skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I thought there was a good chance of having the work upstreamed so that a mainline Linux kernel would eventually work on these computers, maybe.

In my experience, there are not many ARM SoCs that have mainline support, even some of the Raspberry Pi boards don't, and they're some of the most popular ARM SoCs used for Linux.

A lot of these projects get to the stage where a forked kernel will run on the SoC, but then support and attention peters out when it comes upgrading the fork or getting the work into mainline Linux because a new and better ARM SoC will be released, and then that requires the same amount of work on a new Linux fork. Since each ARM SoC released is a unique hardware configuration, a lot of this work will be for naught when Apple releases new SoCs that require the same amount of work, or even more work, to get Linux running on them.
Not sure why this was downvoted?
Thank you for the list... I'd actually argue this is an ad for their (directly linked) amazon ebook ($10). At least it lists the base articles, which are probably as info dense as the review.
Btw, I hate twitter for this. Why isn't someone as technical as Marcan posting this on a blog?

The world went mad.
The idea that hosting binaries and search would be anywhere close to 30% of an app store revenue is completely ridiculous.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25023091

"There's a Mason Jar Shortage" (21 days ago, 18 points, 20 comments)
I'd say yes, provided you complement the better mental model this course will give you with a reputable cookbook list of how to do X in practice (maybe start at https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...), and everything you'd like to do falls into some well-established pattern.

But then you probably shouldn't trust my opinion, because I'm not a domain expert (although I have been involved in security design together with people who are domain experts), and whatever understanding I had is probably somewhat rusty by now .
HN comments on india are mostly pro caste. I believe this is due to first generation upper class Brahmins who are the majority here for now
People are stuck in bubbles created by companies. If recommendation algorithms were developed to recommend videos that tell contrary perspective or didn't recommend similar videos and fill My Feeds with similar videos, no individual would have being in the bubble in first place in best scenario or at worst in some private forum like he/she used to in early days of internet. Instead people have started allowing companies to create bubbles and censor them too and now they are rationalising the power they gave to corporates.
This is also ignoring the other dimension of lying: it's a way to assert dominance. The lie is the point.

You saw this when Russia invaded Ukraine: Vladimir Putin and other Russian propaganda efforts spout easily disprovable lies about what's happening, about what was plainly visible in the news (Russian soliders and vehicles crossing the border).

Russia wasn't trying to hide the lie, the point of the lie was to make you waste time fact-checking it, and then do the thing they needed anyway - which was you had to repeat the lie and then expend disproportionate rhetorical resources disputing it. And then they can simply turn around and tell another lie.

The idea that better fact-checking somehow will solve any problem is ignoring what the point of modern propaganda is - it's about dominance and power.
Do you have some source to back up this claim? From my experience IT is the most diverse place. I meet so many different people from different countries with diverse opinions.
I just bought the booklet and read the first few chapters. Not sure what the point of it is. In particular it does a very poor job of defining the problems and it almost seems written to use as many unique adjectives, adverbs, and buzzwords as possible.

Not a good use of $10.
Hasn't Nashorn been superseded by GraalJS?

Is this just for those who are stuck with Nashorn, or will there be new development?

GraalJS is ECMASCript 2020 compatible and is said to rival V8 on performance, so I would've thought it the obvious choice for new projects going forward.

https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs

Edit: found more info about this release in the initial announcement:

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nashorn-dev/2020-Oct...
Eyeball count matters a lot.
MySpace had all the pieces in place to own the music download space, and somehow let iTunes eat their lunch.

I don't know how that happened, but I suspect the new owner was pulling profit out of it to support their other flailing divisions, rather than let them reinvest to finish their music platform.

They literally had all the pieces on the platform side, and it was without question the platform of choice for pretty much every independent musical artist.

Anyone have the inside story?
I agree on a basic level...some sort of a hierarchical system, a compartmentalized partial context system is definitely in need. The “full truth” is often too much for an average joe to handle.

I’ve seen “so that’s what those corrupt reporters from that whatever Lancet magazine want us to believe” wrt COVID...you can start from anywhere but no chance loading necessary contexts in full into a wonders of the world like that.
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I've found that if I'm fully caught up on sleep, 7 hours is what I naturally sleep. However if I'm behind (slept less then 7 hours for multiple days) then I will sleep random amounts until I get back into a routine.
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It was the α6000, α6300 and α6500 that were time-limited, because they generated more heat in their video encoding. The newer α6100, α6400 and α6600 don’t run so hot, using a newer and better chip for the encoding. You’re wrong about the ability to record indefinitely: this is not specific to the α6600; all three of the newer generation get it. I’m recording 100 minute videos weekly on my α6100 with no sweat now (plugged in by USB, otherwise the battery will be down to 5–10% by this time—with the camera fixed in place for these recordings I also don’t care about image stabilisation, whether in-lens or in-body), it was only having trouble in the middle of summer when the ambient temperature was at least 45°C.
I hope you agree that context matters. Anyone can have a sound bite cut out of a larger statement and have that spun to be something that isn't representative, or that he didn't intend, or even the complete opposite. And then for many people, repitition becomes fact. Whatever they've heard most often, from the most sources, becomes their belief.
Physical memory for integrated GPUs to use as VRAM.
> While certainly not a UNIX clone

Yeah, that's why it was great.

