skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A game of telephone takes place that distorts these stories by the time they get read by us. (Not to mention the memory distortions, my memory is probably not mch worse than anyone elses but I still notice myself misremembering things in favour of some narrative a lot)

Also, I can't speak for everyone, but I don't particulalry disagree with or think any of the things you list in your comment are fireable.
I wish there was some acknowledgement of the inevitable tension between readability and thoroughness. Sometimes it is actually more important to be thorough at the expense of readability.
Well, there are also pilots who haven’t died yet.
In all seriousness (but with less fun), a similar effect can be produced simply by asking them to be reciting the alphabet constantly, solving addition problems constantly being fed to them, etc. -- anything that is constantly distracting half their brain.

In fact, this is a similar technique some actors use to make sure they know their lines cold -- no matter how well they can recite them with full concentration, can they still recite them while playing an intense video game? Because things will be so different on stage/set, it will be equivalently distracting.
Someone on twitter made a comment along the lines of

"the reporter should have taken the tweets to Carson King and said 'hey I found these tweets you should delete them so they don't get in the way of your fundraising campaign'".

Would have been a pragmatic solution at the time.
> Yes, he did. There are other articles mentioned here that prove it.

Let's see them then.

I'm sure there are real testimonies of real people.
I still have a 1541 C-64 disk drive with modified hardware that let it copy anything back in the day. Ordered it mail order, just open up the drive and plug it in. I got boxes of 'backup' games, I wonder how many floppies could be salvagible after 30 years? 1541 copy protection was so bad, the knocking would knock the drives out of alignment occasionally, and you'd have to mail them out to get repaired.
I still remember geohot's miracle of his limera1n exploit, which was an unpatchable iBoot exploit on iPhone 4. And now we have its successor - axi0mX's ‏checkm8, still an iBoot exploit, still unpatchable. It seems to be another golden age for iOS jailbreaking has came!

Also, just like limera1n, it requires total physical control over the device to run the exploit. A complete, untethered jailbreak still requires additional kernel/userspace exploits, so I don't see it as a major security problem, but it does make the job of an evil maid a bit easier.

Just for nostalgia, here's the original release text of limera1n.

> limera1n, 6 months in the making

> iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch (3rd generation), iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch (4th generation)

> 4.0-4.1 and beyond+++

> limera1n is unpatchable

> untethered thanks to jailbreakme star comex

> brought to you by geohot

> hacktivates

> Mac coming in 7 years

> donations keep support alive

> zero pictures of my face
Same here. The fastest and the most feature packed.
"All decisions and cognition is unconscious"

I'm deeply troubled by the idea of an "unconscious". This is an idea created a century ago by Sigmund Freud; all modern psychotherapy schools seem to have inherited it, many psychologists (I mean experimental scientists) seem fine with the idea, and for the general public it's commonplace that we have "unconscious thoughts".

But how can you have an unconscious cognition? A cognition is an elementary moment of knowledge; how can such a thing be unconscious?

And how do people who treat consciousness as an emergent phenomenon deal with this "unconscious"? Is it an emergent phenomenon that is waiting to emerge? Seriously, I don't know, and I'd like to know.
Imagine having hard evidence against a criminal and that evidence can not be used as it would violate the criminals civil liberties and that same criminal has used this approach to destroy an entire neighborhood, and destroyed peoples livelihoods, well-being.... Maybe it's just a minority edge-case, and I'm just looking at it from personal experience edge-case - the flip-side. Sorry, I just wished I could elaborate, but I may end-up violating a heroin/crack dealers civil rights :cry:.
That's interesting.

He says: "I have no language-based thoughts at all."

And he creates that idea converting it into external language using various thought processes. Surely he's wrong about his own introspection (as so often we are as people); how could he spell a word of he can't fix any linguistic thoughts?

[fwiw, I fit into the middle of his range, I think in language sometimes, picture often, feeling, smell, imagery, and occasionally in a non-linguistic way that doesn't relate to any other senses (a sort of weird feeling of connectedness)]
They’re making money, now - they have no reason to license MacOS, and all the more reason not to.

Apple’s hardware/software combination is the reason a lot of us have stuck with them for so long. It’s quality control. No drivers to fuss with; just plug in and go.
It's sort of key when taking that approach to actually succeed in not requiring the retraining.
Yes. Let's calculate on the conservative side and say they would have spent about an average of $800 on hotel, food, local attractions, souvenirs, etc. That's about half a billion to the local economies. Not all of that is a loss for the 600,000 out right now, and some future vacationers might re-book, but plenty of them won't have the money to pay again or decide not to spend it, and simply wait until next year for their next vacation. I wouldn't be surprised if the losses went to a full billion or so.

