skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of email addresses in Git commits is certainly to allow contact from others looking at the code — but that is more relevant for a distributed project like the Linux kernel (coordinated with mailing lists) than a single-committer project on Github.

Occasionally, those email addresses are used to try and contact contributers to an open source project to check copyright, licenses etc. Sometimes many years later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24015928
It's completely unrelated to M1 and also affecting Mojave and Catalina, apparently. It's a security signature check service problem. Some might argue that it should be easy to disable security signature checks, system wide (which is what the provided instruction achieve). Many more would probably argue that disabling these checks would be bad for security, especially for the average user.

I'm curious what security researchers think of this. Further evidence that security is a doomed endeavor, since it's necessarily at odds with convenience?
IIRC, Apple said something about Apple Silicon not "supporting" other OSes, but it was ambiguous as to whether "support" meant "it won't work" or "we don't help you do it".
> The pen is mightier than the sword.

For the best outcome, you need both.
I don't see MacBook Pro mentioned in the @lapcatsoftware tweet. Seems like this screw-up would affect all Macs, no?
Linux is dead, and so is all the other junk that runs on top of it. Android included. Google is already working on it's replacement.
I mean large in a relative sense. If there is a known small number of elected people, and we know that only few of them will be gay/bi, and we still find out every year or so that someone loudly campaigning against gay rights visited same-sex prostitutes or has a stash of related porn... Then either it's common or there's some weird correlation between that behaviour and drive for powerful positions.
Apple/Akamai with problems: macOS 11 distribution failing since 6 hours
It will? Then make a concrete prediction - what should we expect to see to confirm your claim? What will “Microsoft showing GvR who’s the boss” look like?
> I'm sorry, but you seem to absolutely refuse to keep the concept that Pelosi only wanted nothing less than her 2.2 trillion dollar bill.

Sure. And McConnell wants nothing more than his 1T bill. Why is it solely Pelosi's fault that an accord has not been reached?

> You can't complain about McConnell delaying it without complaining about Pelosi.

I wasn't? It's common during a negotiation for both sides to be at fault. I do think McConnell is more at fault given that the white house came to agreement, but it's obvious that Pelosi bears responsibility also.

I would also argue that if republicans hadn't spent the last 20 years playing hardball to a ridiculous extent, they wouldn't have inspired similar behavior in their democratic opposition.
Sorry, not on Ubuntu. It's easy to check, compile a binary, run it, and use wireshark to watch your uplink.
All non-mortgage debt is bad. Credit card and car debt is especially bad and will limit the choices you can make and the trajectory of your life.

Consider a program like this to free yourself of debt: https://www.daveramsey.com/dave-ramsey-7-baby-steps
Likewise. I get an Installation failed error when trying to download it, with this helpful explanation: An error occurred while installing the selected updates.
In my experience, most racists think that their views are motivated by noble intentions in one way or another.
It used to be really hard, though I believe there's now experimental cmake support. Vcpkg has it, so if you're using that, it's much easier.
Referring to the USA, this might indeed be leaning towards fear mongering .. on the other hand, for any other country .. the "opportunity" to systemically disrupt Apple computers in that country might now be considered a (diplomatic) soft power (of the USA), from this day forward.
Nothing on this page says the project has been abandoned and the last commit is 3 days ago:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/log/
I really wish people would finally stop posting the "Mouse Utopia" experiments in conjunction with any context that involves human society.

Not only do the experiments tell very little about mice and their behaviour (other than that non-species-appropriate husbandry conditions will lead to degeneration and death), they are in no way shape or form transferable to humans.

You can skip the whole flawed mouse experiment and just look at any industrial meat, egg or pelt production or even many zoos - same difference. The animals suffer, display behavioural disorders and often won't procreate.

Just ask any zoo how difficult it is to get certain animals to breed in captivity - with some it's even thought to be impossible (cheetahs are a prominent example).

So please, for love of Zeus stop with the "Mouse Utopia" already!
There is an option to block committing an email address, somewhere in your Github user profile.

Github also provide a forwarding alias to use instead.
Only if catched. You've claimed Linux does similar checks. Linux is not a company, it is community. They don't need to collect PI, they don't play PR.

Why would private company not utilize leverage? You have no source, you can't even turn off these checks without hacks. Privacy first is open source and audit. It is removing feature people don't want.
This is bad. As bad as DRM.

A simple test for whether a product will stand the test of time is whether it'll cease to work once their creator's servers go down.

