skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on.
In the entire scenario it seems we forget recent pandemic, and what happen few days in.

In the case of nuclear war exchange there won't be any toilet paper, period. :)

Joking aside, we forget how hooked we are to industrial society. Any such event would mean world without shops, internet, new version of anything... no progress... for at least one human lifetime. Back to stone age.
Everything we are used to and enjoy (technology wise), would simply seas to exist, and it is questionable how long would it take to build knowledge and start a new, especially when simple necessities as food and water are only priority.
You may find something that runs faster. But it will use a lot more power. These are Apple's low power offerings. There's more to come.
The long slow SAAS ramp of death
Keep in mind that some of the user friendliest machines today are chromebooks. Simple, not many knobs to turn, relatively secure, and of course browser centric. ChromeOS is of course running the linux kernel and the chrome web browser. The experience is very similar to installing ubuntu, google chrome, and dragging the other icons off the launcher.
> 3:2 screen

I'm sold on the screen alone. Thank you!
> Whether it is an android device, an iPhone, a Dell laptop or a new M1 macbook you are beholden to a corporation that doesn't care about privacy.

Yet Dell and Lenovo offer computers with Linux pre-installed, but so many technical people ignore them because Apple is shiny and fast.

If this trend continues then Linux and other open source OS will eventually exist only as a virtualized guest inside a locked-down proprietary system.

There is genuine choice in the market now, but in ten years there won't be if people keep chasing baubles.
I see. How do you make contact with these prospective customers and sit them down for long enough to chat, without them freaking out?
So after this procedure I can once against boot my own bootloader that I wrote on the Mac that I own? No.
New doc comment handling in rustdoc
Google's not in control of the CPU, OS, or Desktop. It's not fingerprinting every binary you run, nor locking you into any of the google tools. You could easily use a different email service, different photo service, etc.
Although it's claimed that this survives arbitrary transcoding, I'm really not convinced that's mathematically possible. I think it's much more likely that they've just chosen to embed information at a very low bit rate.

Having never heard of this before, I did the natural hackernews reader thing -- search for a bypass -- and came across this interesting forum discussion [1] from ~2014, in which a large number of people state that a reverb effect gets rid of it. The original author writes:

> get an program named Audacity open the converted audio file in freemake
> and open the file in Audacity choose File>Open then Edit>Select>All
> then go to Effect>GVerb
> make sure to have the following configuration:

> roomsize (m):1.0
> reverb time (s): 0.1
> Damping: 0.0
> Input Bandwidth: 0.20
> Dry Signal (db): -7.0
> Early reflection level (db): 0.0
> Tail Level: -17.5

Other methods of bypass include using a player that doesn't check for the watermark, patching out the checking code in a firmware image, and simply swapping the HD-DVD / Blueray audio with one from a DVD.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20141208081801/http://club.myce....

---- Edit ----

Some further useful information -- and a statement that they've put the details in their patent!

> The Cinavia detection is sensitive to pitches and time sequence of features. The specific feature that detector looks for, is already clearly stated in Verance patent US5940135:

> [2] www.google.com/patents/US5940135

> If you study the patent document you will know the feature is delayed correlation. They also use hopping to change the delay of the correlation within the pattern of the same watermark. The actual delay, and the hopping pattern between delays, is their secret and security. That information I cannot disclose. Nor is it needed to defeat Cinavia.

> The fact of the matter is Cinavia added an artificial signal to rapidly change the delayed correlation in short time internals. Analysis the audio and you can see it causes an un-natural ripples in the frequency space. If you can see those un-natural ripples, you can smooth it out and remove it. Just remember, in real world, different frequency components of a sound does not change that rapidly. They generally decay over a fraction of a second, and human ear can not catch it if a frequency shows up and then rapidly goes away. So the way to defeat Cinavia is do not let any frequency component go in and out so rapidly. If it shows up, let it stay for a little while longer. Stretch it out a bit, before letting it decay out.

