skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of this thread is that Apple is telling us to not rely on dead simple devices (camera covers, tape, etc.), and instead to trust their internal mechanism that they claim can't be beat. If people take them at face value, but the mechanism is in fact complex enough to admit an exploitable vulnerability, that's a net loss of security, and is a step in the wrong direction.
Is there a need for .Net anymore?

Even Microsoft proved that they could build a featurific program without .Net, in VSCode. It’s an electron and JavaScript application. And, they were able to make it run everywhere.
Intel has huge gross margins on their chips. They make up the difference in sales numbers with their margins. They've had minimal competition from AMD in the desktop/laptop and server markets so they've made money hand over fist.

While they could be a player in the smartphone CPU market it's not like they had it tied up and lost it. Intel's real challenge now is recognizing that the desktop/laptop and server markets are no longer guaranteed sales for them.
I'm going to take a different take, and say there are a lot of opportunities to apply CS to education and have a meaningful outcome.

I think we can break higher "education" down into three roles:

1. Getting someone from skill state A to skill state B in a time efficient way

2. Verification and credentialing for skill state B

3. Providing a safe environment to meet like-minded, intellectual folks and have fun

The hardest part to automate is #3, but there are plenty of challenges in #1 and #2. One idea is to create a system that can break down a syllabus of information into bite sized chunks that are automatically ordered appropriately for the user based on some profile or assessment data. This will likely involve some NLP.
What part of:

> the FTDI case was a case of the company intentionally shipping malicious code used to brick the clones

don't you understand? FTDI does indeed have the absolute right to create drivers that only work with their products, but to intentionally damage a third party product so that it no longer works anywhere else, including with that third party's drivers, seems egregious.
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TFA is about this exact thing, and is dismissing it. I think that's probably why you're getting downvoted.
Wow really awesome , feels like ascii reddit, but better company.

I love the 'about us' page/format. Im definitely stealing (lending) it for my upcoming project.
Yes, powerbank sharing can make money
And more to the point, its in the area of their achilles heel, "heat per performance"... my macbook pro gets pretty toasty.
Again: I’m not excusing the obviously dangerous behavior of the driver.

However, people do stupid and reckless things all the time — and as a society we take reasonable precautions against that. I don’t know why he ended up on that road, but it was only a matter of time before someone ended up there. I sincerely doubt that freeways are shut down flawlessly 100% of the time.
Insurance usually covers a rental car for 30 days.
Hi, author here - happy to answer questions.

Beware, the current version on github has a bug that crashes the system on a BCM2835 (ARM11-based original Raspberry Pi 1/Zero(W)/CM1) when using floating-point operations, see my comment on hackaday for details.
Ask HN: Can I ethically take a Tea Cup from my Office
I found this really cool Tea Cup in my Offce Today. The Thing is that I really want to have it, and I'm really not sure if it belongs to anyone.

It is not very new, and the design isn't really appealing per se. That is why I think, that it would not be missed, if I took it. But on the Other hand I am sure that it isn't provided by the company and instead belongs to someone.

If I would take it, I would of course bring a replacement (as I am not a Monster ;) )

So my question is; is it ethically correct (or at least ok) to take this cup, and replace it with a newer one.
I presume you’re in NZ: You also live in the Southern Hemisphere, way south. YMMV. I presume ordering literally anything besides AliExpress/eBay us expensive in New Zealand.
While it is unfortunate, in 30 years of software development that has never been a requirement for the projects I have been involved unless the customer was some kind of governmental institution and made it part of the acceptance criteria.

So unless there is a mindset change, that will keep happening.
Debt used to create value or accelerate value creating processes is good debt. Debt used for stock buybacks, paying off interest on existing debts, executive bonuses, etc. is bad debt. It is pretty straightforward, we just seem to have lost our connection between the stock market valuation and the actual value of companies. We were content watching companies increase in value when they were actually stagnating and drowning in debt.
Hahaha I can totally relate. Always ends up being a few packages.
Really excellent article. I agree that alot of delivery of software will be via sidecars and operators in the k8s world
Melbourne is AU$44k/year for science, about US$30k.

Is America so expensive that this is reasonable? Many countries that are cheap (or even free) for local students charge significant fees for international students.
concepts will fix that.