Imagine Apple goes bankrupt tomorrow. Is your overpriced device suddenly useless?
"Heads should roll for this" - careful with the language. Nowadays you may get banned for preaching "beheading".
> false sense of an active project capable of patching security vulnerabilities and so on

Development seems active. Last MR/PR merged in was 2 days ago[1]. Isn't all that's lacking is someone to pack changes into a tarball and call it a release?

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests?...
It's not the most fun project to build, but not that hard following the directions here: https://skia.org/user/build.

I've even been able to get it to build on a Pi (although that took more elbow-grease).

Also, if you're using Rust, the rust-skia [0] project provides prebuilt binaries for a bunch of platforms and using it is as simple as putting it in your Cargo.toml.

[0] https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia
Oh come on. GTA San Andreas is a great game, but it also came out for Play Station 2, 16 years ago!

There is some hope with games made specifically for controllers that are not hobbled by on screen controls but still. Claims of “console level graphics” are only true because a PS3 is a console, which is about the level of graphics an iOS device can handle.
Without principles, your freedom will be (is being!) slowly chiseled away, pragmatically accepting each small step. By the time even pragmatism tells you to refuse, it'll be too late.

That's exactly what happened in Hong Kong: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/technology/apple-hong-kon...

But it could never happen here...

(As someone pointed out, this does more than just prevent apps from running - it also leaks which apps you use and how often. Someone could ask Apple exactly when you started Tor browser, for example)
> extremely bad and worth avoiding

Shrugs???? What exactly do you mean? Quantify this, how bad...with respect to AGI?

> discourages anyone from preparing for potential nuclear wars

Interesting, what would be your suggestions for preparing? Mine would be: AT ALL COST AVOID. (I mean it...ALL COST).

Anything else, and I would classify it as a species wide failure to adapt to technology (In this case EXISTENTIALLY dangerous tech). Further, there is no way to grasp or accurately predict confounding factors of post total nuclear war that would put humankind at further risk.
How exactly is Cairo "dead"?
the difference between 5'8" and 5'5" is massive. And again it's nuanced, it's a prerequisite and MASSIVE but there are other factors once a woman's past that.

Most of the examples of guys who do well at very short height are either - some MASSIVE compensation in some other way (hugely confident, etc.) with a MASSIVE failure rate, or they are actually in a dating pool with a lower male height.

Obviously exceptions happen (I'm engaged for one!) but the impact it has is massive and I didn't know until my mid 20's, nobody wanted to admit it or talk about it and it would have saved me a lot of pain to know.
I like reading about ESE (empircal/evidence-based software engineering) for precisely these reasons. For example, someone found that SOLID programming didn't offer much of a benefit to code readability.

This is my favorite talk on it: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/what-we-know-we-dont-know/
> I'd assume that those deaths couldn't have been lockdown deaths since, you know, no lockdown yet.

I'm confused. Lockdown happened first, and the plateau of deaths happened second.
Hey, this is my app!

Thanks for posting and let me know if you have any questions.
It’s a review of a book. Presumably it’s in the book.

Even if you don’t care to read it and doubt his ability to estimate, add the amount of zeros in there that you think appropriate. If you think humanity has the potential to get in to the quintillions like Toby and friends, then the negative EV of it is still going to be far greater than any non existential threat.

Then consider elsewhere where it’s mentioned that humanity spends more on ice cream than preventing existential threats. Maybe some of that ice cream money would help increase the accuracy of his statistics.
This is a series of cliches strung together.
Apple themselves: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210999

They are disallowing custom kernel extensions and instead requiring apps like Little Snitch to use their system API. This means that Apple has total control of how these apps function and what they can see.
I think it comes down to humans being creatures of habit and conservation of energy. I've seen people buy macs even after seeing all the flaws because it's what they're used to and don't want to exert energy learning a new OS and environment. Apple used to make great products and I think people still cling on to that thought, even though their quality has been degrading these past years. Something needs to be 10x better (or at least perceived that way) for people to switch and switching to a new OS for them is probably like a 1x improvement so not worth the time cost.
This widespread outrage is proof that only few knew of this. Why is it that such a single point of failure and such a vector for unexpected data disclosure goes unnoticed for so long?
I personally love hooks, but I can't agree with the claim that "there is nothing to understand about hooks." For starters, they have to be used in a specific way, or else it causes bugs[1]. And there are plenty of other potentially non-obvious things in the (lengthy) FAQ[2]. Once you understand how hooks work they're much easier to work with than class components, but there's definitely a learning curve to using them correctly for anything beyond the simplest use cases.

[1]: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-rules.html
[2]: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html
resvg - https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg

The developer also produced an incredibly useful SVG test suite comparing various libraries https://razrfalcon.github.io/resvg-test-suite/svg-support-ta...
Staff who work from home after pandemic ‘should pay more tax’
Speaking as someone who ran operations in a search company that had an api for accessing their search results, that api will get slammed. But not in a good way.

