skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a reducto ad absurdum takeaway, but I wonder if at some point will we consider the humans required to create said food, part of the "animals treated as commodities"?

Unless humans are somehow exempt from the list, I don't see how this argument is feasible in the realistic sense. Humans are frequently treated as commodities, as any team over the size of 1 needs to delegate responsibilities to people. Hence, "doctor, lawyer, police officer, teacher, pilot" are all words that describe a delegated responsibility of a human, and therefore the commodity that they represent. "We need more firefighters!" is a phrase that literally treats humans as commodities - showing how replaceable they are. How about whenever you ask a friend, or a family member to pick something up for you from the grocery store? Are they not being treated as a commodity to suit a need in that moment?

However idealistic the notion, being a "sentient being" isn't mutually exclusive from being treated as a commodity.

I understand the empathic argument in support of veganism full well (and I empathize with it), but there is such a thing as runaway-empathy, to the point that it becomes unproductive conversation.

This is a win in an aim to reduce unnecessary suffering and pain. I'll take it as such.

Seeking some sort of absolutism though, I can't wrap my mind around that. It gives me some serious Sith vibes...
I see you asserting this over and over.

What I don't see is you providing any real evidence that this is a core part of the decision-making process.

Apple isn't particularly incentivized to find a different way that avoids the tools they already have that already make it harder and costlier for parties to get around their security mechanisms. That is not the same as making decisions because they protect the business model.

Which is to say, it appears that you're the one oversimplifying and conflating (btw, I do not think that word means what you think it means) some very different motivations.
In case you are serious: Lawyer agencies are joining the swarm, recording IPs, write letters to ISPs and send you fines. That's very common for example in Germany.

Edit: I didn't downvote you if it looks like that :)
The tracking is somewhat inherent to the software — syncing what page you've read up to in a book between devices (a feature many people find crucial!), cannot really be divorced from having the raw data to create server-side metrics about people's reading habits.

Even if you E2E-encrypt each user's data for cloud storage and have devices join a P2P-keybag, ala iMessage, consider the ad-tech department of your same company as if they were an external adversary for a moment. What would an external adversary do in that situation? Traffic analysis of updates to the cloud-side E2E-encrypted bundle. That alone would still be enough to create a useful advertising profile of the customer's reading habits, since your app is single-purpose — the only reason for that encrypted bundle to be updated, is if the user is flipping pages!

And, together with the fact that your ad-tech department also knows what books the customer is reading (because your device can only be used to read books you sell, and thus books you have transaction records for selling them), this department can probably guess what the user is reading anyway. No matter how much your hardware-product department tries to hide it.
Killjoy, is that you?

People do weird things all of the time "just because" or "for science". Nobody is really expecting "truth". Using GPT-3 is kind of like the modern day Mad Libs for computer nerds.
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I never disagreed that the story was exaggerated by the left-liberal media establishment. But your claims were that the NYT intentionally published disinformation.

The Intercept piece does not seem to prove this, and in fact none of the ten failures include NYT stories.

I find Taibbi odious to read, so only skimmed that article. I would appreciate direct links to New York Times articles with disinformation if that is still your claim.

Nevertheless, his piece seems to mention.

1. The lionization of Robert Mueller by the NYT. I don't disagree with this, but as far as I'm concerned this falls under exaggeration and not misinformation.

2. A breathless editorial. As an opinion piece, I believe that this is likewise exaggeration.

3. The NYT's coverage of "repeated contacts" with Russian intelligence. I already mentioned the multiple guilty pleas about this issue, which you did not refute.

4. A story about RT appearing over a C-SPAN broadcast, which appears not to be a hack. The NYT's story does not assert that the feed was hacked, and contains C-SPAN's explanation of likely technical difficulties.

5. An NYT story about Russian interference in social media. This one isn't even about the Russiagate investigation at all.

Once again, I do not deny that the media establishment was breathlessly eager for Mueller to confirm their most extreme suspicions. I don't deny that US media relies on evil Russian tropes to push stories. But you are evading my direct questions and requests for information, and gesturing at the tone of Russia-related coverage, instead of backing up your false assertion that the New York Times willfully propagandized the public with disinformation about Russiagate.
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I think it's Norway.

(I just googled GP's email address (it's in their profile).)
Not sure what needs to be discussed there, I know how much tax I pay and which tools I need to get my job done.
The article indicates that the people who own the land are renting it out to the people who are farming it. This doesn't mean that corporations own the land or do the farming. The article you linked explicitly states that corporate ownership is very low and as not changed in 40 years.

> Corporate ownership has remained relatively stable since 1982, coming in at 10 percent last year.
Citation to what?

