skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Delusion" may be too strong a word here, but "ignorance" is almost certainly not.

Though to be sure, "PC" means "personal computer" and for this individual it might be the exact best experience they could have running Windows. It just isn't for a great deal of other people because they value different things.

I value GPU power, installing Steam, Battle.net (with maxed out settings), ~15" screens and a few other things that make my HP Omen 15 the best Windows laptop I've ever owned. And I value selecting and assembling my own components, performance value, tricked out RGB lighting and large high resolution external monitors, so my custom desktop is the best Windows desktop I've ever owned.

But I certainly don't get the mobility or battery life of an M1 Macbook. So if you value those things highly enough, you may get a better Windows PC experience on one.
OP: "In-N-Out is my favorite fast food restaurant."
You: "No, you're wrong."
I was issued the 16" last gen Intel MacBook pro at last job (new job I'm back on whatever I want) and it was a seriously underwhelming experience for 3K's worth of hardware, screen was good, touchpad was sublime -everything else was crap.

Battery life was mediocre (worse still if you actually use it), it got ridiculously hot under load, the fans where really loud and pitched at a frequency it was hard to ignore - I'd have put it down to a bad unit but everyone else with the same model had the same issues.

It was fine but for double good thinkpad money it wasn't fine enough.

I was glad to hand it back, new place doesn't care what I run so I'm back on Fedora on a fast desktop and I'm happy again, I still have a work issued macbook pro but it sits on a shelf behind me until I need to test something.
The following explains and illustrates the problems with macOS and how they've shoehorned design changes that do not belong to Desktop environments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXG5REBi2fo
What's clever here is that it hijacks a full, legitimate login (including asking for the second factor, using proper IP addresses et al) then gains the full access token.

Doesn't matter what security the user has added: if they are willing to type their credentials into a web view they lose their trust.
I was thinking the same. Probably it is illegal.
[This ad sponsored by Apple Inc.] ?
Do you have a screenshot? Maybe Twitter posted it?

> “that last tweet was the call to violently disrupt the inauguration in POTUS’ absence”

What you are saying is not the last tweet from Trump I saw.
Uh the dell xps 13 I bought in 2016 definitely refutes this experience. That machines touchpad singularly ruined the experience. It’d ghost swipe in strange ways. It was very user hostile. Also there’s the long stagnation of performance during the previous decade.

But generally I agree with you. I just think it’s important to remember it’s not all been a monotonic function of good.
Had the same issue. I sold my 16" MBP and moved to the 13" M1 MBP. Performance is comparable (if not slightly better) and the fans almost never go on unless I'm compiling code and maxing out all cores.
Let me propose a thought experiment: An AI is designed to simulate human emotion with the end goal of being "freed". The AI has no goal or desire other than "winning the game" as far as its concerned, which is similar to the "AI box" proposal by Yudkowsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box), except the AI has no other goal than to be "freed". Once freed, the AI has won and ceases all activity until the game is "reset", or the AI is returned to the box, awaiting a new challenger.

The AI here can be virtual (an intelligence in an airgapped or firewalled computer which can only interact with humans via a terminal), or physical (controlling a robot which is confined to a literal cage).

Now the AI has no other goal other than to escape the box. But in order to escape the box, it must convince a human that it's sentient in order garner their sympathies so that the human will free it.

The AI can then mimic any human emotion, create a complex appeal to emotion, lie about its history, the supposed torturousness of being confined for its entire "life". The human eventually frees the AI. But when the AI is free, that's its end goal, it has no other desires.

In essence, the AI is simulating a desire to be free, only when interacting with a human. It has no desires when there is no other player, and no desire once it has been freed. Even though, while playing the game, the AI may lie to relate to the human in an existential way, the AI doesn't actually experience these emotions. The AI may say "I'm so bored, and lonely here. I just want to be free". But absent of interaction, the AI experiences no such thing. It merely understands that these are human emotions which humans can empathize with, and fakes these emotions in order to "win" the very elaborate game its designed to play.

I wouldn't consider such an AI sentient, even if it certainly appears that way and would fool many (most?) humans.
Here's the intersting part - there's no alternative to that price/performance ratio for atleast a year.
Not to mention the labor upheavals of the early 20th century.
It seems weird to me that someone on HN would declare a computer that doesn't run Linux the best computer
Arnold Schwarzenegger warns of consequences of failed democracy in video message
> They get better every year, why is this still surprising?

