skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On writing:

> INTERVIEWER

> Could you put the theory into a few words?

> VONNEGUT

> It was stated by Paul Engle—the founder of the Writers Workshop at Iowa. He told me that, if the workshop ever got a building of its own, these words should be inscribed over the entrance: “Don’t take it all so seriously.”

> INTERVIEWER

> And how would that be helpful?

> VONNEGUT

> It would remind the students that they were learning to play practical jokes.

> INTERVIEWER

> Practical jokes?

> VONNEGUT

> If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

> INTERVIEWER

> Can you give an example?

> VONNEGUT

> The Gothic novel. Dozens of the things are published every year, and they all sell. My friend Borden Deal recently wrote a Gothic novel for the fun of it, and I asked him what the plot was, and he said, “A young woman takes a job in an old house and gets the pants scared off her.”

> INTERVIEWER

> Some more examples?

> VONNEGUT

> The others aren’t that much fun to describe: somebody gets into trouble, and then gets out again; somebody loses something and gets it back; somebody is wronged and gets revenge; Cinderella; somebody hits the skids and just goes down, down, down; people fall in love with each other, and a lot of other people get in the way; a virtuous person is falsely accused of sin; a sinful person is believed to be virtuous; a person faces a challenge bravely, and succeeds or fails; a person lies, a person steals, a person kills, a person commits fornication.

> INTERVIEWER

> If you will pardon my saying so, these are very old-fashioned plots.

> VONNEGUT

> I guarantee you that no modern story scheme, even plotlessness, will give a reader genuine satisfaction, unless one of those old-fashioned plots is smuggled in somewhere. I don’t praise plots as accurate representations of life, but as ways to keep readers reading.

It's funny how familiar this philosophy feels to me as a game designer. Earlier in the interview, he compares the craft of writing to engineering the Model T. Something that can be engineered, but also to be fiddled with and iterated upon in a playful, but mechanical way.

The thing with video games is, the industry has done that. We know the tricks and reward paths on a scientific level. Skinner Boxes, intermittent randomized rewards and all that.

The casual game industry has put huge amounts of work into discovering these systems, the systems that keep people playing and sometimes that keep certain people paying, in a methodical and statistical way. But in my own experience, my best work has come out from not taking the project seriously, and just having fun, tinkering at the edges. Making a game for me, or for a few people as a joke.

Anyway, it's a fantastic interview. Vonnegut is an American treasure, etc.
From the removed repo:

> This PoC was done to further show that code obfuscation, anti-debugging tricks, whitebox cryptography algorithms and other methods of security-by-obscurity will eventually by defeated anyway, and are, in a way, pointless.
I think the last four years has exposed just how much policy can be swayed by a single elected official without much oversight. I don't care that the next four years will have a president closer to my political beliefs, I want to to see a reduction in executive power.
I’m not dismissing it, just pointing out that it’s completely ancillary to a bug that causes programs to crash.
This is sad. But the solution is not to use Signal. Resistance if futile that way. I believe the only solution is top-down: voting governments that can change this once and for all.
That would be the case without DRM. With DRM my options are:

- Pay $20 for a copy that I can't play on all of my devices, and that I may be unable to play at some point in the future if the producer decides they don't want me to anymore.

- Pay $10/month for a streaming service that won't allow me to watch at full resolution on several of my devices, and has no guarantee that the content I want will continue to be available.

- Not consume the media at all.

- Download it from a shady pirate site, but then assuming it actually is what I think it is (which is questionable) be able to use it however I want.

No good options.
> His company must follow the law.

Of course. That being said, wasn't there a big discussion when this happened to youtube-dl about how that was almost certainly not a legitimate DMCA? That being the case, disregarding it would not be illegal, at least to my (quite limited) understanding.

