skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
git is not simple but it's not hard, the model is quite sound right ?
Look at the corporate sponsors (that include Samsung and Huawei) - they may provide paid contributors.
A copyright happens automatically and is a much more powerful tool to stop infringement while a patent is a pain to acquire, involves public disclosure of a process you often want to keep secret, and is often defined very narrowly. The two aren't really comparable in the level of protection that they provide for your IP.

I would generally be on the side of weakening copyright over strengthen patents, but the disconnect between the two just seems strange when they theoretically are supposed to serve the exact same purpose.
The same basic things you do to substantiate any story. Verify the details you can such as does this person work at that location, and verify as much as possible with other coworkers.
As an immigrant, I find the Pledge of Allegiance pretty creepy.

I don't think it has anything substantial to do with freedom of speech issues.

Obscenity laws and flag burning are better examples.
I oppose lockdown/shut down, doesn't mean I don't believe that covid is real, nor I believe there is 0 risk from covid but simply I'm comparing the cost/risk of lockdown vs cost/risk of covid.

I acknowledge though that this cost/risk can be very subjective.
Great question.

I would assume there's some skew, but then again it's still a valid comparison even if the results were not to be generalized.
You acknowledge that HIPAA doesn’t allow identifying specific patients. Are you under the impression that she named a identified a specific person in that article?
Have you looked at Wyze?
No there are not
Wait, what? Thats the same link as OP post (just as GH link). We want MacOS Catalina icons on Big Sur.
Nearly universal praise for the M1 versus it's predecessor but I don't see how this really changes Apple's position the way he implies. Their machines are still far more expensive than Windows and can't use high-powered GPUs like AMD/Nvidia. The people who choose PC, still have the same incentives to do so. For most users, the faster performance will probably not be very noticeable. The reduced power consumption is the biggest draw in my eyes.
> A tool you use every day definitely falls into the category of Stuff You Ought to Know, in a way that understanding how quantum tunneling is used in an SSD is in the category of Stuff You Don't Need to Know.

I use an SSD every day though, as well as an LCD display and a laser in my mouse. So by this reasoning, I need to study quantum mechanics; it would only take a few weekends of focused study to understand the Schrodinger Equation etc.

These things fall into the "Don't need to know" category because we as a species have made very effective user interfaces to them whereby you really need to know almost nothing about their internals to use them.

The ideal version control system would work like a mouse or a monitor. Completely intuitive, just works™.
I agree with everything you just said except this conclusion:

“It’s a useless feature in search of a use-case”

Sometimes it’s going to be easier to pinch to zoom, for example, than do the same thing with a keyboard or mouse.

Touch is no longer an expensive feature to add, so it makes sense to add it for certain use cases.

Also imagine a Mac being used in a kiosk situation where an iPad isn’t big enough.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we eventually get a Mac that is essentially a giant iPad in form factor which can operate in both modes. On a stand to act like a desktop, or on the table, to act as a giant iPad. It would make little sense to disable touch when in upright mode.
I am so glad I had a vasectomy and that I never had kids. My life is unspoilt, and I celebrate it every day.
> macbook air also only has two ports, so one would be used for external monitor, the other for power. No place left to connect external drives.

You can do all this through one port. Most LG or Dell thunderbolt 3 monitors can supply 65 watts of power (some models may be higher, up to 80 or even 100w) any of which should be enough to run and charge this macbook air decently, and have 3 extra usb type A ports on the monitor.
Is this on Rosetta 2 or a natively compiled Rust toolchain?
Politics seems to be a factor here, but I wonder how much of this has to do with popular culture.

Over the last 20 years we've been bombarded with metric tons of Apocalypse porn, a lot of it focused on killer viruses.

Most of those movies are unrealistic to put it mildly. Zombies. Deserted cities. Rotting corpses on sidewalks. Visible, palpable nauseating death.

This pandemic is nothing like those movies. I know of not a single pop culture depiction that looks anything like what we have now, except maybe the movie Contagion. And that's really a stretch.

So a lot of people have a problem when they see dire predictions and statistics that bear no relationship to what their own five senses are telling them.

There's also the problem of previous pandemics that sounded the alarm, but amounted to little in the US. SARS-CoV-1 and the Swine Flu.

All of this leaves the US with a population primed to expect a very unrealistic kind of pandemic, and already skeptical from previous false alarms. Throw in a president who not only sympathizes with the "hoax" perspective, but actively encourages it, and it should maybe not be surprising that we are where we are.
Nothing has merged yet, but the basic plan to start allowing Rust has been approved at a high level.
Except for abrasive soil, all the challenges exist on the orbit as well. And various satellites seem to cope.

If attrition of the robots turns out to be a factor, it could still be solved like this: expect that an average robot can survive 6 months on the lunar surface. So send twenty of them to the remote base, build a cave for the reserve robots and "burn" through the reserve slowly. Every 4-5 years, send a human crew to replace or repair the dead robots.

