skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show us the kernel patch then
Computers and hard drives have half-life counted in years, and need energy and communication infrastructure to operate. Post-collapse, once all the computers break down, that's the end of XX-century technology. Nobody is going to make new ones, because to build and maintain machines that make computers you need working computers. Same for mining and refining necessary resources, controlling chemical processes, etc.

Whatever technological knowledge survives in the books, most of it will be useless for centuries, as we regress into pre-industrial level of technology and can't climb back out - we've already mined out all easily-accessible high-density energy sources that are necessary for reindustrialization.
I do as well and it's the opposite. Their sales people seem to have their hooks into the decision makers.
Howard Marks: Risk Revisited Again (2015)
I see that what you posted is on google's servers. Doesn't that mean they are effectively distributing it themselves?
Congress did not intend fair use to be an affirmative defense. It is clearly a right under US copyright law. The rights granted to copyright owners in section 106 are expressly “subject to” the fair use defense. The fair use section of the Act, section 107, provides expressly that fair use “is not an infringement of copyright", rather than an infringement with an affirmative defense. In Lenz v. Universal the courts say that fair use is "distinct from affirmative defenses where a use infringes a copyright, but there is no liability due to a valid excuse.” and that “fair use is ‘authorized by the law’ and a copyright holder must consider the existence of fair use before sending a takedown notification….”
You could ignore the validity of the TLS certificate when checking OCSP. That way, passive listeners are foiled, and only active MITM would be able to see which certificates you're checking. It's better than HTTP plaintext, which is how it works now.

Most of the bulk surveillance, pattern-of-life IC stuff is passive, not active.

Ultimately, though, I should be able to opt out of app/binary signing (and associated certificate checking) entirely if I so desire, ideally with a preference setting, or at least with Little Snitch. It looks like I'm going to have to compromise platform security overall to disable it, or use external network filtering hardware.
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the slides are from 2016. I'm wondering how performance comparison would look like these days with metal or vulkan rendering backends.
Would it be accurate to say that after embracing open source with VS code they're extending it with the proprietary pylance?
>Trying to use it as a laptop causes the fans to spin like crazy, performance throttled to shit

So, just like macbook?
For shows 4k is not the norm.
There is a difference between the MacOS environment and existing software vs. Android apps on a desktop-like environment. If Apple executes that well the transition could be mostly fluent, hardly noticed. With the transition to Apple Silicon right now being the most radical step in the process.
Apart from the question about weather a government should have the right to kill people when they are not immediately threatening someone else, I suspect that this would be an all too attractive option for disturbed individuals. Suicide by cop is already a thing. Commit and confess to some horrible act of violence, get all the attention that vulture media can give, and then die peacefully - allomst as a hero because of the money donated. I don't know, seems like it could backfire.
History has examples of previous times when populists flirted with the idea of abolishing democracy and using violence as means for "might makes right". Taking it lightly or in defense of free speech blindly, is not prudent. I don't believe we can or should ban divergent speech either, but maybe such people should make their own platform. Trying to make a rational argument when all they do is ridicule, insult and make hyperboles, making policy on feelings like abuse and threats, doesn't lead to anything positive.

Democracy need a balance and spectrum, otherwise there'll be a One Party System, and people will be rationalizing that too.

History shows us what happens when these sentiments leap out of control.
Kids do what you do, not what you tell them. What will parents in a loveless marriage teach them about intimacy and relationships?
And what do you expect us to do, install Linux and spend days configuring the touchpad?

Computers are a tool we use to do our work. Setting up the computer cannot become a job by itself.
Personally, I gotta disagree. This still absolutely true, even for large distributions.

Every 2 years or so, I give Linux another try on the desktop, and it always ends after a couple of weeks, because I'm just tired of fixing mouse and keyboard settings, touchpads, HI-DPI and multi-monitor settings, font rendering and video codecs.

I've tried Ubuntu, Mint and recently Manjaro and – don't get me wrong – all of them had great stuff in it and worked fast out of the box, but it's always the last little details where desktop linux fails for me.
How does RISC-V imply an open bootloader or open hardware? It's just an ISA, and there is currently no RISC-V extension that I'm aware of that goes into details like platform boot or platform boot security.

In fact, Si-Five have implemented their own from scratch [1], because there was no existing RISC-V blessed way of doing these things. And their implementation is open, but nothing prevents anyone else from implementing a closed, fused implementation. Or taking the Si-Five implementation and using it to prohibit any modifications by end-users, like vendors already do with U-Boot. [2]

I already have in my hands a RISC-V microcontroller that can be locked down by the firmware developers to prohibit me from reading it out or modifying it [3].