It appears I misunderstood in this specific case as there is a much stronger case for this DMCA to be considered legitimate.
dude, just donate to the eff. you don't need to volunteer someone else to take on a legal battle for you
> 5. Type `i`, left arrow, enter

I think it should be right arrow.
I would be very interested what they can do when I run this locally on my own machine at home (true self-host). Plus I live in the Netherlands...
Furthermore has everyone forgotten that Apple are a PRISM provider? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg
Ok, I won't. Sorry!
I can understand a dislike of parenthesis in the sense of it being a personal preference based on actual experience. I will admit that I was weary of them at first myself, but once I got into Lisps and particularly Schemes, I found myself liking the spartan nature of them. In a world full of complexity, it is nice to just get on with life, so to speak, when it comes to syntax, and I enjoy the regularity. F# is my favorite language, but I do hold Scheme dialects close.
Err, I'd like to factcheck that. How much is the new Mac Book Pro 13 in the US? If I visit the US website it says its $1299 USD.

In Australia it's about $1400 USD ex GST.

You can't fly to the US for $100 USD
From the manufacturer website the car is listed as 45 kW, which is 60 horsepower, not 27.

Looking at the power-to-weight ratio, it's on par with the cheapest version of the Renault Zoe, so it should actually be fairly useable on highways. The Zoe does 0-60 in 13 seconds, which is definitely not fast, but it's not unusably slow either.

Probably the collision safety would be what stopped me from taking this thing on the highway.
I'm not volunteering someone else to fight, I'm mentioning their payed service, which seems like it could be useful for this use case.

I'm sorry if that's offensive.

(Also, I donate to the EFF)
You can read the comments right here to see the difference in treatment. When Kathy Griffin did her thing, the response was generally "Gee, Kathy you went a little too far, tone it down"

Here people are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to "prove" what Bannon really meant. "You see he mentioned Tudor England so therefore that conclusively proves that this was not a figure of speech..."

I don't care about Bannon, I care about a free and open exchange of ideas. We can't have that if some parties appoint themselves the arbiters of permissible speech.
> You go online with your private receipt number and it can validate your vote.

What precisely do you mean by "validate" here? Would this scheme make the ballot non-secret?
I don't actually like that definition and believe it is rather naive. Referring back to the cult example (extremes are easier to denote boundaries) we agree that a cult member is not free. Yet if you ask them they will say that they believe that they are free (many will insist that it is in fact you who is not free). This dictates that our usage requisites the ability to make this determination from outside one's own understanding of one's self. So either that cult member is free or freedom can't be based purely on one's understanding. I think sidestepping is an apt description, because it just ignores the nuance, which is what we're getting into here.
Sure, but that doesn't make it a trivial fix. Unless you figured out how to influence ingrained behaviours / addictions better than any existing methods? This comment is like "the fix to smoking is to not smoke" - yes everybody knows that. Actually applying that across population is the hard part.
In macOS 11.2, /etc/hosts magically becomes a protected file such that:

* only Apple's apps can write to it by default

* only signed third-party apps from the App Store linked to developer accounts in good standing can request permission to write to it

* you can lose your good standing by "abusing" write permission to /etc/hosts (e.g., by blocking access to Apple services)
Apple has the db of apps matching the hash.

What you said is like saying nothing except a social security number is used to identify you, as if that wasn't linked to the rest of the info about you.
“that also explains where altruism comes from—the evil doctrine [Ayn] Rand so eloquently refuted” - this quote tells you everything you need to know about the article...
This is equally interesting (or equally bad):

"Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off" [0]

More details two years later here [1].

[0]: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
PowerShell and Azure, Announcing Az Predictor
Download All Essays from Paul Graham in ePub and Markdown
Download the complete collection of 193 essays from Paul Graham website and export them in EPUB and Markdown for easy AFK reading. Running `wc` it turned out to be a whooping ~466K words, almost the length of The Lord of the Rings saga!.

Hope you enjoy!
This mechanism is also what recently broke all HP printer drivers on macOS.

HP accidentally revoked their certificate, and since macOS automatically checks it before loading code printing and scanning with my HP printer no longer works.

