skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your metaphor is kind of silly, since it compares the EFF with the unhoused, but, playing along, it's more like someone worth 16 billion giving an unhoused person $10,000.

A million bucks is real money, EFF can do a lot of good with it. They're not going to buy a pack of chewing gum with it.

I'm old enough that I doubt anything will ever turn me around on Microsoft, it annoys me to no end that they bought Github. But by the same token, I'm big on the EFF, and I'm stoked that they scored some loot: I'll give Microsoft credit for that, but the only way I'm forgiving the company its past sins is if it liquidates the company and sets up a charitable fund for free software.
I use the five minutes trick: "just five minutes on the treadmill", "just five minutes bench pressing, you can do it laying down!"

Usually I end up going for longer than five minutes and enjoying every one.
That's the prevailing common-sense wisdom, but it's completely wrong.

These algorithms work on statistical foundations, and the probability of you buying a vacuum cleaner if you already bought one is always higher than the probability for a randomly sampled person from the general population.
I realize I misspoke and update my message about why we used a database. I helped someone do a regular URL shortener, but have always been curious about doing a databaseless / no I/O on any server whatsoever based shortener.
There is a brigade saying ‘it’s not yours’. Or ‘they don’t believe you should own your computer‘.
In my experience, this is the standard rule and not a response to any specific issue. I've been told not to upgrade work machines to new OS releases for damn close to a decade now.
Yes. Promise keeps a map of your sites and IDs.
At this point you seem too understand the mechanism well enough that the docs will help you with the details best.
>Time is money.

>The issue really isn't that you can't live for cheap. The issue is that living for cheap takes time.

>It takes prep work to turn cheap vegetables into something edible

The thing is, it saves money and time. I've been working late so I started getting into the habit of ordering food most nights for the last month or so. It was costing me $30-40/night.

The last couple weekends I actually put the effort in to make some things that'll last the week.

For $40 worth of vegetables and meat I made meals that lasted me most of the week, that were by far healthier than what I was ordering and cost me significantly less.

Learning to cook well does take time. But it's easier than ever to learn now.
Anything you ever want to make has a recipe available online somewhere and I have to say, if you can program a computer, you can learn to follow a recipe.

Once you can follow recipes well and make them taste good, you start to learn what flavours different ingredients add to food and how things cook you can start to step away from the recipes.

Most cooking really just comes down to using the correct heat and putting things in in the correct order at the right time. Once you get that down, you can make anything.

>Then comes the education problem. It's hard enough figuring out what a "healthy" diet is even with internet access

Forget that shit, healthy diets blah blah. You need some protein, you need some fats, the vitamins and minerals and stuff in vegetables, some fiber.

Basically, you want to eat the stuff our bodies are made of and avoid things it's not made of. If it doesn't have some function in our cellular processes, it's garbage. Avoid processed stuff, stuff full of chemicals and additives.

Obviously, it's tough to avoid all stuff like that, but minimizing that stuff and eating things that come directly from plants or animals goes a long way to improving your health.
I had this happen to me on a late 2019 MacBook Pro as well, but dramatically worse: the machine was totally unresponsive, no chimes, no power up, nothing. I tried everything, including the usual PRAM clear and whatever else, but Apple suggested a replacement machine.

Since I can’t work because I’m waiting for the replacement, I started tinkering to see what I could do and it turns out that the T2 security chip was totally nuked – the weird version of iOS it runs (BridgeOS) was broken/missing, which means the hardware won’t even power on, POST, or light up the screen to tell you. Without the T2, you don’t have a computer anymore, basically.

Turns out that this chip can be flashed by using a specific set of incantations: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/apple-configurator-2/a...

So, here’s what I had to do:

1. You need another Mac running the exact same build of the OS on the dead machine. I begrudgingly needed to update my Mac Mini to Big Sur to get it to work.

