skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my walk to work this morning, I detoured down a local main street, curious to see what shops were considering themselves 'essential' and remaining open.

Apparently this time around, travel agents and jewellery sellers have added themselves to the list, with a few barbers clearly operating illicitly behind half-drawn shutters.

I was bemused by the very chi-chi local middle class deli near my home insisting they'd be staying open when I enquired on Saturday evening. I mean, sure they sell food, but really - I'm unsure how vital to survival artisanal cheese and pasta is!

Bluntly, without the sincere threat of fines or whatever, no action will be taken. UK-dwellers' sense of entitlement to 'freedoms' seems drastically diluted compared to what I witnessed on the continent a few months back, when I was able.

We deserve everything we get.

- ed, whups - clearly I meant something like 'drastically inflated', not 'diluted'.
Except that try to make a living from selling GPL software to desktop users.
His writing suggests it was the adaptor itself which died:

>...the charger started malfunctioning. When informed of the price for a new charger, I was so disgusted with Apple’s sales practices... that I refused to buy it. Instead, I managed to keep the charger working for a few more years... When the charger eventually died entirely in 2005, I decided to look for a new laptop...
Also the fact that India required Apple to move manufacturing into the country in order to have a retail presence:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-india-idUSKCN0YG2LW

> NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has said Apple Inc must meet a rule obliging foreign retailers to sell at least 30 percent locally-sourced goods if it wishes to open stores in the country, a senior government official told Reuters.

> Apple is hoping to expand its retail presence in India, one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone markets, at a time when sales in the United States and China have slowed.

> A change in legislation last year exempted foreign retailers selling high-tech goods from the rule, which states 30 percent of the value of goods sold in the store should be made in India.

> However, Apple’s products were not considered to be in this category, said the official, who has direct knowledge of the matter.
This is called "Understanding How AES Encryption Works", but it doesnt describe that.

AES is a "block cipher", a primitive that approximates a pseudorandom permutation (PRP) and can be used to build a variety of functions. E.g. AEADs like AES-CCM and AES-GCM, encryption like AES-CTR, message authentication codes like CMAC, hash functions like Whirlpool (that uses a modified AES), and random number generators like AES-DRBG. In theory one could even build a public-key signature scheme from AES: use it in a Sponge construction to make a hash function, then use that to construct a hash-based signature scheme. The only thing I don't know how to build using just a PRP is a Key Encapsulation Mechanism.

This article is a bit like writing "How To Program In C" and talking about NAND gates and ALUs and instruction decoders.
Yes, it would be much cheaper if they used GPU renderer such as OctaneRender https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render/

However it might lack some features or flexibility compared to V-Ray.
Citymapper mobility index is quite interesting for quantifying level of lockdown.

https://citymapper.com/cmi/london
I was there only one. I called an Uber. The guy went all directions, after like 15 minutes he pressed cancel. Cool, called an other one. It just went into the complete opposite direction, after 5 mins / 1-2 kms watching this I pressed cancel. Called a black cab, guy picks me up alright, then just joined some heavy traffic. I used Waze (that he never ever heard about) and told him which routes to take and did not miss my train to the airport by like 2 minutes.

I am pretty sure every other Uber and black cab driver is much more experienced.
What is @Q notation?
It has been proven very often that the good intension of people like Stallman that devoted their life to the cause have been hijacked by people that used FOSS to find employment in big corporations and infiltrated committees and standard bodies to keep pushing their employers' agenda.

No one can seriously believe that there exists an organisation that is completely free from tensions between members, sometimes people simply make mistakes, what counts is how the organisation react and the proportion.

If the fish rots from the head, what should we think about Apple where Steve Jobs was known for bullying and terrorising employees for no real reason?

Big tech in US have been condemned for the infamous no-hire agreement in SV After a class action filed on behalf of roughly 60,000 workers (sixty thousands).

For instance, after a Google recruiter solicited an Apple employee, Schmidt told Jobs that the recruiter would be fired, court documents show. Jobs then forwarded Schmidt’s note to a top Apple human resources executive with a smiley face.

That's the real issue nowadays in FOSS, not the lack of human perfection.

Nothing even remotely similar has ever happened inside the FSF, apart when they assaulted Stallman over a fabricated issue and forced him to resign

I could make names, but I don't want a shadow ban from HN, suffice to say that some of these people work at Google .
First off, I agree with you that this change is a net positive for privacy.

However, let's not ignore the massive market for apps supported by ads. iOS developers had a way to be modestly compensated (without the Apple tax) in return for an app that is available to anyone for free. How much less profitable are ads going to be because people can opt-out of IDFA? I don't know. But I'm sure many developers are going to think twice about developing free apps for iOS.

