skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love programming on Apple platforms, they are beautiful devices and the UX is the best.
Breaking The Browser – A tale of IPC, credentials and backdoors
I don't think the current software has manual knobs for users to choose the seeding strategy like that, but the protocol totally allows for something like that
A little background info:

For the last couple of decades, Microsoft SQL Server only ran on Windows.

Microsoft aspires to take licensing money from shops that run Oracle (which is much more expensive), and those shops often prefer to run Linux on their servers. To help win over those customers, they needed to run SQL Server on Linux.

Drawbridge is the layer that enables that to happen.

There hasn't been a lot of public material about it, and SQL Server on Linux didn't get much of an adoption rate, so there hasn't been much incentive for the community to dig into it, either.

Adoption's probably going up on developer workstations now that SQL Server runs in containers and now that Microsoft's put a lot of work into Azure Data Studio, a database development tool that runs on Linux & Mac & Windows.
The way it should be! Not all parts of the Internet have lost their way (yet).
No-scope is a gaming term for sniping someone from a sniper rifle without zooming in using the scope. Very difficult to do, and this is a weird application of the phrase. 230 about to be “nuked” would probably be more applicable. It implies destroyed by pushing a button. No effort involved and immediate annihilation.
This was essentially the same issue with the gay wedding cake.

For the betterment of society, I think we might need an amendment that prevents discrimination based on political opinions. Otherwise, two parallel societies of echo chambers will form, and that is not a good thing.
"winning debates by preventing your opponent from speaking" is an interesting way to spin "choosing not to actively host the messages of the leader of a terrorist organisation who is actively encouraging bombings and murders"

Donald Trump is now one of the most dangerous terrorists on Earth. No private enterprise SHOULD have any dealings with him. They especially shouldn't be hosting his violent and dangerous messaging.
There is a difference between doing business, and letting someone to use an automated system.
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission from People Without Covid-19 Symptoms
Are we really okay with the big tech companies having this much power? We just saw Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon collective destroy a competitor and censor a sitting President. Perhaps in these specific cases, they are justified. But these are actions that ought to be taken by governments, not businesses.
There are about 25,000 unoccupied properties in London, UK worth about £11 billion.
230 is getting no scoped, meaning no one will care about reforming it or even repealing it.

Section 230 is an internet legislation that gives social media companies a pass on their users actions. E.g. if CNN/Fox/BBC publishes something fake on their website, as a publisher they will be legally liable to what they publish. If a user on facebook posts something similar then facebook wont get in trouble because they are not regarded as the publishers. It was created to help boost social media site momentum during the Obama administration.

Now recently since facebook/twitter have been moving into becoming the arbiters of what is true and not which makes them publishers.

From a fairness point of view, why should these social media sites benefit from section 230 while traditional media doesn't?

EDIT: Added legality
I'd say the same about CloudFlare some time ago when it comes to blocking "enemies" that are not explicitly breaking the law, but here we are. Never say never, and even if an organization would never do such a thing today, who knows who is controlling the organization tomorrow.
Claiming there is unfinished debate that needs to be let to continue seems like an argument that can be made indefinitely.
As I learned only the other day, SMTP email is also an entirely valid protocol for SOAP operations, and in fact is mentioned in a number of the documents around such, including but not limited to it’s wikipedia page[0].

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP
I think you have it wrong. One of the major thrusts of Plato's republic is that a philosopher king is better than a mobocracy.

I don't necessarily agree with the book, but the book does not argue about the superiority of an unfettered democracy - quite far from it.
Apple can't possibly get rid of kernel extensions - that's the only way to really extend a system in new and innovative ways (user-mode drivers are more like glorified serial-port applications). So much of Apple's platform today is made up of features that were only possible by extending the OS (e.g. Multi-Finder).

Apple's going to have trouble if they keep on hindering the people that made their platform and support their ecosystem.

Apple is not living up to their "Think Different" ethos: http://www.thecrazyones.it/spot-en.html

Apple in 1997:

Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.

Apple 2021:

> Follow our poorly-explained, underdocumented, and arbitrarily applied rules or we'll ban you from the App Store.
That is pretty cool
It does seem like supporting the actions of a man deliberately provoking violence to overthrow a democratic result in a extra legal fashion should face consequences.

If Twitter and Google are now governments in their own right though I must have missed it. Just because the US is a dysfunctional plutocracy doesn't mean a few billionaires should have such control over what are modern day phone networks. Everything old is new again!

