skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
replying to a goading competitor rather than an honest now-former customer with a legitimate complaint strikes me as a real classy business move.

just my opinion.

(i'm a customer, I love pinboard, and this affects nothing as far as i'm concerned.. I haven't ever needed customer service -- it just strikes me as rude.)
The problem is it worked extremely well on older Macs.

People assume since it worked great on their old Mac, they can do it on their new one.
> And by what grounds are they the Bureau of Land Management's?

You may be accidentally engaging in a form of whataboutism.

The GP questioned whose.land's standards when drawing the borders. But I don't think GP asserted that the U.S.'s claims were any more valid.
Public outcry is speech. It’s as simple as that.
I leave my laptop in my hotel room while I go out for dinner, so point 3 is valid.
It's a shame they don't have a USB-C one that looks like a compact USB-C YubiKey.
Here is, to me, the relevant line:

"Hubert Dreyfus, who argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all. One of Dreyfus’ main arguments was that human knowledge is partly tacit, and therefore cannot be articulated and incorporated in a computer program. "

I have not read the rest of the article but in the introduction it's stated:

"The article further argues that this is in principle impossible, and it revives Hubert Dreyfus’ argument that computers are not in the world."

Wiktionary defines tacit as "Not derived from formal principles of reasoning" [1].

So the main argument is that humans have intelligence that is impossible to express through reason or codification. In other words, humans have a literal soul, divorced from physical world, that cannot be expressed in our physical world thus making any endeavour to create artificial intelligence impossible.

This is a dualist line of reasoning and, in my opinion, is nothing more than theology dressed up in philosophy.

I would much rather the author just flat out say they are a dualist or that they reject the Church-Turing thesis.
No amount of "just chemistry" has yet managed to create...

Keep in mind that no amount of rocketeering has ever put a man on Mars, but that hardly constitutes a proof, or even serious evidence, that it is impossible.

Arguments from ignorance are a terrible thing.
>When you search for courses on how to learn software development, there are tons of resources, meanwhile when you search for courses on how to stock trade and invest, only investopedia comes up.

I think the problems are similar for both subjects. When you search for software development, where would you even start? What language? Web, mobile, embedded? The software development world is large and there's no good single resource to "learn" it.

Ditto for investing; it might even be a larger subject. If you want to "learn to invest" because you want to save money, your best bet is to use a service that buys ETFs, contribute money monthly and never look at it.

However, if you're interested in investing as an art/science, there's a vast literature. Stocks? Bonds? Private equity? Distressed assets? Real estate? Cryptocurrency? Options, futures or other derivatives? Long or short? Active or passive? Fundamental or technical? On what scale do you plan to hold your investments?

The fact is, there's no right way to start. You have to narrow it down. I see a few recommendations to read financial reports. Sure, maybe. But this isn't 1975; I bet 75% of financial professionals have never read a 10k.
When I read something like this I realise just how immense of a lead tech companies are building vs 'normal' companies. There's just layer of expertise in how to streamline and organise themselves that anyone without a 1000 strong engineering team and huge engineering budget just are never going to think about.
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These people are still going to be publishing this garbage after AIs are the ones writing the articles.
Do you think this is the start of the land rush for gene manipulation therapies?
There's a separate ambient light sensor. On some models you can make out the three separate holes above the monitor, one for the webcam, one for the led, and one for the light sensor.

I can't for the life of me see it with more recent models, but if block the camera it's clearly still there since it can respond to light changes, but if you block enough of the area around the camera, it'll default to assuming you're in darkness.
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That's certainly not the case. We can and absolutely have proven things to be impossible.
Nope, calling on a company to fire someone is just as protected as any other speech.
I actually didn't say I oppose them. However, note that better-off Europeans and US citizens are subsidized, then their products flood the markets elsewhere and farmers all over the world - who also don't have access to appropriate technology - can't compete against it. So the farmers in poorer countries get screwed. Not such a great example of wealth sharing...
In the case of the school district spying on the kids, the light would just blink and be gone.
FWIW, there's an infamous photo showing how the Central Valley has literally sunk over the years from over-use of the aquifer.

https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/images/sub...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_land_subsidence
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Are quadriplegic people "human"?
Obviously, and now we agree!
This is a very nice point of view. How one CEO says it can be done.
Accessibility improvements - New screen reader capabilities.

Windows ARM builds - Windows on ARM is now available in stable.

New JavaScript debugger - Debug in the terminal, profiling support.

Source Control unified view - All repositories displayed in a single view.

View and sort pending changes - View files as a tree or list, sort by name, path, or status.

Edit complex settings - Edit object settings from the Settings editor.

New HexEditor extension - Edit files in hexadecimal format from within VS Code.

Notebook UI updates - Improved UX and undo/redo support.

Remote Development tutorials - Learn to develop over SSH, inside Containers, and in WSL.

