skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not how "cause of death" works. Doctors/Coroners don't just pick a cause randomly they look at how you died and actually investigate it if it can't be readily determined.

Presumably you think doctors have always been lying about cause of death? What do you think their motivation for that is?
> The check consists of an HTTP GET request (port 80, unencrypted!) to ocsp.apple.com with a path that is both Base64 encoded and URL encoded.

Interesting. This means OSX leaks which apps you run unencrypted on the network.
Imagine you have a gun mounted in a bench vice, pointing down a shooting rage towards a target.

You can map out 50 shots from that gun, and pinpoint the average middle, and how much individual shots diverge from that middle. Then you take the average of another 50 shots and notice the recoil has pushed the average middle slightly upwards. So you make a model predicting the average middle in another 50 shots, accounting for the degree change from the recoil meaning a further distance than the previous to average middles.

Then comes along a guy asking you to predict just 1 shot, the next one, not an average. Which of course is much less accurate. That is what you're suggesting.
> Sure, enough nukes could finish off the human race, but that's out of the price range for most shoppers in this market.

I dunno, there's plenty of nukes that are ready and waiting and have been paid for. I wonder what would be more effective; nuking the targets that have been designated by various states already since the cold war, or piling up all the nukes, maybe a few km underground, and trigger a cataclysmic event (like a supervolcano as mentioned on the page).

Re: climate change, they could accellerate the process a bit and nuke the north and south pole ice, maybe. Or spread a darkening agent on any exposed ice to increase heat absorption.

But anyway, I don't think any of these would completely sterilize the earth, possibly only humanity and other large animals. To sterilize it, we need to get rid of the atmosphere and most of the earth's crust. I guess a big enough asteroid could do it (think moon-sized), something whose impact is so big it breaks up the whole ball.
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That should be a big difference. Have they made sure that all the netflix boxes out there support this?
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This doesn't happen to me, though admittedly, I'm using an iPad with SideCar as an external display. Whenever I connect to it, it restores the last window arrangement that was in use when the iPad was last connected.
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For those downvoting, see: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg27003/html/C...

> It is important to be clear about what the fair use doctrine is not. Fair use is not a right. It is a defense. [...]

It's not hard to find more links explaining the same thing (e.g., see http://www.copyhype.com/2013/08/why-copyright-is-a-right-and...), but I'm happy to be proven wrong...
It comes as part of WIPO usually. I checked the list and could find the following countries that don't seem to be a signatory:

- Palau

- Micronesia

- Palestine

The first 2 are under "Free association" with the US, but have their own copyright laws. All three have their own TLD (.pw, .fm, and .ps)
RIAA is a cancer that is growing on artists. I don't know any who would like their art to be gatekeeped in this mafia-esque manner. These days most artist understand that legitimate fans will buy their art if it is easy and affordable. Nobody needs RIAA today and these type of organisations who profit off of artists without bringing any value should be made illegal.
Good thing said hacker culture spent 15 years buying inflated laptops and desktops from them ultimately for convenience to give them the market presence to do this in the first place. Its the same thing with Windows.

People will preach all day that they won't make any personal sacrifices to try to avoid feeding literal cancers that are eating the software industry and are shocked when said all consuming voids take away their autonomy but they are so locked in to their ecosystems they are trapped.

These are for profit corporations, not your friends. Their bottom line dictates they maximally abuse copyright and their ability to sell and distribute proprietary software out of your control to maximum effect. Microsoft, Google, et al want you using devices you cannot control, because then they hold all the keys and can demand the greatest ransoms for you to do what you want. Its inevitable, and the persistent total arrogance and hubris on display in the tech hive mind in regards to any of these walled gardens is just... depressing.

Free software isn't going anywhere, especially with RISC-V now being an established failsafe if UEFI PC and ARM totally lock down, but it would just make the struggle a lot easier if the principle victims would stop martyring themselves for the corporate ecosystems they have no say, influence, or control over.
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He's also clamouring for civil war, in addition to dreaming for murder, instead of just firing everyone not licking their boots. This is a direct threat to civil discourse, democracy and fairness. It is evil.
I kinda like Tizen, but Samsung is really shockingly bad at open source. They assimilate and then try appropriate without building a community around it. Joyent public is kinda dead. There is a fork of SmartOS (Danube Cloud), which has far better documentation is much easier to run and actually runs in cheap DC environments like OVH and Hetzner and they have 2.5 active developers.

Tizen is much better in terms of battery than Android Wearable and most other wearables, has pretty decent features, but is a complete mess to get applications on and there is hardly any third party using Tizen, let alone write documentation/tutorials on its development.

