skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that’s just me. What concerns me is the tribalism of people. “OMG! You use THAT phone/computer/OS?!?! I would NEVER use that!” Then go on to explain why their buying choices are better than yours. Look at the replies here, they’re rife with it.

The thing about being able to install code without permission from a third party is that it's like herd immunity in vaccination - individuals or small groups doing it is not actually very useful in order to ward off harmful effects, it needs to be a widespread, mainstream possibility.

Repressive governments are perfectly fine with draconian restrictions and attacks on minorities using computing platforms if they can succeed in 80% of cases. That means they have a much smaller base to attack with targeted "enforcement". Only mass civil disobedience through installation of prohibit code actually works.

Many of the fundamental freedoms we cherish only exist because of mass permissionless code installation of the 90s to mid-2000.

I wish I could sit there and say you can use whatever you want, I really do. But I think your choices negatively impact me and the rest of society.
> If you optimize for the short term, you are, by definition, not optimizing for the long term. So, short term optimization necessitates long term de-optimization.

I don't think " short term optimization necessitates long term de-optimization" follows. They can be both optimal.

> Spend money now and have none for retirement (short term benefit), or save money now, and have it during retirement (long term benefit)?

Spend money now on something that increases your chances to get more money (easy example education?) and benefit now and at retirement.
It's possible. I don't care a CC attached to my Apple ID.
You're talking about different things here. The Australian "smart" gates mentioned by the previous poster are border control, and they work by validating a picture your face against the picture in your passport.

YMMV, but I actually find using the smart gates much less invasive than dealing with human immigration officers. The gates do exactly one thing and that's that, whereas with officials there's always an uncomfortable "guilty until proven innocent" feeling (where are you going? where are you coming from?) coupled with the knowledge that borders are largely civil rights free zones, even for citizens.
Linode just launched their instances in Newark on public beta.

https://www.linode.com/gpus

I'm not affiliated, just love their service!
I suspect OP is thinking where a phone may be taken out of your hands/sight and had paranoid things physically done to it - as in the article.
Why reverse engineer? The Windows code has been available via shared source license since nearly 20 years....
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> Not being able to install 0.1% of the apps I like is not giving up essential liberty.

Apple literally dictates acceptable expressions of sexuality to people.

How the hell is that not giving up an essential liberty?
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I had a eGPU box with a GTX 1060 for months, but was using it for Windows 10 and a zbook 15 notebook. Unfortunately there is no Mac support for NVIDIA but some users get it working themselves - never tried it as it looked a bit to cumbersome for my taste. On Windows 10 the setup worked great. Was able to play games like PUBG or Quake Champions with decent (Medium) settings at Full HD and a reasonable framerate (I believe usually 70-90 FPS).
But in the end I decided that I wanted to switch away from Apple and also sold my Laptop to buy a Desktop PC with more horsepower. My wife still has a rather new MacBook Pro, so if I want to fire up some Final Cut Pro or Garage bend I could still do it.
Was not sure if the whole setup of eGPU was worth it for me, it surely allowed me to play those titles which were not playable without the eGPU but I believe it would have been wiser to spent the money directly on a new PC.
But of course, with switching away from the Mac my case is a bit special.
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Also, the Windows code is under shared source license for nearly 20 years. Not really some sensitive secret thing or crown jewels that many want us to believe.
Break even? Are you generating digital tokens?
Tools like this can't be dumbed down, either. They need to expose hundreds of features, not because everyone uses every feature, but because everyone uses a different subset and finds them critical. Its really hard to make a tool like that really user friendly, its simply expert level software.
Corel draw is still used a lot in India and through SE Asia. As it offers an integrated vector/bitmap/desktop publishing package, it is seen as value for money.
An excellent book. David Deutsch is a talented writer and this is one of those books that shifts the way you look at the world.
I still excitedly point out squirrels everywhere I go, and I'm over 30...
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and...

i.e., Naturally occurring radiation
> But it probably isn't used in the YouTube apps and using it would require pushing an update.

It is used in the YouTube apps, for playing back Google Play film purchases and rentals inside YouTube. Google does not allow YouTube to be installed if the YouTube apps cannot call the requisite APIs.
Thanks for the personal attack lol. I watched and did not learn much, except that he’s a quite decent orator. I think what he describes is the process he uses to write his books.
I loaded TikTok to look at it to see if it could be useful to a some of our clients as an adjunct to twitter and Instagram and I found it creepy.

