skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where will you get the drivers for your hackintosh ARM GPU, Network, Bluetooth, etc.

The community --- providing it still exists --- will write them... or at least some of them. When I was playing around with Hackintosh many years ago (when they were still 32-bit), I took the lack of drivers as a motivation to learn how to write some. Of course, the PC legacy really helped with things like BIOS and related standards, so ARM will definitely have a much steeper curve.

(The diversity of ARM platforms in general put me off writing code for them --- it feels like a losing battle when there are so many platforms, especially when most of then are unlikely to even exist for much time. The fact that it is the same CPU core matters little when everything else is different. Maybe it is the same for many others.)
This situation appears to me to be corporations freely associating and/or choosing to do business, or not to do business, with other corporations. No government coercion involved in either forcing or blocking this behavior.

In other words, the libertarian ideal of the future.

I don't see the problem. The fact that this behavior isn't universally celebrated is an example of why libertarianism fails in the real world. It doesn't even get the trivial cases.

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I have to say I don't understand your point either.

Okay, so we can disable secure boot. What is the next step? How does one get to running Linux natively from there?
I just searched for Verizon on Google, and there was a Verizon ad, so they're still spending on digital marketing elsewhere. That Google ad is not even likely to be profitable considering Verizon owns all the organic links in the first page of results except for the Wikipedia result ranked fourth.

If they were cutting advertising spend due to the economy, it would be rational to cut unprofitable spend first. I'm inclined to take them at their word for why they cut Facebook spend.
"Well they'll just hire someone else to do it if I quit. Might as well keep doing it myself."
Yeah, I thought about the conceptual idea, similar to what MS did: https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/teardown-windows...
Up until now there hasn't really been laws addressing social media which falls outside of what is considered "Rundfunk" (basically television and radio mainly), but over the last year or two a lot of people have started demanding to apply the existing laws to social media as well. I think at the moment they're only required to label paid political ads.

Culturally though it has a greatly diminished role. If I remember correctly, during the last European election the largest parties spent about 500k on social media ads. We're still overwhelmingly dominated by traditional media. Angela Merkel has no social media presence, and if I had to guess even the most popular politicians maybe have a few ten or maybe a hundred thousand followers on Twitter.
Are you sure we know exactly what's going to happen when we scale up LHC experiments? You don't think we can discover something completely new?
As a practicing physicist in the field, I think I'm qualified to reply. The question is a valid one, and I've heard it a few times before from other researchers.

In brief, the irreversible heat dissipation, calculated from the change in the entropy (S) of some sub-system of the quantum computer, does not yield a quantity that has much practical relevance. But it does lead to interesting considerations, some of which I've written out below.

Following the basic thinking behind Landauer's principle, if one considers the state of the qubits themselves, the dissipation is always zero or even negative. In the usual universal gate-based model, any computation starts with a known pure quantum state for which S = 0. The gates are unitary transformations and do not change the entropy. Non-coherent interactions generally lead to a state with nonzero positive entropy. Amusingly, this could be interpeted as using the quantum register to cool its surroundings by a tiny amount, at the cost of randomizing the output of the "computation".

A more fruitful approach (which you also alluded to) relates to the "cost" of the unitary transformations themselves. Implementing high-fielity gates, necessary for useful quantum computing, requires very precise time-varying external control fields. It is correct to think that there is a thermodynamic cost to ensuring that the noise in the fields experienced by the qubits are small.

For a concrete example, consider the fact that superconducting qubits are controlled with microwave signals. The output of a room-temperature microwave source has thermal noise supreimposed with the desired, sythesized signal. For simplicity, we can take the noise temperature to be 300K. (It is much higher in practice.) To use this output to drive a superconducting qubit at T = 30 mK, the power needs to be attenuated by at least a factor of 10^4. (Again, the real factor is much higher.) Hence, a lot of power is seemingly wasted in the synthesis of the control signals. I think a similar argument can be made about the lasers used to control some other kinds of qubits.

This type of dissipation is relevant for hypothesized large-scale quantum computers. It doesn't lead to new deep "quantum" insights, however. First, the dissipation is independent of the state of the qubits, and simply scales linearly with the number of operations. Second, the dissipation takes place outside of the delicate qubit system. Removing any amount of entropy from (i.e., cooling) the environment surrounding the qubits is merely a difficult classical engineering problem.
Fair enough, but note that the discussion topic is "writing xyz code like it's 1991", which doesn't exclude using a modern compiler.
They do have that reputation, as in many western countries to varying degrees, but there's large difference (in my mind) between corruption that affects finances and corruption that affects safety.

