skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having written 6502 assembly but not targeted 6502 with C, I tentatively agree, but if you can fit your program in a 256 byte stack, things should be... mostly fine? Except for the fact that you want to do pointer indirections through the zero page. Clunky!

Personally if I'm going to have fun writing assembly for a project like this, I'm not too picky about the particular architecture.
Not as expensive, but not cheap either: https://www.omegabroadcast.com/sales/sales-catalog/monitors-...
>what are computers?
have you thought about reading sicp?
It's cheaper than the memory upgrade you need to support dedup properly.
You can't know how many uncorrectable errors you have if you're not check summing. You can't see because there are no lights. And IMO it's just negligent to believe your flash memory is 100% perfect.
What if I don't desire a gui application store or desire a different one or switch application stores or move a dir with executable files from one machine to another?

Is the application store the only way to start at app? If I bind a global hotkey to start an app how is that handled?

How about I have an addon for firefox that allows me to bind keys to operations which can include javascript which can itself start applications which can then write to files.

I use this for example to open links in mpv with a singular line in my config file for the addon, tridactyl,

bind V hint -W ! mpv this means show a hint on links and for the given link send the chosen link to mpv, wherein mpv will look at the link and if it can read it will use youtube-dl to download the link to a temp dir and display the video.

Who owns what there?

Do I have to access my photos via a a singular photo manager? I can imagine images accessed in 17 different contexts by 30 different apps does each of them need permission to access each dir which contains images or just generically to access images.

Does this mean that a singular permission would control both access to the browsers cached image of the ycombinator logo on this page and some ones nude selfies?

I just don't think you can cleanly map apps -> files beyond the trivial cases without making something inflexible that sucks to use.
Where are you next week? This is a show I'll travel to follow.
Yes. He cherry picked some ideas about history to support his theory, and ignored the couple centuries of development of geographic determinism in history that went over all his ideas in detail and showed they didn't work before he was born.

I have never examined his ornithology, but I'm willing to extend him professional courtesy that it's solid, but his popular books should be categorized with Gavin Menzies.
Huawei to Replace Android with Russian OS?
No I’m saying if hypothetically the RAM wasn’t soldered onto to the 13” MacBookPro and you could buy third party RAM, you wouldn’t save “a few hundred bucks”. The maximum ram that It can handle is 16GB and that’s $200. Just taking a cursory look, you could save maybe $150. Which is not nothing but you’re already willing to spend Apple prices on a MacBook Pro, I can’t see how $150 in savings would be the deciding factor.

On the other hand, the price delta between Apple prices for the 16GB -> 32GB upgrade is about $250 more for the 15 inch than you could get from a third party if that were an option but you’re already spending at least $2400 on a 15 inch MacBook Pro.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m arguing hypothetically. I’m not spending my own money for an expensive laptop. I don’t need portability for my personal computer. I need portability for my work computer and a job will give you a work computer - and hopefully one that is beefy enough to do what you need.

My personal development computer will always be a desktop. You get more bang for your buck and I hate developing on just a laptop without external peripherals anyway. I’ve never been interested in Apple laptops enough to spend my own money over just getting a much cheaper mid range Dell when I needed the portability.
It is true. Here [0] is a representative example, the only one I could find with a price. Correct color matters tremendously in film production, and getting accurate representation of that is quite expensive.

[0] https://pro.sony/ue_US/products/broadcastpromonitors/pvm-x55...
I am also not a security expert, but it seems like VM's that are shared in the cloud are the targets for a lot of these types of attacks. You don't need to pwn the other VM, but you don't exactly get to choose which VM's you cohabitate with to target your attacks.
You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA
They deserve all the mockery they got for the $999 stand (and more).

However, my complaint about the new Pro and Display are not that they are overpriced (they're perfectly priced for what they are). But that there is no lower end option.

Even if they took the display in the 5k iMac and just made that a standalone thunderbolt display, charged $1,500 for it (even though I would've slightly grumbled), I would've ordered it on day one. But $5k for a display is just something I won't spend.

Same with the desktop. If they had reasonable defaults for $6k, then yes I absolutely would buy it (because of the amazing expandability, and I'm truly tired of laptops).

But the display is to me truly disappointing that they solved problems only a very very small sliver of pros asked for (pro photographers and film people), rather than a secondary class of pros (developers, etc). I don't need true reference-grade color for viewing webpages and code all day. But I would generally like a 5k or 6k display for more screen real estate.
> If your favorite car company releases a nice premium product are they also "pissing on you"?

If Toyota re-releases the Corolla as a 60K car, then yes.

Apple is not "diversifying" their product. They are straight pushing it upmarket leaving current Mac Pro customers, the ones paying until today $3000 for a trash can Apple swore was the future, out in the cold.
I remember installing BeOS on my Performa 6400. It was a cool little piece of kit.
8MB is itty bitty?

