skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article gets close to the heart of flat-earthism, bad sadly doesn't quite take the plunge over the edge. The origin of flat-eartherism is people like this author, and his wife's need to convince others that they are wrong in their beliefs and get them in line with the correct beliefs. It's hard to remember at this point, but think back to about 15 years ago, the idea of a flat-earth was held up as the shining example of how clueless people in the past used to be and how far we've come. That story was fake by the way, people have known the earth was round since ancient Greece, in fact they even had a pretty accurate measure of the earth's circumference. In between there were surely less knowledgeable groups of people, but it's hard to find any concrete cases of large scale belief that the earth was flat, rather than people not really understanding what was meant by "the earth" on a planetary scale, vs. their local perception of the earth around them which did indeed appear to be fairly flat. Except for today of course, where each passing year we hit a new watermark of belief in a flat-earth. How did we get here? Like I said, articles like this give you a good insight into that path, when you're constantly barraged with articles whose entire point is to define a group of people and call them dumb it repels people, and some small number of people get caught up in that repelling force, they start to wonder if maybe this barrage of meanness is actually hiding some deeper truth. Over time these people form into their own group and settle into a symbiotic relationship with the first group. As the group gains steam there's more and more evidence that people are dumb, and need to be called out as such, giving the author of this article and others more ammo, which in turn repels more people into joining the group. And around, and around they go, where it stops I have no idea.

Edit: I should add, this article is among the most civil and charitable articles of its type. I don't mean to pick on this author in particular.
Kilohertz frame-rate two-photon tomography
"Paris in the fall, the last months of the year, at the end of the millenium. The city holds many memories for me, of music, of cafes, of love, and of death."
AAPL is still undervalued compared to stocks like AMZN. Apple's P/E of 17 is amazing compared to Amazons 78. I'm not really sure why their stock isn't traded with the same enthusiasm that other tech companies see.
I think the idea is that encryption doesn't prevent all eavesdropping (since the client could be hacked) but it makes it difficult to do at scale.
This meeting was about targeted spying and not bulk collection.
You act as if there is a difference. It’s not like Apple pushes the entire OS down for a minor update. Either way it’s a delta.

But that “pretty small portion” doesn’t matter if you can’t patch it.
Newspapers don't know how to sell properly and it's the users' fault for not buying?
That's polite! I would say that I doubt nearly everything that's come out of that lab…
> somebody who understands things and is capable of understanding new ones when they arise.

Some of us won't let go of the crazy dream that things should be simpler. I want this not because I'm lazy or because I don't understand them but because - dammit - things should be simpler.
Automated patching of vulnerable binaries [pdf]
About the Precambrian life, the author should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran_biota

About the combinatorial number of 150 amino acid proteins, I think the calculation don't make sense. Nobody expect to get a 100% functional 150 amino acid protein by chance. In particular I don't like:

> He estimated that, of all 150-link amino acid sequences, 1 in 1074 will be capable of folding into a stable protein.

Is there a link for that calculation? Most random "proteins" fold as some kind of unuseful crap. But IIRC it's stable unuseful crap. Perhaps it's not soluble, perhaps it's not active as a enzyme, but it will not self destroy or something.

And there are smaller and bigger proteins. Probably the first proteins were only a few amono acid long, and not very effective, and then they evolved into more long and efective versions. See for example

From https://www.science20.com/princerain/blog/whats_biggest_and_...

> The smallest human protein is 44 amino acids but it could be an abortive translation from the 5' UTR of another mRNA. The smallest functional polypeptide is glutathione with only three amino acids.

(more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutathione )

From https://www.science20.com/princerain/blog/smallest_protein

> Apparently it's TRP-Cage, a protein with only 20 amino acids derived from the saliva of Gila monsters.

(more info https://www.anaspec.com/products/product.asp?id=59018 )

One family of proteins that has a clear history of evolving between species is the hemoglobin-like proteins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globin
Related tangent: I can't say enough good things about [lnav](https://lnav.org). It's like a mini-ETL powertool at your fingertips, w/ an embedded SQLite db and a terrific API. As of mid-2016 when I first used it, querying logs was extremely easy, and reasonably fast (w/ up to several million rows). Highest recommendation.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation w/ the project or its maintainer -- but out of gratitude I mention it pretty much every time it's appropriate.
Synthetically scalable poly(ampholyte) enhances cellular cryopreservation
The Apple II. The original Mac. The iPod. The iPhone. Just to name the heavy hitters.
While your question isn't wrong, how is that fundamentally different from how things were before? How can news be free if it relies upon paying readership for its sustained production?
No, I'm not suggesting they're the same thing. But size alone is not innovation, in swimming pools or iPads. There just isn't enough distinction to say that the iPad is innovative compared to the iPhone. Internally, in fact, the iPad came before the iPhone, and inspired it.
It's #女主播直播出bug秒变大妈脸# [1]. 12 syllables. I can get an English translation down to the same syllable count: #StreamingBugTurnsVloggerGirlIntoOldWoman It obviously still takes up more horizontal space; to fix that you'd need to use a font that squeezes about 3 Latin letters into the same space as one Chinese character. However, the gap in information density isn't actually that large, because Chinese usually requires slightly larger fonts to achieve the same legibility.

