skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a vegan guy who looks like The Rock and devours a few glasses of peanut butter (no additives) in a week.
“You no longer own your computer” has no traction outside of ideology.

There are a few people who bring it up, and then use manipulative rhetoric:

“Shouldn’t we own the devices we buy?”

Of course, who would disagree with that! But this is manipulative because you are affirming the consequent. I.e. leading the reader into accepting the conclusion that you don’t own your computer.

“The tech companies are trying to destroy the very concept of product ownership”

This is an ideological claim with no factual basis, there are no memos or recordings supporting that anyone is trying to do this. It’s just you claiming to know the plans of ‘the tech companies’.

It could just be that Apple is trying to stop malware. Perhaps not a secret plot! Maybe there is no conspiracy!

It’s also a laughable exaggeration, as well as black and white thinking . Do you own your house? Presumably not since there are many legal restrictions on what you can do with it. Do you own your car? Presumably not, since you can’t install your own software on its computers. Do you own your toaster oven? Presumably not since you can not reprogram the microcontrollers.

Perhaps the conspiracy is deeper than I realized!

“Consumers ought to fight to the end over this”

More manipulative language. Frame things in terms of a fight between corporations and consumers, and a ‘fight to the end’.

Are you a ‘consumer’?

But more importantly, what is ‘this’? It seems like you are asking to fight over the belief that ‘Tech companies are trying to destroy the concept of product ownership’. I.e. divide people and exhort them to fight over an ideological claim you are making about intentions that you haven’t substantiated.

How about examining some of the technical issues instead of ideological rhetoric?

Here’s one: If the security features can be disabled, how can I trust a Mac I haven’t maintained custody of the whole time?

Here’s another: If people don’t want their computer software to come from Apple, they can buy something else. What is wrong with that?

I have to assume you neither own nor lease any Apple devices. Why are you trying to control what other people do?
A famous youtuber lost access to his TikTok account when Facebook banned him because he was using Facebook login.

https://youtu.be/oJcEDzgPRrc?t=57 (warning, the video is somewhat off-color)
The Amiga Show Episode 01
Reminds me of the legendary turf wars between SEGA of Japan and SEGA of America - that cannibalized the company, and resulted in shameful, consumer-insulting mistakes like the SEGA 32x.

These issues saw them going from 50% of the console market in 1993/4 to folding console operations less than a decade later.

SEGA is my favourite example of 'too big to fail' and turf wars.

Console Wars is a great book about this story.
If only there was a large, central organization that had the means and resources to aid young people, mental health in general, provide a safety net to people and businesses suffering and enforce mandates like masks to slow/end the spread of the disease.

Oh well. Guess we’ll just learn to deal with it like we did for school shootings.
Lots of the early history of the tech giants is unfindable, or maybe nonexistent anymore.

As an example, just this week, I searched for information on Apple’s first attempt at designing a CPU (and no, it wasn’t an ARM CPU, and I don’t think it was in this century)
Snacks and other tchotchkes have become de rigueur in SV: I haven't had to buy my own lunch or snack for 8+ years now.

With the pandemic in force and the prospect of going into an office itself coming into question, companies will have to stop relying on the (lazy but admittedly effective) lure of free snacks and lunch. Good times.

On the whole, I agree with you: when I see people crumpled up in bean bags and picking at salad on picnic tables in companies' 'Come work with us' webpages, I get the chills. How very juvenile! But we all know that the industry feeds on a steady influx of juveniles and there's a new batch every summer!
Most people I know don't have unlimited data. My plan, for example, gives me 10GB/month. In any case, DNS queries shouldn't be a problem for most users.
For a more granular COVID-19 event risk calculator, see also this tool from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry that was shared here a day or two ago:

https://www.mpic.de/4747361/risk-calculator?en

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25082527
Is page size actually a noticeable problem for most people (say, MacBook users)? Linux has supported huge pages for years, and my impression is that it's still considered a niche feature for squeezing out the last percentage of performance. I don't think any popular distro enables it by default.
as much as I enjoy my current job, I really want to learn new programming language/paradigm, or new skills to let me have a job with vanilla Vim without vimrc as my daily driver.
At the very start I actually built the binary using the usual strategy of including a big DOS stub, but it wouldn’t load on Windows 10. I’m not entirely sure why, but I believe it’s because the next_offset value in the MZ header was too big - >= 4096 would make it fail. So I resorted to stuffing the PE header inside the MZ header after suitably expanding it.
The article goes over the horrors of X.509, pulls the typical open source cliche that I actually don't see anybody spreading around, contrary to the article's claim, then argues that the privacy part is fine so long as there is a third-party audit. If the best thing the security community can do is install a global mass surveillance network of devices that come at every expense of users' computing freedoms, then I think these guys need to go back to the drawing board.
Pardon my ignorance, but wasn't Docker supposed to fix this? (disparity of environments). I have read the other recently post as well about "Docker doesn't work on the new ARM based Macs", but I don't understand why. I mean, Docker has this in their website (https://www.docker.com/use-cases):

> It works on my machine! As a developer you know that one of the trickiest problems in software development is having to deal with environment disparity across different machines and platforms. Docker allows you to run containers locally, eliminating disparity between your development and production environments, and everything in between. [...] (Docker) is the ultimate answer to your portability concerns as containers can easily move across machines.

