skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, unfortunately there is no safe harbor.

Companies can make mistakes or add backdoors and we won't know. See this clusterfuck.

Open Source, likewise, can make mistakes and (much more rarely) add backdoors, and we could know, but few have the resources to so. See heartbleed.
That does sound like a bug, and if that's what's going on it makes me question Apple's technical excellence if they forget to put a reasonable timeout on a network call in such a high-impact place. This bug is not really about privacy though.
Haven't finished reading it yet, but this is an interesting take. I'm curious to hear what other folks think.
I will agree there is a degree of culpability in the general population and a preference to deflect blame on both sides.

I would also agree that it is important to define what "rich" means since making class distinctions and comparisons does change the emphasis and logic considerably.

That said, the (ultra) wealthy tend to profit either way and prefer chaos because it puts an incredible downward pressure on the classes below them. That downward pressure minimizes the likelihood of future competition. It's a long game that only the (ultra) wealthy can afford to play.

Also, leverage is an important consideration. It's easier for a billionaire to leverage 1 billion dollars compared to 1 billion people leveraging 1 dollar. There would be measurable consequences either way, but that billionaire is in a much different position by having singular command of that wealth.
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When you watch FoxNews they call everything that’s not in line with them “far left”. It’s a cool trick to mark anybody only slightly left from them as extremist. And judging from conversations with FoxNews viewers it works like a charm.
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you'd have to compare it to the result of that same brain power doing something else.
Talking with customers is great start - partly an art and science. Unfortunately I did it wrong. In 2012, I had an idea and found two initial customers after calling 40+. talked with these two continuously till the product matures. They are super supportive, they gave all problem they face, exited to use the product as well. gave us good feedbacks and improvements, After 3 months of development, we showed a demo to other customers, very few shown interest. During our post analysis, we came to known that, these two customers have built a project for them. They've completely taken us away from a product to project. customization for few customers is also a bad thing to do. (they have paid me, what I need, but still I missed the great niche product, failed to scale to few thousand userbase with only common features). I should have talked and engaged with more customers and built only core features.
I can't help but wonder what awesome things happen in "iliad" and "ocean" mode after looking at some of those files:

application : pro, batch , iliad,oceans ;
Wonder no more! https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/7c2adbdb15d4efd25d92...

As most AI, it's regex and ifs all the way down.
We have experienced the same on multiple accounts
This seems like a larger system outage, we are seeing issues with Kinesis and Cloudwatch.
One thing I've noticed is the whole sale importation of the BLM movement to the UK. I'm not overly aware of the issue facing ethnic minorities in the UK (I live in Scotland where it's almost entirely white with some small asian communities, which isn't to say there isn't racism just few people to discuss it with personally) but from reading around racism in the UK is very different to the US. Despite this we've adopted BLM views wholesale, including call to defund the police.

I fully support discussing racism in the UK and what we can do to counter it but I don't get why we're discussing it as if it's the exact same situation over here with the same solutions. This might to a symptom of London centric-ness where there is far more ethnic diversity and therefore racism.
> Nope, as proven by performance tests,

> https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages

This shows latency, not memory consumption, as far as I can tell.

> If the language supports value types, e.g. D, and there is still memory overhead versus RC, then fire the developers or they better learn to use the language features available on their plate.

Memory overhead of certain types of garbage collectors (notably generational ones) is well-known and it's specified relative to the size of the heap that they manage. Using value types is of course a valid point, regarding how you should use the language, but it doesn't change the overhead of the GC, it just keeps the heap it manages smaller. If the overhead was counted against the total memory use of a program, then we wouldn't be talking about the overhead of the garbage collector, but more about how much the garbage collector is actually used. Note that I'm not arguing against tracing GCs, only trying to keep it factual.
Never really considered it before, but a cool by product of this research is the high-energy-density beamline development. This could have many interesting applications, including deep space internet and power transmission ;)

The L4n laser beamline of the P3-installation: Towards high-repetition rate high-energy density physics at ELI-Beamlines

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0022120
During one of those rabbit hole journeys I discovered that Dutch Tax authorities use MPS, a DSL creation language/tool by JetBrains [1]

It makes me wonder, why haven't DSLs caught up? Their claim that it allows developers spend more time implementing the business logic makes sense. But somehow that promise hasn't been realised. I'm curious to know from those who tried DSLs.