The fact that if you're a journalist in Belarus with a Macbook right now, the kind of apps you open can point you out to authorities controlling the local internet infrastructure in no time?

Or do you expect repressive governments to make press releases explaining in detail how they came to rounding up someone?
This is good to hear, and a reminder of how important it is to keep backups of everything.
I think we are learning everything that uses AWS Kinesis internally which is cool. It’s always fascinating to learn how AWS works on the backend.
why not just add new xml/cool-web-application content type to all browsers that lives in a parallel universes next to text/html and allows building rich UIs in wasm via nice modern api like for example flutter.

Then HTML/CSS/JS could be left alone for documents and hypertext based pages like wikipedia, blogs etc and stuff like googles docs or figma can be built in a new format.

And as both formats are supported by all browsers a document could just embed and xml/cool-web-application resource in an iframe and the application could just have a component to render an linked document.
Exactly. Try telling your boss when you paid a premium for uptime available that you just wasted a whole lot of money because you aren't getting the uptime you paid for. If AWS can't actually guarantee uptime (maybe no one can), then they need to have in their terms an automatic credit on a per-minute basis for uptime that is not delivered but otherwise paid for in a "guarantee".
The state or its bank largely has to set interest rates to something - it gets to choose central bank deposit rates and bond coupons. It doesn't get to set yield (that's set at auction) but it has to set the bond payout to something.

The question then arises as to whether the state has a responsibility to manage inflation and unemployment.
They should care. The checks are sent unencrypted over HTTP to Apple's OCSP.
AMD would be able to do DRAM on package for the lowest wattage "ultrabook" chips, at the cost of producing a very different package for them vs. the bigger laptops that are expected to have upgradable SODIMMs. But I doubt that this "co-location" is that huge for performance. Whatever memory frequency and timings Apple is using are likely easily achievable through the regular mainboard PCB, maybe at the cost of slightly more voltage. DDR4 on desktop is overclockable to crazy levels and that's going through lots of things (CPU package - socket pins - board - slots - DIMMs).

> stacked modules such that the side wall of the Mac Pro is a grid of 4 or more such modules each with co-located memory like the M1 has

Quad or more package NUMA topology?? The latency would absolutely suck.
>> For folks who go in on managed services because self-hosted has the danger of an outage

Seems like an overly simplistic and narrow view of the tradeoffs. The mainstream cloud services providers operate at very high levels of availability, but they nonetheless still have the "danger of an outage." There are many reasons why managed infrastructure may make sense for an organization, from ease of scaling to the completeness of the available solution space and cost efficiencies, but "absolutely avoiding any chance of downtime" isn't one of them.
So why didn't he provide any of the damning evidence that he shipped to his office?

I'll give you a hint: It's far easier to get sued for defamation if you read lies on TV than if you say you have bad stuff to say about someone but won't say it because you're nice.
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Have you checked https://www.githubstatus.com/ ? ;-)
Moreover, Logo-based and Lisp programming environments are more popular than other people think. Netlogo is heavily used in social sciences. Hard to think that even Python and R can displace those since they are so well suited for that kind of programming (agent manipulation).
Thanks, that’s fascinating.
The difference is that the Romans had no way of telling if their theory was right, it was based on guesses. Plato considered whether matter was continuous or discontinuous 400 years earlier and he settled on discontinuous, and the properties of the "atoms" as he called them were what gave macroscopic matter its properties. But the Greeks had no way of detecting atoms.

But when the microscope was discovered in the 17th century people looked at microorganisms and found that the grosser the sample the more microorganisms you could find. That was material to work with, and the germ theory followed in due course.
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Rule #1 of status pages: never put your status page on the same infrastructure it monitors.
> Cheap to transfer - Compared to wire transfers, transferring bitcoin is cheap.

You must be thinking of Bitcoin Cash. Only BCH follows the original design and intention of the Bitcoin White Paper to be Peer-to-Peer digital cash, the BTC chain was co-opted years ago by Blockstream and has been perverted into some wildly expensive settlement layer for their own 2nd layer products.
I'm sure it probably doesn't to an Apple Cultist with their head in the sand. But for those people, gesturing broadly at all of the evidence available doesn't seem to work either.
A Human Economy, Please
As a user of Inkscape, it seems to be doing just fine. They released version 1.0 within the past year (after a decade of 0.x), and it works just fine.

AFAIK, the project leaders are running into some issues with the SVG standards body on what the next direction should be. Inkscape is seeing requests for many new features, like multi-page drawings, that the SVG group does not want to implement, so Inkscape is at a crossroads on trying to maintain standards compliance while having a standards body that doesn’t seem to want to do anything.
Shoutout to dmarcian.com.