Is that not true?
Yes, you can load data from different sources into the same database - each of the Dogsheep tools lets you pick the database file that you are importing data into.

You can create bookmark SQL queries that perform joins in Datasette, or set up views. Here's an example: https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid?sql=select%0D%0A++++++...
I imagine one of these milk-substitute brands will become something like the next Coke: a recognized and widely available brand across the world. Personally I hope it's Oatly, I really liked both their oat milk and their oat yogurt.
Can't you lock the bootloader again after flashing a new rom?
Long time coming. They simply didn't understand how s/w world works, never hired people who understood how customers were actually using their processors. It was/is a h/w company that had manufacturing advantage - but lost all their edge because they strayed far too away from end customers. They obsessed over their own capabilities and missed out on the world view.
Clickbait is a spectrum not a binary. I think keeping google in the title doesn't detract from conveying what the article is about while at the same time making it more attractive.
BTW Don't clone a successful product. Have some respect for yourself and for others. It rarely works anyway (struggling to think of a single case where it has).
7000-Year Old Writing
Or maybe capsaicin helps to sate hunger. Or it makes you antsy and compels you into action. Or it makes you irritable in general and more likely to get into vigorous arguments and fights — all of which ingest less or burn more calories.
I think it is typical of Apple to have feature poor early entrants and then increase feature set with new generations. I am sure in the next few years the GPU/other pcie issues will be resolved.
Google is shutting down its VR field trip app Expeditions
> An exception might be SpaceX where you have a strong dictator at the top

I think a similar thing is happening at Amazon (the strong dictator stuff, I mean), and it's my hunch that Google has started following Intel's trajectory, they just haven't realised it just yet.
I agree, but I also believe this is what the HR department would respond to best, if you happen to go through them first. All too often that is the case.
You want to haul an air compressor with you in a kayak? O_o
Since the DMV exists primarily for traffic safety, I assume Apple is removing your ability to run whatever you want on your processor for your safety too?
The World of Technology (1989)
Or the antacid consortium.
Did Apple mislead Intel about the volume to get a "no"? That would be inline with hostile nature of this company. Profit above anything.
But it's not just that, you may e.g. be racing against messages from a subscription (this one is really dangerous if your subscriptions are things like listening for resizing, where that can mean your resizing message is effectively dropped and users see a really needed up UI).
OT: I can't help hearing that title in the voice of James Earl Jones as Darth Vader.
> Alright, let's not call it Stockholm syndrome. A "collective hypocrisy" would be more appropriate.

Apple is so awesome, they have already come up with the perfect phrase you can use to describe them. It's "Reality distortion field".
Ask HN: How to use Splunk for small personal projects
I recently started learning Splunk (using their their online education curriculum) and I’m wonder if anyone has any ideas for how I could use this on hobby/personal web projects. Is there data I could get from a database or server that would be useful for a solo project? Or is Splunk really just for larger companies?
Are the search results on yandex.com different from yandex.ru ?
I mean, sure, paying for your drinks or snacks won't bankrupt you -- but it's not gonna bankrupt the company, either, and in today's tech job market a row of vending machines outside the company cafeteria can feel a little nickel-and-dime.
I would quote Orwell here: "Who Controls the Past Controls the Future".

It is about lack of control over legacy killing the progress. The power of Intel is "proven" legacy, but building completely new architecture is expensive and prone to adoption failure (Itanium?) when Intel has no control over OS (Windows), apps or virtualization software.

Then Apple has control over all that: they can make hardware (scaled up mobile HW), change their OS to support it (iOS bits), support past apps (Rosetta), enforce support in new apps (compiler, LLVM, certification).
AirPlay is now available on Roku
You must be kidding? What about soy and nuts? Hell, even pasta has 13/100g protein.
I ordered my Pinephone this month and patiently awaiting it. Despite what may currently be lacking, it's in a good enough place to be a daily driver for myself.

My Blackberry Q10 served me well for years but the battery is starting to go and the OS + apps are no longer supported. I can actually say I've skipped Android/iOS entirely.
I remember people saying this about YouTube and Twitter. Yet it doesn't seem to have worked out despite both having several competent alternatives.
Seitan, tempeh, lentils, and beans w/ rice are the highest protein to calorie ratio foods I eat. Sprouted seed bread, most nuts/seeds, and most vegetables are pretty high in protein as well. I supplement with pea protein isolate to reach very high protein intake levels for bodybuilding purposes.
>In reality, they have it backward—prestige follows excellence. Exposure to prestige can't make you successful any more than spending time around rich people can make you wealthy.