[1]
https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/documentation/
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> In an interview with journalist Kara Swisher’s podcast for the New York Times Opinions network released on Monday, Clinton spoke about losing in 2016 because of a “disinformation campaign” run by then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and “Russian media." She even claimed the election was “stolen” from her. [0]

> Hillary Clinton dismissed President Trump as an “illegitimate president” and suggested that “he knows” that he stole the 2016 presidential election in a CBS News interview to be aired Sunday. [1]

[0]: https://londondaily.com/i-was-born-for-that-hillary-clinton-...
[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...
I'm not an economist, but to me it looks like academic economists are turning more and more to validating their theories with data. As a field, it looks like its shifting towards greater empiricism. This is likely due to the deluge of data available that previous generations of economists didn't have access to.

So that makes me curious, what aspects of economics seems fraudulent in your opinion?
Not really. Leafy greens are expensive in the store for what you get: a lot of labor required, and spoil quickly after harvest. It makes sense to automate indoors. Most crops need a lot more space, and a lot less labor. Indoor farming is not economical for these.

Don't get me wrong: there are a number of crops where it makes sense. They are an important source of nutrients (and taste!), but a poor source of calories overall.
Another example of dated performance ideas, linked lists aren't even better for many of their theoretically better use cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo

Slides and missing graph on slide 45 available at: https://sec.ch9.ms/ecn/events/GoingNative12/GN12Cpp11Style.p...
In my experience IPFS is only fast when you're using it through something like Cloudflare's IPFS proxy (which is basically a caching proxy). I haven't found IPFS to be actually usable any time I've tried running a node myself.

Is that unusual?
No, the media should not be pro government. Yes, the media should be against the government first and should criticize and be sceptical on whatever the government is doing. And if after checking the facts, the government seems to be doing good, it's okay to compliment. But media should never be pro government.
What country are you in? Can you get a government issued ID there? In the US you can get a drivers license or even a non-driving ID even if you aren't a citizen. I'm sure other countries have something similar.
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Our security posture requires that I purchase support for all software that we run in production. There are very few organizations offering support for Airflow and they aren't cheap.
Thats the whole point, the propaganda is also disinformation and making other issues seem a lot more decisive and important than what really affects the people. The propaganda makes them vote against their interests
Just to give myself some perspective on this: New York City consumes something like 100 TWh/year (sources differ by a factor of 2 or so). That's 100,000 GWh/year, so this is about 1/4 of 1% of the consumption of a megacity.

For another calculation, that's enough energy to drive a 250 Wh/mile electric car for 1 billion miles.

Neither of these is really a practical calculation. I was just trying to get a notion of scale.
Is there a single Java application with a good UI? Apache is fixated on Java, and Java seems to only attract a certain kind of developer. Even Java web applications, which aren't constrained by available UI toolkits, tend to look like they were written in Java (for example, all the AWS UIs). I think the language fails to attract design/UI/UX people.
Do errors give a result?
I wonder if you could find hospitals today by hanging meat (or some sensors) around cities. Just as factories can issue clouds of soot or other pollution, could hospitals be emitting clouds of bacteria?
Damn, I knew these are fast (from reviews, from pros) , but I was happy with my mid 2012 MacBook pro ,and all its modularity, even if it doesn't open 100 tabs or open 7 simultaneous , or lasts for 3-4 hours max without charging.

but Man, these "user" reviews are making me drive towards a purchase and its going to punch a hole in my wallet!

looks apple has reinvented the chips / processors
A strange choice given that distributing copyrighted materials violates the IPFS Code of Conduct [0]. Why not use BitTorrent whose attitude toward copyright is much more in sync with libgen's?

[0] https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduc...
Both parties campaign on fixing healthcare.

After the latest fixes, insurance for a self employed family of four is about $25k a year after insurance and deductibles.
That's some pretty awesome engineering thinking: don't have a theory to explain phenomena? No problem, still can do useful things without it!
Nobody is getting fired (at our org at least). We have to purchase support for Airflow due to security policy. AWS is much cheaper than any alternatives.
Accurately. The key word in there was "accurately".
I think this is just background knowledge he assumed the reader would have. Basically every national politician whose name you recognize is wealthy.
Soon Jainism will become popular, is my prediction. Someone will package twigs and leaves as a Jainist snack pack and make a fortune.... I'd better get started! /s
I worked at Goldman for a few years. I would suggest doing something like that.
Sure, lemme give you an example:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cavuto-dtcp-00

This protocol was created so that monitoring infrastructure could reprogram asic-based packet filters on collection routers (optical taps feed routers with half-duplex-mode interfaces), which grab sampled netflow plus specific targets selected by downstream analysis in realtime. It has to be extremely fast so that it can race TCP handshakes.