> That will defeat Cinavia for sure. Make everything vary more slowly and smooth out any ripples. It also beautifies the sound quality.

> When people sing, the pace of their singing is much slower than normal speech, right? A sentence that takes 3 second to speak, a singer will spend half a minute to sing the same sentence out. The slow varying is what makes music beautiful, and it is also what can kill Civania!

[2] http://www.google.com/patents/US5940135
It’s going to be hard to beat Msft on developer ergonomics when Msft has GitHub, Azure, VSC, and TS.
Another poster mentioned the Huawei Matebook Pro has a 3:2 screen. I'm now looking into getting one for that reason alone.
I think it means lens thickness and design imperfection is "ignored". The renderer typcially uses a simple aperture + perfect thin-lens approximation.
Some more information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Hungary#Ethnic_changes...
My First ProductHunt Launch
Hi,

I've just created my first product hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/xemailextractor I've been postponing thins since forever, and I was still going to if my co-founder didn't insist on posting this asap, I guess it was the fear of not getting any up votes or whatever, even though there are a lot of good and profitable products that don't get a lot of attention on ProductHunt.

Looking for feedback and if anyone wants to try the product too, I can give you some free credits, just message me on the live chat from the website.
Or Kokichi Sugihara http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~kokichis/Welcomee.html
And yet, Apple still has a reputation of being really privacy- and security- conscious. Windows' telemetry has had all the alarms raised for years now, and how does e.g. Canonical earn money?

Same on mobile, Android phones - especially in the cheaper ranges - are dodgy as fuck when it comes to privacy and security.
Boxes are unlikely to use this key. The letter implies that this key is for the weakest (software-only) level of protection, used on generic PCs.
Tudor England was a nasty place. Henry VIII and Liz I were murderous despots persecuting Catholics and pursuing genocide in Ireland. Suspect Bannock likes that 'directly approach to opponents.
This is a valid point. But the (fortunately?) the effectiveness of these trackers is also massively overstated.
Can you share the location please? Very interested
Wow, not seen that rant before! I remember the OpenMoko devs went all-in on GTK (there was a lot of hype at GUADEC, around the same time as Moblin too), but the OS they shipped was very basic, and the actual phone functionality (calls, texts, contacts, etc.) was taken from QtMobile (later renamed Qtopia, then QtExtended). Later, OpenMoko decided to ditch GTK in favour of Enlightenment, which was certainly prettier, but again the actual phone functionality was QtMobile.

According to Wikipedia Moblin became MeeGo, and MeeGo got replaced by Tizen. So it looks like the same GTK-to-Enlightenment switch was made at least twice (possibly FOMO?).

I've only played with programming Enlightement a little; so never had to encounter the horrors described in that link. As a user I really like E16 (it's my go-to non-tiling WM; but I prefer tiling these days). I never got into E17 on the desktop (it's usable on OpenMoko, but I tend to use QtExtended). I like the fact they're pushing what can be done with 2D raster graphics, since everyone else seems to be vector-based (e.g. Cairo) or 3D (e.g. Compiz); but I never found E17 appealing as a WM or desktop from a productivity perspective.
It's worth noting that Apple's "18 hour" battery life on the MBA is listed when watching something via the Apple TV app, presumably as they have various optimisations both in the OS for that and at a chip level.

For regular desktop use it's 15 hours, which is about the same as other higher battery spec laptops.
Thank you!

I'd arrived at the possibility independently, glad to see I'm not the first. Hugely appreciate the reference.
Thanks for your detailed reply! I meant that even this dataset puts a limit on the effect size, if viewed as an "evidence of absence of clear and large effect".

Of course since "everything is correlated" [0] expecting such truly simple signals might be nonsensical/pointless.

I was just lamenting the lack of simple magical treatments basically.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Everything
The server is called OSCP which suggests to me that if we look at Apple in the most positive light - they sign and certify binaries as safe. If an app gets later reported as malicious, they need to revoke the certificate that has been used to sign said binary.

