skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend anyone that has this initial reaction to what these companies are benefiting from their surveillance models check out

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

Which does an excellent job helping to stimulate thought of just what the power and purpose of these types of apps as well other structures (alphabet) are able to do...
> A million consumer miles is very different from 3000 endurance racing miles. It's not a coincidence Porsche is the most successful Le Mans team of all time and their cars can be absolutely beat on at the track without missing a step.

Definitely valid points here. I didn't mean to say that Tesla's million consumer miles meant that they could automatically endure Le Mans, but more that it's clear the technology scales very well. Maybe Porsche will come out of nowhere with an even more stable and more performant electric car that has a 6000mi range and can just hold the pedal down the whole time. Who knows, but my instinct says the eventual winner will definitely be electric.
Having worked at companies that colo'd and ran on AWS I think the difference isn't as big as you're making it seem. Many of services you "need" in the cloud are only needed because you're in a cloud in the first place.

The good news about colo'd equipment is that it's dirt cheap. You can have millions of customers running on a few poweredge nodes with full redundancy and capacity to spare.
> xhyve, Hypervisor.framework, and kvm are all frameworks for creating and running virtual machines

> In contrast, Docker for linux runs using a native container mechanism without using a VM at all

Thanks for pointing this out. As I'm slowly getting familiar with container-based workflows and underlying technology, your statement helped clear up my confusion about the essential differences between containers and VMs.

I found an informative table in Microsoft's documentation for "Containers on Windows", that compares and contrasts the two approaches:

Containers vs. virtual machines - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowsconta...

This helped me understand how Docker for Mac using xHyve is different from Docker on Linux with native containers as a much thinner layer with a shared kernel.

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According to this article:

Beating some performance into Docker for Mac - https://medium.com/homullus/beating-some-performance-into-do... (July 2020)

Aside from the container/VM architecture, a performance bottleneck of Docker for Mac is (apparently) how mounted volumes work, on the file system level.

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> macOS doesn't support containers, but it could

According to a random Reddit thread (so, with a grain of salt) I found on this topic:

Docker on the new Mac Big Sur - https://www.reddit.com/r/docker/comments/he0v5c/docker_on_th...

> Using a shared kernel container (via cgroups, for example) isn't feasible with macOS because of licensing restrictions and because the Linux syscall interface isn't compatible with macOS.

Which seems to imply that there's some fundamental reason why Docker for Mac must rely on VMs, that macOS is not (yet?) capable of providing containers that are as native as on Linux.

They also mention how the file system on macOS has design limitations that make containers more difficult.

> The net result is that performance is probably going to be near-native for light workloads, but macOS depends on other fundamental technologies like APFS which aren't designed for datacenter type workloads.

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EDIT: Aah, right, this is why a comment higher up mentioned:

> Apple said they were working with Docker to make sure MacOS on ARM is a first class host for Linux Docker containers.
Online learning has been almost impossible with my child with ADHD. Screens are the worst thing possible for her.
A bit if a tangent, but a company I worked with recently had an issue enrolling in the Enterprise dev program.

It's a large company with thousands of employees, so definitely enterprise scale. They heard nothing for months after applying, and weren't able to find any way to chase the application. Eventually Apple got back to them to say the company didn't meet the Enterprise program requirements. The company asked which requirement they didn't meet, because it was plain that they did in fact meet all the requirements - Apple wouldn't say! They said their decision was final, and they wouldn't say why.

Absolutely crazy.
This is why I like my Ubiquity AP and my Sonoff wifi relays with Espurna firmware - I can programatically switch them off, on etc.
For the lazy https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/commit/c6593b93e8d85a8cd3...

It has five authors (one is a bot). The fourth one is the OP but the picture does not have a link to the profile because it is suspended.
Yeah.

You are right.

There are big diffferences.

For one: You can joke on TikTok ...
>> There are a lot of accessibility implications to on line learning, most of them positive. Personally, I wish I could just stay that way forever.

It's obvious that your quality of education has improved and makes sense that you'd want to kleep it that way. It would be great if we could support people in your situation without greatly diminishing the experience of a huge component of attendees though: all those with learning, attention and focus issues. The stats are truely mind boggling with how many kids struggle to control their behaviour in a virtual classroom.