Can be done, the main question is the price tag.
Does anyone know what the state of Linux on Mac is since the introduction of the T2 chip and now this? Do people still run Linux on Mac and how has the experience been?
To The MAX!
I find it so annoying that Nest devices (thermostats, cameras, and security system) aren't directly accessible via my phone over my local network. Why do I have to transmit my requests from my phone to the cloud and then have it come back down to the device in my home? This means I can't connect during Nest outages or (much more frequently) when my internet is down.

Even when there are no outages, it still takes ~10 seconds every time I open up the Home app for it to populate any information.

By contrast, I can open the app for my Wyze cam and be seeing/hearing the live feed in ~5 seconds. (I still don't love the cloud-first aspect of the Wyze cam, but it was dirt cheap and that's the primary reason I got it. Nest products aren't cheap, so I expect better performance, not worse.)
> ...I run compiles for 20 seconds max now.

Not really enough time for throttling to kick in. Still, fantastic performance even if just in bursts.

https://twitter.com/rikarends/status/1328703780167315456
There is no plan to relicense at this time.
It's not like PF was billed as a hot new feature of the OS. I believe it's a happy accident that we got PF, and I won't be shocked if it goes away in the future.

Especially now that it's been publicly documented that it can block Apple apps.
I have to agree heartily, the MacOS really messed up w/ this.
Especially for average users, this is a lot better than the VPN snakeoil I keep seeing ads for.
Is this compile running via Rosetta2? Insane if it is and this claim is true.
Also with things like Paperspace and up coming game streaming services it really feels like it won't matter all that much for the times you want to play games on the Mac.

Also remember that with the M1 Macs you'll be getting some access to all the games released for iOS of which many are not the IAP types and are worth playing.
I don’t know how these healthcare workers do it. Why would I put my physical and mental health in danger to save people who are that selfish? I suspect many of them need the job. But those who do it out of a sense of duty are better people than I am I guess.
Until someone starts working on it, no technology usually exists.
Perhaps it's sonething like the following:
Say for instance, it cost intel $50 for a piece of silicon and sells it to apple for $300. In apples designs, they could incorporate Nearly any cost of silicon and wouldn't affect The built sales price, because it's fairly decoupled from what they charge?
I live in Chicago, and masks are the norm everywhere. Definitely indoors, and to a lesser degree outdoors. We rented a house in Wisconsin for a weekend in the fall, and culturally there was a big difference. Went to pick up a pizza and the outdoor patio was packed, drinking beer and watching college football. There were some people wearing masks, but it was not the norm. We were definitely in the minority.
asdf literally is designed to replace some of the stuff on that list and then some. And it negates the need for docker in some examples.
Tons of major websites rely on Let's Encrypt, so I think it's fair to say that they're probably not going anywhere soon. Free certificates are now standard on services like Cloudflare and Google App Engine. I think that AWS can generate free ones too.
I see them and the only CJK font on my PC is GNU Unifont, which is only ~12MB for the TTF version IIRC, and smaller for other formats.
No, the gains from Apple's A13 (TSMC 7nm) to Apple's A14 (TSMC 5nm and same cores as the M1) really aren't that large. About average for a node jump.

This is mostly about architecture, not silicon process.

From A13 to A14, Apple managed to increase the clockspeed by about 15% and increase IPC by 5% all while keeping power consumption the same.
Or get an ultrawide display!
Is anyone else thinking, what the f*ck? Are we in a new era of computing? It certainly feels that way when looking at these desktop class ARM chips, where performance doubled every year or so, just like back in the 80s and 90s.
Years ago I worked on a Special Access project. Everything that got thrown away went into the burn barrels, whether it had a classified label or not. Of course, when California took away our license to burn stuff, we acquired a grinder type shredder.
Mozilla is still obviously working on Gecko, which is the browser engine powering Firefox. You can check the activity here for instance: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
European Vega rocket suffers major launch failure, satellites lost
I am confused. I thought it is the raison d'être of Mozilla to develop a browser. So how does it come that the brand new browser engine they developed is being given away?

I mean, even if they need to cut costs, isn't Servo part of the team they should keep until the end?
For sure because, to me, that sentence pales in contrast to the meandering prose in most news stories. Just my opinion.
Haven't heard of Servo before so was excited about the possibility of a lean new engine, but was pretty deflated when the preview build is 200Mb+ on disk (80Mb just for the main exe). It's possible some of it comes from the unoptimized extras like the JS engine, media libraries, etc.
So did I. That can't be a coincidence ;)
Outside of embedded software this really isn't that much of a problem any more.

Taking a random Wikipedia page as sample I get 46kB (UTF-8) versus 35kB (Shift-JIS). A random Japanese text from Project Gutenberg is roughly ⅔ of the size of the UTF-8 text in Shift-JIS.

Those are impressive enough numbers, but add just a single photograph to the Wikipedia page and it doesn't matter at all. Text is just pretty efficient, even if you use an encoding that supports every language in the world.
He ran it to the point of throttling and it slowed down less than the gains, about 25% slower than fastest speeds. Also brought up the very good point that if you compile (and do other tasks) fast enough, you don't actually need to throttle so the point can, in the real world, be moot.
> I'm unable to fathom the notion that if a computer doesn't work the way people want, the answer is for people to adapt to the computer. The whole point of computers is to do things for people.

If you try to do that too hard you run into the task automation problem:

https://xkcd.com/1319/

In other words, "make the computer do things for me" as a diminishing returns problem. This is what you don't get.

What works best is a user-tool co-evolution. If I'm not mistaken, this is one of the core ideas of the Agile manifesto.

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
Marshall McLuhan
My biggest problem is with the outdated concept of optics used in telescopes today. There is usually a large mirror and lenses which should be redundant.

A NN trained on the physics simulation of a wobbling droplet of e.g. mercury should be able to use this "predictable, deterministic" partial mirror, to glimps everything needed to see. If a ferro-fluid with electromagnetic actuators is used-the shape of the mirror could be even modified by the observer NN in realtime, to sharpen, or block parts of the mirror.

If this would be acceptable to the astronomic community - we could mass produce Hubbles.
When we get to the detailed comparisons - it's almost impossible to compare without deconstructing the chips.

In the end it'll be a question of - can Apple scale it without incurring massive costs?
The handwriting is pretty good, but tied to a language you pick, which can be annoying if like me you write/think in some messy mix of French/English.

It results in the words from the language picked to be pretty well recognized, but the words from the 'other' language being mapped to similar words from the picked language quite a lot.

For exemple, me writing 'Quelle horreur !' is recognised well if I pick French, but as 'Quelle horror!' in english.
Does anyone know if syncing with cloud can be disabled?
> Going on internet comments

So instead of going on evidence and public statements by Apple executives - statements that have repeatedly said the Mac is the Mac - you choose to believe random internet comments?

There is a delicate balance between protecting average users who have no clue what is safe software and what isn't vs allowing power users and developers to do what they want. Since the days of ActiveX controls we've know if you give users a "Please pwn me" dialog they'll just click "OK". They've been trained that computers put up lots of pointless dialogs they can't understand even if they take the time to read them so just click until it gets out of the way. Even with default security settings if opening an app from an "unidentified developer" fails you can go into System Preferences > Security and click "Allow".

macOS is trying to protect people by default while still allowing the HN crowd to turn these protections off if they so wish.

Apple Silicon Macs still allow you to disable SIP which turns off a lot of modern protections. You can still downgrade boot security. It is a deliberate decision to continue allowing ad-hoc code signing. Software can still be distributed outside the Mac App Store either with a Developer ID or without. The vast majority of Mac users don't know or care what any of these things are but the Mac has always allowed them and as Craig has said several times over: the Mac is still the Mac. It is still the system that supports hobbyists and developers - people who sometimes want to poke at the system, install their own kernel extensions, etc.

If your complaint is that things are not wide-open by default anymore then I don't know what to tell you. We don't live in the same software landscape we once did and there are far more malicious actors out there. Protecting users by default is the right thing to do IMHO.
I hate active voice, but the app is pretty useful at times
> Amazon, in contrast, has played on a much higher difficulty setting from the beginning, selling and shipping physical items, with all of the marginal costs that entails. If anything the company has doubled down on the physical world, investing billions to deliver items in one day; I don’t think it is a coincidence it is Amazon that is Google’s true competitor.

I have believed that about Amazon being Google's true competitor for many years now, ever since it became clear that many people were starting their online shopping trips. Those shopping trips are far easier to monetize via search than search queries unrelated to items which can be purchased, which meant Google was being increasingly left with traffic that was hard to monetize.

I interviewed at Google for a PM job a few years ago and tried making this point to several of the interviewers when the conversation wandered towards dealing with potential Google competitors. All of them without exception looked at me as though as I was crazy. And I didn't get the job :-)
There is already one in place:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28323-china-has-had-a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3#Lunar-based_ultrav...

Quite a small one, but first of its kind. :)
I just use gitkraken and have never thought about git again. I often have to help out cli-power users that have hopelessly destroyed their branch and do the equivalent of 12 operations with a few clicks and drag and drops. My job isn't to play with / debug git issues, it's to deliver customer value.

