skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link - this is an ideal solution to the problem of forgetting to carry, or mislaying, tokens.

I was about to press the Buy button for the McLear payment-enabled ring priced at £89.99

https://mclear.com/product/payment-ring/#

but paused for thought after reading the terms and conditions (it's a PrePay Visa account) and finding this gem:

"Your McLEAR Product(s) will be valid for 24 months from date of registration, after which your Product(s) will no longer be able to make contactless payments or have any funds available into your Account."

and less severe but annoying opt-out not opt-in:

"You can tell us if you don’t want to receive any marketing materials from us in accordance with the GDPR 2018, by emailing dpo@mclear.com."

https://mclear.com/about/ring-terms-conditions/
They should have had better thermals in the previous 13" Pro, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOPPuNv4Ec&t=3m56s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOPPuNv4Ec&t=5m30s

That's just a headscratcher.
> I mean, sure, we need some amount of polling because it informs decisions such as who gets to participate in televised debates

I would strongly disagree with this use of polling data. This is exactly how they justify locking out third party/independent candidates from the debates and preventing them from getting any traction, it's the two party duopoly at its finest (also how we end up with ironic tweets like [1]).

I think a much better system would be that anyone who will be on the ballot in enough states to take the presidency (ie 270 electoral votes) should be included. Requiring being on the ballot in enough states ensures that there is a reasonable base level of support for the candidate (since it's not particularly easy to get on that many ballots) and is also an objective measure vs taking into account polls that might not even have many candidates as options.

Even if that allows some candidates you might consider "unviable" to participate, I still say that's a good thing. At least it allows them to show their ideas for how to address various issues (which may influence the platforms of the larger parties if there appears to be broad support for it) and also allows them to potentially gain more support in the future.

[1] https://twitter.com/GovGaryJohnson/status/131467950818472755...
It is Cmd+Backspace for me because I remapped my MacBook's keyboard so it matches my ThinkPad's[1] - I really don't want to have to play Twister with my fingers.

[1] Yes, I've remapped/swapped the Ctrl+Fn keys on my ThinkPad too.
TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it
If you're an InfluxDB user looking to migrate to a more reliable and solid database, here's a tool [1] that allows you to do that in a single command:

[1]: https://www.outfluxdata.com
Yep for the MBA. I think for devs that can live with 16GB, the cheaper 7GPU MacBook Air is very interesting instead of the MacBook Pro for $300 cheaper.
The catches are: 1. single-threaded performance only; 2. sustained load
The comment that would have been a sibling to mine has been deleted. Said comment referred to the parent comment and their proclivity to engage on specific topics.
16g max? Really? I bought my mini as mini as I can except the ram as this is limitation if you do not have enough ram. Xcode. Video. At least one should have an option.
> For me it is proof enough that my wise mother told me take my vitamins.

That's not proof of anything.

> There are thresholds for deficiency. There are optimal levels.

And there are levels that cause toxicity.

> Supplements can help with that.

[citation needed] which is kind of the point of this article.

> ...and easier and cheaper than a diet which includes all necessities. Low levels are suboptimal for you. Makes sense?

Unless your diet already has you covered, in which case it's strictly harder and more expensive.

Again, you should look for evidence of improvement, that's what the scientific process is all about. I encourage you to embrace the scientific process and take a data driven approach to whether ingesting something is going to help, harm, or have no impact on you at all, instead of just listening to your mom. My mom is a saint, but she's not right about everything.

Worse yet, because multivitamins like all nutritional supplements are not regulated by the FDA, they can range from totally ineffective to half decent, but you have no way of really knowing. The most common magnesium supplement I've found on Amazon is only 19% bioavailable [1] as compared to a best-in-class 90%. Where does your multivitamin rank? That's just one specific example.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683096/
Intel is now (currently) using TSMC for their Xe GPUs: https://www.pcgamer.com/au/intel-tsmc-not-long-term/
We're broaching many new ideas now, many of which I agree with. I agree that employers have an obligation to communicate in crystal clear terms what equity in the company means. I also agree wealth inequality endangers the stability of our society, and some form of wealth re-distribution makes sense. I also agree that worker cooperatives can make sense in some situations, though rarely.

I don't agree that employees deserve to be rewarded for their part in building the company above and beyond their cash and equity compensation.

> Personally I'd like to see it move towards a point where taking everything just because you can isn't viewed as acceptable.

I still am unsure what you're actually proposing we do.

I initially thought you were proposing we shame Josh for taking more than he needs. I strongly disagree with this principle for aforementioned reasons. To put it another way, Josh isn't taking "everything just because he can". He's taking what he owns, rightfully deserves, and worked
and risked 7 long, hard years for.
Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text
None of those statements is consistent with the Pew Research data on partisan identification among the electorate. E.g. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1v58Nt6SW832ZUq7xLI6N... for 2019 demographic breakdowns.
[Citation needed]

I have $52 for 52 weeks here as a subscription option, then $9.95/mo.

