skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly summarizing my personal take on this: "Am I the indended audience for this instance of the email address being public?"

- If there's an "obviously" better forum, prefer that (e.g. a public issue tracker for non-security bugs)

- If I'm likely to have my own git clone (e.g. I'm another developer or security researcher actively interested in the project), go for it! I tend to be fine with inqueries from this audience even if it's not necessairly project related, although bonus points if they are.

- If you were specifically trying to hunt down a point of contact for me and me alone, that's probably fine too. No untargeted and untailored recruiter spam! And likely not as part of a wider recruitment drive, even if you're "tailoring" your recruitment pitches. ...if you're offering me a job specifically to continue working on one of my many abandoned FOSS side projects that you, personally, as another developer have been using - or because we've worked together in the past and want to again - that might be OK ;)

- The recipient might redirect you to other channels they see as better fitting - obviously, respect that if they do.
> 1. We do not (and will never) sell, license, sub-license or share any of the data submitted directly or indirectly by our users with any person or entity.

Oof..

Oddly, in the Reddit comment linked the company is acknowledging that they are "triggered" by Intercom, which I read as "yes, we know it's an issue and want to remove it ASAP". Super odd. They're basically admitting "yeah, the privacy policy is more a target than a policy".
Working at a bank, I know there are at least a few traders who would love to exterminate most/all in-house developed systems, fire most of the tech employees save for a minimal skeleton support crew, and go back to using good ol' trusty Excel.
For what it's worth, it's pretty easy to have a separate Mojave partition that you boot to when you need to use one particular app. That's what I do.
OSs have been doing something similar for a while. Even since the 90s I remember Windows NT checking SSL Cert revocation lists every time you right-clicked. When you disable that option, right click goes from 400ms to 5ms response time.

Synchronous remote calls should not exist in the OS like this
This is fascinating -- I've studied a great deal of political philosophy and never heard of them.

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Federalist_Papers

Which concludes:

> The Anti-Federalists proved unable to stop the ratification of the US Constitution, which took effect in 1789. Since then, the essays they wrote have largely fallen into obscurity. Unlike, for example, The Federalist No. 10 written by James Madison, none of their works are mainstays in college curricula or court rulings. The influence of their writing, however, can be seen to this day – particularly in the nature and shape of the United States Bill of Rights.
I submitted the link and it's been pointing to this email since the beginning.
A guillotine was set up outside of Bezos abode, in the spirit of actions speaking louder than words?

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/jeff-bezos-guilloti...
I would advise looking up the Federalist Papers via the the Library of Congress.

https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
1. You are the one who brought ‘literal definitions’ into this. I brought the dictionary in because you definition is not a commonly used one.

2. Exactly one out of the 7 definitions on the page you list supports your position.

3. The top definition on the page you linked is consistent with the meaning I am using.

4. Saying the definition you have chosen is my chosen definition is a misrepresentation.

Therefore: You are the one selecting a narrow definition to suit your purposes.
Hardly "happy about all this". From the end of the linked article:

Author's note: Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece.
This is the link to the registration page: https://hopin.com/events/rethink-festival-2020
At issue is that Steve Bannon used the Facebook platform to call for the execution and public display of the corpses of two public officials, NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Chris Wray.

This is unambiguously true, Steve Bannon's Facebook page reiterated the claims the same day, and may this cursed, bad-faith argument about whether he meant what he said be over and done with. Steve Bannon knows what words he said, he used the Facebook platform to repeat those words, and he is not a nobody but an individual who rose to prominence and is a former senior White House official, in fact, he was among the most senior one can be, on par with the chief of staff with privileged access to the President and the National Security Council. Whatever you think of him and how he may have fallen, he has a platform and he speaks to many millions of people and his words carry weight.

I am reminded yet again of a Jean-Paul Sartre quote from Anti-Semite and Jew:

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play.

"They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Here are the receipts: Facebook post here: https://www.facebook.com/SteveKBannon/posts/376710023761776

archive.org snapshot here: https://web.archive.org/web/20201106185230/https://www.faceb...

Here's the text of that post in case it is removed:

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- Steve Bannon Under Attack
- Steve Bannon’s Twitter Account Suspended After Calling for Execution of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Wray
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I actually don't say stuff like that because I think it's inappropriate and way too aggressive.
I'll have to look it up, sounds like a great addition to a homelab.

Thanks!
> “I’d put the heads on pikes. Right. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you are gone,” Bannon said in the video.

Zuckerberg's argument appears to be that Bannon didn't say the head-on-a-pike stuff enough to trigger suspension.

