skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I love about these arguments is how arbitrary they are as to when the location has reached it's pinnacle of awesomeness and should be frozen in time from then on.

"Manhattan was once a Dutch colony. Those horrible gentrifiers in Harlem need to get the fuck out, now! Harlem is for the Dutch! Colonialism!!!"

The lack of self-awareness is thoroughly amusing. Racist white people in city centers could have made the exact same complaint as their neighborhoods gradually shifted to more and more minority occupants. At the end of the day, your just Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York. "Keep the invading hordes out! This is OUR land!"
Life is full of risk and trade-off’s. I document my grievances on the About page.

Asymptotic transmission is real (per the CDC) so I’ll accept that as fact. Ultimately if you view yourself as a high risk then it should be a personal responsibility to protect yourself. I believe my family and I to be low risk - citizens should be free to decide their tolerance for risk and act accordingly. Other families across the country and world have similar feelings about health.

I’m frustrated watching small business owners get crushed, bad their employees lose their livelihood.

There is significant damage being done with shutdowns and lockdowns that is with great chance worse than this disease itself.
Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19
> it lacks upgradability. It's really nice to be able to swap out RAM and/or GPU.

Honestly, it doesn't. You just swap it for a new one and sell the old one.

When you have 8GB, you pay another 8GB and end up with 16.

In this case, you just sell you SoC with 8GB, and but another SoC with 16GB. You'll only pay out the difference.

This is pretty much how you upgrade a relatively recent phone works too.
Some amount of human labor will be required for operations, say maintenance of the in-situ automated systems, or intervention when things go wrong. These costs can't be eliminated with renewable energy, and won't be fixed with robots for some time yet (decades, minimum).

And if a mine can be automated to yield orders of magnitude more material than recycling for the same labor costs, you would need some other financial incentive (government subsidies, backroll by Tesla for marketing purposes) to make it viable.
Have you had the apple pies recently?

Their original awesome ones had been replaced with ones that looked like and tasted like cardboard for years... but at least for the past couple years they've had a new recipe that's seriously delicious. It's not the old deep-fried heart attack, but it's a light fluffy pastry and the inside actually tastes like it's made of real apples!
So they don't have to deal with law enforcement. Law enforcement requests tie up a bunch of resources, while also being bad publicity; E2EE lets them wipe their hands of the problem.

At least until governments start implementing laws like Australia's Assistance and Access law, which compels companies to add back-doors on request.
Some peers of mine are considering hopping back in soon to lock-in a lower rate before things get back to normal.
What kernel are you on and what steps did you take to get ZFS running? I can't seem to get it up and running.
That is an incredibly charitable interpretation of what Shaw said.

He paints a picture of a future where 80% of the population earns third-world wages unless they "compete for the kinds of jobs that are going to be at the top end".

Three minutes later, he rudely interrupts another speaker to argue against "one computer per student" on the grounds that system administration makes it too expensive and students shouldn't learn to sysadmin because its not a "high end" skill.

Basically, he wants an oligarchy and is unwilling to say it. It is interesting that his protege is doing more than any living person to make his neofeudal vision a reality.
I'm sorry, but aren't you pointing out the obvious? Of course 2 people make more money than one. Are you saying that the individual that is married makes more than a single college educated person?

Also I'd question that statistic - the older you are the more likely you are married and more likely you are further in your career.
ScaleQuail
For anyone curious, I spent a lot of time describing the protocol in intuitive ways[2] in the book Real-World Cryptography[1].

Having spent a lot of time reviewing Signal and secure messaging applications as part of my job, I wanted to be able to explain how the protocol worked in the most educative way possible. feedback is welcomed :D

[1]: https://www.manning.com/books/real-world-cryptography?a_aid=...

[2]: https://livebook.manning.com/book/real-world-cryptography/ch...
Apple has always billed their big selling point in terms of performance per watt. That narrative might change.

I suspect even if the 16" Pro has more modest performance gains than the Air, it will still have massively better battery life. The iMac and Apple's bigger devices have a lot of thermal and power headroom to make up for the shortcomings of Intels CPUs.
Live oral exams can be an effective method of assessment. They can also be confounded by the testee's charisma. (See: any discussion of programming interviews, which are live oral exams.[1])

They do have the advantage of degrading fairly gracefully from in-person examination to remote examination.

They're also tremendously expensive compared to a test given en masse.

[1] Oral exams in a school setting would feel much fairer to people than programming interviews do, mainly because you know what to expect on an exam in a class you just took.
yo just adding my two cents here regarding the presentation.

I am sure this is the coolest thing going because we all know the quality of your work.

