skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is going to be interesting to see how these big tech companies deal with so much localized regulation and enforcement be it anti trust or privacy. Ironically a lot of that will also just further entrench their market position.
Macs aren't out of the way; only AS will take a bit for the developer ecosystem to adapt.

The Intel MacBooks are still the best dev machines for the time being.
tl;dr from the video itself: "the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds."

I'd forgotten the commentary by the reporter.
The difference is that AWS services become usable, whereas the Azure services stay broken.
> If a user can download and run the Amazon Prime app, why bother supporting Safari? The App version supports detection of VPNs, supports analytics etc...

At least for me, to purchase books on Amazon for my kindle app. Can't do that in the kindle app or prime app.
In my mind, the most likely candidate for a nuclear war right now comes in a chaotic escalation of the conflict between Pakistan and India. I think this scenario would be horrible, but its damage to the rest of the world's supply chains? Probably less than COVID?

The other conflict that worries me is a major provocation by China towards Taiwan. This is the foreign policy scenario that frightens me most, and feels like the most likely potential 'Franz Ferdinand execution'-type event that could lead to a global world war. But in such a war, would we be likely to see a total nuclear back-and-forth between factions? I think this is less likely than in current day India v. Pakistan. But I could be totally wrong. As Francis Fukuyama illustrates, it's hard to predict future foreign policy scenarios with any accuracy.
I would not want an obese nutritionist. I don't care about an obese neurologist. Context matters.
Who are the people that actually claimed "that a full-scale nuclear war is likely to cause human extinction?" I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that. It would cause societal collapse, perhaps even an extinction of civilization, but not a literal extinction of our species.
Are you sure? I thought they cached login stuff locally so you can sign in while you're offline. Not sure though.
From 2 weeks ago "Ask HN: Best Dev Laptop 2020" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894841
I experienced this a couple of weeks ago. My wifi was up, but my internetprovider was down. My Macbook came to a halt. Nothing worked anymore. The whole machine was extremely slow. When the internetprovider came back up again, everything was fine again.
Always look at the bright side of life: not too severe nuclear winter lasting a few years will surely reverse the effects of the global warming.
I’m always leery about building my business on top of someone else’s platform. Especially if they can just build out the features from your idea themselves, and incorporate it into their platform as another free feature.

Then, you lose out from all that time, investment, research, and marketing that it took for you to build your business.
> Well, how interesting that Apple's software is going to be bypassing Little Snitch, making it harder to discover and fix this sort of issue.

Source?
> It's enough to predict whether I'm a "good" worker.

If your employer is willing to be that invasive, they already have a much easier route for getting that information: forcibly installing surveillance software on your work machine.

> It also reveals whenever I travel, which coffee shops and libraries I frequent and what times of day.

How...? How would the binaries you're running have anything remotely relevant to say about this?

> They wouldn't need to ask "do you know X", they could just consult the Apple log of how often I run the relevant commands. Things like "we see you ran 'git' an average of 145 times per day last month, tell us more about that".

That's a pretty contrived use-case for a pretty significant and unscrupulous bit of data-sharing. From a PR perspective Apple would never intentionally and publicly share this data. So assuming this data is even stored anywhere after the check is complete, and assuming any personal identification is kept with it, both of which are huge ifs, that leaves a couple of possibilities:

- Hackers gain access to the data

- Government subpoenas the data

- Extremely lucrative contracts, probably from advertising companies, are enough to motivate Apple to sell the data despite the risk of a massive PR scandal

I don't see any of those falling under your proposed scenario of random employers casually perusing the logs.
You could get customers, but you'll quickly learn they ask for very complex features, and you'll struggle to pay your dev team with 5 cents per transaction.
macOS 10.15: Slow by Design
Not sure why you're linking me your own posts, which I have read. You're determined to assert things that nobody but you said, which I guess is fine, but I don't think this conversation is constructive or useful. I would suggest you take a hard look at your behavior, though. But that's up to you.
For noobs: what is Cairo?
Honestly as long as they know their "stuff" I don't really care at all about the appearance of a Doctor(or if they smoke etc). There are a multitude of reasons a person could be obese (genetics, digestive disorders/longer intestines). Also people have choices, if a Dr. tells me smoking is bad and he smokes he is choosing to do so despite evidence that its dangerous. I respect the ability for individuals to make choices, even if I don't agree with them.
Maybe you're talking about indie developers. I don't think studios worry about spending $2000/machine for porting. And a lot of studios also outsource porting
I wouldn't say no signal at all. If I have data that they are the best doctor from my options and are obese, yeah totally, I'll go for them. But if I just see a lineup of doctors and all else is equal, I'm definitely picking the obese one last.

