skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to make a bold claim but Linus made a claim to this effect. Security is important but it cannot be the only main priority when designing systems. Apple's mistake here is probably the main story but more generally this attitude (letting systems spectacularly fail for the sake of hypothetical security) is foolish and results in rather terrible bugs like this.
California Is Named for a Griffin-Riding Black Warrior Queen
Yeah, OK, I know how to wrap copper and spin it around magnets, and get _some_ electricity, but I don't know how to measure or manage the voltage and the current. I don't know how to make an inverter. I don't know how to make a light bulb or a battery (or really anything that "uses" the power). Exiting appliances only have only at most 20 years in them.

With everybody struggling to raise crops and livestock, let along trying to reinvent the light bulb, it would a long slow climb back to civilization.
Forced autonomous cars: Yes, once they are good enough. We make people wear seat-belts. Same thing.

Stopping selling of knives: Yes, once we have a safer way of cutting things. Though the real problem is probably people cutting each other on purpose, rather than themselves by accident.
> Even Ancient Greeks could have built a wind electricity generator if they knew how - ie. if they knew about copper wire and electrical charge movement in it.

Did they have the level of materials science to build a practical one? They weren't able to produce steel, for example.
I disagree. Python is not inherently easy to read.

Explicitness and naming standards screw up the clarity of any code... Not to mention the complexity when you get into OOP.
> Isn't LiFePO4 quite a bit more expensive per kW?

No, LFP costs less wholesale, definitely less. I myself saw prices less than $100/kw at least 2 years ago. The thing is, small wholesale, and retail distribution get prices up to %100 more than what big buyers can get.

And there is a speculation that battery makers are actively trying to keep prices high for small wholesale.
Creating 3000 new Pokemon with AI ( the wrong way) featuring GPT-2
Technology has become a bit like politics, most people tend to choose the least worst option now.
> right to Fair Use

There is no such thing AFAIK.
I guess we'll see when my M1 air arrives this month. It's my understanding that by default they won't boot anything not signed by Apple, but I'm hearing scattered reports that there may be some command line configuration tool options that can cause it to disable boot security and boot unsigned stuff. It's certainly the default configuration, and on all of their other arm64 platforms they've shipped so far (iPhone/iPad/ATV/Watch), disabling the boot security is not a configurable option.

My fingers are crossed. We'll know soon.

EDIT: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/bputil.1.html
And this is why we have a solid paper trail as a backup for any major discrepancies.
Suuuure.
Don't forget to go ahead and buy more Macs in the future. That will teach them
How about efficient? A Mac Mini is extremely efficient.
I think it is a play on corporate or NGO messaging. Hence the focus on agnostic, diversity and non-partisan in their materials.

Basically, Doomer Corp.
Shouldn't we be caring about smart phone app stores though?

From elsewhere in the thread, Apple's app store revenue is 3x Google's and they both charge about the same in fees.

The number of phones or iOS users seems irrelevant to the sales that go through the app store, and that apple is using its position as the app store owner to force app developers to use other apple products like Apple pay
LKA and ACC are two separate level 1 features. LKA is lateral and ACC longitudinal only.

A lane change assist which speeds up and steers to the other lane is level 2.
Every time you open the shell a windows user talked into switching to Linux, quits forever and talks about the experience to all his friends. For a osos to suck seed the power users would have to give up- their privacy and share their work flows and set up as macros.
This is the same sort of logic that some people have that people shouldn't be allowed to make choices in life because they "might get it wrong". People should be allowed to make their own choices in what they believe to be their best interests and they should be allowed to get things wrong.

> For most people, if there computer was ‘theirs’, it would be that way for about 10 minutes until it was pwned by a bad actor.

This may have been true back in the early 2000s when people first had good broadband. However all the major operating systems have pretty decent security out of the box mainly due to the embarassment of events like MS Blaster Worm.

> The general issue of other people (I.e. Apple et al) having a lot of control over your computer, is entirely valid even if some of the points in the piece are exaggerations.