(https://store.wsj.com/shop/us/ca/wsjcass21/?trackingCode=aaq...)
Voltaire said the secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The Internet may have told you everything.

For you, the Internet is complete, as in The Nine Billion Names of God complete. Time for you to wait for the stars to wink out, one by one.

Or maybe you are full of whatever the Internet has given you and can’t take in anymore. Step away from the device and take a break. Talk to someone IRL and...

If you have time to chatter, read books.

If you have time to read, walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

If you have time to walk, sing songs and dance.

If you have time to dance, sit quietly, you happy lucky idiot.

(Nanak Sakaki)
This reminds me of the C+= (C plus Equality) feminist programming language.
> ... after all you can do a ps and see all processes ...

Which you can prevent by mounting /proc with the "hidepid" option.
The population of NYC alone is 2.5% of the US population; the New York Metropolitan Area, about 6%.
Docker runs in a VM on MacOS anyway, it’s not running on bare metal. Is instruction-set even relevant in that world?
> A dog whistle for what? There's an awful lot of cagey presumption going on in every reiteration of this claim.

I'm not a US citizen nor I ever set foot in the US, and even from afar the quasi-fanarical displays of support for the US armed forces is a hallmark of supporters of the Republican party.
Well I wasn't linking the payment ring, but rather a smartcard in a ring formfactor. As for payments, you can go this daring route

https://www.instructables.com/RFID-NFC-Tap-and-Go-Ring-for-C...
I would love to work for a company where I can take a significant pay cut to work 30 or even 35 hours in a typical work week.
Hmm. Seems like a more visceral punishment should be meted to an oath to a deity. Perhaps delete the entire content of the file?
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I've heard a lot of complaints about the touchbar. The loss of tactile feedback is a fair one, and admittedly removing the escape key was a terrible idea. I recently upgraded to a machine with a touchbar, learned quickly why the default settings are pretty bad, and then quickly found BTT and set it up. The touchbar is not a revolutionary innovation, but it definitely improves functionality in some cases, and it's fun to mess with. Oh, and a button to "toggle mic in zoom" actually solves a real problem.

The people who complain about the touchbar functionality must not be putting any effort at all into it. I customize so many other things on my system, regardless of the OS. Why would a new hardware feature be any different?

I didn't know about this GoldenChaos thing though, thanks for that.
Definitely not the random user, but the moment you start running docker containers, you are screwed.
While the DoS of accounts-daemon is bad, it seems like the real problem here is that gdm3 running with broken/absent/etc. accounts-daemon will believe there are no accounts even though there may be? Surely this is extremely trusting behaviour on gdm3's part and should also be fixed?

But all the updated versions are for accounts-version, not gdm3. Do they change the 'default' response somehow?
How is the licensing for QT for personal projects?
This blog post has more detail and screenshots. It'll probably be more interesting for this crowd: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-2-0-open-source-is-...
Your site is timing out for me
Cyrillic orthography for the Polish language already exists: its called Ukrainian.
That's why i was suggesting using wildcard certs - they would not have the actual domain name in them.

That said, regardless of what one does, i wouldn't reccomend putting too much faith in security by obscurity.
YMMV, but I found the following articles quite useful to 1) help self-manage symptoms brought on during strength training, and 2) to stop obsessing about my using "bad" form during training:

https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/pain-in-training-what-d...

https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/movement-variability-sh...
It's a good question -- do most people still use desktop office suites these days? I don't know the answer. I use the Google Docs suite for both work and for personal stuff, and I personally haven't seen the need to pay for Office in awhile.
Maybe we should start a club.
I just did. The research is divided into two: those that look at clinical outcomes (such as cardiac arrest) do not find that vitamins help. Those that look at quality of life indicators, recovery, infection severity, and muscle strength do find significant improvements of supplementation.

And they find no harm of normal use, but warn against dangerous toxicity effects of overdosing.
Winter Fire Pit Pods
Looking for safe options for social distancing. These Pods will keep you warm.
Can you explain why you think that illustrates a double standard? What principle do you think the NYT is purporting to hold but is applying inconsistently in these two cases?

I haven't read either article (because I'm not a subscriber), but I gather that the former is advocating using the US military to put down civil unrest in the US, and the other is defending the actions of Hong Kong police to put down civil unrest in Hong Kong.

If you suppose the principle being applied is very broad, something like "no support of any state action against civil unrest should ever be published," then that principle does seem to be applied inconsistently. But that seems very unlikely to be the principle NYT is purporting to have.
He worked out a win-win deal that gives them publicity and him $4M. In gaming terms, I believe this play is known as a QUAD KILL.
The three historical phases of programming API searches:

(1) In the beginning, the first result was the official API docs.

