skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not an intentional anti-resale feature, but it does make repair a lot harder, because it locks (or at least, can lock) specific hardware components to the motherboard. This means if something on the laptop breaks, you can't repair it without the T2 chip knowing about it and potentially refusing to work. Apple has at least told their authorized repair partners that failing to register the repair with Apple may brick the device should Apple choose to further lock down unauthorized repairs in future firmware updates.

The T2 also has a particularly wonky approach to disk encryption. It uses a key management approach where neither you nor Apple control the actual key material. This means that a dead T2 takes your data with it and there is no recovery. In pre-T2 MacBooks, Apple had a lifeboat connector which could be used for data recovery from the soldered-on SSD. They got rid of this with the T2, because there's no point - only that specific T2 in that specific motherboard is ever able to decrypt the data.
Re: the icon set that this guy's pitching - does anyone remember the Prada phone? It was one beautifully done UI.

https://www.slashgear.com/prada-phone-3-0-by-lg-review-08215...
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> we must all, 8+ hours a day, support our employers political agenda

Isn't this the whole point of work? Exchanging your own preferences and time for money?

> in the time remaining we can try to counteract that a bit

Ideally you wouldn't be working for a company who is diametrically opposed to your own beliefs. This is why I will never work for Facebook.
Just keep in mind Twitter is a piss poor reflection of society. There are some radical ideas on Twitter, but ask people in person what they actually think and everyone will sing a different tune.
How did you get the information that apple devices resist state-level actor threats?

Repeatedly state actors have broken into iphones and icloud accounts, and apple laptops are frequently the first devices to fall in the Pwn2Own contests.
Can you explain this sentence a bit more: "The best textbooks I've read where history of statistics and philosophy of statistics." ?

Are these names of actual books (Google doesn't help) or merely the themes of the stats textbooks you benefited from the most?

Thank you.
Nah, those are much rarer.
I'm in two minds on what to use for my own portfolio site when I finally resurrect it. I've pretty much decided on a static site generator over a dynamic CMS but I quite fancy writing my own so it works just as I want it. Trouble is I keep rethinking that "just as I want it" is... I may just hand-craft version 1 to put an end to that particular source of procrastination.

But yes, one of the significant main reasons for avoiding WP and its ilk is the allure of plugins and the work needed to verify what they are up to. If I'm going to have to make my own parts to avoid the things I don't want, I might as well create from scratch anyway.
FTA: "the comet's aphelion, the point where it is farthest from the Sun, should remain near the ecliptic"

I would expect that all cometary orbits would intersect the ecliptic near the middle of their orbits, and that they would get furthest from the ecliptic at perihelion and aphelion. Is that correct? The quote above would seem to say otherwise, though I can also read it as "even at the furthest point it's still not all that far from the ecliptic".

This second ecliptic... it also has the sun as a focus? Is there a line where the two planes intersect? Does the earth encounter more comets at the two points where its orbit intersects that line?
Coinbase is not "apolitical". Proof-of-work cryptocurrency is an explicitly libertarian political project and an environmental disaster.

This is just the boring old dodge that "politics I agree with is apolitical, why are you being so controversial!"
If Coinbase are more attractive to people who are worried about being "deplatformed" for their ideology, then they are selecting for that group. You write "no matter my ideology" when you mean "despite my ideology".
See the tracker feature of the latest Safari, it's hard to find any familiar site that isn't horrific. I know my employer's websites are atrocious with all the connections it makes, but of course I can't do squat about it.
I want people to understand we all come with flaws. That PC policing is toxic and it’s better to give people the benefit of doubt rather than going all in on them being “bad”. Take compliments for example. Most often they are just nice things people say to each other. But in the wrong environments they can be taken (interpreted) as offensive as well as they can also be intimidating (unwanted). But in some circles by default (rather than exception) they are considered risky.
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That Linus is a YouTube star who reviews computer stuff. I like to think he got popular because his name is Linus and people mistook him for Torvalds or he came up in searches. I've seen a couple of his videos and he talks to the camera in a manner reminiscent of a young kids show host. I half expected him to start reciting the basic colors to me during a video about doing direct GPU passthrough on multiple VMs. Tone aside, and I know I'm not his core audience, it was a good presentation.
Well, there we are. I don't know Python so, both jokingly and literally, I didn't know Python had duck typing.
Its always astonishing to me how people who don't have a clue about what they are commenting on, deliver their nonsense with such confidence and pretense of knowledge.