The problem is that if you buy a general purpose computing device. You should be able to run whatever you like on it.

They should just have a button somewhere in whatever the equivalent of the BIOS on these machines is that says "I am an adult and I accept the risks of turning off these protections" and then let you install Temple OS if you so choose to.

This is something that needs to be enforced by legal means IMO, something similar to right to repair.

> The problem is that people want it that way.

I don't know about that. They frequently get irritated by it and are just resigned to it IME.

However the popularity of single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi, People building their own gaming rigs and people tinkering with gadgets goes someway in refuting this notion. There will be of course many people that just won't care and will use "iDevice" and that is fine, however there is a large spectrum between "I only run stuff from the app store" to "I run custom Arch Install with optimised kernel with tk kernel patches".

> The presence of open software isn’t enough without a way for people to know what is trustworthy without being experts.

I agree. This is a failing of the open source community. I've actually written a draft manifesto called "better than freedom". This may actually push me to at least have it critiqued by my friends.

> Until we provide that, this situation cannot change.

Something has to change. We are sliding back into the 1980s where all the computer hardware was incomptable with one another.
These are Clevo laptops. You can get the same hardware with other Clevo resellers.
YouTube is canceling Rewind this year because 2020 has been too much
Xilinx and Samsung launch SmartSSD computational storage drive
That whole thing is temporary until 2021 when other companies will get a chance to use 5nm fabs.
I hate when my keyboard hangs and because I'm connected but dns isn't working. Like I need internet for my keyboard. So so frustrating has me seriously considering bailing to some nix flavor if this shit continues.
> is there Homebrew ARM?

There is but it’s highly experimental still, with 50 % of formulae not working yet.

Better to run Homebrew with Rosetta for now.
This is really bad , apple touts itself as a privacy company but it seems like a fox in disguise and meddling with VPN is just completely immoral. Now google and Microsoft seem better to me as they at least tell you we are getting your telemetry data and don’t modify vpn traffic.
Check out the faq, especially starting at question 5.

https://www.appliedeschatology.com/faqs
Specifically for Epic's case, thing that run video games makes sense. I don't think epic has standing to argue something more generic?
Apple executives talk new M1 chip, downplay touchscreen rumors in new interview
And yet it is exactly in the most, 'boring', 'tool constraint', 'factorized' and 'process goverened' environment of enterprise software projects that the failure rates reach spectacular heights.
Level 3 tech is expensive. You can only sell it where people are rich enough to buy luxury cars.
Certainly it makes sense when talking about hospital capacity - but it does give a bit of a skewed impression when you're looking at the hospitalizations re: cases.

You'd be surprised. Around 1/7th of the covid hospitalizations in Denmark[0] are hospitalized for "other reasons" - where covid is not the primary factor - I'd say that is significant.

[0] - https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/braekket-ben-fylder-i-cent...
(link only in danish, sorry)
It was fun back in the day. I wish that the developer hadn't backed out of the promise to make it Open Source.

Mechanically, it has moderate (though polished) depth. But it has more story and unique events than most roguelikes. It benefits far more than most from playing entirely unspoiled; there's enough information in-game to solve all its puzzles.
More Macs means even more "Trust and Security" traffic for Apple to handle. So, yeah, that'll teach them!
Not anymore. Consumer usage nowadays is very browser centered, which is something one can experience with a Linux distro on pretty much any machine.

I agree that it's not as much as a polished experience, but that's the point as indicated - trading off polish for ownership.

I'm excluding from the discussion professional documents editing - compatibility with Libreoffice is mediocre (at best) in my experience, but having very good compatibility is not a consumer requirement IMO.
Guido is very opinionated...

He just doesn't care about package management.
Oh that's a clever way of doing it. Thanks!
I still use an old 17 in Macbook Pro 2011. The keyboard is like butter compared to the garbage we have now. That Apple backlight is just awesome. It just works.