I don't work for them and am actually a new customer, but getting your domain safe from a DMARC perspective SOUNDS easy until you realize you do want SOME people "spoofing your emails". Mailgun, SendGrid, Greenhouse, Shopify, Google Calendar, etc.

We live in a world where our companies outsource a lot of the logic and many send emails on our behalf so to discern between that and "spoofing" takes some config that DMARCian was super helpful with.

I'm just a happy customer and wanted to share!
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I agree.

But if you want better readability and comments, Python's "verbose" regex (?x) is a beautiful thing. You can usually also just construct regular expressions incrementally by concatenating strings or whatever your language supports.
The worst problem with the AMA is that it's worked to completely distort our expectations about what is possible in a healthcare system. A lot of the comments here are focused on artificial restrictions in supply of physicians and so forth, which are important issues, but the more insidious problem is the way in which licensing and practice laws distort alternative structurings of healthcare delivery.

As you point out, healthcare should be more consumer-driven, with providers acting more as consultants, akin to how tax accountants and lawyers work. The problem isn't necessarily that we need more physicians, it's that we need consumers to get more of their healthcare directly, and/or through alternate providers like pharmacists, psychologists, dentists, optometrists, or some other classes of providers we haven't even dreamed up yet because the healthcare system is so centralized and rigid.

The discussion of healthcare in the US has focused so much on who pays, with such little attention to how the care is structured, when it seems to me that's a much bigger problem. To me the payment issue is almost an entirely different issue.

I have lots of family in healthcare, including physicians in administration, and they're terrified of single-payer not because they don't want universal care, but because they already see the healthcare system overburdened by regulation and red tape, and don't really see how having single payer (as opposed to something like the ACA) will really help a lot. In their minds the only thing worse than what existed 10 years ago, is what existed 10 years ago plus a monolithic government agency controlling payment as well.

I see an important role for physicians, but there needs to be a lot more flexibility and deregulation in healthcare. There's so much that could be written about this it's absurd.
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Apple charges 10x the market rate for credit card processing on the purchase of mobile apps on iOS. Why do you think this is possible?

Take it from dhh if you don't believe me:

https://mobile.twitter.com/dhh/status/1328339591389175808
It kind of feels like there's a bit too much noise around this topic.

I'm getting the same feeling I did years ago when it was discovered that the iPhone had a historical database of all the locations you'd been to. There were rather a lot of articles about how Apple were "tracking you everywhere you went" and so on.

The reason it's similar – they are both dumb, technically bad, and privacy-compromising decisions, and in both cases much of the public discussion about it has been a little hysterical and off-base.

Apple should 100% be criticised for this particular failure. It's obviously a bad implementation from a technical and usability point of view; the privacy implications are bad, and this features should not have been able to make it out as-is.

But I've legitimately seen people describe this as "Apple's telemetry" which is just obvious nonsense and distracts from the actual problem – how did such a bad implementation of a useful feature end up in a major commercial product, and how are they going to make sure it doesn't happen again?
Mediaconvert just stopped processing our queues two hours ago, in all our accounts. Anybody else is having it?
It's green on the status board.
Freescale's i.MX SoCs are full open. No blobs at all. Check them out. They are sweet. Boards exist.
You've missed the point entirely, bravo
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I bought a kindle. It didn't have ads. I did a factory reset. Now it does. This is the first time I've heard about a choice.
Such an impressive marketing launch. Regular marketing, paid reviews and a bunch of astroturfing. A standard Apple launch receipt.

I will withhold my enthusiasm or judgment until it has been I'm the hands of real users for six months or so.

In principle, I have never seen a Mac product that lives up to the hype. I might be harder to please
I guess

There are bound to be issues with Rosetta2 that will be found and hopefully patched. Same with the new OS.

I predict some problems with hardware as well.

To me this is common sense.

This is a gigantic step. A gigantic release.

Such events nearly always have issues.

Which is why so many software developed work With continuous delivery.

Though we might think this is how the development Took place internally.

I do not know how many dev machines were handed out prior to the launch

Like anyone I would like all the glitter and fanfare to be real and accurate.
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Right-sizing product and engineering teams
When your company gets sufficiently large, outages become political.

Failure happens at the speed of computing but agreeing that something is failing in a way that customers need to be told about is a slower process.

Even when status pages are fully automatic (rather than manually updated), there will tend to be gaming of the metrics that constitute that.

Ideally you would just be monitoring your SLOs and publishing that to customers... that doesn't seem to be how it works, anywhere.
It's quite obvious. That way you can't get nailed for breaching privacy.

