skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outstanding work - never fails to amaze me when people unearth little secrets like that 4 decades after the fact. That MUL/IMUL/IDIV status bit hack is one for the ages.
It's not often that "art" and "computer science lecture" sets overlap.
SpaceX’s Culture of Accountability
I support you speaking your mind, but don't agree with it. Carry on.
Apologies if these are naive questions, but why does Microsoft require use of Edge to track user data? Can't they obtain data from the DNS requests any browser makes to access websites?

And are there any ways to mitigate the amount of data they obtain when using Edge (e.g. Ublock)?
You are ‘free’ to change groups, but most groups have a process for joining, and not everyone who wants to join is able. And you will have to move to that group’s territory.

Also, I am not sure what you mean by ‘no problems with it’.... this is an anarchy, there is no one to bring those problems to. Some people trying to conquer others is just a part of being in an anarchy. Some people want to conquer.
This is also a feature that prevents every iOS device owner I know from ever using iMessage.
I started at a company in 1984 where VMS was pretty standard, running on 80x25 terminals. (They also had Xerox Stars, some people ran 1980s-era Macs, and there were a few LISP machines.)

Then someone introduced me to a sort of minimal unix that was running on top of VMS. Although I had never seen Unix before then, I immediately saw the advantages and switched over. If I had to do something on VMS, it was painful.

Later the company got first generation Sun workstations, running unix on metal, with large (for the time) graphic displays. SO advanced...and so much fun (except when I had to do stuff in C--mainly our team used LISP or Prolog). Eventually we even got an ARPAnet connection. But I digress.
How would you prevent that without a power structure?
Ask HN: Could dark matter and dark energy be hidden matter and hidden energy?
What if God is just an alien and we are protected from real universe to let us develop?
Yes, but you could emulate that too. If a Hackintosh can validate itself as an authentic Apple computer, an app that replicates all the same calls to Apple's servers that that Hackintosh makes should be able to do just as well.
So it is! Well spotted. I think you've proven it.
This comment seems very condescending and doesn't bring anything to the conversation. There's many people in this thread stating that:

1. Ubuntu is replacing "standard" apt packages with packages apt packages that just install the snap version.

2. Many snap packages have bugs that are caused by the snap setup itself.

Thus, it is impossible for these users to "just ignore snaps and use ubuntu like a regular debian system".
The title should be changed to reflect the fact that this is an incredibly rare complication. As of late July, only 570 MIS patients total had been reported in the US, per the CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6932e2-H.pdf
Note that most "solar panels" in calculators are fake. They have a small battery inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTDuGhqE2w and https://tedium.co/2017/08/09/calculators-fake-solar-charging...
You can change the wrapper for Safari, but you can't change the actual browser itself.

For a lot of people, it comes down to being to run uBlock Origin/cosmetic and dynamic ad and content blocking (e.g. not a simple blacklist) and running other extensions and customizations.
Your idea of statutory rape not being rape fails at the definition you specified for the former term. Someone below the age of consent has been deemed by the law to be unable to make an informed decision about their body - which is true in all cases; in cases where that may not necessarily be true, the child would be smart enough to realize the act they're engaging in is unhealthy if not for their development then for their partner. Sexual relations with someone who cannot consent is rape. This doesn't include the fact that a large age discrepancy between two parties engaging in sexual relations will generally lead to an inequality in power, and sexual relations between two inequal parties in that way may not be rape but certainly isn't "good sex".

Many states have "Romeo and Juliet" laws, which decriminalize sexual relations between people under the age of consent as long as they're similarly aged, solving the biggest issue most people have with the idea of statutory rape ("what if children rape each other?").

I use the term "sexual relations" because the act of sex necessitates consent. And although sexual relations with children may be uncommon outside of the "Anglo bubble", they still harm the child whether via physical or mental trauma.
I had a MBP iPhone and Pixel C. I loved my android tablet. However it showed it age and I got an iPad. This would have been perfect for me.
That's true. But discovery isn't free, either. When the other side can ask for you to produce a million pages of documentation, which you have to produce before you can get to summary judgment, that's an economic problem for someone like Gnome.
Reminds me of the story of the dwarf toilet Ninja, who put the ass into assassination:
https://jpninfo.com/47201
Even if you are only talking about the United States, 1971 was not the first time the country left the gold standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_Note#Suspension_of_spec...

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

Historically the pattern has generally been for a metal standard to be introduced only to be abandoned when the state is unable to procure more of the metal. The Romans abandoned their silver standard and started debasing their coins shortly after the empire reached its greatest extent, almost certainly because they could not find enough silver to keep the system going (though nobody bothered to write this detail down). In ancient China various dynasties are known to have started issuing iron and bronze coins when they could not find enough gold/silver/copper to meet their monetary needs (and when the weight of coins became impractical they issued paper money).