And finally - even running your code on a RISC-V core is not enough to actually make a platform usable. You need documentation for every single peripheral around the core (and/or core complex). And even when you have that, implementation is still a lot of work. See: how much effort it was to do a decent Linux port onto the Tegra X1 on the Nintendo Switch, which is extremely thoroughly and publicly documented (in comparison to other platforms in this class, at least). And the only blocker there was secure/fused boot. Which again, RISC-V will not prevent.

[1] - https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/12.10-14.20-SiF...

[2] - https://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/MiniSummitELCE2013/U-Boo...

[3] - http://www.gd32mcu.com/data/documents/shujushouce/GD32VF103_... ; C-f security
I might be mistaken, but wasn't Windows well ahead of Apple on this one?

First it sneaked Windows 8 and 10 updates onto people's computers, then used every dark pattern imaginable to get them to consent to tracking, then slowly included ads in their operating system.

For the last 2-3 years, I thought "at least Apple isn't doing that", but that is changing.
You were probably lucky in that your grandparents died a peaceful and expected death.

When I lost my grandmother in her late 70s the day we were visiting for her birthday, to a sudden heart-attack, all my family could feel was the hollowness left behind by her absence, and thoughts of all the life events she would miss, things unsaid and so on.
> but the government preventing people from entering into contracts that you don't like?

It's not that. Plain and simple: in an ideal world, more money shouldn't grant more power and immunity. Governments should disincentivize this growth into the sky by, for example, progressive taxation for companies. The world would be a better place if tech companies actually competed with each other by making better products, not trying their damnest to lock everyone into their walled gardens to earn even more money they have no clue what to do with. Currently, when choosing something like a computer or a phone, you just pick one that sucks the least. There's no healthy competition.
Why do people buy chastity belts instead of phones and laptops.
Qwant is a completely independent search engine though, as far as I'm aware it's not using Bing underneath the hood anymore
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The alternatives are not "a bit rough round the edges". They are much, much worse.
Since Starlink is operated by a US company, they'd be able to shut you down.
IANAL but isn't this prize (in the extreme) called disbarment?
Interesting, i usually rebuild my env from pacakges so don't notice 1,2, or 3. I guess 2 should be fixable by poetry by including more from the toml in the lock file. Point 4 also didn't bother me as I in general just have the main and dev deps, this seems an easier thing to fix for poetry though. I actually have encountered 5 when fiddling around with pyenv.
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I am starting to see people switch around me, but it doesn't happen overnight.

A surprisingly handful of non-tech people have asked me, "Hey, I see you use DuckDuckGo. Why not Google?" And then we have the conversation - it's a short conversation:

Well, you cannot prosper in an environment if you operate on inaccurate or censored information. Google & YouTube censor information and track everything you search for or watch. Today your views align, tomorrow they may not.

Secondly, you must insure yourself against tail risks, and having your Gmail account "cancelled" is a yuuuge tail risk. Therefore, avoid bundled Google products.

Then a few months will go buy, and I'll see they are now using Firefox and DDG.

When you have these conversations, it's important that it not be about your identity (open source! Linux!), but about risk-aversion.
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Get another job, you need other people to bounce stuff off especially in the early years. How does your boss know this stuff if he's none technical, you're going to get seriously stressed out being the only person he has to offload stuff on.
> People are confusing their own individual preferences [...] with the larger motivations of the masses.

No, I don't think we are. We're lamenting the motivations of the masses.

Most people want something that 1) looks pretty, and 2) "just works". The advantages of something objectively better (let's assume there's a metric we can agree on) would have to be exponentially greater than the effort to make it work in order to make most people bother with the switch.

On top of that, it's a psychological defense mechanism to simply ignore bad things. Certainly if the effort to fix them is great.

And that gets us to "I don't care if I'm spied on."
To be honest, I think that these comments evidence a failure of the HN website UI.

Wouldn't it be easier to just create standard pagination links at the top of the comments page, rather than manually forcing a mod to post this "list of pages" comment on each and every article?
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Dude. Installing Linux on a Mac laptop is a nightmare. What model/year did you use? Do external displays work reliably? Does your web cam work?
Privacy is a lot less tangible than productivity. Both are important, but I think the latter hurts more directly.
Sounds like way to form incredibly dense codebases.
I think the same about about CC. Humans as an animal, will survive. Humanity may not.
- Privacy seems to be top-notch

It's baffling at best that you imply you believe this.

It's proprietary software (so you can't prove it already at this point) from one of the most user-hostile companies in history, and one that at the bare minimum "was" involved in mass data gathering programs (example: PRISM), but everything points to "still is" and "will be" - not only for arbitrary governments but for its own pockets too.
Human extinction from nuclear war hinges on whether or not there would be a nuclear winter. I'm not convinced the article successfully refutes the possibility of a nuclear winter. The linchpin of this article is that the matter is under scientific debate, but I don't see any new evidence to support or refute the possibility of a nuclear winter being presented
> Another plan I have is to build an island where everyone with life sentence get sent and live.