I suspect that both of our clients will not Be Using TikToc
If you are interested in this type of stuff The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson is an entertaining read that touches some of these topics circa 1650-1720 in Europe. More specifically the switch from bills of exchange to the foundation of some central banks on which currencies are based.
I know what you mean. I'm a confessing but as an adult I even had a hard time reading Narnia. I didn't want it to be a thin veneer or allegory but it can be read as such, but as a child I never made the connection. I mean, I understood it was about God and stuff, but I took it more at face value. Lewis even says in the preface it's not an allegory but I have a hunch he just preemptively defended against that accusation from his friend Tolkien, who apparently hated allegories. :-D

I have to re-read Hideous Strength too, I don't know what I'd make of it nowadays... I do remember I very much enjoyed the Arthurian legends come alive, it spooked me out.
The reality for accredited journalists attempting to visit Xinjiang is somewhat different to what's written down, or what a western backpacker on a tourist visa will be subjected to.

Hire a car+driver? Mysteriously cancelled at the last minute. Pressure on any translaters/fixers you may have. Drive somewhere that isn't the hotel? Find that there's an accident and you can't pass that way. Shops that close, constant tailing from security and police, general harassment, and nobody will talk to you because they believe they'll disappear.
Why not delete by default or after 30 days or something more user friendly...
I wonder how are they dealing with nvidia EULAs about using geforce series cards in datacenters.

Maybe that is the issue?
Really interesting blog article, thanks.
I think you forgot to mention maintenance/support and availability in the costs which are a huge part of MailChimp or any other mail provider.
In fact, that's why I'm paying those kinds of services.

What do you think about it?
Thanks
Will we be able to track all the water sources being drained by Nestlé and their way to plastic bottles and onto our shelves? Nice.
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My Walkman senses when the supply spool stops rotating, and then reverses.
Yes I asked if I could get a pat down instead of the backscatter x-ray at Heathrow. Was made to feel like a criminal, questioned etc and put under pressure. And then to be told I don't have to get scanned but I can't get on my flight unless I do. There wasn't even an opt out.
> WeChat doesn't have end-to-end encryption, while other apps have them

So by that reckoning any program supporting smtp is a "kind of malware"? Or http?

> Is WeChat actually required in China

Not for a typical westerner visiting Beijing, Shanghai etc. Most places will take cash or international credit cards. For immigrants, sure.

Xinjiang may well be different, but it's not on the typical western tourist/business track.
USB 2 High Speed support is still rare in microcontrollers. Most still only support Full Speed which is only 12 Mb/s.

(If anyone is looking for this btw the best option I found is Atmel's SAM ARM microcontrollers, e.g. as used in the Arduino Due.)
I would like to see those stats divided by total SLOC in all projects for each language. C might top the list simply because there's a lot of C projects in the dataset.
Henry Ford II really did Chrysler a favor by firing Lee Iacocca but also in firing Hal Sperlich who came up with the minivan concept while at Ford that Henry Ford did not like at all. Needless to say he was hired by Chrysler and given the green light to produce it on the K car platform that was the platform to save Chrysler

Now I cannot find backing for this story, I seem to recall at the introduction of one of the new models, perhaps the minivan, the door handle either did not work or detached.
Well, Purism's Librem laptops are way more expensive than a similarly spec Windows laptop.
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While it sounds like your measurements are more attuned to native speakers, I am not so sure that any high schooler could easily pass a C2 exam. Here is an example C2 practice exercise that doesn't seem all that far off from something you might see in the SAT: https://www.examenglish.com/cpe/cpe_reading_part1.htm
650ms Touch Bar Interaction
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Yeah I wonder why would they not voluntary delete all of that data?
They use older cards without the restrictions.
Bullies on the team are useful. And experienced managers and administrators know this. Managers protect people from bullies, when the value of the person to the team is greater than the value of the bully to the team. #FactOfLife

Look at the way society is handling Prime Bully Trump. He has written the text book for all other bullies to follow. And they happily will, taking a piss on whatever social norm or code of conduct, everyone else is obediently following. If he can climb to the top of the hill, they know they can too.

You don't want Bullies in an org, you have to be better than them and more useful than them. It's that simple.
That sounds reasonable (symbols inadvertently leaked). This would be a plausible explanation for at least some of the naming similarities.
1080s are much harder to buy now, perhaps its taking time to find and qualify 2080s
I though of something similar some ago: rather than loading whole pages of sites users don't visit themselves, share cookies for tracking sites so every now and then my google ad cookies get swapped with someone random, my facebook tracking cookies with someone else, etc. This would get around the "background visiting something you really don't want anyone thinking you deliberately accessed" because you only load what you would have loaded anyway, just with different tracking cookies each time.

