skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Competition has increasingly become "winner take all".

In this type of cutthroat world, the value of work is not correlated with total output. Luck begins to play a much more important role, as it's no longer enough to perform well. You must perform well and have nothing go wrong.

When margins become this thin, contingency plans become unfavored wastes of resources. After recovering from a setback you're unlikely to win, and when second place doesn't pay the bills, it's better to conserve resources so you "Fail Fast".

Second place shouldn't mean death.

Social safety nets seem to be a possible solution to this competition dilemma. I believe we should strive to help everyone in our society build the lower levels of their Maslow's Hierarchy on a solid foundation.

I believe that a Universal Basic Income could be a major component in a strategy to accomplish this goal.
Well, they recently updated their services agreements to allow developer services to update OS on multiple machines free of charge.

MacStadium is one of those companies that provides Mac servers. They wrote about it: https://blog.macstadium.com/blog/developers-big-sur-and-vind...
I'm not the original author but I use a mini as a desktop with one of these: https://www.chriscollins.me/notes/durgod-taurus-k320-mechani...

That has a correct keyboard.
Yes. Often times tech founders - especially if inexperienced - let the freedom and power of a complete greenfield project with no management oversight go to their heads. They've always wanted to build something in $cool_tech and now nothing stands in their way. That becomes the goal in itself, the business and getting customers and money being a far second.

Their desires could be far more cheaply satiated with a side project, but this way they don't have to use $boring_stack in their day job.
That's a good idea too. Tricky though - for example an article on HN might get read by thousands but is it "viral"?

For the second, I meant I would want to carve out an exception for major politicians, because I think it's dangerous for say Twitter to decide what the President can or cannot say (that's not what I wrote, but what I meant to write!). Instead I'd rather Congress decided and Twitter enforced those laws, if any.
Seems like an interesting idea.

I happen to know the founder and he is a really smart and a hard working person, with quite a lot of experience trying out different ideas, so I wish him and the team a lot of success!
"That's all the media and the politicians are ever talking about, the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another.

That's the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other so that they the rich, can run off with all the fucking money.

Fairly simple thing. Happens to work.

You know, anything different, thats what they gonna talk about. Race, religion, ethnic and national backgrounds, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality. Anything they can do, keep us fighting with each other so that they can keep going to the bank.

You know how I describe the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep them showing up at those jobs."

George Carlin had us pegged ages ago.

So did Doctor King:

The other day I was saying, I always try to do a little converting when I'm in jail. And when we were in jail in Birmingham the other day, the white wardens and all enjoyed coming around the cell to talk about the race problem. And they were showing us where we were so wrong demonstrating. And they were showing us where segregation was so right. And they were showing us where intermarriage was so wrong.

So I would get to preaching, and we would get to talking—calmly, because they wanted to talk about it. And then we got down one day to the point—that was the second or third day—to talk about where they lived, and how much they were earning. And when those brothers told me what they were earning, I said, "Now, you know what? You ought to be marching with us. [laughter] You're just as poor as Negroes."

And I said, "You are put in the position of supporting your oppressor, because through prejudice and blindness, you fail to see that the same forces that oppress Negroes in American society oppress poor white people. (Yes) And all you are living on is the satisfaction of your skin being white, and the drum major instinct of thinking that you are somebody big because you are white.

And you're so poor you can't send your children to school. You ought to be out here marching with every one of us every time we have a march."
[X] Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates

You can uncheck this box in firefox.

You cannot uncheck anything in macos.

Arguably firefox won't let you opt-out of automatic updates and a bunch of other annoying stuff, but apple is significantly worse.
So both sides identify the problem and have different ways to solve it. Keeping the two sides focused on their own method of solving the problem prevents any meaningful change. This keeps the rich ruling class in place as-is for now.

Sounds like they are doing short term self preservation well.
The government is trying to slow the inevitable. So corrupt
>They do not contain the unique hardware identifier that Apple computers have

Different part of MacOS can send it and you would have no idea until it malfunction like in this case.
If this was 1990 I would agree with you.
Its not 1990, and computers do a lot more than edit documents, watch netflix and browse the web, if thats where someones knowledge of computing ends they dont have an understanding of the basics and are by definition computer illiterate, modern day equivalent of signing their name with a palm print.
Depends on the 40-pin peripheral layout. The tinkerboard doesnt run Raspbian, but instead runs ASUS' own OS.
The Anorexic Startup [pdf]
I don’t remember allegations of WMDs being a significant driver of the US invasion of Afghanistan. Almost all the justifications I remember reading about or seeing in the news and in government statements involved the 9/11 attacks.
What do you mean with non-critical path? It sounds like you're suggesting something like wiring a light controller as a 3 way switch so you can always still use the physical switch? Is that the type of thing you're referring to with non-critical path? Any reading on that you can suggest?
On design forums I've often seen people using their spare time to create an alternative design for various services / programs. They often look very sleek, and people will comment "wow, they should make it like this" or "I would use program X if it looked like this". The problem is that these mockups are often useless. They are just drive-by. No substance, no thought of a user-journey or how to accomplish tasks. Mostly all functionality has been hidden and some pretty colors added. (And these mockups never reach the projects anyway, just shared with other designers)

