skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true.

Far too many people today, many of whom I suspect have a recent inclination to harboring particular political views at all, are missing the entire point of politics - that it's a debate.

It's the great debate, the one that we set up entire electoral systems to have, and built entire buildings in which it would be held.

Today, a dangerous number of people are outright enraged by having their dogmatic political beliefs challenged, and they'll go to great lengths to ensure that you can't share yours.

It's a mess. Years ago, attempts at political conversation were more often than not met with indifference and you had to find like-minded people interested in having them. We used to bemoan that too few people were engaged in politics. Who knew that it would be this much of a mess once they were.
Notes separated by octaves are like higher and lower versions of the same note.

If a deep-voiced person and a high-voiced person sing the same tune together (without either straining), then they are singing one (or more) octaves apart.

Assuming they are singing in tune with each other, otherwise it will sound more like Chick Corea demonstrates here:
https://youtu.be/yfoxdFHG7Cw?t=371
I'm not saying his record means the charges are bullshit, but I'm saying if the charges are bullshit and his record is infallible then the implication is that we live under a government without freedom of the press, where truthful hard-hitting journalism gets you put in prison.

If you don't believe that Assange has done truthful hard-hitting journalism, or you believe that he isn't a journalist at all, then you can maintain the belief that we don't put journalists in prison while sitting idle as he rots in prison, because he is not a True Journalist. "We wouldn't do that to True Journalists. Assange is different."
Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says
This article is by the same reporter who is accused to "threatening to doxx SlateStarCodex." I don't happen to believe that accusation.

It is worthwhile to point out that this is a guy who is trying to convey information that people want to know. He is doing it every week. Some days, everyone is glad that he reported something, because now they know. Other days, everybody thinks he's the devil, because a blogger accused him of something. But it's the same job. He's trying to convey to NYT readers information that he thinks is valuable.

That is the role of journalism. I'm surprised how many people on HN think that that function should not be performed in society, because they have been offended or disappointed by parts of "legacy media." Cancel culture is a two-way street.
One of the common threads on some limits to free speech is the notion that lies are not protected. Libel, perjury, false advertisement, slander. I treat downvoting similarly: I only downvote things I know to be false and figure the speaker either knows it to be false or reasonably should know.

Since I only downvote in the rare cases where I believe a person is being dangerously disingenuous or unreasonable, I often don't feel there would be any value in replying. If they are misrepresenting facts or I believe they are not reasonable, why would I attempt to reason with them?

Instead if I think the person is just confused or hasn't considered a different perspective, I won't downvote and might reply. Often I will just ignore it anyways, since I am ambivalent about the possibility of reasoning with people over the internet.
except an LED is either on or off, but a UI button is always "on"
Spare the Programming, Spoil High School CS?
"cancel culture" circa 1950: https://books.google.ch/books?id=pqPVuJG5Qh0C&pg=PA145&lpg=P...

"... in July of 1950, [Paul] Robeson, who had held a passport continuously since 1922, was asked by two agents of the State Department to relinquish his current passport."
Emacs Server
I initially understood this to mean Accenture changed its name as a consequence of the Enron/Arthur Anderson scandal. But Anderson Consulting changed its name to Accenture in January 2001, and the scandal only became public later that year.

Seems like the two companies weren't very close even before that, the name change was required as part of a legal settlement with Arthur Anderson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture#Split_from_Arthur_An...
Great papers linked from that. At the time, it seemed the sensor APIs didn't provide a key with sufficient entropy to be considered a cryptographic verification for the tokens we were using. We didn't take it further because the entropy of the biometric sample was going to be diminished by using it to generate a static key, even though the papers linked show you can compose a key with error correcting codes, and intuitively, you could use some kind of probabilistic filter to verify a set of bits in the sample via shamir secret sharing to provide a threshold for a key. It still relies on separate security domains between the biometric sample collection and the cryptographic verifier, and we'd be deep in to the engineering over the differences, but these papers are really useful for getting into the details. One of the early ones was a good intro to it: http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/papers/2002/ari-journ.pdf
War crimes?
You’re also not allowed to run macOS on non-Apple hardware. Hope nobody out there is doing that!
I don’t think you sell to the enterprise at this stage. You sell to a manager of a department, and keep the deal size small enough that approvals are contained at that level.

Then expand the account later when you’ve gained traction and can go through an enterprise sales process.
The doesn’t have anything to do with the language code was written in. Ultimately all software is assembly. This is about hardware specific registers that control the underlying hardware and can be used for things like controlling oem functionality (brightness, backlight, etc), changing CPU frequency and voltage, etc.
Although it's often even messier than that. Look at the density of Manhattan vs. NYC as a whole. Or core Paris vs. Paris as a whole. Much less the many American cities with fairly dense but small downtowns but that sprawl far into the distance.
Yeah, I know also those nice Perl based scripts with batch files glue somehow being called from CodeWarrior, just referred Carbide, because at the end the experience wasn't that bad, specially by the Belle days.