I use cli for pretty much everything else. I don't get the fetishization of the cli, it's just another interface. For source control operations are much easier to grok as visual operations and I advise all new developers to start with a client like gitkraken and delve into the cli if they really need it (in most cases they don't).
The irony is that from both of these comments it implies you have a concern about the future and the stability of Firefox as both an open source project, and it's role in preventing a browser monoculture.

Setting aside concerns about leadership, because IMO it's time for most of the current leadership to retire and make space for more innovative folks, Mozilla needs two things to preserve Firefox and Gecko, money and relevance. The have had numerous misfires on diversifying revenue, and they have been challenged on how to do that for a long time, but MoCo (Mozilla Corporation) has been profitable for quite some time due to the business deals with Google. That funds Firefox and many other related projects.

The other thing that Mozilla needs is relevance, and over and above the presence of Firefox, MoFo (Mozilla Foundation) has played an activist role across many different initiatives, standards bodies, and lobbying. That requires money, and because of the legal manoeuvring that Mozilla has done in structuring MoFo and MoCo it requires that Mozilla Foundation be largely self-funding.

Donations help with that, and pay for relevance in a way that Firefox alone can't. Please rethink the hostility towards donating to Mozilla Foundation.
Right, but the supposition is that such exploits are the source of mass delusions. There are plenty of people who think COVID is a hoax who didn’t arrive at that kind of thinking because of foreign intelligence operations. It’s regurgitated daily by right wing American politicians and media.
Is this cross compilation to x86 or a native compile to Arm? That could be playing an important role if it's easier to optimize and emit code for one architecture versus the other.
A Hole in the Wall
The logical next step for Doordash is to transition from a food delivery company to a last mile logistics company for all kinds of packages. If that model proves out the market would be considerably larger.
This reminded me of an idea that circulated within the consulting group of one of my previous employers, Blackboard. The idea was to build something like this app, but to run in the background of the LMS analyzing and rating every student input (email, wiki, forums etc.). That would generate analytics for the student, faculty and administration. Interesting for regions like Latin America where control over the native language, even in higher-education, is not always a given.
It's a dare, eh? :) I'll put it on the list.
> 50% of the population has IQ below 100

Lots of people have IQs of 100. If you have a moment, I'd like to understand why you think half of the population has an IQ below 100, and why that might be significant. Does an IQ of 98 or 99 deem a person a moron?

I agree that the US has an issue with how education is viewed in the popular culture. I would bet, without any acutal supporting data, that compliance with mask orders is highly correlated with the degree of education of a region.
Rotoscoping (video segmentation) in a couple of clicks with RunwayML
Don’t most processors use on-chip SRAM for their cache, which is faster than DRAM?
I don't understand the negativity. I'm not saying that git is bad, or that git sucks. It is what it is, and not wat most of the people really want.

> We have this already. It's called collaborative desktops over VNC ...

We still want a revision control system, things like commits and all.

> So you're into collaboration, but not on branches? I would have said branches related to specific units of functionality, streams of development or specific issues.

Depends on the workflow. Many people have long-lived branches, introducing big features/refactorings. Many other prefer short-lived branches, where one branch typically is used by a single person. I still think branches should be focused on topics, but the topic (and thus the branch) must be the same on all computers, instead of having one version locally, another one that is mapped to it but potentially has different content on the server, and 1 different branch per other user. How many times have we had to "oh you pushed on your branch, I have to get it first"

> Definition of branches aside, this is the way old-style centralised VCS like CVS, Subversion actually work - and you can still use SVN if you want to ... or you can use git in that manner and never have to worry about it's more complex details.

Yep, that's the model: one place where people synchronize. The issue with those was not the centralization (look at GitHub), it was the lock mechanism. I can use git to replicate it, or I can use the folder.bak and folder.v1.final on a NAS method. It's not because it's possible that it's desirable

> I'm sorry this is really quite hilarious. Go! Stop whinging and go do it!

Ah, so it's not possible to criticize work until we have developed a complete alternative ?
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The important difference between them is not the syntax they are written in, it is their model for how to configure systems.

Ansible is imperative. You give it a list of things to do, and it will do each one, in order, whatever you say.

Puppet is declarative. It runs through your entire script to build a model of how things should be, compares the target system to see how things are different, then uses a combination of implicit and explicit dependencies to order changes and apply them to the machine. Because it is building a model, it is able to detect defects like two different modules trying to configure the same thing two different ways.

The declarative models make it so that doing the right thing is easier then doing the wrong thing (ie, making idempotent configuration is easier then exec'ing out). But the imperative model makes doing everything easier (ie, it doesn't guide me to make idempotent scripts, but makes it super easy to automate any old task list).

That is what makes Ansible easier to adopt, the very low level of mental overhead to understand what it is doing. Conversely, it probably also makes it harder to scale, both because performance is basically single-threaded and synchronous and harder to enforce good standards.

PS I work for Red Hat, but have used both Puppet and Ansible extensively.