Whats needed is first and foremost UX people, not graphic designers drawing a pretty UI. That is the final touch. But making good UX is hard, and need a good understanding about how the software is used, and what's technically feasible. All this takes much involvement and speaking to multiple people and back-and-forths over time.

My day-to-day involves a UX person discussing a feature with me, and us arriving at some rough sketches for how it should be. I will often start implement, and find an edge-case not considered or something, which will trigger a new discussion. My point is that UX isn't something someone can do in a vacuum on their own, or as a complete rewamp. It needs to be continuous in the process for every user-facing feature, and thus involve everyone.

Attracting UX people to that kind of long commitment is the hard part. While for a developer I often feel it's them just making a feature to scratch their own itch, with no consideration for the whole.
Context: I worked at amazon and my buddy is at Jane street and used to practice some interview questions on me ages back (I think he mostly wanted to calibrate the questions on someone he knew fairly well, to know what kind of stuff he could expect).

I'd say the standard is arguably a lot higher, the things being tested are fairly different, more focussed on raw reasoning rather than specific techniques.

The main thing I'd say is that in general the standard of interviewing for FAANG isn't actually as high as people think it is.
Electronics are usually the key payload - but things like water, fuel, and other 'potential solids' could use a cheap way to get them out of the gravity well.
Robocode goes cloud-native: Nimbots
Nimbots is a cloud-native programming game to code a robot tank that will fight against another one in a virtual battlefield. It is entirely based on serverless functions with online editors.
Don't believe it. It's simply portion sizes. Just look at McDonalds meals. It's shocking how much they've grown. It's been a while since I looked it up, but a normal meal in the 50s was what is today a kid's meal. Hamburger (1), small (!) fries (that might not even be sold anymore), and a small drink (250ml).

Want to eat pancakes? Eat a small amount. With butter. It's fine. Don't eat a stack that is shown in ads.

Want fries? Eat two normal potatoes fried in beef fat. Not potatoes the size of a human head.

It is conscious work to retrain your stomach, but it is possible. I'm saying this as somebody who just ate 2 slices of bread (1 sandwich) and now feels like I can't move, where before I'd easily eat 6 slices. That was my breakfast (at lunch), I haven't even had an earlier meal.

No bodily exhaustion, no pain, no excessive time commitments, no money (you even save money!), no feeling the need to punish and taking revenge on yourself, just being conscious.

Works well with alcohol consumption, too. Ask me how I know how those big red wine glasses which fit 25% of the bottle are bullshit, same as pints. Those are two portions, easily. Look at old photographs: The glasses are tiny.
Unfortunately Microsoft is that predictable that it is safe to say they already think about removing the option to disable it. Another reason not to use an MS account. I think this is a plain data leak and arguably worse than a trojan can do to your system in context of modern banking security measures. Also I doubt most users are aware that MS gets info on every app you run.
I think you’re underestimating the overhead of talking to people. If your doing something worth X,000$ you want some signatures before and after the fact. Even the possibility of driving to the wrong location is meaningful.

But, it’s also little things like the distance a tractor travels before it needs to turn around. Picture painting a a wall with and without windows using those long rollers. The simpler the shape the faster you can go.
I'm trying to find your quoted phrases inside the article and I'm not able to. Can you paste the entire paragraph?
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> "Those who consider that Apple’s current online certificate checks are unnecessary, invasive or controlling should familiarise themselves with how they have come about, and their importance to macOS security. They should also explain how, having enjoyed their benefits for a couple of years, they’ve suddenly decided they were such a bad idea after all, and what should replace them."

A simple opt-out toggle, for privacy reasons, would be a good start... people should stay in control of their own data and be able to choose themselves whether or not they are willing to trade in their privacy (for security in this case).
Translating legal texts to mathematical form is very interesting. It could decimate most legal jobs if a lawsuit can be converted to mathematical form and then 'executed' against the laws that are also in mathematical form. You get your judgement and the explanation as to how that conclusion was reached, all automatically.

It could even cause headaches if contradictions in legal judgements are detected.

It all relies on the conversions to mathematical form being done correctly though which, given that some laws can be intentionally vague, may be impossible.
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> I am going to speculate now, but maybe, just maybe, if some of the silicon that apple has used on the M1 is used for compression/decompression they could be transparently compressing all ram in hardware. Since this offloaded from the CPUs and allows a compressed stream of data from memory, they achieve greater ram bandwidth, less latency and less usage for a given amount of memory.

Are you aware of any x86 chips that utilize this method?
I sometimes wonder if the mods won't end up banning "political" talk on HN. Because these days everything becomes political, even if it really is a technical issue.

Case to the point: online signature check was a technical decision, to fight malware. It was implemented similarly by other OS vendors (Microsoft) and it's been this way for years.

Now we discover that it has the unfortunate side-effect that it lessens privacy. Apple (and probably other OS vendors) are working to improve that in the future. Also, a technical issue.

It was never about privacy. It was never a political issue. Can we please just discuss it from a technological standpoint?
I used to be a lightweight rower when young and that seriously screwed up my eating habits for a long time. The thing is we used to eat almost nothing before competitions (I once lost 8kg in 2 weeks leading up to the nationals, from already 8% bodyfat), and once the season was over we would binge eat (still not gaining much weight though because we continued training).

For a long time I did not have a being saturated feeling and could eat until vomiting. It's a bit better now, however I still need to do sports (road cycling mainly) 3-5 times a week as otherwise I gain weight because I eat too much (and I generally don't eat crappy food, just a lot). The upside is, if I had a period where I gained weight because I was not training enough, I will quickly loose it again when getting on a training regime.

However, weight trainingdefinitely do not burn enough calories, I notice that when in winter when I go to the gym much more. I think the whole weights training for loosing weight has been pushed by the gym industry largely. Do cardio and HIT and you will burn calories much more quickly.
That was the first thing I thought. UI is super important, and I hate when I see great projects suffer because they're.. well, ugly.
You've got a point that the keyboard problem only affects laptops.
Building micro SaaS products $1K-$10K MRR around Twitter audience/Twitter APIs
This guy wants to short bitcoin, good luck buddy.
That's a good idea. what I've learnt was startup failures has lot in common, similarly success is not an anomaly, it should has its own pattern. Most mistakes are already someone else mistake, I believe that reading some books will help to avoid 80% of the mistakes. the acquired knowledge will store a mental model within me. otherwise I need a lot of luck.
Very good summary. I was going to write a similar thing.

Tech stack is important but (customer) money in the bank is importanter.

Your daily reminder that FB started with PHP. Ship and sell first, the rest can be done later (yes your customer doesn't care that you rewrote your backend to use nanoservices in Go deployed to hundreds of lambda functions).
The request also contains your ip address. Charitable would be distributing a bloom filter and checking matches locally.
That's fascinating/good-news, do you have a reference for that?
Uncapped and unbounded it’s a bad thing. The measuring posts are moving every day, they’re constantly getting bigger. Small farms are bought out by bigger farms.

You sure you want a handful of multinational conglomerates growing all of our food?
It seems an over-simplification to say that it's always good for the cost of food to go down, or the supply to go up. In the West, it looks like much of the rewards of intensification goes towards making people obese. And in societies where more people don't have enough to eat, it still isn't clear whether more intensive farming resolves that. The move to cash crops seems to lead to less local food security for example. And perhaps landless people moving to the city ultimately creates a higher demand for food than can be matched by the output of farming modernization?
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Indeed, and to my feeble defense:

> The book was credited to Clarke alone.

TIL :)
No, I don't think so. Rather, Taibbi proposes that the very wealthy and powerful see as useful the division of the country into a "stupidity death-cult" vs. "roving bands of Pelosi-coddled Antifa troops looking to 'attack your homes'".
I love how the Cambridge Library took 20 years to be sure they hadn't been mis-shelved.
Most economists, "orthodox" or Neo-keynesian, have the same issues: they don't understand physics.

I'll develop: GDP growth is `(population growth) * (productivity gains) * ß` basically, right? So GDP per capita is productivity gain. Any person/economist with a better view on this is welcome, i mostly took that from economics 101 (or equivalent) in my first year, when i still did not know what i wanted to do.

Is the human body more productive than 20 years ago? is the human mind more productive than 20 years ago? No, not really, but we had two thing that helped us: more energy, and Moore's Law. Once our Carnot machines were optimized and our electric motors available, productivity gains caused by efficiency became marginal, and the best way to increase productivity was to install more machines. There is a hard 100% limit that physic impose us on electric motors, and a hard 64% Carnot's law impose us on thermic motors anyway, so no efficiency gains here.

The same way, Moore's law will stop one day. I'll be optimist and believe we will have CPU enter the nano dimension. And as smaller size equal smaller energy use, let's say this will be *10 efficiency (smaller mean they will break more easily too). Really unlikely, but let's assume that.

So GDP growth will be driven/limitied by energy output in the forseeable future, once we will recover from Covid.
Can't tell if you're joking, but I think this is backwards?
Maybe you have a funny network situation, but my network situation is solid, and my IP address rarely changes. IP addresses are absolutely identifiable information.
That seems incredibly naive. I can’t think of a single program off the top of my head that doesn’t use the Internet to some extent while running. Even many CLI tools I use for development do update checks (and sometimes analytics) in the background.
The mainstream doesn't care because it's at all-time highs. The value of a bitcoin is driven entirely by speculation. There's no news driving prices. The only news is ever about the price itself.

Every purchase is also a sale. Every vigorous post about how much you should be buying bitcoins is also a statement that somebody wants to sell theirs off. It's no surprise that mainstream investors have no interest in that.

Not that investors are above cheering on stock market bubbles and other speculations. But they at least know that there's some value there setting a floor for what a stock is really worth. A bitcoin has no way for me to evaluate its real worth, and all I hear in "bitcoin at alltime high" is "bitcoin getting ready to crash again".
This is just another blame-the-rich piece without any evidence. I guess blaming the rich is very popular right now.

The article is really interesting, so it's too bad he mars it with this kind of unproven, cruel and vitriolic thesis.
I think that they hired people without checking that they could solve basic algorithmic problems on a whiteboard. This was clearly a fatal mistake.
Talks about various niches around Twitter and current players MRR, Hypefury growth
Essentially, in the wake of Trump, the political class is accepting the inevitability of culture war, and urging it on, as something preferable to populist revolt.

In a rare inversion, the headline is more correct than the article.

The wealthy (really, the elites: a wealthy small business owner has nothing to do with this) want culture wars because they want the middle and bottom fighting with one another, rather than with the elites. They aren't accepting anything, this is what they want, and they have the means to achieve it.
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> Different outlets are controlled by different people some are more loyal to Xi, but ultimately none of them can go wild.

This is how "independent media" work in most countries that have such a thing: different outlets are controlled by different people, resulting in some diversity of opinion, but not every idea gets the same airtime. Of course the definition of "going wild" is different in a Chinese context.

Also, from the article you linked:

> 04/13/2020 UPDATE
RSF has taken note of the video published on the Weibo account of the whistleblower Ai Fen, which suggests that she is free to move, and hopes that it was not staged by the Chinese regime.
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, it does occur to me just how many kindles I see with ads.

Is there any data released on ads Vs no ads versions?

That's the closest comparator I can think of.
Being “fickle” is kind of hard to apply to a market segment, because it not a synchronized monolith. There clearly is demand for decent machines hackingtoshes make. It’s just that the mobile market is much higher ROI. So, any R&D other Apple products get are some coincidental opportunities. This entire M1 change is a happy accident.

So it’s not that hackingtosh builders are anything, at all, it’s that they’re outnumbered by iPhone buys 1 to a million.
But which startups does this describe, that actually get any media/public attention, or raise any funding, or succeed in recruiting any serious talent? I feel like this is trying to satirise something that exists in the author's imagination but doesn't exist in the real world beyond adolescent first-time founders' early misfires, from which important lessons are quickly learned.

It doesn't seem to be satirising something that actually needs to be satirised, as there is not a significant number of startups in the real world actually operating like this. A startup that operates like this wouldn't (barring a major mistake) get funding from YC or any other competent investor.

The Silicon Valley sitcom is funny and successful because it satirises stuff that really does happen in the startup/tech/VC world (I know, I lived through much of it myself), but it noticeably doesn't stereotype founders as utterly clueless and hapless the way this piece does.

With the sitcom, anyone who knows the startup world can point to real-world people/events on which the people/events in the sitcom are based. I don't think you can say that about this post. It's hard for me to believe the writer of this really knows any significant number of real-world startups.
MacOS is not in any sense a walled garden. You can run any code you like on it. It's a general purpose computing environment.

I really wish Apple-detractors would find something true to complain about instead of spreading this misinformation.
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Here's the source code of the implementation of the tax code: https://github.com/etalab/calculette-impots-m-source-code
What is Breach and Attack Simulation
In recent years, more and more providers of Breach and Attack Simulation platforms have emerged. This technological revolution might change the way that companies analyze their security status.
Progressive guys conserve themselves. What else is new. The 80/20 hits across demographics with cultural highlights. The world is too narrow atm.
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Isn’t that a bad thing? Sort of hyperinflation?