skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are people with thousands of tabs. ( Not all Loaded Of course ). Every time there are HN discussion about browser you will see those mentioning it. Most of them are on Firefox so I guess I might be the few who does that on Safari.
Is the Arnold renderer spectral (or optionally so)?
This makes me wonder, I guess in the event of war the data centers of Google/Apple/Microsoft/Facebook must be at the top of the list. I wonder how close any of them are to being powned. I can only hope those companies are at the top of their game when it comes to this stuff though accidents like this don't give much confidence.
They also do one on "what happens if a single modern nuclear weapon is exploded over a city" - but I think the BBC did a better job:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GJttnC8PoA&t=16s

[Edit: And by 'better job' I mean scared me witless as a teenager]
Huawei Matebook X Pro.
A friend has one, 2019 model. Runs Ubuntu on it.

Trackpad is as good as it gets outside Apple, I'd say.

The display looks gorgeous.
Can't say about color accuracy/fidelity though.
Apple Silicon, Xeon Phi, and Amigas
For anyone who wants to do this, you can do it here (at least if you are in the EU): http://privacy.apple.com/
Regarding the internet connectivity, Windows can think its connected to the internet when it isnt. Someone with the exact knowledge of how network topology is polled by the OS can provide more info, but the claim is next to meaningless. Someone's misunderstanding about how an OS functions is not evidence. Pretty terrifying to think these things were running Windows though...so many possible exploits.
Can confirm. I made the mistake of buying a T14s with a Ryzen 4000 CPU in it

The screen was something like 30% color accurate

Using something like F.Lux or Redshift to shift the color space at night resulted in...this

Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLBx4mmPrM

Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgjqeDF9c50

Lenovo refused to replace the panel with a less atrocious SKU, claiming I could instead purchase it for a "mere" $600 USD(!)

Thankfully Australia has strong consumer protection laws and I was able to get the unit returned and refunded
Dwight is that you?
All you are advocating for is a new priestly class.

> Everyone starts out life on the same footing, with zero experience, and has the innate potential to learn how to live it. But computers are a very specific, highly specialized machinery that the vast parts of the population will never be able to directly understand or fix.

I started off with zero experience and learned more over time to throw your own words back at you.

I learned how to program on a computer when I was 10 years old (which was 28 years ago now) after my Grandfather (who was born in the 1920s) learned how to operate his own computer at home. We had manuals and trial and error and the library. It was much more difficult to learn back then because there was no internet, no youtube and almost nobody had a computer. Computers back then were a lot more difficult to use as well. So don't give me this nonsense about it being so opaque it is impossible for an ordinary person.

Also most people will know a friend or relative that is handy with a PC or you could go to a local specialist for help. A large multi-billion company "looking out for the plebs" isn't required.

Apple has been quite good it seems as selling this narrative.

> I can drive a car but I don't know the first thing about fixing it.

Plenty of people used to be able to work on their own cars in the past (and still do today). Most of them would be considered "laymen". Plenty of people fix their own phones and computers, or go to a repair shop where people have taught themselves to repair electronics and turned it into a business. Just because you choose to be ignorant (which is absolutely fine) doesn't mean other people aren't able or willing to.
Physicists Devise a Brilliant Way to Make and Observe Elusive Electron Crystals
> I worry for Gen Z because they're tiny-mobile-device native. And the only usable tiny mobile devices are walled gardens.

Without the ability to grow up playing with system level software, combined with the software industry's unwillingness to pass on institutional knowledge to younger generations, I fear we are already on a path towards a civilization that loses a lot of the technological capability we currently enjoy.

I recommend Jonathan Blow's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"[1] for an unsettling view of how far we have already traveled down that path.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
> Why are you excited about working on this project?

Because you are paying me to do it. Obviously!

The one true answer to this BS question is the one you are not allowed to give.
Mental Model – Narrative Fallacy
Is there secure boot mechanism that prevents installing ununtu on newest arm apple hardware?
Can we stop with these already?

> Thus far, I have found thousands of voting records with 1900 as the date.

That alone is not evidence!

Quoting the AP at https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-election-dead-voter...

> “Some states have a default ‘year of birth’ that they entered for registrations that lacked a year of birth on the old paper forms when voter registration was moved from paper to computer,” Roberts, the political science professor, explained in an email. “Those never get updated and as time goes on the voters with this issue look ‘older’ whether they are or not.”

Is this what happened in MI?

My guess - probably. Look at the "30 other ones you can manually check yourself" -- all of the ones in 1900 are in January!

Now, that might be because the author simply put the first 30 of thousands of such records, all of which are January ... except for the odd-ball June 1911 entry(?).

But if the author were aware that a default coding might be the issue, and wants to be convincing, then the right approach is to list examples throughout the year. More likely, the author doesn't understand the data set and inferring that the confusion is due to fraud, rather than ignorance.