My mom called me with the same issue. She didn't do anything, but all of the sudden her printer stopped working.

There is no way I know of to override the accidental revocation.

Installing updates from Apple and HP didn't help.

Online certificate revocation is a really bad idea for desktop software.
Wow this comment has been here for 2 hours and isn’t drowning in downvotes...
I would prefer if journals wouldn’t take sides. The same goes for newspapers. I never understood why they feel the need to endorse a candidate. I would feel much better if they focused on reporting of facts.
>There simply aren't enough nuclear warheads to kill everyone directly with kinetic force,

This assumes nuclear warheads only and not a doomsday device. If Teller Ulam scales with additional hydrogen stages needed only, and not fissile ones beyond the primary, then a doomsday device is possible that does kinectic damage to the entire earth, wiping everyone out.

A smaller country that can't develop warheads and delivery systems could potentially none-the-less develop a doomsday device, and it may be rational for them to do so if they think they will otherwise be annihilated and they value others much less than themselves like practically every other nation state in history.
Definitely can drop compensation if have to.
I have found it curious how this has gotten zero traction in the press. Earlier today, I was naïvely sure this would cast a pall over the product launches.
> For everyone else, repeat after me, nuclear weapons are weapons of policy, not weapons of war.

Some Japanese people would disagree with you.
Why does it have to be supplementation?

Nutrition science is mostly unreliable because it is difficult to study, is very limited and progress is slow. The supplementation industry capitalizes on this ill-reported junk science.

For many years, vitamin D2 was sold as supplementation. Now it is well-known that D2 is not bioavailable to humans. Similarly, it is well-known now that even D3 is mostly useless without K2. Now, some D3 supplements come with K2. Who knows what we'll find in the future?

Even more ridiculous is iron. The iron in spinach is basically rust. It is not bioavailable to humans. Not only that, it induces oxidative stress in humans. Ever heard you need anti-oxidants? You do, if you've been eating spinach or cereal fortified with rust or supplements with such iron. Our body needs a specific organic compound of iron: heme. You can't just swallow a nail and get iron from it.

Vitamin A, D, E, K are all available in animal fat, in exactly the forms we can readily absorb. Animal fat has been a crucial part of diet for every human culture forever. There has never been a single exception... until recently when junk science and industry PR started selling seed oil as a "healthy" replacement. As a result, a large portion of population is deficient in these vital nutrients.

Seed oil is highly problematic because... it's seed. Not only does it have no nutrients, plants don't want you to eat their seed. That is the one thing plants don't want you to eat, more than anything else. That is why they pack it with the most dangerous toxins they can come up with.

Nutrition science is hard but nutrition is easy. Just eat what humans have been eating for thousands of years.
> Just turn off iCloud backup. It’s what I do.

But is this problem a problem just at the personal level? The big problem lies at a societal level. And does it then help that a few computer hackers are informed enough to make an important (and crippling) technical decision?
Why PalFish Chose TiDB over MongoDB
And now we only can only hope for the next iteration to take over: KHTML → WebKit → Blink → Edge
The repository itself doesn't violate the TOS. Just their stated intent does.
The main use case that popped in my head was compositing of rendered effects with live footage from a physical camera. In this case, might it be beneficial for your render to exactly match the real world lens, defects and all?
Can the owner of the computer fix this by turning off SIP?
I just updated and now everything feels quite a bit slower. I'm on a 2015 Macbook Pro with Retina display. Scrolling on site especially feels worse.

Spotlight no longer seems to autocomplete when I start typing anymore wither which I rely on heavily.

EDIT: Seems spotlight is just a matter of everything having to be re-indexed.
That's my major complaint about Python...

For it's age and popularity - the tooling is abysmal.

I have to rewrite too many things, that I expected to just be there for the age of the project.

And some things were only fixed now! dict + dict only started to work with 3.9!
My (flawed?) understanding of DMCA is that the project whom a DMCA is filed against can counter-file if they believe the DMCA is illegitimate, after which the burden of going to court is between the group that filed the DMCA and the group they targeted.