It's possible that they're obese due to some condition relatively out of their control, or that they're working on it, (and my answer applies specifically to the US) but when 40% of the US is obese, it more than likely reflects on them as a person and their values.
Rushed 2000 Transition Hampered Gov. Before 9/11, Former Officials Warn
If they really tried that, wouldn't the DoJ bring an anti-trust case against them? That's exactly what Microsoft was doing in the 90s, using undocumented internal APIs for their own software that let it run faster than competitors'.
> benevolent dictatorship

Have you seen Louis Rossmann's videos on Apple hardware repair?
Certainly, I wasn't trying to suggest that, and was more just raising the point that they did once have a competitive embedded line, but sold it and then came back to the market down the road with a much weaker approach.
Yes but the human brain is very good at filling in the blanks.

For example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_contours

If I draw a dog very poorly, even with missing limbs, you can recognize that as a poorly drawn dog with missing limbs.
Being obese doesn't make you incapable of doing your job.
This is almost as bad as relying China on Personal Protective Equipment and quickly running out during the pandemic earlier this year.

Imagine if the USA actually comes under an attack.The apple spaceship would be high on the list of targets. All of sudden hospitals can't run their computers or communications. Disaster!
Is there a preferred cross-platform, open-source library for SVG than Cairo?
Let me tell you a story about this frog and this scorpion..
It wasn't a secret (not that it makes it any better):

https://medium.com/@acecilia/apple-is-sending-a-request-to-t...
I wrote this post, and the point is to improve discussion of societal risks. As others have pointed out, nuclear war doesn't have to kill everyone to be extremely bad and worth avoiding. I spend a lot of my time thinking about risks from nuclear and biological weapons, and downplaying these risks is not my purpose.

One problem with assuming nuclear war kills everyone is that this discourages anyone from preparing for potential nuclear wars. While of course we should try to prevent it, we should also try to mitigate the consequences in the even a war does occur!

I've written more about risks from nuclear war here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rn2duwRP2pqvLqGCE/does-the-u... and here: https://jeffreyladish.com/one-hundred-opinions-on-nuclear-wa...
I bought a USB3 drive bay enclosure just so I could put a BluRay burner into it and use it on any machine with USB3. Super-handy; I can point MakeMKV at a recent purchase and within an hour or two have a bluray rip ready to play wherever I wish.
Haha, just #927, nothing else. #927 XKCD receipt about everything
> hell of a lot of seagull.

I can assure you there are sufficient seagulls on the Oregon coast.
I think the difference between the Google and Apple dictatorships is the business model.

Google's customers are not the users, they are the advertisers who rely on the data harvested by Google. The incentive to be evil is directly baked into the business model, and most users end up tolerating it because it is "FREE", and often the only viable option.

Apple's customers are the users. If Apple rocks the boat too much, their users might not feel so good about paying the premium prices Apple demands for its products. Making users upset is a direct threat to their business model.
Does it have Tree Style Tabs yet?
Speaking only for myself: ADHD
Given that they're using a MacBook they probably aren't using very much Windows specific software if any, so I don't know that Wine would be much of a factor.
I remember there was a bug on the App Store that cause some issue on certain games. I posted on the thread "Why not buy this game on Steam instead. It costs the same, doesn't have this issue, and you benefit from the game working on Windows/Mac/Linux at no extra charge. You also get proper trophy support, cross platform multiplayer etc..

I got a bunch of 'Why on earth would I do that. I love the app store and will only ever have Macs.'
This opinion will be unpopular, but I still stick to AngularJS. It's mature and complete, does not introduce breaking changes every day, super-easy to start prototyping without tooling yet can work well with build system. I use it with TypeScript and only things I am missing are hot reloading and typed templates. The performance is not top but usually not limiting. Namespace clash is not really a problem if you qualify your component names. Forget all the $scope, controllers and services are just plain JS classes.

Every time I see React had got shiny new pattern that breaks everything you have done so far or Angular is 4 major versions ahead of when I last checked and still not solving the architecture inconsistencies I'm glad I stayed with AngularJS.
I completely agree with this -- obviously we have to made decisions and build systems based on the data we observe and collect, but the idea that it's some incorruptible or unbiased exercise is one that I think is both appealing and naïve.

By assuming there's a "right" way to arrive at conclusions, people run the very dangerous risk of believing they've got the One True Answer, and everyone else are Wrong.

I think reality is a lot closer to the idea that there is no objective/rational way to decide what information is relevant and what information isn't, and we have to constantly adjust that dial in everything we think about and do.

There is an article about a group of people who have greatly reduced emotional capacity (not sociopaths, something more severe), and are therefore more or less rendered incapable of making decisions. It's a fascinating read, but I can't find it in my brief searches. Maybe someone else knows what I'm talking about?

