skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you are the one who has been constantly exposed to lies, and doubt everything that is true?

The only way you can have a free exchange of ideas is if people are allowed to disagree, and yes this includes basic "facts" of reality.

You think speech should be censured, removed, and controlled? Okay, your speech first.
I really like Playwright, there is less magic and it simply works: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

Especially with this test runner: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-test
I use DDG as my default and it gets me 90% of the way there. Sometimes when I search for programming syntax and I know there is one canonical answer that should be the top link, DDG doesn't show up but google does. My !g bangs have become rare now. Becoming used to a new search engine was worth the trade in privacy in my opinion.
>Things with just 1 vendor tend to be completely ignored, if they're meant to be used throughout the company.

I disagree. I work in such a company and they are always looking for one and only one vendor for their millions of PCs. It used to be Dell, now HP but they completely outsource procurement, maintenance, repairs and disposal of the computers to that one full-service provider.

Apple wouldn't be considered because they don't offer this full-spectrum service.
How would you use it to solve the halting problem?
Compare Samsung Galaxy S21 vs. Galaxy S21 vs. Galaxy S21 Ultra
My Journey with Elixir and Flow-Based Programming
After raid on Covid whistleblower, it’s revealed password was on FL DoH website
Yes totally botched. We know because have can compare to Kotlin, a project which started around the same time. Google's migration to Kotlin has been progressing very well with no disaster stories like this one. Kotlin was engineered very carefully, developers love it, it scales well and importantly it can be incrementally added to existing codebases because interop is nearly perfect. So the risk to adopt it is far lower. Sounds like Uber got burned with Swift and now aren't really adopting Kotlin which is understandable but IMO a mistake.
Thanks - I wasn’t actually aware of this but I meant to write “elementary” rather than “exact” so I’m glad you brought this up. I had supposed there was probably some incantation of special functions that solved the equation :)

It’s been a long time since I’ve studied ODEs and mathematical physics but this solution seems easier than I had guessed (in the sense that it’s accessible to advanced undergrads instead of specialists).
I understand that you're talking about postgraduate studies. I was thinking more about undergrad: where the parents are expected to pay for their kids studies.

Tuition is already 80€ per month, and even that is waived if you come from a low-income family. But how is someone earning 600€/mo supposed to send someone to college when rooms cost at the very least 350-400€/mo? Plus living expenses, 150€ the bare minimum. Even if you apply for financial aid (which you will get) the amount is woefully inadequate to face this rising costs. The result is that poor families cannot send their kids to uni. That's not democracy, freedom, or equality.

Also those 225£, what fraction is that of the minimum/median household income?
Journalists tend to have an over-inflated sense of self-importance. They even created an entire section of society for themselves ("The Fourth Estate") because being a commoner wasn't good enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
"Microsoft makes no mention of the attack hitting browsers running macOS or Linux, so it's likely this campaign affects only Windows users"

So, we have to assume it attacks all OSs, typical M$ FUD.
Yeah I don't see how this is anything except a correlation, and the article is so sparse on analysis and data that it seems more misleading than informative. I've read before that exercising your mental capacity can also have a protective effect against loss of cognition in later life. I wonder if this study has any evidence that these food choices (lamb, wine, and cheese) are anything except a correlation for something that more intellectual people might tend to eat. The possibility wasn't even addressed, and no mechanism was suggested to explain why these foods would prevent cognitive decline.

And then this line: "That said, I believe the right food choices can prevent the disease and cognitive decline altogether. "

Really? That's a bold claim and I'd love to know what it is based on.
Given the whole 'rona situation, I think this year, any increase is good, at my job, nobody in the entire company got increase, not even the inflation, so we're basically working for less the next year. I'd probably stick it out and see if not next year brings something better.
China’s Radical New Vision of Globalization
> I never really understood the combination of noise cancellation and home use only.

Open plan office spaces and public transport, including airplanes ;-)

Outside, that's a different story.
Securing the Post-Quantum World
If everyone is being manipulated how do you stop misinformation in a fair manner? We can't even agree on what is information and what is misinformation. Surely you understand how stopping misinformation is bad if people can't agree on what it actually is, right?
DIY Dynamic DNS with Netlify API and Bash
yes, you've articulated it better than I did. It took me a long time to come to shift to this way of working and it made a huge difference to my productivity and stress levels.
There's a whole lot of terrible screaming when you kill people, unless you restrict their ability to speak :) Very unpalatable, even to the executioner.
LBRY is a great Youtube alternative and it's missing from the list
I don't see how this addresses anything in the parent comment? Are you trying to say they can't define assault weapons as including semi-automatics?
Can you share examples of Brave having a poor privacy record?