Someone else in this thread linked this, which seems like a useful resource as well: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-10-29-how-mailing-lists-prev...

Edit: It was biryani_chicken who linked the resource above.

Also, I misunderstood about the legitimacy of this specific claim, my brain had yet to shift gear from the youtube-dl shenanigans.

Thanks for the response!
Don’t forget about the other 20% who will believe anything sourced from an anonymous intelligence official
Nice and positive!
The comment you are replying to states other OS' do not have this failure mode so your response is quite the non-sequitur, nevermind of questionable veracity (linux).
They should have some screenshots.
That would be a worry. At least the people using Apple cares and tell you. And observe them very closely.
But I thought they wanted the best, not the most popular.
Social media management tools to choose from
A friend of mine is building a physical product based on the ESP32 platform that is exactly along those lines. I would be happy to put you in touch with him if it interests you, just email me pc.peterso AT (capital G’s mail service).com
How is 4K support and fractional scaling? Does it work well?
To be fair, if this was truly a big deal, it would be a political issue with bipartisan support and taken care of short order.

In times of strife, at least there's one thing you can always count on: Democracy. It never fails. If you can just remember that one thing, you should be able to sleep soundly at night. (It works for me at least, I used to be a constant worrywart until I learned this trick from my therapist, and I've been golden ever since.)
Well said, we’ve come to the point where if you want the latest silicon, a very good build quality and the most hyped technology, you’ll have to give away some of your privacy.
Extra points for mentioning Cory Doctorow, who is providing most of his (prophetic I dare say) books for free over at https://craphound.com (you can also buy them and support him ;-) )
What do you mean? A nuc8i5bek is well under 500 dollars, and demolishes the performance of a snapdragon 835 in every way...
"it takes a little longer to charge and gets fewer miles per gallon"

I didn't know electrons were measured by the gallon.
That's not true. Anyone with an Apple ID is able to sign software they build/binaries and install them on their iOS devices.

Although instead of lasting 1 year they only last 7 days, but there is no fee for a user to sign and install their own binaries.
It might be a legitimate DMCA notice, but the DMCA does not apply globally.
You're assuming that the ocsp process looks at /etc/hosts. I would not be surprised if it did it's own DNS lookup to a hardcoded DNS nameserver for the ocsp.apple.com lookup.
Are you referring to Steve Bannon who said Dr. Fauci should be beheaded? Or something else?
Lenovo is junk for anything but business class laptops. That the thinkpads X P W and T. The rest is the disposable, unrepairable, bloated junk you’d expect from consumer level products.
Many of the signal issues can be caused by a faulty or low quality power supply. It took me a good half year until I finaly fugured why my Thinkpad touchpad and screen was acting up similar to your description. Turned out that my 65W power supply from Amazon was causing all the issues.
Phoning home in this case is done to check whether an app’s signed with a valid certificate. Not checking that opens user’s machine to attacks where malware successfully pretends to be an authentic trusted app, likely gaining access privileges (Keychain, etc.) granted to that app by the user previously.

Linux distros can arguably get away without these checks since their users are typically more aware of what they are launching, but importantly also because they are not as big a target due to smaller user bases.
The readme & blog posts usage of "cold mail" screams "spamming" to me, which is not okay. I could see using the address in a commit for a purely technical contact relating to that software.
This guy's analysis was straight-up dumb.

Here's an in-depth breakdown of the trickery he's employing: https://kabir-naim.medium.com/dr-shiva-ayyadurai-the-danger-...
ServiceLocator has you create a runtime service registry where you can dynamically register and fetch instances too and from. And often that means it bypasses static type checking, as you might be adding and fetching services by name using a string.

This is different in that it's static. You don't add a service to it, it creates it the first time you ask for it (if singleton), or everytime you ask for it (otherwise), or pools it, etc.