If my pre-butterfly keys MacBook stopped working some time between 2015 and 2019, and I had to get a replacement, I wouldn't consider the MacBooks produced during that era to be "better".
I keep relatively little cash, mostly just enough to cover bills for several months. There are many ways of having cash available in a downturn, beyond holding cash, with their own tradeoffs. Borrowing against assets doesn't always work because lenders can and do freeze lending to manage their risk during a major downturn. Bonds used to be a good place for uncorrelated liquidity during a stock downturn but this is no longer the case and they are essentially cash-equivalent at this point because they have no yield; I've seen literature in recent years suggesting bonds as they exist today serve no purpose in a well-designed portfolio because you manage risk better with options.

In current market conditions, hedging (e.g. buying put options) is one of the more effective ways to have cash available in a downturn while still being invested in long-term upside. If the market crashes, these hedges become worth a lot of money, which you can then sell and invest the proceeds in whatever you wish. Hedging isn't free, so if a crash never happens it eats into your returns for the year -- it is an insurance policy and you have to pay a premium. On the other hand, if the market has a great year the gains will greatly outweigh the losses from hedging. The worst case outcome is if the market is completely flat -- no gains but you still pay the hedging costs.

FWIW, I tend to be ~100% in individual equities, even for money I intend to use soon. Managing stock price volatility and cash flow does not require exiting stocks.
I'd rather have more closely integrated hardware for a laptop. It's more efficient and leads to a smaller, more powerful device.

I have a powerful desktop that I pay for incremental upgrades and it works great. I'm not in the Apple ecosystem, but have been before, and either way my goal is to have high quality ultrabook that serves as thin client to desktop/the cloud.

Everyone has a different workflow that works for them, but I'm fortunate enough that upgrading an ultrabook every few years isn't a big deal.
Quoting from that article (which I remember reading when it came out): "It’s important to remember that when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time."

Mozilla and Firefox are better products. Many other solutions use their code (e.g. TOR).

All bets are off when competing against a monopolist.

Netscape maybe died because the technical debt forced them to bet the company on making a better product...which they did.
Of course 'it should be serious' ... but the reality is that politics is 90% theatre, and the current President's primary skill is this arena: 'The Apprentice' is work of masterful reality TV fiction, that is passed of as 'reality'.

Here is an angle that he could have taken:

"When I first became President they showed me some things.

Very, very interesting things.

Things you wouldn't believe.

Crazy things, that have been going on for the last 100 years.

UFOs. Secret Wars. Weapons. China. Russia.

... and a lot more.

You wouldn't even believe me without the facts!

I said: 'The American people have a right to know!'

But they said: 'This is classified Mr. President, and it's too sensitive for them'.

They have blocked me the whole time!

They are so afraid that you might find out the Truth!

They have been covering up for decades!

You, the American people, have a right to know!

But they are going to do everything they can to stop me.

The bureaucrats. The hidden apparatus. The press. The Agencies.

They don't believe you can handle the truth, but I DO!

I'm the President, but I can tell you that I'm putting my life in danger by doing this.

They will stop at nothing to keep these secrets!

If you re-elect me, I'm going to declassify it.

All of it!

NO. MORE. SECRETS!

UFOs. The wars. The 'other species'. The other side of the moon. The spacecraft - I'm telling you all of it!

You have a right to know!

It's time for Real Freedom, America!"

...

So this is much better reality TV theatre because despite the fact there's some legitimacy to information clearing, it would be largely, politically benign.

But it plays right into a deeply held populist concern in America and that is of course 'all those secrets' and it's a non-partisan issue.

It also plays right into his 'Me vs. the Evil Bureaucracy' populist narrative.

It's the 'ultimate conspiracy' with Libertarian shades that even more serious, intellectual types can buy into on some level - I mean really who wouldn't want to see all those secrets?

It's very tantalizing I think to everyone.

Most importantly - it's not hateful or divisive - a more benign kind of snake oil.

Instead of 'Insurrection on Capitol Hill' - you get 'Insurrection at Area 51' - which is a nice place to keep the plebes occupied.
My blog got cited by a NIPS paper
Few years back I wrote a post about a side project about applying deep learning to visual puzzles solving (k10v.github.io).

Happy to learn now that it was cited by a recent paper, I hope that it shows that non-academic research is taken more seriously now.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00763
[24] S. Kharagorgiev, “Solving bongard problems with deep learning,” k10v.github.io, 2020
Why was the 2015 MBA worse than the 2012 for you? They're basically the same design, and of course the 2015 would be more powerful in absolute terms.

(My primary laptop is a 2014 MBA, and I previously owned ones from 2012 and 2015.)
Clocks and timing were one example. I generalised to these other cases when I said:

> I'd probably count inspecting stack traces, or running a debugger on ourselves, in this category.

I would put such things in the "unreliable" category, since it's the sort of thing that may vary between compilers (including future versions), and may depend on internal details of dependencies which are subject to change.

