skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know this probably isn't what you're looking for ...

You know , actually after similar mileage with Macs I consider exactly the same solution. I started with Mac as escape from windows. It was fine for some time when Jobs was around and some time after that, but since 2015 I cannot choose Mac Book Pro that would just fit for work with all that idiocy with touch bars, malfunctioning keyboards and idiotic dongles, instead of working horse that has everything you need and makes things simpler.

>I'm sure Apple will continue to sell tons of Macs and that's fine...

And now as MBP 2015 had gracefully died after I provided the best care for it you can possibly imagine, I wish to move away from Macs even more. I do not wish to pay premium money for shitty equipment.

This 2015 model have just fallen apart, starting with screws that by some unknown to me reason where unscrewing themselves and you could not tight them back because some idiot made them non standard to make sure you really cannot do it, not even with the knife. Then I discovered that screen has traces of buttons after closing the lid. Then I discovered those small traces are unremovable. Then battery even with a proper care died anyway after third of cycles it suppose to have. Then screen have stopped working and then this shit have stopped booting completely ( even with external display).
I should also mention power cord ( with cheap plastic) that became yellow and was not always connecting , while it was carefully kept from banding too much. HDMI that in critical situation did not work, with the best cable you can get. OS that was constantly confusing where the main screen is, forgetting the ‘mirror’ option at will and I can go on and on ....

Overall the experience is horrible. I have other models from previous years and nothing like that had happened.

And I am told MBP2015 is considered to be a best model, as after mid 2015 models are even worse, not mentioning connectivity that renders them useless for mobility I need.

So looking at the way Mac is made these days I am not at all convinced they would continue to sell ‘tons of Macs’
in the following years.

Only inertia saves in such situation but for how long? In my case I cannot move from the platform because I’ve decided to write a proper File Manager for Mac. It is almost complete and I simply cannot live without it. I also cannot leave it unfinished as this would be a huge waste of effort. So I’ll have to finish it, start selling it, and then port to other platforms.

>Obviously that's a personal choice, but for me losing that level of control of my desktop operating system - and seeing this as the start of a trend that will only get worse - is not acceptable.

For me too. Anyway, I’ve been exploring gnu/linux for some time now and it appears as the next step. Since Mac is dead I’ll have to stick with linux for a while. I have no other options available.
because humans are social creatures. So as long as we desire to communicate with each other, someone will profit by building services to fulfil that desire.
Reuters says six sources inside Apple said it was the FBI.

My sources inside Apple tell me that there was at least a partial implementation for doing e2e backups safely, including a system for using friends/family to certify recovery in the event of password loss (presumably something like secret sharing).

The FBI and Apple actively collaborated to prevent this from coming to pass.

> One former FBI official who was not involved with these talks told Reuters that Apple was won over by the agency. “It’s because Apple was convinced,” said the source.

Your claim directly contradicts the article.
Fantastic work by the Wine team! Congrats on the release.

Still very disappointed that macOS has not been supported since Catalina (10.15) dropped 32-bit support - from my understanding, the 32-bit architecture is deeply integrated into Wine and removing it would be a significant effort. Understandably the focus has always been on Linux, but I would still appreciate at least an update from the team on potential macOS support in the future.
Does it matter if they see our private messages when they hand all of the metadata (locations, usage patterns) to their own company Onavo to build extensive profiles? This for me is more of a concern than the message text itself.
Is Remote Work Making Us Paranoid?
Okay, compare this to the ratio of recreational knife use (including kitchens) to violent knife use and you'll see why guns are a problem.
>> "I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down"

> I understand this on a visceral level, but I wish more people would look beyond that to the implications for communication on the web. This action by Amazon happens to correspond with what I think is right and just on first iteration, but what principle prevents Amazon from arsing some other group that we agree with?

It's kind of predictable but still disappointing that this was the part of my comment people chose to discuss with a 43-comment thread. It was the least novel and interesting idea in it.

But to your point, there's a lot more "looking beyond" than just that. There also needs to be a lot more looking beyond rather limited fundamentalist views of free speech, which tend to abrogate other fundamental rights and be so short-sighted that they actually bring discredit to the values they try to protect.
Is RoR Dead?
The set of customers who will both understand the consequences and still opt in is so small I think apple is comfortable letting someone else take that market, unfortunately.
Semiconductor demand is so high right now that any company that makes processors is going to print money in the short term. It's a "right place, right time" situation. Intel's long-term problem is loss of market share, but if you're going to lose market share, you're more likely to survive if it happens when the whole market is growing.