I recon some similarities, but most enterprise "service locator" involve a lot more than this, and often are meant to give you this runtime dynamism where you can load and unload services as the app is running, etc. making them way more complex for apps that don't care about this.
Snap’s 60 billion dollar market cap disagrees.
> An alternative interpretation of his Facebook post is that he was quoting this: https://populist.press/steve-bannons-twitter-account-suspend...

Regardless, he quoted it as a call to action for supporters to come to his defense, so it's reasonable to assume he felt it accurately captured the fact that he called for the execution of two public officials.

I think it's less in doubt what he did and more in doubt what social media should do in response. Twitter took one approach and FB another.
The Bell Curve, the Starburst and the Virtuous Tornado
My ASUS Zenbook has been solid ! But the macs are definitely prettier.
> If the new rules pass, a patent that survives one IPR [patent appeal/review] may never have to face another

Will this lead to all patent holders appealing their own patent, deliberately losing the appeal, and then being able to peruse others with frivolous claims knowing that it can't be appealed again?
Zen is also an SoC, but with off-chip memory, this brings other advantages.

Most importantly, Zen 4 is a chiplet design, so for the same amount of cores it will be cheaper to make than the M1 chip.

As for performance per watt, Renoir in low power configurations matches the A12. I would really doubt that a laptop Zen 4 on 5nm LPP wouldn't pass the M1/M2 in both performance and performance per watt, because Renoir is on 7nm with an older uArch and gets close.
> I do hope eventually something like this develops on the internet for the modern world.

Wish-granting in process courtesy of Mozilla's Grant For The Web, dweb nerds, and the co-operative economy :)

"contribute to COMPOST, the first author-owned publication on dweb (and web) – in addition to pitching articles you'll contribute (compensated) hours toward shaping the mgmt/strategy of the magazine COMPOST" -- https://twitter.com/spacedflashes/status/1323625620849438720

"We're excited to host this project! Party popperParty popperParty popper Follow along at :tada::tada::tada: @COMPOSTmag and sign up for the newsletter" -- https://twitter.com/HyphaCoop/status/1314200989793214464

"! https://compost.digital is accepting pitches for creative work, their first issue themed "fertile grounds". timely theme and thoughtful way of approaching media making — they are developing a values-based publishing model. (also they pay!!! key info)" -- https://twitter.com/xrw/status/1326214767925555200

/shilling for a fellow co-operator's project
Maybe apps should be signed and issued certs by neutral authorities like SSL certs are issued (like Let's Encrypt).. Maybe also issue bulk cert updates with OS updates or virus scan updates like browser updates bring SSL root cert updates..
Job satisfaction is a feeling that makes you more productive and less prone to burnout.
It is interesting that all of the principles that I thought were fundamental to justice (like parties to a criminal investigation having access to all the facts, and not being able to hide them for their agendas) only really came about in the 60s. Really makes you think about how easy it would be for them to go the other way in the hands of a less understanding supreme court.
Hmm. They list that as the motors “rated” power which seems to beg the question of why that qualification is merited. Is the battery and motor controller capable of delivering the 45kw the motor is rated for?

Motortrend says “less than 30hp” and CNN says 27.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2021-kandi-model-k27-k23-ev-...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/success/kandi-10000-electric-...

I couldn’t find any other citations of output power.
Azure Cosmos DB Serverless (Preview)
sudo sh -c 'echo 127.0.0.1 oscp.apple.com >> /etc/hosts'
GPT-3 has an encyclopedic knowledge base that no (single) human brain could match. It loses to human brains in most aspects, but it wins in that one.

Other than that… well, I don’t even know of any other VLP models. But there are other examples of ML models in general transcending humans, like Watson in Jeopardy, and AlphaGo.
I find it quite ironic that solution that supposed to make things portable it is now standing in a way of portability.

Yes, I understand why, but still...
Very interesting, thanks for that.

I’m curious where you got a link to that. Looks like it’s from an account that was registered only yesterday... so there’s really no evidence (at least on the repo itself) that it’s “crowdsourced”.