So when you open an app, how else are they going to check whether the certificate is still valid or whether it has been revoked?

Can anyone confirm whether this lookup applies to unsigned as well as signed binaries? As far as I know if I build a brand new binary with cargo, and run it, it doesn't do any checks.
Amazing :)

I really should watch more of their videos, I'd forgotten how brilliant they are.
my experience with upgrading today

First, just trying to get the system updater to display: https://i.imgur.com/waEF4kc.png

Second, after downloading 12gig of new OS: https://i.imgur.com/4HKMkPJ.png

I guess I should wait a few weeks.
RARBG has 4K rips of the newest Mandalorian episode, which was released today. DRM doesn't work.
that is quite clever. i wonder how much better if you gave it more diverse views on ~animal topology (or whatever you want to call it), like a bunch of pixel art of normal animals, or matching drawings + text descriptions, or something.
I always laugh when people claim their Apple computers are secure and privacy friendly compared to Windows 10. They are certainly not.

The only viable OS at this point is Linux and even then you have to carefully select your distribution.
So you weren't able to come up with the idea of right-clicking without Google?
Possible source of the WOW Signal found
What the hell man? That sounds so soulless and dystopian.
You can simple exit and reopen your browser. Only the focus Tab will be loaded while all others are unloaded.
Ok Twitter says the PatrickWardle thing isn't available to me, so I don't understand this part:

>@patrickwardle lets us know that trustd, the daemon responsible for these requests, is in the new ContentFilterExclusionList in macOS 11, which means it can’t be blocked by any user-controlled firewall or VPN.

How does that work? I mean the not blocked by ANY user-controlled firewall or VPN? - is the phrase "ANY user-controlled" just modifying firewall or also VPN?
First Steps of Docker
Funny thing is in so many college campuses Greenpeace is actually considered a respectable organisation rather than the trolls and bullies that they have been throughout the environmental awareness movement.
I was mostly joking. I rarely take as much - only when I have a bad flu or the beginning of one. And it's included in the yearly checkup: I'm either deficient or, since I started supplementing seriously, normal.
My gpu works fine on newer kernels. It's not about blobs, debian is just slow.
"As per our phone conversation, ..."
Sad DNS
Staying sane in our new Covid-19 world
As with this study the dose used is often quite low, driven by paranoia about overdoses. Other studies have been very short term, had small numbers of subjects and thus would only find very large effects, or used large irregular "bolus" doses which are very bad and no longer used.

I went through one meta-analysis and found only 3 of about 35 studies that were actually useful. So take a close look at the methods section of the paper. You don't just read the abstract, do you? Do you?

Why 600 IU / day is not enough:

1. Meta-analysis that concluded this was faulty due to back statistical analysis and understated need by a large factor
Nutrients 2014, 6, 4472-4475; doi:10.3390/nu6104472
"A Statistical Error in the Estimation of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin D" by
Paul J. Veugelers and John Paul Ekwaru

2. Lactating women who get only the RDA have vitamin D deficient milk. This makes no sense if the RDA is valid

3. When people go out in the sun their bodies produce up to 10,000 IU per day but not more. Why produce all that Vit D if it is not useful?

Sorry I am away from my paper trove so I do not have the cites for 2 and 3.
Micro front ends – from tribes to nations and back
I don't really understand the tone here. Do people really believe there is "evil" motivations in Apple? How about Tesla and its control over your vehicle? Windows also phones home frequently and has advertising built-in.

I get that many in the hacker crowd don't like this, so the obvious solution is, don't buy those products.

But for everyone else, it's not this big downer of a problem. This is the only time this has happened to me personally, and probably to most, and the way it affected the machines has been pointed out by many to be a bug that will likely get patched. Will it still phone home to Apple? Probably. But if there is an outage, it will not likely cause problems like this in the future. And personally I don't care if my machine phones home to Apple. Life is too short and I get too many other benefits from using a mac to care about this.

