skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This myth keeps coming up. The T2 disk controller is just a normal NVMe controller with a couple nonstandard quirks. There is upstream support now.

It took a while to work out because nobody sat down and got it done on day 1. This could've been worked out within 24 hours of the T2 macs' release, working at the pace at which I expect to be working on M1 bring-up.
Cows is an unfair comparison - cattle have been deliberately domesticated over millennia, selectively breeding for docility and familiarity with humans. Cow herds you might encounter in a field are also artificial constructs, removing the aggressive males that might have otherwise defended their family. Walking into a field of wild bison/Nilgai/Water Buffalo and aggressive behavior will have you hanging from a pair of horns before very long. Even feral dogs are fairly friendly and tend to ignore non-threatening humans in their territory - but you wouldn't want to do the same with wolves.
It is unlikely to be profitable if there is no demonstrable benefit
That is the usage of the word “man”, so noted in every dictionary, and backed up by millennia of descriptive usage.

I'm quite sure you know that too, to be honest. It is something that every English speaker knows, but some act as if they not, because they do not like the actual descriptive, and historical usage of that word.

From Merriam-Webster:

(1): an individual human
especially : an adult male human

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man
Wine 6.0
So they did moderate but not to your standard?

Or they were completely hands off? Which is it? Goalpost one or two?
What is their definition of harm to others? Meth addicts can be very violent yet this study says they pose little risk.
Still doesn't seem like much of a win compared to the jQuery :)

$(".classname").addClass("darktheme")
Intercom European competitor has closed a Seed Investment Round
Parler wasn't kicked off AWS because of a political disagreement. It was kicked off for multiple terms of service violations and unwillingness to adequately moderate its platform to ensure that further ToS violations didn't occur.

Surely in your can get kicked out of your rental if you violate the lease. Especially if your landlord sits down with you and discusses the issues and you still can't commit to not violating your lease.

I can get evicted from my rental if I don't have renter's insurance. Let's suppose my landlord sat down with me and said: '[name], you are in violation of your lease agreement without renter's insurance.'

If my response is 'well, I'll find someone to volunteer to look for renter's insurance for me', I would expect to be evicted. And I'm not even facilitating or enabling people to openly advocate and plan for violent overthrow of a democracy on my property.
But you can still make local (itunes) backups that are encrypted?
Incidentally, probably an apt depiction of Apple's development process :P
Why would anybody follow Russians and their discussions? I do not get this.

If you desperately wanted to know what American "Alt-right" was thinking 2016, you subscribed to Milo Yliannospullo, Gavin MacInnes or Steven Crowder, but they are all banned everywhere now, and they are not Russians.
He deleted his tweet because everyone was piling on him with nasty replies
This is fucking fantastic... its truly Orwellian to gaslight people into thinking they're using "Orwellian" incorrectly.

When what all these people really mean, but obviously can't say, is, "We didn't think we would become the Orwellian overlords!"

Chomsky said it best, “Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”

Right now, there's an enormous liberal bias in Silicon Valley. The founders of these companies are more libertarian - some are even conservative, but their employees by-and-large are anywhere from left-leaning to far-left. That's fine. I don't see anything wrong with that. The resultant problem is with the helicopter parenting generation that produced these people, and their inability to accept things that make them uncomfortable.

But... its okay, because like all complex systems, it trends toward equilibrium, and now you're starting to see the system self-correct.
The spice must flow....
Although, they've gone for a funny take on it, Biomethane is the perfect 100% renewable fuel available right now. Furthermore, trains connect towns to farms, so its an instant climate win. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/human-waste-bioultra....
Embarrassing is the word. If they can't host a website without AWS they shouldn't be allowed to run one. Also, fuck these Facists. I wouldn't work with them.
UK to Introduce Vaccine Passports Despite Previous Gov Denial
Covid vaccination passport is being created by firms like Microsoft and Oracle
That is true. And interesting to see how the value of retailer-brands relative to manufacturer-brands shift. I'm finding buying a no-name product from a retailer I trust to vet their goods. When buying from an open-online-marketplace-platform I really want to buy from a trusted brand to ensure quality.
You are correct, I hadn't taken the difficulty-adjustment into account. So that means a lower Bitcoin price does force miners out of the market, but after at most 14 days, the difficulty would adjust to stabilize at 10 minutes/block.