2. Plug a USB-C cable into the front left port of your dead MacBook, fire up Apple configurator on the functional machine and click “Revive.”

3. Wait, hope it works.... but there’s no confirmation so you just have to wait a long time and hope it was long enough, then hold the power button for 30 seconds to see if it’ll turn on.

4. If that doesn’t work (it didn’t), then you should run “restore” which is exactly the same. Wait a long time, hold the power button for 30 seconds and hope. Eventually, in my case, it powered up into internet recovery, and acted as if it were a new Mac. Everything is gone, but it’s at least functional as far as I can tell.

This will ONLY apply to the T2 models, which are not the ones mentioned in the OP, but it seems like a similar issues. These steps at least revived my machine, but it was so obscure that even Apple support didn’t know about this, so ordered a replacement. I can’t be the only one to have run into this, but I’m pretty pissed that I blew two entire days trying to figure out what was going on.

More details on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/ow/status/1328389544119513089?s=21
What he said, combined with what you said:

Low budget operation

and the fact that you've been there 3 years indicates that you should probably just find another job. These disconnects happen all the time (and I've been subject similar criticisms many times myself) and ultimately there's just not much you can do about it. People are people, they have different perspectives (and experience gaps) that's they just the way they are.

Meanwhile - since you're pretty much forced to "milk" them for a paycheck until you can find a job under non-sweatshop conditions - consider:

(1) doing a few keyword searches on "strategies for surviving dead-end / underfunded projects" (like ways to deliver "just enough" value to meet a deadline - now that you no longer need to care about the long-term, now do you?) and

(2) engaging a friend (if you have one) or if not, seriously considering hiring a therapist for 5-10 hours to bounce your frustrations off. Really, there's no need to run your health into the ground (and job-related stress can be very toxic) just because you have a weak manager or their business isn't doing very well.

Finally, you might want to look into this classic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(project_managemen...
I'm guessing RIAA's lobbyists are more powerful than an EFF lobbyist. By powerful, I mean have deeper pockets.
You rationalize dysfunction into a strategy.

It's not like they are doing Moon landing there 24/7. It's a simple bug with direct impact on the revenue. They should take a half hour break and fix it.
Ah, yeah, I kind of meant in a serious match though. In that match viper made 3 docks on a land map and no feudal army.

As T90 himself said, "The trouble with playing viper is that if viper memes me, and I win, people just say oh T90 isn't good, viper wasn't trying. And if I lose, well, T90 can't even beat viper when he's not trying. So it's a lose-lose situation." Too true.

I see he is #96 on rankings right now though, that's terrific. Being able to beat #1 isn't the only measure of success and I don't mean to imply otherwise.
Well we could also have normal life by ignoring this pandemic.
i hope people who take vitamin d die from covid.
It seems unlikely that there is a large contingent of people who Google a restaurant (which they must be doing in order to get Yelp's number), ignore the listing of hours right next to the number and call the restaurant to get the hours. I believe it happens, but I have a hard time believing that particular sequence of events accounts for even one call in 50.
Thanks, but is it https://foursquare.com/ ? I don't see a search bar.
Apple’s new integrated graphics chip shreds a discrete GPU.

The models announced last week were all the low end models that currently only have integrated Intel graphics. This is a huge upgrade for those systems. The expectation is that when Apple announces replacements for their higher end products, some of which use discrete GPUs, there will be a similar upgrade in performance.
Especially if you extrapolate and assume that there would be, on average, more health problems to accompany those later years of life.
I suspect Catalina is my last OSX...
Testing and doc quality seem deprioritizedfor macOS. This is not good.
Illegal ≠ does not happen, and actually from my experience of driving in Italy, passes on the right are almost as common as the one on the left
The JFP page for the paper is https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functiona... and its DOI link is https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956796820000088 and you can also get the PDF from Neil Mitchell’s web site https://ndmitchell.com/downloads/paper-build_systems_a_la_ca...
Indeed, the author writes of the captain she worked for:

> Originally from Connecticut, she worked one summer on a whale-watching boat in Bar Harbor, saw the lobstermen, and thought: I want to do that, that looks real.
Lobbying is not the same thing as campaign fundraising
One of the more annoying parts of our current age is how quickly everyone responds with a conspiracy whenever something goes wrong. They made a mistake, it's that simple.
Roti, paratha, bhatia come to mind. It is sometimes easy to think in South India urud daal is only used for idli / dosa but the south definitely consumes its fair share of other bread varieties
The ACLU openly opposes the right to keep and bear arms.

https://www.aclu.org/other/second-amendment
I don't understand why Fauci can't go on TV and lecture people about obesity. Everyone seems to have no issues about lecturing about masks, distancing, lockdown/open...but apparently obesity is now a third-rail that can't be discussed. Additionally, the "progressive" tendency to regard obesity as a harmless difference is incredibly pernicious but probably is another third-rail.

I absolutely believe healthy people are being punished to provide a cushion to obese people during this pandemic. Its too late to change the conversation now, but I will personally never again modify my habits or sacrifice my life for obese people. This thread really drives home how deeply invested people are in their excuses (I have no time, its stress-release, etc). That's fine, you can cling to whatever you want, but I'm done changing for you.
I think in general there is just very little hardware as attractive as a MacBook Pro that supports Linux well. If we take the requirements as being roughly: HiDPI screen, thin and light all metal body, USB C charging, tenkeyless keyboard with centered trackpad and reasonable expectation of mostly working out of the box with a standard Ubuntu iso.

Your options are pretty much just the Dell XPS/Precision line and the Lenovo X1 Extreme series? Anything else?
Armory's (YC W17) Journey to Continuous Delivery at Grab (Part 1)
Base64 would probably be longer than the original URL. I can't really see how short pieces of text (like URLs) could be compressed to become smaller. That being said it's definitely a cool concept! I once worked on a code playground kinda thing for my school and there was a function to share the code written in a URL. How we did it was just to include the whole piece of code as a URL param in base64!
Yelp is one those companies. I use the product regularly, but I hate doing so -- the experience is awful and the core information is rarely particularly helpful. But they still get me to come in because they have the most information about some places.

What really sets me off is how much "moral" crusading they do (eg- vs. Google) compared to how much shady stuff they do. This is just latest in a long line of crummy behavior that keeps coming up over and over again.
Humans are excellent at recognizing patterns, and as a result, we have strong heuristics for determining which things are worth worrying about, based on our own experiences. This particular virus has landed in a weak spot in our collective judgement mechanisms. Most people would consider a 1% chance of some event happening low enough to not worry about the impact of that event, and indeed, in a typical group of people that number is low enough that probably none of your friends or family will die of it.

But if we recalculate the odds in terms of a particular in-group, and tell you that, of the 25 people you know and care about, there's a 22 percent chance that one of them will die, that seems like a large risk, and one you would work hard to avoid.

And if we then polled all of the people like that, the majority of them wouldn't know anyone that had a bad case! We'd have anecdotes popping up constantly telling us "actually it wasn't that bad" and "stop worrying so much", alongside other anecdotes like "my sister was in the hospital for 3 weeks" and "my wife died in the waiting room". And if you look around in reality, you do in fact see both sets of anecdotes.

(I used a 1% rate for serious cases because it's easy to work with, and not because it's accurate. Reality is as always more complex.)
As I understand it, yes it’s true.
I was under the impression that you paid for a transaction. That wouldn't be free, would it?
There has been 25 documented cases of COVID reinfection worldwide, so assuming you had it without actually doing tests is likely false. There are many diseases with similar symptoms in the upper respiratory system, and given no more than 25 people on earth have confirmed having it twice, unless you have positive tests Occam’s razor suggests otherwise.

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/08/covid-19-reinfection-t...