Edit: I found the relevant anecdote! From an NPR interview https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101334... about a book called "How We Decide":

"And I think one of the best examples of this comes from the work of a neurologist named Antonio Demasio, who in the early 1980s was studying patients who, because of a brain tumor, lost the ability to experience their emotions. So they didn't feel the everyday feelings of fear and pleasure. And you'd think, if you were Plato, that these people would be philosopher-kings, that they would be perfectly rational creatures, they'd make the best set of decisions possible. And instead, what you find is that they are like me in the cereal aisle, that they're pathologically indecisive, that they would spend all day trying to figure out where to eat lunch.

They'd spend five hours choosing between a blue pen or a black pen or a red pen, that all these everyday decisions we take for granted, they couldn't make. And that's because they were missing these subtle, visceral signals that were telling them to just choose the black pen or to eat the tuna fish sandwich or whatever. And then when we're cut off from these emotional signals, the most basic decisions become all but impossible."
"The ordinance would affect the planned development of more than 54,000 homes and 32 million square feet of commercial space"

I find the planned development of more than 54,000 homes very surprising: I thought San Francisco was basically all built up along with an anti-growth attitude in San Francisco. [Commercial space is not surprising with new skyscrapers...]
Home Assistant for open source home automation
Yeah this bits kinda weird. Heroku is still easiest host I’ve found for throwing up an API + database.
If their preference is secret, how can you know there are large numbers of them?
They run an ad network and are the entity that manages device identifiers for iOS.

I certainly trust that they are better than Facebook or Google on the privacy axis. I don't blindly trust that they are innocent.
No, a database with the hash of every program you ever started on that computer. The Apple server should be contacted when a program is installed/run for the first time. And of course, the system software should handle network problems more gracefully. If everything "works" when offline, network problems should quicker lead to the offline behavior. There should be one daemon process which handles the signature checking which changes its behavior once requests to the server are not answered.
Can we talk about why projects need to be actively maintained and extended indefinitely? Cairo paints things. It does a good job of it. What's wrong with it? Leave it on Git, accept pull requests, check it once a week/month, you're good.
> I know this. I installed Windows few days ago. I can't install steam or chromium without getting blocked by windows.

Sorry what do you mean you can't install steam or chromium in Windows? Millions of people run this software on Windows.
- A mint user.
> In my view, the greatest risk to humanity’s potential in the next hundred years comes from unaligned artificial intelligence, which I put at 1 in 10. One might be surprised to see such a high number for such a speculative risk, so it warrants some explanation.

The above is from the article you link. Where.....oh where....are you getting the 1 in 10 number? This is pure, and I mean pure...uncut conjecture. This is why these types of 'intellectual' offerings are so irritating to me. There is absolutely no sound, or 'rational', way to back that number up.
Just tried this on desktop after reading your comment and can confirm it works. Didn't try it before because I didn't see an X anywhere on the screen.
Another book which addresses similar themes of changes in cultural mores around progress and stagnation is No Requiem for the Space Age, by Matthew Tribbe. It looks more at cultural changes than at technological possibilities, but because it has a more historical rather than speculative nature, it may appeal to some who take technological prognostication with a grain of salt.
> What is the point of writing a post like this?

Counter hyperbole.

Climate change has also been billed by some as a near-term extinction event. That isn’t true. When the public catches on they throw out the baby with the bathwater.

To get the risk back in perspective, it’s necessary to first disabuse ourselves of the hyperbolic harm.
> We're seeing a resurgence of nuclear power, in China.

*regionally.

The problem with nuclear power in China is that access to water required for cooling is only available in less than 1/3 of the country.

This plus the comparatively long build time compared to other methods of power generation holds it back even there; the percentage of total power generation is still in the single digits, too, so there's plenty of room for growth either way.
I believe the "significantly" in that claim was the statistical type, and the correct interpretation was, "The data show that interest does in fact affect job satisfaction, but not very much."
Possibilities:

- Turned off wifi and everything started working again.

- While watching network stats, noticed a little burst of network traffic on each attempt to launch an application.
This only reinforces my desire to run Linux in their new ARM processors.
I've heard a lot of people say this. Wikipedia has a decent summary of the history of this position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust#Origins_and_...
Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and XCB), Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB.

https://www.cairographics.org
Not to be confused with https://www.qwantz.com/
> rare, very long, simple

in this context those are simply weasel words in my opinion
What's a computer? iPad.

People aren't laughing now, are they?
I admit that I don't have a Chromebook in front of me to test and that I'm not sure. This comment will likely be stricken from the record.
I'm unsure what the etiquette is with with email addresses in commits–if someone doesn't list it on their profile, but they use it in their commits, should you really be using it to contact them? Does using an automated tool that finds the one time they forgot to use a noreply address make it any worse?