For the time being, any library writer can improve their own error messages using a mix of constexpr if, static_assert and enable_if.
tl;dr: Native Americans would burn the Maine grassland to stimulate blueberry production. Most of the plant is below the surface as rhizomes, and cutting or burning the above-ground part of the plant will stimulate the plant and boost harvests. Burning is preferable to cutting because it also kills funguses and insects.

The article follows one grower. For more info I found the UMaine extension program document useful: https://extension.umaine.edu/blueberries/factsheets/producti...
Well, as a satisfied customer, I can tell you that the one time I got a new car and had my old one bought back under "goodwill repurchase" without too much trouble, net-net increased, not decreased, my satisfaction knowing that they stand by their product.
Because right now there is no better companion for my Java/.NET/Node tooling and I am not touching C unless obliged to do so.

When NVidia, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and Google put other native languages on their toolbox I will consider them for production code.
You don’t think they’d treat you better if you were a family member of someone in the gang?

Or that you’d get different treatment if your local goon was a psycho or a softie?
I mean awk-to-Python transcompiler, it would be useful for datascience. I wonder if it's possible to use awka to create such thing.
Also related to the fallacy of false dichotomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
...and it never occurred to you that a hypothetical is just a thinking tool rather than an absolute.

OK, I'll play your game. The car would not turn on after being parked somewhere for four hours. Only an idiot software developer would brick it at high speed on the Autobahn.
Hi,

great work! Have you heard of PyTorch Lightning (https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning) and there conference seed repo (https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning-confer...)? Maybe it would make sense to join forces.
I hesitate to speculate as much as I'm about to on the basis of a blog post alone, but here goes...

Everything about this post screams to me that the real problem may be chronic stress. Rather than seeing the trouble sleeping as a symptom of stress, and addressing that, the author is just treating sleep as one more thing to be aggressively managed and thereby adding even more stress to the mix ("the time has come to put a stop to this" -- yikes! sleep is meant to come naturally, it's not another checkbox on a to-do list!).

I haven't read the book and don't know the author's life circumstances, so maybe I'm completely wrong, but that's just how the post reads to me.
Perhaps un-setting envvar AT_SYSINFO_EHDR would disable VDSO for a selected process without reboot?
Mosquitoes breed by laying eggs on water surfaces, so you want to minimize stagnant water surfaces. Drain out any still or non-flowing water in your garden. Clear out tall grass, and just generally ensure there's no place for water to collect.
I'd imagine fireworks + music would be difficult because of the difference in the speed of sound vs the speed of light, which would explain the out of sync experience you had.
Anyone using this? Looks interesting.
Very true. A single advisory bit, itself interpreted by primates with iphones, only goes so far.

"Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden."

(I'm trying to think of how one might translate the T/V lines in "Küss die Hand schöne Frau" into english, and failing...)
See also the rumoured refusal of DEC to drop margins on the Alpha when Apple was shopping around for a replacement for the m68k.
Interesting... Java was the promise of program once run every where, and i guess that is somewhat true, but what got their faster and better is the browser as a platform. For most things the browser doesn't need Intel or Microsoft, not running or hosting it.
That’s because it contains code rather than blog content - let’s keep it that way!
Simply add https://github.com/woboq/verdigris so you can use C++ ≥ 14.
With posts, I mostly skim the titles for what looks interesting. I take fewer comments as a bonus but I can't say exactly why (less noise?). I don't look at the votes (though it obviously contributes to what I see).

With books, I mostly read based on individual recommendations (or references). It's more natural to me than going with what's popular though it doesn't exclude it. It has the bonus of being an imperfect quality filter which mixes the good (as determined by people I trust) with the unusual.

To be honest, when I have read books based specifically on popularity I've been thoroughly disappointed. Reading Thinking Fast and Slow was mostly challenging with a mixture of bad examples and bad terminology ("systems 1 and 2"). I enjoyed the book a whole lot more near the end when it was discussing the incompleteness of/problems with economics. Some of my distaste for the earlier parts possibly comes from exposure to critics beforehand (e.g. Gerd Gigerenzer) and to the optical illusions. Similarly Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! can be amusing but a lot of the stories boil down to "aren't I clever?".
I sort of understand how the FTDI thing happened. They were charging an arm and a leg for an ancient IC, so China cloning it was really a no brainer.

