skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why would a mac with an intel processor need OS binary code for an arm processor?

Remember that all of the resources—images, text, icons, etc.—are shared between the Intel and ARM binaries.

There are a few use cases:

• For troubleshooting, you can have one external hard drive/SSD that can boot both Intel and M1 Macs. This is very handy; this was pretty common back in the PowerPC to Intel days.

• Same thing with running certain apps. You're doing some video rendering on an Intel Mac. Your buddy has an M1 Mac. You can boot his Mac with your external drive containing your Big Sur and your apps and you'll get the 3x speed up on your renders by using their M1 Mac mini or whatever. Back in the day, you could put an Intel Mac into Target Disk Mode where it would act as an external hard drive and boot a PowerPC from it.

• When Intel Mac users running Big Sur buy M1 Macs, they can use Apple's Migration Assistant which will transfer all of their settings, apps, etc. from the Intel Mac to the M1 Mac. No need to re-install the apps—they'll just work on the M1 Mac. The Universal apps will run natively and the Intel-only apps will run using Rosetta 2.

These Universal apps (or fat binaries as they were known back in the day, going back to NeXTStep in 1989 or 1990) aren't just a Mac-thing. When Apple transitioned iOS from 32-bit ARM to 64-bit ARM, apps contained the binaries for both. They later updated the OS to only download the version for your particular device, which made sense, since iOS devices then had far less storage than today's devices have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electric_cars_currentl...
I just got an eluktronics. Basically barebones powered up systems. I got one running windows but that's only because I need the ableton software.
I feel pretty scared for you that you had this experience... It must have been very disturbing. But i honestly think it's a case of you find there what you bring to it. After i read these comments i couldn't unsee the connection you mentioned for about half an hour. Now it's back normal, to the way it was before i read your comments, for me.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" --Einstein (b. 1879)
They still employed Enlightenment / EFL developers until a few months ago.
59 miles range? That's not going to cut it for most commuters in California.
Its so secure you can't even post a link to anything claiming it was not secure, without it being flagged on here. This is bonkers. On the same level as Iran claiming not to have gay people. Hint hint hint ... because they kill the ones that admit to being gay.
With medical information on the internet, it’s a quality over quantity situation
In this day and age, things like Google Colab, REPL.it, etc. makes it a breeze to start programming. You're basically two clicks away from coding, without any dependency hassles or other updates.

But I agree, it's a slog to set up everything on a computer, if you wish to install Python from scratch, along with some IDE.
Seems youve been locked in. I never bought apple in my life, snap decision when I saw I had to pay to try developing for their system 10 years ago(developers license), I remain pretty safistied with this decision.
My music software became completely useless on catalina, and I was also running into issues with spotlight so I disabled it. I downgraded(painfully) to Mojave and my system is so much speedier. wish I could completely switch to linux.
That would be sad. For a politician/executive type, he seems like a decent fellow.
Thanks. Glad you found this useful!
Got a feeling even a tensile steel wire won't be strong enough to cut through a whale bone before it either snaps or starts dragging the whale.
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I really, really don't think Zuckerberg shares Bannon's political views. Almost nobody in Silicon Valley supports Trump.
Apple hardware is pretty nice. Spec out a top-of-the-line Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen8 against a top-of-the-line MBP13, and you definitely pay more for the MBP13, but it gives you more and superior RAM, more and superior SSD...the configurable ceiling and hardware quality are higher. The X1C-8 gives you more screen resolution, 4G LTE (not that you would need it if you have mobile hotspot with 5G), more ports, WiFi 6....but the central nervous system of the MBP is arguably better.

To answer your question, I don't see much reason to buy a MBP and run it without MacOS, because -- although the build quality is sensational and the MBP travels well -- I'd rather just buy a Lenovo with Windows 10 Pro from the factory, get their top-tier service and repair plan, and still come out cheaper than a new MBP. However, I could see myself converting an old MBP for use as a Windows machine.
Isn't the actual problem the abusive relationship and that pressure to vote a certain way a symptom? The solution isn't to ban mail in ballots for those that want to vote that way, but to offer assistance to empower people to get out of that situation. It's already illegal to take a picture of your ballot to address these kinds of abuses.
If only there was a way to find out about such things... (wistfully looks into the distance)
1. Disconnect Internet (if possible)

2. Open Terminal

3. Run `sudo vi /etc/hosts`

4. Type `G$` (go to end of file)

5. Type `i`, left arrow, enter

6. Type `127.0.0.1 oscp.apple.com`

7. Press esc then type `:x` then press enter

8. Restart

https://gist.github.com/nathanhleung/2ceeda4c743f2a1cf3d670c...