The latter is rather rare in a place like the US, and when it happens, the problem will generally be discovered and fixed before people die. In the case that the problem results in casualties, there is almost always a process of oversight, media and public attention, and adapting of protocols to mitigate the risk of a similar situation in the future.
Strictly speaking you should run DoH to your pihole, to prevent local-network attacks, but that's a fairly minor issue and supposedly (epistemic status: outright hearsay) DoH is intentionally difficult to configure correctly (ie to a non-mozilla-approved server).
Well, I really hope so. It doesn’t really read as a joke, but on the other hand, they’re bringing their impressive software to bear to attempt to predict 25 bits of data, and can’t even do that very well. So I hope so.
Design is one of those things people often don't consciously notice, but affects their overall impression of a product.

I think there's a pretty universal consensus that a good design matters.
"the black ball signifies opposition"

Blacklist signifies exclusion.

What makes one racist and the other not?
They are, but not perfectly. You can buy smart adapters that let you use Canon, Nikon or Minolta lenses on Sony, though the first two are not perfect for all lenses.

As long as the flange distance of the sensor from which you're adapting is significantly more than that of your camera and you manage to decode the autofocus communications protocol, you can adapt them.
Robinhood Has Gamified Online Trading into an Addiction
I think somehow Apple is getting monetized by Safari suggestions and is stealing this traffic from sites like Realty.com and getting paid by Fortune 500 companies like Realtor.com
New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy
Wait, where did this become a referendum on libertarianism? Nothing in the parent comment suggests this.
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Sure. You can earn more money per unit of time by creating greater value for others. But my point is that saying "political spending is bad" doesn't make sense. Everyone is expending unequal efforts in different facets of their life. If I am busy keeping my small business afloat and can't afford to put in the kind of time a dedicated activist puts into organizing, I think I should still be able to use what resources I have to influence politics.

Otherwise, what we're saying is that everyone must dedicate significant portions of their life to on-the-ground organizing and direct action to be on an even footing relative to others. That doesn't sound like the kind of society most would want to live in. It means we'd need to forego other activities, both economic ones and leisure, just to engage in this artificially constrained political system.
>Free speech does not mean that you have the right to say or distribute whatever you want on whatever platform, owned by a private corporation you want.

Most people understand this. It doesn't need to keep being repeated in every thread.

Facebook isn't bobsmessageboard.com. The debate is over whether it is a de facto public communications utility and should be regulated as such, or if it is private company that is free to do whatever it wants on it's platform.
You can't throw out a comment like that and give no follow up. In what way is it a hobby business?
Yes and because it’s heavily regulated in the case of alcohol and because the government is so effective, it’s impossible for people under 21 to get alcohol.
Even 50mm isn't close enough for me. And fake bokeh looks terrible even when it works. Absolutely amazing for what it is, but it's not replacing my camera.
22 parameters, to predict 25 bits, and get 87.5% accuracy! Which is just under 22!
The optimist would say s/customer/donor but I'm not an optimist.
As you might imagine after watching, and if you haven't read it before, the Dwarf Fortress change log[1] is a thing of absolute beauty.

> - 0009195: [Dwarf Mode -- Pets] Cats dying for no reason - alcohol poisoning? - resolved.

[1] https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/changelog_page.p...
I am so glad that someone else hates this as much as I do. I stick with Safari because I like the password manager and the power performance, but the search bar is just completely nonfunctional. God forbid I ever even _think_ of a word that contains the letters "sch", because Safari will then forever navigate to some website containing that word instead of Schwab.com, which I navigate to multiple times a day.
Thank you [1]!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23614877
I actually have enjoyed a lot of the content there - it’s like Q&A with an emphasis on the personal experience of the person answering. Tons of stuff that would not be appropriate for Stack Overflow, but interesting nonetheless.
Has anyone tried using VR for work? What, if anything did you discover that worked, and what didn't?

I know of some VR companies that do all their meetings in VR, whether its their own, or in a game.
I received my new American Express and, when trying to enter the URL on the sticker, Safari suggested a phishing site as the "top result". I tried reporting this to both Apple and AMEX but never received a response :(
Your observation supports my point of view: when ideology trumps facts and proper understanding, it is harmful.

We have a moral obligation to have policy that makes best use of available facts. And for most areas of policy we have a lot of knowledge: we know that 'broken windows policing' delivers terrible results, we know that rehabilitation services deliver better ones. We know that advocating abstinence is worse that contraception at reducing teenage pregnancies, and we know "trickle down economics" is a joke, and a thousand other things.