There is no question that using weights of gold as a currency makes trade less efficient. Most merchants and most consumers do not have the equipment or expertise needed to evaluate whether or not a given weight is pure gold, and having to pay someone to evaluate a sample amounts to a tax on every transaction. The inability for a central bank to adjust the supply of money in response to changing economic conditions actually led to greater price instability when the gold standard was in place (deflation during a banking crisis). It is economically inefficient to pay people to guard vaults filled with gold bars that are never going to do anything but collect dust. Leaving the gold standard was the right thing to do every time it happened, and going back to it was in every case the wrong thing to do (motivated more by alchemy and tradition than by any serious economic considerations).
They have an eth smart contacts repo "radicle-contracts" on their org. Anyone know what that bit's about?
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Chanakya
Well, despite what anarcho-capitalists may say, in an anarchist society you would find it very hard to maintain capitalism as is familair to us today. This is because the State, and by extension its threat of violence, enforces private property rights. In a truly anarchist system where no other protection force evolves to reinstitute the government's role in protecting private property, you would have a very hard time building large amounts of capital. You may be able to control some small amounts of relatively private property (in addition to some personal property), but you absolutely could not maintain the current breadth of our global supply chain without the credible threat of violence from a large organization bent on maintaining private property rights.[0]

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[0]: Merely the threat of violence from a large organization, but not one with a goal of maintaining private property rights, is insufficient to maintain capitalist supply chains, because such an organization would naturally try to increase its own power through force. It would look more like a warlord, cartel, or small-time dictatorship with all of the corruption that implies than a smoothly working system of trade.
You don’t need to systematically screen for it. MIS is obvious and dramatic when it occurs.
I mean, flipping that on its head where does the "dark side of humanity" end up? Looking at all the police brutality, the Epstein's, the Koch brothers, the crappy politicians... I mean the crap really seems to float to the top of society.

In a society without hierarchies, an anarchist society, you still have groups and communication and working together, you just don't have people above you telling you something is OK or how it should be.

Absolutely no form of government or system (anarchist 1000% included) will solve the problem of people being selfish or bad, all that anarchists contend (that I have seen) is that when there isn't those built hierarchies bad/selfish people don't amass power so everyone else can actually handle them on equal terms.

And considering how Epstein was able to morph the whole political landscape to defend himself for over a decade, uh, any alternative can seem pretty reasonable.
No, I am not saying the threat of violence is the only way to coerce people. I am saying there will need to be coercion of some kind, and relying on individuals making the best choices for themselves does not solve all the problems.
You're right (and, from what I can see, talented).

But it doesn't hurt to have it out there, on a case-by-case basis.

If I were interviewing two candidates, and one has a big open-source history available (regardless of the vehicle), then that candidate automatically has more value to me. I may not hire them, as their history may show something that I don't like (damolcean sword, and all that), but they make my life, as an evaluator, easier.
>As a professional Mac user, each time I've purchased a new Mac that came with a mouse, I've always replaced it with one that fits professional use

I never much cared for Apple's mice of yore, but various models of the Magic Mouse (the one with the touch surface) has been a constant companion for a decade or so. The only big flaw the position of the charging port. Still, I'd take it over any third party mouse any day of the week (can't stand scroll wheels now, for example)...

>While the Apple mouse looks nice, it's clearly targeted towards users who don't use their mouse for long periods of time or for graphical work

Most Mac using graphic designers I know use the Apple mouse, so there's that anecdotal...
> We experience one reality, not many realities.

Isn't that just a claim about the sensitivity of the detector?

I'm sure folks were dubious about the theory of the electromagnetic spectrum given their bias to visible light, but as experiments improved and detectors with them it doesn't seem so farcical.
If you're living inside the simulation, there's a lot of flex in how the computations running the simulation get carried out that you would never notice. It's effectively saying there's a separation between the implementation of the simulation and the experience of living inside the simulation.

In the book, this is illustrated by computing some time-steps out of order. (This, it turns out, isn't a very realistic example, but is illustrative of the idea.) Someone inside the simulation doesn't realize they've been computed 'out of order.' It also doesn't matter how fast you run the simulation: the simulator clock and the simulated clock can be completely decoupled. You can run it on a single machine verrrrrrry slowly, or in a gigantic data center, and anyone inside the simulation would never know the difference.

So what is the simulation then? It's the collection of states, regardless of how and in what order they are computed.