It doesn't help that the "Search voter records in .. " link finds lots of people born in 1850.

Looking at of the entries, https://voterrecords.com/voter/19880777/richard-fletcher says Robert O Fletcher "(born 1891) is listed at 3657 Arndt St Detroit, Mi 48207 and has no known political party affiliation. He is a male registered to vote in Wayne County."

https://www.spokeo.com/MI/Detroit/3657-Arndt-St shows a "R Fletcher" age 29 as living at that address.

1991 + 29 = 2020 ... Ergo, voterrecords.com is wrong by exactly 100 years.

GIGO.
The thing about server-side analytics is that it doesn't always provide enough data, especially for SPAs where you wouldn't even be able to know the session length or any kind of client-side events (unless they also trigger a server request).
That's fine, except that cali currently o ly gets about a third of its power from renewables. Once that number is higher you could turn gas off, but banning its use now actually increases emissions.

It also ignores the fact that some household appliances currently cannot be replaced with electrical models. Notably boilers: there is no way you can replace a simple and efficient combi boiler with an electrical model of the same output on a residential circuit, the equipment is too big and the electrical load is huge.

And that's without addressing the fact that we have basically decided NOT to cut our emissions and so doing any of this for Co2E reasons is a waste of time...
Just to mention that Safari 14 is available on earlier version on MacOS too - I'm running it on Mojave and it works very nicely.
For Video Game Companies, “Crunch” Working Conditions Are Increasingly the Norm
If I do any simple math calculation in Spotlight it pegs all cores at 100%. Its easily reproducible and really annoying because I've used spotlight as a calculator for years.
I think you pretty much nail it. Active Tabs for news, mail, Youtube kind of things. Open Tab List ( That is why I really wish Apple would implement Tab Listing instead of Tab ScreenShots Overview ) For reading list and getting back into, I use Bookmark for something like long term memory. But part of the problem are the links no longer works.

I really like the idea someone on HN purpose sometimes ago. Where all your visited webpage ( excluding images ) are saved on your SSD, and you can basically search it back like your memory.
"Contact tracing" is asking people who they've been near, and then checking on them as well. It can't ever be "rolled back" any more than "asking someone a question" can be rolled back.
Last I checked (3-4 month ago) Pipenv only cares about the situation when you are deploying code on machines (or containers) you have complete control over. If you're writing code for deploying on machines you don't have control over, via for example pip install, then pipenv isn't helpful while poetry supports this out of the box.
And where you drive it since they track IP numbers.
> That freedom of Linux comes at a cost that people aren't paid to take care of the level of details other OS have.

What do you mean "take care of the level of detail"?

I can download Debian right now, install it on hardware in about 10min, and get everything to work rock solid without any hitch.

I can't say the same about either Windows 10 or macOS.

In fact, I had mojave crash and reboot more times in the last month than Ubuntu 18.04 since it was released, and mojave is preinstalled in its own target hardware, which is supposed to be high-end, while Ubuntu is installed on a cheap laptop that cost between a third and a fourth of my apple laptop.

What exactly do you mean by level of detail?
Won't any quantum "destroy the universe" operation result in one destroyed universe and one that isn't?
> And before "have you tried this *nix distro??" comments appear

Your style of comment is also quite the meme at this point, though.

I always reply with: if my dad, mom, grandfather and other 10+ members of my family can use Mint and I have to do minimal maintenance for them, much less frequently than with Windows, then so can you.
> 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.

I remember very well the times where when you’d connect a fresh Windows XP SP2 to the internet without a router or firewall it immediately showed malicious popups and eventually a BSOD.
Checking if a list is sorted is O(N) if you do it in a single thread since you'd have to check all the elements. If you can do it with a prefix sum or something, it should be possible to do it in O(log N) over many cores.

Btw, the quantum bogosort also assumes that destroying the universe is O(1), which seems unlikely. Clearly, when sorting a bigger list there is more information in the universe (ie the list). Since information and energy seem to have some equivalence in quantum dynamics, is does not seem unreasonable that destroying a universe with more information in it would take longer and so destroying the universe cannot be O(1).
Fifth reason - many many laptops have at least some piece of hardware or behaviour that requires fiddling to get to work on major linux systems. Sometimes it's power management, sometimes it's running with multiple monitors or 3d acceleration or the touchscreen, sometimes it's getting the touchpad to work properly or the fingerprint reader.... In my experience, there's usually something.
> 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)

America, where the poor people are... much richer than anywhere else in the world?

> what's the clever response going to be then?

What was the response when we saw a spike in deaths right before the inheritance tax came back into effect?
Thanks, I will look into GrapheneOS.

