skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dang, I’m not here to pile-on. The mod team here is spectacular. Over the years you and team have done a wonderful job. I do love HN. I just want to digitally die. I think we all get that. Keep doing what you do. To the community, support dang! He’s good.
Finally, HN should have have some option to wipe out the account, user name, comments, posts, something... It should be automated.
Assumptions:
1) All my devices are Apple
2) I'm not planning on leaving Apple

For all the negative replies I wonder how many people actually have used Keychain. It's very good. I tried onePassword, google's, and firefox's, but none integrates as well among all my devices and with zero effort in the OS as keychain. Anyone leaving negative comments about keychain, at least point out that you've given it the ol' try in the Apple Ecosystem.

Or we have different assumptions and you have devices outside the Apple ecosystem or don't want to be tied to it therefore the benefits I see to keychain don't apply to you.

Also the WWDC yesterday has some cool new features about bad passwords (But I think other password managers already do this).
This is partly why I think contact tracing using physical trackers should have at least been considered.

Realistically only a certain subset of the population needs to be tracked (cost-wise).

The ethical concerns with a tag that goes in your pocket (or similar) are more obvious but come the end of the pandemic you can throw it in the sea whereas once the technology exists in the phones you can't trust the government not to keep it in some form.

Given the amount of processing power available to a state, and the amount of data collectable from a smartphone, it's getting increasingly possible to have a system like (in principle - not sonar or graphical but powerful correlations of sensor data from static WiFi hotspots and similar) that shown in The Dark Knight. Unfortunately no one will have the spine to say no.
Small compared to what? It's 80% the land mass of the USA, and the sixth largest country by land mass in the world.
I agree in that, these days, I don't see myself wanting to upgrade a laptop's RAM before I'd just replace it with a newer machine. While it would be a nice bonus to have the option, realistically I imagine the 8 GB of memory that comes standard with the baseline MacBook Pro model would be enough for anything I'd personally want to do with a laptop in its lifespan, and I would be willing to sacrifice memory upgradability for a slimmer design, for example.

However, I think Apple (and other laptop manufacturers) cross the line when they ship soldered-in batteries with their laptops. Batteries are consumable components that are guaranteed to degrade over time. Unlike RAM, which, assuming Apple sources it from quality vendors, you can expect to last for many years, laptop batteries will definitely begin to degrade within a few years, and will, over enough time, render the laptop unusable. Apple is producing $1500+ laptops with a non-replaceable component that will, without a doubt, eventually break down. Your options at that point are to buy a new laptop, or to send it to Apple so they can charge an arm and a leg to replace the entire top case instead of just the battery (as that'd be impossible). You should buy a new laptop when you want to, not because you "might as well" without the option of battery replacement, and with Apple's "repair" option costing a quarter of the price of a new one.

Though to a lesser extent, it also irks me that the SSDs are soldered in, not necessarily because I'd want the ability to upgrade them post-purchase, but mainly because your valuable data lives there, and it will become trapped on a dead board if something goes wrong with an unrelated component. Even if failures like this are rare, the threat of data loss while using a MacBook would still concern me more than while using a laptop with a replaceable SSD. I believe Apple has a data recovery procedure, but you'd still have to send your laptop to them and cross your fingers in the event it dies, whereas if the SSD wasn't soldered in, you'd have the option of manually recovering your data, or taking it to a repair shop where they could do it for you.

I would love to see a MacBook Pro with, at the very least, a replaceable battery (but especially with a replaceable SSD as well).
Things are changing in that we get more of these requests than we used to, but they're not changing in the sense that the current approach shows signs of not working. On the contrary, it works very well. The main problem is that it's not universally known, and so occasionally complaints like the current thread show up, or people tell each other things that aren't actually true. It's on my list to add to the FAQ, which would help, if anyone actually read the FAQ.