The Dust Theory is taking this to a kind of logical extreme: Sometimes these states just naturally arise in random configurations of particles, because the universe is vast. It doesn't matter what /order/ they arise in (as we already saw), just that all of the states randomly arise at one time or another. "What if simulation by galactic bogosort?"

It's also similar to the Library of Babel, but for computation instead of books. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel) And it has the same problem as the Library of Babel; typos are unavoidable when there's no intention. (hell, typos are unavoidable even when there IS intention...) So then we need to assert that the 'real' simulation is the one that just happens to have all of the 'right' random states, not to be confused with all of the untold billions of other almost-right states.

(and then you can ask, if you've followed things THIS far, is it even necessary for the 'right' states to arise, given that they must eventually due to the law of large numbers, alongside all of these slightly-wrong versions? Or is it enough for the simulation to be mathematically possible, so that we can assert that the right states exist?)
I spy an Apple Park elevator ;)
"Unlimited" like cellular data usage. Use too much and they'll terminate your contract. No, they won't tell you how much is too much.
The author of the article didn't mind the principal behind snaps, if you read his diatribe it was more about the performance of it and feeling snookered that Ubuntu was pushing snap so hard, even tricking people into using a deb that runs a script that then installs the snap version. It shouldn't take chromium 5-10 seconds to startup with firefox launches in under a second
Obligatory link to Dropbox’s Show HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Sure, but that's a reset. "I don't like the persons who do the law enforcement, I want to become the law enforcement". And then, of course, not be replaced by somebody who doesn't like that style of law enforcement.

That would most likely quickly lead to massive segregation by any major criteria available, as "community policing" essentially means "no written laws, no recourse, we'll apply them as we see fit", ergo if you're not tightly aligned with the majority in your specific area, you're going to have a terrible time - so you leave for a place where they are more like you. Presumably while leaving your stuff behind to provide valuable "community resources".

I'm not saying that that couldn't be a good thing (homogeneity = less conflict), but I always get the feeling that there's a lot of magic involved ("we will find ways to come to consensus", "once we are free, all disagreement vanishes", which often sounds like wink wink and a few mass graves somewhere) and a lot of what is hand-waved away will present extremely large problems that will quickly make most people long for the stable, predictable and relatively tolerant society we have today.
> we’re witnessing an unprecedented wealth transfer right now in the US

Indeed. And it must be regarded as infinitely baffling that everyone is shouting "abolish the police" instead of "redistribute the wealth" ...
USA is one of the worst example though, there are plenty of societies which have well behaved police forces and still aren't anarchist.
Benefits of napping: nap length, time of day, age, and experience with napping
>We should keep in mind that ergonomic recommendations are for an average target at best

If you mean regarding to heights, distances, etc, yes.

Else, Err, not really. Anatomy is anatomy, people don't have different design of hands, wrists, etc.
I use Linux Mint on all of my home computers. I personalize all of them to my needs and I do not find it hard or difficult or time-consuming. I find the installation process straight forward.

Perhaps however you have more intense personal customization needs than I.
This is a hot button for me also. Story points are a solid measure of complexity, but when it comes to estimates on a planned timeline over the next few weeks I want it in hours or days.

Otherwise, somebody ends up trying to convert story points into hours and that's not what it's there to measure.

I wrote extensively about this a couple of years ago before I found out about SAFe itself.

https://www.brightball.com/articles/reality-driven-developme...
You seem to be confused. A counterexample would be a Fascist government that did not instigate a war, given ample time.
I suppose it’s certainly possible. But a Hackintosh operates at a very low level, making macOS believe it is running on supported hardware. It doesn’t need to know how the OS authenticates itself to iMessage. My suspicion is that disassembling that whole process would take a lot of work (and be very brittle, because Apple would probably deliberately break it)

It presumably also integrates into the OS at a deep level: the system that pushes messages to the computer is not iMessage specific, it’s OS-level. So you’d need to reverse engineer that, too.
Yes, this is exactly how I meant “media”, like multimedia. Apologies for the confusion :)
It's a tired meme that Apple users simply aren't aware of the wider world outside of whatever Apple makes. Many people choose them over what others might call "really excellent" because they value things that you don't.
>You need some sort of enforcement arm that apprehend and deals violence to these people

You really don't.
Violence is completely unnecessary.

Like honestly, will you learn math better if someone is whipping you when you get the wrong answer?

The fact that there are lifelong criminals completely disproves your belief that "the threat of violence keeps everyone inline".
It is the BEST book, though. It becomes a madcap zany heist in the second half, but the 'boring' beginning bit is my favorite. I think back on 'The Book' every time I have to debug bad code... https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Book
I'm currently working on something I would describe as Digg 1.0 for grown-ups and during my recent research cam across
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jwyx/celebrities-ruin-e... — mostly fluff, but the celebrity factor makes a point.
+1 for Constance Garnett, she was by far my favorite translator for Crime and Punishment.
The KKK enforces law outside of its community. It's not like they're involving black people in the decision of who gets lynched.

