skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UX for volume and brightness on the touchbar isn't as intuitive as I'd expect from Apple, but you can press and slide to adjust them. Took me a few weeks to realize I didn't have to tap the volume or brightness button and then adjust using the up or down buttons.
Does it really count as a 'hacker' if it was just a straight up bribe? Where is the hacking here?
I had an absolutely awful experience with the fast.ai "in person" course. I sat through two lessons before realizing we were going to be seeing the rough cut of the free version (e.g. them doing their intros 3x) and that there were any office hours. In order to get a question answered 5 people had to like it.

Even worse, it was a certification but since it was so low touch the teachers were not grading anything. I do not know what they were certifying, I guess that you paid for the course. I withdrew and they gave me a pro-rated refund that basically charged 300 dollars per class. Absolutely awful education experience.
I Have a Reason to Live
This is key for many.
Pure Virtual C++ 2020 videos
I am suggesting we keep in line with reality and facts, nothing more, nothing less.
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Bats in Portuguese Libraries (2018)
Right. Quitting to find a "better job" means swirling around the bottom of the puddle. Standing up and bargaining for better working conditions at your place of work has historically been shown to be more effective. Labor movements brought us modern luxuries such as the weekend, the end of child labor, etc. Folks didn't make that happen by quitting and finding a better job.
> In fact, this is only one example in a pattern of behavior by the Chinese central authorities

You're arguing for China's culpability by simply asserting they are always dishonest. That's just circular reasoning!

Look, I don't particular like dictatorships. I'll grant you all the standard complaints about China's human rights abuses, lack of freedom of the press, and their military leaders' terribly old-fashioned banana-republic-style oversized hats.

But the attempt here is to shift responsibility for 70,000+ US deaths onto them. In terms of causality, I believe that is wrong. As in: even if they were dishonest, it didn't make a difference. It's also wrong for the single purpose responsibility actually has, to avoid repetition: not only is it the US governments' (in)action that primarily influences the outcomes here, that government is also far more responsive to any sort of pressure the US public can create.

A even if you can somehow browbeat China into handling the next such situation in a way that is more helpful, that only protects against a more-or-less exact repeat of this crisis. But if the US government improves, that improvement also applies if the next virus is the Canadian Maple-Fever. Or an earthquake, or whatever.

There probably was some Chinese obfuscation. But it seems to be entirely of the superficial, nationalism-inspired attempt at window-dressing many other, ostensibly more open, transparent, and democratic government engaged in.

Florida, for example, doesn't (or didn't, at the beginning) count out-of-state visitor's deaths in its statistics. Trump famously didn't want cruise ship passengers disembarking because it would ruin his numbers. Many countries were rather slow to start counting out-of-hospital deaths, etc. Even the exact same no-(local)-transmission lie China is accused of was recycled by Trump!

If you look at the graphs of cases and deaths, you'll note that China's data fits in rather nicely with that in other countries. Since they were always a few weeks ahead of everyone else, it seems their data was, by-and-large, credible. Or they are extremely good at guessing.

All this is such a transparently obvious attempt to whip up a bit of xenophobic furore to yet again ride a nationalistic wave to an election victory, it wouldn't be acceptable as the background plot for a politics-themed porn movie. To see it succeeding is just...sad
One of the common Give Well recommended effective altruism donations is anti-malarial mosquito nets. [0].

I think they have one of the best dollar to lives saved ratio of any charity.

[0] https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf
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I am focusing the discussion on reality and facts. Everyone else can speculate as much as they want.
It's unbelievable, and feels like potentially misleading advertising.

My 2019's MBP 16" can't really run Dota2 at the native resolution. The framerate is fluctuating widely, and it frequently drops to less than 30fps for me - without any real action going on and cosmetics equipped. And that's on supposedly much more performant Radeon Pro 5500M, not Intel Iris Plus.

Also, not really cool as the "player" isn't even pretending to play.

Sort of dual signalling going on "if you know what's going on in the picture - you get that it's all BS, otherwise look - you can play* games* on this laptop! shiny!"
Thank you for sharing your experience. Glad to hear it. Feel free to join our forums and be a part of the community! https://caddy.community - could always use more people with experience helping out. :)
Disconnecting? Sure, reasonable idea. If the current doesn't get into the transformer, then it can't destroy the transformer.

But wrapping tinfoil? The kind of energies we're talking about would vaporize the tinfoil without breaking a sweat.

Disclaimer: I am not an EE.
Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks (2011)
The idea that they "shouldn't exist" doesn't make much sense to me.

As long as you treat your employees with respect and pay legal wages, who are we to say that the wages are "poverty wages".