Some updated procedure.
Somehow I prefer the user experience in Linux. If something breaks, it's most likely due to my own doing.
I'm still holding out hope that a thylacine will be discovered.
We should trust them more because the repo is still being maintained?

Its probably easy for us to think from where we are sitting that counting votes must be one hell of an easy application to write. Let me try.... ah yes, it indeed was very easy. The funny about ones ignorance is that one doesn't notice it even when one notices it.

Assuming it was a legitimate update I wonder what that dude felt like when he realized it was needed.
I agree that my dog is less "free" than myself, but only because he is less self-aware. I like the philosophy that one is "free" to the extent one understands the various causes that constrain and motivate one's choices, because it sidesteps the need to answer the question of how much free will is possible given all the influences we face.

Going back to the story's protagonist, using this definition of "free" it's not clear how much the protagonist is aware of these kinds of influences, and therefore we don't know where on the spectrum of freedom they'd be.

I don't think Stockholm syndrome is relevant to the experience of a dog. First, Wikipedia says there's a bit of disagreement as to whether the phenomenon is real. Second, my guess is the mechanism for it relies on a human's sense of society and shame.
Yes, and of course this should be irrelevant given that as the poster said, presumably these things scale linearly.
He might not be able to fight the DMCA takedown, but makes it easier for contributors to not get too disrupted by it: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-10-29-how-mailing-lists-prev...
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You don't need to plow soil to grow crops, and you don't need an ox to draw your plow (it does make it less labor-intensive though). What plowing does is turn the soil over, so that you can make some of the deeper nutrients more available to plants. It's only really necessary if you're doing intensive agriculture.
What if the café you went just blocks Apple's domains or your ISP decides to do that until Apple pays them "connection tax"?
I think you should stick to Apple, frankly. Every time Apple comes up with something new (or just a new software release), people come out of their sheds to warn about all the bad things that will happen.

And then almost none of those bad things happen. I've witnessed this dozens of times now, so a safe interpretation would be to assume that this time none of those things happen.
Check the amounts. ISTR the person that you mentioned was taking a substantially higher dosage than was tried in this study.
There's a depressingly good chance that the p=0.048 was p-hacked while we can trust the p=0.07 to be what it says on the tin.
Even more confusing, it's showing me (in NZ) prices in GBP, which I have no use for, and talking about European cards as somehow special. They seem to think currency and language are the same thing (NZ English is pretty close to British English for computer purposes, so it redirects me to en-gb?). But https://stripe.com/en-nz/pricing#pricing-details actually exists! Weird.
That's a wonderful reaction! I feel so happy for you've had that response it.
"Most"?

I'm not entirely sure that's true. Or at least not entirely relevant/ interesting.

First, you have thousands of developers writing code for iOS/ Android & Chromebooks. That right there is a pretty big chunk of developers. And at least for the iOS developers, running on ARM instead of x86 is a significant advantage.

Second, a lot of us are writing software for the web which means primarily writing software that runs in the browser. So long as we have a good running version of node.js and a browser to test with, we are golden. Assuming for a moment here that Google Chrome and Firefox are both going to be ported to ARM, I don't really see why I care about x86 linux except...

Of course you need to serve up your site and that piece is usually running on x86. Only... many of us are already crossing platforms. Our web server is Node on Linux and my dev system is MacOS (no Docker or Linux VM) so I'm already cross platform.

When I was primarily running a Python/ Django shop, it was a similar deal—so long as I was able to get Python running I was good. There are definitely a few places where you notice the difference, but there are definitely places where I can use an extra 50% battery life and a faster CPU as well.

I don't know how many other developers really need x86 and how many don't. I have had jobs where running Docker/ Kubernetes was important, but I've had a fair number where it wasn't as well.
I think Google is doing Page ranking + URL tracking; When I search for Trump it will dynamically stack up the URL based on the clicks it gets;
Yep, these new machines seem really good.

I heard (discussions with folks online) that in other parts of the state they are still using the older machines, which the voter just has to trust to record their selections correctly. I think I've heard they are transitioning away from these.
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You have to pay customs duties when you import goods. Compliance with this is very high.

Technically, when you buy a product out of state you are expected to pay use tax when you come home. Compliance with this is very low.

So, for a business, there is no arbitrage opportunity.
Yes this is true, I see your point, with a laptop on your lap, in order to balance its weight optimally, you need to centre it relative to its mass, not relative to the hands rest position (F and J keys) so then when you have to type you need to move your hands sideways and it's not very ergonomic.
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Some electricity is not that hard to generate with late middle-age manufacturing techniques. It won't be a nice stable grid, but you'd likely be able to run e.g. mining pumps with power generated from a nearby water mill.