(2) Then stackoverflow became the crucial crutch and soared into the results, but the official docs would still be on the first page.

(3) Now you get a random mixture of superficial incomplete 1-page clickbait pseudo-tutorials, apparently written by a bot, or someone trying to learn the language, which do not answer your question. The official API docs can be hard to find.
Its not quite a classic synlink exploit. Normally, the purpose of a symlink exploit is to get a privledged process to leak information about a file you don't have access to.

Here, as the article mentions, part of the attack relies on the fact that the privledged process goes out of its way to defend against such an attack.

As far as I can tell, the symlink is not even nessasary. You should be able to get the same effect by making 1TB big. Using sparse files, you don't even need much disk space.
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The EU and the US had an agreement for the free flow of private data. The courts struck it down because the US does not have actual privacy with all the wholes of unconstrained national security excuses. However, there is an escape hatch, but big corps only as far as I get.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/court-tosses-us-...
If you have two, say, Microsoft accounts, can you use the same FIDO2-capable authenticator for both, and can Microsoft correlate the accounts by authenticator? I know keys are unique per-site, but are they per-account?

edit: The spec[1] is vague on this, but it looked like a Relying Party can't correlate accounts directly via some kind of identifier for the authenticator. It looks like individual key pairs are generated on the authenticator for each account and linked to the unique userEntity.ID given by the Relying Party. However, Mozilla warns you [2] when sites ask for additional information about your authenticator. I tested this with Yubico's demo [3]. Unfortunately, it looks like the field attestationObject.attStmt.x5c identifies the authenticator. Firefox prompts you when sites ask for the extended information and removes this field if you check a box. That's nice, I guess, but it still seems not so great. If you were to forget and use a user agent that didn't prompt you to anonymize this, the Relying Party would get the attStmt in the response and theoretically could store and correlate accounts. Interested to hear more about the reasoning behind this.

edit 2: It looks like this field is necessary as a second factor when using passwordless login? On Yubico's playground [4], checking "Enable passwordless login with this key" and then checking Firefox's "Anonymize anyway" box results in no request made to the key. Without enabling passwordless login, the request still works after anonymizing.

To be honest, it seems like sites should allow passwordless login without the x5c field. I don't see how an attacker couldn't come up with the x5c field if they could crack the key pair. Is my reasoning right here?

1: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-1

2: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-web-authenticat...

3: https://demo.yubico.com/webauthn-technical

4: https://demo.yubico.com/playground
When I was reading about 'dog' command-line DNS resolver here yesterday, I was thinking "who on earth has time to constantly investigate, install dependencies for, install, test, maintain, remember to use, etc, all these whiz-bang utilities I see posted here all the time?"

Maybe I'm stuck in first gear :)
Secular Jews don't care about this nearly as much though (source: I am one).
I've heard (from reliable sources) that Google has the option to work 60% or 80% time (with a corresponding cut to pay). Presumably you need a record of solid performance and your manager needs to be on board.
Funny, I realized that I've never thought about how I react to polls until reading your comment. I flat out refuse to answer polls regardless of who is asking. I refuse to leave any public artifacts of my political feelings (signs, bumper stickers, facebook comments, etc). The reason is exactly as you describe - I have nothing to gain and potentially something to lose.

I am a problem for pollsters and there's no reason to think I'm unique in this regard.
I highly recommend not letting your personal happiness and feelings of success being controlled by random strangers on the internet. Getting approval from random strangers on the internet is fast food not real food.
I don’t find it too surprising that more Democrats have an opinion of QAnon. There’s a small segment of people who actually have consumed the material and believe in it, and a much larger set who have heard of it and have a vague (and possibly wrong) notion of what “side” it’s on. I think due to the repugnant nature of the movement, most of that commentary is going to come from the left, so mostly left-wing people will form an opinion. Most of the people who are favorable toward QAnon in those polls on both the left and right probably have little idea of what it actually is.

See: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/bush-did-north-dakota/
The only time that there would be enough touch bar bashing is when Apple listens and give users an option to have function keys instead.
I think it’s good actually
You're missing the point. It's not that they're gullible, it's that one side ignores them completely and the other side is speaking to them. It doesn't matter that the guy telling you what you want to hear is probably lying, its still a better spot than the guy that ignores you because they don't want or need your vote.
If you do anything like virtualization 8GB of RAM is absolutely paltry, borderline unusable - due to the need, e.g. to allocate a specific amount of RAM to a running VM.

To be honest, I find even 16GB to be limiting. The lack of offering of a 32GB configuration killed the immediate sale for me, absolutely no exaggeration.