It's maybe also interesting to note that hashtags are delimited by # on both ends, because there are no spaces between words you could use to find the end.

[1] https://m.weibo.cn/search?containerid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D1...
Buttsss – A collection of beautiful round butt illustrations
Hong Kong police likened to thugs after Yuen Long violence
Eh, there's a difference between "bad user experience" and "optimizing for the long term pro user at the expense of initial learning curve", I believe Blender falls into the latter category.
I have seen first hand that some algorithms can be quite sophisticated and even having the source code (without documentation) isn't nearly enough when the binaries that support the mathematics only run on an archaic piece of hardware.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm in the midst of a big and culturally/politically challenging engineering project and eager to learn... so much so that I signed up for a library card and checked out the ebook from the LA Public Library!
Doesn't Google pay Apple ~10 billion$ for TAC nowadays? I am hoping someone with time will lookup the increase in Google's spend and Apple's revenue.
>The problem is that there is nothing wrong with being wrong

This says more about you though (in a good way). To many people who lack that kind of intellectual maturity, there is something wrong with being wrong. It's the saw someone can use to cut the rungs off of your ladder as you climb the social hierarchy. Someone can always rub your mistakes in your face, and groups of people will view you as less capable because of it. Look at politics...it's a big reason why politicians are so vague; being wrong is a nail in your coffin. Many politicians are not unintelligent people, but they know how being wrong impacts the public's perception of your competency.
And they only just stopped supporting 2009 imacs.
Reducing from the 10% because of broken keyboards etc. is still not OK. I bet wallstreet would react if Apple lost 5% of revenue.

Alternatively, maybe Macs would increase from 10% to 15% if the product wasn't broken and over-priced. Maybe it would be 20% or 25% if Apple could cross-sell/convert those iPhone sales to Mac sales.
Yeah, I don’t like how the term “men’s rights advocate” is thrown around. Maybe some groups that use that term are crazy or something but men deserve rights and advocates for those rights. Men are often treated as second class citizens. People laughing at that is senseless.
>> Torpedoes are not that much faster than their targets.

200knots speed, 6-9 miles range:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval
“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”
Do you think they would ever monetize iMessage? Imagine making iMessage cross platform, but only available to paying iCloud Subscribers. So I could pay $10 / month for upgraded iCloud storage and get iMessage on my Android phone. I'd pay for that.
Yes, this!
"Be happy first", per
"The Happiness Equation" by Paschra.
No such thing as "employee happiness" in Big Healthcare. It's time Big Healthcare got broken up.
I would think a company with the resources Apple has would be willing to invest more in loss leaders that keep users fully in the Apple ecosystem, or in products which may contribute in small ways to their bottom line, like Macs. They can afford to make their primary metric market share, rather than profit.

iOS can't replace Mac OS (yet) for serious work. So instead of letting Macs atrophy, they should invest in making Macs the best possible desktop and laptop computers for serious work. Own whatever amount of that market they can. Keep those users in the Apple ecosystem.
They are basically telling us "You can't escape our future"
One of the difficulties is that the broader scope your optimiser has to push towards a solution, the better your measurements need to be. And having an accurate measure of which thing is "better" can be prohibitively expensive.

The costs of errors varies drastically in different domains and for different use cases, so something important is understanding how and why different models typically fail and making tradeoffs there.
How will Docker and Gitlab become self sustaining when other companies like ElasticCo, Mongo, etc couldn’t?
How will people know it's not done in bulk? The only thing that the public sees is the client binary. A client binary with a backdoor looks the same whether the backdoor is used one time in a million or thousand times, or a million times. The companies might publish reports on how often they got asked to access the backdoor but they might be compelled to lie or even be hacked and not notice it, or they might even use the backdoor themselves to extract more revenue.

When surveillance is being rolled out, it's always just about a few single cases here and there. And then gradually, silently, the number increases.
I'm not saying Apple isn't successful. In fact, that's my point: they're clearly releasing solid products. But they aren't the category-killers that the company's reputation for innovation is built on. There have been rumors of new innovations (reinventing TV, an Apple Car, augmented reality) but none have materialized.

Regardless of whether you agree they haven't been innovating, my question stands: if they stop innovating, but remain financially successful, will they still be Apple?
That's not an escape key. Please don't apologize for this.