Question: why DON'T you stay remote? Most of the time the last thing we want to do is isolate people in different situations but it sounds like this would be preferable for you. It would seem to be quite easy to support too.
Without the racist framing of "sinophobia," fear of the Chinese state is a legitimate one. They are a totalitarian regime engaged in a variety of human rights abuses and dystopian-fiction-made-reality. From Uyghur concentration camps to "social credit scores," there are a lot of reasons to fear the Chinese state that have nothing to do with racism or xenophobia.
>Hacker News all look seriously dated in comparison

Yes please make a movie about your next it projekt ;)

I even hate repair-videos on youtube, it's slow and lame, the fix-it manuals are 1000s times better (since i know what a torx is and that most screws open counter-clock-wise)
Facebook is a shining example of the outright failure of Real Names Policy on the internet. That concept just pushes people to extremes, and excludes moderate voices that will be canceled by all sides for having an opinion that is not exactly in alignment with either extreme

Real Names polices that have been tried have also proven to do nothing to remove trolls at all, in fact the only thing that remains is shit string trolls and extremist that want to yell at each other after the shit stirring trolls rile them up

It is concerning that I am seeing more and more people push for a resurgence of "Real Names" policies on the internet as a way to curb extremism and/or trolling even after it has been proven to do nothing of the sort
Sometimes it might be too technical, however, I would strongly recommend "Modern Operating Systems 4th edition by Andrew Tanenbaum". (Chapter 11 is about Windows in particular). It provides a great technical overview of most common operating systems as well as hardware and the connection to operating system on the low level.
That hardware isn't already there. They won't share a switch, but they will share routers. IP routing with overlapping networks doesn't really work, so you have to get creative with e.g. DNAT or proxies. Both of which consumes additional resources, even if the routers can do it, you will have to buy bigger licenses, processors will have more load, etc.
That's what I don't quite understand about the current state of cloud computing. We're seeing huge advances in hardware/network technologies this decade but there's an ever increasing push to centralize hosting with cloud providers. Will this ever swing the other way?
He must be delusional. Tiktok is for dancing videos as far as I can tell. The parent comment and down are taking stances that I would never expect on HN. Something is off, there is nothing ‘refreshing’ about tiktok.
I thought the same thing when Canada made the switch, but soon found out that while tracking down a hold paper $100 is a bit frustrating at times the added opulence from destroying something that will never be replaced brings my cigar experience to the next level.
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> decades (plural)

Namely, two at most.
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Tiktok could offer to pay your mortgage im still confused and disgusted people use it
I agree that electronic books are strangely expensive compared to the printed editions. As for the book market, it's in a terrible state given decreasing interest in reading. Second biggest bookshop brand went bankrupt not so long ago and nobody has been able to fill the void. Luckily, there are many small and great bookshops out there. I highly recommend Kurant (music-related) or Revolutionibus (more general) in Krakow ;)
Me too.

I don't have any evidence, but I believe human evaluation in the whole recommendation is the remedy that makes TikTok excels.
> After all, they're not in business to influence politics.

Dude, I personally know people who work in Facebook's own lobbying department. I would be very surprised if Twitter didn't have the same thing.
KMail. It hangs so frequently that I have a shortcut-key combination to kill -9 akonadi (ctrl+alt+k), which then respawns and fetches mail again.

At the end of every startup it used to present a dialog 'Mail has encountered a fatal error and will now close'. If you clicked 'OK' the programme would terminate.

Fortunately the dialog wasn't modal, so you could carefully tuck it into an unused corner of the screen and continue as normal. Eventually I did some googling and deleted ~/.local/share/local-mail/templates which got rid of it (but I lost the templates)

That said, I still find the UI much less fiddly than gmail, which is why I use both.

In fact I'm writing this comment while I wait for Kmail to re-load it's mailbox, so I can reply to an email.
Install yandex tiktok and facebook and you have the holy trinity ;)
Given the proliferation of always-on microphones in people's homes (Google Nest, Amazon Alexa, etc), I'd say we're not avoiding the spying issues...
MRIs and ultrasounds don't involve any ionizing radiation. You may be thinking of CT scans or X-rays.
So your suggestion is to shut up and be happy?
I only presume this will be called Apple Orchards.
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That's when you register a new company to act as an in-between...
> Not sure I consider Chinese spyware any worse than the US spyware of Facebook, as a resident of neither country.

I consider it quite different, because I know I'm more opposed to the ideology of the CCP than I am of the US. The US isn't intractably opposed to liberal democracy, but the CCP is:

From the OP:

> To that end, this long history looms large in how China thinks about its relationship to the U.S. specifically, and the West generally. China is driven to reverse its “century of humiliation”, and to retake what it sees as its rightful place as a dominant force in the world. What few in the West seem to realize, though, is that the Chinese Communist Party very much believes that Marxism is the means by which that must be accomplished, and that Western liberal values are actively hostile to that goal. Tanner Greer wrote in Tablet:

> ...

