skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point of view, and it's true that by removing that dependency their position is a bit stronger. I didn't realize about it, thanks for sharing!
I take it they mean "features from ML". Which is indeed functional, but a specific style of functional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
>As a gamer, well, there is no competition for me, really.

In 2018 I switched to Arch Linux at home because I heard "Linux has less games". Before that I used Linux exclusively at work. To test it out I installed it on a 32GB flash drive so that I don't have the urge to install games when I'm space limited. It worked for the first 3 months. Then I got a new SSD and installed it there. A few days later proton came out and I ended up clocking in 600 hours in Warframe. The idea that linux has "no games" is an urban myth. I got scammed by Windows users.
never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

"Stupidity" might be bit harsh here, but the principle applies.
It should only be "opt-in" and the OS should work if the user chose not to be a subject of surveillance.
I would like to see mac that does not phone home at all out of box! And if you chose to use internet then it phone home for authentication like icloud.
Dr claims Mars land with laser
Not a lawyer but LGPLv3 contains the anti tivoization rule, which might cause issues with the mandatory signing.
No one is denying that, but that is missing my point. How is population growth a good thing in the context of sustainability? Improvements in efficiency have generally been more than offset by increased productivity and thus (unsustainable) resource consumption, which is the reason the deterioration of all ecological indicators is accelerating.
What I meant with "matter of priorities" is that we've had the means to stop that trajectory for some time, but it just wasn't and isn't a priority. We've already caused irreparable damage to much of our biosphere. There's positive glimpses here and there but nothing changed fundamentally. I don't see us escaping the Great Filter.
regardless of the functionality, I cannot ethically support or use facebook, instagram, or whatsapp.
I don't have gout, but my IBS is set off by fructose, and yes, I've had to drastically cut down on fruit.

Fortunately, vegetables are even healthier for you, and don't have significant levels of fructose.
How do you think Europe/France solves for the Bezos-WaPo "problem" whereby wealthy individuals can convert money into political influence indirectly by controlling media companies?
Have you tried Cinnamon? I would recommend Mint for trying it, you can install newer Kernel via Update Manager there.
I don't think you are being too 'dramatic'. But I think you misunderstood the part of being a contractor: you are much more likely to get your contract terminated to economic reasons, or a switch in company vision, rather than your work output.

I'd think twice during these pandemic times, unless the deal is very good and is something you would really regret if you didn't accept.

I've worked in many big companies and also did some contracting and their first resort is to fire all the contractors when shit hits the fan.

The main reason they hire contractors is that they can be flexible when those hard times comes and terminate them, while having a bit wider pool of workers. The contractors on the other side enjoy higher compensation. but on a higher risk.
There are multiple reasons to have cattle in India. One important ecological reason is production of manure, another is the preservation of local breeds, which often produces high quality but low quantities of milk.

The more immediate concern is that making millions of families dependent on government hand outs would be disastrous.
Yup. Ironically, it's in the context of AI where I first saw those questions being brought up. And there's an extra difficulty there: biological organisms can can reproduce only so fast. Software can reproduce as fast as you can provision new VMs in the data centre. So we can easily imagine suddenly going from 1 human-like AI program to a hundred billion instances of it, and then humanity becomes an insignificant minority from the point of view of democracy.
Late 90s Germany. Here is what German Wikipedia has to say about it (my own translation):

"In addition, the Zivildienstleistende had a claim to non-monetary benefits [..] the food allowance (maximum 7.20 Euro/Day = double food rate) was granted if the service office and the ZDL agreed to waive the right to non-monetary benefits in form of natural produce
at the beginning of the time of service." [1]

Zivildienstleistender = ZDL = conscientious objector

Benefits in this context are strictly non-monetary claims (Sachbezüge) in contrast to monetary benefits which are discussed in the preceding paragraphs.

I couldn't find the text of the original law from that time. It could have been Ersatzdienstgesetz, Zivildienstgesetz, Wehrsoldgesetz or any of the associated administrative regulations. The changes to these laws are all publicly available but I couldn't find complete older versions. There are many changes and they always contain lots of modifications to other unrelated laws. Changes from the relevant timeframe are published as scans of paper documents and not searchable. Unfortunately this makes the relevant paragraph really hard to find. Maybe someone reading this could give a hint...

Also this would not answer questions about the history of the law but it would be a start to know the exact name and date of the law and more so the number of the paragraph.

Skimming through the old documents reminded me of another curiosity: The law regulating alternative service talked a lot about death of the ZDL. Again this only makes sense when you know that the law was derived from the law governing military service. The law defined several levels of disability for service and death was just the highest level.