I use vim and switch between a butterfly/touchbar Mac (work machine) and a Thinkpad (personal machine). Using the Mac keyboard has actually negatively impacted my typing speed when I use other systems! I remapped my vim keybindings, and now my muscle memory has atrophied.

This dumb machine has actually made me a worse typist. I am so frustrated.
Looks like a perfect ship for peacekeeping operations: you can't start a war with a carrier that can't launch/land jet fighters or bring bombs from the storage facility below the deck.Perfect.
As always, this boils down to three main things that have been valid since day one of the humanity: stupidity, corruption and negligence.
I seem to be the winner of the oldest-computer-still-in-everyday-use competition here. I have programmable TV-remote based on RCA COSMAC from 1976.
This is also the same Oklahoma Republican who took a snowball onto the senate floor to prove global warming wasn't happening.
I was purposefully leaving Macs out. My 2006 era Core Duo Mac Mini stopped being supported in 2008 (?). I was able to install Windows 7 on it, give it to my mom and it will still be supported until 2020 by Microsoft...
+1

But if the only scapegoats are lower down in the chain then the result will be devastating to morale.

The SecNavy has to fire one or more admirals here, and soon.
None of MRAs, TERFs, or Incels should be listed there. They don't hold beliefs about nature that can be judged as wrong. They just want things. But the author is apparently too entrenched in his political camp to see the difference between "enemy" and "wrong".
> new home secretary, Priti Patel

Third world countries have third world laws.
They don't need backdoors for targeted spying - they can plant hardware bugs or hidden cameras to watch the target type in messages and passwords. So the only reason they'd want them is to use them on scales where targeted spying is infeasible.
The problem with requiring an account to view content is doing so removes your content entirely from Google, and probably from most social media snippet generators.

Google will only include your content in their search results if the user can see your content. The "metered paywall" trick is a loophole to get around that.

If you put all your content behind a paywall, you're siloing yourself off from the entire rest of the internet, at least as far as discoverability goes.
But in both cases, the overwhelming majority of people that get them have iPhones, because there is additional and important functionality that comes with the connection.
As someone who used to live in Lubbock, TX, revealing yourself as being a member of the LGBTQ+ community could lead to anything from shunning (job, church, school, "friends") to verbal/sexual harassment to direct physical violence.

I'll concede anecdotes are not data, so believe me as much as you want.

However, as a very shallow representation, google: lubbock lgbtq hate crimes

I haven't been there in years, but as of the beginning of this year, out of the maybe 2 dozen folks at possible risk that I know from my time there, only one has stayed, and that's mainly due to her wife's extended family living there and property she can't sell for what she wants.
Interesting. I like this a lot.

All Code implements a process. If the requirements for that process change (due to shifting regulation, for example), the process is a liability until it adapts to those requirements, at which point it can again become an asset.

If a process has no artifacts for implementing it, it can’t be a liability.

That’s why we see so many companies offering regulatory compliance as a service, in the healthcare space for example (AHIP, NIPR). Because if every insurer had to write code that integrated with regulation, they would be writing a lot liability. Using a vendor allows them to offset that liability to a third party, whose whole purpose in existence is to maintain a nice liability:asset ratio.

Perhaps we’ve found a utility for my theory, in contributing to the build vs buy discussion :)
I believe some of this is the slow-burning unintended consequence that political leaders are responsible for.

We've been at "war" for decades burning military dollars on a "cause" that very few Americans believe in, care about, or even understand. You can only wave the flags and shout about patriotism for so long before people stop giving a shit. It obviously becomes very hard for an organization to attract talent when said talent doesn't care about or believe in what the organization is doing.

The military got the best and brightest during WWII because the US was fighting Nazis (oh, sorry, "alt-right European Nationalists") and a foreign enemy who had attacked us on our own soil. For Vietnam, they had to draft because few believed in the cause and what they got where those too powerless to escape the draft (cough, cough, bone spurs). And for... whatever the fuck it is we've been doing in the Middle East since 9/11, the military doesn't even have a draft to potentially snare some better people.

When you have an all-volunteer military in an endless war for no clear purpose, the end result is many people who have nothing better going for them. Should we really be surprised the military is a clusterfuck? If you were competent, why would you want to squander your talents helping the US kill random brown people for no good reason?
Sometimes you just don't have ability to help. You are only observer and fail makes you happy, because you predicted it and you tried to stop it. But no one was listening.
The TV is a low margin, bulky product with a very long replacement cycle. Nothing about that market is desirable.