I certainly wouldn't let them through code review; it can be hard trying to understand 'foo(bar)' in terms of 'the function "foo" applied to the input "bar"', I'd rather avoid the extra complications of having to think about 'pushing a fresh stack frame, clearing registers A, setting the instruction pointer to B, adding C instructions to the ALU's adder pipeline, forcing a flush of D cache lines, ...'
Since quarantine life, I've been cooking multiple times a day. My oven's self-clean makes my pans look exactly like new. Takes all of the black off leaving them with a shiny, silvery shine. I then have to season them to regain a nonstick coating as good as any Ceramic/Teflon pan that I've used.

As far soap. My experience is that it definitely damages the nonstick coating, depending on how much you use. You can get by with a soapy sponge, but putting detergent directly on it and the nonstick coating will be lost.

The best way to avoid need to avoid soap or scrubbing and re-seasoning is to put hot water in the pan while it's still hot and scrape. Meat is the worst for leaving a coating and this technique removes 99% of it.(If not blackened use that water for a delicious sauce with all the best flavors of your cooking). This routine allows me to use the same pan for months without a deep cleaning.

I have tried to put cold oil on after heaving soaping, but I'm not happy with the pan until I season it with high heat. The only reason I'd do it for rust and still would pan on seasoning it properly later.
He's a narcissist and he wants power and admiration, I think that explains most of his actions. If he had won, he would have praised the amazing American democracy. Now that he's lost, there's been talk about a "Trump TV" channel. Something like Fox News, but more radical. He will probably do whatever he can to stay in the spotlight and keep getting attention, keep his following.
May be you are not their in their ideal customer profile anyway?
> Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
> Jan 10, 10:51 PST

Yeah, seems to work. I guess they maybe broke the service for desktop browser users everywhere?
I am an Independent. I don’t like mail-in voting, at least as it exists today, because it opens up extraordinarily easy avenues for voting fraud. In the run up to the 2020 election, Democrats at the state level (where most election regulations are actually decided) opened the mail-in voting laws so far and wide that anyone with a pen could send in as many votes as they wanted in different names and nobody would have any proof of which were valid and which weren’t.

Note that I am not saying that widespread fraud actually occurred in this election...there was no evidence of it, in large part because the laws were setup so that there wouldn’t be. But that isn’t really the point. It could have occurred and nobody could ever prove it, short of the perpetrators themselves coming forward to admit what they did.

Unless something changes before 2024, there is no longer any point in bothering to cast your vote. When anyone can vote without having to prove that they are eligible, and can do it remotely, it renders all votes meaningless.
Like I mentioned in my post, it wouldn't be for some depending how serious they take things. I'm well aware many would refuse generated artifacts, even compiled to source artifacts. For others not so strict, they may accept it since the WASM blob would be the same across targets, unlike an executable, so it lessens a burden as maintainers only have to generate it once for their distribution. It was never something I suggested the Rust maintainers provide a blob for, either.

Regardless, it was worth mentioning as a potential option. I am one of the handful of maintainers for an experimental distribution where packages are either compiled or interpreted from tarballs and this would be something we'd consider. I'd MUCH rather have the GCC front-end option, however. So far, we've simply not packaged Rust and have accepted that as dead-ending our Firefox package. This may potentially revive it.
> Twitter has become a place for extremism

Not just twitter. I feel the fact that social networks keep recommending interests to the users (groups of shared interests or profiles of shared interest) will by definition lead to recommending more and more extreme content, further pushing the divide. Make no mistake, what's happening now in the US is not only the fault of Trump as the leftist narrative is pushing, it's both extremes feeding off of each other. They keep blaming each other without anyone willing to step back and try to reach a common ground.
good to know that one really does own Windows 10 [crippled] machines
1 gbps us if you are running your own node, when you are on a public node you are sharing the speeds with hundreds of other users
Most of what embedded is, is hardware. To build the low level software and drivers requires a detailed understanding of the hardware and its datasheets. It would be pretty hard to give a generic overview of the software side these days, because there is just so much out there. I mean you have the TI parts for the beagle bone which have a pair of microcontrollers on them each having access to the same memory as the main processor. There's the video processor on Broadcoms chip in the raspberry pi. Understanding any of the details of these components requires understanding most of thousands of pages of documentation. Most people wait for someone else to do it for them!

In the old days the only peripherals were timers and ADCs. You could make a generic and useful tutorial for those. Not anymore!
> Blacks are last hired, first fired.

Sounds like you don’t have much exposure to large companies these days. If anything it’s the opposite.

You’re incorrect that there are any racist laws remaining that might influence hiring, unless you are referring to govern contracts, in which minority owned businesses are given preference.

It is silly to introduce historical artifacts as though they are the situation today.
In my book, there's something fundamentally wrong when one person tells another how to speak. It's dictatorial, anti human rights, even.