I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to say that the technical components of almost all the mass surveillance infrastructure is described in open sources. Yes, they don't put "THIS IS FOR SPYING ON ALL THE PEOPLE" on it, but they also don't even bother reliably scrubbing sigint terms like "tasking". Sometimes the functionality is described under the color of "lawful intercept", though not always.

One of the arguments that people made against the existence of widescale internet surveillance -- back before it was proved to exist-- was that it would require so much technology that it would be impossible to keep secret: the conspiracy would have to be too big. But it wasn't kept secret, not really-- we just weren't paying attention to the evidence around us.

For a related patent example: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8031715B1 which has fairly explicit language on the applications:

> The techniques are described herein by way of example to dynamic flow capture (DFC) service cards that can monitor and distribute targeted network communications to content destinations under high traffic rates, even core traffic rates of the Internet, including OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-192, and higher rates. Moreover, the techniques described herein allow control sources (such as Internet service providers, customers, or law enforcement agencies) to tap new or current packet flows within an extremely small period of time after specifying flow capture information, e.g., within 50 milliseconds, even under high-volume networks.

> Further, the techniques can readily be applied in large networks that may have one or more million of concurrent packet flows, and where control sources may define hundreds of thousands of filter criteria entries in order to target specific communications.
both sides push for higher immigration and a globalized market, which have more effect on wage-earners in the US than any policy in "Democratic states". Imo you are missing the forest thru the trees, at scale they really are the same.
I agree with the central thesis -- we should be shaking hands with our neighbors and looking to take back power and wealth from the rich.

But how do you get neighbors to shake hands when one believes that gay marriage is truly evil and another is gay?

Both sides in America constantly fight bitterly over identity politics and it seems like many of those identities are irreconcilable with one another.

I'm non binary and use singular they, and I've had some absolutely incredible vitriol directed at me for nothing beyond, "hi, I'm name. I use they/them pronouns. Nice to meet you!" How do we get past the part where people decide it's ok to tell me I should be sterilized or committed, and get to the point where we start turning towards the capital class together?
Wonderful! The ubiquitous private police state.
I'd love to try a Vue/Nuxt equivalent of this, if anybody's looking for a side project idea.
I'm paraphrasing Nima Arkani-Hamed in a lecture where he talks about the value of doing fundamental research, but I wasn't able to find a concrete link to it in 30 minutes of skimming on youtube, since there are many many hours of those lectures to go through.
If IP addresses couldn't in some cases accurately track users, then it wouldn't be a priority to build a network that obscured them.
Some developers just write bad documentation. Some spend so much time in the weeds that when it comes time to write the documentation, they write a garbled string of words that tries to address all of the edge cases with not enough emphasis on the core usage. Others don't know how to express the concept of a feature in a simple and straightforward manner.

As a member of a Developer Experience team, I can confidently say that good documentation does not require a "certified" technical writer. Good API documentation just requires that another person, who has not worked on the feature, review the documentation in code review.

As a founder, it should be important to you that your business is providing the best possible value to your customers. If your business is providing an API, then you should cater to the developers who will be consuming that API as much as you are catering to the executives who will be signing the paperwork.
Apple has said they plan to do this, and also encrypt the checking payload. Sounds good to me, though definitely a privacy failure that they didn't do this in the first place.

The other thing I'd like to see is the app open immediately, w/ the check happening asynchronously in the background. (This seems like super-basic good engineering to me.) No idea if they're planning to fix that or not.
This is turning out to be a bit of a similar case as the iPhone battery degradation performance throttling issue. Instead of clearly messaging what they were doing to your phone, they did things behind the scenes because they knew better, and decided not to give the user the choice to run the phone at full performance.
Thank you. great resources.
ok... thanks... that probably means I shd actually read the things I comment on....
>I always think that if everyone lived and thought like these guys, our environment would be recovering nicely.

That's the problem.

>to achieve a rather peasant-level existence.