> This understanding of China’s belief that it is fighting an ideological war explains why the severe curtailing of freedom that happened in Hong Kong this month was inevitable; if the Party’s ideology is ultimately opposed to liberalism anywhere, “one country-two systems” were always empty words in service of China’s rejuvenation, and Marxism’s triumph. To see that reality, though, means taking China seriously, and believing what they say.
Did you spend 5 hours per week per employee managing permissions in git?
I'm from Europe. I don't know what provider they use but my cards work with iTunes/app store. I pay monthly for icloud and I bought dozens of apps and games.
They should put Deus Ex on the list
In league with the price to rent/hire a private jet, and the price to own a private jet.

There is a big market of people hiring private jets.
Ah yes, the well-known comfort of having even more security services pawing through your personal data. Mmmmm.
Maybe my expectations were wrong but I did not find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications in there, it was the first thing I thought after reading "old versions of various programs" :-)

Hotline to me was something like "the internet behind the curtains" when I was a teenager with its peer-to-peer file sharing and comm to find a whole world besides the pre-Y2K HTML pages, before mainstream stuff like Napster and Kazaa existed and even before I discovered IRC.

This kind of archive or museum places for software are really cool and important!

EDIT: I am trying to upload old Hotline versions to the site but so far I could not even sign up yet, will keep trying though
Do you agree with the censorship and propaganda policies of mainland China? If not, Sinophobia is not paranoia.
I actually didn't know about this; I thought they were mostly scrapped. Thinking of it in the context of the war, though, it makes total sense that they'd try to refit as many intact hulls as they could to speed up procurement.
I don't agree with the parent comment's characterization, but I see sites like HN and Reddit described as "social media" all the time.

For those us whose Internet citizenship pre-dates Friendster and MySpace, the term "social media" has a particular meaning.

But for many younger "social media natives", the term basically just means "any website or app where you can make posts or comments".
Maybe a correction: The article mentions that Amazon asked its employees to delete the app. But Amazon later retracted that decision.
Yeah, exactly. Very similar to my experience during Covid lockdown. Our school is amazing too, but the kids really should only be there for like 4 hours rather than 7. It’s too grueling and doesn’t let them free enough. Of course, for most people life demands it.
> You can have millions of customers running on a few poweredge nodes with full redundancy and capacity to spare.

As someone that actually manages "a few PowerEdge nodes," you're overstating their capability and oversimplifying what it takes to run a production-grade system with millions of users.
He has a point though, HN has a serious lack of dancing videos.
This is incorrect if the output measures lag the input.
>For one: You can joke on TikTok ...

Choke not joke...big difference
Poland has mandatory Bible reading/analysis at
primary school level (4th-6th grade). [1]

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It's interesting that there's no mention of Intel SGX in this blog post.
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I don't see the problem.

TikTok will be banned. SV will do a US based replacement. All will be good.
Indeed, I know many Chinese people who are afraid of the Chinese state.
Glasses to correct/improve colour vision have existed for decades, though I don't know how these differ.

As a kid, my parents took me to try out a pair (maybe 25 years back)... but I just didn't like it. Everything seemed so much more colourful, and bright. It was almost like sensory overload.

Everything was also more confusing; I didn't actually feel like I could differentiate colours any better - colours were different, sure, but I still didn't know what they were.
Could you link to anti car HN discussions or articles? Thank you
> Isn't that just every social media or discussion site?

Do you see ads next to this comment? What about on IRC? Mastodon? What if I told you that even many of the youtube series you may like are available on other platforms and you can pay a subscription fee to see them without ads?

There are alternative to "engagement" based networks, they exist now and you can support them and choose to use them over Twitter and Facebook.
I think you're underestimating how user-specific the feed is. I recently uninstalled it, but I was getting 5% dancing videos at best (worst?). The vast majority of my feed was animal videos, comedy skits, video games, and anime clips.
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My personal feeling is that Tiktok is better then most other social media for the end users emotional state, at least based on my wife's usage.

From a spying perspective, I tend to agree with you as well.

That said - China doesn't let FB or Twitter in their country, why the hell should the US let them in ours? To me it is akin to letting them buy the NY Times or CNN. They may be benign now, but if tensions were to continue mounting, they could greatly influence the content a significant portion of people in the US are receiving. I see 0 reason to trust them with that power.
Professor in the next office came back from vacation a few years ago and started noticing his unix workstation was doing a great deal of disk access. Disks also seemed to have a lot less space than he remembered. Worked with IT and found out a porn server had been stood up on his system while he was gone. It happens.
So let me get this straight, if p4/piper, svn, and mercurial all used "master," then you would be against the reeducation?
> morale / class diversification

What does this mean, exactly? And why is it valuable?

