skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “...the influence of campaign contributions which come from concentrated groups is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with, but putting government restrictions on speech in order to do it sets a dangerous precedent”

that’s an interesting perspective on citizen’s united worth mulling over.

but while speech is free from governmental limits, it is not protected from the response of other citizens. it’s still problematic that political contributions can be hidden behind organizations to shield the wealthy from the consequences of their speech.

citizens—nay, people—are equal in the eyes of the constitution (as affirmed in the bill of rights), and moneyed citizens are not entitled to unequal, government-protected veils from such consequences.

this is part of the larger discussion around who gets a public (media) voice and in what proportion. it seems an argument can be made that constitutionally, that proportion should correlate to the population (one person, one vote; not one dollar, one vote). we can defer to representatives to voice our opinions for us, but they should do so with only the aggregate backing of the citizens standing behind them. (then you also have to deal with the tyranny of the majority issues arising therefrom).
What does “never be able to run a legally licensed os” mean in this context? I am an iOS engineer and avid photographer: I work on a Hackintosh, I develop my photos on my Hackintosh. I’ve had 0 problems with this setup and it cost me 1/10th as much as a similarly specced Mac. And my “similar” I’m being generous to the Mac because my machine is faster
> If there is one thing I fail to understand it is the impulse to electronic-ify our elections.

Two words: "hanging chad."
>and yet only in the last 10,000 or so did civilization actually start.

and quickly heading towards self destruction. If this is the norm then living civilizations would be rare indeed.
I wonder how many people actually understood what the article is referring to when it says "increased incarceration". It's not referring to increased jail sentences for those who commit violent times. It's referring to the imprisoning of non-violent "criminals" such as marijuana dealers.

> "Higher incarceration rates are not associated with lower violent crime rates, because expanding incarceration primarily means that more people convicted of nonviolent, "marginal" offenses (like drug offenses and low-level property offenses) and "infrequent" offenses are imprisoned."

I'm all for legalizing marijuana and other soft drugs, but not for going easy on rapists and murderers. Do increased jail sentences have a deterrent effect? A quick Google search shows that the answer is yes, up to a certain point, and this makes perfect logical sense. If the punishment for committing armed robbery consisted solely of one day in prison, so many more people would give it a go. As you increase the sentence from one day to multiple years, you would weed out the less hardcore would-be criminals.

We can debate the inflection point where the effects start to taper off. But there is no doubt that having some threat of jail time, has a extremely significant impact on crime.

https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2016/03/29/longer-ja...
Although Netgear Orbi setups do have a full-featured web UI, you can also just stick to the mobile app for an Airport-like setup and management experience.

I replaced my router and helped a neighbor replace theirs. After a few months of use, I have no complaints.
Wars about control of water will be centered around areas with fresh water availability. The middle east doesnt have any.

If you have cheap desalinization capability, why would there be wars over water?
drone learning curve

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14 shoo birds
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47 deliver tacos
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7,323 fold fitted sheet
7,324 herd cats
7,325 self replicate
7,326 conquer humans
The last bit is pretty clear IMHO:

> Every Hackintosh continues to add momentum to that platform ecosystem, enriching it so that Apple can continue on more or less as they want.

I use Linux (and OpenBSD occasionally) these days, and I do so in part so that I can sometimes be the guy who sands off a rough corner or two. Even by using the platform and occasionally submitting bug reports, you’re enriching a platform that may be the last un-nerfed general purpose computing platform standing.
To further muddy the waters, Fox News business on the latest updates casually mentions that the regulators have halted it, not sure if it's true.
> you can't really fault people for just picking one to learn and going with it.

I do not. Maybe I was not clear enough, but I made the point in another comment that I totally understand why somebody would choose vim and never look back. I used vim as my editor of choice for a couple of years, and I cannot deny that it is an excellent editor. I still use some flavor of vi on a regular basis, even on OpenBSD, where mg (a lightweight editor that copies emacs' default keybindings) is part of the base system.
That same 4%+ would exist with or without the death penalty so the death penalty isn't the problem. It should be unacceptable that any innocent people suffer under false judgement.
My favorite theory: the von Neumann probes are already in the solar system. They've been continuously monitoring this system for a billion years. They could just be unwilling to make the first move toward contact with humans -- maybe we'll notice them, eventually, once we have better monitoring of small in-system objects. They could even be deliberately avoiding detection, like wildlife researchers who don't want animals to notice them. They haven't turned moons into copies of themselves for, basically, the same reason they haven't turned everything into paperclips -- that sort of unbounded-growth directive is useless and/or dangerous.

Note that I don't really believe this, but it does seem to be a resolution of the paradox that (like many others) we don't yet have enough evidence to reject.
> The article makes a good point that it's very hard for small projects, like the team running Homebrew, to fund their security, yet they are likely to be a target for quite high end attackers, given the access that can be gained by getting unauthorised access to package repositories.

