skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you running X-Plane 11 with some terrain mods or something? I'm clicking through some Youtube videos of it and the terrain in X-Plane isn't even close to what's in this MSFS video.
I'm glad we agree.
Norway's largest pension fund KLP exits oil sands companies
>Big Bill, the largest hog ever recorded at 2,552 lb (1,157 kg), was a Poland China. Poland Chinas rank highest in U.S. pork production in pounds of hog per sow per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_China

However, "Poland China" has nothing to do with China, and it is a US breed originating in Ohio.

Hogs grow quite large. Due to the shortage and the rising prices, farmers are letting their hogs grow larger, rather than marketing them at the usual weights. The meat may be a little fattier and not as tender in the older animal, although Chinese cusine may not care about that. But it's not like they are genetically engineering giant mutant pigs.
Thanks, this makes more sense than any other explanation I've heard for why they didn't use the Netflix prize model in production.
It would be a better exercise to define a sovereign state first and then independently apply the test to Taiwan and IS. History is full of unpleasant governments.
While I don't know enough about this stuff to answer your main question, I will point out that there are some popular curves which aren't tied to any one nation or agency.

Ed25519 specifically has major contributions from 5 different people from multiple nationalities.

It's not quite the decentralized ideal you talk about, but it's somewhat close!

https://ed25519.cr.yp.to/
Aren't there a lot of natural leaks?

I wouldn't be surprised if man-made leaks are dwarfed by natural ones

Volcanos and forest fires, "natural" gas leaks and more.
They have film permits, of course.
The only problem with this is that there are thousands of business-critical applications that are designed for the Windows NT kernel... Many of them have deep integrations with the operating system.

Just think of all the Steam games that are only available on Windows!
Things make a lot more sense if you think of all the endless controversies as moral panics.
You're neglecting to consider that you have to be caught.
Funny, I run Windows because I find the NT kernel to be superior.
> I don't buy this. Is there a cost to statutes against murder? What about trespassing laws? How about loitering laws? How about road laws, is there a cost to automakers for speed limit compliance?

There absolutely are cost to statutes against trespassing and loitering. Other countries with different laws have more freedom, for instance the “Right to Ramble” in the UK and other countries guarantees citizens the right to pass over privately owned woodlands and fields unmolested by trespassing law.

When it comes to compliance by a company, and not to your examples of statutes against murder, the company is absolutely going to pay lawyers to examine the regulation, promulgate internal rules about how to follow it, employees have to read the regulation, there may be mistakes causing fines to be levied. I don’t see how a regulation as big as net neutrality could not have costs somewhere.

Edit: and slowing down traffic doesn’t have to be a positive decision, YouTube and Netflix were slow on FiOS at one point because they hadn’t upgraded the necessary peering due to a dispute over who should pay for the upgrade. Under a net neutrality scheme, you now have to analyze the regulation to see if it forces the ISP to pay for the upgrade themselves for instance.
There are foldable bikes that are easier to take on public transport.
Yea for real. Just google "macOS signing issues on GitHub" and you can see a whole swarm of real example complaints.
I do all sorts of things, because people who have physical, or economic power over me compel me to. Just because their authority is enforced through force (Or the implicit threat of force) (Or the promise of rewards for compliance) does not mean that they are illegitimate authorities.

Compelling other people to do things, with either a carrot, or a stick, is an incredibly normal state of affairs in life. My landlord will have me out on my ass if I don't cut him a check on the first of every month - does that mean that my recognition of his authority to my apartment is illegitimate, or somehow coercive?
> Your motto of "just 256 bits" assumes total independence and 8 bits per byte of entropy.

Yes of course. This is easily obtained by hashing a much bigger input. The problem is determining how big the input should be. That is, how much entropy it actually holds. You can also hash piecemeal (H is whatever you think is secure):

H0 = H(I0)
H1 = H(I1 || H0)
H2 = H(I2 || H1)
H3 = H(I3 || H2)

You can stop as soon as you gathered enough input to be happy about its entropy. Then just switch to fast key erasure with Chacha20 and stop wasting cycles on entropy gathering.