Because you can't upgrade it post-market, I'd consider these to be some of the least future-proofed releases from Apple in a while.
It may also be left over from the SOP for primary elections, where your party registration does determine which ballot you get.
The combination of Elixir and Rust has been really fascinating to watch. They compliment each other so well.
Create in English, Krit in Sanskrit, ecrit in French.
Death is Mrit in Sanskrit, and morte in French.
Is is astu in Sanskrit, Ast in Farsi (if I recall correctly).
I agree the LG feels bad. I don't agree that Apple doesn't have the talent to solve this and make 30% lighter laptops.

As for weight, carrying a 4.4lbs notebook to and from work and to meetings never bothered me. Carrying the same notebook for days on end as a digital nomad, especially in hot and humid weather did.
In San Francisco, at least, the counting machine is programmed not to reject an undervote (it will reject overvotes and other mistakes)
Where's dmesg, kvm, namespaces, cgroups, and package management built in?

What about inodes and cpu spikes even running node on osx? Let alone doing that inside a container.

Nah. OSX is long gone for "better dev experience". Linux always wins.
> "backporting security changes (esp if a version bump changes functionality"

Thats not a trivial matter, its a potential source of many issues
Instead of having a camera as thin as the lid, they could have the camera stick out a little bit and fit into a recess on the other side of the clamshell when closed.
The Ethereum network has much larger and complex technical aspirations than the Bitcoin network.

I'm okay that its only lead by a few people, that they did a rollback, etc. We are in the earliest days of decentralized infrastructure; laying the foundations for something that can physically last forever is more important following stringent, irreversible protocols. Ethereum as of today has many limitations, but has a chance to literally be THE future of decentralized computing. It's worth trading whatever we have now for a chance at that future.
Wow, that's much different. I wonder if the machines are unique to Philly, then.
Yes, developers with cloud backed infra have the most to gain from this architecture change.

All we need is huge battery life (check), better heat management (check), and snappy enough performance for our thin client machine (check). We're not training the next GPT on our laptop anyways.
It seems that Mac has now iPhone-based boot system.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/jn7wbf/heres_the...
Better yet, pick 0 and 8GB is fine.
That's 2Mb front-end which is quite heavy.
It'd be interesting to see it compared to https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.BTreeSet.ht....

Their skiplist description is a little funny — typically a skiplist has one element per leaf node, and you should never need to move items between buckets. Also skiplists have logarithmic layers in the number of elements, so inserting and searching are always bounded by O(log n).
Snake Oil Supplements [1] has studies to show that fish oil and omega 3 is:

- effective for preterm birth

- promising for colorectal cancer

- inconclusive for cardiovascular disease, low sperm count, depression, psychosis, cystic fibrosis

- slightly beneficial for cancer symptoms

- has no effect on diabetes, Crohn's disease, asthma, alzheimers

- harmful: increases the risk of prostate cancer

Regarding coffee, there is strong evidence that consumption of black coffee reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease -- a massive meta-analysis of 36 studies covering 1.28 million people and 36500 cases of cardiovascular disease showed a nonlinear association with minimal CVD risk at 3-5 cups per day [2].

[1] https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-...

[2] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha....
Yeah I'm excited about that. In terms of build targets, any idea how far back you will find platforms that run the native executables?

This talks about RID's: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog

EDIT: Looks like Win 7 SP1 is the earliest supported by .NET Core:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/windows...
Trafalgar almost certainly got more states wrong (counts aren't all finished, but we do know likely winners in all states). Other sites like 538 predicted all states correctly, except NC and FL (50.5%/48.8% and 50.9%/48.4% respectively, both predictions wrongly favoring Biden [1]). Meanwhile, Trafalgar's polls put Trump up in NV, GA, PA, AZ, and MI (from their website, all late Oct / early Nov polls [2]). Once counts are final, we can more accurately compare margins and errors more specifically, but Trafalgar does not have a good record for 2020. Comparing models to a single pollster isn't completely even, but it's important to note that the Trafalgar polls were mostly outliers, disagreeing with the consensus in many states [3].

[1]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

[2]https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/

[3]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
> Why would pain be different?

It is completely different. Your analogy isn't great.

A fractured ankle is a bad thing. A cast certainly won't do harm. Pain is a response of your body to a bad thing. Suppressing it can do harm in itself.

Some pain can often be desirable because it prevents a patient from further injuring themselves by, for instance, putting weight on an injured ankle. Pain is a warning system.

Add to that all the possible side-effects of painkillers.

On top of that there's context for everything. You should probably give a patient that experiences pain which can't be avoided painkillers earlier than a patient who experiences pain when they put weight on something they shouldn't.
Where do you position it? Right in front of your screen, or above/below?
https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
The pro comes with fan cooling.
With that, the pro can run for much longer without hitting max temperatures .
The air is fanless so in an intesive task, you will hit thermal limits very soon and the cpu will be slowed down .
Depends on what they're rendering with that GPU…