Conspicuously, Apple also just reduced it's commission from 30% to 15% overnight for these developers. It seems to me like Apple really wants to nudge developers into creating paid apps. Is it because of privacy, or because it's better for Apple's bottom line? Probably both.

I'm glad Apple found a way to monetize privacy, but I didn't mind installing a free app with a few ads if I knew that I'd only use it a few times.
We aren't comparing commmander data and a human being. This isn't a philosophical point.

It is a literal point. There is no ML system that can talk to me: there is no system that I can ask if it likes my clothes; or where my shoes are.

You might think this is "just adding some I/O", but then show me that system.

This is the same shysterism and self-delusion that accompanies every generation of AI hysteria: the first lot in the 40s and 50s claimed, likewise, self-driving cars were "in development" and "almost ready", etc.

It isn't true.

Animal intelligence is embedded in an environment and it is about an environment. That is what it is, that is what it is for.

Efforts which do even have a mechanism to do this aren't even in the same field.

GPT3 cannot have any internal models of an environment because it isn't "trained" on an environment.

This isn't a philosophical debate; it is an observation that this system cannot do almost anything of interest. It is a toy: literally. It isn't with anyone anywhere modelling anything, saying anything, observing anything.

It isn't reasoning counterfactually; it isn't inferring any future states of an environment given a potential change. It isn't talking about what I am doing. It isn't responding to changes anywhere, it isn't asking for changes in response to its needs. It has no causal models; it has no environment models; it has no intentions; it has no memories; it has no desires. It expresses nothing because it has nothing to express.

The list of things it isn't doing is absurdly long. The philosophical point is moot. It is technically incapable of having a conversation with me about almost anything.

It can only generate a long-form document which is grammatically correct, and semantically -- when read by a human -- coherent. Regenerate, and the document would be compeletely different with contradictory claims in it.

Even if human beings were mere symbol manipulators, it wouldn't make a ferris wheel a viable alternative. And GPT is nothing much more.
Apple is far from a monopoly. They lose market share to Android every year, I believe.
I guess Facebook wouldn't be happy with tab containers I use in Mozilla, or the pihole I use for DNS.
Don't hesitate to contact me to my personal email address if you want help, that's something I enjoy doing from time to time.

You should be able to find it easily at sam.elborai.me.
I have to be careful I don't wander into conspiracy theories but...

I'm fed up because so many people flout the rules with no consequences. I suspect that the lack of consequences is intentional. If everyone flours the rules, the economic hit will be smaller and Bojo can claim he did something and its not his fault no one listened. The government have created a situation where the only logical action for normal people is business as usual, that means large excess deaths, and the government has plausible deniability. Whoops.

/RantAndParanoia
Good list. You forgot "over-fitting your algorithm to historical data".
I think there are a lot of "first-world" companies that have copied this approach. See also "Design and Quality: IKEA of Sweden. Made in [insert cheap-manufacturing country here]."
WHO releases statement re PCR test
Can someone explain this WHO document please. I think the document says: 1) PCR test is faulty [supports inventor’s claim that it will detect anything we want it to detect] 2) medical staff to look for symptoms in order to claim positivity

If 1 above is true, than based on sound science the whole “cases” count is false because it is based on a faulty foundation. We should only be concerned with facts which in case of the current situation is the number of hospitalized patients.
Costco shareholders are 't doing as well as.. Walmart, which is the point.
The Belgian 'hero' who invaded UK fishing waters
When to exercise options, and understanding option taxes
There was a decent drop in cases in November from what I can see. You’re right though, the first lock down felt very different.

Sadly the rules are laxer than they should be but the government can’t enforce the rules effectively so are putting in enough grey-area that people can sort of decide for themselves.

Sadly people are very short term focussed and unable to make the most of the situation and instead complain and go about their normal lives with just enough changes that they “feel like they’re doing their bit”.

I love the gym but the move to “keep gyms open” was the best example of people not really getting it and being sad that their toys had been taken away.

The moto in our hose at the moment is “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”
Based on the precedent of all other endemic human coronaviruses, there is reason to guess that the winning mutations will be less dangerous. This is also consistent with theory:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873896/

> By far, the most widely studied trade-off involves transmission and virulence (Anderson and May, 1982; Frank, 1996; Alizon et al. 2009).
I'd rather pay the apple tax (money) than the google/facebook tax (my data and privacy).
I always thought FOSS should be about software and bringing smart people together. It is starting to look like a political movement that isn't about software at all. This post is so self centered I can't take it seriously.
''' “why do you refer to dates in this format and not in that format”, while there is no office policy on following a particular date standard '''.
Date format is super important...
At least Discord has open invitations. Slack is really annoying for this, you have to know the correct person to invite you, or someone has to setup a server to automate the invitation process...
ntfsresize also destroyed my partition back then. When I searched it, I found the responsible bug in the bugtracker, closed several months ago, but it never made to the stable Ubuntu release. Fortunately, a manual fix guide was available. I stopped trusting Ubuntu and switched to SystemRescueCD (which is Gentoo based with newer packages) after that incident...
A permanently allocated desk. If you have other uses for the desk, the desktop will get in the way, while laptop can move to a shelf when not needed.
The result of this situation is that Facebook is going to prioritize its own operating system for desktop and mobile.

