skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The newest iteration of Macbooks has a very nice new keyboard (no butterfly mechanics anymore) that reminds me of the really old models, better than my 2013 model IMO, one of the best in a laptop that I've used, though it doesn't beat the really old Thinkpad ones; those were incredible. Of course, this sort of thing is a matter of taste to some degree, but my private 2020 13" and my work 2018 13" are several worlds apart, they've really fixed that issue for me.

There's also a physical ESC key now, and for me, personally, the touchbar is a pretty neat feature after a bit of getting used to it, and some tweaking.

No idea if it is prone to fail, but I believe the rather sizeable fleet of touchbar Macbooks at work hasn't had a broken touchbar yet (there have been other failures)

I've yet to see anyone get a Linux machine and not struggle with something; maybe that'll happen someday soon, but so far everyone seems to have issues that I'd find unacceptable.
>What do you think you're accomplishing by posting easily debunked misinformation?

The data on Sweden is clear, they are down to near zero covid deaths per day in a country of over 10 million people. Can't see how that can be debunked.

And how are they significantly worse? They are living normal lives.

Also, if something is 'easily debunked' then just do it.
This this this, so much this.

The economic definition is for a “perfectly competitive market,” one with extremely low barriers to entry. And one of the arguments about these markets is that they are the least profitable markets because firms in a less-profitable market will want to jump the extremely low barriers to switch into that market; this dilutes per-firm profits in the competitive market and concentrates them in the less-competitive market.

Economists consider those least-profits an “opportunity cost” of spending your time in the first place, and if you include that as an explicit cost then the “profit” is indeed zero.
I have a silk handkerchief for that. Wouldn’t want to damage the leather ;)
> You should also be a chef because people will never stop eating.

Not sure how this has anything to do with the network effect point I brought up. I definitely never stated they will "grow forever", I said the network effects of their platform are a sort of moat.

Do you have a source for AirBNB slowing down?
Does the word "license" actually mean "even though the hardware is capable, you didn't pay enough to not downclock" or something else here?
"Y'know, it sure would be a shame if our OS went around telling users your software's a virus. Now we c'n make sure this little problem doesn't happen to you, all you gotta do is fork over the $300 (yearly of course) to join our developer program."

Nothing like a good old protection racket. No wonder Apple's worth trillions of dollars.
Understandable, it's a crazy lot of money.
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The alternative (that macOS not display security warnings when trying to run unsigned software that someone emailed you) doesn't seem better.
Grade schools usually have recess too.

(for the life of me, I can't recall what we did on rainy days)
The MIT tech is serious. MIT doesn't publish garbage science in their news paper.
Better how?

Though, I agree the network effect here isn't as strong as for a social network.
Yes, exactly. There's no winners here except the corporations and shareholders. And it's all at the expense of personal liberty and freedoms afforded by driving.
So the moral is that we should give up freedom for security?

Because that's a bad moral.
This is what I'm talking about. It's been 3 years, and they're still doing testnets? What a joke.
Critical Jenkins Server Vulnerability Could Leak Sensitive Information
I guess everyone on HN is checking their discs for hidden partions now...
Kinzer also wrote an interesting little book in 2010 (Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future) about how Turkey and Iran-with-a-very-different-government could be naturally aligned with the-United-States-when-not-captured-by-hawks. It looks hopelessly naive at the moment, but it's still a great primer on the entangled history of the three countries.
But every character needs to be "social enough" to work as a team. IE by definition, to participate in a team you can't min all stats but Strength for example.

Because you need enough "social" to be part of a team in the first place.

Otherwise they are a bunch of dissociated loners not playing the same game. Which could be an interesting novel to read if done well, but not your usual D&D session.
Not parent commenter (and non mechanically inclined person), but I skimmed through the slides and it seems like a lot of the efficiency increasing techniques involve recapturing lost energy in the form of converting waste heat to electric energy.

Does the 40% for Prius include energy recapturing techniques?
What about very slowly ramping it up? For example, over 20 years? If a problem begins to appear, it could be slowly ramped back down. I suppose this wouldn't work politically, since the first politician that tried to ramp down the income to save the economy would be swiftly booted to the curb.
Remember with commercial stuff: if you're not paying for it you are paying for it some other way. In this case ads and personal information. Currently you are circumventing info they want from you to make you more valuable to their customers. You are not their customer unless you get reddit premium. Then I suspect it will still bug you to download the app
Corruption that discourages investments is one side of the high unemployment. The other side is tiny businesses that can't even afford to pay minimum wage. They're allowed to pay less than the federal minimum wage if they're sufficiently tiny, but that means that they can't expand.
> For some reason it is absolutely CRITICAL for me to not go outside to a beach...

No. Beaches are quite safe.