Crooks use search engines to find pages that have exploitable js code or sql injection vulnerabilities. They use them to find unprotected comment sections so they can inject spam into them. They use them to build dossiers on people by scraping public information sites. And all that API use, they never pay a dime for access. Nor will they reveal who they are in order to get access. It just isn't how they operate.

At its peak I had over 2.6 MILLION internet hosts black listed from using the Blekko API. Exactly zero reached out to any of the easily found contact addresses and said "Hey your API seems to be unresponsive" :-)
A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer.

Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going through the same process, albeit more slowly.

And even though I just bought an MBP16, Apple monitoring every binary I run makes me want to sell it immediately and never buy another iPhone, Watch or Macbook. No one is going to catch Apple on performance and form factor for a long time, but I'm willing to invest in a long-term ecosystem that won't allow things like this...as long as I don't need to debug audio drivers. I am done with that phase of my life.

So if I had to choose an alternate path, what would such a path look like that could eventually approach the build quality of an Apple Macbook Pro? That product doesn't have to exist yet, it just has to be on the path.

(I looked at Alienware's M2 and M3, but it cost about the same as an MBP16 but with more blue LEDs.)
Related: you can set a noreply email address (e.g., kuyan@users.noreply.github.com) for commits that forwards to your actual email address. You can also ask Github to reject commits that do not have the noreply address set.

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/setti...
In defense of Google, they really like having a lot of money.

Let P = "Don't be evil" and Q = "make lots of money".

Q was nothing new. They always wanted Q. But Google made a fundamental breakthrough in business logic, discovering that P -> ¬Q.

It should be noted that ¬P -> Q is not automatically implied. Plenty of companies are ¬P ∧ ¬Q. Perhaps they are not ¬P enough? Perhaps they are too much ¬P? But very few manage to be purely P ∧ Q.
A cult classic. This whole thing looks like something out of a cartoon. I especially love the shot of the cart with boxes of dynamite haphazardly thrown together and someone's leg resting on top of it.
I just did a search on our business and the results were not the same, just like DDG and Bing isn't the same. From best to worst result on the same search string:

Google >
Startpage >
Qwant >
Bing >
DDG

But even if they were 100% identical, it has some privacy unlike 3 out of the other 4.
Note: I wrote this post and cross-posted it to the EA Forum, and there are some good comments there discussing the longer-term risks of nuclear war that I didn't include in the original post: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mxKwP2PFtg8ABwzug/...
I was going to tease you but you've realized the error of your ways. Unless you don't value your time, by all means, continue to use Charles and Paw. Network tab is great.
How nice, especially since I have so much money left over from buying desks and ergonomic chairs
Weird, I guess the first comment on your HN account isn't allowed to be political.
In several decades of seeing stray discussions online about nuclear war, including here on HN, I've yet to see a discussion where human extinction wasn't a commonly assumed outcome.

It's almost always thrown out as a matter-of-fact inevitability, it's assumed. It appeals to the self-hating cult of 'humans deserve it.' I'd wager the people that float that theory more often than not tend to hate humanity and are lusting for its destruction, so that appeals to them, they want it to happen and are projecting irrationally outward.
I haven't found a PC laptop that comes close to the quality of the MBP. The touchpad is pure wizardry. I never accidentally touch the corner of it while typing and send my cursor flying across the screen. The hardware is solid, and can be repeatedly woken/suspended all day long simply by closing the lid, without a driver lockup. The OS never crashes. It overheats and still works fine.

Truly the next best thing to a MBP for development work is a Windows desktop with WSL.
Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate. If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning laws are altered or removed, it can be redeveloped into housing that's actually affordable.
We really are running into a wall on the methane crisis, and we we simply don't have the time to integrate these changes at a slower pace.

Let's focus on changing our regulations that prohibit building neighborhoods for pedestrians. Let's work on getting homes with solar roofs and big batteries. Let's get drone delivery everywhere. Let's electrify the transport system with electric cars, electric trucks, eVTOL aircraft. Let's tunnel underneath and between cities and connect them with hyperloops. Let's connect people in rural areas with low-cost, low-latency satellite internet access.

Doing these things will directly provide a great number of jobs for a great number of people. It will make a great number of new jobs possible. It will improve the natural environment. I think this is a much more positive direction to take than to try to slow things down.
Lessons learned from blogging for 10 years
Yep, see the bronze age collapse for an example of this.

Reading and writing lost. People living in cities that had flourished for a thousand years just a couple centuries before, but the current inhabitants didn't know the name of.
> Because your temporary IP address is part of the hash request, and that's usually enough to identify which major organisation's network you are on, not counting any geolocation.