There are a few narrow workloads where having a huge unified cache is an advantage, but it generally isn't. If you have many independent processes or VMs it can actually be worse, because when you have one thrashing the caches it would ruin performance across the whole processor rather than being isolated to a subset.

Meanwhile most working sets either fit into 8MB or don't fit into 64MB. When you have a 4MB working set it makes no difference and when you have a 500GB one it's the difference between a >99% miss rate and a marginally better but still >99% miss rate.

Where it really matters is when you have a working set which is ~16MB and then the whole thing fits in one case but not the other. But that's not actually that common, and even in that case it's no help if you're running multiple independent processes because then they each only get their proportionate share of the cache anyway.

So the difference is really limited to a narrow class of applications with a very specific working set size and little cache contention between separate threads/processes.
If the move is really not motivated by money, that would make it a very suicidal move, as this means the Foundation holds the Corporation hostage and uses the Corporation's long-term reputation to push products that no one really wants.

It means the Foundation willingly puts the business at risk for political moves of "keeping users safe", which I don't really know what it means, but the image that comes to mind is that of pre-school children being protected by overly protective helicopter parents.

I have long thought that Mozilla should essentially dissolve the Foundation, as the Foundation under Baker is abusing the work of the corporation. Unfortunately the Foundation holds all the power, which explains why Mozilla is behaving so erratically.

The CEO is basically reporting to the Foundation, so the people who work for the corporation have a boss that is not acting independent, but in the interests of a shadowy group of people who don't even interact with the employees. Most of the people managing the Foundation get enourmous salaries, while some of them only appear on site a couple of times a year when it comes to voting.
This isn't loading for me at all in Safari and Brave (even with "shields down"). All I get is "An error occurred with this part of the page, sorry for the inconvenience." It displays the proper page for a brief second, then the above message.

Is anyone else getting this?

EDIT: now working for me across the board. There's also this potential explanation for the outage: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/wordpress-vip-go-sites-are...
this seems like it would be very useful for tourists. In touristy areas you could put up flyers with QR codes (or URL routes) that bring up restaurants in that neighborhood (where the flyer is placed).
Not an expert and there may be other criticisms.

However, if you read Why the West Rules for Now (which serves as a pretty good East and West world history), the author basically says near the beginning that of course geography played a big role in where early civilization started.

But, to the central question of the book, that doesn't begin to explain why China had to pay homage to Britain, rather than the other way around.
"The most effective organizations are the ones where the formal power structures are very close to informal ones "

There's a nice parallel here to how parliamentary democracy arose. And conversely, there's no point having a chamber full of the people who you wish had power, if they don't have it.
On this subject, I'd love to see a full history of the "branded vulnerability" thing.
I remember some years ago (2012?) we looked into using Macs instead of Windows machines and back then the Macs (Macbook and Mac Mini) were quite competitive price wise when you compared specs. I can accept some premium since the hardware is better quality but recently they seem to have jacked up prices a lot. The machines were also very practical with the connectors and upgrades they offered. This also seems to have gone away

Has anybody else observed this and when did the trend start?
Probably not.

However, historically, these sorts of attacks always get better, not worse.

And while even that can sometimes be empty rhetoric, I will say in the last 5 years I'm seeing a lot of security attacks that are already well beyond what even my moderately-trained intuition would suggest are possible, so I have to admit I've sort of given up on trying to guess on whether or not an attack can be made practical. I've seen too many mind-blowing presentations from security researchers to think I can bound their abilities safely. I wouldn't care to bet that they won't move the attacks I already am flabbergasted can exist to some other even-more practical attack that I am flabbergasted can exist.

This is unrelated to the current matter, but let me give you an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eSAF_qT_FY If you think that's trivially obvious, and you're confident you can predict how these sorts of things will play out in the future, more power to you, but I'm certainly not justified in that belief at my skill level. I'm just happy I can follow that presentation!
Yep, for me too on iOS Safari
Disappearing sea ice is changing the whole ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean
There are massive externalities to Chinese influence from a culture of a city/state side. I think this is a good thing.
Study from Facebook
Makes sense, thanks for the info.
Why is something like this being hosted on a site named filmlifestyle.com ?
Because Gradle requires an additional daemon sucking up 2GB and uses Groovy for plenty of its tasks, instead of using declarative builds implemented in Java without using background daemons.

I seldom see conference talks how to optimize Maven builds, Gradle talks about build optimization, at least one per Java conference, and several per Android one.

