skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zuckerburg today:

"I remember, one Saturday morning, I got a phone call and we detected that people were trying to spread sensational messages through — it was Facebook Messenger in this case — to each side of the conflict, basically telling the Muslims, “Hey, there’s about to be an uprising of the Buddhists, so make sure that you are armed and go to this place.” And then the same thing on the other side."
Well, I don't agree that I've misunderstood.

Like, there are many subtle levels between me and the professionals in my craft. And there are many, many levels between me and rank amateurs. But the fact remains that Limbaugh probably could sing; if I held hit nuts to the fire, he'd probably be able to croak out at least Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...

It isn't the case that there is a hard distinction between the laity and the priests of music-- we're all just doing our best.

And no, frankly I don't think El Rushbo is up for composing abstract musical compositions; he only thinks he is because he's happily enjoying his ignorance about the reality of music production to score some points in his fantasy of what a culture war looks like.
Apple has done a very good job with documenting iOS security:

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf

If they included a management engine and produced a document like that, I'd be satisfied.
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We use rebloom. Works great.
So basically it is just the usage of particular API the underlying OS provides.
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I built this to solve a specific use case where in-person signing is required but internet access is restricted or unavailable. This also addresses problems with signers who can't or don't want to confirm their email address -- the audit trail info includes the MAC address and name of the signer's cell phone (among other things). I'm just starting out here so any feedback on any aspect of this project is totally appreciated.
Nothing that can't be fixed by a bit of Psi Ops. Pretty much none of the traditional media companies like Facebook and in most of Europe at least one TV station per country is state controlled. So all that needs to happen is ~6-12 months of negative press in the tabloids and constant negative coverage in national television. I think that could easily be arranged.

To paint a picture here are some headlines by BILD (largest German tabloid):

"ZUCKERBERG SCANDAL: So verdient Facebook mit Ihren Daten Geld", (ZUCKERBERG SCANDAL: This is how Facebook earns money with your data), article based on a report by German national television (ZDF)

"„SCHADEN FÜR DIE DEMOKRATIE“
60 Prozent der Deutschen fürchten Facebook" (DAMAGE TO DEMOCRACY, 60 Percent of Germans fear Facebook)
212645 < fakeBeige> Looks like somebody managed to finally get a hold of the real EFnet admins via Facebook
212700 < Bisqwit2> Also looks like the joke is over
212700 < fakeBeige> and mount a counter-coup

And then:

212719 !!!!eris.Berkeley.EDU Server Terminating. Received SIGTERM
212719 !>>> Irssi: Connection lost to eris.berkeley.edu

The joke is over.

(edit for formatting)
Apple goes where the money is. I'm sure they have ran the numbers. If this makes financial sense I'm sure they are willing to drop the professional graphics market. Still waiting on that new Mac Pro?
I'd expect a huge performance jump when the new ARM-based Macs come out, both in Single-core (they can ramp up the clocks and increase cache and execution units) and Multi-core (they can add more cores to fit new power budgets as well).

The current A11 chips for iPhones are within 10% of Intel's top mobile chips on Geekbench, and within about 30% on their top desktop CPUs.

It's entirely possible for chip architectures to see 2x-3x speeds when moving from mobile power budgets to desktop power budgets.

An Intel Pentium 4410Y Kaby Lake running at 4.5-6 Watts gets about 1800 single-core on Geekbench, while an Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake running at 115 Watts gets 5600 single-core on Geekbench.
My name is disgruntledphd(2) (i lost my original account before there was password reset), and I approve of this message :)

The big problem in much of the modern world is that capital is free to move, but labour is not. This leads to a corporate beauty pageant, run by governments against one another to collect mobile tax revenues. This causes problems in richer nations (such as Britain and the US), which leads to lots of unusual political decisions (rather like the eponymous president at the top of this thread), while the corporations make out like bandits.

I personally believe that as the poster above, we should ensure that both labour and capital are equally mobile, as this will lead to better long-term outcomes. I make no representations as to the goodness of the short-term outcomes, however.
Ya, I kind of got that impression too. Let's model people as psychopaths when they're bargaining with trinkets. Oh that went pretty well...let's use it to run society...what could go wrong.
Uncapped unskilled immigration works great when you have jobs available, and early America had plenty of those. Coupled with zero entitlement programs it was a perfect recipe for growth.

Doesn't work so well now, it would put enormous pressure on social programs already near their breaking point, and drive unemployment sky high as unskilled jobs are diminishing. Crime would increase as poverty is positive correlated.