[1]
"Darüber hinaus hatte der Zivildienstleistende Anspruch auf Sachbezüge [..] das Verpflegungsgeld (maximal 7,20 Euro/Tag = doppelter Verpflegungssatz) wurde gewährt, wenn Dienststelle und ZDL bei Beginn der Zivildienstzeit einvernehmlich vereinbarten, auf Naturalien zu verzichten."

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zivildienst_in_Deutschland
Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs
The issue is not only ads for vacuum cleaners.

To me, the biggest issue with targeted ads is opinion or political manipulation, which is much more effective with a targeted user profile.
They worked (maybe still? didn't keep in touch) for Naver with managing the startups and projects at Station F actually. Maybe you know them even, it seemed like Naver themselves only had a handful of people there at the time at least.

I only visited their offices a couple of times, but it appeared like they were having close interactions with the projects they took under their wings.
I would actually advise against this game, the tutorial is interesting as are the different player profiles but I discovered it has a weird sinusoidal like algorithm where it would try to match your performance with some impossible, engine like moves after a series of weaker plays. It makes it pretty frustrating to play.
ahh. let's call your spacetime water something that evokes these qualities...

"ether"!

(this is not meant to be substantive criticism of your idea; I just think it's funny how much this sounds like the 19th century concept of ether that was abandoned)
Studying chess isn't leisure in the same way that watching TV or reading a book or playing a sport are leisure. If you are studying chess with the intention of actually improving your game it requires a lot of mental energy. For a lot of people, it not most people, it would be closer to more work than leisure time.

I also play chess but I don't think of chess as time to unwind. It's definitely fun, but requires a lot of focus and I have to stop playing a few hours before bed so I can actually unwind.
Is this a Basque thing? I have significant Basque ancenstry and people have always pointed out how long my earlobes are.
I recommend the chess tempo website for improving your chess, especially the spaced repetition options.
A Brief History of OpenUI5 (and SAPUI5)
It's in the article

>"The decision to do away with the decree was more symbolic than anything else," Westfjords district commissioner Jonas Gudmundsson told reporters last month. "We have laws, of course, and killing anyone — including Basques — is forbidden these days."
I'm not good at chess by any standard, but I enjoyed playing for a while in my youth. My ex got interested, and I tried to teach her... She was so completely convinced that she was smarter than me that she swiped all the pieces clear across the room on her second mate and never wanted to play again.
Total bullshit.
How do a non-profit org would make business style subscriptions ?
There was already offers -from companies- trying to -buy- vlc in some way, that was always rejected, and by a far amount that your hypotetical subs would generate
Great question! I'm puzzled that people besides hackers (white/black hat) would buy them.
>Excess alcohol + excess red meat is an especially bad combo

My buddy was a beer drinker and had an almost 100% beef diet, on his bi-yearly checkup they found out that the uric acid levels were too high. He switched to turkey/chicken meat and wine, got rid of the occasional brawn (as in meat jelly), and he is pretty much okay now.
This, like Google Glass, is one of those ideas that has been popularised by science-fiction with the promise that it will make our lives better, but when you get down it's actual real world usage I don't see the benefit it provides.

Sure, it _looks_ cool, but none of the examples shown in FB's promo video are actually meaningful: the red light example, the restaurant... The real world already has UI for that!

Navigation is probably the only good example I can think of.
> You have a right to go to the Town Square and voice your views if people want to listen, you don't have a right to do the same in a Wendy's.

But what about when the town square has moved on-line? Let's say it's not Wendy's IRL, but wendys.com. This is now a public space where people talk. And on top of this, people who don't like what you have to say aren't following you and don't have to listen to you anyway.

Perhaps these websites are rather like a pub. People mostly go there in a group of friends, obviously are more likely to exchange with similar people or people with similar ideas, but there are other people there too having their own fun in a social setting. Occasionally very different people also exchange, sometimes politely, but sometimes not. But until fists are thrown, the publican isn't looking to kick anyone out.

Sometimes the best exchanges are disagreeing people discussing in good faith, if that's what they're in the mood for. Sometimes they're just polite enough to talk about something they do agree on, rather than call for other people to be banned just because they're unpopular.
I think the jury is still out on what the the 100% correct treatment of gout or many of the modern life style related sickness. But many can be cured by reversing what one eat to what people ate 100 years ago or 20.000 years ago. 100 years would mean no processed food, vegetable oils and a lot less sugar. 20.000 years would also remove all type of wheat and corns.
Here is a guy who cured gout with the carnivore diet. https://meatrx.com/category/success-stories/gout/
I think there's something to be argued that reaching a high level in any competitive game or sport has merit.

I've learned more valuable lessons from competing in Starcraft than I can count. Without knowing the exact opportunity cost, I think trading my highschool grades for the competitive experience was worth it.