The only thing that keeps me is MacOS, but even that's going down the tube. I don't want new features for the Macbooks every year on schedule. I just want the thing "to work".

I've been slowly moving back to Windows because if I'm unhappy with a computer, I might as well pay less for it.
6,000 Trump votes in Antrim County, Michigan were erroneously given to Biden for a period of time because a voting machine was configured incorrectly.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/election-security-when...

Trump is advocating the idea that this is actually super super widespread and tons of his votes were given to Biden, not just temporarily, but permanently:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13269262268885442...
I haven't played ADOM since 1.1.1 (almost 2 decades ago) but I always found it more approachable compared to the alternatives I tried.

It starts you off in an overworld and the initial progression is less linear than the traditional dungeon-delving approach of eg. Nethack and DCSS, so in that sense it feels more RPG-like.

I never really got into Nethack much because it's just so punishing, and while ADOM is definitely far from an easy game, it felt better. DCSS is also similar to ADOM in the sense that the development community tries really hard to make it an enjoyable experience.
The argument against this is that generally speaking, US presidential elections are considered the most important, so turnout on any election on “off” years, or even “off” days, is considered a sure way to get less voter turnout. Is this not a pattern observed in Canadian elections?
>Majority of iPhone users are women

I sold iPhones for years and never noticed this trend. I highly doubt it is true in any significant way. I would also challenge the assumption that women want aesthetics over some other factor. In this day and age, that's an incredibly 'old fashioned' statement to make.

From what I could tell. People bought iPhones because they were:

a)Cool and of good quality. (Your everyman can just go buy an iPhone and KNOW it won't be junk. They don't know the other brands and researching stuff is a pain in the ass)

b)They were used to using them and didn't want to use android/didn't like using android phones

c)They had shit experiences with other platforms and just wanted something 'that would just work'

d)The iPhone really was the first good smartphone on the scene. They have inertia associated with points a->c above.
> if you are Joe Average, the difference between everyone dying and you and all your friends and family dying is not very important.

I'm Joe Average. I don't want to die, but if I do, I'd like my family to survive. If they die too, I'd like my friends to survive. If they die too, I'd like people from my region/country to survive. If they die too, I'd like some humans to survive. If they die too, it would be nice if some primates or mammals or something warm blooded survived.

My ranking of how much I care about something is almost directly the same as my genetic similarity to it, which I suspect is no coincidence.
covid19 wasn’t that disruptive though beyond superficial shit. Nobody went hungry, water supplies kept going, electricity kept flowing, etc. We’re nowhere near the brink of any kind of regional societal collapse, let alone anything national or global.
If you know of any other 8 core, 64 bit, 220+ ppi, >=13", 18 hour battery life machines with a great keyboard that weigh less than 1300g, please do let me know. Bonus points for metal enclosure.

If you find such a beast, I will buy it instantly, and I will happily ignore the fact that the MBAir will still have a better trackpad and speakers.

I am not looking to buy a "rig", but a laptop.
Why Supermarkets Change Their Layout
*By humans
Looks like your Apr2021 cruise trip might've gotten re-cancelled due to the Corona situation ?
Until we start having a "lines of code" budget, nothing will be fixed.

If you want feature X, how many lines of code will it take? 2000? Oh, sorry, we are already spending 6000 lines of code on other features, so find a way to do it in 500 lines or defer the project.

Yes, just like anything, this can be gamed. But at least it would get product managers thinking about the complexity they are imposing and the effect that will have on other features.
And that's another issue with Python ecosystem
I have not looked at the underlying study, but that article definitely does a terrible job of being clear on the caveats of the study. E.g. this nugget was left for the last paragraph of the article:

"Our exercise intervention was a simple home strength exercise program, which likely was not challenging enough in our unexpectedly active study population, where over 80% already engaged moderate to high intensity exercise," she said.