And its the same 4-5 argument in every single thread about Starlink that then get shot down as nonsense. Its really unbelievable how that works.
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1. As your question touches on, it was. The codebase has grown organically from its start as xi-win.

2. The xi-editor project had other problems which I've written about extensively in my retrospective.

3. It's hard to compete against MS VS Code. When I started xi, the competitive landscape had a huge gap between performant and feature-rich but bloated editors.

4. We got funding for the font editor project.
The US digital radio effort has been complicated and slow to ramp up. Many digital streams are commercial free in an attempt to drive receiver adoption.

Many cars still ship with no digital capability.

Ordinary FM makes reasonable sense here.
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Tim Bray predicted it! [0]

> Certain (not all) Amazon warehouses seem to have per-employee injury rates that are significantly higher than the industry average, as in twice as high or more. Apparent reason: It’s not they’re actually dangerous places to work, it’s just that they’ve maximized efficiency and reduced waste to the point where people are picking and packing and shipping every minute they’re working, never stopping. And a certain proportion of human bodies simply can’t manage that. They break down under pressure.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23809291
The above is acceptable in mature economies. It’s not acceptable in weak developing economies where the only ones who benefit are big transnationals.
I am sure there are a ton of people on this forum that work remotely, and would love to live in a rural area, but don’t make the move because of the lack of reliable connectivity.
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I don't doubt they're using it, just that one particular photo was possibly the worst possible choice for PR. Take a photo of one out in a field being powered from portable equipment with a Honda 2000 inverter-generator or something.

The location of Malden works for them because with the current bent pipe satellite architecture, and starlink earth stations in Redmond, North Bend and Brewster, the beta-test CPEs are simultaneously in view of satellites that can also see the earth stations. Activating a temporary CPE in Malden is no different than the same equipment that's been in field beta test with spacex's redmond based employees around WA state for several months now.

And it's at a sufficiently high latitude that the partially-complete satellite network density, at any given point in time, is denser above Malden than above a place several degrees latitude further south.
From the Matrix side, we're ridiculously happy to have the opportunity to defragment developer chat a bit, and get folks on Gitter natively talking to folks elsewhere on Matrix (including bridged to IRC, Slack, Discord or whatever). The fragmentation of FOSS development chat into proprietary silos a few years back was incredibly depressing, and this is our attempt to put right what once went wrong :) Happy to try to answer any questions from the Matrix side!

Also, https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/30/element-acquires-gitter-to... is a pretty massive deep-dive into the migration, and The Changelog did a big podcast covering off all the details on both the GitLab/Gitter and Element/Matrix side: https://changelog.com/podcast/414
I'm not sure I follow? You usually don't just "not have a minimum wage when it doesn't make sense". This is a regulation on contracts - it's not something that will be decided on a case by case basis every day.

I mention the difficulty getting rides because I've had this issue before in Seattle. I have a friend who lives in the far northern suburbs, but still in the city, and it can be quite hard to get a cab up there of any variety, presumably because there aren't many people in that area who want to hire one with enough regularity to make it profitable.

None of this is to say people shouldn't be paid better. My point is just that there's often a conflict between the fair and just price of a service, and the value that service provides. Obviously, right now that differential is being made up on the backs of workers, which is bad, but swinging things back in the other direction will cause other issues that need to be considered.
How much heat can you move from the center of the chip using conductors?

I supposed it’s a bit like elevators though. As you make the chip taller the real estate for transport goes up until the entire volume is dedicated to transportation.
I left the ArchViz market for good back in 2015. From time to time I like to watch what kind of innovations they come up with, but I'm not super familiar with all the new tech.

All I know is that with things like Quixel [1] and megascans they can produce really amazing environment scenes (the kind I was trying to achieve with my render) that render in real time.

To be honest, there was a lot of things I could do to improve my scene rendering time, but I wanted to try using grass as real geometry so each blade of grass would interact with every photon of light. I remember the blades of grass being reflective and refractive (although you can't see that in the low quality render, compressed as JPG).

1 - https://quixel.com/
Coinbase is a deeply political company already. Here are some political claims that they support that are not universally agreed upon:

- Cryptocurrencies are good and should be legal.

- Private ownership of unrestricted amounts of capital is good.

- Central banks controlling the money supply are bad.

- The ability to send and receive money across borders and avoid capital controls is, in general, good.

- The existence of corporations is good.

- Venture capital is good, as is making money for the stock exchange.

- Reporting large amounts of customer information to federal tax agencies is bad and should be fought in court.

- Spying on individuals on behalf of governments with poor human rights records is bad, and moreover, having supported this work makes you ineligible to be an employee. (This is new as of March 2019; previously, the company did not have a position here.)