They already have some expertise in their Oculus line.
Digital vaccine certificates risk excluding millions of people
I don't know if I agree that a restaurant selling artisinal cheeses should be held to different standards than the lowest common denominator of nutrient gruel restauranteers.
With files not identified by file name, I'm curious whether pijul is able to reconcile two independent additions of the same file. I suppose there'll have to be some custom logic to deal with this kind of conflict? E.g.:

Alice creates change

A: add file /README (identified by hash x)

Bob creates change

B: add file /README (identified by hash y)
C: adds a copyright header to README

Now Bob pulls from Alice, and wants Alice's README contents (change A). Does pijul notice conflicts between A & B? If Bob records a change resolving the conflict between A & B by keeping A, will it be possible to apply C on top of this?
Yeah, all the evidence seems to point to the border closures being a stupid, counterproductive attempt to close the stable doors after the horse has bolted and maybe shoot the messenger in the process. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bit of a push here in the UK to spin this as a necessary and inevitable measure that the government should have anticipated, including the closure of the border to road freight - which I think is a siginificant escalation compared to the previous EU border closures - for, basically, Brexit-related partistan political reasons.
Several close friends have had their options worth $1M+ at Splunk, Slack, JFrog and more - I know the numbers because they've called me for financial advice.
I believe that inequality is one of the most pressing issues of our time. On a national as well as on the global scale. However I'm not that sure if the inequality among generations is a big as the article pictures it. Most billioniares don't fall in the millenial generation. That disorts the picture. I assume that if those extrem rich wouldn't be taken into account the wealth gap between those generations wouldn't be that big.
Best i could find
https://zoom.earth/#view=-55.582,-31.953,7z/date=2020-12-14,...
The answer depends on the country in which you plan to hold that sign ;)
> You (we) have little control of how search engine works

Complaining on HN can sometimes work miracles.
Without proper statistical analysis and epidemiological modelling this is nothing more than an anecdote. The last twelve months should really have taught us not to trust those.
How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing Off Gullible Trump Supporters
Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
"feel good orgy" left exactly zero other ways to read it (other than sarcasm).

I am glad I wasn't drinking my coffee, there would have been cleaning involved. :D
Show HN: Unstock, isolated image stocks for websites
Much of the WSJ news desk is in a constant state of war against the OP-ED desk for just this reason.
You can't relicense a Linux distro to an incompatible (and not even actually open source) license.
None of this is hidden though. We have the absolute choice of not using Apple products. Simple. None of this seems relevant to the discussion at hand either. We can definitely disagree with two companies at the same time.

Facebook is objecting to allowing people to know that they're being tracked everywhere by them. Lots of people don't really understand how that works. I think this is a good thing Apple is doing in this particular case.
Harari writes about this a lot in his book Homo Deus and 21 lessons. Up till now the rich and the poor still had a roughly egalitarian fundamental physical/biological existence. Sure, healthcare could extend and improve one's life to some degree even in the past but everyone is still fundamentally limited by the same intrinsic constraints. Rich people don't live 3 times as long, still suffer from diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson, cancer etc.

But what if some people become fundamentally better, an actually clearly superior "race", ie the Nazi myths of superiority becoming fact (as applied to this new optimized race/new entity)?

Society isn't prepared to talk about it.
> How can this work, and what's the reasoning behind it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

I don't believe it will work either, I think we are more divided now than we were 10-15 years ago.

But Critical Race Theory is the underpinning behind the idea that not all racism is equal.
Show HN: Find the safest well lit walking route between two locations
Block ciphers are modelled formally as indexed permutation groups, which you do round-by-round, irrespective of the mode of operation. ShiftRows and SubBytes heavily impact this formal model while the mode of operation is not. Your thinking is too practical and "close to code" and as usual, it makes the false claim that the mathematical rigor is unnecessary in cryptology
Yes the same fast charging still works. It’s the same protocol and connector.
You have also been number 1 in money laundering for African dictators, educated the current dictator of North Korea, never gave back the gold / assets that were stolen from murdered Jews, only granted voting rights to women in the 70s and have a history of fighting for whoever pays the most. Somehow none of these things have affected the Swiss Brand.
adjusting for inflation is also adjusting for purchasing power, so the old numbers might be a better reference point for low Cost of Living in India
With this link https://zoom.earth/#view=-55.582,-31.953,7z/date=2020-12-14,... Click through the days, you can see it moving to the island an moving away now.
Now for the fun part of Mozilla’s logo design (2016)
From the gray, looks like the HN crowd has more faith in MSM propagandists than the nobel prize winner who invented the actual test.