However, if you make it past that initial surge, the 2nd generation could provide an enormous boost to the economy as long as education was prioritized.

Compare to uncapped skilled immigration and it's a much higher risk.
I also think it's kind of a controlled dose thing. When one smokes a cigarette it tends to be the whole cigarette, whereas with a vape you can take a couple of hits, get a fix and put it down.
And you got me!
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Every major religion has been used for violence.
In general, OpenBSD support for Sparc helps with testing - the Sparc is architecturally quite a bit different from other CPUs:

https://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html

"The other architectures that OpenBSD supports have benefited because some kinds of bugs are exposed more often by the 64-bit big endian nature of UltraSPARC."
If skydivers aren't pedestrians, then what exactly would be considered a pedestrian in the sky?
There's no reason to think that the ARM chips they use won't be as powerful as their intel equivalents in a few years.
how contradictory it is that these attacks are being carried out by proclaimed Buddhists

Most religious killing is highly contradictory to said religious texts..
It's not like it was a big stretch: Mac OS X came directly from NeXTStep, which had already been ported to Intel wayyyyy back in the NeXT days.
I think you're overlooking the needs of a third stakeholder in this debate: the people who will have to share space with autonomous and/or artificially intelligent machines but are neither an expert in ethics nor creators of AI. As a bystander to this debate I'd like to know the debate is happening now and not after I've been killed by an autonomous machine that may or may not have been acting ethically.
Good luck getting that by antitrust laws.
Respect people's privacy, not sell their information to the highest bidder, not spy on private conversations?

No? I'm still out, then. Good riddance.
Oh my god, it's really good. Do you know if there's an option for PC Windows?
It's only Limbaugh's ignorance of the context of the piece that makes him think it's random.

If I didn't know how to read, I'd say that the squiggles on a page are just squiggles that anyone with a piece of charcoal could make.
Whats the big deal? We all write code that is cross platform, don't we? :)
This is a false dichotomy. Just because the regulations we imposed in the past made things burdensome, doesn't mean that regulations we impose in the future have to be burdensome.

I'd want to understand why they're burdensome. Give me some concrete examples. Everybody talks about how regulations are burdensome but nobody actually mentions the specific things that are a burden.
This was my thought as well -- surprised that there's no mention of a lawyer here or in the linked post.

One can consult a lawyer without bringing any action, which could be invaluable in providing an objective, outside opinion.

Sadly, I know from experience that family ties are no insurance against mistreatment, financial or otherwise.
One application details how audio monitoring could help detect that a child is engaging in “mischief” at home by first using speech patterns and pitch to identify a child’s presence, one filing said. A device could then try to sense movement while listening for whispers or silence, and even program a smart speaker to “provide a verbal warning.”

This worries me. First the children are watched 24/7, them the adults.
I completely agree with everything you say. In fact, those exact arguments propelled my initial interest in Bitcoin!

Unfortunately though, all those good things about cryptocurrency depend on it being as easy to trade as fiat currency. That wasn't true five or six years ago, but then that could be excused because it was a new technology. But, it's still not true and that's why I'm getting more skeptical as time goes by.

It isn't true for several reasons. The biggest is that value fluctuates too wildly and is highly unpredictable, so it works best as a currency if suppliers constantly change their prices and you convert your cryptocurrency to fiat as quickly as possible. But if you do quick crypto-fiat conversions, you often run into either slow transaction times or transaction fees many times higher than the most expensive payment processors.

(I genuinely hope that I'm wrong and feel like a Luddite when I read this in five years.)
Because, in the end it would cost a fortune? Imagine that, most people only pay for one content provider.

A social network is not a content provider, just a different kind of social network. If you cannot afford a subscription of some social network, you miss out. And that's not acceptable in terms of social life of a human being. Rich folks would be able to roam all networks, poor people wouldn't. So, if you only can afford some "cheap" networks, the whole thing ceases to make sense, as soon as you are barred from accessing other networks. Exclusiveness in social media is an oxymoron. See where this is going?
I'm not going to miss Intel ME.

I am going to miss running windows and linux VMs, and commercial software by microsoft, adobe, and blizzard. I'm also going to miss hand-optimized x86_64 assembly variants of ffmpeg, lame, x265, nodejs/v8, java hotspot, and more.
It will be interesting to see how Apple handles this. Last time around users got a compatibilty layer in Rosetta to bridge compatibilty between Power Pc applications on Intel. I would imagine that would be the case this time but some of the questionable changes in terms of user friendliness (imho) in the recent past removing headphone jack etc. makes me wonder if this will be a cold switch for older software.
John McAfee charges $105,000 per promotional crypto-tweet
I don't see how they are "very different things". That stock has a monetary value, does it not?