Now, these are entirely reasonable positions to take (in the sense that they're well within the Overton window, at least in the US), but they're absolutely political positions! (If it helps, note that the negation of all of these is a political claim.)

I'd understand the argument if it's something like "I don't want my company to mandate that I support expanded bike lanes on Market St." or whatever, but it's very silly to pretend that a company doesn't have a mission in the world or that its mission doesn't have political aspects. If you don't agree that cryptocurrency is making a positive difference in the world, why are you even there?

(And even so, I think it would be entirely rational for the company to say, "It's okay if individual employees disagree, but as a company, expanded bike lanes on Market St. is important to our business because it's how half the company commutes to work.")
If you consider Qt bindings "basics" then we have very different opinions on what the word basic means.
Also, for Christians, the exact wording of the Bible is critically important. Well-used translations for any significant language will be scrupulous. The problem is the language used will be archaic, because changing the wording is a big deal.
You honestly don't see how what you're describing is a fairly radical political opinion? You are now arguing that you should choose your means of survival as a political statement. If you don't lock-step agree with the politics of tech companies in general, you should find a lower salary someplace else that agrees more with your political beliefs.

I would love if people who are privacy advocates could get facebook salaries working for the EFF.

It looks like what you are advocating here is that not only should you silence non-status quo opinions, but your income should strongly correlated with your alignment with dominant political powers.
You can't. No one has at scale.

But incentives matter. The homeless congregate in certain areas (and not others) for a reason.
To put food on the table
This appears to do absolutely nothing.
Pity it's not DAB, this looks great.
I assume most people on this site live in densely populated areas, something Starlink is not designed for as there can only be so many connections per square mile per satellite.
>After all they live in a very privileged space (or "bubble")

It's my personal view that so much of the current political vitriol is because as a society, we've run out of things to worry about. We've reached critical mass of people solving Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and therefore, we are dwelving in to other arenas where we are feeling neglected.
I was going to mention the OP-Z - I was uncertain about it until I got one, but it turns out to be a really good example of an "expert" UI. No screen, lots of button combos to memorise, an enormous amount of functionality. Completely unapproachable without hours of studying the manual, but when you know it it's very efficient to use.
The Pocket Operators are genuinely pretty inuitive, simply because they have so many buttons, and each one has at most two functions (from memory).

The labelling is also pretty good for the first 2 series at least, I haven't tried any of the third. That said, the original official case hid the LEDs which reduces usability substantially - the only useful elements on the screen are the BPM and sync status in the corner.

My issue with them is the lack of a case makes them not very ergonomic and not very portable, for the sake of an aesthetic. All the after market cases have a major downside: doubling the volume (size), hiding elements of the interface, requiring gluing components, price, etc. Also they're pretty expensive for what they are - you really want at least two, by which time you could buy a Volca.

I've thought about desoldering all the buttons and pots to build a more durable unit with bigger mechanical Cherry style switches and bigger LEDs, but I'll never get around to it.
Quality engineering. But for the average user, it's expensive for a radio.
It is not obvious from the title but Element is actually acquiring Gitter.
Quote from the article:

> In practice, the way this is happening is that Element (the company founded by the Matrix core team to fund Matrix development) is acquiring Gitter from GitLab, with a combined Gitter and Element dev team focusing on giving Gitter a new life in Matrix!

There is also another blogpost from the elements side
https://element.io/blog/gitter-is-joining-element/
It's also that you have a old(ish) bladder and an old(ish) digestive system.

Accommodations for other people's physical needs is a pretty serious Chesterton's Fence situation.
Related blog post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-radar/
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Yes, unfortunately. Most states don't have any law against employers politically pressuring their employees.
> It's a very different question than whether or not you should have/share your worldview.

the very act of sharing your view (implying it's unsolicited) is trying to change someone else. Let me use as an obnoxious example: vegans trying to sell the idea of veganism to non-vegans.
No.

But I don't when kissing either, which weirds my partner out when she notices (which is rarely because... she doesn't).

So I think I am the weird one with eye closing.
Objectively speaking, it's your privilege that makes this issue seem subjective enough to dismiss it so.
Nice to see this picked up! We're hiring technical people at the municipality, reach out to me via my profile if you're interested.
This won’t end well. The moment Coinbase articulates anything remotely related to an underlying set of values or business ethics, the accusations of politicization (and hypocrisy) will come flying.

I believe that corporations are not governed or regulated to support activism writ large, but there has to be room for dissent (even if it ends in separation). How else do you arrive at a shared definition of “economic freedom”?