I know this is kind of a shameless plug, but this is the exact reason I launched BountyGraph [0] last week. I think that we can crowdfund security budgets for these projects to help encourage the discovery of issues like this one.

[0] https://bountygraph.com/
High Voltage Direct Current transmission lines typically lose about 3% per 1000km [1]. That's quite manageable. Building a line of that length through multiple countries would take a while, but the Saudis could pull it off. They certainly have the money

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
> CPUs aren't advancing that fast and by the time you would want to upgrade the CPU there is a pretty good chance the new CPU requires a new chipset.

This is true in intel land, but AMD has kept compatible mobos for many, many cycles now. Ryzen is the first forced refresh, and I'd say you should be very willing to pay the extra to go from Bulldozer to Zen
Moved to an Eero on the weekend. Just wanted WiFi that works. Felt like a very Apple unboxing and easy setup. Performance seems good.

But that’s 1 data point.
Ed Felten's blog is a good place to start.
Easiest way: check the log to see what was blocked. It's as simple as that.

Happens so infrequently though - the lists are made up of domains you don't typically want to whitelist. Only 133,608 on my lists though, and that's pretty up to date.
Everyone[1] who works on wasm cares about the non-browser use-case, so I think you can sleep easy here.

1: Okay so, what I really mean is, "I spend a lot of time talking to people working on WebAssembly and they've all expressed that to me but of course I hvaen't talked to literally every single last person".
But I don't think they claim that it was real?

"Whether reality or simply show, these examples make it clear that a good defense against drones is vital for both bodyguards and military in the field."
I’ve yet to find a router that is as easy to set up and works as well. Asus routers are decent if you spend the time to configure, but there are tons of options. I use Asus with the Merlin open firmware and it’s great. I’m not aware of any router that supports wpa3 yet.

Edit: FWIW, mesh is the new hype, but it still can’t beat wired access points.
It would be ideal if the workflow could be something more like "click this link" (and pi-hole's GUI would then give you a prominent button to redirect you to an unfiltered version of the last request from your device (or maybe a list, since who knows how many background ones are being silently killed), which would be whitelisted for an hour.
I thought it was that Reddit alternative for fascists.
But there is a clear trend in increasing complexity and sophistication in the natural world, from the first bacteria to us. Some say this might even be a sort of a physical law:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-o...
Like anything... do it. If you have the academic background get an entry level job. If not, you'll have to build things using ML.
Makes me nostalgic for the first Palm smartphone. It was 2001 and the term smartphone hadn't even been coined yet. I've still got mine around here somewhere.

Imagine having a smartphone eight years before the introduction of Apple's iPhone. Course there were a few caveats, there wasn't much software but you could get news and traffic but no maps. Plus it weighed five pounds and was like having a brick in your pocket. But I still loved mine and even wrote an app for my company that utilized it, in Visual Basic 6.
https://www.tonymacx86.com used to be the go-to but like I said in my original comment I haven't Hackintosh'd since Snow Leopard so that may well be not the case anymore.
A number of things.

1) blocking GPS.
2) Electronic noise (mostly the same as blocking GPS, but needs lots more power)
3) thin nets. (bonus points for barrage balloons)
4) shotguns
5) flak (air burst anti-air shells
6) rain

Off the shelf quadcopters are fragile and not designed to cope with hostile flight. Loose a motor and your falling out of the sky.

Loose a GPS track and you'll either hover, or descend. This could be hacked to rely on dead reckoning, but that's inherently inaccurate. the sensors are designed to tell you what way up you are, how fast you are deviating from desired angle, they rarely have odometers.

A small > 250watt narrow band transmitter, Something with harmonics for 2.4gigs, or just a modified microwave magnetron with a decent directional antenna will destroy most hardware.

A thin fishing net is thin, light, cheap and almost invisible. The hardest part is keeping it in the correct place.
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Yes....usually

> Readers should also note that, unlike the 2018 and the 2021 convertibles, where the principal is always repayable in cash, the 2019 convertibles may be redeemed wholly in shares (at Tesla's option and if the requisite conversion ratio has been met).

So yes the bond holder can choose to convert after Dec 1st 2018 and Tesla can force them to convert when the bonds come due in March 2019
Jewish bagels have holes. Non-jewish bagels, the ones with yeast, often rise so much as to occlude any hole. They are more hamburger bun than bagel.
W. Va. and the Voatz “blockchain” voting system: scaling and security concerns
I guess that’s the kind of thing that PSD2 will enamel on a pan European scale
If you define colonize as "build a self-sustaining colony," that is very much outside of our current capabilities. We don't know how to build a self-sustaining biosphere, let alone one any body so fundamentally hostile to life as Mars or any other rocky body in the planet.
30% of Americans don't believe in global warming
What I really want to read about is why otherwise intelligent people lazily default to pattern matching when changing facts suggest they should change their mind.
FT which broke the story, said that the Saudis approached Tesla to buy a stake, but Tesla refused, for whatever reason, probably financial, or maybe didn't want to dilute the stock.