I'm not sure what the long term costs of "moral hazard" would be, but I've also never bought it as the bogey man some make it out to be. I simply don't think that many executives would steer their company in a direction that is more likely to lead to insolvency just because it might get bailed out. Not when it also means they lose their job in disgrace along with a lot less in compensation than they would have made if the company stayed solvent.
Parsing complex untrusted data (USB packets) without a sandbox at the highest privilege level... What were they thinking?
How does it disregard Occam's Razor?

To me it's more mystical to invoke an outside, actual material reality existing, separate from our observer perspective. How can it not be the same?
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21091219
That's interesting, thanks. The new 'vopt' mode in Modelsim forces you to do the same annotation thing, perhaps they are moving towards a Verilator style approach. Sadly vopt mode doesn't work for some of our designs and actually makes others slower so we have avoided adopting it (and are now stranded on an old version of the tool).
A company I was at for nearly a decade did just this, a few times... kind of. We never fully transitioned to the SaaS versions of whatever software we were building for customers, and ended up with a "base" software that we would then just tweak to the customers spec.

It wasn't a bad model by any means, and we ended up turning what had been 3-4 month projects into 1 week, and charging the same amount.

One product was an emergency communications platform for city government, another was a CMS/CRM/Website Builder for RV dealers, another was a blogging/sales platform for interior designers. We had a half dozen base products that we sold to hundreds of clients for a few thousand a piece.

We had enough individual customers in each of these spaces to build all these semi-custom solutions based on shared codebases, but we could never find enough customers paying a LOT less per month to afford spending time on the SaaS versions.

We were a tiny team of only 3 though, if we had some venture capital maybe things would have turned out differently.

We eventually moved out of doing "custom" software though, and into consulting on SEO and Brand Reputation, then finally into launching our in-house software as SaaS offerings, growing our service business from around $200k ARR to between $30k and $90k MRR.

You can read some of that journey in the second half of a blog post I wrote a while back[1].

1: https://jeremyaboyd.micro.blog/2016/11/05/my-first-product.h...
Yesterday another messenger was in news for going out of business due to blockchain adventures. I just recently stopped using WhatsApp (because FB is evil) and using telegram for comms. I really hope they dont go out of business as well.
oh fuck off

dang please fucking ban me this techbro shit is getting to me
Please be specific about the stories. What exactly were you told?
I'm confused. The github only refers to the iPhone 3GS. Further, might this be a vector for anybody with physical access to gain access to your encrypted data?
> You can hook up GPUs to it with the thunderbolt ports

Thunderbolt GPU cases are hundreds of dollars.

For a dual GPU Mac Mini setup (which would be a mass of cables and require 3 outlet plugs) you could afford a 3 GPU Windows tower.

As someone who used to be a pretty extreme Mac evangelist I really did look into all this before I made the switch to a Windows machine.
Next let’s do Ben Penn: https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/ben-penns-bad-faith-h...
Whenever tolerance is used as a scapegoat for intolerant behavior, it’s always important to consider the Paradox of Tolerance: "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I was going to mention the G+ usage.

I really disliked this for numerous reasons:

- It was an overloading of the +1 button. Now a "like" was also a "here's my plus-one, repost me, maybe?".

- The behaviour wasn't obvious to the upvoting (and re-posting) user.

- People will and do upvote stuff they'd never re-post.

- It was seriously annoying.

I would suggest people disable the feature, if I noted it, or I'd unfollow them. There was no way to restrict such reposts from my own stream, other than (as I eventually discovered) avoiding the home stream entirely and viewing entirely by Circles. I had a set of higher and lower-priority Circles I'd follow, which actually helped cull most of the crud.

I strongly suspect the design decision was based on the fact that very few people actually post or repost material. They read on a consume-only mode, if at all. Google Plus's active user base was a small fraction of 1% of all profiles, and even within that set there was a phenomenal range of activity. The effect being that most of the platform was dead air.

My read is that while the extent of this may have been more so at G+ than with other leading social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.), the general principles aren't. Power laws and Zipf functions are extraordinarily prevasive, and show up virtually everywhere. The problem is that there's a very narrow band of presence between "shut the heck up already" and "I thought you were dead". In the real world, distance and/or proximity mediate this. Online, where everyone is (very nearly) as digitally close to everyone, we need other means of damping the overexuberant and enticing the timid.

The "areas of interest" concept finally, sort of, got fleshed out at G+ by way of Collections, though even that was pretty butchered. Topic/channel discussions (as with Reddit / Usenet) still seem hard to beat.
Apple’s warranty service is terrible compared to the alternatives like Dell. A couple years ago I had a failed key on a laptop with a service warranty. Dell had a tech in my living room with the repair parts in less than 24 hours.

Apple could not possibly do that today. Maybe you don’t need it, but if you care about warranty service Apple is not the answer
Not to mention travel is almost definitely cheaper than rent in San Francisco.