> but it isn't critical for the folks lecturing me to get their act together and make masks that cost basically 10 cents to $1.50 and would allow myself and others to carry on productive and healthy activities?

It is! (It's not happening in the US, though.)

> This is the issue - YOU are not listening. People see through the pantomime. Google and apple have API's to help with exposure notification - no apps developed at national level and few at state level. Other countries went big on apps.

You seem to be ranting as if I'm supporting the current state of things. The current state of things is bad; the Feds are largely AWOL. States are muddling through with various levels of competency, mostly poorly.

Everything you're saying I agree with. The reaction to the pandemic has been absolute shit, and it leaves us in this position now - ongoing lockdowns, supply shortages, and the like. One need only look at Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. to know it didn't have to be this way.
In some cases, yes. California farms are having problems finding people to work in fields since border control got tighter, and American's don't want to do the work, even for $15+ an hour. The farm owners said they're switching crops over to ones that are easier to harvest with machines. Similar things have happened in the South-East USA, where crops have been left to rot on the field because the government started cracking down on illegal immigrant labor, and no citizens want to fill the positions.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/14/alabama-immigr...
TextSniper – Simple app to capture unselectable text from your Mac's screen
Use TextSniper to capture and recognize text from youtube videos, screencasts, images, PDFs etc.
Airbnb might just IPO in time before the first batch of RSUs expire later this year.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/technology/airbnb-employe...

[1] https://www.teamblind.com/post/Early-AirBnB-Employees-IPO-NB...
I've worked with Camunda extensively, which Zeebe is based on.

I've found Camunda to be incredible. The APIs are implemented well and the work flow processing paradigm is easy to work with. Setting up the Camunda engine as a web server in a Spring project and integrating with external sources is great.

I've found there can be some performance issues when running a single engine, but clustering is easily enabled and you can adjust with a dedicated worker paradigm too.

Great piece of tech honestly. Haven't worked with Zeebe yet but am excited to.
The world isn't going to shut down forever and no one is going to let a viable company die over a temporary circumstance.
someone worth $50/hr can be paid $5/hr if anyone can do the job

How do you define "worth" here?
The crazy thing is that I had no idea those dialog boxes have the malware warnings. I just look for the buttons and click.
Assuming you mean Epic, Apple has only given a deadline to cease breaking their developer agreement before their developer account is terminated.

Epic is empowered to get their app back in the store tomorrow if they want to release an updated build without the contract-infringing functionality.

They probably have lost their chance to be features by Apple or to be invited back on stage in future keynotes, but at least to me it appears Apple is trying to not be punitive in their reactions. Epic has consistently been given a no-nonsense way to recover.
The whole point of a sandbox is that it's only got toys in it so you don't care when the cat shits in it. But, of course, if the sandbox only contains toys, it's not very useful. You can't sit in it and order a pizza if all you've got is a toy phone.

So you leave your wallet, phone, and other critical devices in there. But now it has ceased to be a worry-free safe play space. It's no longer acceptable for the cat to shit in it.

This is a fundamental tension and we'll probably keep rediscovering this security problem any time a new container model is developed.
Yes, in general if you can capture multiple views you can make up for many dropouts and artifacts. The more you can move, the more likely that you'll get a complete reconstruction. Single-view artifacts are more of a problem when reaching into confined areas or during visual servoing where you don't necessarily have the freedom to move around to get a better view.

The results for the Sintel benchmark do look interesting. Do you have a report or some sort of overview of your approach? It would be nice to see a similar benchmark on real recorded scenes, especially if that provided a way to compare learned matching algorithms with available sensor hardware.

I think there's reasonable promise in learned stereo matching, especially if we include more information than just visible spectra. Human eyes are so much more than two RGB imagers, so we shouldn't limit our robots to that either. Monocular depth, I agree, seems to be mostly a memorization problem. In cases where you can effectively memorize everything, it will work quite well and the savings in hardware complexity (and physical sensor size) will be well worth the training complexity. I actually think it has much more promise as a backup depth perception method on cars, since objects in a driving context are mostly consistent in size. I have doubts about how useful it will be in manipulation tasks where you may encounter similar objects at a range of sizes.

I'm part of a research group at TRI working on home manipulation tasks although I have something of a hobby interest in outdoor robotics as well - in general I'd say the depth sensors for outdoor tasks are often better, but much more expensive and out of reach for hobbyist users.
Agreed the #1 issue with file coin from day one has been the idea that the value of a coin is tied to anything at all. It puts a limit on the imaginative value because it’s tied to something as commoditized as bulk storage
Unishox – Guaranteed Compression for Unicode Short Strings
Try using safari on a MacBook. Last time I spent 10 minutes on my wife's laptop, every website was filled with garbage ads saying your Mac is infected with a virus you must download an anti virus quick (#malware). The shadier websites (streaming) sent a dmg executable as soon as they were opened.