Big tech would be wise to bring down the walled gardens and implement federated protocols where possible not just where is necessary. Otherwise the world has new governments to interact with. I wonder how long that state I'd affairs can stand.
I don’t want to add credence to such a poorly worded and misguided comment, but 230 is referring to Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. No-scoped refers to killing something so quickly with a sniper rifle so fast you don’t even take the time to look through your scope (in first person shooter video games).
You have scientifically accurate weather records from at least the 1920's onwards. Of all the temperature measurements on record you have decided to choose two single datapoints from two semi-tropical locations with low yearly thermal amplitudes.

I genuinely cannot tell if this is ill-intent or an internal struggle to revisit your previously held opinions when faced with the body of evidence of all the data collected after the industrial revolution.
Space in cities is a limited resource, and it might not even be in the markets interest to build enough housing to let prices drop.
> Are we really okay with the big tech companies having this much power?

Yes, absolutely. An alternate reading is that a sitting president ignored for years the contracts he agreed to when signing up to those services, and now he's not president they're finally getting around to enforcing those contracts.
"Common advice was always to avoid talking about politics and religion or anything else controversial in places you need to get along."

This is much more restrictive. For example, in meatspace, you can avoid talking about religion and politics at your workplace, but talk religion in your church meeting and talk politics with other supporters of the same party.

Social media tear down the distance and compress the entire world into one single space. Unless you want to avoid any religious and political discussions completely, your comments on those topics, even in specific discussion groups, can be viewed by, say, your coworkers.

I would say that this is quite a problem.
A bakery is not a social network.
well then, use white-on-white vs black-on-white, with subpixel rendering enabled and zalgo text this should still have a measurable performance impact
related from telegram author: https://t.me/durovschat/515221
(most his stuff is posted in telegram)

He is saying telegram clients are open-source AND verifiable so you can prove the app store is giving the pushed source.

And there is no point of open-sourcing the server because it doesn't allow you to prove more about the encryption and you can't prove the published source matches reality.

Obviously there are business/brand reasons as well, but I think Telegram is being honest here.
The sooner people realise this the better. Social networks and Big Tech publishers have became the de facto communication standard, but still want the perks of being a private company. This is just another example of "privatise the gains, socialise the loses". And yet people are somehow blind to it because their least favorite politician is being targeted.
I'd be interested in seeing a write-up of your (eventual) end-to-end experience of this. Do you have a blog I can subscribe to?
As a long-time Apple user, I agree with developers on this.
Give it time and they will abandon the platform, which is not geared to be anything more than a vertically integrated channel for money.
"but if you’re not interested in spending it actually supporting macOS, don't market your project as a cross platform"
This is again Apple driven effect. Most of the Open Source projects are cross-platform because of Mac Os X, not what Mac Os is now.
I advocate for Linux as a platform with real control over computing and hope developers realizing that this is a chance for Linux to become desktop heaven. My main workflow is design-focused and if software like Affinity Design or Sketch was available today I will remove anything Apple-related from my job.

There is a lot of graphic design and video professionals that will jump the ship. We have Blender, and Resolve is working under Linux, but Inkscape and Gimp are not capable enough to replace Sketch/Affinity/Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop.
Why would you even have one of those? You could not pay me to have a device in my home always listening, logging my conversation, fights, signing, jokes, story telling.

Speech pattern, volume, frequency at home, how often you have visitors, what I watch online without speakers.

Either I'm a privacy activist or just old fashion. But I really can't get my head around people wanting these device in their homes.

Can you share why the trade off is worth it for you?
AMD Shows Off Impressive Mobile Processors and Epyc Server Chips
If you look at e.g. x86 ASM manuals, you have WORD (16 bits), double word (DWORD, 32 bits), and quadword (QWORD, 64 bits). So even if it's nowadays a 64-bit CPU, the nomenclature from the 16-bit days sticks.

Double precision usually refers to 64-bit floating point, like you say.

I would agree that this usage is not standard.
Seems less than coincidental they banned him until the inauguration. I would really like to hear what specifically in the videos he posted caused them to ban him - or whether they just viewed it as an obvious route for him to repeat what he had done on twitter, and chose not to let it get to that level.
Show HN: Journaling for Your Goals
I started developing this app when I noticed I couldn't keep up with the daily journal pressure, I wanted to see how things I made and doing them made me feel but having to track them on days I was to busy to actually think on those, made me feel bad, these apps are meant to be used every day and they do everything to make you open it. I wanted a space where I could log my entries without any pressure, and that's how the Logbook was conceived.

Logbook is my personal space to reflect on experiences, thoughts and emotions.
> what most people are confusing with firewalling is actually NAPT

Yes. I should be clearer myself as just referring to NAT this way could serve to increase the confusion.