Similarly, some refrigeration is not super difficult to build once you know how it works. That would help quite a bit against starvation from bad harvests because it allows you to have bigger stores of food.
But it still doesn’t answer the question - in Canada we count all the ballots the same day BY HAND. Why is this so hard in the US?

The only thing that I can think of is that your elections staff are grossly under-allocated?
Would make my income tax 47% in Germany, not including VAT rate on expenses.
https://i.imgur.com/uveeA6a.png

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/netflix-1080p...

It seems that many streaming platforms disable 1080p by default, and I assume that this is only for performance reasons (some hardware struggles to run an obfuscated software video decoder...) - it's not a DRM limitation, and in netflix's case it can be re-enabled via trivial changes to the frontend JS.
So I recently built a comment notifier for HN

https://hacknotescenter.com/

That I could easily add the feature to allow follows.

But it seems like at least in this thread there isn't popular support for the feature.

I think I agree it shouldn't be built into HN though
Hmmm... Let me check if all of my users run a server on their computers.
and people was shocked at Windows 10 doing telemetry. MacOS isn't doing it better as I see
Justifiably so. For example, social science research proposals likely to have findings with an unwanted political impact have a 40-50% chance of being granted, compared to 95% for otherwise identical proposals without such impact: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-12806-001

And since approval committees are drawn from the same pool as researchers themselves, such politically unfavorable research is less likely to be proposed in the first place, so the 95% -> 50% drop, if anything, underestimates the bias.

In other words, overwhelmingly, they simply won't do research that they think could hurt their politics.
Check the article on anandtech about the new Razer laptop.

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The hysteria over nuclear war has definitely done great harm to civil defense and preparedness in the USA. I have a print copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills[1] that I review regularly because an hour a year seems worth it to me.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-War-Survival-Skills-Expanded/...
It won't cut it for the average commuter, but it'd cut it for the median commuter. Really it only needs to cut it for, say, the 10th percentile commuter to have a really big market.
Fair use is about copyright. The DMCAs anti-circumvention section means you can't distribute software designed to circumvent DRM, even if that software isn't itself infringing. So I don't see how fair use could apply.
A possible solution to the electronic/paper issue might be literally just receipts.

You vote in a 'machine' and it prints a 2 receipts - one for the 'backup' and one that you keep with some kind of encrypted/encoded data for non-repudiation.

You go online with your private receipt number and it can validate your vote.

If the electronic count is not accepted, the physical 'receipts' are coded so they can be counted very quickly by laser scanner.
> I don’t know of many sub-$1B companies that implement their own payments infrastructure...

Yet everyone did before stripe.
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I think the harmonic series isn’t perceived as different tones, because they’re perfectly in phase with one another.
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.

These companies have repeatedly shown that they don't respect people's privacy and people have resoundingly responded that neither do they.

I would suggest that the users here are probably some of the best suited in the world to help smooth those rough edges and even surpass the features and usability in the privacy respecting alternatives I just hope we collectively notice this before it's too late.
Maybe at some point the endless pockets of Big Tech will come to bear against the endless pockets of Big Music and and we'll get some of these draconian laws changed.
Aren’t those all huge?
The problem is people only pay for the cool and fancy stuff. Thats why projects like blender and krita are killing it while bluetooth audio and gui libraries are in such a dire state.

Competitors have an advantage where you buy a macbook and the profits go to every single part and not just the eye catching features.
What does the author of the operating system phoning home have to do with Linux not being a target for malware? It seems like you're mixing up two different issues with this.
Edit: I have removed the link because someone else found errors in it.

Original: AP claims there's no evidence of "dead voters", but this list seems to indicate otherwise: [redacted] It's obituaries matched with returned absentee ballots. I've inspected a dozen or so entries and it seems legit.
If democracies don't allow idiots to vote, that creates a disenfranchised class that does not accept the government as legitimate. An important role of democracy is to stave off class conflict, arguably just as important or moreso than having a government that serves the people efficiently.

A proper long-term solution is to have governments invest in critical thinking skills and education, but of course, it's a catch-22 situation.
A lot of printers are still exploitable.
"some random government agency"

Not remotely 'random', moreover, nobody doubts that there can be flaws, the issue is the degree to which they happen and relevant impact.