Many of these low wage, entry level positions are/were meant to be filled by young people, still living with parents, or part time workers who may have a spouse that is the primary earner.

The problem is that due to lack of other options, many people are crowding out these type of workers and using these jobs as full time, primary income.

If the alternative is no job at all (i.e. "shouldn't exist") then poverty wages sound better than nothing.
> So where are the savings?

Apple is a business and prices its products based on demand. If people are willing to pay a high price, you bet they're going to charge a high price. The savings from not having many hardware variations on a single model are simply accumulated into their bank account.

And they might not cut costs when it comes to the hardware itself, but they are known for having a limited number of options and customizations when it comes to hardware.
Well this is not to my taste but I take it as a proof of existence that an rpc at the boundary could make for some amazing things -

https://github.com/rhysd/NyaoVim
Maybe they were impressed by your consistency. Whether you’re studying or working, showing up every day on a consistent schedule is quite impressive especially for a college kid.

In my experience it’s consistency, more than anything else, that separates the best performers from average performers.
An article about this guy collected some interesting comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21818233
What Is Freeze-Drying?
Get Fat, Don't Die
Once you genetically engineer the virulent strain, the way you are going to release it is through either of the first two ways. So it's not as much a third way as it is an augmentation of either of the first two.
In the US at least, businesses do have more power to get things written into law, yes, but certainly not all of the power. Minimum wage laws, for example, certainly aren't the work of business interests.

In practice, the situation is rather gray. Employers will virtually never call the police in a case of theft (or "theft")--they'll simply fire the person involved. Likewise, most employees won't do much if they're stolen (or "stolen") from by employers, they'll just quit.

We're not even consistent in the ways that we think about the topic. There has been talk of a "rent strike" during the pandemic, which amounts to stealing resources from one's landlord (who might be "rich" or might be quite "poor"). Few people would go along with the idea of a "grocery strike", in which those who need food but cannot pay simply shoplift from their local store. Somehow the former sounds more okay than the latter, even though the former would typically involve theft on a much larger scale.

And of course, most of us posting here are "stealing" from our employers in some sense. The better employers typically realize that they're better off looking the other way.
https://www.newsweek.com/apple-samsung-and-microsoft-linked-...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderat...

If we're going on "what is the most offensive thing I can point to about a company", it seems like Facebook and most hardware suppliers have that beat.
Establishing a Mental Model of WebSockets
I was of the same opinion as you until I discovered Pock: it's a small tool that puts the dock (and optional controls) in the touchbar.
This means I can get more screen real estate while keeping my dock accessible. Frankly I'm now pretty much onboard with the touchbar, except for the probably huge battery consumption.
Footstep Sensors Identify People by Gait
In IP law, if I see terrible work product that cost my clients $5-$25K in waste, I try to be charitable and remind myself that sometimes there is context that I am not aware of that may have been the cause. Such context may be client driven immutable deadlines, client-side delays, client-side lack of communication, and so on.

In reality there probably was incompetence bordering on malpractice by the prior firm that did the work. But you never know.

If $100Ks (and multiple years) have been wasted, I know it is incompetence bordering on malpractice. Especially, if the firms that did the bad work have well known brands.

In professions like law, medicine, or professional engineering prioritizing is important and useful but providing shoddy work product or corner cutting should be unacceptable. And often corner cutting is malpractice.

In software development I used to push hard to get people to focus on getting from A to B efficiently while using an architecture that supports flexibility rather than over-engineering from the beginning. It seemed to work well.

Though I did run into some managers/directors/VPs that would carefully listen to a reasonable proposal and ignore it or in one case do the opposite. I always took that as the sign to move somewhere else. Eventually leading me to go law school.
My read sees an implied "apologies are not enough."
Slightly tangential to what the article is about, but at least in the C/C++ world, the most important change to make static analysis popular for "the rest of us" was probably Xcode's decision to integrate clang analyzer right into the Xcode UI under a menu item (Xcode doesn't do many things right, but this is definitely one of the very good features).

This way, analyzing the code is a simple "button press" and works out of the box on every Xcode project.

Soon after, Microsoft followed suit in Visual Studio (even though in my experience, the MS analyzer doesn't catch quite as many things as the clang analyzer).

Before that, static analyzers were those no doubt useful but obscure "magic tools" which were very hard to integrate into an existing build process.

Even the most useful tool will be ignored when it is hard to use.
Bray didn't quit over the conditions in the warehouses, he quit over Amazon's brazen and dishonest firings of organizers.