Java Pack Installer for macOS - Get set up to develop in Java with VS Code on macOS.
To be fair it’s a 5 pack

It seems to be something with a switch that disconnects one of the rings of a 4 pin. Easy enough, but $5 doesn’t seem awful.

Of course it doesn’t disconnect built in microphones, and with modern Apple phones getting rid of 3.5mm jacks it’s value is less.
> considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the _days_ leading up to the U.S. election in November

Try months, or at least weeks.
ah yeah "terra nullius", a pretty good excuse if you want to justify colonial occupation of lands that don't belong to you.

It's a horseshit excuse sorry.
On the subject of the tail wagging the dog, mathematicians have been fighting about non-constructive proofs and the law of excluded middle far longer than they've been writing proof assistants, and deriding a direction of active and fruitful research just because you're not personally interested in it seems rather myopic.
I honestly can't remember the last time I used my camera during a company meeting, and I've been working remotely since March.

So, there's definitely value to a built-in cover; in my case it would stay shut permanently.
> Why are you so eager to have the US copy the ideals of the CCP?

There are no "ideals" in supporting something that is obviously stealing your data and handing it over to a totalitarian regime. Should you not be asking why this app exists in the store in the first place when the store and the app is being used within the jurisdiction of the United States but data being sent to a foreign entity? Would you be okay with US citizens personal information being handed over and stored in the servers controlled by a totalitarian Government?

As far as being "eager" to have the US copy the ideals of the CCP are concerned let me tell you where you are wrong: If the US was to indeed copy the ideals of CCP, it would be forcing TikTok and other social media to hand over personal information of you and fellow US Citizens without a subpoena or a court order. Now that is copying the ideals of CCP.
People who vehemently agree that vinyl is better than digital audio are a big part of the reason "audiophile" is basically derogatory nowadays. Reasons being:

- Vinyl gets dust and scratches that degrade signal.

- Dragging a needle along a surface is an inconsistent and limited mechanism for signal transfer.

- Vinyls are always derived from digital files these days anyway! Except for pre-digital prints, studio rate digital is as "pure" as it gets.

P.S. Tube amps are not better than chip amps either, it's a complete myth. Every measurement a tube amp does well at is beatable with a cheaper chip amp design. People think we can do 10 gigabit Ethernet and 4g LTE radio bandwidth with chips, but not accurately control a speaker producing audible frequencies? Please.

Audiophile products have a weird way of capturing people's hearts despite having no merit. I think it's partly because people hear their favorite music through a device and misplace their feelings for the music onto the device, and partly because they are biased towards rationalizing purchases even when they've been conned by some pseudoscience or empty marketing.
> the author completely misses the point when it comes to the exchange of power between people.

Resistance to a power structure is a conflict.
Except money is never endless. And consumers are benefiting in the process from cheap prices.

So as long as consumers are benefiting, and the situation can't go on forever, where's the abuse?

Abuse is generally a characteristic of natural monopolies, etc. Not merely a competitor with deep pockets. That's just healthy competition for the good of consumers.
I just tape mine off.

Apple webcams are pretty horrible anyway (current generation is even worse than a few ones ago). Noisy and blurry in anything less than ideal lighting conditions. So if I'm on a serious videocall I use an external one anyway.
I am a brown guy in my 30s and I also would like to have tiktok be banned from my home country.
Isn't that Stitch Fix?
So upon reading the article my understanding of this is that GCC and LLVM can possibly check CPU feature compatibility and dynamically link library versions based on what's supported. Is that correct? If not could someone chime in?

I'm also curious about some comments I read on the article. As follows[0]:

>> I think AVX, or level B in that proposal, would be fine for the next Redhat. AVX2 is a little too soon in my opinion. Yes for Intel AVX2 has been a Haswell deal, but AMD processors only got AVX2 with Ryzen 3 years ago. Plenty of Bulldozer family cpus are still being used. And even not all Intel users have AVX2 even today. The original AVX goes a few years back for Intel, and a lot of years back for AMD, and in my opinion is the sweet spot right now. Level A seems old in 2020, those non AVX cpus are more than a decade old at this point. A decade+ is a nice cutoff point, not too steep but not too old either.

>> In any case, i am all for modernizing cpu-feature support. It is about time.

> No. Most of the x86/amd64 just recently became available to third parties without having to license from Intel/AMD with the exception of the more recent vector instructions so letting the FOSS stack depend on AVX will vendor-lock x86 development out of the emerging Chinese chips. Besides, vector workloads that shouldn't be done by the GPU cores are rare anyhow so I just don't see the point from either a technical or political standpoint unless you happen to work for Intel/USG.