I wish there was a phone ecosystem I could invest in that ran Clojure near the metal. Some kind of Lisp machine would be awesome and make it more palatable to endure missing libraries and apps.
i wish i didn't read this
Does Apple really have literally all telemetry disabled by default, out of the box, on all devices? Is there an independent audit proving that? If so, I would buy all their products in an instant.

Then how do they know what to fix/improve without that? I can't imagine average iOS/OSX users, who aren't devs, are writing and submitting detailed bug/crash reports on a regular basis.

Or is it just bias and personal preference where "I don't mind Apple collecting my telemetry because I like Apple but Microsoft collecting my telemetry is evil because I hate Microsoft"?

I don't have a dog in this fight but don't trust any for-profit company when it comes to privacy, no matter how good their PR is on the matter, especially since both of them(and most SV companies) were part of the NSA Prism bulk collection program[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
My main workstation is Linux for a couple of years now. I have dedicated PC for Ableton and I disabled all known telemetry calls. I got rid of all Apple products except iPad 2.
> if person A kills person B and C, the society will end up net negative no matter how you spin it.

Well, person B and C could be worse than person A.
"MacOS now won't run unsigned software." Er, what?

I have a MBP and:

$ gcc -O3 hello.c && ./a.out

hello world
When a "right" is spoken of in legal discussions (which this clearly is), it implies a "right by law". If you want to talk about another right, like your "moral right", you'd usually say exactly that.

But yes, even rights defined in the law can and do get redefined, newly introduced or removed.
How do I clone it to get .git directory? downloaded tar doesnt contain it.
Thank you for your anecdotes and sharing what you've been through.

i have to think of a motivator other than drinking own piss lol
$$ donations is good but if i go further, i can organise each month a draw from a list of goal achievers and send him a big chunck of cash... that would be a good motivator i think? what's your thoughs ??

of course the guy who have won get out of the list for futur prizes
Ironically, it couldn't be with macOS, which this whole thread is about avoiding.
> Windows and most Linux desktop environments are years ahead of macOS in terms of managing window placement.

I don’t understand. Windows has no ability to remember window positioning on screens to the point where I dread undocking my laptop because of the wasted time spent rearranging everything. The same way I dread it when Windows goes to sleep.
> software engineering IS "factory" work because its the grunt work of building what should be a well understood system

So what are you implying here? That we should go the Waterfall route and have 100% clear and finished specs? Good luck with that buddy. You're just shifting the real problem outside of your "software engineering" space.

In my 20 year career, I've never built a "well understood system".

Some things can be built 10 times faster with the right idea. Some features can be supported by a single, simple one. Some screw-ups can take forever to fix. 100% code coverage won't give you bug free software.

Building software is all about the skills of people (developers, analysts, managers, testers, ...). The better the people, and the more power you give them, the better your project will go. If you hire bad people and have to put processes in place so they don't screw up, you're in trouble.
That feels pretty messed up. If you knew you had a communicable disease that other people might have caught from you, and be spreading it themselves, and some people dying, and you get asked "who might you have spread this to" you'd refuse to answer on privacy grounds.

Would you even call them yourself to tell them you might have infected them? I guess if you'd been to somewhere that you didn't know everyone, you'd just have to take that as an unavoidable sacrifice they're making for your privacy.
If you are developing on Apple silicon, the path of least resistance is to deploy to AWS Graviton2 instances, even if the instance cpu/memory/io combination isn't perfect fit for your usecase.
If the name is quite unique it's a good indicator because some site with high pagerank and lot of seo that list other websites/companies/software are sometime higher than the original site (stackshare.io or alternativeto.net for example)
It's isn't so easy. There is often a large cost of moving. Eg - I use `sketch` for designing. I can move to Figma, but it'll be a learning curve and the performance just isn't the same.

Additionally, in order to move to Linux I need to find a good alternative to many other software that I'm using. Most commercial software only target Windows or OSX.

For the record, I've written large parts of KDE, so I'm acutely familiar with running Linux as a Desktop Environment.
Youtube on DRM next year then?
For a more layman explanation, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAssk2N_oPk
.NET Core shares your opinion. Many of these are just registered/configured by default.
How to Pick a Good Partner?
Gabriel Weinberg, aka ei0Bauqu
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=epi0Bauqu
The Wisdom of Pandemics
Hi! thanks for having a look!

"Couldn't a person A submit feedback to my personal link simulating that he is in reality person B, maybe to his own benefit?"
> FeedFeedback doesnt have a field to enter your name or to sign, and if you tick the 'anonymous' checkbox then nothing is recorded from the sender. Obviously someone could add their name or fake name to one of the answers, and we can't do anything about it (I think).

"Also I'm sad to admit that some feedback requires pinpointing specific examples of things that have actually happened"
> We plan to allow custom questions so that you can ask for feedback about specific situations too. Did you have another idea in mind?