Is the next step amorality?
While we're focused on the purely "Political" agenda in this conversation, politics of a company include anything from how on-calls work to how sick days are counted.

You can work at a company and advocate for changing things and it can be as comparatively small as ensuring on-call rotations are fair to ensuring the company voices support for and takes actions in line with supporting Black Lives Matter. These are all political in the spirit described up thread as saying that politics is the figuring out and deciding of these issues as a group.
> Our plan is instead to merge Gitter’s features into Element (or next generations of Element) itself and then - if and only if Element has achieved parity with Gitter based on the above list - we expect to upgrade the deployment on gitter.im to a Gitter-customised version of Element. The inevitable side-effect is that we’ll be adding new features to Element rather than Gitter going forwards.

Wonder what existing Gitter users think about this?
Assault rifles are marketed as "sporting" rifles by their manufacturers. My rifle doesn't accept detachable magazines which is one of the features of assault/sporting rifles.
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It's easy to choose an example that you don't like. Are you sure there are no examples you can agree with?
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Why do they use the abbreviation "PIM" for something which was called Product Data Management (PDM) for the last thirty years? Seems to be a new use of the abbreviation (i.e. all PIM references in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_information_management are less than a year old). It was already used for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager. Did they switch from PDM to PIM in business and operations management education, or is this just an idea of the developers of the referenced software?
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Yeah I'm with you but I can totally understand people that do.

Unlike £250 bluetooth ear buds. That I'll never understand
We don't live in a world with a robust operating system market where people can pick and choose the perfect option for them. You have three choices and they are each going to be a mixed bad of good and bad features for almost everyone.
You'd be surprised where in the USA has at least one viable last mile terrestrial WISP. I can think of a few parts of Idaho where you would think nothing exists, but you can get 25 Mbps x 10 Mbps service from a competently run small ISP, by point to multipoint 5150-5850 MHz band equipment.

But there are also vast areas of Idaho too sparsely populated to support any WISP at all, where you'll see cheap consumer grade VSAT stuck to the sides of peoples' houses.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wildblue+dish&client=ubuntu&...
I think this is the premise of of The Witcher series.
I read the original post from Brian as; you can, but at work one should work. Coinbase isn't paying folks to debate politics, they're paying someone to further the company mission.
Its amazing to me that seemingly any project Elon Musk is associated with has at least 2-3 Top level comments shitting all over it from who are either incredibly nip-picky or inertly uniformed.

But are utterly convinced their options are amazing.

> “I have never set up any tactical satellite equipment that has been as quick to set up, and anywhere near as reliable” as Starlink, Richard Hall, the emergency telecommunications leader of the Washington State Military Department’s IT division, told CNBC in an interview Monday.

> The company has confirmed that it’s been conducting a private beta test of Starlink with employees, but Hall said Washington’s emergency division use case “grew organically out of previously unrelated talks.” When Washington’s wildfires became increasingly severe in August, with catastrophic damage, Hall saw Starlink as a new solution for areas where the damage meant “there is no other available data connection.”

> “I even did setup to allow kids to do some of their initial schooling too, because they were pressing forward with some limited presence slowly. We covered a whole lot of bases,” Hall said. “Starlink changes the game as far as what’s available.”

Clearly all a PR stunt by Evil genius Elon Musk who never does anything other then spend his time planning the next big PR move to confuse the masses.

Edit: I wrote a response but Hacker News does not allow it, basic point is, provide evidence that it is a PR stunt if that is your claim. The person interviewed seem to have credibility. Seems like interpretation in bad faith to me. Not question your technical knowledge.
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Law enforcement has been going apeshit about legally forcing Apple to build in hardware backdoors to their products. If this jailbreak didn't exist, they'd be putting a gun to Apple's head and demanding decryption tools for all iPhones.

Furthermore, the entire point of a jailbreak is to regain root access to your own device - Apple provides no way for a user to do so, which I find at least somewhat irksome. The way it currently stands, all iOS devices ship with Apple having total control over the device, and a jailbreak lets you claw back control by force if you so choose.
collective bargaining starts at the level of government - not within the workplace. It would obviously be in the interest of the employer to stop it from starting up.

So you take this political stance outside of work. If enough people can be convinced that collective bargaining is a good idea, it will get enshrined into law. Employers will have to comply.

On the other hand, organising during work time (which is being paid for by your employer) is unethical - and regardless of my feelings of the idea of collective bargaining, it should not be done on someone else's dime.