Thinking it through though there are potentially massive problems, the first of which is that I can think of ways to circumvent it to a large extent with deeper fingerprinting, and if I can no doubt the ad servers could if they the system became popular enough for them to care. Other issues would include making sure useful cookies were not swapped out causing both security and usability issues for the participants.
Or even better, teach your children what isn't safe to eat so that when the fancy strikes them they don't eat poison. Regardless of whether or not it is in your yard, this can only benefit them.
~ 8.5x higher price than Hetzner.
They would need to register each iPhone as a developer device as well, right?
I feel this about F#. It's worth learning for the learning experience, but once you get it, it feels better to me to stick with C#, and that's mostly to do with working in a team and hiring as much as anything else.
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Why would that follow? He said "on cost", which I read as "comparing the costs of buying a video card and renting GPU time".
I disagree, I think social media and its associated viral communication is one of the best way to fight against an oppressive government.
I interpreted that as meaning you'd have to rent one for a year to break even buying the hardware.
Well, it looks like a supply/demand issue by Hetzner
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Is this just a way to outsource quality control. Making sure meta data was correct, accurate, etc.
So far only Android phones are reported as having the software installed on them by border guards. There are no reports of this being done to iPhones. Those are the facts.
Yes, they're at a much higher price point, but it's also way cheaper than AWS.

I certainly understand the draw of Hetzner's price point!
Colocation with ebay'd servers and graphics cards. Some people don't know there's somewhere in between building a datacentre and cloud servers.
From what I see, first news about that EULA change is from end of 2017, so far before current gen cards were introduced
Code versus Data
Apple Id signup without credit/debit card is still possible.
I don't have any card linked at the moment, and I help friends/family signup.
Google did the same a couple of months back[1].

Is there a reason these companies are actively against independent artists being able to upload the music directly?

[1](https://9to5google.com/2019/04/03/google-play-music-shutdown...)
probably just ignore it, they are unenforceable in the EU afaik (which is a good thing - if I buy a piece of hardware, I will do what I want with it).
such as having opinions ignored or being unfairly blamed, publicly humiliated or shouted at.

I have experienced 3 out of 4 of these and never considered it bullying. Arsehole / incompetent behavior from my superiors, yes, but not bullying.
> There are so few times when one should want to use a plain button in iOS anyway.

Almost every first-party app starts with a "Data & Privacy"/"What's New" dialog that uses a blue pill button, and almost every third-party app has a big fat "log in" button. Or look at Apple's redesigned Maps app. I don't know if I've ever worked on an app that didn't have its own ad-hoc button class.

> What's a tab bar supposed to do besides that?

Facebook, Instagram, Tweetbot etc. seem to have their own implementations because they want to hide the labels. Spotify has one to animate the icons when tapped. Audible has one to show the album art in the middle item. I'm going through my third-party apps right now, and only WhatsApp seems to use UITabBar as it was intended.

> the app can sometimes break when iOS has a major (or even minor) update

So did UITabBar earlier this year: https://stackoverflow.com/q/53084806

I nudge my clients towards stock UIKit components as much as possible, for all the reasons you mentioned, but I don't think UIKit is that much better than e.g. Flutter in the way that AppKit is many times better than Electron.
Too bad... That's one of the things I liked about Spotify

It gave opportunity for small artists to share their talent
If you do not mind being locked into AMD cards only I suppose it is a good solution. The eGPU solution was probably the only way to save face with Apple's fixation on slimness limiting their choice of onboard GPUs.

If you look at the situation Apple design locked themselves into, the inability to swap out components and for many models you cannot even upgrade the memory, has forced users to rely on external boxes for storage and graphics which pretty much brings back in worse form all those boxes Apple was "designing away".

I like my current Apple computer but I am discouraged from every buying another first for their support of manufacturing in China and for the fact that every time I hit some limit imposed by their fixation the sycophants chant "just use external" and I am back to square one.
> The room was packed with intellectuals, artists, donors, students, the president of West Virginia University and the dean of its law school.

Nary a coal miner, nor axeman to be found in this ivory tower meeting.
This reminds me of the "super chicken" story as described Margaret Heffernan:
https://youtu.be/Vyn_xLrtZaY

Bullies may seem super productive, but they will bring down the organizations productivity as a whole.
I know nothing about this but just did a little reading. It seems some direct nuclear to electricity methods are 90% efficient.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-convert-nuclear-ener...