Besides, people are spending less screen time on televisions every year and more on portable devices.
That gives pretty much the same range as the '8 nm or less' estimate in the blog.
Does anyone know how to file a bug report for iMessages? I have a slew of bugs I'd like to report from my day to day usage.
And, with the military, it doesn't even have a cause people believe in.
All I see is a filtered woman on the left and a different unfiltered woman on the right, the whole time. At what time does the glitch occur?
For those not aware of the background, the author is a wizard from a secretive underground society of wizards known as the Familia Toledo; he and his family (it is a family) have been designing and building their own computers (and ancillary equipment like reflow ovens) and writing their own operating systems and web browsers for some 40 years now. Unfortunately, they live on the outskirts of Mexico City, not Sunnyvale or Boston, so the public accounts of their achievements have been mostly written by vulgar journalists without even rudimentary knowledge of programming or electronics.

And they have maintained their achievements mostly private, perhaps because whenever they've talked about their details publicly, the commentary has mostly been of the form "This isn't possible" and "This is obviously a fraud" from the sorts of ignorant people who make a living installing virus scanners and pirate copies of Windows and thus imagine themselves to be computer experts. (All of this happened entirely in Spanish, except I think for a small amount which happened in Zapotec, which I don't speak; the family counts the authorship of a Zapotec dictionary among their public achievements.) In particular, they've never published the source or even binary code of their operating systems and web browsers, as far as I know.

This changed a few years back when Óscar Toledo G., the son of the founder (Óscar Toledo E.), won the IOCCC with his Nanochess program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod... and four more times as well. His obvious achievements put to rest — at least for me — the uncertainty about whether they were underground genius hackers or merely running some kind of con job. Clearly Óscar Toledo G. is a hacker of the first rank, and we can take his word about the abilities of the rest of his family, even if they do not want to publish their code for public criticism.

I look forward to grokking BootOS in fullness and learning the brilliant tricks contained within! Getting a full CLI and minimalist filesystem into a 512-byte floppy-disk boot sector is no small achievement.

It's unfortunate that, unlike the IOCCC entries, BootOS is not open source.
Critical 'Update Now' Warning Issued for VxWorks OS Inside 2B IoT Devices
The pretext of the meeting (and others like it) notwithstanding, it's not unfair to say that strong encryption renders communication to a state closer to the pre-digital era in terms of the amount of work required to perform individual surveillance. I think that was the point deogeo was making, and it seems like a sound one to me.
Business success and employee happiness are better linked.
People, through their actions, have proven they want free and easy sensationalism. Not in-depth investigative reporting. You can't really just sell into that.
Budget Android phones like that might last 1/5th as long as an iPhone though, in terms of security updates.
Not to mention the USS Stark where the aluminum superstructure caught fire after being hit by a dud Exocet.
I'm not saying you've ever labelled yourself as a leaker, but the person I was replying to definitely tried to label your work as "leaks". I don't think companies really care that you discover their features ahead of launch — if they did they would change the way feature flags work.
True. But the iPod and iPhone were functionally very distinct from the Mac. The Apple Watch seems more like a convenient extension that eliminates the need to pull your phone out, but not much more than that, at least in its first few years of existence. Apple is clearly gearing it up to replace the iPhone, but that trajectory has been evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The "Mens rights advocates" reffered to here are a specific subset of activist for "mens rights". These people often focus more on putting down women than trying advance men and women in unison.

That's not to say that a social progressive movement focusing on men and their plights is at odds with the modern feminist movement. Just look at the subreddit /r/menslib for information on that.
1. It looks cool.
2. Minority report, no. Gits, yes.
3. Everybody. Probably nobody.
4. Probably to multi-task. Multiple screens that sort of thing. VR gaming had the same problem in the beginning. Wasn't until games like adrift and beat sabre showed up that it started to finally hit a stride. Or at least a compelling use case (Good VR games to play.).
5. See 1.
Unless I am misunderstanding your wants you can already do that. Leave the camera's main control dial on Auto for the instant shot or P(rogram)...with appropriate auto ISO settings if so desired...to meet the requirements of your second sentence. When you power on you will be in the chosen mode. Some cameras/lenses do allow AF override but its a simple flick of a switch to turn MF on if not. This stuff is where buttons, switches, and dials outshine menus any day.
But the 1MB limit for address space was the hard constraint. 640kb was not a number invented out of the blue by some MS designer. It could have been 800kb or 900kb, would that make a difference?

Also, 8086 and 8088 had no MMU afaik.
Step on the gas? They never stop moving! By constantly moving, the airplanes have 30 knots less to accelerate to reach flight speed and 30 knots less to deaccelerate when landing. They're also nuclear powered so it's not like that extra energy actually costs you much.
Is there any reason it isn't called mapFlat? FlatMap indicates to me that there's a flattening, then a mapping, not the other way around.
Every war since the Industrial Age began is a loss for the world in terms of cost. Spending money to make things that blow up other things you spent money to make, often with people inside, is a clear net negative for humanity.

The goal of war today is never to "win" in some sense that we should be happy of. It's just to have less massive destruction than the other guy.
The Echo.