What most people just call NAT, what is offered by simple home/office routers (or APs when not in bridge mode or similar) and phones in tethered wireless mode, is actually NAPT (Network Address Port Translation), which is a subset of SNAT (Source Network Address Translation), which is in turn a subset of NAT.
Furthermore, the "this person is a jerk" part is clearly not part of some dispassionate evaluation of his professional accomplishments and is just a verbal attack couched in the language of professional criticism.

I suspect that, in many instances, people who do that are not trying to convince anybody of anything. If they expected to be greeted everywhere with agreement then they would not go around saying things which they know perfectly well are not likely to result in a vigorous and healthy debate if they were said to strangers in the street :)
The example used was a bar. For many people, saying “Just go to a different bakery that will bake you a gay wedding cake” was an unacceptable solution. Many of those people, I might add, are now using the same argument themselves.
The joys of not needing ads and tracking are very true. The way I try to live that, is setting up automatic $1/month donations to all and every podcast/blog/oss project, etc I wish to support. They don’t track me, and I ensure more content to my liking will be produced. I wish ad based business models didn’t work so well - hopefully people will wise up to it and reject it.

The flip side of what you speak of is the force and coercion required to fund all these nice things.

I’ll use my country as an example: a family father may earn €4600/month (a good salary indeed!) but after income tax and “employment fee” receive €2650. When they spend, they pay a 25% sales tax (VAT). This means he gets to spend about €1700 of the €4600 value he creates. (Source: https://www.ekonomifakta.se/Fakta/Skatter/Rakna-pa-dina-skat...)

So as a back of the envelope calculation, you could say that if a government project costs €2650x2, one “effective” expert slave labourer is used for it.

And the moral issue is this: these men (main tax funding group) must therefore, in order to fund their families, work more than otherwise, and not see their children. Their wives must often work too, and the obvious solution is to leave the kids in (government) daycare - which effectively is a daily abandonment trauma. The work I did for the government had a direct effect of children not seeing their fathers and mothers, but their upbringing being outsourced to the state. I think this is such a moral ugliness, I can have no part in it any more.
British Broadcasting Voice Restrictions
> Having monotonically increasing IDs for non-distributed systems removes the possibility of duplicate IDs.

In parler's case, having monotonically increasing ID typed as signed 32-bit integer _guaranteed_ duplicate IDs once they reached 2.1 billion unique items. This is well-known failure mode, and yet it took them by surprise.

https://twitter.com/adrianbowyer/status/1348761214428569602
This is so creative, love the attention to detail throughout the whole game. The toilet paper depleting while quarantining was my favorite part.

You can donate to the creator of the game here: https://donorbox.org/2020-game

It took him 6 months!
This is simple but completely counterintuitive. I've seen it go wrong hundreds of times and has been subject to a bunch of different workarounds (e.g. pipx).

Debian should probably ship a separate global python environment for Debian packages that depend on python where it is managing the environment - one with a different name (e.g. debpy), a different folder and, preferably, without pip even being available so that it's unlikely people will accidentally mess with it.

This could have isolated the python 2 mess they had for years also, de coupling the upgrade of the "python" package from the upgrade of all the various Debian things that depended on python 2.

really, it's easier to make "apt install python" be the way to install python "on the side".
There is no one kind of person in a generation. But, I have noticed that baby boomers tend to tout the philosophies of grit and self reliance of their elders while being as self indulgent as possible.

Therefore they expect others to suffer quietly or be seen as weak, while any restriction of their own desires is tyranny.

https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/baby-boomer-parents/
WordPress adds Stories. A quick review
Not sure about FB but Google have had several antitrust suits filed against them, both in the US and Europe.
> deliberately provoking violence
????
True, bakeries are much more fungible than social networks.
Ask HN: Antivirus for Linux?
My question is basically: Does it make sense to install an antivirus software on Linux? If so, which one would be the most recommended both free and paid? And finally, are there any open-source antivirus solutions? Thanks!
YouTube is a monopoly and it'd be near-impossible to break that up, so the "bar" comparison really doesn't hold. Google can, singlehandedly decide to withdraw the right to publish video in any meaningful way to the internet from an individual.

There's also the question of whether Trump is really just being banned for his political opinion, which is precisely one of those protected groups you mentioned (dunno if according to US law, but certainly according to the UDHR)

So, here we have some idiots effective freedom of expression taken away for his political opinions. I'd say that's a pretty obvious human rights violation.
If you take conspiracy theories and remove the thin thread of logic, you’re just left with propaganda... so it seems like we’re already starting to see what you’re predicting.
The cake case found that it was not discrimination [1]. This was supported by many LGB+ activists since it would have implied that gay bakeries would then be required to make Nazi cakes.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/10/uk-supreme-c...
I meant that it's difficult to come up with the idea of tying yourself into a knot. Not that it's hard to execute.
OMG! NOT NOW SNAKES!

j/k that is really cool, though the following quote made me a little sad:

“We may not have observed the behavior in the wild because we’re barely observing the animals in the wild.”