Sure there are areas that are largely unknown, but even there the people of relevant expertise are not described as "a Marxist and a Libertarian"
IBM's 1402 card reader (1959) used something similar to diagnose timing issues. The "dynamic timer" consisted of a spinning neon bulb that could be connected to various signals in the card reader. When the signal was activated, the bulb would illuminate, at a particular rotational angle. By checking the position of the illuminated bulb against the angle scale, timings could be checked.

For instance, it was critical that each row of punched holes in a card passed under the brushes at the right time for the computer to read the values. The dynamic timer would show 12 orange lines in a circle, indicating when each hole was being read. If these lines were in the wrong position, the brushes were adjusted until the timing was right.

You can see it in action halfway down my page about the card reader: http://www.righto.com/2018/02/repairing-card-reader-for-1960...
That's a good start! But what we really want is for Facebook to go out of business.
Cool, thanks for sharing. It's these kind of experiences that I was hoping to gather from making this post.

Did you notice at the end that you did NOT end up choosing ARM? You ended up going with x86_64 because that's what made more sense for your backend. That's part of my point - developers should choose their backend architecture based on the performance and pricing of their backend, not their development laptop. And if that decision is "we should keep using x86", then there will be a big performance hit in development.
That's sad friend. Your community failed you when growing up. This makes me want to weep.
I think the point is, that Pakistan and Korea are culturally very different. Different languages, different religions, different traditions, different histories, etc. So claiming they both share "Asian culture" is rather dubious since it isn't very clear what is this "Asian culture" which they allegedly both share.

Some Asian countries do have some common cultural heritage. Japan and Korea were both heavily influenced by Chinese culture, for example. But, Pakistan and Korea, what common cultural heritage do they have?
I see it as a "kill two birds" situation. Corporate ethics is a very different beast from human ethics. Getting any decision through a board room typically requires at least two entirely plausible value propositions.
Sprint has been losing money and users for over a decade. Their chief backer was tired of pouring money into it. The alternative wasn’t four major carriers or three major carriers after a merger. The alternative was three carriers, one out of business and the other three buying the spectrum.
Seems to me like most people (in so far as their own health is concerned) do not treat sars-cov-2 like there's a 3/4 chance that they won't even know they have it.
Weird, my iPhone is in English, but I live in Brazil, and couldn’t reproduce it (iOS 13.5.1).

However, a bit unrelated, Siri suggested a website whose title is “Home - Donuts” when I was typing news.ycombinator. And the link for it is just “news”
More like "politics makes strange bedfellows", Charles Dudley Warner [0]

[0] - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Warner
That is definitely not the "whole point" of democracy.
Instagram is worth 100 billion because Facebook leveraged its advertising network and integrated it heavily with FB proper.
Not exactly. That’s why democracy doesn’t promote lynchings for example, and why US sets term limits on its presidents even if they are popular.
> Sounds like Verizon's Facebook advertising spend is losing value because of COVID-19, so they're using this a way to redirect focus away from the negative impact on their business.

My first thought on all these "boycotts". Are we cynical or is there any proof of this?
Maybe worth semi weaponizing it? Make your own phishing page that gets into this list (easier said than done) and as soon as they click the sign in button (pre credential entry) splash a page explaining that Apple is busted?
35mm film already affords you the very maximum in light gathering and blur, though. The kit lens used to be 50 1.8 or 1.4, which really is pretty much the amount of background blur people are looking for today. You didn't complain about lack of aperture or blur because you already had what people today are looking for.

Even medium format and large format had pretty much the same amount of background blur and low-light performance, just at a higher resolution.
parliamentary systems have less of the US two-party brinksmanship that explains all the robocalls and takedown ads.
Busy Beaver is the BIOS of our universe
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression . They have been around since forever.
Speech that leads to violence, how about starting with that?
No, but the apology letter that I was forced to write to the super was.
I don't think these images made a point of trying to disguise themselves. They were meant to be used in already compromised hosts and pulled after the fact. One of the reasons why containers/k8s are so attractive for malware like this is that they are spun up/down all the time. Without actively scanning for IoCs it's very easy to overlook.
>With these 2 caveats I'm surprised you still think it's fine!

I have a Macbook Pro for work. It is functionally a desktop that I can take home with me every day. If Apple shipped a Mac Mini with a built in 10 minute battery that auto hibernated the machine when i unplugged it, it would make sense for work to provision me one of those and save $800~

If this was my personal laptop, it'd be untenable though.
This sounds similar to the advertiser boycott that led to demonetization of YouTube channels that were pushing hate content.

I don't know what action FB realistically can take to similarly disincentivize hate content or violence promoting though, since its primary content producers (people who post) are not paid - they are posting for their own sake - so there is nothing to demonetize.