It's exactly the same concept as the NSA saying that they are only collecting metadata and not doing any spying.
12 weeks is the point at which they have grown enough to be viable as a meat supply. Killing a 1 day old chick has zero purpose to the wider world - it is just killing. Harvesting for meat at 12+ weeks serves the purpose of feeding people.

If you have an ethical problem with eating animals at all, this won't matter. Otherwise, killing animals for food is part of our reality, and waiting until the 12 week mark brings the killing in line with the realities (and problems) of our worldwide food supply chain.
Ironically I found this conversation on censorship with 19 upvotes flagged and dead here on HN. Vouched for it to bring it back. It is 30 minutes long, but the fact that there was an attempt at censoring it, made it much more likely that I will listen to the entire thing.
In my opinion Java makes it really hard to create beautiful UIs without spending much time on it.

I also agree that Java attracts a certain kind of developer.
I'm not 100% sure what the point you're making here is, but in case the reader is unaware, under the Trump administration, the ACA was definitely heavily gutted (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/14/7687316...).

Over less than 3 months, a friend of mine's monthly premium went up an order of magnitude - with reduced benefits - to the point where it made no sense to do anything but drop it completely and start seeing a doctor who takes cash.

There was nothing wrong with the concept other than the failure to include single payer. Democrats under Obama managed to come up with something less good which still was a net gain, but it was destroyed by Republicans. Just wanted to make that clear.
I 100% agree, but I've audited my code, and on other platforms my code closely agrees with LMbench's lat_mem_rd, which seems pretty well regarded for accuracy.

The latency appears real to me.
Whenever this topic comes up I think of Philip Anderson's[0] paper "More is Different": https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/ander...

It looks like most of the big ideas have been discovered (although physicists were saying this in the 1890s as well), but there are still many things whose collective behavior is not well understood.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_W._Anderson
It is kind of perplexing that AWS dogfoods its own status page. I remember during the massive S3 outage a few years ago that their status page remained green almost the entire time because the red/green/blue icons for the status was stored in... wait for it... S3.

You'd think they would have learned from that.
I've only read the article and not the research but that's because the article says the argument is simply:

1. The Wow! signal is intelligent in origin.

2. This exoplanet system here is in an area the signal might have come from.

3. It looks a bit like our system so might have intelligent life.

This sounds like more of a moonshot for believers rather than a thoroughly scientific investigation.
Any time companies have SLA's where money is on the line if they admit they're having an outage, they're going to be delayed on updating a status page.
This might be slightly offtopic but related to this article: what sources of conservative opinion would American conservatives on HN recommend to a liberal who genuinely wants to see things from the other perspective?

Are there any right leaning bloggers/talk show hosts that you would recommend?
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This isn’t that. I’ve been aware of this for some time, pretty sure it was in the security white paper and talked about as a feature.

People forget about CRLs because browsers mostly ignore them.

People just go crazy for any Apple story because it attracts attention. People have been paying to send all sorts of app launch analytics to AV companies for example since the 90s.
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Wow, pretty sure I played with something like this for Python in the 90s. People have been trying to replace regexps with something more readable for a long time.

This seems like a decent attempt, although the syntax for captures looks a little clumsy.
AWS Kinesis in us-east-1 is down https://status.aws.amazon.com/
"This issue has also affected our ability to post updates to the Service Health Dashboard."

Last sentence of the alert at the top of the page.
GPT-3 is one big, very expensive, Microsoft-exclusively licensed, Billion-dollar Killjoy. I totally agree with you on that.

If only GPT-3 was for sh*ts and giggles I'd be with you. But hey Microsoft dumped a load of money into this and wow these amazing AI researchers are banking big buck on GPT-3 being the answer to life, the universe, and everything (pun intended). AI researchers are staking major claim on all these amazing things GPT-3 can and will do.

So pardon me if I'm non-plussed about all these wacky and crazy things we can do with the largest neural network ever trained.

Maybe after all it's a billion-dollar Madlib. Let's see what the big computer can do by generating probabilistic strings of text. There must be a business in there somewhere.
I don’t think there’s a binary switch at any single point from conception to birth to 1 year old where an organism switches from “not conscious to pain” to “conscious to pain”.

The first few days / weeks after birth are certainly louder but otherwise not much different developmentally from the preceding days.
Judge: Mr. Hutz We’ve been in here for four hours. Do you have any evidence at all?

Hutz: Well, Your Honor. We’ve plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are KINDS of evidence.
According to the primary author of the Atmosphère custom firmware (which now contains an open-source clone of the Switch kernel), the "FreeBSD Kernel" copyright notice is only there because Nintendo used FreeBSD's sys/tree.h, with the actual kernel bearing no resemblance to FreeBSD [1].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher...