skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter example I've been using bluetooth for keyboard, mouse and headphones on my Surface Pro 1 since the Surface Pro 1 was released in I think 2013 or 2014. Never reinstalled Windows, and it works to this day as it did on day 1. I use it 3/4 times a week for maybe 5 hours when I'm not at my PC.

I used to try Linux once a year or so but gave up doing that a few years ago because there is no single place to go to for answers and it's a time sink. The operating system needs to get out of my way so that I can make software. Windows does that.

I'm sure bias has a lot to do with my perception, I'm ok with that.
A steaming dumpster fire of a paper that assumes greatness can be determined by a ranked numerical model, then smears this assumption all over the floor and carpet.

The algorithmic HR startup that inevitably follows will be gamed into oblivion.

Greatness is by acclamation, not quantification.
ffprobe step nor -t needed.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -stream_loop -1 -i overlay.mp4 -filter_complex "
[1]colorchannelmixer=aa=0.1[2];[2][0]scale2ref[2][1];[1]
[2]overlay=shortest=1" -shortest -fflags +shortest -max_interleave_delta 100M output.mp4
Thank you for pointing the obvious. Life expectancy of affluent people around the world is much higher.
this is pitty, because as users might blame apple now. the outcome may be, apple dropping support for older device much earlier. which is bad for everybody.
Nice story but it didn't take 2 hours. The italian media, reported that the trip took at least 3 hours making it a bit more reasonable. It's not possible to drive on an Italian Autostrada at the average speed claimed in the article without endangering the lives of the drivers as well as of all the other vehicles.
The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things
Does anyone believe China's numbers by this point? (data from 15 Nov 2020)
I would love to (have) see(n) a map of the area. Reading through I kept wonder how the community was arranged and how big it was.
The language itself is very small and consistent and stable, and the community puts a higher value on getting things right than being consistent. So if there's a disagreement on the right way to implement something, you'll likely see multiple competing implementations, because people would rather implement their own library than use something they see as the wrong approach. Hopefully over the long term this means the best approach wins out and the ecosystem will converge on it, but with the small number of people involved this tends to be a slow process.
The malicious firewall bypass is already here:

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1327726807089520640

Believe me, I won’t be using a mac not via an external VPN router ever again. I already needed to take that step for iPad/iPhone and was putting it off. This sort of seals the deal, as all of the devices can use the same wifi device.
it was #atheism for me on dalnet. quarter century since, i still am friends with my chat buddies there. what does that tell you? "social media' as a platform these days, is laughable. i will laugh my arse off one of these days.
Kinda true. Though also presumably he feels okay with this with the knowledge that he might have close to his maximum reasonable capacity for children in the future, so it's just a time thing. No time limit on uplifting species either - let's take this nice and slow and do it right, eventually.

Similarly, he might choose not to have children, and be content that friends/family/humanity was having kids still, so no big moral harm done. If nobody was doing so though - wtf? Big moral harm by inaction there. Similar if we just have all these tools but never ever use them to uplift another species.
I agree. This to me is the major problem with starlink. Each sat only has 10-20gigabit/sec capacity, which really isnt a lot considering Netflix can use 15mbit/sec per stream, and call of duty patches can be nearly 200GB. It's not going to take many users to completely saturate 20gbit. It's not far off what a single 4G+5G cell site has, capacity wise, but instead of serving a few km max we are talking 100s of km^2.

I think it's highly likely there will be data caps and/or fairly serious traffic shaping on the production version at some point.
I haven't seen anything credible (with supporting studies) saying as high as 1% since March.

It's probably below .4% Depends on the population age. But probably reasonably below .4%

"Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27%"
https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

I suspect it will continue to drop. It seems to hit those it harms the most first and spreads quickly with them. Plus medical is getting better.
Hmm, who better to bare the brunt of "backing down?" The wealthier group, or the group that if they did would starve and suffer in more squalor conditions than they already are? And for an unknown period of time, could be decades?
They already do. Try going there and posting even moderate opinions. See how long your account will last.

"Free speech for me, but not for thee"
I've been in a car doing 140mph+ for over 30 mins in Wyoming, not that hard on empty roads in broad daylight.
>and got fired from every job he didn’t quit. By the summer of 1939, he was unemployed

You don't say.
> Atomic Park on Bodega Head, but that never happened for now probably obvious environmental reasons.

I think you mean tectonic reasons. Bodega Head is on the San Andreas Fault, not far from the epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9. Wikipedia has a graphic of the San Andreas fault showing a %21 chance of rupture before 2032: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault#/media/File:...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodega_Head:

"During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the promontory shifted approximately 15 ft (4.6 m)".

I'm surprised this was ever considered for a nuclear generation facility.
Uh, we are: https://www.defensenews.com/smr/nuclear-arsenal/2020/02/04/t...
It can be that high. It's not the number of lines of code produced but the value/utility created. A great engineer can actually make the same product in X days where it takes an average developer 10X days to come up with the same. The better engineer might (and in most cases, would) have written less code.
They comment on the OCSP issue but fail to comment on the Apple application exemption from filtering in Big Sur?

https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1327726496203476992
Yeh, it's retarded.
The grid needs consistent power that is transferrable and responsive to load.

Point sources like nuclear plants add baseload, but are not flexible in supply.

A more resilient grid will have much more interconnection between sources and sinks and much more dynamic control and feedback loops.

Solar power is currently the cheapest form of new power available, it is limited by the hours of daylight.

Wind power is weather limited, but offshore wind power can provide relatively constant generation.

Batteries and equivalent energy storage (eg pumped hydro) provide the short term grid stability requirements that are currently provided by gas-powered peak plants, but with much faster response time and much cheaper capex and opex costs.

As rooftop solar and household battery (including stationary vehicles) expand, dynamic usage will also capture a lot of the energy market from large baseload generation.

All of these are affordable now, work, and, with investment in the grid/network, scale.
What you said includes the decision I mentioned.
Hypersonic weapons are slower than ICBMs btw. You’re not comparing apples-to-apples.
All in all, this appears to be a design fuck-up of monumental proportions. One that might very well deserve to have serious legal ramifications for Apple.

Apple gave a detailed explanation. It was a server misconfiguration combined with a CDN issue which caused the OCSP certificate check to stop working, which caused Apple's system for ensuring certificates haven't been revoked to stop working:

“We have never combined data from these checks
with information about Apple users or their
devices. We do not use data from these checks
to learn what individual users are launching
or running on their devices,” clarified the
company.

“Notarization checks if the app contains known
malware using an encrypted connection that is
resilient to server failures,” says Apple,
further emphasizing, “These security checks
have never included the user’s Apple ID or the
identity of their device. To further protect
privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses
associated with Developer ID certificate checks,
and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses
are removed from logs,” details Apple.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25108108
US trade to GDP ratio is <30%. For South Korea, it's >70%.
Simulation hypothesis is a bad and dangerous idea
They should be downloading a bloom filter of revoked certificates, instead of checking with a server every time.

This is known as CRLite, and Firefox is implementing it for HTTPS certificates. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/09/crlite-part-1-a...
You have the patient of a saint, the person you are responding too is at best an amateur "Microsoft Evangelist"
Meta analysis shows an average of 0.68%[1], slowly decreasing as treatments get more effective.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...
I am sorry to hear that.
I'm not sure how to get through this either, but as everyone says, time is supposed to heal things.
Given the context in this thread is diversity rather than price, that does not matter.
> It's entirely possible to deal with things as they arise, on a case-by-case basis as you become aware of them.

Although do not forget that your rate of "dealing with things" may be lower than the rate of "things happening". The admin's bias comes in when they decide who to focus on, etc. If you are famous or have burned the wrong bridges, your chances of being censored are higher.
Ask HN: Can someone talk me out of learning new languages
Hey folks, I'm thinking of learning 3 new languages for 2021 and hopefully i can converse in those languages by 2022

I'm just not sure if the trade-off is worth it for me to aggressively pursue it or if i should put it on hold for another year so i can learn more practical skill that has an immediate impact to those around me
They also did wrong by not encrypting the connection, and by not doing it in a privacy-preserving way like with a bloom filter precheck. This is a company that has world class cryptosystem designers on staff, remember. They know how to pcap a fresh install before the GM goes out the door to see if it’s still speaking plain HTTP like OSes did in the years back before we ever heard the name Ed Snowden.

Cut them some slack, but not an infinite amount. They can and should well know better, and pledging to delete the logs, encrypt it, and add a knob to turn it off is as close to a “we fucked up” as you’ll ever get from them.

I appreciate their response.
> Also, apple's app store is famously LGPL-incompatible.

If you're shipping a proprietary application that links to LGPL libraries in accordance to the license, that's fine.

It's GPL applications that the App Store bans.
The 'malicious firewall bypass' is "lemme add a rule to bypass firewall, o gee, now I can bypass the firewall".

You can do this with any existing software firewall on any OS, here it just happens on a secondary whitelist (as opposed to the firewall configuration).
I doubt that, the official mileage for that car is 16.7mpg only (and this is measured with much lower speeds). Going at 150+mph consumes a lot more gas, probably ending below 10mpg.
They probably had to refill halfway in between.

Edit: the Huracan seems to have a 90L gas tank, divided by 480km they must not have exceeded 18.75L/100km in one go (= 17.33mpg). I.e. they must have refueled at least once, if not twice
Using a Lamborghini may seem extravagant and unsafe, but it's clearly cheaper and it's not clear to me that it would be any less safe, even at quite high speeds. Helicopters crash quite frequently.
Chi-Squared Test for Uniformity
You get what is commonly known as the "euphemism cycle", or the "euphemism treadmill": https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087798
Isn't it interesting how we started getting much fatter and more diabetes just around the time we were told to give up meat fat and instead eat "healthier" alternatives made with vegetable oil, sugar, and corn syrup?
In Italy the speed limit is 130 kmh. I believe the Autobahn has no speed limits.
From experience driving in Italy, people also watch out for traffic coming up behind them at speed and move over to let them past
The lazier way to manage Kubernetes. – Manage K8s via mouse and command line
70 Awesome Websites for Teachers and Parents to Teach Math (2020)
Sure. But I think of the file extension as a way to tell the OS which program I want a file to open with. In Windows when I see a .mp3 file I know which program will open when I double click on it. In Linux it's a mystery. I like my computer to behave in a predictable manner.

In Windows extensions have a meaning. In Linux, why even bother having extensions? In neither OS does the extension tell you about the content of the file. But on Windows the extension does tell you something useful about how the OS interacts with the file.
A bit OT - but...I find it a bit interesting, even fascinating, how people in the field of software seem to absolutely obsess over greatness in individual engineers.

You see this is in many shapes and forms - whether it's a discussion what makes one a true "10x" engineer, what lifestyle habits will result in excellent engineers, what personality traits to look after when searching for world-class software engineers. etc.

Having been in many other (technical) fields outside software engineering, I've never seen the same mentality or obsession there.
Apple listens to bad PR, the problem is that you have to be lucky, competent, or gifted enough to get it. Otherwise you might as well pound sand.

As for RMS…well, the issue is that the way he lives is just exceedingly difficult to keep up with in modern society. That being said, you could be instead taking steps to improve yourself by using Linux, but perhaps there exists a place in this world for people to slowly propose changes to macOS and make it better for millions of people alongside those who shout for radical change immediately. Maybe you should probe for what he thinks you should do.
Eh? We’re talking about launching Trident from a sub with a conventional warhead instead of a nuke.

There is a huge difference between using an ICBM as a SLV platform and using your nuclear triad.
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one of the most useful CS PhD theses ever
Sorry but that's what free trade means.

If NZ produces dairy products more efficiently then they deserve the benefits. At the same time in India where manufacturing is far more efficient they have the opportunity to export as many manufactured goods to NZ as they want.

If the Indian government wants to tax their manufacturers to provide support to their now unemployed dairy farmers they are free to do so but ultimately both countries are better off with India paying overall less for dairy and NZ paying less for manufactured goods.
Yes it can be that high depending on _how you're measuring_. I think this is why the myth has gone on for a long time. It also greatly depends on who you're comparing. Are you comparing Peter Norvig to a 1st year undergraduate, or someone on Peter's team who has around the same experience and skillset?

But I don't want to derail the thread ;)
>If this was from Google or Facebook, there’d be angry mob about how dear they logged IP in the first place.

Google and Facebook already do that. And of course with them there's no way to stop it either for most of their properties, as they're 100% web based.

Plus, in the excerpt you're quoting the say they stopped logging IP address for dev tests -- logging those (and more) are par for the course in all kinds of debug environments (from MS, Oracle, etc.), that Apple doesn't anymore is probably impressive.
I needed 2 days to support aarch64 for SIMD heavy and assembler optimized code for smhasher, a collection of all useful hash functions. Extremely low level stuff. Even without using any SIMD abstractions library.
I don't expect any problems for all my higher level work. aarch64 is much nicer than power, s390, mips or sparc (oh the horror)

It's extremely nice to offload heavy computations to all your phones in parallel btw. They are faster than my Macbook Air. I have now a little phone cloud via GNU parallel and ssh. Comes more handy than the heavy x86 machines.
I’m so tired of reading this same comment over and over every time someone on HN dares to say they prefer Windows. As if it obviates all of their other points. Also, you turn it off once after install and that’s it.
Who snitched?

This is such an improbable bust.
Uh, isn’t the concern that Apple’s services cannot be firewalled?
(I'm definitely not very knowledgable about any of this, naive questions incoming.)

> 3.8 meter ku band dual linear polarity compact cassegrain dish
> a 5.5m dish

Are these receiver sizes in the range of what Starlink expects from users? I had in mind something more like a DirectTV dish. If the consumer dish sizes are indeed smaller, how does that affect the discussion about jitter and other aspects of link quality?
> intelligence, consciousness, free will

Monkeys and many, many other animals already have the first two, and whether there is such a thing as "free will" hasn't even been settled for humans.

In fact it's pretty hard to prove an animal doesn't have consciousness, and we just keep and keep adding to the list of animals that have consciousness and experience human-like emotions. We humans really aren't so special in that regard.

The next level is a bit more interesting, which is the question of which animals are able to develop a theory of mind, for which you need both consciousness and some intelligence.
Spam filters as I know them are different. A good spam filter will just be a bifurcation where you can still see what was considered "spam" by looking at the spam tab. When Wordpress, Facebook, et al. decide to show you certain things based off of what they consider is good, you are being denied the full story entirely.
Ubuntu Mate
As a Silicon Valley company employee, I don’t think talking about politics at work is professional. But whenever I hear an opinion that is different from far left, most of time it has discrimination. I guess as a SV immigrant SWE and father , I probably only care about a limited scope of political topics. But what can be the middle ground between discrimination and non-discrimination?
A quick search on the internet shows the opposite. Most popular legumes don't have high levels of purines despite having high protein levels.

Also "higher total dietary protein intake from mainly poultry and fish/shellfish was associated with an increased risk of gout, while dietary intake of soy and nonsoy legumes was associated with a reduced risk of gout."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939435/
Not for me it isn't! The default state for JavaScript in my browser is off (has been for decades). The prizes I get for turning it off are these:

• Blindingly fast speeds. My web pages usually render about three times as quickly as they do with JS on (you get spoiled by this and cannot turn back - it's like a drug the difference in speed is so great).

• Ads and other screen dross are yesterday's business—even without ad blockers.

• With JavaScript off, privacy comes almost by default. Below, you'll see the test results I've just obtained from EFF's Panopticlick with JS off. Wonderful results aren't they.

• This post was done without JavaScript.

• The sites that I usually visit are either not heavy with or overloaded with JS scripts. Moreover, the kind of sites I'm interested in contain the types of material that no one cares about if you switch JS off.

• If sites don't let me in or screw me around then I'm out of there as fast as I can hit the backspace key. (There's more fish in the internet sea than I can ever visit in multiple lifetimes—so there's no need for me to stick around.)

• If you must need to use JavaScript, then this fact alone is already violating your privacy to some extent. I now know the types of sites you will most likely visit and also the kind of data that you're likely to consume or use. I can also make assumptions about you without even going any further.

I won't bother pushing the point further, as the cognoscenti who don't use JS already know they're ahead of the game. They also know that trying to get JS fanboys to kick the JS habit makes converting Apple users away from Apple look like child's play. (Who cares? Just let them wallow around in their JS-ridden environment. They're not going to be useful allies in the war on privacy anyway, or they'd already be in a JS-free environment.)

EFF's Panopticlick: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

Browser Characteristic value
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413
Debian/1.6-5
HTTP_ACCEPT Headers application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;
q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 gzip, deflate, br en-US,en;q=0.5
Browser Plugin Details no javascript
Time Zone Offset no javascript
Time Zone no javascript
Screen Size and Color Depth no javascript
System Fonts no javascript
Are Cookies Enabled? Yes
Limited supercookie test no javascript
Hash of canvas fingerprint no javascript
Hash of WebGL fingerprint no javascript
WebGL Vendor & Renderer no javascript
DNT Header Enabled? False
Language no javascript
Platform no javascript
Touch Support no javascript
Ad Blocker Used no javascript
AudioContext fingerprint no javascript
CPU Class no javascript
Hardware Concurrency no javascript
Device Memory (GB no javascript

Note: even the User Agent is wrong! The machine I'm using is actually an old Windows 7 laptop. Damn good privacy for just nuking JS I reckon.
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Is there any elasticity to that demand, i.e., has SpaceX priced launches to only attract 12 so far this year, or would they still only attract that many if they lowered the price?
Yes. And that's a valid concern.

The "malicious firewall bypass" (that you can use the same system to add exception for another app) as in the twitter example, though, is not.
Can you say a little more or link some resources giving a solid link between central banking, inflation, and forcing people to work continuously?

It's an interesting premise and I, like others, dislike the notion that I'll have to work on a treadmill for most of my life. But I don't see the 1-3% inflation rate as more than a sort of incentive to invest in equities (which I also resent), rather than a means of keeping the lower classes away from the fruits of increased productivity.
I think passion is everything. Everyone is 10x at their passion. Strive to have passion in all that you do.
There was absolutely a whole lot of luck involved here, no doubt. It wouldn’t have been possible at all without HN, dhh, Louis Rossmann and many, many others boosting the signal.

I’m just thrilled that so many people care about privacy. I mostly assumed it was a lost cause, given the status quo on mobile (where basically every app launch notifies 3+ companies and data brokers, with no way to turn it off).

Oh, what I wouldn’t give for Apple to sherlock Little Snitch and port it to iOS! I’m going to assume that their Safari ad privacy backtracking for Facebook means that this probably won’t happen, though.
Code generating a WebAssembly 6502 emulator from specifications
What is even a code monkey? A coder takes a problem described in human language and solves it using computer code. In order to do this well you need to both be able to properly read and understand problems in human language and be able to write and structure code. There is no world where you can write code without thinking about the hard stuff, at least not if you write something more complex than a basic static frontend webpage.