I've recently switched to it as my main browser, enjoy using it and have recommended to others who want to opt-out of the Google ecosystem. However, if there are examples of privacy abuse I may revisit.
Yes, this is still relatively expensive, but probably you could do it with less than $2000 including buying necessary tools.
I've heard similar statements in the past, but I think I lack the statistics knowledge to make sense of it. Would you mind expanding on that a little?

I.e., suppose that 3 of the questions were meant to test some theory that the researchers have, and the 21 other questions were thrown in for the reasons stated above.

Now suppose that the answers to the 3 seriously-chosen questions weren't predictive of long life, but 5 of the other 21 questions were predictive of long life.

It sounds like you're saying that somehow that 5-question correlation is bogus, but the 3-intentional-question correlation would be legitimate. But the only difference I see between the two groups is subjective: whether or not the researchers anticipated the questions being meaningful. I don't see how/why that would be relevant to making inferences about the wider population.
The ex-Googler reflected that he missed the possibility of pages that link back to each other, causing "infinite recursion."

"Fail fast, learn fast with cloud is a bad idea," Chauhan concluded.

Not much more to add to that than as noted in previous threads about this post, it is fortunate that he was able to 'reach out' to the right people at Google in order to get the bill waived.
Restrictions on social media doesn't mean that it is big media companies the one that decide, necessarily. I think it would actually give more power to the people to decide what is the consensus reality, but this time organically: instead of giving importance to ideas that generate engagement, give importance to ideas that people agree with. If those ideas come from an independent group that manages to grow via people agreeing with it instead of generating controversy for the sake of it, so be it.

Of course it will be difficult and not straightforward, and there will be challenges to control big media, but at least we align the incentives in the good direction. The current situation is awful: chaos and a push towards polarization, because that's what generates engagement.
They never claimed that Android vendors aren't facing similar issues.

And I think your point just goes to show how easily Apple could turn around the public perception of this issue if they just allowed sideloading.
> So they are aware of the possibility of this effect, yet didn’t bother with it. Sounds like replication crisis to me.

No, that is doing small study correctly.

The whole point of small scale studies is to figure out whether paying for bigger one is waste of time and money. Randomized clinical trials are expensive. There is no point of doing them if small studies dont show effect. However, if you do small study, it is correct to point out limitations.
Every time I see the selection of cheap laptops/tablets/phones I wonder "why even try to combat climate change?".

You've got these bottom of the barrel machines that fail very soon, and barely have enough performance as it is. It makes more sense to save up, buy something twice the price and use it for much longer.

It's like the boots theory of wealth. You buy cheap shit over and over again, instead of buying something good that will last many times longer. The sad thing it doesn't just affect you, it affects everything and everyone.
Interestingly missing from the list: LLVM, SQLite, Postgres.
> Modifying the signed apps or OS to remove their phone home and spying will be impossible, like iOS is today.

Except if you are the OS maker bending over to a dictatorship like we already have today.

At least with open source eyeballs are allowed to investigate and change without breaking some nonsense ToS.

I hope initiatives like puri.sm thrive.
Bytecode is very compact compared to native machine code. Android converts on the fly on the device. That's at least a part of it.
In 1895, William Randolph Hearst's jingoistic yellow journalism pushed millions of Americans to support a pointless war with Spain.

Time Magazine influenced three generations of Americans.

For the last hundred or so years, every major city has had one primary newspaper, 2-3 local news broadcasters, maybe a local magazine.

Old line magazines and newspapers were information silos unto themselves.
Yep. Alex Jones is a bit of a nut, and left alone I'd have no problem with him. But youtube recommended his videos 15 billion times, and presumably made a killing in advertising revenue off his videos.

I don't have a problem with alex jones. I have a problem with social media companies promoting lies about reality in the name of engagement. Polluting our information ecology in the name of a quick advertising dollar is lazy and dishonest and they know it.
I know all the history and ROC is not blameless, but at this point Taiwan is its own country and it's shameful that most of the world does not recognize as such due to fear of China.
Everyone knows about the Nazis and Soviets but that’s not following through my point. You need to think a little beyond famous example of mass murdering regimes that also were against speech and causally link the speech restriction to the mass murder. As you can do with the Myanmar regime’s genocide and their use of Facebook.

Basically authoritarian regimes restrict speech to maintain control but don’t necessarily commit genocide and some authoritarian regimes will use free speech to commit genocide.
If you aren't tall and you stretch your legs from time to time, it's not a big thing.

Now, business class or whatever they call the thing where you can recline your seat almost horizontally, that's something. I can't really sleep sitting.
consumer demand for malware-free (but not vendor spyware-free) platforms is driving this in a big way

The thing is, you can eat your cake and have it too. Various distributions (e.g. Ubuntu and Fedora) already use secure boot to verify the bootloader - kernel - module chain. There is no reason that this couldn't be extended to e.g. only running signed Flatpaks too. And yet, at the same time, you can boot these distributions without secure boot, load unsigned kernel modules, etc.