If the idea is to get new people playing with the library it would really help simplifying everything. I do actually like the idea of adopting a landing page style design... (hinted at in some of the other comments_ there are reasons why they work.

the website feels cryptic and doesn't give a point of entry ("start here", "look at this thing doing something")

there is way too much text in my opinion, its more of a showcase of commits and terminology than of the project.
> "Apple can pull it off because they already own entire stack from hardware to operating system to cloud services and the can swap out a component like CPU for a different architecture and release new version of OS that supports it."

Note that this is the same model that Sun Microsystems, DEC, HP, etc. had and it didn't work out for them.

I'd venture to say that it currently only works out for Apple because Intel has stumbled very, very badly and TSMC has pulled ahead in fabbing process technology. If Intel manages to get back on its feet with both process enhancements and processor architecture (and there's no doubt they've had a wake up call), this strategic move could come back to bite Apple.
Congratulations - it's great to see the code unification on the two key ZFS platforms, and continuing to add useful features, especially around at-rest encryption.

Many thanks to the various OpenZFS contributors.
I'm certain lens which I have, it's the same as Jeff's. It works just fine as a webcam with the object of focus in the centre.
but thats not really btrfs, thats LVM. I use BTRFS directly on physical disks and dont use pvs, vgs or lvs.
There are plenty of places where you can find affordable housing in the US. Are marriage rates the same there?
Eigen Grandito – Principal Components Analysis of the Taco Bell Menu
OP calculates the Eigen Grandito, which is named after the Onion article, "Taco Bell's Five Ingredients Combined In Totally New Way", which, in more mathematical terms, asserts that Taco Bell's dishes are all linear combinations of the same ingredients.

Actual code is here

http://www.limerent.com/projects/2020_11_EigenGrandito/

but discussion is surprisingly interesting.
I’m curious how they ensure every developer is using the same versions of things, as well as how they manage dev dependencies and transitive dependencies.

pip + venv + requirements.txt doesn’t solve this out of the box while most languages have common tools that do. Either they’ve rolled their own way to manage these things, or they’re rolling the dice every time they deploy.
It still shows up as "tweet unavailable" for me, though, in this link
Spot on. Exactly this. It’s like pre-iPhone when people just assumed you had a laptop and a cellphone. Then Apple said “phone computer!” and changed the game. Same with iPad just less innovation shock. Meanwhile we continued to have this delineation of computer / phone while under the hood - to a hardware engineer - it’s all the same. Naturally the chips they produced for iOS-land are beasts. My phone is faster than the computer I had 5 years ago. My M1 air is just a freak of nature. On par with high end machines but passively cooled and cheaper. I’m still kinda in awe. Not a big fan of the hush hush on Apple Silicon causing us all to play catch-up for support, but that’s Apple’s track record I guess.

The M1 is all the things they learned from the A1-A12 chips (or whatever the ordering) which is over a decade of tweaking the design for efficiency (phone) while giving it power (iPad).
They say in the article that AMD "can't" build more than 4 decoders. Is that really true? It could mean:

* we can't get a budget to sort it out

* 5 would violate information theory

* nobody wants to wrestle that pig, period

* there are 20 other options we'd rather exhaust before trying

When they've done 12 of those things and the other 8 turn out to be infeasible, will they call it quits, or will someone figure out how to either get more decoders or use them more effectively?
Is this a scientific advance or a technological one though? Academia doesn't have the capital like industry or government to implement the latter. In America it's small small groups of young students led by a professor. Not full grown PhDs with Google levels of staff and money.
I don’t really care about money at all above and beyond what I need to live. But, I do have hobbies and side projects and it does matter to me that my output is useful to someone. If I make a unity asset, or an effects pedal, I want someone to use and enjoy it, otherwise it feels like wasted time. Maybe the author is using money as a proxy for usefulness? I think that above a certain point material goods stop being that interesting to most people. You can explore the world on a motorcycle on a budget of 1000 dollars and have just as much fun as doing it in a private jet. Probably more. But to do interesting things and feel like ones work is appreciated is a fundamental human urge.
Also, since the text is only in the video's substitles, I can't even translate it.

I've no idea how to figure out what this is about.

Not everyone knows french.
This developer has written a collection of gadgets for coding in Common Lisp, consisting of various convenience macros and such. Links to these are nicely grouped and collected here:

https://www.hexstreamsoft.com/libraries/

Notwithstanding all of the hoopla surrounding that user's behavior, and inflated claims of his own importance, it is obvious to me that code like:

https://github.com/Hexstream/place-utils/blob/master/main.li...

shows some solid Lisp skills.
There's been a whole ecosystem of homebrew Kindle software on and off for a while, some of which add some nice functionality like a better PDF reader. Not sure about current status of efforts, but I played around with it a few years ago and it was reasonably lively back then.