Addressing the same questions over and over is much, if not most, of my job. In recent months I've started to link more systematically to past explanations, since the sequences of questions on many topics have started to converge. I intend to compile these into either a v2 FAQ or a series of short essays about moderation topics, or something, which in the future can simply be linked to. The question of account deletion will certainly be in there.
https://bellard.org/quickjs/, for one
Where did you find this information?
I'm ok with how I've represented your comment. You are not 'merely clarifying', you're implying the journalist is being dishonest. Then you slather on the conspiratorial 'certain elements of the Ctrl-Left to warrant a cancel-attack'. It's a comment that would only benefit from some misrepresentation since the more literally one reads it, the worse it sounds.
I'd love to use SSM with other OSes (i.e. FreeBSD) than just Amazon Linux & Ubuntu which are supported.
Related PG tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1270622556098355201
I definitely recommend it! The tour I did went around the tidal basin and visited all the major monuments on the western half of the mall. I really enjoyed the stories and factoids from the tour guide—she pointed out a lot of stuff I had missed on self-guided walking tours. I think the tour agency to was somewhere near the GW campus, but I forget the name.
It’s definitely 2 for most western countries
Exactly. I can live with everything but that left aligned repository layout.
2030 is a stretch. Apple has generally supported new Mac hardware for 5-7 years, and my guess is the timeline is only going to get shorter for Intel-based Macs going forward, considering their resources are going to be disproportionately allocated to the newer versions.
The Apollo reddit app also does this! Really great feature when I want to go back up to look at the content again and then go back to the comment I was reading.
Martin Fowler wrote a superb discussion of branching strategies. It's here: https://martinfowler.com/articles/branching-patterns.html
There should be a law that require all ML and DS classes, books, and bootcamps start by manually labeling data.
Institutional investors can’t know more than retail outside investors. That would be illegal. Why would they need to make any public disclosures? They don’t publish margins per segment.
As for Uber, the AI researchers that were laid off were not from the self driving division.

Google's freeze as far as I know is for all engineers ( only backfilling attrition is permitted), not limited to ML.

I personally feel this slump in the ML job market is only temporary and related to a temporary loss of risk taking appetite.

As for the legit vs non legit ML practitioners, I don't see how the situation is going to improve any time soon. Because it's not just random engineers fooling themselves by saying they are great at ML, there are entire companies new and old where there has been an increasing focus/pressure to sell AI powered $XYZ snake oil. They don't care who they hire, and most likely they don't even know who/how to hire when it comes to ML/AI, because the whole process right from the top is let's sell it first and wing it later
> You can clearly see the officer pass his tazer from his right to left hand and then reach for his gun prior to the tazer shot.

Reaching for a holstered handgun and deciding to draw it are two separate things.

> Having a second potentially valid argument doesn't change the accuracy of the one made.

I'm making exactly one argument: the officer who killed Rayshard Brooks did so knowing that the Taser in his hand was useless. You've yet to offer any evidence to the contrary.
Another expression i like is 'truth by convention'
Yes, good point, my mental math does not check out.

Not sure what you mean by there being "less ambiguity" with hex strings though. Less ambiguous than what, and how?
Problem the government’s response to the virus has unleashed: Zombie firms
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but it inevitably breaks down at some point because I haven't accounted for something along the way

Could you give more details? That might be helpful in providing some ideas.
Buying something is the same as making it yourself right?
Ask HN: Why Apple Rosetta can not emulate kernel extensions
As we can see from the Apple Rosetta documentation, the Rosetta layer can not emulate the x86 kernel extensions. I am trying to understand why this is the case. If someone knows the answer to this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Link to Rosetta [documentation](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/about_the_rosetta_translation_environment)
Time for everyone to install HTTPS Everywhere and turn on Encrypt All Sites Eligible (EASE) on desktop.

On mobile, highly recommend using a browser that supports extensions or pressuring companies to enable third party browsers. It's not overstating it to say that our legislators should compel that competition, it's a national security issue that journalists, intelligence officials, and the President using devices by a certain manufacturer cannot change the browser or use helpful extensions like HTTPS Everywhere.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/how-https-everywhere-k...
I’m on a similar path.

I was wondering, hope this isn’t too personal to ask, when you were searching for that first internship, I am in that stage right now, what did your resume look like? What sort of projects did you include and did not include?

Besides my curious questions, I enjoyed reading about your experiences and I hope to read more on your blog.

Cheers!
I think a lot of it has to do with how companies evolve. Apple and its culture has evolved to make it reliant on these chance encounters, where as Gitlab and other fully remote companies haven't. It will be interesting to see how companies transition.
said the person that did not invest in the hardware or development for it. good for you.
That line just means you can’t run an emulator on top of an emulator, which makes sense. Performance would suck.

What will happen instead is that companies like VMware will release emulators that run natively on Apple chips. (Rather than trying to run on top of Rosetta.) However, Intel Windows performance might still suck in those. Remains to be seen.
I'm afraid I don't understand. Can you explain in a different way?
Well I mean you kind of have to get bogged down with monads since it's the only way to do something with IO, i.e. useful.

(Though I'm biased because I think Haskell is a terrible language for everyday usage :P )
> Hexadecimal encoding is widely used because computers work with bytes (8 bits). An hexadecimal character is 4 bits, so every byte is two hex characters.

Yes, I'm aware (that electrical & computer engineering degree I have is occasionally good for something ;) ).

But the dominating factor in hashing a bunch of data is the hash function itself, not converting it into something displayable. Converting between binary and hex vs. binary and some other base string is optimizing the wrong part of the process.