They could offer it to their employees in exchange for a salary reduction totaling those $34M/year.

Alternatively, they could have sold that stock.

Or taken a loan using that stock as collateral.
I'm not sure but I think it's only for Mac right now.
Microsoft's Windows and Office products are now in the product position of commercial trucks. Every business of any size has some commercial trucks. Businesses buy them, use them, maintain them, and replace them when necessary. They're not exciting, but they get the job done. Nobody thinks about them much.

Microsoft should just accept that they sell a commercial product for businesses and make a good solid product that needs little attention and gets the job done. Like Mack trucks.
You might be interested in the concept of an attractive nuisance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
Or record audio, do speech to text, some light analysis, and upload the metadata. Or just upload a basket of words and their frequency, "Toilet Paper, 2, tv, 7, online, 4,"
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> With each release of Windows 10 they introduce a bunch of new crappy apps that are completely forgettable

And some folks get the really big money for "driving business initiative", "spearheading new projects" and stuff like that.
And the fact that Apple can already beat x86 on speed per unit of electricity with its own architecture.
> They would prefer you trash your app and write for the thing they came up with this year, to be thrown away when they do the rewrite the next year.

That hasn't been true for over a year now. Classic Win32 desktop apps have been in the Store for over a year now (nearly a year and a half). It's my preferred way now to install things like Office and Paint.NET. Even Photoshop is in the Store now.

(Even iTunes was promised at one point, and I'm still very hopeful for that, because Apple's Windows Updater is still one of the worst updaters on Windows, where bad updaters was once an art form.)
It looks like this is currently only affecting channel & user pages.
Video doesn't show it from a good angle; there is a pier under the tower. See rendering partway down this page: https://news.fiu.edu/2018/03/community-gathers-to-watch-950-...
Faster, probably, but 2x+ Faster like in PowerPC > Intel very unlikely. Which is why there’s much less likely to be enough performance budget for effective emulation.
A link, in case anyone is lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Ask HN: Little annoying issues in well known software
I would like to ask about little annoying known issues in popular software like Google Maps which drives you crazy and were reported as bugs many times but never get a fix.
E.g. this one described by me today
https://medium.com/@szydan/instead-of-wheres-wally-please-fix-this-one-in-street-view-7280b2af8a8d
If you have examples of such issues I would love to hear your rants and complains
I don't know if this is true, but if it is wouldn't there be a really obvious pattern of the market value of initial IPOs going up compared to before SOX was passed? Is there such a telltale pattern?
How are you so sure of that?
Not saying your wrong but you seem very convinced of your own position. I have no idea what exactly they do with my data.
The other replies to your question seem to focus on insurance coverage via credit cards.

If you have a standard auto policy for a vehicle at home, you should also check whether it covers rentals. A lot of policies will cover you while driving "non-owned" vehicles for personal use with the same coverage limits/deductibles as your own vehicle.
Unfortunately we're getting to the point where there's rarely any choice.
I don't get it, Sorry. Can you elaborate? Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=152256582629837&w=2
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If you remember back to the mid 2000's when Apple switched from PowerPC to (Intel) x86, the higher end machines still ran with PowerPC chips in them while the mid-low end products had x86 chips. All of the old applications that weren't yet ported to x86 had to use "Rosetta." It wasn't until a little while later, presumably once most of the professional software companies had good working x86 versions of their software - that the high end mac pro systems started seeing Intel chips in them.

Microsoft started down that path last year with Windows 10 on ARM, and Intel had some legal issues with that -
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/intel...
It will be interesting to see how Apple handles this.
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Replying to sibling comments.

They can't buy AMD (nobody can) for patents as licences on parts of x64 AMD doesn't own will be voided if AMD is ever acquired.
Facebook is not only bad for Democracy but it is also bad for pluralism. It needs to be regulated and deleted.
so onto NetBSD then?
I personally consider myself a libertarian / MinAnarchist (gov should only be courts, police, military) hybrid and I don't think there should be public welfare at all.

There will always be private welfare/charity. The government is one of the worst run charities.

For individuals such as myself and yourself, personal donation and charity will always be better to the end recipient than a government run charity (welfare).
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