Amazon offers a "subsidized" version with some minimal ads that is $20 cheaper, that suggests to me that they are selling it at cost or at least near it. Incidentally, I kinda like the ads... they aren't intrusive (to me at least) and they have actually have given me some decent recommendations before.
You can live that kind of life now, but it's not the default. You'd have only one car. You wouldn't have the latest anything, whether car, computer, or sneakers. You might not even have cable. But yes, I think you can do it. In fact, my cousin-in-law has done so. (He may have an AA degree - not sure.)
AMD Zen3 outperforms everything Intel has in single threaded performance.

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-5950x-16-core-zen-3-cpu-obl...

Or are you saying that some operations like FMAs for example are hard to keep a high utilization for?
wow, i did this in 2015 https://twitter.com/kcimc/status/619889224909750272 https://gist.github.com/kylemcdonald/da198988061dce54bae6a67... it's great to see all the examples in this thread going all the way back to 2009! i had no clue this was a thing.
Yea, the WSB crowd is having a field day with this one. Calling in Theranos 2.0
The RaspberryShake team makes a high-quality "Raspberry Boom" infrasound detector for hobbyists. Next Krakatoa, you can be prepared to detect it yourself. :)

The "RBOOM" sensor alone is $300+, but you can also buy a kit and integrate it into a Raspberry Shake home seismometer setup. I run a RS seismometerat home, but not the infrasound sensor.

"From incoming harsh weather, planes flying overhead, gun fire and nuclear testing, to volcanoes erupting on remote islands in the Pacific Ocean and meteors exploding over the Atlantic… See all these and more. Discover the untold secrets that are out there with your own RBOOM!"

For sale: https://raspberryshake.org/products/raspberry-boom/

Lots more info in the user manual: https://manual.raspberryshake.org/boom.html
In this case you just do it from scratch :) I didn't use any external libraries. You generate a PPM image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm and then open the image from anything that opens a ppm image (open in mac works)
As with everything that involves user data, it’s much easier to implement something that doesn’t have access to it. Otherwise you run the risk of data breach, FCC fines, government abuses (around the world), and so on.
When the Snowden leaks came out it was a surprise to Google that the government had tapped the data center to data center connections, as these were private and not thought to be tapped. Eventually all traffic between data centers was encrypted to prevent eavesdropping.

Internally there was a lot of animosity towards the three letter agencies for tapping our lines, so part of the rational was sticking it to them.

Also, once you hire a security engineer for one thing they tend to be pretty vocal about other security issues. They can often stir up enough trouble that it's easier just to add the extra encryption.

Adding this encryption to Google's messenger was probably a couple person-years of effort. So, like, 0.00001% of the budget?
Even better, just make a beer hat add on for your VR headset
Hopium is strong in RobinHood bag holders. See: already bankrupted Hertz shares.
Right, but I wouldn't characterize that as problematic messages...rather problematic handling, or systemic issues with load. I.e., my fix does not change the format of the messages. Semantics, perhaps, but a difference between "this design decision of Erlang's caused me problems" and "this architectural/design decision of mine caused me problems"
I'm frustrated too.

But I think your point is strong enough to be presented without exaggeration or misleading.
People Can Be Dishonest About Work
First, how did you generate that requirements file?

Second, how do you separate dev dependencies from prod dependencies, and how do you update a dependency and ensure all of its transitive dependencies are resolved appropriately?
> had my fair share of uncheatable open book exams, calculators allowed back in college. One I had on Calculus (or was it Linear Algebra?) was way harder than a comparable closed book exam. You really needed to know the subject to pass vs just memorizing a couple of formulas and plugging them in the right place.

You can always just pay someone to do it for you.
Facework: Face analysis meets the gig economy
Hi, I see you just arrived from 1980. Welcome to our century! Here in our time, Americans eat all kinds of ethnic foods and some people wear face masks. Thai food is currently in vogue, we now have a spicy sauce called Sriracha (born in the USA), and you can get jalapeño poppers at fast food joints. Oh, and the food trucks! The President made a campaign promise to have a taco truck on every corner!
Net Neutrality regulations as debated a few years ago were never going to apply to wireless service providers.
If someone can figure out how to cheat on an exam where each answer depends on the previous, and the original seed is unique to each student, wouldn't it show a pretty thorough mastery of the subject matter?

I think the larger point is that it is fairly easy in any subject to design a test that is very hard to cheat on. It is much harder to find the resources in modern education to grade that test since each submission is likely unique.

Tests that are easy to grade (like multiple choice), tend to be tests that are easy to cheat....
No clue on that one, sorry. I’ve been using Purify[1] for ages, but have no clue if it blocks JS - I suspect it blocks only some JS, because my experience of the web isn’t trash while using it, but I do have to disable it sometimes to use the heavily animated navigation systems that some sites implement.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/purify-block-ads-and-tracking/...
In a good way. It’s kind of like trying pizza for the first time. You can live fine without ever doing it, but it’s fucking great, and it has created countless connections between people. I’m not sure how else to describe it, but I think everyone should try it once in their life.
Yes, for example your key could be stolen through electromagnetic eavesdropping (Cryptography Research had an amazing demo of a practical side-channel attack at the RSA conference one time), but that doesn't mean that all of your message contents are exposed that way. Or, malware on your phone could exfiltrate your key but not all of your messages because that would somehow be more suspicious/noticeable, like if you were on a metered mobile data connection.