All I know about Tizen is from reverse engineering my shitty Galaxy Active 2 with all the on launch promised features disabled if you don't use a Samsung phone and most of them released over a year after the original announcement.

Most people on xda-developers say that it will be their last Samsung wearable. And if you look at the numbers Samsung wearables has crashed in sales.
Where is that? I only looked online, I haven't found anything online that cheap that includes vitamin/mineral levels + hormones.
Is it corner cutting? Or is it that nearly all extant nuclear power plants use very early designs with poor safety controls.

Imagine how much worse car related fatalities would be if we were all still driving model T's with no crumple zones. (poor example really, because cars are inherently unsafe and nuclear energy is not)
In my experience D: Fast turn-around also applies to software dev. Traders get frustrated waiting for IT to deliver new features and systems, so hack up a solution in the closest available tool - Excel.
No idea why you got downvoted, because you're right.
Plex + Sonarr + Radarr + Deluge running on a seedbox is far far beyond what most people think piracy is. That setup can search for shows for you across multiple public and private trackers, download them, sort them, watch for new episodes or movies, notify you when they are downloaded.
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> There is probably going to be mass migration and conflict in the near future. Prepare yourself and your families.

It will be ugly and brutal and painful. And there is no way to prepare for it. How do you prepare for a civilization collapse? The best way to prepare is to try to master some political will now to stop/mitigate climate change.
Then people will probably get what they deserve. Can't have their cake and eat it too.
I have no Idea what this is for and what this is actually, but the website is beautiful.
I mean in all fairness, For the price gouging I see for storage on phones, I can buy an mp3 player (with a nice DAC), a huge SD card, and then load it on there. That's why I don't store music on my phone.

Fair enough, but that still makes you a niche subset. For a vast amount of people in the world, streaming music suffices.

A couple years back storing music was the case in emerging markets too because cell phone internet was expensive and terrible. However, now with 3G+ and cheap plans the number of people who want to store music and listen to it is reducing. Nothing wrong with services adapting IMO.

You on the other hand are right to have your own preferences with storing and listening to music (maybe it is a curated list, old songs not available for streaming) - valid reasons. But then you should find alternatives.
It's an asymmetrical situation:

If you have code that makes use of custom instructions, even if only sprinkled in a few places, the emulator must support them.

If you have a cpu with those extra instructions that is otherwise backwards compatible, you can run code that doesn't make use of such instructions just fine (of course, you won't benefit from the functionality/performance offered by those new instructions)
hi Patrick,

For some reason your designers have decided that your website should pick a language based on the ip address.

Stop guessing a language :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216502

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14175238
How do you open this debugging info?
Well the facility below is good for c21 million tonnes of high-level waste (i.e. spent fuel, the most difficult part of the nuclear waste to dispose).

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/olkiluoto-island-finland-nuc...

This facility is obviously specified for a certain level of nuclear growth, rather than the end-game solution for the planet.
And the converse. IT depts at banks want to exterminate Excel solutions as they're perceived as unsupportable. But on trading floors traders are the boss, so Excel will never be decommed.
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Maybe your Mac isen't Yours is a more appropriate title? Though I'm cetain it's only a matter of time before we can no longer run Linux on new hardware :(
The point stands: if you allow a host to resolve ocsp.apple.com to an unresponsive (timeout) address, it might break macOS the same as today — whether by air gap, by firewall, or who knows what else.
It was one of the big 3 back when everybody playing rougelikes were on Usenet. Definitely a great game, rereleased with graphics on steam.
The privacy-invasive tracking in Windows 10 is much more obnoxious and tricky to workaround (since it is spread out and hard/impossible to disable). This tracking in macOS is at least under the guise of security whereas the Windows tracking is pure telemetry.
All this trouble so you can stay with apple?

Unless you are an ios dev, why??
I have not had any of these experiences with Ubuntu. Installing an OS on any new personal computer is much more difficult than when they had dvd drives. But once installed on compatible hardware, the Gnome 3 desktop use is nearly the same experience as Mac OS. Installing software is usually a matter of searching the software menu or downloading a .deb and double-clicking to run, and the New Folder button is prominent in the file window.

The office suite is easy to use. Thunderbird is as easy to setup as Mail. Networking and devices are easy to configure from the gui, and Firefox and VSCode run without crashes. Proprietary video drivers for common hardware can be downloaded and installed via the gui. It's at least as usable from an admin standpoint as Windows 10, and from a user standpoint as Mac OS, albeit with a much smaller "app store" experience.
> that is twice as fast as a result.