Thankfully, 1-2 companies came up with their own competing solutions which you now can buy for cents. If you are still using FTDI chips (fake or original) you might want to update your designs.
does anyone know where you can find bottle rockets without a report or a whistle? i do not want to cut open existing rockets.
Crazy. Less than a U.S. dollar each on AliExpress.
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I think there might be a bug, check this out: https://imgur.com/a/DXhMWxG

I know for a fact that the second one is about right, because I ran it already. The first one however is somehow showing "shorter" kilometers, by the end it should be about 2.5km. Did I do something wrong?
Although it's not clearly on their radar, this is something nVidia could pull off.

They've got Tegra and experience targeting 5nm, or at least, they appear to be growing it. It could be reasonable to see nVidia willing to jump to 5nm for Orin or whatever is after it.

Yeah I don't know how realistic that is, but, I struggle to guess at any other company that could stand up and go toe-to-toe with Apple at least in some target markets on ARM... if they wanted.
Let me answer by way of another question- "Why can't Google move its cloud servers to AWS?"

I don’t think that’s a good analogy because e.g. Apple does use other cloud providers. There are two sides to the Intel coin, the design itself and the manufacturing process. If people really want the design they won’t care who makes it.
> "Users will never accept a phone that's continuously uploading everything in their lives to Apple's servers (or anyone else's), so all of this capability has to be on board the device."

Oh man, I genuinely want you to be right in that prediction. But I wouldn't bet on it.

IMO we already see many (most?) users and even tech industry pros (who should "know better"?) showing comfort in uploading/streaming/routing large swaths of their lives to many companies. Companies arguably less "good" than Apple. (And many of these are Apple users who also have no problem hosting their lives on Google and Zoom). Because convenience, shiny things, and lifestyle marketing. And "free".

I would love a future where all personal data and heavy computing was done on local hardware but I bet most people, given the choice, would choose a cheaper option that puts streams and storage and computing in someone else's hands. Because "free" and/or "cheap". i.e. the product is you
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You’re inventing a narrative. Available evidence suggests he didn’t set out to murder people, but I think little more is known.

Unquestionably he was reckless and dangerous at a minimum (and the charges make sense to me). I don’t think it’s known why he went up the off ramp. Maybe drugs were involved (apparently police took something “that looked like meth” from the car, per an article I read). But bad assumptions, panic and confusion are also powerful.

Just wait for the real story.
Your example is also off, because we’re talking about an internal component rather than an entire device. If a repair shop doesn’t use a Genuine Apple replacement screen, does Apple have to support it? No. Is going out of their way to physically destroy these replacement screens anti-consumer behavior? Yes.

A key point here is that it’s impossible for the malicious driver to know what representation the seller made to the consumer— the presence of a nonoriginal part doesn’t necessarily mean there was any fraud involved.

Edit to add:

> ... fake iPhones made in Switzerland sold in the US as through they were real iPhones. If that's the case, then, YES, Apple would be right to brick them with an update. Absolutely.

Only after obtaining a court order to that effect. Destroying someone else’s property without due process is generally not acceptable, regardless of how right you are. To step away from technology for a moment, is it ok for a glassmaker to go around town breaking windows because they’re allegedly made with counterfeit glass?
(๑´ڡ｀๑)Unicode to the rescue!
> Fascinating article in its own right. Thank you. I would totally read your book or blog.

Thanks, Tom!

I hear that more and more these days, especially now that I've retired from the Industry for good and have an overall positive outlook on my time within it; had our Industry not been destroyed entirely by COVID I was supposed to be working SpaceX in their Food and Beverage Department as I was working at Kimbal Musk's restaurant in order to learn as much as I could to take over there. My interview at the Boca Chica Launch facility had gone really well, too.

I really should try and do a pilot of a food series I wanted to do, and I've been encouraged to do so by friends within the Industry but with how things are right now I'm not sure how I'd go about it even though I have an idea of what and how I'd base it on and what platform I'd use.

Thanks for the feedback, it means a lot!
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Very interesting — I can’t wait for the opportunity to see this counterintuitive property whereby bottle rockets launched into a wind will steer themselves into the wind.

See also: what happens when you have a helium balloon in your car and you hit the brakes.
Not yet, but reading the docs. Has 'once only delivery' which is good. Still trying to find if it does FIFO (i think its hard to achieve this in a distributed system).
Same struggle. I found weight liftibg to make it worse maybe due to cortisol but cardio and tennis to make it better. I do lift weights some times but always followed by cardio
> Having said that, what do you think I think about Lisi’s and Weinstein’s and Wolfram’s attempts at a theory of everything? Well, scientific history teaches us that their method of guessing some pretty piece of math and hoping it’s useful for something is extremely unpromising

Is this really true? Perhaps we can make this critique of string theory but what about other cases?
For me letters rarely move around, but words will move or disappear. Even then though they don’t constantly shift, it’ll just not be there and then a minute later it’s there.