It is true that a combination of code signing and sandboxing provides a lot of additional protections. But a less consumer-hostile flavor could be where by default the system is restrictive, but the user always has the power to disable certain or all security mechanisms.

The problem is that it is not only about security and protecting against malware for these vendors. It's also about funneling applications and subscriptions through their app stores, so that they can take their 30% cuts. They don't just want to profit from the initial sale, but also the continued use of a system. The security argument is just used to trap users in their app store ecosystems.

What makes this more unfortunate is that a large contingent of the Linux community is opposed to better security measures by default. This is why many Linux distributions are still stuck in a 90ies threat model where gaining UID 0 access is what one should protect against, while applications can freely roam in users' home directories. Consequently, there are only few Linux distributions that are competitive to iOS or macOS when it comes to desktop security.
I recently learned about the "technical support incident" help you can get from Apple, you get two such incidents included with your annual developer program - maybe worth a go, I believe they respond to you quite quickly from what I've heard: https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/
For an n-sized program, run it for BB(n) steps. If it hasn't halted then by definition it will never halt.
Social media posts lie all the time, way more than politicians. Why do people believe those?
Hopefully they drop support for important CAD and media editing software, so those companies have no choice but to turn to Linux.

I really hope Windows on the desktop goes the way of Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.
"isn’t tied to any specific platform"

er, isn't it explicitly tied to google?
How are cryptocurrencies any worse or more shady than banks, investment firms or any other business involved in finance?
Are you implying that the deplorable people on twitter are not outnumbered by the non-deplorable people because of bot farms?
> Already every mac available for purchase, even the Intel ones, requires online activation to wipe and reinstall the storage

There is a massive practical upside of this. It makes thefts worthless, or almost worthless as the only value is spare parts.

It worked like a charm for phones. Thefts of smarphones were rising very rapidly but then diminished as they become worthless to steal.

However it would be nice to be able to disable this for allowing usage in offline environment.
At this point I'm quite convinced that Apple includes controversial design decisions just to stand out and cause controversy, which is free marketing.

And it's working.
For me at least, good noise canceling headphones make flying even quieter than the maximum rated earplugs I could find (because low frequency hum goes through almost any material)
The dishwasher doesn't connect to the internet, doesn't have all my passwords and emails, doesn't access my bank accounts and can't spy on me. This is why I don't care how it works.
Regarding that burning - my home wood pellet furnace needed software updates after installation to start fully working. Good luck that I had mobile internet available.
# Assuming f(n) >= BB(n)
def does_it_halt (m: turing_machine):
n_steps = f(count_states(m))
for i in range (n_steps):
run(m)
return is_in_halting_state(m)

The key point is that if you know that all machines with n states halt in BB(n) steps at most (or will otherwise never halt), you just need to run any of those machines for BB(n) steps and then check if they already halted or not.
Yes and there’s going to be tons of noise issues, early breakages, and usability issues.
> Home users aren't going to double their budgets to afford an Apple machine...

If I were to switch to a Mac mini I would pay about $350 less than it cost me to build my main workstation/gaming machine. According to the benchmarks and real-world tests, I'd gain quite a bit in performance over my Ryzen build, with a fraction of the power consumption which is currently 120W idle, 310W maxed out as measured by my UPS. Per real world tests, the M1 mini never goes above ~35W and stays cool and quiet even when maxed out on stress tests. Given the fact I no longer play games much at all beyond WoW and a few indie titles, and my non-gaming workflow is 100% doable on macOS, I'm sorely tempted to switch even with my reservations about Apple as a company.

> ...especially one which can't even play most games.

No one buys a Mac for AAA games, that's a fact and probably won't change immediately. With that said, Blizzard has day one native Apple Silicon support for WoW, and the benchmarks indicate the performance (depending on the game engine) sits somewhere between the GeForce 1650 and 1660 for most of the games tested so far. That covers pretty much all non-AAA titles on the performance side, leaving portability as the only real issue. I've seen tests done with Steam games and most macOS native x86_64 games make the transition via Rosetta2 quite nicely.

Not to mention, M1 Macs can now run most iOS apps natively which opens up a horde of games to the platform immediately, including popular titles like Minecraft, Fortnite, and CoD.
If you disable SIP, iOS apps stop working.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/if-you-disable-sip-all-...

Your line was my line for a long time. But I feel like this is a significant step. For the first time, by taking control of your own device you’re loosing functionality.
I worked on several games, one within a small startup (was a really popular .io game, 300k+ MAU), yet they all failed to generate enough revenue.

