash burn situation. That's why they're doing it. In about five or six quarters at the current rate of burn, Snapchat will be in dire condition from a cash position, which will threaten their ability to continue as an operating business. That's especially true if growth doesn't dramatically pick up soon. When they hit seven or eight quarters out, they're on bankruptcy watch unless they raise a lot of capital or slash expenses deep (they could obviously sell the business as well).
I think that adoption of privacy preserving data aggregation/analysis will become the norm. The most immediate applications are 1) telemetry data that is used for monitoring (for example, Google Chrome uses differential privacy for collecting this data), and, 2) services like Google Maps and Tinder-like dating apps. In these applications, essential user information can be represented as integer/boolean values (is user present in location X? True or False. how old is the user? ...)

Based on my limited understanding* of differential privacy, it falls short on exactness (of aggregate values) and robustness (against malicious clients). I've lately been studying the literature on function secret sharing and I think it is a better alternative to DP.
Take this paper: https://www.henrycg.com/files/academic/pres/nsdi17prio-slide....

Prio: Private, Robust and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics

Data collection and aggregation is performed by multiple servers. Every user splits up her response into multiple shares and sends one share to each server. I've understood how private sums can be computed. Let me explain it with a straw-man scheme.

Example (slide 26):

x_1 (user 1 is on Bay Bridge):- true == 1 == 15 + (-12) + (-2)

x_2 (user 2 is on Bay Bridge):- false == 1 == (-10) + 7 + 3 ...

If all users send shares of their data to the servers in this manner AND as long as at least one server doesn't reveal the identities of the people who sent it responses, the servers can exchange the sum of the shares they've received. Adding the three responses will allow the servers to infer that there are _ number of users on Bay Bridge without revealing their identities.

This system can be made robust by using Secret-shared non-interactive proofs (SNIPs). This allows servers to test if Valid(X) holds without leaking X.

The authors also bring up the literature on computing interesting aggregates using private sums: average, variance, most popular (approx.), min and max (approx.), quality of regression model R^2, least-squares regression, stochastic gradient descent.

Bottom line: I found the discussion on deployment scenarios very interesting. Data servers with jurisdictional/geographical diversity, app store-app developer collaborations for eliminating risk in telemetry data analysis, enterprises contracting with external auditors for analyzing customer data, etc.

* - I understand the randomized response and, to some extent, the RAPPOR technique (used for collecting Chrome telemetry data) but the other literature in that community goes over my head.

* * - This technique is a black box to me at the moment.
Their own cloud IDE and build farm ?
It's a public health concern, so it's prudent to sample how much it's consumed.

> Obviously the rate increased, it's a fairly new device.

It's not necessarily so that "new device" therefore "rate increase." It could be flat or declining since earlier surveys. The fact that it isn't flat means that it's popular and likely warrants further study and/or intervention. The descriptor "explosive" applies here because many other similar public-health-impacting behaviors which are studied by similar researchers change much more slowly over time.
"The second category is state actors. That’s basically the Russian interference effort. And that is a security problem. You never fully solve it, but you strengthen your defenses. You get rid of the fake accounts and the tools that they have."

Frankly, this is a weak answer. They don't have a good solution and this approach is not going to prevent it from happening in future elections.
If only they could find a way to support Wine.
Wow.. and here I've always thought people who pay $1000+ (USD) for either a mattress or for a TV were being grossly extravagant, even with Bay Area tech salaries.

The extravagance of large-screen TVs is arguable, of course, especially if one has a particularly large room and/or regularly hosts large audiences, but mattresses..

When one can get even a brand-name mattress and box spring from Costco (with, I believe, no special restrictions on their usual, generous return policy) for on the order of $700, that people pay multiples of that prices still boggles my mind.
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There's one actual great case for Turo: Pre-purchase test drive, especially for oddball stuff.

You can likely find a car very similar to what you're going to buy, and drive it for a weekend. Luxury car dealerships will do this (esp. when you go into very high pricepoints), but they take convincing. For a lot of people, it's a better way to find out that something isn't quite what you wanted, without having to deal with depreciation after the fact.

Though if you want to give a childhood dream a fair shake before actually plunking money down on one (and going through PPI, etc.) Turo is great for that. There's no shortage of high-end sports cars and "common" supercars on the platform, especially in large metro areas.
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The difference is that the x86 chips were so much faster than what they had for PPC, that they could still emulate it without customers feeling like they were going backwards.
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> These days, they have fees that can easily exceed $20 per ticket

As an anecdote, I attempted to find the most expensive ticket for an extremely popular concert near my city later this year. Ticketmaster required me to create an account (or log in) before showing me the final price (which includes service fees).

The two tickets were $2,556 each, and the service fees were an additional $383.40, each! I also looked at purchasing the cheapest ticket, for $61. The $9.15 service fee works out to exactly 15% of the price of the ticket.
Or maybe they'll buy the competing product that has 25% more runtime, or is 25% thinner, or is 10% cheaper etc.
I don't think it's quite that clear – however, I think it is considered clear that nicotine is nowhere near as harmful as tobacco smoke.
(gaius is right, however: CodeWarrior saved Apple once, but they've clearly learned a lot with successive transitions.)
Segwit did not break covert asicboost. The math proved that wrong, and that one could make very small, inexpensive changes to have it continue working with segwit.