That's been tried, it's called Australia.
Lemmy federation is almost ready, but it needs some final testing – dev.lemmy.ml
>Yet despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth - both in the article and in the comments here in the various threads - people are still making excuses for continuing to use Apple/Google/Microsoft/et al products because the alternatives are a bit rough round the edges.

Or we like what Apple/Google/Microsoft are putting out, including the "walled" nature of the iOS/macOS. People's homes are also "walled" for a reason.

Your concerns are not everybody's concerns.

That said, I don't like the telemetry and information leak as described in the article, and would want Apple to stop it and allow disabling it.

But I also don't care for using another OS just because "it's actually yours and you can do anything you want with it". That's also true for TempleOS, but I would't want to use it (to use an extreme example of an alternative), and simililarly, I prefer macOS and the app ecosystem to any Linux distribution I've seen (and I've used UNIX when there were still UNIX wars and SunOS workstations with black and white monitors, and Linux for close to 25 years).
I've had very good experiences on restricted networks with udp2raw ( https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel ). Basically, you configure openvpn in udp mode, then tunnel them over udp2raw, which pretends that they're a tcp stream that happens to be mysteriously out of order. (Firewalls usually believe this.)
What we have now is corporate control, often with covert government influence, and benign-to-malicious neglect.

I'm willing to risk public support in at least part.
While Bannon’s comments were unnecessary and overly graphic, I seriously question the idea that he meant them literally. The fact that many people seem to think that an aging political media personality would call for the beheading of a government worker is absurd.

Unfortunately the declining educational levels in this country mean that you’d best avoid any sort of nuance, metaphor, or figure of speech - because believe you me, if your words can be misinterpreted, they absolutely will be. Newspeak, here we come.
Or it's over QUIC, which is TLS over UDP.
I didn't observe that. I have experienced no difference apart from improved performance.
He recently said in one of those comments that they're working on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25038589
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Very cool! Inspired me to get the most upvoted XKCD comics on Reddit for 2019.

https://gist.github.com/davidgasquez/3aeaac54c5a61216ffc8f7d...
When I read a comment starting with "just to clarify" I'm already mentally prepared to read something with no relation whatsoever to anything I said, but even so I was caught off guard this time. No, I'm not an anti-semite. What the fuck about my comment is anti-semitic?
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This is almost certainly a load of nonsense. From local reporters: https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/meet-michigans-...

> Consider the case of Brydges: She is 75 years old, but the Qualified Voter File listed her birthdate as Jan. 1, 1901, which would have made her 119 years old, an unlikely age that fueled the pro-Trump claim that dead voters had cast ballots here.

> In reality, 1/1/1901 was a default date likely used when the township first transferred paper registration records into the computer system years ago, Hamlin Township Clerk Catherine Lewis told Bridge Michigan.

> Placeholder dates are "occasionally used if a registration exists but the exact birthday of the voter is not known by the local clerk," added Tracy Wimmer, a spokesperson for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
I wonder if they could have used existing profiling tools to collect the information needed for lekktoring.
A good carpenter never complains about his tools. He works around their limitations or uses something else.

The quality of the product is down to the skill of the worker either way.
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> I prefer them not to give them a chance to be evil, rather than trust them not to be.

That's a good way of putting it.

It's safe to say a sufficiently large company doesn't care about good and evil, or any other kind of moral question, pretty much by definition. They care about making money. They'll do anything legal they can for that goal, as well as continually test and push the boundaries of what is legal, and lobby for different laws at the same time.

A very small company might care about other values, but I simply don't see that happening when you get to the stage of venture capital and shareholders.

Edit: Likewise, a hungry bear isn't evil.
There is a third class of problems in coding that, at least for me, takes most of the time - definitely more than exploratory work. That class is what I call code bureaucracy - the part where you write code that shuffles and transforms data between components, or manages components. The components themselves may be well understood and already built, but they're probably nowhere near each other and have incompatible interfaces.

Note it's not the same as "glue code". Writing glue code is a small subset of code bureaucracy, that happens only at the boundaries. True code bureaucracy begins when you discover that two components that need to communicate are on opposite sides of the system, and you need to carefully route a new path between them through half a project.
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This may be unconventional but if an exchange ever happens I predict there will be between 0 and 1 warhead detonated

The people tasked with the counterattack will like their predecessors when falsely convinced of an impending attack, fail to counterattack because their obligations to humanity are greater than they are to a nation.

A follow-up attack from the belligerent will be political suicide and there would be great political pressure from the belligerents own citizens and the global population at large to somehow disable or destroy any inflight warheads.