Let me know if you can think of more ways to make it better! Thanks :)
C'mon HN, the past few days have been pegged with stories about Apple where the comments just turn out to be dozens of rants about their closed garden. Can we move on? Install linux and let it go.

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill
I think the friendliest will be sourcehut, which is both FOSS and works without JS too.
Ken Thompson won a Turing Award for showing how that isn’t the case: http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thom...
By nature RISC-v machines will tend to be more open, have an open bootloader, and be friendly to running an open OS. Much less likely to block installing Linux, like Apple has done. Much less likely to block running linux, like on the Microsoft Surface.

Sure some Apple like company could make a fork of RISC-v and then lock down the environment, spy on a user's network traffic, what binaries they run, etc.
Yep, expect for this weird COVID-19 year, were it's advised to no overload the health system, usually you would only need to see your GP and tell him/her "it's been a while since last check up" or "I'm feeling weird/tired/not sleeping well" and usually they would begin by a basic blood test.
You might be interested in the new DynamoDB to S3 export feature announced this week: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-export-amazon-dynamodb-...
I am running wireguard on my router, let them try to bypass that
HMD Global introduces a 4G rework of the Nokia 6300
Like the law that you are not allowed to punch someone in the face because they annoy you?

I don't think it's the best tool to teach people not to punch each other in the face, but I wouldn't go so far to call it pointless either.
Applications of Reinforcement Learning in Finance and Trading
Who is more important than the customer? You and I - we are the market.
>Do you carry the pihole around with you?

No I leave my pihole at home?

>Do you have a firewall running on your phone to block or redirect DNS requests? Since hardcoding and bypassing the one in network settings is extremely easy and done by default by even some Google apps. DNS leaking VPN is trivial.

I assume wireguard's DNS field sets/redirects all DNS traffic through the VPN. If it ignores that setting, then Android's VPN design itself is broken. Switching to blokada won't fix this problem either.

Either way, Android's Firewall/Network aspects don't give me enough control here. But I can see enough hits on my pihole to have some reasonable confidence.

>What logs are you talking about? Blokada can use the same upstream DNS as your pihole so the logs are exactly the same if any exists.

I don't have to trust the owners of blokada aren't keeping logs? Why would I need to trust them when I can use my pihole which I know doesn't keep logs?

You are offering no advantages here compared to using my setup.

>Without a firewall and a VPN (both on the phone) you are not secure.

Well there is no competent firewall on the phone without root. Yes there is a VPN on both and it seems to work.

>With a VPN and a custom DNS service with blocklists you have an identical setup as one who uses Blokada, but without an external service.

Yes, I have an identical setup that I run myself without trusting some random owner of blokada. It runs externally just fine using my home network.
Scientists Say Laser Device Can Make Lightning Strike Specific Targets
I plan on putting up a Patreon/Liberapay for my photo editor that is purely a passthrough for the boring backend stuff that I rely on.
Sure, at least for now it's easy to disable snap. Unlike apple ubuntu can't force you to run things. Apple's got a locked down bootloader that checks the signatures of what is run, so they have in a very real sense control of the hardware, which Ubuntu lacks.
I am deeply empathetic to both society and prisoners. I don't think a life imprisonment make any sense for either. I would be for removing it or replacing it with anything else.

Money that use to rot people in prisons for life could be saving people who are systematically pushed towards the criminal path.

You have 100% chances of being raped and abused in all sort of ways in prison with a lifetime sentence. Even if someday we get it to Norway standards everywhere in the world, why put a person in cage for life?

Another plan I have is to build an island where everyone with life sentence get sent and live.
The language outside politics isn’t, but if you start using it as a weapon in politics (“there is a basque language, so there must be a Basque Country”), it can easily become controversial.

That certainly is the case when you start killing people for that cause (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_conflict)
It generally installs MKL if you install a wheel (i.e. 'pip install numpy') these days, which dynamic dispatches based on the processor. It's been criticised a bit though because MKL doesn't perform as well on AMD hardware without setting some environment variables in the older versions, although it looks like they've added kernels that target AMD hardware recently.
>in a web editor

This is the part I dislike the most. They usually disable copy-pasting too because they know it's that easy to google so you can't just code in your IDE and paste.
Another option is to set the DNS of your Android phone to use one provided by https://nextdns.io/

Then you can allow or deny domains or apply blocklists.
> I have found it curious how this has gotten zero traction in the press.

???

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/12/21563092/apple-mac-apps-...
10 years ago when I started working I feared the younger generation and their enthusiasm and energy. Then I had to teach a few of them how to ssh and that fear was dissolved. Most of these kids will not cut it in heavy reading/comprehension jobs.
If you want a solution for syncing local dev files to a remote host I would encourage you to try mutagen. It works very well, even inside containers.