The real trick is not keeping your apartment while you go travel for a long time.
What form did this harassament take?
Python's kwargs are still optional in the sense that I care about. Same goes for many other kwarg-supporting languages.

The strategy you propose can only force other people to use kwargs when calling functions you write. When you're reading code, there is no guarantee that arguments to functions you didn't write will be labeled, and indeed they often aren't, even when they ought to be. In ObjC, all arguments are labeled, always. It's heavily opinionated, and the experience is qualitatively different as a result.
I've observed the same thing in the EdTech space (e.g. ClassDojo, Google Classroom), and I think a big part of that is being self-serve forces the company to build _actually good_ software, not just software that sells well to the district, state, etc.

What's required to sell software to large buyers is very different from what's required to make the product useful, but in the long-run, it's the utility of the product that makes it valuable to end-users, and the success of the end-users _eventually_ determines how the buyers make decisions. Self-serve software tends to prioritize the things that will make it easy to sell and improve in the future.
Which protocol is that? It doesn't describe any current cryptocurrencies to the best of my knowledge.
The whole piece is fluff. It focuses on one or two minor, anecdotal observations regarding aspects of ideas about consciousness. The fact alone that in split-brain patients consciousness is often not preserved in the left hemisphere undermines all speculation involving cytological similarities between species.
My biggest concern with Gatsby is the build time. Drupal is not exactly known for being fast, and as I understand it, Gatsby asks for the entire site's worth of content for every build, right? How has that worked out for you?

I have Drupal sites with dozens of entity types and tens of thousands of nodes. I feel like Gatsby would have us waiting for an hour-long build every time we want to post a new node.
ZFS v0.8.2
The fourth result is the Unabomber.

Otherwise, good list.
How to Build Confidence Through Consulting
A great way to increase working memory is dual n-back tasks. I personally do dual n-back every day while using a tdcs device and have noticed a significant increase in working memory and many cognitive tasks (mental math, symbolic math, and programming).
Robert Sheckley has a short story called The Minimum Man, which is about precisely this. An unlucky, clumsy, error-prone schlub who gets hired by basically-NASA for testing purposes.

Turns out, when he's placed in a life-or-death situation, he finds some focus and skill, and is no longer the minimum man. So they have some ways to counter that tendency....
I wonder how many of those commenters didn't even read TFA before commenting.
Completely agree. I want old school dials with needles on a regular dash and zero screens anywhere in my car. I just want the propulsion of the car to be decoupled from burning fossil fuels. All the other dumb tech can go.

The fact that part of this update puts Netflix and Hulu in a car is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard.

Car companies figured out instrumentation a while ago, it’s not something that needed to be ‘disrupted’.

Most of the dumb stuff seems to come from designing a car that isn’t meant to be driven. @ Folks who don't want to drive your cars, the solution exists, it’s called public transit, and the reason it sucks is because of cars.
Can you legally operate a motor vehicle while drunk on private property? People have gotten DUIs for being drunk and asleep with the car in their driveways.

I don't think it has to do with calling out bullshit. Though likely some laws are about operating a motor vehicle in general and others are around operation in a roadway.
> so I imagine they've probably fixed that in the newer keyboard designs

It's not they're all in the replacement program and the mechanism condom they added to the 2018 still has holes dust can get through unfortunately.
> Tech companies: We're going to prove that capitalism and impact aren't incompatible ideas! We even formed a B-Corporation, it has a different letter so you know we are serious!

Instead of snarky insults, can you suggest some changes you'd make to the B Corporation requirements? Anyone who jumps through B Corp certification (https://bcorporation.net/certification/meet-the-requirements) has at least good intentions and willingness to spend time and money on them.

So, give them some constructive suggestions. If someone reading this thread wants to consider and disclose the company's impact on society, employees, and other non-shareholder stakeholders, what would you tell them to do?
I think it's something about developers who only use React that think React is extremely unique. I hear stuff like this all the time, "How do you use redux with Angular" like redux couldn't possible apply to anything else. Pretty much all the frameworks provide a component based architecture, this isn't a unique thing to react. You choose react for it being extremely popular, JSX, relatively small footprint (unless you start using it as a framework).
Self-serve is a specific form of automation. The problem is that introducing automation after the fact is almost impossible in this case, because the sales org you'd automate away tends to become far too powerful to ever allow that to happen. Postponing the sales automation adds a very hard cultural problem you the technological one you already had.

By the way, I would not call "do things that do not scale" a mantra, rather the opposite: "don't scale too early, but be dead sure that you can when you need to".
If you don't get to vote for the people who control the money supply, it's not a democracy or a republic or anything of the sort.

"He who controls the money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the money supply" Rothschild

Never let a for-profit entity control the money supply. Last time we tried it, serious suffering was the result https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Apple didn’t say those things - like you said, bloggers, critics, people whose interest is in making you read about Apple and continue clicking on articles, they made up all these different reasons why Apple would or wouldn’t make a tower.

