skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even awk/perl is sometimes better than shell script in many use cases.
I come to this site to avoid the would-be-funny-if-it-wasn't-part-of-a-process-leading-to-our-extinction factional raging in social media, so apologies to all. However, as my use of the term 'lunatic' is being judged inappropriate and I have a normal amount of insecurity, I feel a need to respond. And, of course, if you can't indulge in a bit of pedantry, it just wouldn't be Hacker News. Thus:

No. not more than half of them. No more than about 30 percent did anything at all to prevent it. A similar number actively tried to make it happen, the reminder were spread amongst 'don't care', 'sounds like too much work' and 'fuck all y'all'. It was very slightly better but pretty similar results this week (and we won't even mention the Senate...). So an opinion that the median American is some combination of vicious, stupid, lazy, dangerous or crazy may be inflammatory, but it is certainly evidence-based.
It’s not a straw man.

I don’t want my non-technical family members being persuaded to install other stores.

It is absolutely a feature, and a beneficial one at that, which many people want.

As for Apple allowing people to install other stores - why should they? Why not just buy an Android phone if you want that feature.
Besides, there’s always the grand tradition of “this is ours now” and replacing all the Chinese marks with Chilean ones.
But the country is not a union of people of different ages and professions, but of different states, technically.

The electoral college is a form of protection for the naturally less densely populated agrarian states against the densely populated urban ones. Without the electoral college, the colonies would not have agreed to unite under a shared federal government.
Yes, I did mention that.
I somewhat disagree! I think it’s fine when privacy is the feature. For example, Snapchat used to block screenshotting, but that was a feature both sides benefited from.
I’m not suggesting consumer behavior should change Apple.

I’m suggesting that consumers should buy a product that that suits their needs.

If you need alternate stores - buy Android.

There is no reason at all for Apple to be forced to do anything.
Smart careful criminals are smart and careful. Most criminals are stupid or lazy.
> THE GOP NEVER WANTED TRUMP. Why do you think the DNC has “super delegates”? Exactly to prevent what Trump did.

Well, no, the superdelegates are principally (solely, now that post-2016 their first ballkt voting powers have been limited to situations where they don't matter) to prevent an extended convention battle in the event of a failure of a clear majority.

The GOP tried to avoid the same problem without superdelegates by building a system that creates a strong artificial majority out of plurality support, to force a quick decision for the early leader (which Trump benefited from, because the establishment didn't really have it's act together to effectively push a clearly preferred candidate at the outset, and ended up chasing the early leaders tail the whole election with a succession of different favored alternatives.)

> The establishment GOP hates Trump as much as anyone on “the left”.

The old GOP establishment might. The party-in-government (GOP members in elective office don't), the evidence of which is them staying in the Party when Trump took it over. For dissatisfaction with a party for more mild than what the left has for Trump, officeholders leave and become independents or even flip to the other party; if establishment members of the GOP in government hated Trump even with 1/10th the fury the Left has for Trump, or even that the center-right Democratic establishment does, they'd have all left, and either become independents, joined the Democrats or, given how many of them there would be if it really was the whole establishment, formed their own party.

Instead, they immediately dropped most of their pre-nomination complaints and jumped on board, because while he might not be their favorite, he's a devil they have no real problem living and working with.
Were one so inclined, anyone comfortable with embedded programming and electronics could make an arbitrary calculator perform the critical decryption calculation.

It would be slow as hell, but it's proof of the underlying theme: attempting to ban general purpose computing is insane.
Easy to lose sight that whatever safety we have is because we are actively trying to make it safe. We are at a point of development where if it wasn't safe, it would be the polar opposite and be the most unsafe time in history, everything happens on a global scale. What levers we need to maintain safety as technology moves forward is a tough thing to work out. Mucking with encryption doesn't seem like a good way to go though.
I hope play.js isn’t next. It lets users install packages from npmjs.
I think what the OP is asking for in practice is clearly targeted at a niche hacker market which is very much a market which has not matured and is essentially sidelined as a matter of practice - to the OS vendors detriment (hear me out).

There are security implications of such freedoms which should be avoided of course for the regular users. The phones should be locked down as much as possible. But that doesn't have to be the only option.

This is way GrapheneOS [1] exploits Android flexibility and customization to try to improve fundamental OS security to the most modern standards and attempts to break the closesed walls of Google WHILE still shipping a fully locked down phone at the bootloader and OS levels [2].

The ideal world is Apple and Android does their normal security lockdowns for standard endusers for security's sake. Then they offer a separate hackable version where research and those crazy UI/UX hobbyists can do their thing.