It's possible that if every Amazon warehouse were run as well, those organizers would not have arisen, but it's Amazon nastiness toward them that's most alarming.
In addition to bitcoion, mentioned in the OP, several crypto projects in the DAO space come to mind. What if you don't need managers, but strong contracts between individuals? I think that's one of the theses floating around in that space.

https://colony.io/

https://medium.com/@simondlr/the-moloch-dao-collapsing-the-f...
Hebern Rotor Machine
Is it reasonable to say "full value under the circumstances"?

I'm trying to understand the limits of entitlement in a pandemic scenario.

I live near a large (50,000 undergrad students) state university. They have means to survive, but are losing money at an amazing rate right now. If students come at the university with lawsuits and demand refunds en masse, it will be bad for everyone -- including the students.

This situation is different, unique -- and should be treated differently than "I didn't get exactly what I paid for," especially considering what went into a best-possible-alternative workaround.
Yeah a lot of borderline stable or not companies will vanish and yeah it's COVID... but also not COVID.
Thanks for doing the investigative work!
Exploring Column Families in CockroachDB
> NHS incorporating a significant private component.

We already have a significant private component, and it's piss poor. Look at all the scandals in Priory Group, or Cygnet, or similar.

See also the numbers of private providers in the CQC recent inspections that were inadequate:

https://www.cqc.org.uk/search/services/all?f%5B0%5D=im_field...
I would not be able to login to my phones, I guess. And then losing my contacts and calendar entries. Bug most of them are synced to my Mac, so I'm OK. On Linux I'm using evolution for this, but never cared to use it much.

Email is not much of a problem.
The various email aliases all point to gmail, but this can be changed easily. sync's are done to thunderbird on Linux and Mac email. POP, not IMAP. IMAP alone would be a problem.
As seen in Y2K, spend money to fix a problem.

If you are successful, the problem doesn't occur, the population listen to those who say "it wasn't really a problem in the first place", and mainstream populists adopt that position to win votes (regardless of their own thoughts). You don't get to play that card again

If you aren't successful, the problem occurs anyway and you get accused of not caring

Without Democracy those in charge wouldn't be concerned by trying to win the population over

Without the ability for anyone to reach millions of people overnight people wouldn't be swayed en-mass by contrarians

Often you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. We can see the same thing unfolding in the UK and US over covid19.
Are you playing on an emulator?
> Two consecutive generations of not being rewarded

Only two? Someone skipped history class. :-)
https://techgig1.blogspot.com/2020/05/bye-amazon-tm-bray.htm...

link to original article
Why did you do it? What have you sought to achieve with it? It's always a head scratcher for me why people building open source tools would put time and effort towards telemetry. Advertisments in HTTP headers? That's a new one. Advertise to whom, devs looking at a browser debug console?
> The latest, released in early 2019 to coincide with the game's 35th anniversary, is an online multiplayer version called "Tetris 99," which can be played by up to 99 players simultaneously.

This one came for free with the Nintendo Switch online service and I've put around 80 hours into it and - frustratingly - still haven't won a single game! Highest I got was 4th place, though I usually end up in top 20 and occasionally in the top 10.

It's so much fun.
Behold the Gaylord Gladiator
If these law firms really believe that they are acting like robin hood, taking from the greedy universities and giving back to the students who really need it, they'd be doing these suits pro bono so the students get every dollar they are entitled to.

For some reason, I have a feeling that these firms will take a hefty fee and students will STILL end up with the bill eventually...
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Thanks for the idea! I'm going to try this.
It's definitely a wonderful goal to aspire to, and ideal for small or personal projects. In my experience, I've found this particular approach to be, at times, of unfortunately limited value in developing and maintaining enterprise systems.

A previous employer of mine was a Clojure-heavy shop. There were multiple teams. A Clojure dev going from one team to another could expect to find themselves in a very different stack with very different conventions to do very similar-looking web service tasks. In essence, each team had composed their own under-documented framework.
It's good to see discussions of static analysis, but I often feel that these blog posts do a disservice to the techniques. The post leads by mentioning applications like bugfinding and security vuln detection but the examples here are barely above local syntactic checks. This is the common scenario in the majority of blog posts I see about static analysis, probably because it is just much easier to put together a quick write up on AST-linting. Heck, this article has a diagram that directly states that an AST is the input to a static analysis module, but that is true only for some kinds of things!

AST level analysis is certainly useful. Everybody should be using some sort of style checker. But AST pattern matching is a completely different technique from the stuff used to do bugfinding that I worry that these blog posts will give the wrong impression about what static analysis can do and what it can't do.

I'd love to see blog posts about interprocedural pointer analysis, for example.
Does that mean Jeff Bezos is potentially the strongest hacker?
Allowing more chat participation without overwhelming users (2017)
There is a hope that gene-drive targeting doublesex gene can be effective in eliminating mosquitos (and likely other insect species if we want) https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4245.