What Zuckerberg isn't considering is Bannon's past. He's not just some sleazy media wannabe - he's a former staff member of the Executive Office of the President.

Nor is this the only thing. Consider Charlotsville:

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-support-trump-charlott...

If a former high-ranking member of the president's staff calls for heads on pikes and and that's not enough to trigger suspension, I can only conclude that the process is more or less arbitrary, or completely borked.
Steve Bannon isn't a white nationalist and you would know this if you listened to even 5 seconds of his show.

Why engage in such lying?
How many followers do you have that will listen to you when you make that statement?

People like Bannon and Trump have lots of followers and someone of them do end up doing things like attempting to kill politicians or trying to kidnap them.

> or as adults do we realize he was using hyperbole

or as adults Bannon and Trump should realize that their words have consequences and some of their followers wont know if its hyperbole. You can still make your point without the violent language.
Thank you for bringing more attention to the importance of ethnography tools.
The Senate confirmation process has worked both for and against Presidents. This was a powerful argument during the ratification debates and the Anti-Federalists were an important faction (if you could call them a faction anyway, it’s more than just the people that wrote these papers), but history has proven the President isn’t a King. Even the public discourse criticizing the excesses of Bush II, Obama and Trump have been important to curtailing those abuses, and unlike Kings, Presidents have term limits: 4 years, and then America decides if it still wants your leadership, like clockwork.

Thanks to people like the Anti-Federalists, both the writers behind the papers and the larger segment of society that was against the Constitution, a Bill of Rights was promised during the ratification debates, and then drafted and passed by the Congress and then ratified by sufficient States. The system works, better than we sometimes like to give it credit for.

EDIT: fixed wording
I used Cycle for a couple years, but the size of the React ecosystem made it much easier to just use React. There were prototypes of embedding React components in Cycle Apps, but more traction was made in embedding Cycle components in React apps, but by this point it rarely seems worth the effort to mix the component types together. (And with hooks eliminating whole sorts of reactivity issues with class components, I don't really miss Cycle much in React work. Though I miss Cycle a great deal when working in Angular, yikes.)
Passive versus active would make a huge difference here, right? Even if it’s amoral to wish someone does not recover from an ailment, there’s no act involved or even promulgated in such a statement.
Excellent review. Makes me want to read the book.

Perhaps its addressed in the book but: Highways keep moving when even birds are forced to land because of weather. the "Flying" part of a flying car would only be useful in mild weather, and I think many people would prefer to remain able to disregard all but the worst storms in their travel plans.

That said, people still fly ultralights, so its not a strong counter-argument. All those points that the author makes and the review highlights are worth considering.
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> They don’t have any significant advertising business. They don’t need to collect any personally identifiable information. They’ve promoted their brand by putting their customers privacy first.

Yes... now. Can you say that with certainty 10 years from now? 15? 20? Would you want an evil Apple 10 years from now having that? Or one that a 3-letter agency forced to collect it and they could never tell anyone because National Security Letter? Is that a bet you want to take? One you NEED to take? Is it truly unavoidable, sufficient to justify such a thing?

The best bulwark against overreach is to not create the capacity for it in the first place. Power will only ever do 1 thing, and that's amass more power.
Metatrends Shaping the Next Decade
To be fair, those gaming markets are almost completely non-overlapping on a venn diagram, and it’s not just the interface (as in user input) that drives that. It’s the form factor. Handheld touchscreen games and many platform/PC games are just drastically different in the interaction models they employ/require, and slapping a touch screen on a MacBook isn’t going to change that meaningfully without many other significant form factor considerations.
May I ask what do you enjoy with a Macbook not running MacOS?

I don't like Apple devices myself but I understand that some people like the ecosystem as a whole.

However I don't understand the point of a Mac without MacOS. The hardware is pretty much garbage compared to any laptop of the same price range, let alone high-end laptops like Thinkpads.

(this is a honest question and I am not trying to troll or make fun of anyone, in case anyone doubt of the tone of my post)
I was using gmail as an example. I have no idea what people are using for spam filtering, but whatever it is it's clearly not so good that they don't care whether their address is in the public.
That's one potential issue, if you have privacy concerns. But the real problem here is that there's a blatant bug in the phone-home code that causes apps to crash if Apple's servers have a problem.
Which is a pity, because if you read the thinking behind it in the Federalist Papers, it is neither Machiavellian or sinister, but rather an attempt to try to get reasonable people to act as a safeguard over the highest office in the nation.
In our (US) current political climate I can't help but cringe a bit at the prominent use of the letter Q and the claim of privacy.
I doubt there is a relation with the conspiracy theory group, but the marketing seems a bit awkward.
Every single one of these fuckers is corrupt to the core. Really makes me think twice about following laws I don't like. I have started truly not caring.
This is so dope, I am trying it out asap!
Shopify has really strict guidelines and review processing for official themes. If you can get accepted it's probably lucrative but I wouldn't put most my eggs in that basket. Whether or not you're accepted seems to be somewhat arbitrary or at least too subjective.