For me, ARexx and Datatypes still stand out. A standard scripting language with standard interfaces into all your desktop software is a magnificent tool, and one that common desktop OSes still don't have.

Datatypes meant that every program could open relevant data; again, something you can't rely on even 30 years later on your desktop OS.
I've never really gotten into 'walking simulator' type games but I do think they might be better suited to VR than a monitor.
Roblox provides way, way more value than the App Store does, and they don't have hardware to sell to make a profit on.
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He seems relatively optimistic about getting a GPU driver going: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1333126014910701568

I don't think it'd take decades. Nouveau was pretty ok after like 5 years, wasn't it?
> young white males

At least for the past 30 years, every software organization I’ve ever even heard of, much less been involved with, was dominated by Asians (Indians in particular). That’s still lacking in diversity, but your mischaracterization makes me feel more like you have a specific axe to grind.
Hm, interesting. I can't seem to find my source anylonger either. The wording "kernel" does suggest to me that this is about a check a bootloader performs. If you were to boot another OS, you'd probably have a different boot loader as well.

This tweet https://twitter.com/never_released/status/133243677102043545... from the same author suggests M1 is "not any more locked down than [...] Intel", so I'm not fully sure about the technical details, but in the end you should be able to boot your own code.
More comments on this from ~4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208313
dmidecode is a tool to parse legacy BIOS information tables, and one wouldn't expect it to work on chromebooks.
Microsoft patents tech to score meetings with body language, facial expressions
Isn't it the opposite of a dumb tv?

AFAIU it has no TV tuner, so no air/cable/sat reception, while having full "smarts" with built-in internet and apps.
Planes also promise fast travel times, but if a plane crashes, we heavily investigate the cause and figure out a solution so it doesn’t occur again. The USA experiences the equivalent of over 100 Boeing 747 plane crashes a year(and rising), counting only deaths due to traffic crashes.
The number spikes significantly higher when you factor in people with severe injuries who will never fully recover(think: losing arms, legs, brain damage,etc..).

Assuming speed limits stay the same, but deaths and injuries continue to rise, at what point would you say we have a ‘bad balance’ and should adjust? What is your ‘balance’ based on? Is there some ratio of VMT(vehicle miles traveled) to occurrences of deaths and dismemberment that you keep in mind?
+1 Excellent analysis.
Not much point in hashing a (v4) IP, there's 4 billion of them, trivial to undo (you won't be able to change the salt)

There's nothing wrong with storing individual IPs temporarily for security and functionality purposes, but you're still collecting them - if nothing else they'll show up in your netflow sessions and your netstat output
Ask HN: What did you buy this holiday season?
Curious to see what did everyone buy here? Are your gifts skewed towards being more tech oriented?

Anyone bought any funny, thoughful gifts?
Vancouver's empty home tax is increasing to 3% next year
Thanks for making this. I've started to do this several times, but never finished it. I was going to use Google's Text-to-Speech[0]. What did you go with?

0 - https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech
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Why would anyone hire a company like McKinsey to solve problems that they have no experience with? The people running the jail seem like a better starting point than a team who has never run or even seen a jail.
There was a lot of interest in this field in the late '90s over fears of Moore's Law eventually hitting a brick wall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
I don't think the argument I was addressing can be summed up as "X has worked". It's more like "X has happened, therefore X is an inevitable consequence of Y which preceded it."

Also, tropes are often tropes for a reason. You can't dismiss something just because it comes up often.
Haha I think that might be happening with me... do you suppose melatonin for a few nights a month would be a good idea to keep it stable?
To be clear, it's an advert for a literature review, that is 63 pages long and costs $10.
People who wish it to be difficult for millions or billions to read anything they deem "false" is accurately described as "a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims".
You had I believe 2 hours to do it during which there was an 'edit' link.
Hi!
If you want to learn programming, I'd recommend FreeCodeCamp, to learn the basics of Web Development. I found their course pretty great many years ago when I was getting started.

I hope you find it useful! Let me know if there's any other help I can give you.
Isn't it obvious? Winters in Scandinavia are dark and cold and nothing grows. A winter lasting multiple years would lead to starvation, so basically the end of the world. Especially if the sun and moon was eaten by a wolf.