The biggest mistake I think I made was not cutting games out completely after having learned those lessons.
Apple has some double standards, too. When it's third-party iOS apps, it now requires user consent for tracking, which is a good thing. When it's its own operating systems, it sends too many questionable requests to various Apple servers with you having very little recourse — you basically have to reverse engineer the thing to some degree to prevent it from phoning home.
Adding to sibling: If you are in europe, check out https://www.tuxedocomputers.com

Disclaimer: Content customer
That comment is simply false. Nobody cares where the restaurant workers are coming from. They do care if they respect hygienic standards so cleanliness and integration do matter - race does not.
That would quickly lead to hyperinflation of ratings. The rating lost by a new player is not won by an old player. If you join and is assigned a rating of 1900, but loose your 5 first games, you probably loose a 100 rating points each game. However, the player beating you at 1000 rating doesn't get 100 points, just a few points.
OCSP is not ‘an Apple protocol’. They didn’t design it and it is typically used without encryption.

Look at the certificates on sites you use, like this one. The OCSP server is http://ocsp.digicert.com . Http, so no encryption.
> However, to be able to spend 2 hours a day on this seems like an indescribable luxury to me.

Is this how far we've regressed? I'm sure most humans through history have had more free time than you.
Most the ads I get on Facebook are for dumb looking mobile games. Looking at "Why are you seeing this ad" it's basically "Is this person female and aged 25-35"

It's annoying because: The ads are extremely disctracting: I can't help but notice them. They look like they for the same game the last 500 ads were for with a reskin. And I haven't played a mobile game since 2012 and facebook is supposed to be able to track all of this right?

The other ads are for womans clothes or shoes which is reasonably accurate. But you need almost zero tracking to determine that I might be receptive to online clothes store. (I'm not, I buy clothes in persons because sizing is hard)

I also once got ads from Jordan Pertsons thing... WOW HOW WRONG CAN IT GET
Oh, the paid updates might affect the infotainment system, but might also affect the ECU instead - at least as far as I'm aware, and then of course this might vary depending on the model year. Updates as part of a recall are free.
> I find it rather ironic that someone with the handle “DoingIsLearning” is arguing against doing new things

(On top of trying to twist my words) I think this is where we diverge, I am not arguing.

I really mean this in a non snarky way, you should check the guidelines section 'In Comments' [0]. There is nothing wrong with pushing arguments like this, they just don't contribute anything to anybody else reading this.

If you want this kind of polarizing discussion, Twitter is probably a better platform.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Red meats (beef, venison, bison) in general are higher in purines than white meats and should be eaten only occasionally. https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/nut...
> I don't think taking it down to an atomic level is useful,

> since it breaks the analogy

It was simply a suggestion as to why things might start behaving weirdly at the quantum level. My understanding is that very small things seem to act as if time doesn't really have any real favoured direction.

Of course the analogy is not perfect and does not measure correctly the scale of forces involved, or even how they behave at different extremes. It's just a rough and ready mental model to begin to see things in this framing.
It is a stereotype, but the statement itself is not an exaggeration. An average user has most of the software he needs even in linux. It is not foreign to the user if it is the first one (if it is default) he/she encounters.
We'll have to agree to disagree that news articles should be fighting American political and culture wars.
It's wrong, of course; deflation is not a paradise and even countries which have been pushed into negative interest rates (Switzerland) you still have to work.
I think you can still complete the initial setup on a mac without ever connecting it to the internet?
I would love some policy experimentation with downvoting because downvotes are demotivating and reduce engagement and discussion bandwidth. I think downvoting amplifies herding behavior.

I propose only giving the right to downvote after a comment reply is posted because as commenter a -3 value doesn't contain any information about the comment itself.
I'm glad to see that he chose to do it himself, I'm building a house and am also leaning toward a DIY solution, because then I am in control of component quality, and I can have a fully documented system which I know I will be able to hack as I see fit, and for instance, design in such a way that even if the controller is down, the wall mounted switches still work as expected. So, great, comforting article!
Well, optimally, yes. But I don't see this happening. Ballot counting machines and software are really the only way elections can happen in a reasonable timeframe in the US, and even then with considerable delays, as evidenced by this year's election.
Dog Riots in India
Once again HN readers revealing how sheltered they are in their little bubbles.

If you pay attention to it you'll see how far removed from reality a lot of the readers here are. It's quite worrying really.
I discount, you discount, we both lose
I can't comment on lambda@edge as it wasn't available when I was still using aws lambda a few years ago. My current use case is probably supported on lambda@edge if I were still on aws as I'm mostly only use them to implement smart caching and routing.
Interesting article. I personally think that some of the advantages are easily solvable, like the remote thing.