Yeah, or it could be the opposite. The newer, shinier alternative could also be faster, less buggy alternative.
MS is still the same, they just matured a bit. They just have to behave better in the open source community to attract the developers. I don't believe for a second that they are doing it for the benefit of information sovereignty or the development of tech and software.

Their backdoor put a really bad taste in my mouth. Will try to avoid them if I can.
Agreed apart from fingerprint scanners on laptops.
> much less

Define "much". Windows 10 is a mind-boggling privacy invasion. It's just the other offenders attract more attention, that's all.
"The non-financial costs such as side effects or potential adverse effects are practically non-existent as well."

This not accurate. I remember that there was an article on the front page of Hacker News an article that explain that Vitamin D is actually a hormone and telling the story of woman that had been prescribed high level of supplementation that could not talk anymore. It had something to do with her calcium intake regulated by that hormone. Luckily she was so distressed she stopped taking the supplementation but still it took her six months to get back to to talking normally and a normal hormone concentration level.

EDIT : I found the article : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261948
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Sorry, but there are no details about how PRISM works.

The 2012 date is also suspicious - it is in the same year a new Apple datacenter in Prineville came online.

I personally think that PRISM works by externally intercepting data communication lines running to / from the unwitting companies.

The NSA has previously tapped lines (AT&T), but they made the mistake of doing it inside the AT&T building. That eventually leaked out -- so I think it is most likely that PRISM is implemented without the knowledge of anyone except the NSA.

[edit] I started doing more research. Facebook also has a datacenter right next door. I wonder who else is there and where do all the network cables go.
Well, I do hope for this, because there is market for Linux so somebody will pick this up :)
Wherein, Google asserts a copyright on the API for their license system, the protobuf file. Maybe this file is more creative than the Java APIs?

Additionally, the Git repo contains several files that violate Google’s copyrights:
Google license_protcol.proto (see Google copyright at the top of the file): /widevine-l3-decryptor/blob/main/license_protocol.proto
The market is littered by art like products driven by analytics and it is hard to find good art. Sometimes I play some new releases on Tidal when I am working and there is rarely something that would make me store it in my own playlist. Everything is the same and they protect it like these were some nuclear plans.
I would definitely not take for granted that you’ll be able to develop such things on the M1 platform without encountering M1 platform obstacles in unexpected corners of the tool chains for the next thirty days. It might be fine, but if it’s not, you’re out of luck until it is.
Enlightenment is what got my to try linux (Redhat hurricane I think it was) way back when.

It was very pretty and _very_ broken then, but e-term, which required a tonne of E libs, was the terminal everyone used to show off their desktop so you kind of lived with it.
"Alternative facts" and the politicization of objective reality are IMO the most dangerous trends of the past four years. There's no way to begin to bridge our fractured political landscape when leaders devolve into conspiracy theories about scientists and apolitical entities rigging the system against them. I am glad that some publications had the guts to call a spade a spade.
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That was a great read!

Thanks for sharing it.
Yeah, it's already on my bucket list, asking because Qwant looks self-hostable as well :)

Still some privacy benefits in not having physical location tied to searches, and an instance can be shared with friends and family.
Interesting! Thanks for the info :)
Hi Derek, thank you for writing the book and releasing it. I haven't seen a similar book before for software engineering, so I'm very intrigued and intend to read it.

I feel bad for asking something from a free resource, that took a long time to make and put together, so please ignore it if it's a lot of trouble. Is it possible to publish epub or mobi formats of the book?

That would help ereaders format it better, pdf's are inflexible. If it's not easy, please ignore this request.

Thank you for writing the book.
That's terrible, but it's not the fault of the OS vendor; presumably such a malware could be distributed with any OS.
Those statements aren't mutally exclusive. People should as a matter of principle be able to run whatever they like, however if they want to stay in the walled garden they can.

If you read the rest of my comment I specifically mentioned some sort of mechanism for turning off the walled garden protections. I would imagine it would work something like secure boot. I have a motherboard that lets me turn off that machanism if wanted to via the BIOS software.

If the only way for it to happen is through lobbying politicians and requiring it by law (not a solution I would prefer) so be it.

Also it is quiite clearly a general computing device as it has all the characteristics of one. It isn't a matter of belief.
Italy here: just went to my doctor and said "hey, i should get a blood test since I haven't had one in a couple years"...my doctor said "yes, please do" -> got a prescription and went to the hospital. I think I paid something like 20 euros to do it at a private hospital that is affiliated with the state health program, after I added urine testing and a couple of additional tests to the bloodwork.
It is a joke. Some people may find it difficult to joke about (the desensitization problem), but not everyone evidently. As a joke, it has some sinister merit IMO.
Fair point, but D3 can also be derived from lichen, which is vegan.

https://www.vegansociety.com/resources/nutrition-and-health/...
Because killing off products has given Google a reputation that stops tens of millions of people using any of the fancy new products that Googlers build and launch. In the long term all the effort Googlers put in to new products is a waste of time.