Okay. You realize that you literally have to turn off the network connection completely to prevent dozens of companies from getting this information every waking moment? Windows and even Ubuntu constantly send back basic telemetry, not to mention the many more less-trustworthy apps that are refreshing in the background, the websites you interact with (even with ads/tracking blocked, the site itself still knows your IP address and time of access!), and so on.

Maybe it's not the exact point I was making originally, but my point now is that this is a ridiculous thing to focus on in the grand scheme of privacy concerns. It might be the single least-privacy-significant network request that any of your devices ever makes. Personally, if that's the only cost, I'll take the tradeoff for the security benefits. But even if I didn't feel that way, it's not what I would be spending my energy worrying about.
Computer failing to turn on as a buggy, mandatory update has replaced broken or replaced a driver with a non-functional one.
SSE can be polyfilled to work in IE11. It can be implemented on top of XHR from ie7 or so onwards.

Some caching proxies struggle with it though, because they try to buffer an entire response before forwarding it. And it’s 1 way. For something like collaborative editing, crafting a POST request for every keystroke feels wasteful, though it works great in practice.
I was disappointed they didn't look at height as well, which is particularly relevant for men in both their pay and career progression.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add this to my list.

I'm trying to justify purchasing The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing on Google bookstore which costs $340. Seems pretty steep, however it looks like its the most authoritative source on the anti-federalist papers.
We don’t know that. I mean all they have to show for it is a privacy policy and a few articles saying “we value privacy”. If they truly cared about privacy then why wouldn’t they be open source?

I feel DDG can be compared to Apple in many ways, but here’s it’s important to look at what Apple is doing to its Chinese users by letting the CCP spy on all their iCloud data (sacrifice all the privacy values to obtain access to China’s market). Perhaps DuckDuckGo have also been forced to sacrifice their users’ privacy to join Microsoft Advertising as well? It’s difficult to tell since they’re closed source, and Microsoft Advertising is a private ad network (anyone besides DDG/Ecosia that’s been invited?) that doesn’t make any API documentation publicly available. At least with Bing’s API we can tell that Microsoft just need the search query for it to work, but how about their Microsoft’s advertising API?
I use a thinkpad carbon x1 with ubuntu and haven't had any issues.
"At its 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced a non-commercial prototype computer called "Developer Transition Kit" (DTK).[1] It is intended to assist software developers during the transition of the Macintosh platform to the ARM architecture. Described informally as "an iPad in a Mac mini’s body,"[2] the DTK carries a model number of A2330 and identifies itself as "Apple Development Platform."[3][4] It consists of an A12Z processor, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, and a variety of common I/O ports (USB-C, USB-A, HDMI 2.0, and Gigabit Ethernet) in a Mac mini case"

"..Even that DTK hardware, which is running on an existing iPad chip that we don’t intend to put in a Mac in the future – it’s just there for the transition – the Mac runs awfully nice on that system. It’s not a basis on which to judge future Macs ... but it gives you a sense of what our silicon team can do when they’re not even trying – and they’re going to be trying." - Apple SVP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit_(2020...

"The Apple A12Z Bionic is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc.The chip was unveiled on March 18, 2020, as part of a press release for the iPad Pro (2020), the first device to use it.[1] Apple officials touted the chip as faster than most Windows laptops of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12Z

HTH
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I like studies like these because it shows different types of discriminations the societies are comfortable with vs some other types of discriminations which are not only uncomfortable, but have severe legal consequences.
After reading your sentence, it occurred to me that it's no longer clear in today's age if you're referring to people using racial discrimination to hire underrepresented groups as racist, or the ones who oppose racial-based hiring and only hiring on "merit" as racist because they oppose race-based preferential hiring.
That is why a smart attacker would not make them go down, instead they'd degrade performance to such an extent that it'd cripple Apple-encumbered products.
From the Wikipedia article about the event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale

"A military veteran with explosives training who happened to be in the area warned that the planned twenty cases of dynamite was far too much, and that 20 sticks (8.4 lb or 3.8 kg) would have sufficed, but his advice went unheeded.

. . .

The explosives-expert veteran's brand-new automobile, purchased during a "Get a Whale of a Deal" promotion in a nearby city, was flattened by a chunk of falling blubber."

The irony . . .
https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/ doesn't mention anything about what doesn't work with it. It just says "With the introduction of Rosetta 2, M1 and macOS Big Sur seamlessly run apps that haven’t yet transitioned to Universal versions." The details about what won't work are in the developer documentation, which most people who buy Macs don't read.