Musk can do nothing to stop anyone from buying or shorting Tesla shares, that's regulated by the government.

So how is this true again?

>It's deeply disappointing to see Musk legitimatize the Sauds

Also, don't you know that the Saudis put $50 billion into Softbank's fund?
Don't you miss the trackpad? It's what keeps me from switching on the hardware side
ISIS/hamas et al says otherwise.

War brings out terrifyingly brilliant innovations from the strangest of places.
Chinese? Given their interest in electric cars, Gigafactory (https://electrek.co/2018/08/07/tesla-hiring-gigafactory-3-ch...) and solar and of course the amount of USD they have.
http://tacocopter.com
I'm pissed. I've been invested in Tesla for over two years. I was hoping to hold for the long term and maybe retire early. It seems to me that taking Tesla private is just another investment opportunity being taken away from the masses. Think about SpaceX, think about all the startups that Google and Facebook buy up that are never publicly traded. There are many investment opportunities out there, probably most of the best opportunities, that are only accessible to an elite club of billionaires.

Musk claims people will still be able to invest in Tesla and hold shares, but I'm heavily skeptical. I'm Canadian, and many US financial companies do not deal with foreigners. There is also no way for me, currently, to invest in SpaceX. That opportunity is reserved to the ultra rich. As a Tesla investor, this is a real blow. As someone who grew up poor and only became "middle class" after years of hard work, I feel like I've been spit in the face.
They give you what direction is up, but not really where you are and how fast you are going.

You need odometry for that. There are opticalflow modules that will allow you to do that, but they cost power.
Or Softbank. The Bank of Japan is printing money like crazy to keep the Yen from deflating. Softbank seems to intent on getting out of Yen and into assets while the Yen still has the value it does right now.
One would think that if he has people willing to invest $50 billion into taking Tesla private that securing a credit of 8 billion looks like a lesser matter in comparison.
A community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
I was seriously looking at Linux laptops last year and ended up begrudgingly getting another Macbook Pro. Here's my perspective when I looked at Thinkpads;

There's a series: X, T, P, and A. I really hate when companies do this (I also think Apple does this a bit too much). "Powerful mobile workstations" or "Renowned professional tools" doesn't really help me narrow things down. Trying to seek these out in person, retail stores like Best Buy or the Microsoft store carry between 1 to 3 models total.

I never got the appeal of swappable batteries. I had multiple batteries about 10 years ago (mostly because one was EOL and I kept it around). Since it had to charge in the laptop I had to remember to swap it to keep both charged. I looked at external chargers; if it existed it was too much money (a few hundred dollars). This sort of workflow makes sense in a professional environment, like a photographer on set all day. That's what is done with camera batteries, but is too much of a pain for someone who just wants a bit of freedom from a desktop. I had a lot of skepticism when Apple dropped the removable battery; their swappable batteries lasted 5 hrs when new and had something like 200 cycles. The non-removable batteries had 6-8 hrs, went up to 1000 cycles, and were about the same cost to replace (and it was just a matter of unscrewing the case).

Even though I didn't like the new Mac keyboards as much as the old ones, I liked the Thinkpad's keyboard even less--which is a fairly subjective choice. The trackpads I found on every non-Mac laptop was objectively worse.

Connectivity: I really like that it charges with USB-C (I was quick to eliminate laptops with proprietary charging), but that's the only USB-C port. I never really found a laptop with 1 USB-A and a couple USB-C ports. At least for my use-case multiple USB-C ports and carrying an adapter works well for me now and I expect adapter use to decline over the life of use.

I was looking at the X1, which had memory soldered on. The laptops in the same "class" as the Macbook pro (size and weight), the PC versions used the same chipset and had similar compromises...which also meant the prices were fairly similar.

If, for example, you're looking for a chunkier and heavier laptop with swappable parts Apple doesn't make that laptop, but if general, if you like most of the concessions, similar models aren't that much cheaper and don't really offer that much more.
I was also going to bring up the Dark Forest - but it doesn't answer the question of the Cylon Spawn. The Cylon Spawn can be visible without revealing the source of the spawn (which was the issue in the Dark Forest).
It's got that... Disable for 10s, 30s, 5m, custom or permanent. GUI or CLI.
They did not.
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Given that it was already on a very old version, not doing further development counts as "killing it off" in my book. I'm bummed because I did an OpenGL based text renderer in xi-editor, and now have to decide whether to go back to CoreGraphics (assuming they've fixed the performance problems there) or forward with something like this.
Well, google itself calls it now 'a client-optimized language' and product manager of Dart is also a product manager of Flutter at the same time, brought in from Microsoft. Tells you everything you need to know where they're aiming - where React (Native) is. The farm is bet on Flutter's success now, it seems.
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One could argue that this is a huge part of any serious undertaking which requires intense focus.
Yes it's a huge leap, but the leap might not be as big as it seems: if we can figure out artificial gravity, then maybe we can scale up the technology and move stars, leading to more fruitful space travel than metal ships alone can achieve.