I would take anything from this study with a pinch of salt. I doubt if it was a well controlled study.
Future Pixel phones won’t have unlimited Google Photos storage [Updated]
How Ticketmaster Plans to Check Your Vaccine Status for Concerts
Yes, at least the English translation of it [0]. I don't remember the actual words in the original version, but this seems like a direct translation.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6773397-i-have-never-tried-...
Nonpartisan would mean not dependent on elected officials declaring a party.

Generally speaking, in most US states the person certifying the election result is the Secretary of State, an elected official elected while affiliated to a party. There was a whole brouhaha when Brian Kemp was running for governor of Georgia while also the Secretary of State, because that looked like a conflict of interest in a hotly contested election.
You need to set up your own DNS caching resolver and start selectively filtering out Apple domains. Pihole does that wonderfully. Ask your Apple geniuses whether they would help you setting it to make your Macs work.
Apple will probably push to get a cut on every Mac transaction too at some point.
> With everybody struggling to raise crops and livestock, let along trying to reinvent the light bulb, it would a long slow climb back to civilization.

People aren’t going to forget how to trade. The people with that manufacturing and engineering knowledge aren’t going to be busy with livestock. They’ll be trading these valuable goods for food.
It's been like that for ages, isn't that typical macOS behavior?

Note that I hate that behavior as well :) I fixed it first with a hotkey and a little Lua hacking within Hammerspoon. Now I just use Amethyst.
I'm not moving any goalposts, I'm saying that's a shitty measure of success.

Keeping a company from failing is not a virtuous act.
The Computer Chronicles – Amiga 3000 (1990)
Python's package management is light years behind, the much hated Maven.
May be do it that way, like pay for freedesktop.org and have it filter down.
It applies precisely to Ubuntu as well: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/disabling-automatic-refresh-for...

In a world where Snap is ubiquitous, Canonical is in charge of software running on your devices, not you.
Arnold has both CPU and GPU rendering support. It is used notably by Sony Pictures Imageworks and created my Marcos Fajardo now working at Solid Angle.
Or defense in depth.

I hate it too, but 'theater' implies it isn't useful in any way.
Abito Homecoming A-Line in Taffeta Con Perline Corto Naturale
> This is still light years ahead of Azure (and to a less extent GCP), where even compute services will not necessarily work with one another.

You can't use the SQL Server Virtual Machine extension on an Azure VM to extend the disks if the VM size is one of the AMD EPYC CPU types.

During the support call, the Microsoft tech shared a screenshot of the source code for the SQL VM extension, and it had a switch statement that decides if each feature is "supported" or not.

Let that sink in: Microsoft literally hard-codes their VM-size-to-feature lookups in probably thousands and thousands of places with huge switch statements full of code like this:

case "Standard_M416ms_v2": return false;
case "Standard_M416s_v2": return false;
case "Standard_M64ls": return true;
case "Standard_M64ms": return true;

This is their standard coding practice.

So next time you try a new VM size or type, don't be surprised if things randomly don't work or "aren't supported" for mysterious reasons...
sudo spctl --master-disable

Should disable gatekeeper. Have not verified with little snitch though.
RevenueCat (YC S18) Is Hiring a Reliability Engineer (Remote)
Wouldn't languages like COBOL rank pretty highly because a lot of legacy banking systems are written in that?
Piling on to say I cut on teeth on Linux installing Breezy Badger on a Thinkpad T20. Since then I’ve never struggled with a Debian based OS on Thinkpads.
I would suggest the Clean Code/Coder/Architecture series of Robert Martin.
There are plenty of places in earth's history where you could apply a predictor of future temperatures based on current conditions and get a better-than-random output 500 years ahead.
> I'm trying to find a laptop with good build quality, long battery life, a good display that I can design on, a good trackpad

Sounds like you might want a Microsoft surface (or surface book).

Not sure about the TouchPad - but at least there's a pen for drawing on the screen.
Ubuntu system. Firstly, I disabled updates, not because of Mac in particular, but I've had issues with Windows updates crashing before, so I don't eagerly update.