In all technical senses this is entirely possible for a vendor to do. So it becomes a product question. And I'm convinced they will get ancillary benefits from the hackers doing expimentation in both security and UIs and whatever,\ from which to draw inspiration for their IRL produdcts. And possibly just as important - talent (developers, developers, ...) there are people who care about this stuff who just want to hack on their devices. These can be talented individuals and who knows some future leader within Google et al, the way the Napster guys are SV celebrities now.

I'm convinced there's enough ROI (yes commercially) for every OS platform to support this niche. They shouldn't be relegated to the ruffians and pirates on the fringes using risky circumvention techniques to achieve their goals.

[1] https://grapheneos.org/

[2] https://attestation.app/
This could have been summarized in about four sentences. It's not worth all this schtick, and it doesn't need a cast of THREE. The video is as exhausting as the Dell process it mocks.
If I wanted to give anonymous feedback, I'd email your boss from a throwaway account, not click a link that may as well be tied into Marketo or Salesforce to measure my engagement. I'm not super privacy paranoia, but good enough. But maybe there's enough of a market here then for people who aren't me :-D
> There is no reason at all for Apple to be forced to do anything.

Apple impacts businesses, consumers, engineers - multiple industries - with their bad behavior.

Apple has an illegal platform and it must be regulated. They've captured 50% of the United States computing market and illegally inserted themselves as middleman into every transaction, every software install. They punish everyone trying to do business and make engineers dance through flaming hoops.

Apple has become their own banana republic. Anticompetitive and illegal.
Why don't people in California deserve a means to influence the presidency as much as Montana or DC?
> Jeep is supposedly coming out with a plug-in hybrid Jeep Wrangler next month. Electric range is maybe 25 miles.

That's enough to get a carpool sticker, right?
So instead of the seller pulling a fast one, it’s the buyer? Not sure that’s any different or better...
I often use my airpods pro while driving with ANC turned on and get absolutely no nausea.

Since they cancel predictable noise, I also feel my driving is actually safer (a noise like a siren would sound relatively louder than before).
It’s nearly impossible and extremely dangerous to try an board a vessel that refuses to stop, so at least the threat of violence might be needed.
Evidence-based software engineering: book released
Nobody has ever heard of it other than people looking for something to be offended about.
Make sure to grab one of the more mature Surface lines. My original Surface Pro had bad thermals; melted the adhesive for the display off. Friend had a Surface Book 1 snap in his bag, and another friend had a Surface Pro X die on him ~2 weeks after buying it.

Interestingly enough, all these issues only happened on the first version of each product line.
Ask HN: What Happened to Yik Yak?
I'm still a little confused about what happened to Yik Yak. I would love to have an app like that right now especially during quarantine, but it seems like they had a bullying issue. Do you think this would still be a problem today/any way around this?
I'm sitting here as a developer, contemplating if my next phone should be an iPhone or Android - and this is the gist of what I think:

- If I buy an Apple I buy into this developer unfriendly ecosystem with a big gatekeeper.

- If I buy an Android I pay with all my privacy, on top of that Google is also a big bully to small app developers.

- Besides Google or Apple, what choices are there?
The Intel ME is a circuit, not a software program. You can't "overwrite" it. And the HAP bit doesn't do what you think it does:

https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/938458875522666497
The HAP bit doesn't do what you think it does:

https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/938458875522666497
If you're nervous about your kid being reckless with the mower, you teach them not to be reckless. That's all there is to it.
While there's an XKCD for every occasion, it's been a while since I got to use this one: https://xkcd.com/37/
I think of it as giving some representation to the land itself (and it's natural resources) as represented by the people who work and live there.
On the plus side, on that short of a range you only need to carry a few AA batteries with you for a quick top-up.
I am sure some statisticians have good reasons for hating on descriptivist statistics but I wish they would express it with less vitriol. I am not generally sympathetic when someone says a tool sucks when the tool seems to do an okay enough job for most purposes.

I find this visualisation to be one of the better looking ones for demonstrating this concept. I wish the author had included the formula however since it is helpful to see exactly which one they have used.
I recently watched a video of the assembly of that engine. It's pretty impressive and the car it was put is a beast.

I couldn't help but think it's pretty silly to be driving one of those but the engineering of that power train is still something to behold.
> Electric range is maybe 25 miles

Average commute is 16 miles each way so is doable.
Same as if I receive your ballot and vote for you
The system is secure and robust, at least with regards to the mechanics of individual votings.

Among the main factors is its distributed nature. You just can't run a scam with senior citizen volunteers in thousands of individual precincts.

Then, there are observers. Famous case from this week's election was Republicans complaining that their two dozen(!) observers weren't allowed closer than 6 feet to the ballots.