Hope you’re feeling better!
Show HN: Fast(est) broken link checker for static websites
Because most of the time, when you're driving already 150 km/h (= 20 km/h over the limit), there will be an asshole that comes at 180 km/h and that will headlight you until you move.

Source: speaking from experience
> As a follow up, several people point out that it could happen to me or a family member, but this seems even further reason to have DKIM so that if someone attempts to blackmail me based on the contents of my email, checking the DKIM signature makes it even easier to disprove a bad blackmail attempt.

I think his point is that the DKIM signatures could be used to verify that you did, in fact, send something worth being blackmailed over, rather than having the plausable deniability of saying that your DKIM private key from that period is already public and thus could be forged.

Which, to me, sounds similar to the classic XKCD "Theoretically, I use 2048bit RSA encryption and the hackers can't get my data. In Reality, they just beat me with a hammer until I give up the password." Maybe a public DKIM argument would hold up in court, but if we're just talking reputation blackmail among family and friends, it aint it chief.
If this fix works as advertised, you should definitely make a StackOverflow post or similar, such that this fix is more searcheable than an HN comment! It could help a ton of people.
Thank you GitHub, Microsoft, and Nat. These measures are great.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that feature, I think you're right.

> In the case of Dynamic_Predicate, the expression can be any Boolean expression.

Ada functions are permitted to have side-effects (although this is disallowed in SPARK), so I imagine it would be possible to make a real mess if you wanted to.
If you you know what Apple believes, who else’s minds can you read?
Are you sure photoshop is not supported on wine? https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio... some versions report platinum level support.
Of course, but so is the damage caused by lockdowns.
Sure, it would be "effectively a web browser". But it would also require a secret key. If the program is not licensed to hold the key, that could be considered circumvention.
Push Party
What is RMS?
I built an alternative to Yelp called TasteJury.

It doesn't give you an answer to your food allergy, but it is more about the food and rating/ranking than Yelp.

It's also sorted by dishes/food category. It aims to answer: "Where is the best place to get X dish in Y city?". Service, ambience, etc don't matter. It's only about where to get the best food.

https://tastejury.com
Xcodeghost alone infected an order of magnitude more users than all the malware combined on Google and Amazon Android devices, despite there being an order of magnitude more users of the latter.

https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/20/xcodeghost-chinese-malw...

Unlike Google and Amazon, who do both static and dynamic analysis of uploaded apps for malware, Apple relies on very basic code scanning and manual review, leaving infected apps up until they were reported externally.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/xcodeghost-ios-malware-leaves-...

Even worse, Apple does not let third party security research release apps on the App Store, making it harder for them to find and report malware to Apple.

So we have that iOS is worse than Google and Amazon Android devices as a whole. Users who care about security will not randomly choose from that whole set of devices but instead choose among those that receive rapid security updates. That subset makes the difference in security even more stark meaning that iOS users give up their privacy and get worse security.
For those that haven’t experienced the joy of Tolkien’s writing, this is a reference to the Elvish inscription on the Doors of Durin in The Fellowship of the Ring, that is simultaneously a riddle and literal instructions on entering.
anoncake writes:

> 1% is not insanely high, it's roughly how many people die each year.

So another percent on top of that is a doubling. As many people again dying from Covid-19 as die from all other causes. How is that NOT “insanely” high?
> Cajoling myself to reign in on my portion size seems more likely to continue working than adopting a victim mentality, but you do you I guess.

This is the first step, and I commend you! Yes, there are some things outside one's control - genetics guarantees we'll never be as tall as a giraffe, and fast/processed food (plus the advertising for such) is suffused throughout our society. You can still get to a healthy weight. I know, because I used to be fat, but I lost the weight and I feel better than ever.
Among messaging cryptographers, it's not even an argument. Serious secure messengers have been designed to avoid non-repudiation since OTR. Non-repudiation is a vulnerability: once counterparties have authenticated each other's messages, the legitimate need for authentication is gone; allowing random strangers to authenticate messages concedes information to them.