I don’t really think Apple cares about that drama. I think they know they have customers who will pay the premium. I think the machine is squarely aimed at businesses making the purchase, not consumers.

Is it really a problem that the Mac Pro is only for ultra high end users? Apple hasn’t made a mid-range consumer tower in over a decade now. If you walk into Best Buy how many towers you think they’re selling compared to laptops?

That’s the market Apple sells in, not the low-margin custom built PC parts market.

Apple doesn’t cover every use case of the personal computer. They are just one OEM. Unfortunately if you like macOS they are the only OEM.

As far as the mid-range video market that you talk about, what about the iMac Pro (has ECC memory) or a high spec iMac is insufficient for that task? Sure, it’s not as nice as your dual 1080Ti setup, but also, NVidia isn’t actually a viable option for Apple anymore thanks to their disastrous support for the platform in the past. If you made a Hackintosh system with NVidia you’d still be SOL. You aren’t getting CUDA on Mac no matter what hardware configuration Apple comes out with. Is Metal supposed to cover that use case and compete with CUDA?
> What about a protocol regulated by mathematics and well-designed economic game theory...

Well, THAT protocol is turning out to be a vehicle for investment thrill-rides, where extreme volatility seems to be the central, most defining characteristic. I mean, if you put a bitcoin in your pocket, you have no idea what it will be worth when you pull it out of your pocket.

Currency should be a medium for exchanging goods and services. It should be boring and reliable.
Pretty much as you can see. A lot of people want it. It's not done yet.

Obviously Svelte is a JS to JS transformative compiler - you need to make a TS to JS transformative compiler.

I'm hacking on my next app using TypeScript on the backend (particularly around the data layer) and JS/Svelte on the frontend. I would like TS on Svelte, but the rest of Svelte is compelling enough I'd still use it over older tech like React.
... perhaps it's time to learn some BSD?
That one was even more egregious, in my opinion.
Less than you might think. Mean is easier to calculate and tends to be close enough, but when there are are significant outliers people tend to revert to the median.

Life expectancy for example is calculated via median. Median income is generally used over average etc.
I first learned this word (and many others) from EverQuest, back in the day.
This problem would be resolved if type certifications expired.

Eg. A newly certified plane type can be produced for 15 years before requiring recertification to new standards.

In effect, this forces Boeing to come up with new designs, since the chances of old designs meeting new standards are low. It'll give them a big incentive to find ways to get the cost of certifications down.

Up to them if they choose to evolve the plane with the standards, or do a ground-up redesign every 15 years.
Github has the code for checkm8: https://github.com/axi0mX/ipwndfu/blob/master/checkm8.py

The readme hasn't been updated to reflect the exploit yet.
That's strange–I wonder why unpublishing didn't work for you. I have seen several apps be taken off the store by various companies but remain on my list of Purchased apps on the App Store. I can still download the apps but not see the entry on the App Store when I tap on the app's name for details.
I think trying to think of pilots as being good or bad on some abstract scale is almost certainly an oversimplification.

The reality is probably more like for developers, some of the best developers in terms of achievements are not people you'd want to work with on a daily basis. In the same way that an F1 driver wouldn't necessarily be the world's best bus driver.
> me of the women who accused Assange

There's a huge difference though.

Assange after he was accused of rape escaped from the process and started rambling about a “radical feminist conspiracy”

Stallman is not accused of anything, never escaped and if you write to him (he still answer to everybody) will ask you to support the FSF because it's important

And this is the man women and students should be afraid of...
Haha this brings back memories.

It was an absolute mess 3 years ago when I did it - an hour on hold only to find out you’d been given the wrong information, “you have to sign the downloaded form and fax the form, no email” that kind of thing.

It confirmed to me that I’d never Business Bank with them again.
This is IMO the fundamental problem with the Internet (particularly today, Twitter and Facebook): it doesn't forget. One of humanity's greatest strengths is that we forget. We forget slights made against us, we forget things we and others have said, and we move on with our lives. Otherwise it would be very difficult to live with each other.

We even have proof of this. Some people have perfect memories and never forget anything, and while some learn how to live with it, for others it is absolute hell. Social media has broken that contract for everyone, and we still haven't figured out that storing and indexing everything indefinitely is actually one of the worst decision tech companies have made.
I very much hope this gives me something i can ram boot and ssh into the filesystem of a non booting phone.

Should also allow near universal downgrading.
As much as I wish this were true, as long as revenue and engagement are closely linked I seriously doubt it.
There are millions of more pressing injustices going on right now. The people attacking him didn’t do anything wrong either so who cares at all?
You only do that if you care more about helping children than you care about clicks.
Indeed, but that might just be them thinking suicide (or threats of suicide) shouldn't be joked about.

People really should find and pass around a link to a full writeup of that event rather than relaying rumours.