It's shocking, it's worse than Windows (sad fact: Mac has more malware/adware than Windows since the last 3 years).

Of course you can't see that if you're not on Mac or if you have an adblocker. Ads detect the browser and specifically target Safari. Safari removed support for extensions last year, dropping all adblockers, it's wide open to targeting.
Yes. We can point to processes and relationships at various organizational scales and levels of abstraction (e.g., physical principles, chemical gradients, genes, hormones, morphological growth, phenotypes, ecosystems) but knowledge remains fragmented and we do not understand how everything comes together. Synthetic biology is a misnomer, imo; biological engineering is a much better term. Human-engineered machines and living systems are currently worlds apart in terms of causal complexity.

This isn't to say we shouldn't pursue it, just that we ought to realize how primitive our tools still are. We're fiddling with things we don't understand. We might as well try to do it consciously now, since centuries of unconscious intervention have put us in a bit of a bad place, existentially speaking.
Like anything in life there is balance, and anyone living in any sort of society today has already given up some freedom for some security.
This article is mostly quoting a 2013 interview & 2018 article about Peter Thiel and why he thinks the bay area isn't a great place for startup employees (housing costs) and for him personally (a Trump supporter).

As far as I can tell, no one from Palantir has commented publicly about this specific move, but I did find the linked article in the Denver business journal to be a bit more illuminating - e.g. Denver was aware of the move but didn't provide incentives. https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2020/08/19/palantir-...
There's also reproducibility issues in biotech research. Investors are reluctant to believe anything works anymore until they see successful human trials.
Like they say at worst WASM can make a mess of it's own data.

The selling point of WASM outside of browser to me is native modules for other languages where you can whitelist the exposed APIs (and provide sandboxed versions) while having cross-platform binaries.

So for example in the future node can ship with WASM module support and JS can load a C WASM module binary which I can deploy on Windows/Linux/Mac, and I can review what that module has access to via some module manifest, and node WASM exposes wrapped POSIX API based on manifest configuration.
None of this logic follows. Paper [0] categorizes bugs in unsafe Rust code. "There will be some bugs in FFI code" does not imply "no benefit to using Rust if there is C++ FFI". Many projects, including Firefox, have found Rust is really helpful even if you have C++ FFI.
Out of curiosity, what areas do you consider yourself especially knowledgeable?
Fuck S3 and all the lords gating the internet. I think that's what decentralised web wants to say and I'm pretty much on its side.
Exploring Certificates
A tool that detects the privilege escalation vulnerabilities on windows
I see your point, and you're not wrong. I guess my main gripe with OP was the way they wrote it. It just screams language used to incite fear amongst uncertainty.
You seem to be refuting a claim that no one made. We aren't only talking about wages, but the amount of value the worker contributes to the company. The latter is typically significantly higher than the former. In a profitable company, this is true by definition (at least on average across all the company's employees).

Another way to look at it is: what is the maximum a company could conceivably pay for a particular role, even if that amount was way above the market rate? That number would presumably be a bit below the value that role is expected to contribute.
The checksums are there if they happen to grab the binary in some way that is not "using HTTPS directly from my website" and they'd like to check. Why do the know I'm not writing malware? Trust in my software, mostly? It is unclear that notarization actually stops malware–Apple has failed to explain how it helps, but enforces it by decree.
Suprised to see Camunda isn't mentioned here more.

Open-Source BPMN compliant workflow processing with a history of success. Goldman Sachs supposedly runs their internal org with it.

Slightly different target use case, but Camunda has really shined in microservices orchestration and I find implementing complex workflow and managing task dependencies much easier with it.
If you have an automated process to update internal tools, you will likely have a much better UX with updating that process to appropriately deal with quarantine.
If the RNC thought it would benefit them to have their private communications leak, they could've done that without foreign help.
But the setting doesn't have to get rid of a warning, we're discussing requiring the right-click to even show the option of running the software.

Gatekeeper right now won't even allow you to run an application unless you somehow know and remember to right-click. This is sadistic. Many well-informed users won't even know about it and even more will forget to right-click on the first try. This is far from "forcing the user to make a choice about each binary". It's clear Apple doesn't want users to even be aware that there is a choice.
This is for largely android Users right?

If you’re at my house but not in my or my wife’s contacts (and thus it can’t request access to our wifi automatically) I doubt I want you to have wifi access anyway.
They may be absolutely critical to the business running even though they don't produce revenue directly.

They don't produce revenue, but one must assume they provide some value and in this case avoiding the loss of revenue due to theft, fires, etc.
Q10 was a great form factor... and BB10's swipe methodology and permission control were great. Sadly they couldn't compete with Android and were really headstrong.

Give me a Q10 with a higher resolution display, better camera, USB C, and you got yourself a banger.