People are confusing their own individual preferences for the technology they wish to own with the larger motivations of the masses.
Random third party audits would with publicly available results would really help with this. Of course both these things could not be done in Soviet Union where highers ups were just incapable of answering questions.
Simple ways stop cats from scratching furniture
> It's like the back talk against climate warming, trying to down play it as a non extinction event.

It's quite similar to invoking freedom of speech in order to defend a position -- "Oh, it's not _literally illegal_ to say this? That sure sounds like a compelling argument to me"
It's super infuriating reading posts from developers who are like "Well I would love to use Linux, but I can't because the touchpad drivers don't behave exactly the way they do under MacOS..."
it's becoming the antithesis of everything that the original Hacker culture stood for.

A hacker in the “Hacker News” sense is more than likely working on an ad-supported web app and dreams of working at a FAANG. The old hacker dream is dead, sadly.
This all sounds well and good. But why not just use signed binaries? Have a user editable keystore that includes the accepted signatures. The default would be apple, installing chrome would require accepting the Google signature, photoshop would require the adobe key. Then users could add their own for brew, firefox, or whatever community software they would use.

This would give good protection against hackers, and not require uploading a signature for every binary run.
Oh boy, I'm so happy with my Linux Mint. It's way better than any Windows or Mac system I ever used or saw.
Discoverd in April 2018—what happened just now is that an academic article has been published about it.
What a cool thing to find steps outside your house...
I use Fedora.

I work on dotnet. I've not been able to run my azure functions on Linux at all. Even on windows, I have to start the azure storage emulator directly and then start func (using the full path). On Linux, azurite is not the same thing as azure storage emulator.

So I must use windows for dotnet development. Even after four years of dot net core. That being said, Linux isn't the problem. Gnome 3 isn't the problem either. Flatpak works great.

There are a few regressions once in a while though. For example, I'm unable to use my lenovo flex 14 (and ryzen 3500U) built in mic since I upgraded to Fedora 33. Looks the issue well be fixed in kernel 5.9 but for the moment I'm on 5.8. But it has been great mostly. If I could use it for work, that'd be great.
I use Fedora on a Thinkpad on a daily basis and it sucks compared to macOS IMHO.
Well uploading signatures in plain text does make it much easier for PRISM to intercept.
Yes I read that report and was not convinced. One anecdote. Not in a peer reviewed journal etc.

If you do take Vitamin D, variant D3 is by far best, and it may be wise to take vitamin K2 as well to avoid calcium metabolism issues (calcification).
Recent events have shown that even simple google cypher may be effective.
Even more effective is modifying your product to fit customers by NOT region locking your content, by not splitting it over multiple platforms. Using law to pretend that the global network does not exist is simply dumb and leads to piracy. DRM won't save backwards digital rights owners.
What about 2015 - now?
In other words: "The computer isn't yours it belongs to either the OS creator or the malware creators - choose your poison".

Myself I still have some hopes and use QubesOS - I hope they find a business model for it.
Sophos does not support Big Sur
In this case nothing prevents Google from banning all other accounts. There have been quite a few related stories on HN. It's scary.
Fostering Global Data Sharing
10% of the landmass of the earth is habitable? You got a source for that? That seems unlikely.

For example, the people in Arizona might take issue with "deserts aren't habitable".
Pretty sure I did, but good shout, will try it again.
Dzip – Demo compression squared (2003)
Gravit designer, Blender and Bitwig studio would come to mind as tools for multimedia production that are as good as anything on the other platforms.
UK system is the same.

Amazing when something goes awry, not great at preventing the thing going awry though they have made some good improvements recently (starting with their website debunking bullshit claims and headlines in the press).
Jordi, co-founder of Bugfender here. I totally agree. We tried many thing and this kind of advertisement didn't work very well for us. We tried several things in this area, with varying degrees of success.

The main differential factor here is the price of what they're selling. In this case it's a high-value, pretty unique item sold to a highly targeted audience, that 1-2 items sold already make up for the investment. Good for them!