It would be impossible for fraud to happen on any regular basis and not coming to light. So the incidence of 0.00002% (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/26/15424270/v...) is somewhat informative.

If it were possible to manipulate the vote tabulation in any meaningful way, the GOP wouldn't need to go to all the lengths it does w.r.t. gerrymandering, purging voter roles, coming up with new requirements for voting, or closing voting precincts.
The vast majority of iOS users appreciate the security, safety, and stability provided by Apple’s restrictions.

In fact, at this point I strongly dislike MacOS for how poorly it manages resources and security- even tho it does an outstanding job for a desktop app.

There’s a reason Apple tops satisfaction scores.

So while I see the above sentiment on HN frequently, the perspective lacks an understanding of the enormous benefits of Apple’s restrictions.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/19/apple-smartphone-custom...
South Korea/Windows XP?
There are several different designs, some there is a mix of streams.

Most are sadly not particularly efficient overall, but still much better than leaving a window open.
I mean you could say the same thing about VW (surely a major car manufacturer) 3 years back but ID 3 is being mass produced now and has a clear backing from VW (eg. I see it advertised a decent amount). ID 4 is coming, VW group members will all offer EVs based on the same platform in following years.

Electric cars are becoming a reality, charging networks are getting built, and most of the things I see around here is not Tesla. I bought a new car recently so I won't be in the market for a new one for at least 3-4 years but I fully expect my next car to be electric and I doubt it will be a Tesla (I have my eye on Jaguar ipace but who knows by then).
> and the Intel malware is disabled

You confirmed this how?

> Read their site, they go into the details there.

Debunked. The HAP bit doesn't do what they think it does:

https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/938458875522666497
What? You need an Apple machine to use Xcode.
> What about proposing encryption as an EU human right? Has that been attempted?

Rights conflict. Every new right influences the others. It is easy to shorthand every problem to a human rights declaration. But just like the right to bear arms, that can have unintended consequences.
I love Jeopardy and Trebek was fantastic. He was a calm, composed, reassuring voice in a sea of chaos.

I just can't fathom doing something you love so much until your very last breath. Trebek epitomized this - day after day - entertaining millions. A great man that will be sorely missed.
Cause when I younger I didn’t know how to pipe like that and dd just worked. It’s kinda stuck with me and there isn’t much a different imo
Probably 9 years ago I bought a iPhone knockoff called the Sciphone. It made a barking sound when you received a text and there was no way to disable or change that. Horrible thing.
Missing the 2020 US election! Do the 2020 election.
I'd appreciate that at least the system is overt. All of the above information usually is public info. You know exactly which politician got funded by which Russian tycoon, etc.
Code generation is pretty hard. I'd start by generating arithmetic from your AST. Then focus on getting a simple function to compile. Don't worry if this requires a lot of hard coding. Once you get to the harder concepts like closures, consider making a secondary IR that simplifies code gen. I have a typed AST representation that desugars various concepts like first class functions, destructuring, etc.

I'm actually compiling to WebAssembly but it's the same principles
I get it. Part of the ethos is anti all of that. For example I'm making a point to have zero 3rd party cookies or JS analytics cruft. Tracking pixels & the like should be dead already and might be soon enough, one can hope. Businesses should create value for and get out of the way of their customers, not view them as "users" and strive to maximize "engagement" with them.
> I don’t want my non-technical family members being persuaded to install other stores.

Frankly, that's not your decision to make.

If they own the device, they get to decide. If they don't or are too young, then you can use various controls (i.e parental controls) to lock your devices down the way you want.

This is a straw man.
Ease of technical support for your family doesn't merit enslaving iOS users and developers.
I mean, if you are correct that there really are no problems with paper voting, then great. That's not what I've been hearing ever since Bush vs. Gore, but I'll admit I haven't looked at it closely myself
Apologies to the author but this seems like a pointless effort. Buyers of iPad/iPhone have renounced by contract their desire to run general purpose software, and have accepted an application jukebox with a vendor-approved catalogue. They do not won own general purpose computers and have not purchased such devices.

Just like no-one writes an appstore for the computer in the microwave oven, that has a fixed and very limited fixed set of "apps", it similarly makes no sense to create an alternative appstore for a locked platform.
> I don't think it's perfect, but in principle I don't see it as a bad things that people in say Montana have a means to influence the presidency.

Under the electoral college system, voters in so-called swing states have much more influence on the outcome of the election than voters in states with established political supremacy. To your point above, in a system where the popular vote determines the outcome, every person's vote weighs equally.