Exposure to "prestige" and by proxy exposure to ambition-driven individuals that are also "excellent" enough to be accepted into the "in-group" is a big factor into how you unlock your own potential. The author seems to hold the view that being excellent is just an innate quality that follows you around no matter what. If you join some organization where nobody cares, nobody pushes you to be excellent, or can't even recognize excellency when it exists, then no, you won't become a superstar out of nowhere and have the world at your feet. Even founding a startup nowadays would be considered a "high prestige" move, because few people can really afford to stop a menial job to pursue that.
> What competent government

Let me know when you find one.
Dissenting.

OP, your first sentence is If a website offers you to sign-in using Google (or any third-party service, say Facebook, Github, etc.), don’t use that feature.

Titling this as "Third Party Auth" is a reasonable and correct summary of your article. Blaming Google specifically is hype-mongering unless you have a specific gripe against Google - and reading through your post, I don't see a Google-specific criticism.
Many sites seem to use the email associated with the third party account as the identifier: so, if I lose access to Google, I can use the email address to reset the password or use Facebook or Apple sign-in, as long as those accounts serve up the same e-mail address.
I always wish I had this ability to fix electronics around my house, like my Kurig, which repeatedly asked me to clean the needle and wouldn't brew me a cup of coffee.
I used to work there too but from software perspective, they simply did not understand how software world worked. S/W was also relegated as bunch of coding guys. It was not uncommon to see some random benchmark touted to assert superiority, while customers were using it differently. It'll end up becoming a manufacturing company that builds based on spec from Amazon/Google/Apple etc.
The vast majority of code ever written is not performance-sensitive, but is very sensitive to getting produced rapidly.

If you need to quickly perform some statistical analysis, you'd be hard pressed to be more productive in anything else over Python+NumPy or R.
> SeeLink is the first link sharing and collaboration platform.

Thanks for sharing, but isn't this very similar to del.icio.us?
It should be very possible to build something that runs on any version of OS X/macOS, so about 20 years.
I'm using a MacBook Pro with an Intel 10nm part in it. The 4 port 13" MBP still comes with one. I think the MacBook Air might have had a 10nm part before it went ARM, too.

There are still no 10nm parts for the desktop or the high-end/high-TDP laptops anyway afaik.
> I used Google's name in the title because that name elicits reaction from almost 100% of the audience,

And

>Changing the title from "Google" to "Third Party Auth" significantly softens the impact and urgency I want the reader to feel upon reading the title,

It sounds rather like parent was correct in calling it click bait. For me, any article that has aspirations to manipulating ones emotions in order to illicit a particular outcome is definitely selling some propagandist notion... Aka click bait.

That the article's content, HN submission and the parent comment is the same person @gurjeet, I would like to thank @dang for the modification.
The entire world has their eggs in one basket - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Say whatever about Intel, I am hoping that they get back on their feet in next few years with 5nm manufacturing.

Since when is competition and choice a bad thing? If you're a chip design firm and you have a 8-month backlog to get your masks made at TSMC, what do you do then? TSMC can be world's best fab but we need to address the SPOF condition that is so close to the political hot zone in the APEC region.

Intel should spin off its Fab division as a separate company, hire some top executives to rejuvinate the workforce, make it the coolest Fab company in the world to work for and leap ahead. Intel TMG's Sohail was the biggest borderline criminal executive that was forced out a couple of years ago and was responsible for the 10nm delays.

It is enormously difficult for any startup to get into this space - you need billions and years of expertise to start a Fab. Or may be YC folks can? I worked in the Fab but don't have a birds-eye view of what it takes for a startup to get into this space. It would be amazing to see startups trying to manufacture semiconductors... you know live up to the Silicon Valley's name. You could have billions of dollars of economy built on services - US, EU and most advanced economies are shifting towards services; but they all rely on semiconductors. Imagine something were to happen to that... It is a juicy problem. We don't need Uber/AirBnb unicorns out of SV, we need Fairchild of the modern world from SV.

Edit: To see what kind of a beast EUV litho is, this is a good short documentary on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gMdGrVteI
HTTPS is not a deterrent for bot. Authentication is.