Without massive, massive disruption to the way people live, this is not a thing that will happen.

This is why I'm very negative about the prospects of climate change and the future. I don't think there will be a stomach to change to a lifestyle that supports climate improvements until such time as we're already fighting world wars over land, water, and food.

We also run tours, but in conjunction with the local state university extension office, for free. We could charge, but that defeats the purpose of getting the principals we believe in out to the world.

That is not a moral judgment on the people running the one near you. My partner and I have full-time jobs that support our lifestyle - the 'farmette' is just a hobby.
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How about when connecting an external monitor? My 2019 Mac Book Pro will get very hot after a few minutes and many people report the same.
“On Earth” is the problem with the argument. If any alien life exists, the one place it isn’t is Earth. A super-Earth in a Goldilocks orbit around a K1V star would keep atmosphere and water for longer.

Eventually they too will become uninhabitable, but the relevant question about alien life is not “eventually” but rather “now”.
I find it interesting. I make no claims for relevance.

Knowing the 33 bits trivium, I was curious what the equivalent was for individual spatial locations. The maths are easy and GNU units near.

You're right that trying to ascertain the number of bits contributed by any one item of data is difficult. I broke that down in part in a reply to the Reddit comment (after posting here): knowing the feature was in Utah (280k km^2) and having the flight track probably narrowed the region to about a 10km square (100 km^2) region ... which still contained 10,000 10m^2 areas. The geographic clues were enough to find the specific one. It's easier to work backwards and determine how much information was deduced by given data, based on search space eliminated.

Keep in mind that "expertise in geography, geology, etc." is specifically the capability of extracting geospatial information from available data. This could have included, say, sun height and angle based on date and time (exif image data frequently encodes this, if not geolocation itself), cues from aircraft noise in live video (mentioned in another geolocation example within the thread), correlated with flight data.

In 2001, the likely approximate location of Osama bin Laden was claimed by a geologist who was familiar with rock formations shown in a video. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1608272.stm

That claim seems to be accurate --- Al Qaeda forces were found in the Tora Bora cave complex in the region.

The practical upshot is that if you know where something is and don't want others to know the location, virtually any information leakage can be critical.

For your crowd example, much depends on the number of suspects you already have. The question is usually one of mapping between two sets --- which of the blurry foreheads matches which another set of interest. Determining intersections is key to ost investigations.

And more generally, almost any process of discovery can be modled as searching through a space. The more irrelevant targets are excluded, the smaller the remaining space remains. Insight is exclusion. The search itself might not be binary in the classic sense, but it is one of ever narrowing scope.
Well, not killing the egg, but killing the developing chick inside the egg.

But you're right, it's just killing the chick earlier in its lifecycle, before it hatches. Analogous to aborting a human while in the womb, versus killing it shortly after birth.
You might try reading the article. One example was a large software build taking ~25% less time on a 13" MBP than on a 12-core Mac Pro.

I'm curious about FP/vector performance, but I'm pretty sure it's fine. I'm definitely eyeing a MBP myself! 20 hours of video playback? Crazy...
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That's fine for you, but then it's disingenous for you to post your example without mentioning that.

It makes it unrepresentative and doesn't contribute anything useful to the conversation about memory requirements for normal operation.
And consuming those things, then accepting their premise and message wholesale, is a personal choice.
I'm getting tired of that bullshit. Just admit it.
Productivity is relative. A tech stack that might give you some easy early gains might fail you at 3 a.m. when the site's down and you have no idea how to fix it. Your code might contain some basic security errors that you would have avoided had you gone with a stable, vetted framework, and now hackers have all your customer data (see for example Parler). Recruitment in tech X is much harder because there's nobody around with decent experience in it.

These are all problems that you really don't want when your focus needs to be on the business. By all means adopt new tech where there is a real business need, and by all means avoid obsolete tech where you can, but be wary of the siren call of the cool tech stack when you're starting a new company.
"One factor in the irrational defence could be a kind of psychological protection of investment." The Author of this publication is clearly invested deeply in Apple ecosystem as a developer. One of the reasons that I consider using Mac OS behind hardware firewall in the future is clear realisation of this process. This telemetry malpractice clearly must be prevented by legislative measures. Trust is earned by transparency, not by some kind of Security slogans.
I'm actually planning on buying a big chunk of land in a rural part of Rhode Island and building a house there heh.