But according to Völuspá, after the Fimbul winter there will be a big battle and the fire giant Surt will set the world on fire with his flaming sword. So you get both ice and fire!

If you are interested there is an English translation of Völuspá here: http://www.voluspa.org/voluspa.htm
> (For those unconvinced, I encourage to read about how the most viral and captivating content is often content that purposefully instills anger, fear, outgroup-hatred, schadenfreude, etc)

I call this "outrage porn" (not from me).
This was really enjoyable, thank you.
https://learnprogramming.online/ is a great place to start if you're looking to learn about web development
Yeah, every time I look at Roblox I get a bad taste in my mouth.

The game's business model is basically "like these Korean whale-milking RPGs, except we're outsourcing the development to 12-yo kids".

The games themselves are usually ports of popular games (Counter Strike, Day Z, Minecraft, etc) where the quality is... well, frequently amateurish, for obvious reasons. I suspect the reason these ports are so popular is that a huge portion of the audience is made of kids who can't convince their parents to buy them eg Call of Duty, so they play the Roblox version instead.

Which is all fine and good when we're talking about Little Big Planet levels or Minecraft maps, but becomes kind of exploitative when you see that their creators systematically use classic free-to-play tactics to get other players to fork over money. Money which, of course, is wrapped in an in-game currency designed to make players not realize the true value of what they're spending.

And since there's very little curation, almost no dev involvment whatsoever, and the creators are 12-yo kids who are amateur game designers at best, the idea that players get their money's worth is really dubious.

Honestly the whole thing feels like a pyramid scheme of sorts, where kids will be lured by the promise of making money by selling in-game items to other kids, and therefore will try to spread the game to as many people as possible in the hope of making more sales.

(The Unity Asset Store feels similar)
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https://farid.movsumov.workers.dev/ loads in 14ms for me in NY.
I think that the vast majority of humans would find it repulsive to cut the brain out of a living human being to avoid sentience and create some of of figleaf loophole to allow for the farming of human organs.

A sociopath running a company doing this would probably decide to cut costs anyway.

What’s the big deal with sentience anyway? I’m sure you could have McKinsey write a business case that allowing the market to decide what a healthy liver is worth would motivate people to sacrifice themselves for a more productive member of society.

Ethics matter.
You overlooked the two states of learning: focused and diffuse. Each is important. That was a big eye-opener for me as I used to blame my mind needing to take frequent breaks and thinking about other things on my inability to focus. Then I realized that it's just a natural way to learn.
Yes, you can use recovery mode to set the ‘permissive’ security policy, which “Does not enforce any requirements on the bootable operating system”.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl82829c17/...
Manufacturers usually just disable or limit features to get around this in markets like the EU.

For example you can not sell a new device that has FM only radio without support for DAB. So many manufacturers of mp3 players etc. disable the FM radio feature firmware for those markets.
good tool, but I cannot see a graph debugging tool is better than a normal CLI debugging tool. :)
That's great, I was using a Wacom tablet, and assumed that was the issue. This will help a lot, thank you.
This happens all the time at Google, though the mundane details of internal tech churn are not often publicized. Source: am Google employee.
Try making it a habit(Cue, Routine, Reward). After 3 decades on earth, I finally feel like I have a decent sleeping habit. Two things that worked for me, having a consistent schedule and creating a cue/trigger associated with sleep.

I started wearing ear plugs and facemask to sleep. I started wearing it because my partner usually sleeps much later than me. First couple night took some adjusting, but after a week or two. I realized something. I started falling asleep almost immediately after putting on the ear plugs and facemask. That's when I made the realization I unintentionally created a habit with the ear plugs and facemask as the cue.
One advantage Apple has is the massive collection of iPad apps available on the app store. The Android tablet app ecosystem is quite lacking in comparison.
> Microsoft then thought it was smart to require a registration (for $$$ iirc) just for starting to use the IDE. You could only push one app to your phone, tied to your dev account, at a time. Sideloading didn't exist. That probably helped adoption a lot /s.

Honestly, that probably didn't affect adoption a lot -- at least, not directly. Most users aren't developers. But it did probably scare off some developers, and the resulting lack of native apps probably hurt them quite a bit in the long run.
Shumway didn’t need to implement a full ActionScript virtual machine because it converted ActionScript bytecode to JavaScript and eval’ing it at runtime, leveraging both the JavaScript engine’s runtime and JIT.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Scandiwegian

First time I've heard of it as well. I like it.
By "value" one usually means that thing which is objectively measured in US dollars.
> As cliché as this may sound, people want to believe these things. So they believe them.

Right, and there we also see the answer. We need to move people to no longer want to believe the lies.