Google just doesn't get it, note that major GDC 2020 Android talks are mostly related to NDK improvements, 10 years later.
Even if it's not the only way to implement iterators, using closures which maintain state and yield values one after another seems to be a very popular way to do it.

In that case you're passing around a function, which matches how this chapter characterizes "functional programming".
The UN's own press statements refer to the Special Rapporteurs as "UN Experts"

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...
Does Apple "support" booting any OS other than Windows today? I mean, Boot Camp is an official Apple product, so they "support" that.
Office365 works as well as it does anywhere.
It's going to be hard to have good Linux support.

Even current Intel MacBooks are full of glitches and things that don't work due to custom T2 chips. In the future, I expect this to be more of a problem as Apple continues pushing custom chips. This makes a lot of sense for them as they can develop significant advantages by controlling their architecture, like e.g. Commodore did with Amiga.

In contrast, early Intel MacBooks were fantastically open. For example, the MacBook 2,1 is one of the few machines to be able to run Libreboot. The MacBook Air Late 2012 was run by many people as a daily driver, including Linus, as it was a pure Intel machine. Silent and simple, everything was supported.
That's just a passthrough for WSL VMs on Windows hosts.
That's one of the advantages of digital pianos. Many models have a setting where you can tune it for the key of your song. Then the basic chords on that key sound perfectly in tune, and the chords of nearby keys sound slightly dissonant, thus creating a beautiful tension.
MSRs are not your ordinary registers, they are low-level registers for configuring major settings on the CPU.

> Think performance counter MSRs, MSRs with sticky or locked bits, MSRs making major system changes like loading microcode, MTRRs, PAT configuration, TSC counter, security mitigations MSRs, you name it.

I think the only legitimate uses of MSRs in userspace today is changing power-management related settings and performance profiling, which should be managed by the kernel anyway.

I welcome this move. PaX/grsec had an option to block MSR accesses for years.
I wouldn't be surprised by any of this, but the reddit post reads too... reddit-y, I guess? I mean, I could easily write a post like that without actually doing anything. Where's the proof? I want to see these analytics payloads. I want to see how they disassembled the app. So far, though, there's not a lot of proof, just some statements about analytics data and "I'm a nerd who figures out how apps work for a job".
Show HN: Update all values with the same key in JSON string
Insecure People Say This, Secure People Say This
I vote for the ridiculous number of different devices, screen sizes, hardware etc.

Maybe the compiling times too.
I always use cak(the bell that a certain class has to wear on their nose) as a metaphor for current mask usage. :D
Source: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oCmUxI1UdME/maxresdefault.jpg
I believe that US citizens of German descent were actually placed in internment camps during WW2. I don't think it was at the same scale as Japanese citizens but it did happen.
Is it really necessary to leak information on Russia? Outside Russia we already know that they have done bad things. Besides was the information he leaked untrue? As an US citizen I am most interested in when is going on inside my own country not only because it affects me but also because I have the ability to push for change.
Pretty sure that the partners in Anderson took a big haircut after Enron.
I wish they would give a clear picture on virtualization performance if they’re not going to support dual booting. If Linux and Windows virtualization are not at least on par with their 2019/20 models, these things are dead in the water for me as dev machines.
Oh god I've got flashbacks of those weird exception stacks you had to manage manually
> Have any smart people in tech come up with a solution that would satisfy the 4th amendment while preserving secure communications?

Sure. The 4th Amendment has nothing against anything that preserves secure communications.

> It seems that to lawmakers, tech people are proclaiming that they've done such a good job building secure systems that the 4th amendment cannot apply to them.

No, they are proclaiming that getting dangerous people is so important that the privacy rights like those in the Fourth Amendment shouldn't apply, which tendency is exactly why we have the Fourth Amendment.
Many great comedies from the Soviet era, ˙here are a few of my favorites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Calf_(1968_film)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Y_and_Shurik%27s_Oth...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping,_Caucasian_Style

I can go on and on ;).
I expect that running alternate OSs on an ARM Mac to be about as easy as they are on an iOS device. Which is to say... not easy. Apple has been working to close holes in the secure boot for many years.

The question of course is... why bother? I kind of get it as far as the laptops go, because of the hardware design. Though I think that gap has closed considerably in recent years and you can get a decent laptop that runs Windows or Linux. Though in the Linux case, support for features like suspend / resume and such tend to be spotty.