PIDEC sounds like it works well with conventional IV gen reactors, achieving an extra 40% efficiency. ICC (a kind of DEC) seems suited to fusion and can exceed 90% efficiency.
Is a eGPU setup sufficient for running a Oculus Rift S?
This has always bothered me. To think that we can induce nuclear fission, but then can't actually use the generated energy without boiling water and using it to turn a turbine!
I've read somewhere (maybe in HN comments) that these kinds of clauses can not be enforced in EU. Hetzner operates out of Germany.
Liable? I hope so. And then they can pass the buck on.
The bigger picture is more than a government installing apps on your phone. The issue is someone other than you can install apps with unlimited access on your android phone.
Foreign government, your government, your employer, a work colleague, a competitor, your spouse ... the list goes on

The security and privacy on an iPhone is greater and comes at a flexibility factor.
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Their email is in their profile. I would think it is sensible to reach out to them directly or speak with your manager to get a second opinion.

Submitting a complaint to an internal review because “you’re not sure it’s allowed” is really petty.

In my opinion, and experience, folks who have good intentions usually pull you to the side to get a feel for a situation before filing a formal complaint.
New tech allows lasers to identify a person from a great distance, even from a drone, using a laser that can analyze a persons heart beat.

[1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/laser-identify-distance-heartb...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24111284

They're already gathering facial recognition biometrics, and I wouldn't be surprised if they've been doing gait analysis biometric identifiers (it's established tech). Adding heart rate would give them three separate identifiers that can be used to identify anyone in a crowd with practically complete confidence.
I guess they do miss
Intent probably has something to do with it. In my mind, bullying is "targeted" and persistent over time. Not sure if that is their definition as well.
Hetzner support is pretty bad

took them like 6 days to answer my ticket
Fyi... I later found an older article (2018) that said it was $5/month: https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/scroll-the-5-month-news-su...

Since Scroll's landing page today in 2019 does not prominently display "$5/month" anywhere, it signals to me that Scroll may have changed its mind about that $5 amount and has yet to commit to a publicized and transparent monthly price. With the "Request Invitation" button, are they collecting emails to gauge the level of interest to help them determine a price?

If Scroll is actually still charging $5/month, why not make that fact obvious on its website?

Google search doesn't show much written about Scroll by Tony Haile in 2019: https://www.google.com/search?q=scroll+haile+subscription+pr...

(To add more confusion, there's another unrelated website that charges $5/month with a similar name:
https://scroll.in/subscribe)
Only to be able to write a snarky comment about it, but yeah, I admit that proves her point.
I also tend to associate the term bullying with kids, and use mobbing for workplace bullying. Apparently wikipedia uses the two terms almost interchangeably.
Counterpoint: bullies are poisonous to teams. They drain morale, make people spend emotional energy resisting their bullying rather than working, and often shout down people with better ideas.
D is not a C replacement. It's more targeted at C++. Honestly, I prefer D to C++, but still prefer C to D. I would say the biggest turn off to C is generally it's very small STD library. While there are a lot C libraries that exist to achieve certain things it's not part of STD C. It's not part of the "out of box" experience.

It also depends on what your programing if you looking at system level stuff currently the two languages I would look at are C and Rust. Heck even for some system stuff your still required to use assembly.

Anything else choices are more flexible and productivity might matter more.

Honestly, despite C's flaws very few languages occupy it's niche and flexibility. Like you have to be doing something right to some degree to last almost 50 years. I would say a lot this comes down to C's simplicity yet still having a lot of power as a language.
Controversial opinion: I like Apple's security lockdown- and the whole Internet is still available, so I'm not quite that worried about not being able to install [app] because there's likely to be a web version, too. Keep in mind that using an Apple phone means that you are using a tool / machine / device that's much less likely to reveal its secrets. Isn't that worth something, too?
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This is a really good point. The lack of searchability of the collapsed text makes this pretty useless for comments. Please consider this when thinking of using it anywhere.
Just like C does for calling into main(), doing floating point emulation if CPU not available, calling library initializers (common C extension), handling VLA allocations.

Just because it is tiny does not make it inexistent.

Then there is the whole POSIX, which is kind of runtime that wasn't made part of ISO C, but follows it everywhere.
Thanks so much for this - I'm really a fan of condensed factual books. I think the book format necessitates undesirable verbosity (ahem), detail, anecdotes, side stories, padding etc.