Here, have a link, from 2004:

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf
As I said below to the other child, all good points and I wasnt trying to nitpick it just didn't make sense to me, perhaps it was just super early.

I love these areas and the cultures I dont have to travel afar to get a taste of.

I just found it odd as being in Rosemead the other day and then seeing that, probably just a crossed wire, my apologies.
Try building solid online identity. If you become recognizable and get some followers then in case of problems you could complain on social media. If your complaint gets enough upvotes you get personalized support :/
I don't think zoom lenses are very common on medium format cameras.
Maybe, but the yelp competitors seem dirty too. There's a pizza shop down the street from me that seems to have three or four websites masquerading as them, each with different phone numbers.

Yelp executives being sent to prison would, I hope, sent a strong message to the others.
> Would yelp retaliate against businesses that participated in the class action lawsuit?

Plaintiffs can remain anonymous in class-actions for this reason.
It's so frustrating that people immediately jump for "forced/planned obsolescence" whenever something like this happens.

Forced obsolescence is the deliberate undermining of a device to ensure that it cannot be used in the future. That would be if Apple intentionally included code in Big Sur to cause older MacBooks to mysteriously brick.

There is a big difference between intentionally writing code like this versus not performing adequate Q&A to ensure that such bug doesn't exist, and only the former of these qualifies as planned obsolescence.
From a societal level I agree that there are a lot of reasons why obesity has exploded and these are not the fault of individuals.

From an individual perspective, I encourage people to find out what works for them to maintain a healthy weight. From a high level calories in vs calories out. It is difficult with our sedentary lifestyles and processed food but it can be done! Personally exercising portion control and tracking what I eat is difficult for me. I found that doing a lot of aerobic exercise is my best strategy. If you run for 20 miles a week, you have to try to gain weight! Also not keeping unhealthy food in the house is huge. For most people though, portion control is more important than exercise. Family members who have lost weight don't exercise as much as me, but they weigh and watch what they eat very carefully.
Hacker News is only pro science in some areas. Try looking at threads about organic farming or GMO seeds and you will discover a different side. That but one example, easy for me to see because my biases are different.
I don't install the LinkedIn mobile app and I disable all notification emails on my LinkedIn account. This works quite well to be honest. They can send a whole bunch of notifications (I see them every time I log in) but I'm not bothered by them. I do this because I agree with you that LinkedIn is still the most helpful tool for job hunting or recruiting, and I use it for such purposes. Other than that, I don't want it to notify me of anything.
It feels like voting and human rights is always delayed in our history. Creating something that would gurantee free elections could revolutionise the world. But that does not mean it's in everyone's short-term interest. Why would any corrupt politicians encourage something that would put them in prison?
Does Vitamin D improve the overall survival of elderly patients who are not suffering Covid?
I'm interested to see if this move towards remote work will segue into Outsourcing v2.0. The big outsourcing trend of the 2000s failed due to a combination of difficulty of managing remote teams effectively and consulting companies padding teams with poor quality workers.

I feel like these issues have been alleviated, and the pandemic has served as proof of this. And if you're okay with hiring a remote person in Burlington, Vermont, it's not a stretch to include candidates from Sherbrooke, Quebec. Once you do that, hiring someone from Santiago, Chile isn't so much different.

If that happens, then I'm going to guess that these remote workers won't stick around for the pay cuts. They will move back to the economic centers they migrated away from in hopes of the higher wages they left behind (assuming they are still available).
I know you are dead serious and I agree, but this made me laugh at how such an obvious answer can be so absurd to the company itself since it's their window to the world of users. You and I would say that is their leverage in the fight of abusive DRM, yet they would argue it is what allows them to survive.
Here you go! https://foursquare.com/city-guide

(I mostly use the app. It also keeps track of everywhere I've been, and I can see my history over the past decade.)