> Anyway, Linus wrote and merged a version of jitter entropy quite recently. […] This is a relatively happy outcome in that Linus didn't just break the ABI to be completely insecure by default.

I'm genuinely relieved. This would have been the worst way to break userspace. Still, tiny embedded systems might need to persist (properly seeded) 32 bytes instead of relying on jitter entropy.
China’s brand equity is quickly sinking.
For markets to operate, you need a global consensus on the state of ownership.
Zillow and the classic real estate brokerage don't get along. There is a push to make buying a house an internet shopping cart thing, which the brokers really don't want. Were people to get the information, automate the regulation, and do the 98% common paperwork - folks would watch that 6% disappear.

There are plenty of gotchas that can go wrong in one of the most expensive purchases people make (rarely, at that). Also, most of these brokerages are (somewhat) trying to build their own systems. That MLS insider 'advantage' is being devalued by most folks. Zillow does make it easy to couch surf without having to deal with the contract, contract, sign, sign, agent. Those leads are worth cash.
Interesting! Thanks for pointing that out, I did not know that. That being said, it seems like it's an abstraction built upon Unicode, and so can only be as strong (or weak/dangerous/whatever) as that foundation. Even moreso, if it's a convention instead of a standard (which is kinda what those articles are getting at as well: Unicode is a standard, how they are rendered is convention).
I was the author of a Windows competitor named Kapsules back when Konfabulator was hot and before the buyout by death knell by Yahoo!. (I tried to go with Winfabulator but they didn't take too kindly to that - I was young and ignorant.)

This was a space that was useful, and then became saturated and commercialized to the detriment of usefulness. It was just before we had good off-screen rendering, right as the html-and-js-as-desktop-apps was starting to take off, and when transparency in window rendering was still difficult. I could share a lot more thoughts

Is there an opportunity to fill the void? I'm really not sure. Bear in mind that this was well before the iPhone hit and smartphone apps got huge. Most of the things we did with widgets back then are far easier done on our phones now. Kapsules had some good parity with what Konfabulator and Apple Widgets had offered, and I can't name a single widget for Kapsules, aside from the silly barking hamster, that doesn't ship by default with our phones now.

The widget craze was a fun phase of app development, and no doubt influenced UX and mobile apps, but I consider it merely an interesting footnote now. If anyone is interested in the source code for Kapsules, I can probably dig it up from one of my old HDDs. It was written in C# on .NET 4.0.
Devoted Medicare Advantage Plan Covering Apple Watch as a Benefit
Lucky you!

Just fyi wikipedia says "the city is well south of the Arctic Circle" and ".. has a tundra climate, featuring long, cold winters, and brief summers that are too cool to permit the growth of large trees."
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqaluit]
Pages is the only word processor I know of that refuses to open documents that it created just a couple years prior (version 5 would refuse to open documents created by version 3, for example).

If Pages works for you, great: but save a copy in a different format if you want to be able to edit it in a couple years.
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I think you're conflating propaganda with censorship, but I suppose the effects are similar ... or maybe they're the same thing and I am under-informed.

edit: or maybe that's your point and that's why you mentioned the definition?
Well, yes, of course, bad engineering was not Juicero's biggest problem, but it was part of the issue and the reason why their DRM machine was so expensive to manufacture.
For historical context, R was not initially intended to be a standalone scripting language runnable via POSIX conventions and didn’t gain these features until circa 2010. R is designed to be used interactively, like the S language it was based on, a style later made familiar to students via MATLAB and TI graphing calculators. Before Rscript it was common to hack together shell scripts that cope with the expectation of human TTY input to run R in production, which functioned well as a “you must be this tall to ride” sign for people who might not appreciate how unreliable R code can be compared to a traditional language.
What in particular do you find to be lacking in the linux kernel?
What is and isn't expensive is subjective. That's the whole point of my comment, don't make generalizations on what other people think about convenience or cost using your own opinion. My vehicle is not expensive in my view compared to its utility.
1. Maybe I just haven't had a job with good benefits, but for me, the biggest and the only benefit I care about is the amount of PTO.