Just Google IO 2019 had three talks about it.
IMAP and SMTP are still working for me (imap.fastmail.com and smtp.fastmail.com), but if you have not yet created an "app specific password" you will not be able to log in as their servers will not accept your account-level Fastmail password.
Ah, my bad. I meant "home gamer" as a colloquial term to mean something like "prosumer" or "enthusiast", not an actual gamer.
Lightbeam: An Optimising Streaming WebAssembly Compiler
Still nothing on transparent compression? It's one of the main reasons why I keep a ZFS partition on the Macbook.
>> For years the country (China) had imported millions of tons of recyclable waste from overseas, but a growing recycling burden at home prompted the government to shift its policy.

Until recently, Canada, like the US, shipped most of its plastic to China. Does making it a different country's problem absolve responsibility?

I found this quite eye opening.
https://www.plasticchina.org/
It just seems too fashionable to talk about flat organizations nowadays. And, as many have pointed out, it's a bit ironic since organizations that claim to be flat tend not to be in practice. It's obnoxious when people claim that things are one way when, in fact, they are another.

It seems people have developed some kind of allergy to leader figures. In the US, this probably has a lot to do with the political situation. The current president is non other than the antithesis of a good leader --- and he's "on top", if not literally, then figuratively. Elsewhere, it's probably just cyclical. We're at the bottom of a leadership trough in history.

However, I can't count the number of times I've wished for a good leader lately. Call me mentally lazy or a conformist, but I want someone to give me a sense of direction and purpose. I want someone I feel like I can relate to and trust. Maybe I'm just the type that gets a lot out of mentoring relationships.

I guess it's just one of those things where you need to be the change you want to see in the world, eh?
I suspect they will eventually migrate time machine backups in one go to APFS+snapshots, then use the new ASR tool also mentioned in this talk to stream local time machine snapshots to the volume.

I also suspect that will launch 'soon' (after September but possibly in March) , but I have to imagine the complexity and testing requirements for such a in-place migration are staggering.
It's "Philosophically True": It's true to the extent people need it to be to make a point or prove their philosophy valid, like the idea of the "tabula rasa"; we know, scientifically, that humans aren't blank slates at birth, but some people have a need for it to be true so their philosophy isn't disproven by mere positivism.
Right, I was kind of wondering what the point was. I'm surprised that the author got stuck on a $1,000 monitor stand.
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'1984' at Seventy: Why We Still Read Orwell
>Put in a blocklist and turn off JS. [...] A strangely simple solution that people don't try.

I'm not an iPhone expert but those don't seem simple.

In iOS, you can enter urls one at a time in the blocklist which is cumbersome. Obviously, this doesn't work for thousands of ad network urls. What people do on desktops is import a big hosts file but my cursory research says you can't do that on a non-jailbroken iPhone.[1]

If you mean "block" via DNS such as pointing to Adguard DNS servers, you can only manually change the DNS server ip address on wifi connections and not the cellular connection. For DNS blocks on cellular, you have to install vpn software.[2]

Disabling Javascript breaks sites like "cnn.com" (Yes, people should go to other sites instead of CNN but I don't mean for people to fixate on that one example. It's just one example of breakage of a widely known site instead of an obscure one.) Also on reddit.com, the collapse button "[-]" and the upvote/downvote buttons no longer work.

(But I'm not saying any iPhone setup difficulties means you should use AMP.)

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2028544/does-hosts-file-...

[2] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/303168/ios-11-how-...
How to make a map of 18000 asteroids (with open-source code)
It is not believable that rules restricting gay marriage would be struck down in some provinces but not others in Canada. Legalization was obviously inevitable.

A few years prior the Liberal government of the day was opposed to gay marriage and voted to confirm the status quo definition of marriage.

The Liberals of course deserve credit for seeing the obvious and not attempting any action to block gay marriage further, but they did not lift a finger to support gay marriage until the courts weighed in and forced the issue upon them.
There's a distinction between the Sociocracy consent process and Holacracy's process with objection validity, but yeah on the continuum of similar processes I'd put chaos consensus (which is what a lot of people who attack self-management/flat are actually critiquing) at one end and Holacracy on the other, with this and Sociocracy about 3/4 toward the Holacracy end.
Good high level history of MLCC (including graph from 2017 showing shortages): https://www.ttiinc.com/content/ttiinc/en/resources/marketeye...
It is all but impossible to get injured due to this vandalism. If the brake cables are cut, you will be unable to even mount the scooter. It's the same UX as on a bicycle: The rider must (unconsciously) press the brake lever to keep the bike in place while getting on it.