That might still create a period of instability where the network lacks hashing power, but it's not nearly as bad as I thought. And since the same number of transactions would be achieved with less hashing power, I guess the environment would gladly see Tether collapse :P
I think there is a problem today when people put their sexuality as a cornerstone of their personality. I think its an important aspect of who you are but far from most important. This over emphasis on self identification can create negative feelings about the self if one were to not conform to whats expected.
Hey everyone, I'm the author of this article. Hopefully it's helpful for anyone using Google Firebase Auth. Please let me know of any questions!
>>Facebook Has Been Showing Military Gear Ads Next to “Insurrection” Posts

Engineers high-fiving each other. They got the ad relevancy right, at least.
That's good news for me. For a minute, I genuinely thought I'd have to waste time going through a bunch of stuff I already knew to learn a tiny bit and earn a certificate to prove my skills.
Can we see WhatsApp client source code to verify this claim? We can for Signal.
> people are profoundly evidence based. If there hasn't been a war in 30 years, then they assume there will not be a war next year no matter how the background is changing.

I model this differently - people are very conservative about narrative change. I feel it works more generally.

Examples:

If we've had peace for 30 years, then war seems impossible.

If we've had government fiat currency for a centuries or more, then of course cryptocurrencies are a joke.

If we've been on the gold standard for long enough, then of course that's how money should work.
Yep, that's the plan!

There is also something to be said about working for different companies and experiencing different approaches to development, different tools, tech stacks and all of the other stuff you might not see if you stick at one place for a long time.

Though that's more of an auxiliary reason for switching jobs, whereas OP was talking about finances in particular.
answering my question

this works:

wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_006/Dungeon_Ma...

I just wrote a quick scrip to increment the issues

mobi = "wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_{count}/Dungeo..."
pdf = "wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_{count}/Dungeo..."

with open("grab_dragon.sh", "w") as file1:
for index in range(200):

str_index = str(index)
if len(str_index) != 3:
str_index = str_index.zfill(3)
pdf_format = pdf.format(count=str_index)
mobi_format = mobi.format(count=str_index)

file1.write(pdf_format + "\n")
file1.write(mobi_format + "\n")
Yeah, bad actors, starting with spam. Even 4chan has moderation !
Then you make them aware of those consequences. This is solvable.
> People often believe in fake news simply because deep inside they already think that's the case, they want it to be true.

This is also how you lie and con people, you construct a plausible lie they want to tell themselves, but if _you_ do it, they have deniability.
Well, RIP FitBit's Health API, that'll probably be rolled into Google Fit.

As a mobile developer, when we do any Health integration, the topmost platforms by usage are Apple Health and Fitbit, followed by Samsung Health and lastly Google Fit.

This easily lets them catapult in second place.
PR absolutely. DC never for very obvious reasons that have been well explained since the founding and haven't changed.
I'm seeing adds for illegal pistol and rifle suppressors (aka "silencers") only barely disguised as "fuel filters" and "solvent traps".

The companies selling the suppressor kits claim they are legitimate auto parts. They clearly aren't.

Some people have claimed that it would be legal to buy these if you applied for a license to manufacture a suppressor, but good luck arguing that in federal court, especially since these are manufactured in China. Both the import of these goods, and buying without the correct federal license are felonies....

And yet they are all over Facebook. And people are buying them.

Here is the crazy thing. I enjoy shooting as a hobby, and could understand if FB chose to show me adds for legitimate firearm accessory companies.

I am not a car guy.

Either FB add targeting is terrible, or they can connect the dots between these obviously illegal "solvent traps" and people who are interested in firearms.

This isn't a post made by a random FB user, it's an ad on their ad network on their platform. At what point does FB facebook become culpable?
I'd be interested on information on that and how it was performed.
Ive found that many of successful people who talk about conspiracies tend to be self serving. Like that Texas lawyer that brought a case of election fraud, likely to catch attention of Trump to pardon him due to his own legal problems. Others as a scaremongering technique to influence politics.

The only ones that seem to believe in them are those clearly unhinged (McAfee comes straight to mind although his seems self serving too).
The discourse often has little to do with science though.
Through a certain lens, a vanilla Forth program is defined purely by composing pure functions (and those compositions are vastly easier to write in Forth vs C or Python). It's a simple idea that has a lot of elegance, giving you high-level properties in a language that can be very close to the metal.
I bought my Tesla with 335k of its 340k miles on it. A bit of an experiment.

Not one feature was broken except one USB port, which I was able fix myself. Headlights were replaced once before I bought it (HID, not LED) and the motor was replaced under warranty in its first year. I had the front sway bar link replaced because it made a little clunk. It still has the original brakes on the rear (which I'm about to replace, myself, they're readily available outside Tesla). This is a third year Model S, remember. They've come a long way since.

There are places where the fit of the carpeting could be better; looking at new Model 3s, all such fit and finish issues seem far ahead. Still, mine's better by and large than my 2006 Jeep.