Maybe they can follow Twitter's lead and flag content with warnings, but that seems unlikely given their current stance.
I keep running into that problem: "Toward" is the American style while "Towards" is the British style.
For all the people mentioning the free speech ramifications, I would like to point to the recommendations from the group leading this boycott[1]. It doesn't seem like any of this is related to free speech. They are asking for extra moderation and support. They also are asking for Facebook to stop profiting from hate speech and misinformation, but they stop short of asking for changes to any policy regarding the removal of content. What is wrong with these requests?

Provide more support to people who are targets of racism, antisemitism and hate

* Create a separate moderation pipeline for users who express that they have been targeted because of specific identity characteristics such as race or religion. This pipeline must include experts on various forms of identity-based hate.

* Create a threshold of harm on the platform where they will put a target of hate and harassment in touch with a live Facebook employee to help them address their concerns.

* Release data from their existing reporting form around identity-based hate. For example, how many reports of hate speech based on race or ethnicity did they get in 2019? How many, and what kinds of actions were taken?

Stop generating ad revenue from misinformation and harmful content.

* Create internal mechanisms (for every media format on every Facebook platform) that automatically remove all ads from content labeled as misinformation or hate.

* Change the advertising portal on all Facebook products to tell advertisers how often their ads were shown next to content that was later removed for misinformation or hate.

* Provide refunds to advertisers for those advertisements

* Prove it: send out an audited transparency report specifically addressing these suggestions.

Increase Safety in Private Groups on Facebook.

* At the request of a member of a private group, provide at least one Facebook-affiliated moderator per group with more than 150 members. Consider more moderators for even larger groups.

* Create an internal mechanism to automatically flag content in private groups associated with extremist ideologies for human review. This content and associated groups would then be reviewed by internal subject matter experts on extremism.

[1] - http://stophateforprofit.org/productrecommendations
I agree, let's keep politics out of business. Let's start by not having the president announce policy decisions over social media.
Sybian is a great product. It works well, but is a little expensive.
Note from an English major: Paradise Lost is not worth reading. Reading the surroundings of the work and the symbolism and themes, Milton's life & the state of English society at the time is entertainment enough for anyone. The work itself has good parts, bit like Shelley's Frankenstein, without literary comment OR an education in literate going back to the Greeks you will not understand it as it was out to be understood. Having read Paradise Lost is a precursor to Frankenstein. Literary circlejerking was the privilege of the rich even at the time.
With some experience, I find it impossible to write code using TDD that is difficult to refactor. Good code, that scores well on SOLID metrics, is easy to refactor, because individual pieces are already split out into multiple classes, rather than living as a series of statements in a single method in a single class.

>One of the common pitfalls with TDD and unit-testing is that you end up having a function that's sufficiently well covered with unit tests, but as it evolves into something more complex,

A function should not evolve into something more complex. It should be split out into multiple functions, each of which is simple. In addition to being far easier to test individually, you will find that when you need to change it, only some parts will need to be discarded.
Uber, Lyft may be forced to make drivers employees
Ok so, for a more tangible example, I hand Buddy several pounds of drugs, Buddy hands me cash, I can walk to the store immediately and use said money to acquire things. Likewise, I could turn around, go talk to other Buddy and buy more drugs, all within 5-10 minutes of receiving said handful of cash.

Until a digital currency allows this with the same level of anonyminity and ease, it's not viable as a replacement to cash. Go betweens and other things will still involve some third party to facilitate the conversion to real currency. That's the problem. This digital currency must be equally as legitimately and illegitimately useful immediately upon receipt with no hassle with any and all transactions directly doable in said currency without the need for any third party involvement or recording.
What I think is actually worse is that the majority of people dont even care, actually. Not a very woke world we live in
As you get near the outskirts of a city, where you live starts to depend on who you're talking to. I live in Gig Harbor, Washington, which is about 20 minutes from Tacoma, which is itself about half an hour from Seattle. If I was talking to someone else from the area, I'd never claim to live in Seattle. But if I'm talking to someone from out of state, then yeah, sure, I'm from Seattle.
Many young people in America have no health care, and delay going to the doctor until they are on death’s doorstep. That might be part of it. Before I got my first desk job at the age of 32, my reality was that going to a doctor or dentist was as distant an idea as being an astronaut. I had never been, and had no idea how one would even go about trying, and had no money to pay for those kinds of services anyway. I’m sure that many people are stuck in that position for far longer (or indefinitely). After I got that first job the first thing I did was have 7 fillings and 2 root canals, saving several of my teeth.