For example, if I believe that it's all a conspiracy by "them", then it's not my fault that I'm a failure. That's comforting. But it also follows that I'm helpless, and that things are never going to get better. That's... not so comforting. If someone shows me that, I may not want to believe that any more.

Now, that's a very slow process, and almost requires one-on-one interaction with lots of time. You can't do it in a drive-by post on the internet. Worse, even if you put in the time and effort, it still may not work. But I don't know of anything else that will, and this might work at least some of the time.
Wow, the guy who asked for McKinsey to consult:

> Anthony Shorris, and other aides decided to hire a consulting firm. They solicited proposals from firms on a pre-approved list from the previous administration. Despite its lack of corrections experience, McKinsey won the contract.

According to Wikipedia, he is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company.

Straight up money grab.
I'm not sure. I have learned in my treatments that stimulants the opposite effect on people with ADHD and calms them down. I don't suffer from that so I couldn't really say.
The problem is that the macOS SDK doesn’t ship pkgconfig files for the libraries included with macOS.

Unless you go the extra length, the “easy fix” is to compile your own version of those libraries which is fine until you need to be linked against a binary shipped with the OS (say you are trying to compile an Apache module).

At that point you will have conflicting symbol names between the binary that shipped with the OS and depends on its libraries and your binary that depends on the self-compiled libraries which might or might not have matching versions and/or custom patches.

Libedit, libxml2 and many others are samples of this. Their binaries are in-fact installed in read-only /usr as shipped by apple, but the matching include files live in the Developer folder of either the command line developer tools or Xcode.

No open source package will be able to link to the system libraries by default with this split and when all they support is pkgconfig, you’re SOL without additional manual work
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10686/?time...

Reduced security allows you to run any version of macOS, including the versions that are no longer signed by Apple.
No conspiracy is required. It works the same way holocaust denial does. Any individual person who support socialism is (via selection bias) incredibly likely to be a denier of the failures and humanitarian atrocities of 20th century socialism. If enough people espouse these revisionist opinions, you get to point where you can cast doubt over the facts of history amongst the general population. The only difference between holocaust deniers and socialist revisionists is that there's not enough people who hold holocaust denial views for them to be taken seriously by ordinary people. Depending on what polls you look at, about 40% of Americans think socialism is a good thing, and about half of the population would vote for a socialist president. So clearly your estimation of socialist influence is very understated.
How much plastic escapes into the environment for a typical car tyre in its lifespan?
It doesn't have to be a compromise in the design of the home. Almost nobody thinks of the inclusion of electrical wiring and sewer piping into modern houses as a compromise, even though they take up space and cost money. If there was a reasonable system for (say) a standardized robotic arm on a rail to cart itself around my house and do useful stuff that might be really nice and it can slowly grow as more appliances get adapted to the robot arm.
I don't know what flat earthers believe about gravity, but they do experience it the same as everyone else. They can drop an apple from height X and time how long it takes to hit the ground and come to the same conclusions as anyone else at least as far as the math is concerned.
It depends on the visibility of the tax to the final consumer, and its long run salience.

Take water meters, a current topic in NZ. Some cities don't have them, some do. When I was last in the industry (over a decade ago) research had tended to show that after introduction of meters (usually with price rises) there was a reduction in per-household demand. But over the course of a few years this reduction vanished: households were back on their old water consumption trend. Water wasn't a big enough cost to matter either way.

(Commercial consumers have always been metered, so there isn't a lot of evidence there. Those I looked at had good reasons for using as much water as they did.)

If producers have to absorb the tax, things will probably work out as you say. If they can pass it along without losing much demand, maybe not.
Why would years matter? Would it not depend on how many miles are driven? And under what driving and road conditions?
Are there git filesystems? If so, they could be a good comparison point too - gits PACK file format is pretty magic...
Totally new information. Libraries and databases for general use cases can be bloated and bad when compared to rolling your own code that's specifically for your domain. This is genius level thinking. I had no idea. Nobody on the face of the earth ever knew about this concept until this article appeared on HN, so this is absolutely revolutionary and will likely change the industry forever.

He gave it a metaphorical name from hiking too. "Stupid Light" and I'm just blown away at the incredible Einstein level imagination here.
No, it was designed to reduce crime and drug availability. Nobody would design a program with the goal of creating more crime.
Did you?

I did not find a single one.
Wouldn't device tree solve (or at least mitigate) this problem somewhat? e.g. most broadcom chips have the same I2C hardware block, just mapped to a different memory address.
From what I’ve seen it all comes down to org culture. Have a ball of mud that’s a nightmare, but senior engineers who are kind, empathetic, and enjoy mentoring, no problem. Have a perfect architecture written perfectly in $lang by elite devs that don’t have time for mentoring or collaboration, guaranteed failure.
I live by that blog post.