Voter rolls will never be perfect, the issue is 'how close' they need to be, and what other elements are in place.
the shared burden of infrastructure makes that problematic. A huge chunk of the country would collapse if it didn't have the ability to externalize cost to other states, and taxing the coasts without representing their needs in the budget would kind of, like, be counter to the point, no?
I really don’t think that that’s going to be the savings you think it is. Counting votes isn’t front-loaded with a flat rate cost or subject to duplication of effort. Having a single federal elections agency isn’t going to help if you have a super complicated ballot.
Solar panels and diesel generators are pretty ubiquitous these days. Actually building more of either is more complicated, but bootstrapping the capability to do so before existing supplies of either run out (and we're talking years here) is quite feasible.
Ah, that's a slightly different definition of verifiable than I had in mind. I was thinking of schemes to allow voters to not only verify that they voted, but that their vote counted towards their intended candidate.

I suppose it depends on what precisely is to be verified. The scheme you describe allows for verification that a ballot has been received/sent/counted, depending on details, which may or may not be verifiable enough depending on who you ask.
You just gave me some serious deja-vu. Who remembers when TPB were going to buy Sealand in order to host trackers out of the reach of authorities?
Couldn’t they have used `tee -a` rather than providing an impromptu vim tutorial? Haha.
I'm a free software fan, but I don't see that open source matters here.

How do you know the machine is running the program whose source code you're looking at, instead of some other program that looks superficially like it?

If a machine produces convincing evidence of what it has done, e.g., a print-out that (1) the voter can meaningfully check before depositing, and that (2) is audited with at least spot checks or formal recounts later, why does it matter whether it is open or closed source?
I'd also like a citation on the Canadian counting.

There last election wasn't particularly close and from my understanding the mathematics of someone other than Trudeau + Liberal party winning were pretty much set.
Donald Trump also fixed Russian interference apparently...

"Or the baseless claim that Republican observers were not present for the counting of ballots in Michigan or Pennsylvania - they were." - It's not baseless, there's a video of the republicans being barred from watching the vote. Are you really that naïve as to not even question why one party would insist on counting the votes unilaterally in secret and are you that much of a simpleton to think that people wouldn't cheat for a hell of a lot less?

There's also that whole constitution thing that says election rules are set by the state legislature, not the Governor nor the Supreme Court. The will of the commonwealth never intended to need interpreting because it's the literal republic representation that this country is founded on. Democracies always fail when people learn they can vote themselves more money by going into unlimited debt until its no longer unlimited one day.
Why do you keep bringing this up? Do you mean that these services are centralized? Because elections are indeed run by “non-partisan” (whatever that is supposed to mean in this context) agencies here in the US, but they are not centralized at the federal level.
You don't. Which is why that part of DMCA at least should be repealed.
An error happening, being discovered and corrected through validation (that at least according to some reports is going to be always done before certification of the result: https://mobile.twitter.com/jhalderm/status/13251633006996480... ) seems like the overall system working just fine? Something to fix (why have the early machine result if it's so easily broken), but doesn't seem that different than someone fat-fingering a number while reporting etc.
Agreed. These are really useful in various settings, but seem to be outside of most people's experience.
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> How the hell is it "extremely inaccessible" for "most" people?

Because most people don't own Macs. The last Windows compatible version of Safari was back in 2012 or so, and as far as I know, it was never available on Linux.

Therefore, for me to test on Safari, I either have to spend thousands to buy a laptop, or pay out of my pocket for some sort of cross-browser testing tool (even if it's free, I am spending extra time) while Chrome/Firefox are used by most of the world and ensuring that I deal with Safari's idiosyncrasies does nothing much for me.

> It's Chrome that has an weirdass non-standard UI (the practice of showing app preferences/dialogs in a webpage needs to burn in the flames of Hades) and other niggles, not to mention being a privacy black hole.

I would argue its more standard since it is the same UI in every OS I wanted to use. I honestly don't think people are that angry about preferences as a webpage.

In terms of privacy, Firefox kicks Safari out of the water, and in terms of performance, it is faster, and actually renders everything (something Safari fails way too often at).

> "most" Mac users wouldn't give a fuck about Chrome.

Eh. Safari not rendering elements of the page, constantly crashing, and other myriad of issues do well enough to push people to Chrome/Firefox. Also, most people quickly start using Firefox when they realize that UBlock Origin doesn't work on Safari and is easily better than anything that comes on Safari.

Honestly, for me as developer, Safari is the new IE6, except possibly worse because bugs for IE6 are very well-documented with good workarounds.
> but the web UI is rather awkward

But does it work? My airsonic install consistently fails to play the next track at my work computer using the browser client.