Something has got to put these damn technocrats in their place. The future of mankind depends on it!
"Here" being Japan? Most of those cheap home goods (Muji etc) are made in China now.
Am I missing something or did everyone forget 
 is a thing in html?
>“Just reboot your phone, and you're good to go”

Doesn’t really work like that. First of all, when would you reboot your phone? Once per day? Once per hour? Every five minutes? Regardless, these attacks are incredibly advanced, remember they require zero interaction from the user.

Even if you rebooted constantly and the exploit lacked a persistence vector, they would still be able to exploit you whenever they want. There are literally no good defense mechanisms against zero-click attacks. The only effective one being turning off your phone forever.

Something like these exploits takes 1-2 minutes maximum to achieve full data exfiltration. This means you’re not safe even if you reboot every five minutes.

So preventing persistence vectors is not really useful against these types of attacks. Persistence is more of a “comfort feature” for attackers, is not really something essential.
I'm not using Google and Facebook either. I've restricted the traffic from my router to their domains. I have a Samsung phone, using Samsung's store. I use Yahoo for mails. DuckDuckGo as preferred search engine. Only WhatsApp (which is owned by Facebook unfortunately) and Discord for social stuff. My browser of choice is Edge. I don't pay oligarchs. Show me respect and openess, I will use your products. Restric my freedom, I will give you the middle finger. Also, I own Twitter and Medium fake accounts.
I WILL WAIT for Months, just to make sure that it will work 100% to others. I am not taking that risk.
By a cheap phone and send the extra money to relief organizations.
Free Software "starting to look like a political movement"? Political advocacy is a large part of what its organizations do, and has been for a long time.
Yes, I do realise that happens with lots of bussinesses and Apple isn't the only one doing it. But let's be honest, the richest company in the world should be the example to follow in a good way.
Yes, the issue isn't that people want another Red Hat family ecosystem distro. That want one that (nearly) exactly mirrors a specific RHEL point release plus major bug and security patches backports.
Yes. Embedded systems commonly have only sh from busybox.
In mid 2000s as a lead HPC sysadmin I accidentally pasted 'shutdown now' into the head node of a 200 CPU HPC cluster, which was 3 weeks into a 12 week simulation job! Fortunately that thing never shut down cleanly and it hung as usual, unable to unmount the NFS share used by all the compute nodes. For the next 9 weeks I was staring at that screen hoping it would keep going and I would not be fired. In the end nobody was ever the wiser.
Saying "the only privacy threat you have to worry about is the 1.5 billion person country that makes _everything_ with a chip in it" is like saying "Take your daily arsenic and you won't have to worry about the the cancer."
Diffusion Is All You Need for Learning on Surfaces
A lot of human activity isn't about value creation but zero sum competition for limited resources, rent seeking, striving for a relatively higher spot in the status hierarchy, reallocation of wealth, fight for power over each other etc.
Aren't humans right now at the brink of extinction?
This is a really good report on the new strain, and I urge everyone to read it.
I think what people mean when they say GPL-licensed software business does not work is not that GPL denies charging in any legal manner but that it's very hard to deny free of charge use while protecting freedom of use. And if you don't deny free of charge use, you will have hard time doing business. Many enterprises (all?) have a procurement process which requires to look for a cheaper or a free alternative. If you provide Mongo under AGPL, it will be harder to get a company to buy a subscription. Procurement officer will nag you with questions why should we pay if there is a free alternative (that's what you call market cannibalization)? Support is the thing that usually gets a procurement through but that effectively cancels all the "unicorn" growth (if most revenues come from support contracts as opposed to licenses) and essentially puts you outside the "blue ocean" because human support does not scale as software can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy

Edit: someone mentioned AWS Linux and k8s below, I think it's really off in business terms. Those things are open and free in order to "commoditize the complement" https://www.gwern.net/Complement
The CTO’s Framework for Delivering Secure Software Applications
ivory tower much?
> If the organisation is acting illegally, then it's a matter for the police.

You need to learn the difference between öffentliches Recht and privatrecht.
Submitter here: I removed Facebook's editorial spin in the article title.
Yash, yet another shell, a Posix-compliant command line shell written in C99
The real dirt behind the scenes is that Apple paid to have an evaluation of how much access was worth to Facebook, told Facebook to pay up or else. Facebook balked at the number, and now Apple is gonna cut them off. Just simple business.