Apart from that, standard QEMU process. This was the guide I used:
https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/how-to-install-macos-catali...
"Yes this is what's happening in Ableton"

Are you sure? Because since your theory is based on grouping tracks, it is easy to test, by simply grouping all tracks in a Set with 20 or so tracks that use a decent chunk of CPU. Then all their CPU should shift from several cores into one single core/thread (according to your theory). Of course, being easy I already tested this with a Set that used Live's native devices (no CPU usage change), but I can't test with VSTs right now (none installed). Maybe VST hosting has that problem, but processing of audio summing, Live's own devices and M4L doesn't have any major problem with multi-core.
This inspired me to research and download Brave Browser. Thanks Streisand Effect! So nice to have a browser that doesn't feel like bloatware
French museum suspends Genghis exhibition in reaction to Chinese censorship bid
The js programmers and their ilk form our opinions these days and they certainly don't care about needs in more than a year because they hope to sell their wares by then and move on.
> Snowdrift.coop, a non-profit cooperative platform for funding freely-licensed works everyone can use and share without limitations.

>Our core feature is a new fundraising approach we call crowdmatching. Patrons donate together by all agreeing to match one another instead of donating unilaterally.

Edit: so, everybody donates the minimum donation of all donations? The "How it works" page is not clear enough.
I’ve considered making the switch back to Androids to play with F-Droid, do you have a device recommendation?
Maybe you just don't rely on packages that have different update cycles.

If you're only working with the standard library, boto3, twisted and redis - you're unlikely to have issues. You get into big issues, when you get to more obscure libraries... or libraries that are C bindings.
Microsoft went down that path with Windows Vista, users want very high level permissions, which thus end up being all or nothing.

App stores on the other hand can actually differentiate between an app that only accesses contacts locally, and one that uploads that information etc. That’s not to say Apple actually does this diligently, but it’s at least possible.

Really it’s a question of deceptive apps. Suppose someone makes a AI based photo manipulation app which reasonably asks for permissions to your photos. And then quietly does a facial recognition search or just tried to find and uploaded nude photos without notifying users. You can catch that crap with human reviewers not so much permissions and automated systems.
That is my point - the necessary material science in many respects is just a knowledge. If you have copper it is relatively easy to make copper wire, at least some crude one, if you know what it is for. It took 2000 years to build the knowledge, yet having that knowledge one can rebuild a lot of stuff in orders of magnitude shorter timeframe. Btw, that reminded about that book that i liked a lot back then as a child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island - rebuilding a significant pieces of civilization starting from scratch almost.
Are you sure?
It's happening piece by piece so that its preferable for most people to bear one more bad thing than bear the cost of switching.
Sorry, I may have misinterpreted. I thought you were making the case for a binary distinction. I thought it was clear that I believe it is a spectrum when I started calling it fuzzy (introduced in my second comment and reinforced thereafter). I certainly think this continuum is essential to the nuance of the discussion.

As for Liebniz, I don't think anything I've said is inconsistent with his beliefs. According to Liebniz, if an actor only has one or a small limited set of available options then they are not free (spontaneity). In the case of your dog, it depends highly upon you for its own basic needs: food, water, shelter. It also depends on you for its higher needs: companionship and a sense of purpose (or role). Because of this I do not think Liebniz would consider your dog free. It does not have much of a choice. But if we are talking about the spectrum, well your dog does have a choice to run away and attempt to survive on its own. We know it wouldn't make it far, but it might not know that (about things like the pound, leash laws, or human civilization norms). But the dog does have some freedom because you do give it some reign. Probably moreso than the member of the cult.

Similarly I'd say that you are more free than your dog. You can go on vacations and travel. You can eat different food and you can choose what food. It may be influenced by others, but that is different than dictated. But still you are beholden to having a job and living in society which does limit some sense of freedom. Similarly this story is about questioning who is more free by presenting the Huxleyesk lifestyle. In A Brave New World people are able to have all their desires, so why do we not consider them free?
Chance of encountering someone with Covid-19 at a gathering of 10 people