There have been many articles about this on HN last year, but there was also a depressingly large number of people commenting how precious mosquitos are, and that the maximum measure we are allowed to consider is modifying mosquitoes to not transmit malaria, and that even thinking of eliminating "the whole species" is a sin.
I thought I saw the 8GB module for 459$ but it is only the SOM so you have to purchase a carrier board as well so the 32GB Developer Kit seems the way to go.

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/900-83668-0000-000/nvidia
>The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.

I would be curious if there were any other organizations that came to the same conclusions.
Given all the Cloudflare discussion - Cloudflare webinar with Backblaze coming up next week: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14807/405472
That is a terrifying report...
I think one of the main points is that you shouldn't have to.
This is a new expression that I have never heard before, yet immediately understand and love. Thank you for this. I'm going to start using it more.
*Satellite... We've been down to one since 2014. Still does good sentry duty though.
All batches can be flashed without opening the phone.

The imx8mq has a USB download mode so the device can be flashed via USB-C. You can completely corrupt the eMMC including u-boot and still recover it.
There is almost no demand for 'actual' engineering a ton of this is completely offshored into oblivion, my girlfriend has a degree in chemistry and now works in a bank. There is extremely little demand for everything outside of software.
The names of the classes are not economic; they're political†. They have to do with one's ability to influence politics.

The "middle class", i.e., the borgeoisie, are the class of business owners (and/or people who have the ability to start a business, i.e. who have a professional skill that could be sold freelance or with a one-person company "wrapped" around it.) What do you call a lowest-income-bracket-for-business-owners business owner, other than "lower middle class"?

Meanwhile, a laborer—even a rich laborer (e.g. a waiter who makes a lot in tips; or a unionized dock-worker; or a soldier)—is, definitionally, in the lower class. If your professional skills are only in demand in the context of a capitalist organizing and value-adding on top of them, then you're in the lower class. (For example: dentist? Middle class. Dental hygienist? Lower class. The dentist can start their own dental clinic, whereas the hygienist cannot. Even if they both took home the same salary from said clinic, one has access to corporate profits—capital—while the other does not.)

People don't say "upper lower class", but the French equivalent "prolétariat riche" does make sense. (There are whole sectors of the economy that cater mostly to the prolétariat riche. Anything referred to as "bling" is marketed mainly to the prolétariat riche. Nightclubs cater mostly to the prolétariat riche.)

† In English, the terms are mapped to positions on a city's height map (lower/middle/upper), because cities used to be basins of smoke and filth, and the people who could, would move to the outlying hills to be away from it. But this is still a political distinction, not an economic one. No matter how wealthy you are, you can't get away from city life entirely until you no longer need to work for a living at all. Once you don't need to work at all, you unlock the time+energy+liquid assets required to influence politics. It's all part-and-parcel.
stop worrying about VC’s. trust me, it’s a rabbit hole of pain and perpetual disempowerment.

better to focus on figuring out what perspective you’re currently missing to how you can better help your customers THRIVE.
Also, if it were the case that the intelligence community had very clear evidence of aliens, they would be extra cautious about the blurry evidence they release. Also, it would be a huge statistical anomaly that either civilians didn't catch some of that clear evidence, o that intelligence are actually that proficient in doing global cover ups.
As a VIM guy myself, this was huge. I never felt like I was missing out having done this.
The problem with OAuth and Google is that Google requires from 3rd party vendors verification and it's very hard to obtain. Unsurprisingly, Google rejects requests for verification without any explanation and ignores any follow up communication.
If that were the case, you would think that Amazon would address the issues raised my employees instead of firing them.

By firing them, they discourage others from coming forward so it’s not really possible to get a good picture of the situation.
'Poor people are being treated poorly, I'm rich and can get a job by walking across the street. Capitalism is bad blah blah blah.'

Quality content.

People born with a silver spoon in their mouth are so predictably 'shocked' by how the rest of the world functions. People are mistreated? People are fired? There is injustice in the world? Oh my, I'm going to blog about it!

Have you heard of Buddha? You're in that stage of discovering old age, sickness and death by wandering outside your golden palace walls out into the streets.
I don't think they allow it necessarily. They have explicit licensing terms which say that MacOS can only be installed and used on Apple hardware.

How long they tolerate it is another question, and I don't think anyone knows for sure. But if hackintoshing becomes easier (imagine a one click installer on a Dell/HP/ASUS PC), I'd imagine they'd start pursuing people.

I think there was also an individual/company that would build PCs, install MacOS, and sell them for a profit. IIRC, they were shut down.
The kinds of analyses mentioned here are typically grouped under "linting"–more advanced static analysis tools will typically do things like dataflow analysis.
Only if you're in the US.