OTOH, that method of travel would still be rather slow and aliens might have abandoned the idea because it's too boring.
> Wars about control of water will be centered around areas with fresh water availability. The middle east doesnt have any.

More likely, they'll be centered around points of availability in areas of relative scarcity.

There is, in fact freshwater in the Middle East, just not a lot. Which makes what is there a potential source of contention.
As long as good politicians feel they'll be disadvantaged if they aren't selling themselves like the idiot ones are the good ones will line up for the money.

Certainly it's better to outlaw it rather than to simply allow it to happen. You will never catch 100% of the people breaking the law, but you can create an environment of transparency and accountability to help and you can make it costly enough for those who are caught to make the next person reconsider risking it.
I like how there are three different interpretations of the question.
I use wireguard with DNS routed to an `unbound` instance on the wireguard VPS. The VPS costs me $1/mo. The only problem I've gotten is when `unbound` crashes because it uses ~400MB of RAM to hold the blacklist and the little vps only has 256MB of RAM (and 1GB of swap)!
I think -- and I could be wrong here -- that gfx-rs aims to eventually implement Vulkan on D3D12 in addition to Metal, while MoltenVK only aims to work on Metal.
Correct. That was my intent.
Are the "for profit" prisons posting losses each quarter yet?
As a Dad I can confirm. Many fewer steps counted while pushing a stroller.
TonyMacX86 is the best single source as dljsjr mentioned but the subreddit is also a very valuable resource in my experience: http://reddit.com/r/hackintosh

I built a hackintosh 2 years ago. It's been fantastic and required very little time to keep updated and running smoothly.
I am willing to bet flutter will be a pretty great success... have you used cordova/ionic/phonegap?
(I can't personally speak for react native)

There's a lot of ceremony in those tools, and debugging is clunky because you only debug from the browser, and you need a different browser depending on the phone type.

There are a lot of gaps in every tool, and flutter isn't perfect, but the flutter team has been making some pretty awesome strides to making mobile development enjoyable for once.
First Google result for "Facebook Front End Engineer" yields a job description with React as a Preferred Qualification: https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LCKeYUAX

Granted, I don't know your market, but if it's outside the typical 5-10 cities, that might be the problem.
I feel we're kind of going into a dark age... Apple's software and hardware is suffering from major design flaws, and Microsoft is trying to be more like Apple... linux on the desktop is becoming less laughable with each os update or product refresh...
One day a random bit flip in a web app on a non ECC-protected iPad * controlling a life-critical system will kill a person.

It's just a matter of time.

* Or any other device with data corrupting hardware or software issues.
Out of curiosity, I googled current HVDC lines, and was surprised at how rapidly it has started to replace HVAC for long-distance transmission. It now strikes me that getting a line from the peninsula to europe will be more of a political effort than a technical one, which is not the conclusion I was initially expecting.
Why does is have to be beyond Saudis? it also could Qatar, China,UAE etc.
What does it mean when we say that a language is expressive?
> He could not get over the fact that everything was flat and that he couldn't view his folder structure and was so frustrated because he couldn't find anything. It took me days to get the point across to him that a library system was much more powerful than a strict hierarchy because he could tag sounds with multiple keywords instead of just relying on his memory to remember which folder he had put a particular clip in.

Right, so he had his workflow organized in a particular way that worked for him, but rather than allow him to work like that his computer forced him into a workflow management paradigm and then you told him it was better that way and he should just accept it.

> It's so nice when the computer just gets out of the way and lets you worry about the work and not about futzing with everything in the background.

I agree, I wish they'd actually do that in 2018.
Several machines are capable of running macOS. http://www.osx86project.org is a project focused on doing exactly this. However, these machines do not use SMC chips. They emulate the SMC.
I found this answer to the Fermi Paradox compelling: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/03/ssc-journal-club-dissol...
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Most people don't want to destroy their lives by shooting someone with a gun, yet it happens every day.
I'm not entirely convinced.

That article even says that there was "extensive reporting showing that the Bush administration was making plans for an Iraq invasion before the advent of intelligence used to justify it."
Terrorism like this tends to happen in more impoverished areas of the world. And any innovation that is found in this pales in comparison to what the US military already has.
Thanks for pointing that out. I've hopefully fixed it now :)