But if the attacker is a government or has otherwise compromised telco infrastructure, the attacker might already have copies of your old encrypted traffic -- which, without forward secrecy, it could use.

I think the context of the claim in the article is pretty much only for the "government physically seizes your phone and examines its contents" scenario: but even for that scenario, a user might choose to selectively delete specific messages without deleting all of them (e.g. Signal allows you to delete an entire "conversation" with a specific person).

So in this threat model, either way, we also need to look into whether Signal successfully overwrites the content and metadata of the messages it deletes on the mobile device storage, because the government attacker would use forensic tools to try to undelete that data. I don't know the answer to that.
And, now, those notes sell for over $100 each in uncirculated condition, simply because it's denominated in "dollars" and has the largest numerical denomination history. Had you bought one in 2001, when they were worth $5 apiece, that would have yielded you a CAGR of around 40%. Sometimes, I kind of want to kick myself for missing out on that train. :)
That wouldn’t be smart because they don’t get to know if they got the vaccine or the placebo.
> For additional security/privacy, open these apps in a separate/sand boxing browser.

For sandboxing webapps in Android I recommend this app: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.tobykurien.webapps
DRAM is already commoditized for decades. Highly competitive and pushing prices and margins low, with occasional crises that allow some manufacturers to get a windfall.

Apple has no interest to be in that market, unlike the CPU market, which is a high margin, high product differentiator business, it really hard to sell your design as outstanding when the guy next door sells a laptop with the same CPU at half the price.
Common knowledge is that going wider quickly hits diminishing returns so generally there hasn't been a lot of pressure for x86 to go wider.

It seems to be working for Apple though possibly because they are targeting differen trade offs (lower clock speed for example); but maybe their secret is a better modelling of common workloads revealing this common knowledge to be outdated.
> but having to mess with the kernel has kept me from attempting it so far. Maybe I'm worrying about nothing.

For the most part, yes. Occasionally a kernel developer who seems to be bitter about a company that doesn't exist any more tries to break compat with ZFS, but it's generally smooth sailing on Fedora, Debian, and CentOS, with dkms handling the building of modules seamlessly.
> This all seems absurd to me, it's been much easier to just write a one-liner inline script to hook blur, focus, visibilitychange, and onkeydown and log the userid when the event happens.

If you're curious, this is exactly what Canvas does to detect foul play (although they don't advertise it for that, it just goes into the log)[0][1]. Schools don't think it's good enough, so they spend thousands on these more invasive solutions.

[0]: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I...
[1]: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/blob/master/public...
It would help in not having to deal with court orders for data... being able to reply to all requests with "unable to comply" would save time.
It is not always either/or.

It is not always A versus B.

These fallacies are too common.
Yep; as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm not discounting mailboxes filling faster than you can handle them, but rather the idea that you have 'problematic mails in the mailbox' - I've never had problematic mail in the mailbox. I've certainly seen mailboxes grow, because they were receiving messages faster than I was processing them, and i had to rethink my design. But that isn't an issue with the mail going into the mailbox; that's an issue with my not scaling out my receivers to fit the load. As I mentioned elsewhere, that may seem like semantics, but to me it isn't; it means the language's working that way makes sense, and it's rather an issue that I created a bottleneck with no way to relieve the pressure (as compared to messages that can't be handled and just sit there causing receives to take longer and longer over time).
We already have something I think, the National vaccine Injury Compensation program

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html

Essentially the government runs the trial.
This even online where sex and ethnicity have no value but where topic groups or online clique’s are formed.
For a manufacturer on the whole it’s a negligible issue. It’s simply a fact that Apple devices have longer average lifetimes and lower overall environmental impact than any of the other manufacturers. Hence the Greenpeace rating. If you actually care about the environment, as you claim, the choice is clear.

What you are doing is picking a single marginal factor that can make a difference in rare cases, but is next to irrelevant in practice, and raising that above the total environmental impact of the whole range of devices. That’s just absurd.
Maybe they've used the transistors freed up from not having to support a legacy ISA.
> Is there a reason to look at poetry if you've got the pip/virtualenv combination working fine?

You probably have a bunch of scripts that do what poetry does (either that, or you repeat the same commands over and over A LOT).

Switching to poetry might have some initial overhead, but a big upside is that you stop using custom, internal tooling, and use something industry-standard. Importantly, it makes it easier for you to understand external projects (since you're familiar with the standard tooling), and faster to onboard newcomers.