Anarchists are on the opposite end of the inclusion spectrum, even including the wrongdoer in the decision process for what the punishment is, when possible.
Comes across as an academic, not a professional.
You probably won't understand this brief "explanation" until after you read the book. It's brief largely because it assumes that you know at least the events in the book, even if you couldn't follow the definitions and other exposition.
Not sure about iMessage but the App Store has always worked fine in hackintosh and in virtual machines, at least in my experience.
While I believe a vast majority of people will behave reasonably without law enforcement, there's that small minority who wouldn't, and that's what the government is protecting us against. That small minority can do a lot of harm, think of an internet forum with 100 reasonable users and one troll, posting at a rate of 1 post per minute, just for the fun of it. That troll can easily ruin discussions for anyone else.

With that said, I agree with the anarchic notion of pushing power down, though. Push most decisionmaking power as low as possible. The higher you are in the hierarchy, the less power you should have. Make lots of small communities that self-organize and are very easy to leave, that last part is important. Accept the notion that some people are evil, no matter what you do. Instead of fighting against the incentives, embrace them. Those thinking about power grabs should know that, even if they succeed, it's trivial for nonconsenting people to leave, so it's not worth the trouble.

Any given level of hierarchy should only deal with two things, conflict resolution between lower level units that can't come to a voluntary agreement; and possibly removing units that disproportionately affect others from the hierarchy (not sure about that one). Internal decisions should be made internally. A higher level should only coordinate when absolutely needed.

In other words, members of communities should be able to do whatever they want, as long as they don't hurt other people. All voluntary agreements are fine. Only when something can't be voluntarily resolved, or when a member starts behaving violently, the community leadership step in to fix the situation. When someone grabs too much power and does bad things with it, either members leave, or other communities decide to stop associating with the bad one, which might cause members to leave. Same for all other levels.
Don't want to play this down or anything but:

> Another finding from the case studies: Almost half of patients who had MIS-C had an underlying medical condition, and of those, half of the individuals were obese or overweight.
> if you switch from an iPhone to an Android phone the messages aren't sent to your phone for a while?

Apple set up a page years ago that lets you manually disable iMessage to avoid this issue.

And yeah, I personally dislike iMessage as a concept. But I use it a lot every day and it’s simply better than SMS. So I don’t blame the creators for doing what they’re doing.
I can see where being two years old would be a drawback in the Android world, with a limited software support window and limited SOC performance.

However, those things aren't an issue for iDevices.

> I dislike iOS because of the locked-down nature

If your overall issue is wanting the ability to sideload anything you like on an iDevice, there is a simple solution.
Neal Stephenson tends to cram too many side stories into his books, some of them quite boring :/

I kind of regret that I slogged through Cryptonomicon and I would advise anyone to stop reading after 200 pages if bored, the next 700 won't really be better.
Documents are supposed to be relevant. If you only want to fight on a core legal issue and don't dispute the facts, you should be able to cut down discovery significantly. Which may not be an advisable approach, if the facts alleged are false.
name one.
Apple commits to support human rights – 'We believe in the critical importance
>Users wanting to install Flatpak apps need to revert to using the .deb version. It’s not an ideal solution when previous Ubuntu Software releases could handle all three formats. In all, the latest Ubuntu Software is a step back.

Supporting fewer competing formats (and eventuallu just one) sounds like progress to me...

>And that’s another place where snaps don’t shine. They are slow. I hate that Chromium’s snap takes more than 10 seconds to load on cold boot on a freaking SSD, whereas .deb and Flatpak apps load in 1-2 seconds. Snaps are simply not fast enough to be default anything yet.

That said, this sucks. How can this be? I though snap was just some packaging wrapper format (so one wouldn't expect any difference in loading time) -- is it more like ELF instead? Or is it some extra overhead like non-shared libs?
Your example is wrong.

All situations should be evaluated and re-evaluated at every instance, at every moment in time to account for new information and not only once at the beginning thinking it'll be the same forever.

Fishing as an individual its fine until too many people start doing it, then it becomes even bad for the individual. It becomes harder to fish, the fish get smaller, the prices drop, etc. Some of those things might be even good for society but not for the individual. At that point you've got to re evaluate your position, and even change your occupation. This is what happens all the time. Individual choices lead the way, society only acts after enough individuals have been affected, not before.
No, it's just for spam.