Other countries seem to be doing fine with that model, I'm not sure what it is about the US culture that prevents it from working.

2. Single payer.

3. This statement always seems like a cop-out to throw hands up in the air and do nothing. There are things you can achieve with a multitude of small steps. There are things where you can't, and you have to take a few large leaps.

To just say oh let's ignore the latter category forever, because people people don't like it, is simply giving up.
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Esports team/streamer/org website creator
If we found a planet with 350 billion humanoids, we'd say Earth is dying.

Until the last program is written, and the last machine to run that program stops.. can't really say it's dead.
Yeah, I had this problem until I discovered options(error=recover) which drops you into a nice lispy stack. And ya, someone told me about it: I don't know where you'd read about such things. There's probably a dozen alternatives I also don't know where to read about.
And the number of people I know who complain about Apple and who have never used an Apple product is non-zero. _Interestingly_, that's kind of what the word "anecdotally" implies.

If one actually considers the spirit of my comment (people getting caught up in outrage about issues they can't actually judge properly), several of the comments of this very post make it pretty clear that their authors have likely never interacted with a Mac for a day in their lives but are nevertheless very opinionated about how this change will affect macOS users.
Isn’t this basically what Chicago did?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel_streets_in_Chicag...
Your reply was:

> But to say there is no reason for an ISP to serve DNS is absurd.

The part of my comment that you quoted does not at all say that. (In fact, no part of my comment says, or even suggest, that.)

I agree that any DNS provider can abuse your data, but it's important to look at incentives. Comcast doesn't care one bit about its public image because it already has a terrible one, but customers have no choice in the matter, so Comcast's public image is mostly irrelevant.

Several DoH providers bill themselves as privacy-focused, and make privacy a big point in their marketing around their DNS service. Violating that privacy would be damaging to their product and reputation, in a way that they'd likely care quite a bit about.

I'd rather just have my local resolver have a list of 5 or so DNS providers with reasonably low-latency presence in my area (possibly including the local ISP, even, who knows), and just round-robin requests to them. There's really no way to make DNS not an "open book" as you put it; you can't ask someone to resolve a hostname for you without telling them what the hostname is.

So yes, we need ways to mitigate harm. Unless a provider has their reputation on the line, I don't really see a way to keep providers from doing sketchy things with your data, at least not without legal regulation. It's not like things like the EU's GDPR and California's CCPA were dreamed out of nothing; they came about because people have started to realize that companies just will not act as good stewards of our data unless we legally mandate toothy financial consequences as punishment.
Why can't you scale your cluster dynamically? (Something like the cluster api).
Mac Catalyst Human Interface Guidelines
True story: I stopped eating pork after watching Okja and reading up on pig intelligence.

That final scene... oof. (bawl)
I remember when the folks at TWiT were still trying to make "netcasts" happen and shared they had hit over $1 million in revenue and it feeling like the medium was going big. Pretty crazy to look at the numbers 10 years later and seeing how much further it's all come.
> There is plenty of legit criticism of Apple to be made, and you certainly don't have to be an Apple customer to make it.

My comment was not a particularly long one. Try reading it through the end.
Excel does support multiple tables per sheet through the format as table (?!) feature. But yeah, still hard to make those multiple Excel tables look good with sheet-wide column and row sizes.
If the data was uploaded deliberately through a system they operated, it is hard to see how they would be anything other than the data controller within the GDPR framework, unless maybe they actively tried to avoid collecting the personal data and it was supplied anyway. But it would be hard to argue that was the case if they were uploading data in ways the user of the computer in question probably wasn't even aware of.