This should be qualified. Killing off products without an alternative has given that reputation. As long as they provide a viable alternative with effective migration it should not count as "killing off". But I hear you, its the perception that matters too.
AMD graphics require a firmware blob for all modern cards [0]. It used to be that the firmware was only needed for 3D acceleration and you could run X/text mode without the blob just fine, but that hasn't been true for years (I think since HD6000 series in 2010).

[0] https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-amd-graphics
Are they doing anything to prevent Linux from running well on them? As far as I can tell, since all big three (XPS, EliteBook and Thinkpad) are considered enterprise devices and their BIOS, IO tables and hardware layouts are crafted with Linux compatibility in mind.

They're explicitly sold with FreeDOS option to imply that you can directly install Linux on them.

Even my run on off the mill desktop shows more soft-errors about IO layout and memory mapped devices on board.
I'm running Linux on a 2015 MBP and it works great.

However good luck getting decent Linux hardware support for any Mac >= 2016 and there is very little (probably zero...) chance of anything other than OSX running on an M1
I feel very sad for the people who are upset because, or couldn't enjoy them because, they don't like how I call
them logos.

I did not do this to annoy you, and I feel very sorry for you that this naming has gotten in your way of having a good experience of these. I understand how you feel, and i just feel differently about it.

The logos do represent my company and its products. I could pick some to attach to a particular product.

But so could you. Then that logo would come to represent the thing you attach it to.

Also, you're free to modify these however you like. All in the MIT license.

For me there's no other purpose to these beside being logos. I get if you feel differently about it and that's okay.

If you see them as designs, graphics, alien hieroglyphs, I don't feel angry at you, I'm totally okay with that.

If you want to call them that, I have no problem. But please don't expect me to participate in your naming of the things when my naming of the things makes perfect sense to me.

I feel happy for you that your naming of the things makes sense to you.

In a more general sense...This is not programming, we don't have to have singular unambiguous definitions. There's room for a variety of interpretations. If you want to insist there's only one true way, you go ahead, I'm not stopping you, but please don't expect me to participate in your way, nor in naming things the way you want them to be named. I'll name the things my way, and if you name them differently, I'm okay with that. I hope I've made that clear how i feel about it, and I hope we can all try to understand each other's point of view, rather than pretending that our way is the one right way and everybody else must be wrong. Thank you for helping to provide me with this chance to say clearly what i feel about it.
The tricky part with renting a computer is that you have to insure it against accidental damage by the renter, and that has to be “gig economy” or “business” compatible insurance, because you’re profiting from loaning it to others.

There’s also not exactly a huge market for rental computers when you consider that libraries offer them for free, and often with better Internet connections than those renting a computer could offer.

Renting computers is a lot easier if you host them in the cloud and deny physical access to your customers, though — they generally can’t do permanent damage, and there’s no issues with theft/loss. But this isn’t typically viewed as “renting” anymore, but instead something like “colocation” or whatever EC2 is.

Why do you ask?
Almost no displays get 100% when tested for gamut coverage. I'm not really sure why, I think it's some testing artefact. At this point (around 99% sRGB) what you should be looking at is coverage in larger gamuts (here 84.8% AdobeRGB).
I agree. I thought iPhones do theirs on-device.
I have to say I also don't understand all the fanfare for the MBP trackpad. I have a 13" 2016 MBP, and I actively dislike the trackpad. You need to use far too much pressure to "click" (even when the resistance at the lowest setting), and there is something "off" about the mouse pointer tracking - I can't figure out what it is, like if it feels too smooth, too jerky, I don't know, but it feels wrong somehow.

Oh, I do like the gesture support, though even Windows 10 supports gestures nowadays.
Because we don't have Walmart in Australia :^)
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> I have investigated this issue in depth and concluded

Well it is not deep enough. This kind of articles are detrimental trying to a reduce severity of nuclear war.
There are opposite views http://www.grisanik.com/blog/nuclear-war-explained/

Basically each "deep enough" forgets something, and most importantly what I personally distaste is leaving room for "let's try it then, because hey maybe I am the one who will survive".

Someone said that humans are naturally so much optimistic that if scientists said there is 1% of chance to survive, 99% of the people would think they are in that 1%.
It's not the job of each individual application to do everything. If you want privacy of your web activities, use Tor, which will work for every website. That's the best you can, even though it is not perfect.