> You either move forward and adapt with the current generation or you try to force old generation habits and slowly curse on the result

The classics are thousands of years old and have served as popular educational material for centuries. Why is Gen-Z categorically different from all of the generations that have come before such that we should change? I'm not sure that Gen-Z is even different with respect to their ability to understand or appreciate the classics, and to the extent that they are, I suspect that's because (at least in the US) we've changed how we teach, de-emphasizing things like civics (probably in favor of an increasingly identitarian curriculum). Note that this isn't a defense of the classics--for example, this wouldn't rebut the idea that classics are overrated--it only challenges the specific idea that something abruptly changed such that the classics are obsolete.
If that was a joke you might be overestimating your skills :P
> the basis that maintaining actual consistency would be too expensive/complex/slow, which is frequently the case.

Maintaining actual consistency is seldom more complex - the opposite is true, eventual consistency can lead to mind boggling complexity (because it's very hard to reason about your guarantees anymore... even the "eventual correctness" guarantee; in practice it's more often than not a handwavy "yeah, it's likely probably correct in many cases, and if you find something wrong, we'll take it as a bug and fix it. Or at least claim to fix it, because you know, it might be hard to reproduce". Good enough for usecases like advertising, I guess)

Too expensive/slow is the typical reason for eventual consistency - but the whole point of materialize.io is to challenge this "too expensive/slow" assumption.
The funny thing is that 4chan and twitter aren't that different in terms of hate and troll. They were at some point, but the lines keep blurring.
Sure you can find places in twitter that aren't toxic cesspools, but you can also find that in 4chan (/m/ for example).

The weirdest thing is that people in twitter is doing 4chan tier stuff under their real names and faces, which is just baffling to me. I always thought the whole 4chan loltroll hate machine thing was because of anonymity, but I'm starting to reconsider that stance.
Ouch...

Obviously going to ignore the rather aggressive undertone. I clearly missed something in the article so I reread it. There is nothing wrong with that.

My comment was in reference to the guidelines, which clearly state

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Probably only Turkic languages, not Mongolian either.
In this threat model that's a downside, not an upside.

SEV is not, to me, a convincing security model. It was tried a long time ago, it doesn't work. SGX uses small enclaves for a reason. Hacking your average Linux box is quite easy already, which is why compromised passwords flow like water.

With the SEV threat model the cloud provider is no longer on your side. They are no longer defending you against threats, they are a threat. That's why you want encrypted RAM. But you're being threatened by one of the world's most advanced security organisations, a company that literally pays a large team to do nothing but locate zero day exploits all day, every day. And they swap zero days with other major tech firms too. So they have access to bugs in your OS before you do, and this is structural, there's no fix for it.

Worse, they recommend you use Google-controlled, 'hardened' OS images. But that makes no sense because you're trying to defend yourself against Google.

Finally, it's very unclear to me that the Linux kernel is going to accept bug reports of the form "the hardware behaved in arbitrary incorrect ways because it was redefined by a malicious hypervisor on the fly". The kernel isn't designed to deal with a malicious hypervisor. It's not going to be checking the results of things that might be hypercalls to check the hypervisor didn't hand back invalid results. In the past this has caused big problems with userspace apps trying to run on malicious kernels: the kernel was able to break in to the encrypted memory space immediately because the kernel could manipulate syscall returns in ways the app didn't expect.

But let's put OS hacking to one side.

SEV has a very poor track record of security. There were dozens of bugs in their firmware in past revisions, ordinary C type buffer overflows. Then there were basic crypto bugs: you could send the firmware an invalid point on the elliptic curve and it wasn't checking for that, things like this. Perhaps Google has audited AMD's firmware now and have knocked out all these problems. Perhaps not. Who knows - they mention working with AMD on performance but not security.

Moreover, SEV doesn't have anything to say on the topic of side channel attacks. And unlike with SGX, because the whole point of SEV is you use existing software and operating systems, there's also no fix for this problem. Normal kernels and apps aren't designed to resist a compromised hypervisor. SGX enclaves are designed for-purpose so you can argue that they're the smallest piece of app logic that needs to process your data and you can go to town on securing it, whilst the bulk of the app handling resource management, connections, scheduling, etc, is blinded by cryptography. Enclaves expect the host to attack them because they were written that way. They can do things in a less efficient but more side-channel proof way. With SEV this is theoretically an option (could run some specially written hardened OS), but, it's not how it's being advertised so nobody will do it.
The first one obviously.
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"The kids doing suicides" is a common trope dragged out anytime the establishment wants to put something down. Come up with evidence that TikTok is causing more suicidal ideation than people typically experience, and then we might have a conversation. Until then, this is just fearmongering, and a lazy form of it at that.