For desktop hardware, I don't see the value proposition for running an alternate OS.
Because "unpure" Android barely receives updates and the few occasions where it does, it's extremely delayed. So that's pretty "worse"

You can also choose to jailbreak an Apple device if you really want to be unpure, and luckily doing so won't prevent you from updating your phone in the future.
"The need to direct boot shouldn't really be a concern", says the same man who said that the lack of expansion slots on the trashcan Mac Pro 2013 shouldn't really be a concern because you have a lot of Thunderbolt ports.
Slightly off topic, but I built a feed aggregator for reddit and HN a few weeks ago: https://readr.page/ (https://github.com/vibhuagrawal14/readr.page)
I am going to borrow your interface and add ask/show/jobs/new for HN feed and hot/new/top for reddit!
Does anyone know how it works with such low overhead? What's it doing differently?
https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/
But how you obtain your information definitely does change whether or not you should be called a "journalist". If your information is obtained through blackmail, for instance, you are not a journalist you are an extortionist.
Mercator can be a very useful map. Angles are not distorted. It's also very good at low distortion at small scales. As you zoom in on a point, the area distortion diminishes. Once your area of interest is around 300km wide, the area distortion is only about one part in one thousand. It converges very quickly on a "true" representation of the earth.

Mercator's ubiquity isn't due to people who "aren't into maps" but rather because its strengths are really powerful in many use cases. Imagine the confusing situation if, in your favorite Maps app, North weren't always directly up, intersections met at wrong angles, and square buildings didn't always look square.
Worst thing I ever did on youtube was watch a video review of a drone (remote control flying toy). Suddenly my youtube home is flooded with drone videos, half the ads are for drones, and outside of youtube I’m suddenly seeing drone ads all over the place.

I watched another youtube video of a couple indigenous guys building a pool, and suddenly my wife (who watched the video with me but who does not use the same device as me) starts seeing similiar videos in in her youtube home.
I think that the OP is maybe making too much drama about it. Skepticism (even extreme skepticism) is always welcome in a scientific/technical discussion!

EDIT: Regarding the basis for consonance/dissonance, the mathematical part of it is straightforward. When superposing pure waves of close frequencies you obtain beating (a slow frequency modulation of the amplitude of your sound), and beating does not appear when you superpose pure waves of very different frequencies, regardless of the interval, integer or not. Thus, the only dissonant intervals of pure sinusoidal waves are those that are very close to the unison. If you compound this with the fact that western instruments have harmonic spectra, you see why some intervals are consonant and dissonant: the dissonant intervals are those that have some partials that are close, but not exactly, unison.
Promote Imperfect People
After reading Part I yesterday I got to thinking about SpaceX.

In his biography, Ashlee Vance describes how Musk built a knowledge base about rocket construction after his exit from Paypal. Both the "how to" and a first principles approach to the economics of it.

Musk knew the calculus that he could attempt to build rockets for far less than his competitors before he ever put a dime into SpaceX.

In contrast, vertical farming sounds more like the computer engineer equivalent of "I built a thing, isn't it shiny and cool" without understanding the industry, economics, or competitive landscape.

Vertical farming seems to be taking an ahistorical approach. With both both vertical farmers and VCs ignoring industry knowledge [0,1]

Sticking with Musk, he took an ahistorical appraoch to Tesla's Fremont factory with automation. He learned a very expensive and wasteful lesson that other auto manufacturers had known for decades.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23633298
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634030
All secure encryption is compatible with the 4th amendment. The 4th amendment is a restriction on the government, not a requirement for citizens to structure their personal affairs so we can be easily searched.
So we are moving back into a locked boot loader state of the world.

While I understand there are advantages to what Apple is doing, I worry that we will soon see lockdowns to what apps you can run on your computer. As an Apple fanboy for at least 20 years, that makes me sad.
Poster makes a great point about what SV doesn't get about farmers, but there is a huge range of things farmers do get about SV that are not obvious to many people who don't know farms or farmers very well.

I used to be CEO of a venture backed agriculture startup, and we learned pretty quickly that the hacker mentality applies very well to supporting farmers. Internally, we talked about providing farmers something like an SDK for the automation tools we were selling, where they could mod it to their own situation. In most cases, skills from soldering to metal work to carpentry were not only realistic to expect, but complete shops with air tools, etc. were usually present and often complete machine shops with CNC and 3d printers.
It means/implies under the cover of darkness, or within a "black" box - un-seeable...A market place for anything illegal.