(Notably, the author of this leaves their address off their profile, but leaves it in their commits. Would emailing them be reasonable?)
It seems the only alternative is Skia (https://skia.org/), which is a Google project…
well as said its an elevated process that can completly disable smartscreen, so an attacker would only need to run an exe that downloads another malicious exe after it disabled smartscreen that would not be blocked.
Pretty sure he’s comparing Elon’s net worth before and after getting hair transplants. That’s a pretty ridiculous claim at best.
What about Skia?
Sidebar topic, but something that is always in the back of my head. Cars are becoming evermore connected to the web. If something as simple as this can brick my Mac, then what will it be like in a vehicle? Will all cars simultaneously go haywire at the same time around the world? This of course assumes software or hardware safety overrides are not in place to overcome such a situation.
Sounds like we've got a volunteer!
The IPPNW and PSR are the main organisations stating that human extinction is a possibility. e.g.

https://www.ippnw.org/statements/2006-helsinki-congress-decl...
Energy consumption numbers (Wh) every household should know
If you are looking for a graphics library, there is also Skia.

https://skia.org
GitHub: https://github.com/ktsakas/common_wh_numbers

Inspired by "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know"
Defending fundamental (in the USA, constitutional) rights is a generalization of people on HN.

I thought your reply to a "Stallman was right" comment with "but trackpad!" had the most contrast between principles and minor convenience.
Stop spamming FUD.
> The amount of personal info they collect has exploded over the last couple years.

Since maybe 2016-ish? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
Doesn’t a whole bunch of gtk stuff depend on Cairo?
Stuff like this will push me off Apple no matter what the performance of the M1 chip is. Privacy trumps performance.
I don’t understand how salted hashes would obfuscate the query. Private information retrieval is much more complicated than private password storage, and how do we know what the protocol is?
Right around this same time, I had 1 macBook hard reboot (watchdogd timeout) and shortly thereafter, a second macBook froze, fan maxed out, with the display not coming up. Then it rebooted into recovery mode.

Yeah, these _could_ be unrelated issues to what has been going on in Apple land today, but it's uncanny...
I'm kind of in a same boat with switching (and I use an Android phone) but I use OSX primarily - still using Safari on MBP is a noticeably better experience than chrome or FF - fan noise alone is worth the switch.
Christopher Krebs tells associates he expects to be fired
"Hilariously", thirty years later, the company that would go on to put a camera in everyone's living room and pocket ran this commercial: https://vimeo.com/312710573
Apparently hard to build.
I agree! I would love that.

However... Where can I buy a computer free of all of those issues?
I highly recommend Hetzners Server auctions for people who would use "old enterprise hardware" anyways: https://www.hetzner.com/sb

You won't get latest hardware, but you don't need to care about noise and get a real public IP in return. After experimenting with enterprise hardware in a 1room apartment, I found that to be a nice alternative.

I recently got a 4C Xeon/64GB Memory/2x500G SSD for 35€/month... it's also a nice alternative to Cloud, since canceling period is only 30days.
It's Zeno afaik
Even that kind of minimal effort is probably not worth it and provides a false sense of an active project capable of patching security vulnerabilities and so on.
I recently bought an XPS Developer Edition, seems to work well.
> One problem with assuming nuclear war kills everyone is that this discourages anyone from preparing for potential nuclear wars

It also encourages lazy cynicism.

If everyone died in a nuclear war humanity got its just desserts. Mix in the West’s discomfort with death and nuclear holocaust becomes a punch line. But if our choices today will cause millions to suffer for generations, the cost becomes more tangible. The threat becomes detailed and gruesome and that makes it relatable.
> "Masculine" meaning being rough and fighting and "Feminine" dealing with emotions and non-aggression

There are good and bad parts of each side. For example, you can drive someone to suicide using the power of gossip... that could be called toxic feminity, I suppose.

And it is more likely to be tolerated at schools than e.g. fighting back against your bully, which is a healthy masculine behavior, but according to "zero tolerance" policy makes you exactly as bad as the bully.

This is the cultural problem, that we are only allowed to talk about the parts of masculine behavior that are considered bad, and the parts of feminine behavior that are considered good. In reality, both are a mixed bag.
You guys should check out this Rust port of nanovg I'm maintaining.

https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg

I'm in the process of adding a metal backend and wgpu backend is planned.

It's debatable how production ready it is, but it's a lot more hackable (as in one can work on it since it's a small codebase) than skia or Cairo.
Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law? [video]
I think more specifically it's rare enough that it hasn't happened to most people yet or people blame themselves ("my internet is bad" and the like)
Please stop fear mongering.

If Apple servers actually go down, there's no issue.
> tab ordering situation

What are you referring to? I have upgraded but haven’t noticed a difference.
In the age of autoformatters it makes moving code around more painful.

In C++ I can write some janky looking code and autoformat it into respectability. I can stop caring about whitespace entirely (while still producing readable results).

In python I need to write correctly-indented code because the autoformatter can't figure out if the lack of indentation is meaningful or not.