You'll know right away if the cable is cut--before you even start your ride.
This is exciting. Glad to know they're focusing on making a stable, secure protocol, and that development is going strong. Great job and keep up the great work!
>have there been any responses from the major cloud providers

There does seem to recently have been an increase in having HSMs be part of cloud offerings, and while that's a good idea in general issues like this may be part of it too. One issue with this attack is that even in research conditions it seems to be pretty fundamentally slow. It took them 34 hours to do the setup phase and another 4 hours of reading, all going after a few kilobytes (.31 bits/s, accuracy rate of 82%). Which could still matter a lot when it comes to cryptographic keys since those are all small, but it's not clear is or ever could be feasible for sniffing significant amounts of confidential content data. It's more that if credentials can be harvested that'd be the steppingstone towards taking over. So if keys are just plain moved to a minimal blackbox outside the system entirely and on which no customer code of any kind runs, that seems like a real mitigation to this particular leak? I mean, even beyond any basic improvements to DRAM (or successors to DRAM, I wonder how some of the NVDRAM research like future gens of Optane handle this?).
Even IMAP and SMTP are not working for me. I have it set up on my phone and neither pulling nor sending emails work. Luckily the emails were locally cached though so I sent notifications that my email was down through my Gmail and that took care of it.
Yep, move on with my life to another employer.
This looks amazing. I would use this in a heart beat. More specifically, I love:

- Full screen for apps
- The way panels are sized on a screen

The rest seems like it could reasonably work.
I heard arguments where US Government employees were working on creating open access policies for the research they funded. People would lament, "Nobody will work with us if we force them to make their research open access." I would reply, "Who are they going to work with? The US Government is the only place with these big piles of money. Yes, they will take a principled stand until their next mortgage payment is due."
Mods: Can someone add [pdf] suffix to this please?
Your blue bin recyclables were shipped to Asia and then dumped into a river. There's no economic sense to plastic recycling. The only viable strategies are to standardize on reuse or promote materials that are recyclable (i.e. aluminum).
>Apple made a true pro machine, and now the pro-poseurs are pissed.

Well, there are also tons of people working professionally with video, audio, etc, that don't have the money to fork for a $6K starting price machine, but would like to work on a fast, extensible, desktop machine and a good external monitor by Apple.

The iMac comes with lackluster extensibility and a monitor that can't work as an external display 4-6 years later when you upgrade machines. The Mac Mini is a mini-PC with even less extensibility.

Those people are still very much professionals. In that, they have clients, make a living from working on their computers, and could very much use faster e.g. rendering time, or the ability to run more VST plugins, or more complex 3D scenes, etc, to make their work easier.

They are very pro, and very many. They just aren't high-end Hollywood studios, or the art department of Nike level pro.

And they still could very much use something more pro than an iMac/MBPr but less high end than a $6K starting price workstation.

Not only are these people not "the same dope who gets the M-Sport BMW 3 Series, or the DSLR with the Kit Lens" posers, but many of us have started building $3K-$4K dollar PC based workstations, where we run Premiere, Cubase, Creative Suite, etc, because Apple won't cater to our market.

Or will only sell us a $4K iMac machine with no capability to upgrade internal SSDs, glued RAM, a built-in not-reusable screen, and no ability to use our own pick of e.g. a high end Nvidia video card.

So there's that.

Is it ok that they are now shunned? The traditional Mac Pro of yore, catered to those exact people.
If cost is an issue, they should be provided by the health care system for those that need them.

But from the other answers it looks like it's more of a problem that they're stainless per se (hard material, need to be washed and carried).
A sovereign citizen on HN!! Wow, I never thought I'd see the day.

If anyone is bored, please feel free to kill 30 minutes on https://www.reddit.com/r/Sovereigncitizen/
Why Stock Markets Crash by Didier Sornette is the book which most rigorously applies physics to economics that I have ever read.
I've never worked for a company that has ever had a Mac anything.
With APFS supporting proper snapshots, I don't think you need directory hard links any more.
Indeed, like any management strategy, it can be done poorly, inadvertently incentivizing people to form shadow organizations, or it can be done well, encouraging people to engage in good faith and reaping the promised benefits.

In practice, we get lumpy mix of good and bad implementations within organizations. It takes a lot, however, to overcome the near-term, personal-empire-building incentive. "This way is better for everyone" isn't going to cut it for a significant proportion of folks. If you bake it into the bones of your recruitment process and in your management training, there's a chance it'll be an authentic value of the org. And even then it's hard to shake the suspicion that this strategy only further rewards showhorses and marginalizes in-the-trenches doing-thankless-work types.

If you get an extraordinary manager, she can mitigate that, but your culture isn't robust if it relies on the extraordinary.
Man, the comments here are vicious. I like it, the fox tail is pretty recognizable. And the firefox logo looks likes it's protecting the purple core, it's a bit softer. Can't say they made some stupid decisions regarding pocket last few years, but with design system it feels more like they are competing with the likes of google and facebook then just being the l33th4xor browser that is used by someone starting sentences with "Actually, ".

Now the important questions, where can I get the stickers for my laptop.
What about the men? Is anyone married happy?
Huh. That's even stranger.

I mean, why would they switch from a primary source to a secondary source? I wonder if there's some sort of relationship between TechCrunch and Newsweek.