Unless the bot identifies itself as such by setting a user-agent header honestly you cannot distinguish a browser from a bot.
Yep, my own research also shows that vaccines are dangerous in various ways. Also the power of big pharma and big tech when it comes to money and censorship.
Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (1981) [pdf]
There was a lot of discussion on a related, recent post about Apple buying many of Intel’s most desirable chips. Will be interesting to see whether the loss of a high-end customer translates into more woes for Intel.
Intel will have a chance to regain relevance in several years when the industry reaches the next disruptive inflection point. That will probably be tied to the arrival of a new hardware form factor like AR goggles or direct neural interfaces or something.
How about "Never use Google (or any third-party service) to sign-in"
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You can get also locked out of your phone

You can get also locked out of the email that you actually use for signing in because you can never remember the password and they stupidly ask you to change it every 6 months with bizarre constraints

You can get locked out of your password manager

You can get hijacked

The business you're signing into can go under

The odds of these things happening are to be weighted against each other

Yes you shouldn't use third-party sign-in for the bank account that holds all your money (though most consumer bank 2-factor authentication mechanisms, sadly, rely on third parties such as phone and email provider)

Yes it's also ok to use third party sign-in for the odd website that you don't care about which somehow insists on asking you to create an account

There are no absolutes in security risk management
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What is it that makes you think Satya Nadella is not politically astute?
I think this is simply a consequence of the fact that the technological overlords who wish to oversee all of computing had not had a chance to overly lock down computers just yet (though they certainly wish to do it). Once they inevitably overplay their hand and the average consumer truly loses the ability to run the things he wishes to, you'll start to see a dramatic increase in the consumer's desire for openness.
That is not a secure password. The phrase "mydogbarks" appears in several word lists and hashcat has had leetspeak rules for years now.
You won't necessarily have to, but yes, no risk no reward. Doing this is what people who have retired have to do whenever there is a market crash.

Really this shouldn't be that controversial. It's super simple: Which does better long-term? Stocks or cash? That's pretty much all I'm saying. There's a ton of data to back up what I'm saying.

https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/05/05/emergency-fund/
This is a controversial opinion, but I don't agree with the idea that big corporations should make an entry into every single adjacent market. If the company has core expertise and advantages that can deliver a decisive win in a known-lucrative market, then it's a no brainer. But if that's not the case, why run around chasing shadows everywhere, instead of focusing on harvesting the markets where you're already winning.

"But if you don't expand into other markets, you'll eventually die!" Sure, but that's not a bad thing. The purpose of a corporation isn't to continue existing in perpetuity, but rather, to maximize returns for its investors. You found a gold mine? Great, go mine it until it runs dry, then close up shop and call it a day. There's no need to spend half your profits on a wild-goose chase for other gold mines (blackberry investing in self-driving cars anyone?) - if that's what I as an investor want, I can just use my dividends to invest in other companies or startups that are aiming to do exactly that.

I'd rather invest in a company that sticks to the things that it can reliably excel at, and direct its profits back to me, so that I can then invest it in other companies that I trust in other fields. A company that is spending half its profits trying to be something it's not - that's my worst nightmare as an investor.
It’s unfortunate that this is a response to a bulveristic comment. This really is a very important problem, indeed perhaps the most important problem in computer science today.
I would say just because you work at a FAANG company doesn't necessarily imply all you care about is prestige. Most of the people that I worked with at those companies didn't seem interested in the prestige of the role at all. They were passionate about growing as engineers and continuing to master their craft. When they left they often left to take on larger roles at much smaller companies. You could argue that they worked at X company to get it on their resume, but working with these people, it really didn't feel that way. It seemed more like they were learning how things were done at established "premium" companies, to then go take on similar work at a foundational level at a smaller company.

You could argue that by valuing prestige, you end up devaluing perfectly good candidates, but at the end of the day you need to have _some_ heuristic to help filter the amount of resumes/candidates you consider. Companies like triplebyte, interviewing.io, etc are trying to change this by trying to determine your actual skills vs your resume, but currently I haven't heard of many better alternatives.
There are the opposites as well, I've seen companies that would send you home for even a hint of ego. Essentially "I" was forbidden as it is not in the "TEAM". I much prefer "we" culture than "I" though.
If Elm had extensible unions I would advocate as much as possible staying away from nested hierarchies. They lock you into a single access pattern. Unfortunately Elm does not, so nested hierarchies it is.

Relevant Discourse thread that discussed this:

https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/idea-extensible-union-types...
I ran my own mail servers for 30 years. I punted on this earlier this year.

Best to not take folks like me seriously, then.
When it comes to Amazon, breaking up is hard to do
So basically given the same process, all companies have almost a similar offering?
You aren’t their customer.
I'm sure it's not at all the same, and in particular, they're using larger planes like the 747, but it reminds me of the approach to San Diego (minus the turn).
Not true.

In Python and Ruby it's an extremely common pattern to return a dictionary with a half-dozen entries at most that will be consumed at a single location.

Defining an entire class for this sort of extremely common use case is for the most part a waste of time.

These languages allow for the formalization of those types by creating classes out of them, but looking at what 50% of my functions do in web dev code, they're returning tuples, small dictionaries, or standard library objects.