I'm not familiar with this space so I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly. So when they say "...letting the FOSS stack depend on AVX will vendor-lock x86 development out of the emerging Chinese chips" does that mean that newer features are license-locked? And if that gives an advantage to Intel/AMD over other semis based on the wide support for x86 then why would this be pushed by RedHat instead of Intel or AMD?

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...
Yes we have cell reimbursement
In the wake of the French Revolution, the hyper-centralist French state, with an Enlightenment-era dislike of diversity and a fondness for "standardization", deliberately eradicated lots of cultural diversity within France -- the Breton and Occitan languages were nearly driven extinct, and Basque's survival is much less assured than on the Spanish side of the border. Were Canada still a French possession, that Parisian chauvinism may well have impacted Canada all the same.
Apple's already addressed this by making their laptops nearly impossible to open up.
I personally want Zudgle Latin, with a CMC of 3 and the ability to grant extra turns at 50% upon activating abilities. That’s as good as Time Walk, if not better!
Nation states compromising Zuckerberg come in the front door and shake his hand.
Support for this kind of thing is entirely voluntary. You can short the mic pin to ground (or connect an external mic), and it will disable the onboard mic by default because that's what is expected, but there's nothing physically stopping the audio controller from reading from the onboard mic anyway.
So, who is going to run a solar-powered k8s cluster based on a bunch of Raspberry Pi 4's and host something more significant?
People always say that, at least until they get hit with $RANSOMWARE_OF_THE_YEAR or $RANDOM_VIRUS
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If I'm going to dinner where I can't take my backpack, I put mine in the safe.

Can recommend. Physical security > *.
I like this project a lot and am inspired to do something similar. I'm a liveaboard boater in the UK, I have a 55 foot narrowboat with 350w of solar on the roof and a 550ah battery bank. I could probably run my own little server similar to yours pretty much 24/7 as when I'm not using solar to charge the battery bank, I'm using the boat's engine to recharge.

So not quite as green but during the months from April to September, the solar panels are enough to charge the batteries every day.

My modem/router uses 4g, it's a Teltonika rut950 that is using OpenWRT and has GPS built in which I've been keen to make use of.

I'm definitely inspired to do something like you've built!
Yes it's possible, as LEDs are indeed diodes, but done naively it would be a very bright LED, and it would tend to flicker as the current draw from the camera varies. It would be a hassle in general.

The LED could still always fail short, and then you're back to having a broken indicator again.
But most of this 'hardware' is still software. Firmware inside the webcam itself, which could also be hacked.

Most webcams do report themselves to the OS while inactive, so they are actually communicating with the system (and thus powered)
The handy-dandy T2 also helps to soft-brick laptops, destroying that pesky second-hand market!

Poor Apple had already destroyed that for iPhones and iPads but just couldn't do it for their laptops, until now!

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akw558/apples-t2-security...
The UI issues in pgadmin4 are caused exactly because it opens web pages from relatively slow local web server, synchronously.

Electron/CEF can be used to make a decently (i.e. usable) performing SQL client app (see Azure Data Studio). But not in a way that pgadmin4 did it.
Thanks hansvm, always good to see replies like this :) Glad you're finding it useful!
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yes, but he wouldn't find a lot of clients interested in paying him 2 & 20 for such a simple strategy

Also, just so little companies is very risky. E.g. if Tesla flopped you'd probably underperform
Why the whole picture shifted? This can't be good
If you agree that the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, that these laws are local, and that any given region of the universe can be described with a finite dimensional Hilbert space (informally speaking, it contains a finite amount of information, which is implied by the Bekenstein bound), then yes. And of course there are some theories where these assumptions don't hold where the answer is still yes. See this paper for more details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1102.1612.pdf

(There are a few more technicalities which amount to forcing the simulator to solve an uncomputable puzzle before we tell them the laws. Let M be a turning machine that whose halting behaviour is undecidable. Even a spin-1/2 system might be "uncomputable" if all I tell you is that its Hamiltonian is (1 0; 0 1) if M halts and (1 0; 0 2) otherwise. Since a spin-1/2 system is one of the most blatantly computable things out there, this objection doesn't have much force.)
Yeah but this is in response to people being fed up with what China has been doing. I really hope more countries catch on and put China in its place.
What is determinism? Something just like a single play in a game of pool? Or could it include all of the history of a person and all of the biology, chemistry, and physics that keeps them upright and existing? How much of that information as amenable to "deterministic description"?

Take care that your "determinism" isn't just smoke and mirrors, too.
I have no idea how anybody can look at TikTok with a straight face and not see that they're a threat. Maybe if you've conveniently closed your eyes to the CCP's behavior in the past, say, 10-20 years regarding corporate espionage and suppressing freedom of speech and compiling profiles of everybody who dares speak out about them, as well as their behavior now in recent events (particularly how they're more than eager to punish local dissidents). Then, I guess, sure, there's absolutely nothing here to see. As with every Chinese company, the problem isn't that they're Chinese. It's that as a Chinese company, they exist only with the blessing of the CCP.
Yeah. Big Ag is not incentivized to be sustainable, let alone be regenerative. Big Ag is certainly not resilient. Its very reward system (like modern commerce in general) is based on the extraction of resources (whether that be in the earth, or people resources), and then controlling access to them. Overharvesting always happen, because we're culturally conditioned to define wealth and status in terms of how much one has hoarded more than other people.