There are plenty of Tesla owners that have problems with their cars, and Tesla's customer service experience varies widely between service centers. But to say that someone else has had more problems with their Tesla than any other brand is just an unlucky Tesla owner. Or one that has never owned an Audi or a Land Rover or a Jeep or a Cadillac or a Jaguar or a first-gen Kia or a lot of other cars.

That Tesla could even make any brand-new car, in America, in the 21st century, is miraculous. The fact that it is a revolutionary car only adds to what you call a distortion field.

(Edit: cutesy naming? It uses [until Model 3] an AC synchronous motor, invented by Nikola Tesla. It couldn't be a more appropriate name, imho.)
The sitting president riled up his supporters and told them to march on the Capitol and “take their country back” because he lost the election and can’t deal with it.
He told them to stop Congress and that they were allowed to go to great lengths because the election was stolen.

This wasn’t a normal protest, it was an insurrection directed by the sitting president of the USA against democracy and thus the people of the USA.
Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user can watch YouTube and run Blender?
There are a question recently posted here on HN: "Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the internet with?" I want to ask similar question but more specific:

What is the oldest hardware on which I can watch YouTube videos and run Blender?

This will help in enabling education of poor students.
The unintuitive thing here (for the general population at least, possibly not the HN crowd) is that almost certainly nobody at Facebook saw, and approved (much less designed) this marketing strategy. It naturally emerged from the goals the system has been given. That doesn't excuse it: in fact, it indicts automated targeted-advertisement as a category.

This software is working exactly as it was designed to. I'm sure somebody could (and probably will, now that it's made the news) add a rule that makes an exception in this case. But this is going to keep happening, and keep happening, and keep happening, as long as we continue allowing systems to automate our content-feeds, optimized for getting us to spend money.
Can a baker in your country decline to decorate a cake with a message of hate?
I would never want to be an "ally" (don't like the term, implicates antagonism without reflection). And this criticism seems also true for these suggested changes. Is that really good or helpful? Before enacting such changes, you should ask people if you have their support or you might get the opposite reaction, which at least partially happend on the topic of gender overall.

You group people by privilege, which is a judgement you cannot accurately make if you don't know a person very well. Some people judge others by large demographic group affiliation, but that doesn't sound like progress to me at all, on the contrary.

Being occupied by pronouns displays privilege far more accurately than skin color for example. I think that is a reasonable position.

Especially in a corporate environment, norms are created by employers and employees and they are in a constant flux. Traditionally we worked for gender becoming less relevant in a corporate setting.

If you want to change others, change yourself and be an example. Maybe people will follow, maybe they will not. While there might be sympathy for the cause, speech codes will hit limits rather quickly.
Note Wars: The Age of the Linked Note
Are you being facetious, or are you really saying the definition of a riot or insurrection change according to your preferences?
You'd need Facebook and Whatsapp to demonstrate LEO came looking for the data and they had to attest what they did and didn't have, as Signal has [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/10/fbi-demands-sign...

> “The only information responsive to the subpoena held by OWS is the time of account creation and the date of the last connection to Signal servers,” Kaufman continued, also pointing out that the company did in fact hand over this data.
"men" in the OG post above meant: all humans. As in "it is the nature of man". As "mankind". Man/men can be used as for two meanings. One is Males and the other is All Humans
'Rent-a-person who does nothing' in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude
I haven't worked for them for a few years now but it's still a "sweat equity" organization as described on the web page under "About" at https://millcomputing.com/

They consider investments for their minimal costs as well.
what things that you need synced
They should also work predictably and consistently. When I’m in an emergency going 70 miles per hour or stranded by the side of the road at 3AM, I don’t want to have to worry about whether I’m running Car2.0 or Car2.1 where they changed where the hazard light button was.
I think we should ban the use of opaque algorithms to mediate communication between individuals. You need to be able to understand and predict the semantics of communication.
Advertisers. It's always advertisers.
As luck would have it:
https://www.e-ink-info.com/e-ink-devices/mobile-phones
Throw in two spaces before each code line and that will be formatted much better:

with open("grab_dragon.sh", "w") as file1:
for index in range(200):
...
Or similarly: for i in `seq -w 001 221`; do wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_$i/Dungeon_Mag... done; wget https://archive.org/download/Dungeon_Magazine_Annual_2010/Du...
Tesla has the S, X, 3 and Y.

Which other car company has their most recent 4 vehicles all have a 5 star crash rating in every category?
You realize that the approach you suggest pushes out a different set of people, right?

For example, a soldier with PTSD may want an environment that moderates content. Or a journalist with epilepsy may want a platform where people don't spam her with gifs designed to trigger epilepsy when she says something critical of a game release.
signald[^1] + signal libpurple plugin[^2] (finch, pidgin, adium, bitlbee, etc) works beautifully.