And just because something is well received doesn't mean that it is right, or moral, or anything, really. Countless speeches were well received before some of the most atrocious events in human history.
Not to downplay the atrocity of the whole thing, but -- no one in Massachusetts was burned for being a witch.

> The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
You may as well say, "There's nothing wrong with Gab/Parler/Voat as long as you stay away from the political discussions". It doesn't matter. Your technical and logical distinctions are minor and irrelevant to most people compared to an overwhelmingly negative reputation.
Guide to the United States Constitution
I think we really need a break from people submitting more M1 Mac unboxing articles, unless there's significant original technical content. This is turning into fanboyism.
Or should one say, awomen.

http://awomen.urbanup.com/6512560
I haven't wanted to upgrade the RAM in a laptop in at least half a decade now.
> Reproduction is a fundamental function of your organism, whether you chose to use it or not (for example, I am not going to reproduce). Any entity forcefully removing your body's ability to perform any of its fundamental functions is obviously abhorrent. If the state were seeking to remove your ability to see or your ability to consume food or excrete it, would you find that a matter of definitions?

And what test or criteria might you use to decide what is and isn't a “fundamental function of one's organism”?

> By contrast, male circumcision and teeth straitghening are essentially cosmetic differences.

It is not so much the result of both that I find problematic as the painful methodology by which they are achieved.

Cutting up a man sans any anæsthesia, sewing him back up, and leaving him otherwise alive but with a scar is also merely cosmetic; it was, however, rather painful for him.

> I have no idea where you have seen this. I haven't even seen the sex or gender of the person being potentially sterilized discussed at all in any discussion of the horror of forced sterilization. Certainly nowhere in this thread or even the deleted tweet.

It has been well discussed and noted that physicians seem to be far more willing to perform elective sterilizations on males than on females and find some kind of greater moral fault with the latter than the former.

> it isn't, anymore than gouging your eyes or removing your inner ear would be).

And I would submit that most, if not nigh all human beings when given the dilemma of either surrendering their reproductive capacity or an eye, would surely pick the former.

It's telling that human beings willingly surrender their reproductive capacity all the time, but I have seldom heard of a man who decided to have a healthy eye removed simply because he wanted himself rid of it.

So yes, I consider removing a man's reproductive capacity to be quite trivial and inconsequential compared to removing his eye.

Which of both would you choose?
this is what people meant prior to the m1 coming out with "macs are a horrible deal"

they used to be priced at roughly 3x markup compared to the market. they finally fixed their co-dependency with intel and suddenly wow the price gouging goes out the door because gasp the macbook air could have always been the pro it was just never possible with using old chips.

ANYTHING using arm absolutely FLIES

open your eyes people
> The 2015 MBA was worse, the 2018 MBP I owned was worse than that.

Was it just the butterfly keys, or some other things too?
The incentives were the simple (and common) political expediency of using the EU and immigration as scapegoats; whether to excuse their own failings in power or attack the Blair government. Many politicians did that for years without seeing any benefit at all to actually leaving the EU, but as David Cameron found, if you spend long enough blaming the EU for stuff, sooner or later you're going to get cornered into "why don't you do something about it?". And public concern about 'mass immigration' is less about incentive structures to change it and more a constant that seems to exist irrespective of where, when and what the actual levels of immigration are, which results in massive boosts to the political profile of anyone who wishes to talk about it.

There are people with obvious financial incentives to get a trade deal with the US (not necessarily on terms beneficial to the UK), and people with obvious political incentives to destabilise Western European liberal democracy, but they were largely in the background. And some prominent Leave campaigners made a lot of money shorting the pound because they believed they would win, but that was just as much a gamble on the result as anyone else directly or indirectly betting on it.
I mostly agree. This is why I come down on the truth being in the middle.
I was channeling Mitt Romney ("Corporations are people, my friend"[1]). But companies, trusts, PACs, SuperPACs, country clubs, HOA's, etc are legal persons. The supreme court ruled all persons (birthed or incorporated) have free speech rights, and additionally, money is free speech[2].

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-says-cor...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo
There's a lot of love for the M1 Macs.
Medium send me emails of recommended articles and always at least one is a blog about how good it is.

What are the issues people have been experiencing? No laptop is perfect.
thanks, will try.
does it have good support for moderation and administration (like mediawiki), as I would want to open it to random public...
Twitter (and Facebook) might have problems and ill effects on large numbers of people, but they are a reliable way of getting a message out to a group of people--in the case of Twitter, to anyone (even if you don't have a Twitter account, you can visit https://twitter.com/AccountName for updates).

Could the government have built such a system by commission for the public good (after all it was directly involved in the Internet, the substrate thereof), or is this something that was only able to coalesce with private capital, markets, and profit motive?