I think the main path out of this is to have decentralized food systems, and this is where regenerative and resilient design patterns really shine. I think it starts with a shift in the mindset, where instead of seeing wealth as coming from extraction and hoarding, to seeing wealth in terms of being stewards of regenerative processes.

We have pseudo-regenerative processes in the financial sector with compounding interest, but you can't directly eat money. I can eat the stuff from my backyard.

The beautiful thing about participating in building a decentralized food system is that I don't have to convince you, or anyone else on HN to affect collective action. I can start doing these things in my home, and trade things with other like-minded people. I can offer up the excess abundance to my friends, family, and neighbors. Some of them may want to take up the practices themselves.

Just to be clear, I used shortcuts too. I am using raised beds and importing compost and manure (buying them from big box stores). But I'm also taking the time to plant edible perennials. I only found out later, there are many ways to get even quicker turn around time -- sprouts, fast growing annuals, succession planting. I'm learning. Next year's growing season will incorporate more.
> Why not let the computer do the work?

Because a program's types can serve as part of its documentation.
That sounds about as natural as using Xbox Kinect gestures. Additionally, your SLA is now also tied to Slack's, which is a multiplicative downgrade.

Not every integration makes sense. I know some companies doing business logic automation in Google Docs, and I'm also reminded of Twitch Plays Pokemon. Just because you make a choice to integrate with a product doesn't mean it's widely adopted, practical, or wise.

Or supported.

Edit: I want to clarify. I don't mean to be rude, and I wasn't in the room when y'all made these decisions. I just don't think Slack is the ship you want to tie yourselves to, especially not as your control plane.
Zuckerberg basically is the nation state we should be worried about. If a foreign country wants to spy on someone, they'll do it via a Facebook pixel.
How long do you think you could sustain the ~ 3% rate before going down to 1%? Please be honest : )
At our research institute most people use Linux + LaTeX, which is great, but interfacing with MS Word is an absolute pain when you work with external collaborators. Accordingly, one of our professors‘ key argument for Mac OS is: „It’s a Unix with Word...“
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No. It's absolutely pervasive, it was required as part of my son's school curriculum, and you've lost me permanently as any kind of customer. I have also been assured by the math department that they will not be continuing the use of IXL products when they finish their curriculum revamp.

Your product is terrible and anyone who likes math could have told you it was terrible from using it for 30 minutes.
English isn’t an ethnicity.
Unless Amazon decided that they want to give DropBox a huge discounted rate for the PR, it would simply cost too much to have stayed on the Amazon cloud.
I've been using this exact same cover on 3 different MBPs (yes I use 3 MBPs simultaneously, a 2016 13", a 2019 13", and 2019 15") for almost a year and haven't noticed anything even remotely close to it damaging the screen on any of them.

I actually just tested it, and the cover doesn't even make contact with the lower half of the MacBook when closed. The cover fits into the trackpad area, which is recessed. I don't see how it could possibly damage the screen without me putting enough pressure on it where the screen would have been damaged regardless.

Does the 16" have a shallower trackpad or a thinner rubber gasket around the screen than the 13" and 15" models? Even for Apple, it sounds insane that they would create something so fragile it could be broken by a 0.02" piece of plastic.
Go live in mainland China if you are such a fan social harmony.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "binary logic," but there is the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle which states that a "universal computer" (essentially a working quantum computer) can simulate all physical processes. But I suspect it's not a "proof" that would satisfy skeptics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%93...
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The Grand Tour maybe hasn't become the cultural touchstone that Top Gear was, but i'm fairly certain it's still getting a ton of views. Every top gear fan i know watches it. It's not getting the buzz a new show would because it's essentially just more Top Gear, but it's definitely being watched.
Will it be possible for you to make the Lua REPL publicly available? Would love to give it a spin with Spring RTS!
That’s about half a mm. what the hell happens to Apple laptops if you get a coin trapped in there

When did Apple start building such fragile devices?
Apple has subsequently announced and demo'd a platform authenticator for Macs and iPhones, like the one on a Pixel (the flagship Android phone).

So then you don't need the token because the platform (ie your phone) does the multi-factor authentication itself. In this case you touch a fingerprint reader. I can hold my phone in a way where my right index finger naturally is placed to do this so it feels pretty convenient.

Again, not on iPhones today but it has been demo'd and does already exist on Android.
Down voting is speech.