On top of that, the electoral college enables the "faithless elector" scenario, in which chosen electors who cast the legally-binding vote for president opt to either vote against the wishes of the electorate or to abstain entirely[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiafalo_v._Washington
The author says about turnout:
"One clarification: The turnout number at the bottom is slightly wrong: You’d think that you can easily get these statistics for past elections, but I can’t find the turnout number anywhere. Instead I was able to get the population of the counties, so this is the number of votes divided by the population."

Isn't this quite inaccurate? I think counties release registered voter numbers, so shouldn't we be instead comparing registered turnout, as votes/registered voters? (yes, some states do allow same-day registration, which might muck up numbers, but I still think its better than just going off population). But anyways, where do the population numbers come from? I imagine they're from the last census, which was in 2010.

edit: yes, they are using the census yearly estimates. I suppose that's as accurate as you can get, but its still not a true turnout statistic.
Could they inspect traffic at the ISP level and come knocking if they can't decipher what you're transmitting?
As far as I can tell, the battery-powered version of the MCM/70 (the MCM/70 Executive) didn't make it beyond the prototype stage. The regular MCM/70 was a "desktop" computer that needed to be plugged in.
I’m not a statistician or political scientist, but my intuition would say that it is probably easy to defeat any given statistical analysis of voting data, but would be difficult to defeat two or more simultaneously. In cryptographic terms, it might be possible to find a collision in MD5 or SHA1, but finding a collision in both for the same target payload would be significantly more difficult.

This is actually a very valid use of blockchain, imho, that would go very far in securing elections, make remote online voting more secure, and provide a public, auditable, immutable log.
Why would you buy one if you don’t like Apple?
You can't buy an apple product, you can only rent it.

The recent development in rights to self repair makes this even clearer.
The benefits of reducing the overall car weight will be huge. For this to be viable one has to think carefully about what happens when a high impact occurs. How easily replaceable will the cells be in the event of damage? A local damage should not result in an overall damage to the vehicle. How will the batteries be cooled?
If your langauge is functional (has closures), I would recommend checking out[0] which is a full end-to-end tutorial on compiling a functional language to C and could be adapted to LLVM, using Haskell as the implementation language.

Basically the only slightly non-trivial step is closure conversion[1] which lifts free (AKA "captured" in C++ terminology) variables from a closure, which lets you encode closures faithfully in a first-order language with structs.

[0] https://github.com/jozefg/pcf/

[1] http://lampwww.epfl.ch/teaching/archive/advanced_compiler/20...
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The real solution would be making the images directory not a free for all. There should be an OS filepicker which gets used to allow an app access to photos rather than the app having access directly. That way a screenshot is not instantly leakable.
I think I've come up with a reasonable solution for Apple to implement that MacOS style of openness: the iPhone Developer Edition. "Developer" is being used here as a byword for "power user", since "Pro" has been diluted.

The Developer Edition requires you to register for a now-free developer account. There's big friendly letters that say, "Welcome, developer! We know that you'll enjoy getting the most of your hardware and not clogging up our forums and support lines with complaints about things that are broken due to the unreviewed apps, because you're a developer, and you know how to fix things when they break. Here's your unwalled garden. Enjoy."

Then there can be that Dev Store where Advanced stuff goes, and if there's ever any hacks / vulnerabilities / bad stuff Apple can point to the Dev Edition and say "That's what they signed up for, but for normal folks the walled garden awaits."

iPhone Developer Edition and iPhone Customer Editions are identical in hardware. You can buy a Customer Edition and convert it to a Developer Edition phone by simply registering as a developer and signing away your right to bitch and moan if apps contain spam, porn, scams, or brick your device. iPhone Developer Edition can be turned back into a Customer edition through a setting, all ready to be sold.
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I've not seen it OOM, but I have 64GB of ram.
Well yeah, people that own Bentleys use them for in-town transit with air travel between cities. Country estates get land rovers, and there's a driver to handle the details of charging.
Sure, but a lot of them do not understand vendor lock and having to fear the whims of Apple. When Apple decided that an app simply can't reside on their platform, then that's basically how it is.

When I buy a phone, I actually want to buy it and not just rent and have someone else setting the rules for me.
California has 55 votes, Montana and DC only have 3 each. Is that not enough influence? Cali and NY make up almost a third of the electoral votes.

Is it really fair for these two places to control and dictate the policies of a country spread as far and wide as the US? Hasnt the blue/red divide, not only in the country but within states themselves show that the desires and attitudes of people are heavily influenced by their geographic location? Isn’t a good thing there’s a political system (the electorates) that accounts for this?
Great to hear you like yours! The different Ctrl key location and no super/windows key have been the most noticeable for me so far.
I thought the result of the supreme court cases is that the votes of faithless electors are nonbinding?