My problem with numbers is that they add themselves together and move around.

So I might see something like:

- 22

- 376

- 4021

As:

- 242

- 367

- 4022

Which makes things like long division impossible or writing out my credit card number in an online checkout take 5-10 minutes
Banning such symbols is actually an interesting concept: “$ is ambiguous, please use AUD, CAD, NZD, USD, &c.”
Yeah I'm looking forward to seeing how concepts work out in practice.

Also, to clarify on the original point, in this case it doesn't require that much template trickery. Most attributes could be handled as `.foo(Foos::BAR_1)` to set HTML attribute `foo="bar_1"` for example and have things still be 'type safe' on the C++ side. I just pass strings through right now to have a catch-all API, then I could go back on it after some real use and see what styles come in practice.

The only template it happens to use right now is the usual `template<typename F>` with `F &&f` to let you pass an inlineable lambda. I could use `static_assert` as you say, with `std::is_invocable_v`, and offer a nicer error message when that doesn't match.
The enterprise (paid) version of Consul 1.8 has audit logging.
Same here + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/google-search...
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A sad one.
> Plenty of articles are about a topic people are sufficiently knowledgeable about to be able to discuss it at length without reading the article in question.

What I mean is: the article is the topic. The comments I'm objecting to, are, for example, pointing out a problem with something said in the article, because they got to that paragraph, and then went to HN and posted their disagreement, without reading the very next paragraph where that objection is addressed. Even if they are very knowledgeable about the topic, this isn't a contribution to the discussion, it's a step back in the discussion--maybe they are an expert and could address the author's response to their objection too, but they don't, because they weren't arsed to read the thing they were responding to.

> While this type of discussion can also include people who are commenting while uninformed, that doesn't mean that anyone who hasn't read the linked piece is uninformed about the topic.

Agreed, but it does mean they are uninformed about the linked piece, which hinders discussion if they're just repeating things said in the piece, objecting to things already addressed in the piece, or whatever. Being an expert on the topic of an article doesn't prevent this.
Emacs' crazy loader fiddling wasn't really a "packaging strategy."
> I don't think the author literally believe corporations are AGIs

In the video questions section he confirms he means literal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3172&v=RmIgJ64z6...

Look at HN as an AI, you can ask a very complex question and get a very complex answer, it's AGI.

4chan can send humans out to do its real world physical bidding. It can literally get people shot.

These are very complex AI's.
Well, the original components costs 1-2 dollar when bought directly from Dallas but you can buy 10 PCBs (with additional supporting components) for $3 on AliExpress. It was extremely obvious to everyone that these were fakes.

But... while I fully understand the ethical issues, there is also an interesting engineering challenge here were you can sometimes get your design to work even with crappy fake components.

Btw, if you think this is bad, try ordering some jfets from China...
Indeed, Apache Pulsar is a very good project, but as far as I am concerned, I prefer RabbitMQ in Production env and for little projects, Redis is enough to take this role.
They excel at it from the point of view of Tier 1 countries.

They want to stay the Ferrari, Bang & Olufsen of mobile phones and laptops.
It has a retrograde orbit, and its orbit is highly inclined as well. You would have to fight against the Earth's orbit to catch up to it, and would have negligible opportunities for gravitational assists.

Every probe to the outer solar system has leveraged multiple gravitational assists. These would be off the table. Basically your only options is building a super monster rocket and force your way to it based entirely on pure thrust. The rendezvous maneuver would be a monster as well.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but you're probably looking at assembling something in orbit if you really want to go visit the thing.
He forgot to mention tolerance for widespread environmental destruction and conditions that literally drive workers to suicide.
I think that Gizmodo article is getting it very wrong. They keep talking about "the A12Z intended for the Mac", but AFAIK there is no "A12Z intended for the Mac". When Apple switched to Intel their TDK used a Pentium 4, yet no Mac ever shipped with a Pentium 4 (besides the TDK itself, if you consider it a Mac).

The ARM TDK is basically an iPad Pro running macOS, without a screen and with extra ram. A12Z themselves are just re-binned A12X (with just one extra GPU core activated), processors that are nearly two years old.

No way Apple is shipping that in their first MacBook ARM...