This was admitted by Greg Maxwell in the dev mailing lists, when they proposed an asicboost blocker only change, that they rescinded because they realized that it and segwit never actually stopped covert asicboost.

It was also confirmed by experts like chjj (CTO of purse.io, and Bitcoin developer) that segwit never blocked covert asicboost.
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I remember this paper on ad intelligence I read a few weeks ago: "Exploring ADINT: Using Ad Targeting for Surveillance on a Budget — or — How Alice Can Buy Ads to Track Bob".

https://adint.cs.washington.edu/ADINT.pdf
Is this maybe why they are looking for Linux kernel developers?

Tim Pritlove predicted this move for some years now on his freakshow(.fm).

Anyway the only interesting thing to me is if they will share a codebase between macOs and ios or if they will create something new and not based on darwin. Maybe they will take the step steve didn't want and switch to linux.
That's why artificial christmas trees are legitimately safer. If people insist on a real tree then keep it well watered until you throw it away, the dry trees catch fire easier and faster.

I purchased an artificial in no small part for the safety aspect. I do miss the smell though.
Most hotel wifi networks require opening a browser to connect. Once you open it, the first page you go to is redirected. Because a lot of sites default to HTTPS, that redirect is detected as a MITM by the browser, and prevents you from moving on. http://neverssl.com/ is an easy way to get to the portal without an issue.

As noted on NeverSSL:

> [...] it [...] means that if you're relying on poorly-behaved wifi networks, it can be hard to get online. Secure browsers and websites using https make it impossible for those wifi networks to send you to a login or payment page. Basically, those networks can't tap into your connection just like attackers can't. Modern browsers are so good that they can remember when a website supports encryption and even if you type in the website name, they'll use https.
I guess I don't understand why token statements like that are important. It doesn't lessen my impact on the local economy. It also doesn't mean I can't be unhappy with the city's socioeconomic landscape.
Yes, that's usually how it works with Netflix, Spotify and similar single-purpose services. But social media? If you take social network as a single-purpose service then there is no need for several or dozens of different similar services, because it wouldn't make sense as a social network, if you cannot interconnect them.

Suppose you pay a subscription for one social network, you'll need to pay also for the other one, to get connected to people on that other social network! It needs to be one big single social network and everyone pays for one subscription. Anything else doesn't make sense, but a single social platform as a network is unthinkable. So, basically, subscription doesn't make sense for social networking.
Have anyone checked with adobe and autodesk if this essentially kills the professional mac workstation as a viable product going forward?

I have no doubt they can make it fast and usable enough for the naive consumer living inside the bubble of what relatively inexpensive(consumer grade) app-store apps can do and that microsoft will release something pretending to be MS office for a new ARM macbook line, but photoshop, autocad, mathematica(ok that one is fairly portable), AfterEffects and whatever it is the pro's use for video editing those days are a different ballgame.

We saw microsoft stumble down that path with their successfull port of windows to arm where the OS itself worked but where no major 3rd party business essential app ever got ported to windows for arm, with a lot of IT departments choosing to keep windows 7 around our of fear of what 10 would morph into until MS begun to dial back their ambitions for windows everywhere.

Im guessing that the short run result of Apple going though with OSX on arm is that a lot of the CAD and video editing heavyweights just drop support for whatever OSX morphs into to support running on IOS hardware.
SilverCar sounds promising, but from my research you still have to travel somewhere to get the car. I want the car to come to me. :-)
To respond to all my respondents: perhaps we should all be using projectors for TV then :)
You can see the left lane line stay blue on the dash.

That's a really dangerous exit. The dark color on the end of the divider blends in with the background.

I would have thought their radar would see the lane divider. Either it didn't, or their software elected to follow the lane, or that car does not have radar hardware, or is running an older version of Autopilot (https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...).

Or this is proof that their software doesn't use the output of the radar.

Without code and data, it's all just conjecture.
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No, the Xcode workflow is set up to make applications CPU-agnostic by default, but there's nothing about the Mac App Store that requires it. The executables are ordinary x64 binaries.

It'd be perfectly valid to write an application for the MAS in x64 assembly, if you want, as long as it's sandboxed and doesn't touch any private APIs.
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Afaik you pay for people who don't follow you. Why wouldn't your fans, or your followers visit your site organically? can't be fans then.
It's also entirely possible that AfD wins 2021 election, kills all CO2 incentives, after which no new BMW EV model will be built, because they are not competitive on level playing ground.
Wow. Hats off to the NHS.

Is vaping harmless? Unlikely. Based on current understanding is it likely much less harmful than smoking tobacco? Yes.
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This needs to be repeated every time there's a discussion about ARM and the Mac:

Putting an ARM processor in a Mac does absolutely nothing to change the viability of running iOS apps on a Mac.

iOS developers always compile, test, and debug their apps on x86. The challenge of running iOS apps on x86 was solved 10 years ago.