From my point of view, case sensitivity in filenames is not an advantage but a disadvantage.

Why would I want to have "presentation to management.ppt"
and "Presentation to management.ppt"?

Same for some of the restrictions in file names. I never found any problem. Maybe it is because I write in english and spanish.
If the M1's emulated x86 performance is this good, why didn't Apple showcase this sort of comparison at their launch announcement? This seems like something that would have assuaged concerns about the apparent tradeoff of switching silicon. That is, it seems there is very little downside, especially if the M1 is more power/heat efficient.

A comparison like this would have demonstrated this point more definitively than the many graphs Apple showed that were conspicuously lacking axis labels.
Apple often refuses to learn, or in fact "forgets" what the industry already knew.

Another example: Forcing people to use an E-mail address as their user ID. This is a security and practicality disaster. Not only do people now have multiple Apple IDs (which Apple huffily refuses to consolidate) that split their iCloud and App Store purchases into a mess, but a large proportion of the public undoubtedly thinks that they have to use the same password for this ID as they do for their E-mail account itself.

Everyone's E-mail address is on spammers' lists. When you combine that with a list of the top passwords, you get thousands if not millions of compromised accounts.

STUPID.
> The normal person is running behind or trying to 'just' learn the fast pre found and pre tested moves from a handfull of people who actually played/thought those moves through.

Quite the opposite, amateur players play a few moves from a standard opening, and then deviate hugely from the book variations and go into uncharted territory really fast.

And while pro's certainly spend an insane amount of time memorizing openings, chess is far more than rote memorization which you kinda seem to apply.
> This is not really an accurate analogy sorry.

Well of course, it's an analogy, it only needs to be roughly correct. The idea is simply to build a mental model that many people can picture.

> It's best understood with the reflecting-mirror-as-clock

> thought experiment.

It's good, but not something that really resonates with people's first-hand experiences.
Its more common than you think, this was a couple of years ago where I live.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-28/shoplifting-luxury-go...
For those of us following along from outside Portland, who are you referring to?
Every country plays to its strengths and weaknesses. India is behind much of SEA in manufacturing or infra and would not be competitive with large scale industrial agriculture from NZ & Aus. In the short term it is a loose-loose.

India's strength lies in its size and its ability to pool resources and technology.

Compared to China, India is way more open market, it's institutions are transparent.

Where India has failed vis-a-vis China is its unwillingness to use its market size and pooling ability and play its strengths. India's past economics has been driven by too many western educated economists who fail to see India as a unique case instead have always attempted to use a European or American template for economic development.
I think you missed this:

> This should be easy to fix but it is another thing which needs to be rolled out and working in the next 10 years.
That's all true, modern Linux distros are great - but Linux does not have software people got used to use on Windows. And this is the main reason why Linux share on desktop is 1%, not because Linux is not preinstalled. Provided that, developers of desktop software very reluctant to support Linux (even they support Mac), because investing 20-30% of development time for the user base less than 1% is pointless idea from business standpoint.
Missing out on those botnet news?
translations with subtitles in real time is one I thought of.
Technical Debt and the Obfuscation of Truth
Linux Mint has an integrated backup solution called Timeshift. Upgrades are pretty seamless as well. The usual "wait a few months and let the brave ones uncover the bugs" applies here too, same as on OSX/Windows.
*that you have purchased a license for.
Promise is basically challenging the assumption that authentication has anything to do with both personal identity and being able to contact a user.

If a site needs to contact the user, it's reasonable to ask for eg. an email. But now the intent of asking for an email has to be crystal clear, which makes you and them more aware of what data you are actually giving them.

Apple sure is doing some good stuff with their authentication solution and their efforts to help people with healthier passwords habits. I'm still not too fond of having such fundamental infrastructure owned by a private company. Would you be comfortable handing over DNS to Apple?
You can export the key to something else (and it's worth doing) personally I've gone for passing it to Microsoft (I'm not sure I could find whatever USB key I've stored it on otherwise). The option is under "Manage bitlocker" "backup your recovery key".

I've had bitlocker fail to find the key after doing a BIOS update where the TPM has been messed up (although usually it's just been disabled and needs re-enabling). If Microsoft has the backup key you can login on another PC or phone and get the key again (from memory it's around 25 random characters).

My threat model is theft of a PC not Microsoft one drive being hacked. Just means whoever steals the PC now has to either:

a) Hack the TPM

b) Hack my Microsoft account

c) Give up and reformat the PC before resale

While a & b are not impossible they seem unlikely for a random thief, while option c seems like the most likely response to a PC stolen with bitlocker enabled.

Bitlocker makes me less likely to be a victim of identity theft after having my PC stolen.
Exactly. Such a weird thing to write. What were you eating too much of?