You can release a theme on themeforest without all the hubub, but you're competing with a lot of developers, and there's tons of mediocre stuff so you'll have to stand out in some way.
Thanks for reading!

>if motherboards were sparse why not look on ebay or something?

I've never tried that. I thought that newegg had pretty good coverage for motherboards, and they make it easy to filter by CPU type, whereas I don't think eBay does. I just tried searching eBay for "intel 2011-v3 dual" and I did get

>this motherboard seems like a really bad choice, because it's for a workstation not a server - doesn't have vga out, does have audio output and doesn't have IPMI

I don't need audio output, so that doesn't make a difference to me. VGA output would be convenient, but it's also pretty easy to fix with a cheap GPU. IPMI would have been nice, and some readers have pointed out to me that SuperMicro has IPMI on a very similar board, so I should have gotten that one.

>i'd also go for a better powersupply than bronze - at least gold, if that thing runs 24/7. The return of investment is like ~2.5yrs depending on the PSU (at least in my country)

Does that assume the server runs under load 24/7? My CPUs are at very low load most of the time.
My parents were both drug addicts. How can I get in touch with their Ivy League network contacts?
> We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely

That is pretty hilarious if you look at that next to the reports of people who have had their FB accounts permanently banned without recourse after trying to link it to their Oculus account for "violating community standards"
Referential transparency

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

> Referential transparency and referential opacity are properties of parts of computer programs. An expression is called referentially transparent if it can be replaced with its corresponding value (and vice-versa) without changing the program's behavior.[1] This requires that the expression be pure, that is to say the expression value must be the same for the same inputs and its evaluation must have no side effects. An expression that is not referentially transparent is called referentially opaque.

> In mathematics all function applications are referentially transparent, by the definition of what constitutes a mathematical function. However, this is not always the case in programming, where the terms procedure and method are used to avoid misleading connotations. In functional programming only referentially transparent functions are considered. Some programming languages provide means to guarantee referential transparency. Some functional programming languages enforce referential transparency for all functions.
Oh, so this is that dark future.
macOS Internet Recovery Stuck on Catalina
The internet recovery assistant for macOS should download the latest version of macOS that is compatible with the device. However, Big Sur is not available - only Catalina shows up.

This is frustrating that Apple did not update all channels of distribution for Big Sur.
Using Virtio-FS on a Unikernel
Thanks for reading!

Haha, yeah, there's a lot of noise on reddit, but they do often have legitimately good information.
Yes, the right to play, great point. That’s similar to yesterday when Pompeo made the “joke” that there’d be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. “Just joking” for me but not for thee.
> Note that EC arguments swing both ways depending on the way the coalitions fall out

I'm not sure "it kind of evens out in the end, viewed over decades" is a great argument for it, really.
That doesn't sound like a small gripe! What do you do, if it does mean it wouldn't be delivered? You just can't order from a lot of places, and if it's something that matters enough you hassle them about it? Egh, yeah, I don't envy you!
Heroku IS the netlify for backends. This product has good intentions though. Good luck!
Ines Montani provides a counterpoint [1]. She doesn't address flying cars specifically, but she says:

We didn’t build a machine to operate a broom – we built vacuum cleaners. We didn’t engineer wings for firefighters – we built fire extinguisher drones. We also didn’t create robot personal shoppers – we built online stores.

A flying car is perhaps similarly a rather old-fashioned idea of what a futuristic utopia should look like.

[1] https://ines.io/blog/wired-brain-ai-powered-future
The check consists of an HTTP GET request (port 80, unencrypted!) to ocsp.apple.com

Am I missing something? Is this still the case?