Also beware of confirmation bias: we know this particular campaign worked and was extremely successful, but we don't know the other things this company tried and didn't work, nor if this team had experience in a very similar market that saved them some experimentation.
> Why not just let any depressed person commit suicide efficiently so they're not around bringing us down!

Criminals who would get life sentences are an order of magnitude different than average person who attempts suicide. They are net negative in almost all cases. if person A kills person B and C, the society will end up net negative no matter how you spin it. They destroyed many families, decreased economical output of the state, caused moral panic, and health issues among public on top of forcing people who took the most damage to pay for their prisons.

Additionally, I am not opposed to improved assistive suicide laws allowing for more use cases with focus on preventive measures.

> yeah, so when it turns out that a poor person who was innocent opted for death to give his starving family some money (remember, we're talking about America here) what's the clever response going to be then

A judge would be responsible for the final decision on matters related to money. We could simply remove giving money to the family but introduce it back into budget at the end of the day. Specifics of policy can be changed but for me, the most important question is whether society gains more or loose more in either scenario.

I don't believe letting a person rot in prison for life is better than giving them more options to choose from. I would definitely pick up death sentence if I were in that position. Many people would if given the choice.
Safari is the new IE. Now some people like it...less.
Exactly. Duck and cover won't help much if you're out in the open less than a km from ground zero. But it will help a lot if you're 25 miles away from a several hundred kiloton blast and indoors.
or https://nextdns.io/
Once your Apple Silicon Mac is too old to receive an update, you can't just install anything else on it because it's boot process is completely locked down.
Long gone. The last time I had a conversation here about what a "hacker" is, there was a sizeable contingent who defined it as "someone who knows how to write computer programs".

If that hacker ethic lives, it's not in people labelled "hackers" anymore.
> And before "have you tried this *nix distro??" comments appear, they are still too hard to setup and nowhere near as user-friendly for most people on an everyday basis.

Uh, no.

There are many reasons why people don't use Linux. The easy of setup and use lines are pure nonsense. Many Linux distributions have been easier to setup and use since at least the introduction of Ubuntu, and perhaps earlier. Just pop in the live installation media, try it out for a bit to ensure your hardware is compatible, then run an installation program that asks questions that make sense to people rather than marketers. Getting the applications you need installed has involved using a store-like interface for longer than software stores have existed on commercial desktop operating systems.

So why is it perceived as harder? One reason: users typically have to install their operating system, while end users rarely see the process on commercial operating systems. Second reason: those who do install their own OS typically dedicate their system to commercial operating systems, yet use dual-boot for Linux (which will add technical steps). Third reason: those making the transition may try to install commercial applications via a VM or WINE due to compatibility, familiarity, or (periodically) the lack of an open source alternative. In other words, it is perceived as harder because people make it harder.

As someone who has been using Linux for decades, I find the setup and user friendliness of something like Windows far inferior to to Linux. Yes, part of that is due to familiarity. On the other hand, some of it is inherent due to there being fewer restrictions with open source software.
I tried to find info on this online but can't find anything and want to mention it in a post. Any chance you can expand on this or point me to a discussion on the topic?
> There is only one political leaning that has resulted in people showing up armed to pizza places or trying to kidnap a governor.

Hold on a second here. Am I the only one that remembers this summer? There is also a party that excused, if not encouraged, arson, rioting, dragging people out their cars and beating them in the street, and one outright murder that was explicitly predicated on the victim being of the opposing political party:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/30/blm-activists-celebrated-as-tr...
There is no "we" or "us". There are just a couple hundred nations with different interests.

If there really was a global movement superseding national governments then human civilization might have a slim chance, but only when employing drastic measures like global prohibition of cars, flights, meat, etc. as well as collectivization of all for-profit organizations.

You saying "there is always something we can do", is just you hoping some Silicon Valley startup invents a magic bullet in the future so that you can keep your standard of living.