And who is converting SHA1 hashes between hex and binary by hand? That doesn't seem like a thing people do.
I wonder if any alternative operating systems will be supported. "Boot Camp" was for running Linux, too.
Not to a non-https website if the user is visiting a secure site.

Apple should disable javascript for non https sites.
I tried to find a counterexample but there doesn't seem to be one. Fun observation.
This is dead on. Moreover, I find it a bit funny that the authors consider WhatsApp to be a social media platform, but not iMessage. Similarly, they consider YouTube to be a social media platform, but not Twitch (or any of the paid services like Netflix). If they were intellectually honest, Facebook's market share would be nowhere near what they claim.
I see what Sutton said as a "statistical learning and artificial intelligence" researcher in line with what the authors of the physics paper presented as "an application of learning research to computational science and engineering, CSE, surrounding physics".

CSE researchers did not sit down and wait for AI researchers to learn the bitter lesson before they resumed their work.

CSE research goes on independent of whether AI/GOFAI/ML has a winter, a summer, an ice age, or a global warming.

It just so happens that in light of the recent progress of AI/ML, specifically 2012 to 2019, they see the utility of incorporating a tiny bit of ML to their vast array of methods.

The paper shared in this thread is merely another attempt to advance such an incorporation. If it doesn't pan out, they go back to doing CSE on physics without any AI or ML.
It's extremely rare for an attorney to get disbarred. Pretty much the only time someone will be reliably disbarred is if they steal a client's funds.
I often see comments like this on Reddit, not on HN. HN comments that state an emotion usually go on to explain why they have a particular emotion. How about rewriting your comment to better fit with HN style?
I saw the Washington Post describe Victoria as a small state today (in its Covid-19 coverage of the outbreak there). I went and looked up its size to compare to US states - it's bigger than Minnesota and Utah and all but 11 US states. I doubt the WaPo would refer to Utah as a small state.
Intel can't (maybe). AMD can. In fact right now, AMD doesn't even have to keep up, because it's substantially out in front.
That's fun. Take that infinite scrolling pages!
Wow I had no idea. Thanks for the info and link.

The seismic community has been producing plots like these for decades, but they're just referred to as "wiggle plots", not a great name. Ridgeline seems like the best option going forward!
When I think about the vaccine side, I still wonder how long that will take. I don’t know how it works, will there just be almost immediate economies of scale to vaccinate people?

If vaccines will also be available in ‘waves’ as they are produced, then that must mean testing is some kind of a prerequisite to know who to give the vaccine to that needs it most - and who also may already be immune from exposure?

It seems like the total cases —> 0 option is virtually unattainable in the near term (probably into 2021). Maybe with more cases being reported, we are aiming for 2) but actually going through 3).
> Case is really annoying to deal with. The string form is for humans to read and type, among other things.

If anyone is frequently typing out SHA1 hex strings by hand, that would be news to me.
I think of us as a small country because whilst large in size. we only have 7 largish cities, and 25 million people packed into them. With Sydney and Melbourne having close to 10 million people between them.
This is how I see stuff being hauled around in China on a daily basis!
“Third World Country”? Journalists ?!? use that term in 2020?
Camerata: The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming (2018)
I got this https://www.bafangusadirect.com/bafang-750w-bbs02-mid-drive-... and it works great! I've had it for a few years now. strong enough to handle pulling both my kids in a bike trailer and also a lot faster than I was expecting for commuting back and forth to work.
I am so confused / mixed on generative art. I've made a bunch. I often enjoy looking at it. I have friends that make a living from it. But I waffle on whether it's good/bad/art/not-art.

I've been told by commenters on HN that my generative art is not art if it was created without intent to express some truth about the world or some such criteria. Not sure I agree.

On the other hand it used to be a rite of passage to make a "draw random lines in random colors" program in like the first few days of learning to code and technically that is generative art.

My friend who makes a living on generative art for installations does lots of flowing cubes and I'm super happy for him and always say positive things. But, in my head sometimes I'm like "seriously, all you did there is write a random line generator" because having made similar pieces I know effort wise it's more like a doodle then a project. In other words most of my generative art took less than an hour to make. I can turn my generative art to make images similar to ones he gets paid for in few minutes. So, sometimes it's hard not to see certain generative art as low effort? I'm not sure how to describe my feeling here.

If some one showed you their program that had 2 numeric fields and an add button and you set the 2 fields, clicked add and the sum of the 2 fields is displayed (in other words the 2nd or 3rd program you ever wrote, https://jsfiddle.net/greggman/hypv0ugo/). You'd be happy for them they are making progress on learning to program but if they posted that as "Show HN" you'd likely not give them much praise.