Seems like an obvious privacy issue, to be able to identify if an user is launching apps from a certain developer just by doing very basic packet capture.
No it's really not too simplistic. The only case where Facebook's censorship is a positive is if the following 2 statements are both true:

- FB's moderators posses better judgment than me as to what is and isn't true

- FB's moderators will always act in the best interest of the users and not the company when they come into conflict

I would say that the first point is very unlikely to be true, and the second is certain not to be true. I'm not sure how a lie can be harmful if it is know to be a lie.
I always assumed Federalist Papers were primarily written as a way to argue for US Constitution not solely as a response to objections against it.
What? In your analogy, the parent commenter would be saying "I'm puzzled that people are willing to buy an operate an automobile given that they can be involved in dangerous accidents."

And in this analogy, I'm not saying "we should ignore car crashes." I'm saying "the reason people still buy and operate automobiles despite the possibility of accidents is pretty simple."
Check out National Review’s Constitutionally Speaking podcast. Ostensibly still being published, it’s already finished a thorough walkthrough of the why and how of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Ratification debates. If I recall correctly, the main body of the podcast is finished before episode 50.
One wonders if death threats directed at Zuckerberg would get the three strikes approach.
Agent Smith said it well, once the machines started doing the thinking for humans, it really became their world.

Zuckerberg is a glorified newspaper salesman. He depends on soaking up negative narratives to appear powerful. Nobody is more powerful than the government, they can only impose costs on the gov, the government will resolve all conflicts.
I would guess they are referencing the Ubuntu Amazon search thing from about 5 years ago (IIRC)
In other words, you didn't read what you were replying to: "That [optimizers] achieve any positive result, on average, with or without profile guidance, is impressive".

What you call "skilled human optimization" appears to refer to the noted more or less accidental optimizations cited. We may congratulate ourselves when we find one that turns out can be applied elsewhere, and even program it into our compiler, but these are benefits more often of luck than skill, and are often much less durable than we hoped, washed away in the next microarchitectural generation, and sometimes even come to degrade performance.

In the second example cited, recent Gcc versions deliberately intersperse other instructions between those that could be fused, to fill in for pipeline delays in a previous generation; but the benchmarks referenced for current chips were compiled with a previous compiler that didn't. So, current compilers improve performance for obsolete hardware and pessimize current hardware.

Potential improvements in the next microarchitectural generation are often held hostage by optimizations performed in old compilers, used in reference benchmarks, that would be pessimizations in the better microarchitecture (therefore) not shipped.
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Debilitating cyberattack hit Vermont’s largest hospital as virus cases rise
Oh cool. I hadn't thought much about enterprise workstations, but those look pretty solid. I'll check those out on my next build.

One downside for me is that I enjoy the process of picking out all the parts, and it seems like for a lot of these, you're buying a pre-packaged deal.
Lol!! The laughter is painful.
The remastered 'chunky text' is a bit jarring and incongruent on the 4k version. It's just too sharp to be placed on film stock with that much grain. And then there's the issue of ruining the footage with these burned-in overlays (countdown, really?)
Not sure about America, but I don't understand what do you mean by saying that being white anywhere in the world comes with priviliges. I am a white male from a Eastern European country where 99.9% of people are the same race. How am I priviliged and in comparison to who?
This may sound hyperbolic. Oh well.

I was deeply considering one of the new M1 MacBooks last night, but held off on completing the order.

Now today, I can't use my computer for nearly an hour. And my daughter as well during school time... all because a remote server can't respond. I just do not find that acceptable for a computer I own to simply stop working because of remote non-response.

I am now deeply considering not getting a new m1 machine.
If you are switching authenticator apps, I would suggest switching to one that respects your freedom, such as Aegis, andOTP, or KeePass.

It's worth also noting that Authy also has no official way to export your secrets, although there are workarounds: https://tij.me/blog/migrating-your-one-time-passwords-from-a...
A friend saying "I'll kill you" to your face is slightly different than a person saying "I'll kill these specific high-profile government officials" to an audience of millions.
Trying to meet people organically is very hard right now with covid so i was forced to go back to the tried and true tinder.
oof.

I used to do this kind of thing to get around Adobe's DRM stuff. Not a good look Apple.
Photographic evidence is required to back up such bold claims lol.
>We no longer have a system where you vote for an elector who decides which presidential candidate to vote for. The electors in the electoral college execute a formality, they don't make decisions.

Thankfully so, given recent events.
I’m quite sad about the decrease in information density in the UI. :/

My preference is to able to fit many apps side by side, and bigger fonts and spacing between elements (e.g., in the menu bar) goes against that goal.

I haven’t actually tried it yet so I could be mistaken or get used to it. However, I’ve experienced this before when going from Windows XP to Vista or 7. That change in information density made my 2560x1600 screen worse at fitting many windows without overlapping.

I’m curious how others feel about this topic.