I thought I had read somewhere during the Norwegian rocket incident that US officials encouraged Russia to take necessary action on the rocket if they believed it to be an accidentally fired offensive warhead but I may be thinking of another time.

Anyways, despite the blustering of MAD and first strike and all the planning of how it would go down, I think the hard evidence of how humans have responded to close calls in the past 70 years points to zero - one detonations followed by global dismantling and abolition.

An interesting logical property about this prediction is either it's right or there will be no evidence it was ever made.
Impressive that the 17th most upvoted XKCD comic isn't even an XKCD comic!
I found this page of memorabilia[1] via Wikipedia[2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150809233726/http://alamedainf... Cheers for the Internet Archive

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_Tree
Lack of time. Taking graduate courses in mathematics and economics, working part time in a bank, working out 3-4 times a week, spending time with my family (transport time). I don't really have time to pursue those odd ideas or just really dive deep into a new hobby or subject.

I guess you have to pay price for everything - so maybe in the future I will change my priorities.
I was going to say - that does sound very much like my MacBook Pro.
English version of the announcement is below the Norwegian one.
Some of those are absolutely stunning.

I am happy to see that you don't need a fancy equipment to take a stunning photo, like that stag beetle fight.
If I made a facemask with that printed on it (as a QR code or whatever) would google stop trying to identify my face? Or would that paint a huge red target on my face?
Generally by running selenium tests with BrowserStack or SauceLabs, but that's not cheap.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson made following analogy:

https://youtu.be/cBdxDFpDp_k

tldw: weather is like a dog on walk, running around, climate like the owner, bounding what weather is possible
Type-Safe Discrete Simulation in Rust
As a group of people who spend large amounts of time infront of a computer and not outdoors we're all particularly vulnerable to deficits in vitamin D.
It is definitely a big part. Considering there are over 600 million desktop Android emulator install, all thanks to Gaming. If Apple could gain those players that is some massive IAP revenue increase.

80% of the App Store Revenue are Gaming on both iPhone and Android.
I sent my Lenovo in for warranty service for a faulty SSD ribbon cable and... they lost it. And they haven't replaced it. They've told me four times over the course of the last five months that I'll get a call in 3-5 business days. It has never come of course.

I know I'm not alone; even just in my circle there are two other stories of horrible mishaps with this company.

Lenovo makes some decent machines, sometimes, but their warranty service is not to be trusted.
Here's an idea: log all opened binaries somewhere and then every hour or so check them against the list.

Never block me from opening something, but warn me about bad stuff on a regular basis.
You can activate single-window mode in Gimp under Windows -> Single-Window Mode.

I would generally recommend Kubuntu over Ubuntu -- it seems like Gnome aims for minimalism somehow, and has thrown out a lot of functionality that used to exist, and generally tends to emulate OSX for a lot of things. (E.g., OSX doesn't do alt-tab for multiple windows of the same app either IIRC.)

BTW, Kubuntu's default image viewer would likely be Gwenview -- You can get it to show a lot of information by clicking "More..." in the Meta Information panel and selecting stuff in the resulting dialog window. Here's a screenshot I found on the nets: https://www.fossadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Gw...
Or Cisco AnyConnect / openconnect, or any other implementation that supports DTLS (UDP) upgrade.

The key thing to remember is while TCP over TCP is a bad idea, bad connectivity to your workplace network is not worse than no connectivity at all, which is why SSL VPN solutions exist.
Can be ad-hoc? For how long?
Not as disappointing as Americans who enacted abusive DMCA law which makes hosting such keys illegal. Blaming a company to follow law you've passed is lopsided.
The proper way to add stuff into the dmca repository is to fetch the entire git history from the repo, git merge --allow-unrelated-histories, and then make a pull request from that. This way, we could just

git fetch https://github.com/github/dmca 225ce7ac70aec3002599ba4cc8cee7197e0f1cee

to update our existing clones of widevine-l3-decryptor from the dmca repo.

So... can someone push that please? I don't have the recent commits. :-(
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Like Surface laptops?
Tensorflow is the worst (along with ReAgent from FB).

I think it's because they have their own internal build systems, but they never play well with pip/conda et al.

One of my recent breakages was installing the recsim package, which pulled in tensorflow and broke my entire app. There's actually a recsim-no-tf package on PyPi, presumably because this happens to loads of people.
Ok so let's say you actually want Apple to do this kind of security for you (I don't, but let's say).

Currently they do a synchronous check before you launch any binary.

Why don't they instead just log every binary signature and check them async on some regular schedule? Strict mode could be blocking the FIRST execution of a binary signature and after that you only recheck if that signature has been revoked on some regular interval.

There's absolutely no good reason why an app which I've run 100 times needs to phone home before running the 101st time.
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