That's the type of thing I often feel about some percent of generative art and I don't know how to stop feeling that any more then I wouldn't feel like "why are you showing this?" about the adding 2 numbers example.
Not sure I follow. If the SHA1 hashes use [0-9a-f], and the SHA256 hashes use [h-zA-Z] (or something along those lines), there is never any overlap in characters.
You can still be the best and have security vulnerabilities. That proves absolutely nothing. I don’t know what kind of logic you are using. Are you implying that the best at security should never have had security vulnerabilities? If yes, what platform would that be?
Trying to make sense of this reminds me of reading monad tutorials. To dense with references (self- and otherwise) and analogy for me to make sense of.

It's definitely possible I'm just not smart enough to understand this, but how does one go about learning to comprehend stuff like this?
This is a name I haven't heard in several years.
This is entertaining. HN continues to pleasantly surprise me.
Beat Saber is the big hit, which I love; but if you're really into rhythm games I would also take a look at Audica, from Harmonix.

If you are into puzzle-light exploration in a beautiful space, I would highly recommend Fujii as a hidden gem. The only drawback is that it's pretty short.

Not really "content", but if you are interested in productivity apps, Immersed or BigScreen are among the options for streaming your desktop to your headset, depending on what platform you're on. They can also be used for online VR screensharing. (Disclosure: I have a small stake in Immersed.)

The various streaming apps (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Youtube, etc.) are not exactly novel, but I like being able to watch stuff without being in front of the computer. (I finally have the screen on the ceiling that I've always wanted.)
If you want to get a job as a frontend engineer, you should learn React because it's a tick-box on a lot of job postings these days.

If you just want to make personal projects, it depends a lot on what kinds of projects you want to make. React won't really help you with the sort of 2D-game-type programming you're using Pixi.js for. On the other hand, if you think the Reddit redesign is really good and you want to make a website that works exactly like that, the React community is a good place to start.

But one of the main benefits of using React that I've heard about is that it forces all the members of a development team to organize (certain parts of) their code the same way. This isn't really an issue on personal projects. Personally, I spent about a year working with React for a job, but I continue to write vanilla JavaScript on my own time.

(You can learn other frameworks than React, but React is a good starting point because it's the most popular one. Then you can learn about Framework X by reading "how is Framework X different from React" articles online.)
I don't like it. They pulled a reddit and their UI was already WAY better than old reddit. I don't mind the side nav though.
I'll have to give it a closer read later, but after skimming through, two things are on my mind:

1. This doesn't have to be and shouldn't be an either/or sort of thing. There should be lots of people trying lots of different things, mars colonies included. Derailing people from what drives them is at best fruitless and at worst destructive.

2. The writer is too caught up on Mars specifically. The point is to kickstart spacefaring so we do it often enough to elevate our mastery to the same level we've achieved with so many other things. Mars is just the most reasonable vehicle for that.

The mastery mentioned in #2 will eventually bring settlements and industry to dot the entire solar system, which reduces risk of extinction in the near-medium term to near zero and does a lot to prepare humanity for even further disasterproofing (e.g. construction of colossal generation ships and the like becomes feasible).
I don't think the legal code for preventing acquisitions says anything about consumers.

15 USC §18 says "No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no person subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another person engaged also in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce, where in any line of commerce or in any activity affecting commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly."

Nevermind that, let's say it is about protecting consumers. How have consumers been harmed by the Instagram acquisition? Facebook didn't shut them down, substantially change the product, or force users to use their other products. IIRC Facebook reduced the price of WhatsApp by removing the dollar fee.
I'd consume this style of outline for almost any topic

Regardless of my interest in it

So useful
I'm sorry but that's definitely not true. It does not prevent things from loading. They still load, but they are scrubbed from the page. A DNS filter like adguard and pihole actually does what you are describing.
if you are not a developer, The Only Wining Move Is Not To Play!

If you buy the quest as everyone here says, you will install two or three party games (that you can't share because quest only have a single user profile) and then shelve it and never take it out again because there's no A title for it on stand alone mode.

And if you do want to wire it up to a PC, then you will have the worst of both worlds. Stuck on a PC but with all the weight of the battery and the lowest tier of image quality.
It's a different price for a different product. Grin Technologies does their own design, and makes great stuff.
If you're willing to email us, we can help. There's one user who has emailed us dozens of times requesting the most meticulous tiny edits that you wouldn't believe. But we're meticulous editors ourselves, so we humor him. If I woke up to a hundred such requests every day, we'd have to change something, but a handful is no problem.
I do regularly use it, just for something else that has a similar security level. I know it's generally bad to reuse passwords, but I do this specifically for the reason you've brought up: it'd be a disaster if I forgot the passphrase.

This is obviously not perfect security for that reason and a few others, but it's good enough for me.