[^1]: https://gitlab.com/signald/signald

[^2]: https://github.com/hoehermann/libpurple-signald
If it makes you feel any better, in practice, most ML projects fail and just turn into (super valuable) reporting like you describe.

If you want a reporting solution, buy AI.
Tesla is in the whole EV lifecycle: Electricity generation, delivery, and utilization. Imagine a company a hundred years ago that was a combination of: Ford, Exxon, and Saudi Real Estate. :-)
Users don't read, they smash Ok buttons without understanding.
I believe it's based on Google's income derived from advertising, on financial statements.
How the Parler takedown has dealt another blow to the British far right
I'm convinced this is also why after 20+ years of knowing how to have a id authenticated/encrypted email system based on public keys its not been made the default in pretty much any of the mainstream email systems.

The excuses of it being unwieldy are 100% because its not transparently integrated.
Never been there, but I met a french-speaking couple from Montreal once. I could understand them just fine, but couldn't place the accent. It didn't really occur to me hearing white people speaking french were from another country than France. (My former neighbour was from Congo and I was able to converse with him in french although his patois was hard to follow).
The threats and violence Twitter won't police
It's not entirely abandoned. A few years ago Brad Fitzpatrick dropped by my desk because the latest Google Compute Engine virtualization stack rollout had broken Plan 9 on GCE. This was interfering with cutting a new Go release (the official releases ran on VMs running Plan 9). I don't remember the specific breakage, but that was the day we added Plan 9 to the stable of operating systems we run in our CI regression suite against new VM releases.

I don't know if the Go releases are still done on Plan 9, but it seems likely that's still an active use of the OS.
Compilers are just as vulnerable to defects as any other software. When I worked on VS COBOL II at IBM we had a several levels of people devoted to answering customer bug reports and fixing compiler code. I think the difference is is that compilers tend to be the kind of software that is written a little more carefully, better reviewed, and more comprehensively tested because of the implications of compiler bugs getting out in the wild through compiled apps. Compilers are hard to write and hard to make money with, too, and I think it's safe to say the reliability of the compiler is a big factor in its success.
Its going to be okay. This whole "Just make your own Twitter!", "Just make your own datacenter!", "Just make your own payment processor!" is exactly what will eventually happen.

I think we might be seeing the start of a total division of society along political sides.
>>I know many will think I'm defending Parler, I'm not. I just don't see why Facebook is continuously given a free pass for all the horrible stuff on their platform.

Intent matters. Did FB purposefully tailored their site's pitch for such characters? Did they have enough mods to delete stuff or algos in place? I suppose in groups barely anyone would report posts as not appropriate.
Lava Lamps Help Keep the Internet Secure?
Exactly. If you joke about nods and stuffed dogs full of tannerite all day of course the algo is gonna try and show you adds for level "wish.com" armor plates and bulk ammunition because it's job is to show stuff to people who will buy that stuff and you've fit the profile of people who buy cheap body armor and bulk ammo to a tee.

People preparing for revolt buy revolt supplies, water is wet, more news at 11.
Link to the paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03082-x
yeah oilite is a great bearing material, but it‘s not exactly „normal“ metal, but sintered bronze. In essence, you clump together bronze powder with a binder and then heat it up until the binder is gone and the powder has stuck together. What‘s left behind is kind of like a sponge, which enables impregnation with oil. Very special process and nothing to do with metal always having „pores“ or anything where oil can seep in
Special mention for this paragraph: 'we expect that a few of our competitors will attempt to spread all kinds of FUD around this change. Let me be clear to any naysayers. We believe deeply in the principles of free and open products, and of transparency with the community.' Get your offense in early and try not to mention open source!
Hôtel du Nord has been on my watch list for a long time. Thanks for the reminder. It looks like the waterway in the background is the Canal Saint-Martin. Sometimes people forget there are other waterways in Paris besides the Seine :-)
Isn't the Real Name policy a bit of a joke? I have a few test/fake/dev accounts, never had any issues (but for new accounts, need to associate them with a mobile number, but only for the initial signup).

That said, I think the structure of Facebook intentionally makes it difficult to moderate. Reddit, for example, has public groups, group mods, etc. Far from perfect, but Facebook could definitely do more validation before promoting groups.
> LSD has no measurable long term side effects

IIRC it permanently increases the big-5 personality trait Openness
agreed with the nitpick wholeheartedly
More of privatize profits, socialize costs. This is the end game to Capitalism, and it can't fix itself.
Indeed, Parler banned lots of speech. Especially breasts.