Sadly the Key2 physically was a step back from the comfort of the KeyOne. I hope this device actually stacks up, or they finally decide to make an official physical keyboard attachment for some other popular devices
Oh sure, it's fixable and something you can work around, but having your build system responsible for "machine is unresponsive and acts like it's out of disk but you've got >100GB space remaining" is a real pain in the ass. Running out of inodes (and specifically, that you can run out of them well before running out of disk space otherwise) is also really not an obvious failure mode to most people.
My wife teaches 1st grade.

Online instructional hours doesn't begin in their school until 1st grade. Kindergarten has learning materials sent to the homes.

Online virtual pre-K is just lunacy.
And he did, and the employee still got fired!
Also the ice is only 30 percent efficient, where the electric is around 95. So take the energy density /3 for starters.
Thanks for the reply! How do you solve the history/bookmarks problem? It's just that it frequently happens to me that I start looking for something in my history and I will need to go through each of my browsers until I find the right one.
What the immune response to the coronavirus says about prospects for a vaccine
> Adam Smith... was hence a strong supporter of Labour Unions.

Do you have a source for this? I can't find anything but SEO junk.
> I would be happy to spend a few hours reading in any of the nearby independent coffee shops.

Would this not be worse for independent coffee shops since you're taking up a seat to read, while the people that work employed by Starbucks couldn't possibly care less what you were doing?

To me it seems like it would be a bit 50/50 based on industry vertical. I'm happy to support a reasonable independent restaurant over a fast food chain any time, but things like computer/parts shops, any independent one I see has markups well into the hundreds of percents at times, all seem incredibly shady, etc. Same with 'authorized retailer' phone shops that try to charge you $50-60 for a SIM.
Working Nuclear at a shipyard, if you exceed exposure limits you are going to get fired. As soon as they don't have enough people for a hot job exposure limits are immediately raised. Wait it's so dangerous I would get fired but not so dangerous that it doesn't matter if you need it done ?
Yeah, that comment belongs on r/TIHI. Too close to home, too soon...
Two years from now: "Info about the YouTube Music sunset"...
> Working on things like this is really interesting but it involves a lot of work to handle unreliable clients or networks and bitrot (hashes don't solve this if your client helpfully replicates the bad sector from your desktop over the pristine copy on your phone). That overhead makes it a lot harder to beat conventional services, especially in cases where the time investment is greater than the possible savings.

The idea that ipfs/related-project are trying to beat conventional services is big misconception. The overwhelming majority of the tech does not preclude usage in conventional services. For example, IPFS can 100% be configured as server/client offering roughly the same costs/reliability many are used to. The advantage is interoperability with many different "services", conventional and alternative (e.g. filecoin) alike.
I didn't want to suggest it's undefined, I said weird. In C++, it's reverse declaration order, and that's important because destruction exactly mirrors construction. Arguably, Rust is completely wrong here, but my experience is that this problem doesn't come up in idiomatic Rust all that often because fields can't depend on each other anyway. And I'm wildly speculating of course, but something like that might be more of an issue if a lot of unsafe C++ objects are instantiated from within Rust.
Exactly. There's so much "WASM without the browser" hype for some time and this analysis puts the risks into perspective.

It has been aggresively marketed as a JVM alternative (not equivalent), but with the same old native bugs and even makes XSS attacks possible. Stunning.

Maybe that's why all the big media content companies went behind it. Out with Flash and Java and in with 'compile and run WASM programs in every browser' to support this 'open web™'.

What they really mean is: 'We can't wait for WASM DRM!'
Not a lawyer, but I doubt it's a case. Endowments have much longer investment horizons and typically lower risk appetite that wouldn't typically have an investment policy tilted towards 100% equities. They likely have a fair amount of investment in fixed income, which is always going to under-perform equities in the long run.

That said, ~5.5% below the market every year is a pretty shitty result, at least worth putting someone's feet to the fire over.
Saw the movie clue a couple months ago. It shocked me how bad WHO reputation was back then. 1985.

Professor Plum works for the WHO. —-

Miss Scarlet :
I hardly think it will enhance your reputation at the U.N. Professor Plum, if it's revealed that you have been implicated not only in adultery with one of your patients, but in her death and the deaths of five other people.

Professor Plum : You don't know what kind of people they have at the U.N., I might go up in their estimation.
Personally I would also argue for Brazil, 2016. Operação Lava Jato was publicized as an anti-corruption effort, but more recent information indicates it was more of an anti-socialist coup. Sérgio Moro was in IVLP, and the highlight of his first trip to USA after becoming Justice Minister was a courtesy call at CIA headquarters. [0] This was an unmistakable public statement of Moro's allegiance and actions.

[0] https://www.brasilwire.com/in-plain-sight-bolsonaro-moro-and...