Going full on, we could remove the word "black" from our vocabulary. So hex #000000 would now be "abuefho" (some random made-up word)
until people conscript that for their own designs and use it pejoratively: "you 'abuefho' jerk!"...

and then round and round we go...
Tulsi is on the BJP/VHP payroll and if you think Trump has a thing for Muslim bans/camps and cozying up to dictators, you ain't seen nothing yet.
A truly sane platform would use capability-based security with a Powerbox UI, as Sandstorm does: https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-06-10-network-access-permissi...
This kind of reads like the exact counter-point to the title: Symbian was doing the right thing, but in such a horrible fashion that ios and android were able to capitalise on "we offer less friction" at the expensive of what history has shown we had to pay for that convience. And history equally shoes we collectively quite happily did?
Let's segment further to muddy the waters... 3 shades of Red now. Soon they can write a book.
Do the research and you should be able to find out if a target HDD is SMR or not. Whatever you do - avoid the Red Minus by WD!
I'd prefer to have few labels like "I disagree" "Not true" "Off topic" "Pls read the article" "Disgusting"

Slashdot used to have that, it didn’t save it.
I think Tim Ferris and Rogan have made the medium quite popular. There is a survivorship bias at play here.
Monocultures are vulnerable to catastrophic phenomena that affect the monoculture. See Irish Potato Famine for one example.

Additionally, monocultures tend to deplete soil nutrients, so need land management in the form of fertilizer, crop rotation, or lying fallow. The latter two are often combined.

These are (obviously, I hope) not insurmountable.
A show about people who are overly concerned with appearances can better learn to project a particular appearance, based on the appearance of people who they think are better at faking a particular appearance.

I assume. From the tag line on the page, because there's no article there. This isn't even content marketing, it's just spam.
Just chill at home while food and money magically appear on the doorstep
I believe this person probably thinks Brazil had two socialist presidents, Lula and Dilma (plus a socialist interim one, Michel Temer) prior to the God-chosen one it has now.

I wouldn't engage.
Are you being intentionally obtuse?

There is a difference in knowing the meaning of a word and knowing the myriad of ways a word can be perceived by your audience. One is very easy the other is a gargantuan task.
There is nothing that Comcast can do that would increase my opinion of them re privacy. In my security regime ISPs like them are on the other side. Last-mile ISPs are unsecured public networks that shouldn't be trusted any more than free airport wifi. I want them blind to everything I (and my client) does online. Encrypt everything. Route DNS to trusted non-profit entities. Serve me the encrypted data I request but otherwise I don't want to even have a conversation with Comcast.
Do we not already have several examples of someone new coming in, pushing the adoption of a Code of Conduct, and then there is a sudden attack on the founders due to some minor quibble? Then there is the usual backroom meeting and whoosh, they're gone. Didn't we see that in, if I recall, Drupal?
Which also doesn't mean you can't write software that does those things (within reason and as configured by the kernel). It just means that you will have to use the appropriate kernel interfaces, as you already should have been.
According to Wikipedia, Damascus steel really means something more specific:

“Damascus steel was the forged steel of the blades of swords smithed in the Near East from ingots of Wootz steel imported from Southern India and Sri Lanka.“

“Although many types of modern steel outperform ancient Damascus alloys, chemical reactions in the production process made the blades extraordinary for their time, as Damascus steel was superplastic and very hard at the same time. During the smelting process to obtain Wootz steel ingots, woody biomass and leaves are known to have been used as carburizing additives along with certain specific types of iron rich in microalloying elements. These ingots would then be further forged and worked into Damascus steel blades. Research now shows that carbon nanotubes can be derived from plant fibers, suggesting how the nanotubes were formed in the steel.”
I think 95% of people running an alternate OS on a Mac computer are doing it for dual booting Windows and video games.
I've never used WhatsApp and as far as I know neither do my friends. I've never had anyone request to use it either.
You've just defined an absurd and then said that it's not absurd...
Congress should be the first to lose the things they vote to restrict. They should lose it for at least a year before a bill is allowed to pass by simple majority.
BLM has as much in common with black lives as ANTIFA has with anti fascism as Democratic People's Republic of Korea has with democracy. Just empty slogans.
Not sure, maybe it's the combination.
There is a reason people have to put annoyingly long official titles in when discussing persons and their opinions. "UN Special Rapporteur" does not equal the UN, it specially does not equal an official position of the UN which is what the user tried to do.

You have to be specific. "UN Special Rapporteur" does not equal the UN, which is why that specific language is put onto the footer of all their articles.
The subtitle is much better than the title "One hundred years after it was proposed, the Ising model is used to understand everything from magnets to brains."

(Also, this links to the comment section instead of the main article.)
While I don't know for a fact if MSRs were used in this case, I was at a presentation a few months back where a security researcher (Kit Murdock) used under-voltaging to get data out of a secure enclave (SGX).

"Plundervolt is an attack on Intel
SGX enclaves, which are trusted execution
environments. We showed that we can get secrets
out of SGX enclaves by lowering the CPU voltage
while it is performing calculations. Plundervolt is
a problem because SGX has an attacker model
that says, “Even if you’re root, you should not
be able to look inside my encrypted area.” "

https://research.redhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/RRQ-V...
TikTok is known to be Chinese malware. Is anybody on HN surprised by this?

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/30/army-follows-...
What does that have to do with this video?