(As an aside, if they are sweeping data on such a broad scale without being transparent about it and the only authorisation for doing so is buried deep in some legal document, it would be interesting to consider whether they were not only potentially in breach of GDPR but also various criminal computer misuse laws.)
Fuck me, right? Would be nice to know why this is seemingly such a shitty idea, but guess I'll never hear why.
It's pretty reasonable for medium sized data sets. When it falls down, I use J.
As someone who accidentally killed a small bull while working on a free range ranch, I can tell you that cows are surprisingly sentient and sensitive. The dead yearling's mother-cow howl-moo'ed the rest of the day and into the late evening. Her moos of agony still haunt me.

I defy you to find 1 chicken in 1000 that is capable of suffering this at this level.
> Gimp, on the other hand, is a UX nightmare.

I always wondered about Gimp. I use it all the time, but for VERY basic things. But anytime I want to do ANYTHING, even like just add a word to an image or draw a line, I need to go Google how to do it. The newest version seems better, but the UX is just crazy.
I haven't dealt with this volume of images but Cloudinary will auto convert and serve the correct image format
> and I use cmd-Space for Spotlight for all calculations and conversions

Hot damn! That's the most useful thing I learned today!
Hey - nice to see someone else from up there. Was born there in 1970s.
Ironically, the exact inverse of carbon emissions per meat species. Chicken < Pork << Beef
FBI Confirms Samuel Little Is Most Prolific Serial Killer in U.S. History
Today it's a flag emoji, but eventually Apple might be doing something with the Chinese government that is worse. It's a slippery slope.
The Improper Payments Act report shows just under $19 billion was lost in improper EITC payments in FY2018. NASA’s FY2018 budget was $20.7 billion just to compare the scale of the loss. Every little bit of fraud, waste, and abuse does add up to something quite large in the aggregate.

ProPublica is asking the wrong questions. They should be asking what we should do with refundable tax credit programs that have such high error rates in payments. What we’re doing currently isn’t working best.
One could also argue a policy of always forget/always forgive creates its own set of moral hazards by reducing the deterrence against bad behaviours.
It still does. Booking and ZipRecruiter are easily the two largest employers of Perl programmers.
Does the bitwarden-rs server works with the browser addons and the desktop/mobile apps?
What's interesting is, although CC would have been horrified when they saw the episode, there was no social way to stop it going to air.

The Muhammad episode for instance had a existing way of dealing with it, with directions from society already established.

CC would have no moral issue censoring it, the cost benefit would have come out to censoring it, pissing off fans and the creators would have cost less than pissing off the China.

But how would you even talk about censoring it in a meeting? (This is different to making a show that targets the Chinese market)

But the NBA has opened a few doors though and censorship will normalise quickly.

This has parallels in politics, for centuries politics had social structure, things that 'worked' just weren't done because we are social creatures and follow the rules.

But the internet has allowed hyper-iterations on trying new things and social structures have changed, so these walls are crumbling and the pseudo-maximizers like chasing re-elections are winning.

Interesting times, CC playing this episode will seem quaint and the good old days in a few years.
Presumably, if they had Venezuelan accounts-receivable, they would no longer be allowed to collect on them, either.
> First of all, as a lay person, I don't take the FSF seriously anymore because of this move.

I get that, but you're just one person (as am I). If we take all of the people who previously had some respect for the FSF, my guess would be that more than half of them will continue to respect them after this, or actually respect them more (as I will). If all of this had come to light and the FSF have done nothing, I'd respect them less and take them less seriously. I suspect that's true for a lot of other people as well.

Of course, I don't know this for sure, it's just what I think. But that's all we're doing here anyway: just throwing around our opinions.
And yet programming languages ever since C were supposed to be cross platform. If you have to call on specific features of a particular OS when writing business application code, that's a problem with the OS.
High volume levels. Performances are too loud, and venues are too loud to host performances at sane volume levels.
> only transport needs to be multi-threaded

Could he have gone with a non-blocking approach like libuv?
All the laser cutting job shops seem to use CorelDraw.

I do my designs in qcad, submit as a vector PDF, and the laser guys get that into Corel somehow. There might be some trickiness to the conversion due to how curves are represented in the PDFs? Maybe not. All I know is my parts come out fine.