That reminds me of Attenborough talking about how there aren't really many truly wild places left in the world.

That makes me wonder, how much of even, for example, Goodall's study of the chimpanzees just 60 years ago was really studying them in the "wild"?

Maybe this is why I am drawn to videos of extreme deep see creatures, because that does seem to be still wild (for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDIlMVgNwk ).

Edit: I just wanted to point out that I realize that part of the motivation for the quote is just because of the difficulty of observing the secretive snakes in the wild and not because they don't exist in wild places anymore -- it just sent me down a little tangential rollercoaster of emotion. That's all.
‘Nanolites’ Can Trigger Dangerous Volcanic Explosions
These must be pre-recorded, available on-demand.
> it kinda is AWS' problem

That's obviously not the case. It's very clearly Parler's problem. I don't see why AWS should accommodate a customer just because the customer's problems are "hard".

The rest of your post is basically irrelevant imo, I'm not going to respond to rhetoric about party.
You're making a jump from "AlphaZero plays better than the best programs of its time" to "chess is close to being solved" but that's not justified without much more evidence. There are still a lot of improvements and new ideas added to the top programs and even if they reach a plateau, you'd have to show that increasing time per move 100x doesn't result in a significant improvement in playing strength. We don't know what would be the Elo difference between a 32-piece tablebase and the best existing program but I don't think anybody would bet that it's less than 200 Elo.

Here is a graph of Stockfish's progress since the end of 2015: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/f169f774996346ad146f96f74.... Self-play exaggerates strength differences but it's been a very good rate of progress, even without hardware improvements in the meantime.
Ah no worries, just misunderstood since between you and the submitter both sides got called a 'response'. Bloody English language, eh!
I learnt Svelte a few months ago and I am using to currently power my online delivery service. I had also tried react and angular but gave up too soon due to difficulty I faced while learning.

Earlier we were using PHP to power our website but after shifting to svelte we saw an approx 3x increament in terms of retention and order placement.
I’m talking serious antitrust action. Break up Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Break up YouTube, Google, Gmail, and Android.
> But these are actions that ought to be taken by governments, not businesses.

I fully agree. And let's not ignore that leaders of the free world are pretty shocked by what's happening.

- German canceler, Angela Merkel: “This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” https://apnews.com/article/merkel-trump-twitter-problematic-...

- French minister, Bruno Le Maire: "Digital regulation should not be done by the digital oligarchy itself . . . Regulation of the digital arena is a matter for the sovereign people, governments and the judiciary." https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/presidentielle/donald-...

- Mexico president, Manuel Lopez Obrador: "‘Let’s see, I, as the judge of the Holy Inquisition, will punish you because I think what you’re saying is harmful,’” López Obrador said in an extensive, unprompted discourse on the subject. “Where is the law, where is the regulation, what are the norms? This is an issue of government, this is not an issue for private companies.”"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-lea...
As a mathematician, I love how the word "differentiable" is changing meaning so fast for so many people!

If I had been told a few years ago that the mainstream definition of "differentiable function" would become so different during my lifetime I would not have believed it! Cannot wait to teach a course in "differentiable calculus" and introduce the new stuff.
Not sure about anti-trust. But there will almost certainly be something regarding free speech and social networks.
The problem is that these people relied on this infrastructure in the first place. A president has the necessary means for an official communications channel, I can't quite figure out why he chose Twitter, a service provided by a private company and not the government, instead.

At the same time I must say, I personally don't use this type of social media anyway because I think there is a conflict of interest. I use Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, etc. No company gets to regulate my social activity on these.

I don't think that this is censorship though, as it is not the government deplatforming these people and groups. It was clear from the start that private companies could do that and that it is well within their rights, the problem is that we rely on private companies for social media when we really don't have to.
Yes.

On the one hand, having NE entitlements restricted to MAS and the associated pain of MAS distribution is real.

On the other hand, a few years ago, I once installed some garbage corporate VPN software on a Windows machine of mine so that a family member could connect to their office to resolve an urgent matter. I later realized it was impossible to uninstall. It seemed to have somehow managed to embed itself deep into the network stack initiation process, and since you can’t delete an open file on Windows, it was impossible to remove. I booted into the Windows equivalent of recovery mode and forcefully removed the files from a DOS prompt, but then the whole network stack was borked. Not knowing which registry keys to edit I had to reinstall the damn OS.

With that experience in mind, I’d really appreciate the peace of mind of knowing deeply system-altering software can be cleanly removed.