My suggestion: don't create a game. Create a gamified tool for a specific niche. To make a high-quality one, do something related to a domain/hobby your are passionate about. For example, if you enjoy cooking, create a gamified educational cooking app, where you actually learn how to hook. Do you like playing the drums? Create a Music School simulator (eg. you are the teacher, get students, you teach them, something like Game Dev Tycoon).

That being said, actually earning money with a game is REALLY hard UNLESS you go for a specific niche, which makes it a lot easier to market your game or ask money for the game.
I think you’re being a bit judgemental and overly stereotyping people here.

In any case, the reason enterprise adopts these technologies isn’t directly because of a technical ROI. It’s because giving people the tools that they want to use is generally seen as beneficial. Providing good UX to internal users is becoming just as trendy in enterprise as DevSecOps and Service Oriented Architecture is. There’s plenty of fairly obvious business reasons why enterprise would care about these things. One of the more important ones is that these organisations are competing FAANGs and startups to hire talent. If you walked around the bank office I was working in today I doubt you’d be able to tell it apart from a typical well-funded startup.
Where in FL USA can one legally purchase fully automatic weapons without a special federal permit?
Alberta dad sat through 30 hours of tattoo pain to make his son feel better
It's not any easier in the rest of Europe.

And I have to add, it's many times harder if you're a foreigner.
16 years French girl can't go to school cause she criticized Islam on Instagram
Perhaps a bit off topic, but I am truly unable to use active noise-cancelling headphones. I'm not sure if it's just me being sensitive or if this is common:

Whenever I tried using noise cancelling headphones, I always felt what I can only describe as a high air pressure in my ears. The best I can describe it is the feeling of needing to pop my ears but popping them providing zero relief.

Is this common at all? Does everyone feel this but somehow are able to ignore it?

Anyway fully agree that good passive isolation goes a long way!
EU leaders agree to cut emissions by at least 55% by end of decade
Where did I say that I wanted speech censored and controlled and people not allowing to disagree? I'm saying that I disagree with social media incentivizing the spread of lies and controversy. I'm not discussing what is a lie and what is not, I am just saying that by the nature of social media the content that gets more visibility is the content that generates more engagement, not necessarily the content that is more true or has more consensus.

In other words, do I think you should be able to say that "the earth is flat"? Yes. Do I think that social media should give more visibility to content that says "the earth is flat" than to content that says "well it is not flat" just because the first generates more engagement? No. It's not the speech that's harmful, is the selective amplification that social media does.
New York City Drivers Cooperative Aims to Smash Uber’s Exploitative Model
It’s hard to say a city is safe/not safe as they are so big, and it varies wildly across areas
Docker Desktop 3.0.0: Smaller, Faster Releases
I know you're probably suggesting this in good faith, but this being among the first solutions to be suggested might be one of the most Silicon-Valley things I've ever seen.
Where’d All the Milkmen Go?
Ubuntu 18.04 (Linux 4.15) in xhyve works fine for me. I tried to get 20.04 set up a while ago but I gave up because its installer kept flaking out on me, something about the disk if I remember correctly.
Yes! This was the exact same use case we had!
I think it lets DDG know you weren't satisfied with the results for a particular query.
Since when do we call a function of a ratio of two integrals a closed form solution?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_problem?Closed-form_solut...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_expression?Compari...
Brave converted urls into affiliate links: https://www.coindesk.com/brave-browsers-affiliate-link-contr...

Vivaldi is a pretty good chromium-based browser, if you want to stay away from Google but still need chromium. I'd still take Firefox any day, though.
Put it this way, the weight of these headphones is between that of an iPad Mini and iPad Air

As a motorcyclist the weight of a helmet is a real concern usually rivaling the safety rating but always higher than airflow which itself is high on the list.

I really do not see myself wearing any set of headphones that weigh this much, the XM4s by Sony are noticeable so weighing half again more has to really stand out. That he emphasized their inertia pretty much eliminates them completely.

I still really feel that the team involved here reached a ship it or shelve deadline after four years of development. Even the case looks like a last minute tie in which reveals two other sore points, they don't fold and they don't have a means to turn them off outside the case.
Here's the thing, though: Societies always have norms, and norms are enforced by making norm-breaking views shunned. Letting people speak their objectionable views with no repercussions normalises those views, and makes them more acceptable.

Objectionable views HAVE to be opposed, or they will fester and grow. Polite disagreement doesn't help, because the person will just go on to post them again, and again, and again. The fact that I politely disagreed with one of them will not help with the other 99 times.

There needs to be visible consequences for breaking norms, or the norms themselves will break.
Related tangent: Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" (and sequel "Children of Ruin") is first-rate scifi that explores these kinds of questions, featuring artificially-accelerated evolution resulting in hyperintelligent insect and arachnid societies. Highly recommended.
Yes, and the effect is more pronounced when a site offers no other choice beyond ranking by a single hidden formula, like HN.