I believe some people use Inkscape, but I found it unusably clunky. YMMV.
Cloud software (especially iOS apps) has resulted in a huge decline in time I spend doing tech support for family/friends. It’s nice when stuff just works. Although, I agree, the subject of this thread is a huge drawback.
Use TikTok for a few days and I can now imagine a world where people are kidnapped or exploited while singularly focused on and distracted by a screen. It’s scary. The fact that it’s a Chinese owned company is even scarier.
i wonder at what point of trying this with languages/accents does it turn from Stupid Alexa to Racist Alexa?
I wonder whether "dictatorship" is actual reason. I see your list:

> Russia: dictatorship. Cuba: dictatorship. Iran: theocratic dictatorship. Venezuela: dictatorship. North Korea: dictatorship. Syria: dictatorship. Sudan: recently a military junta.

I read it as: Russia: enemy ex-superpower, second biggest net oil exporter. Cuba: stole our oil refineries half a century ago, we're still mad about it. Iran: in top 10 of net oil exporters (also, tried to take them over and fucked up). Venezuela: top ten of net oil exporters. North Korea: old enemy, though also universally considered evil. Syria: US wants to force a government change and supports the rebels; there could be an indirect oil-related angle in here.

It may be that I've just been reading too much about energy economics recently and am getting all consipracy-theorist. Even if so, I absolutely don't buy that there's any higher good for any of those sanctions.
You have issues
Try opening presentation you made a couple of years ago. Might not work. A colleague of mine ran into this, he couldn't open files created with Keynote a couple of years back.
From https://github.com/smuellerDD/jitterentropy-rngd

> Using the Jitter RNG core, the rngd provides an entropy source that feeds into the Linux /dev/random device if its entropy runs low. It updates the /dev/random entropy estimator such that the newly provided entropy unblocks /dev/random.

This is a red flag. Entropy doesn't run low. https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom

I'm calling it now: Don't use VeraCrypt.

They made a very questionable decision based on the sort of ignorance that leads people to use /dev/random and haveged rather than RtlGenRandom (Windows), getrandom(2) (new Linux), or /dev/urandom (old Linux).

Cryptography engineering requires care and this sort of ignorance tends to undermine secure implementations.
My point exactly: you wouldn't be calling mods if you didn't find misgendering to be violent when it's directed at you.

It's not just "the transgender community." It's a baseline of human decency to call folks what they want to be called.
It’s not one or the other.
> A good example was usage of LLVM on the PPC->Intel transition which then helped when they ported OSX to ARM (ie, iOS, nee iPhoneOS).

I’m not an Apple insider, but I don’t believe LLVM played a substantial role in either the PPC-to-x86 or x86-to-ARM-for-iOS ports — the former was accomplished with Rosetta and a lot of bugs.

The current rumor, OTOH, is that Apple’s collection of LLVM bitcode for apps is intended to allow painless migration for applications when macOS is switched over to ARM.
They pay a good chunk of his salary, I assume?
coun·try
/ˈkəntrē/
noun
1.
a nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.

Does the Peoples Republic of China currently occupy and govern the island of Taiwan?
Maybe. Or it could be confirmation bias, media painting everything rosy under Obama.

Personally, 7 years ago I (a Canadian) had much more grief flying into England than this year (or ever) going to the US.
No. A visa is required when you're in a country, visiting or working there.
I don’t see how shrinkwrapped SW would be a better revenue model. Whatever the sold already are in the books. At least with SaaS once sanctions are lifted they potentially have the market opened again. Also SW piracy isn’t unusual is places strapped for money. They surely wouldn’t get away with paying for Adobe SaaS with Petros (crypto currency).
Australia inches closer to compelling access to US data under CLOUD Act
True but all of this tax discussion is about perceived fairness. I may pay a few thousand and a billionaire will pay millions in taxes but if the overall tax rate is lower for the billionaire then I'm going to get upset. It's just human nature.
Existing mobile phone chips are designed for inference, not training. The list is explicitly restricted to chips that are designed for training.