There's not much that a company so heavily invested in x86 can do in the face of Apple Silicon, aside from executing well on 7nm and bringing it to market ahead of schedule.

I don't see much of a similarity between Intel CPUs and Blackberry phones, considering that many flagship notebooks (even Apple's) have Intel inside. I for one am heralding the new era of voracious semiconductor demand, and am rooting for Intel to get its game face on and turn things around before the opportunity passes.
Cairo – A language for writing provable programs
Doesn't matter; all of your iMessage conversation partners likely have iCloud Backup enabled (it's on by default) and are providing Apple your plaintext chat history with them.
For clarity: liability solutions are civil and aren't going to put anyone behind bars.

But yes, that's absolutely part of the puzzle. Companies who made money by peddling armor and ammo and gear into an extremist community they were simultaneously trying to moderate need to be held partially responsible.

And that goes for the apocalyptic end-times mess that has infested the gun and gun-peripheral industries too. If you spend your advertising budget telling your customers they need your products to "protect their freedoms" then you don't get a pass if they end up sacking congress to do it.
"because it tends to accompany and be a symptom of sloppy, armchair thinking that leads to fruitless fights on social media"

Exactly we need an elite social group to determine what is Orwellian.
Make them sign several clauses on a contract and send back a scanned copy. Really, if they still go through it without understanding what they are doing it will be on them.
you understand me...
Google’s Fitbit acquisition is official
Is this sentiment perhaps due to someone "practicing CS" on your engineering schedule? What's the real harm you're describing?
Sad. And I didn't realize that Roy died of coronavirus last year too.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
"It's your fault for believing everything you read on the internet."

I disagree, it's our fault as a society for not allocating proper resources towards education. You can't expect people to understand critical thinking, media/source analysis, etc. if no-one ever taught it to them.

Now, Facebook capitalized on that societal failure point and developed an algorithm that exploited individuals who lack that critical thinking skill by shoving progressively angrier and more unhinged content in front of their eyeballs, and recommending them groups of extreme individuals, therefore normalizing their way of thinking. They did this because they realized content that causes anger, outrage, and fear is extremely effective at keeping people clicking, scrolling, reading, and overall "engaged" which means more data, more ads shown, more money. They basically took the Fox News model and injected pure racing fuel into it.

This, like most issues, cannot be explained by one specific cause, but Facebook absolutely shares the blame.
Why bother providing an anecdote like this when we have mountains of empirical evidence about the content on Parler? And that evidence directly counters your assertion.
I've been a huge critic of Facebook right from the beginning. I was that guy who quit Facebook back in 2008 when it was really uncool to do so. But I really don't understand why they are being blamed for recent events.

What, in particular, has Facebook done to encourage this kind of behaviour? Are we really going to blame them for making it easier for people to be heard and to find other like-minded people to communicate with?

What we are witnessing is a societal problem. It's possibly a new problem, or maybe just one that has never been seen at such large scale. But all that's being done about is the oldest trick in the book: scapegoating.

I get it. It's a huge and complex problem and it's easier to focus one entity and call it the enemy. But we can do better than this. All we'll achieve by blaming Facebook is less free speech. Is that really the best solution here? Again? This has been tried so many times before.
There's some speculation that bitcoin will be unstable without block rewards, though. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CC...
> This is a fringe Operating System

No, TempleOS was a fringe operating system.

Plan 9 was a legitimate research operating system developed by computer scientists who had a key role in the development of UNIX and other highly-regarded pieces of software.

Plan 9-based technologies are a part of most, if not all, operating systems today (even Windows!).

But, a fun article, and I'm always happy to see Plan 9 crop up from time to time. It's at risk of being forgotten, but shouldn't be.
It is accurate for dealings between liberal democracies, but I don't think you can take this approach to states who operate according to a different paradigm. Otherwise you will just be helpless when authoritarian regimes become aggressive.
Sure thing! The forerunner 45s is the cheaper option in the forerunner lineup, BUT it doesn't have standard lugs.

There is also the Venu and Vivoactive lines with touch screens, but their battery isn't nearly as good as anything in forerunner's camp.
In this case, should we also ban power tools and heavy machinery because some idiots aren't careful and get hurt?
Almost. Opioid means anything that interacts with those receptors. Opiate means derived from opium. It is an opioid but not an opiate.
> That would be the main effect of sunsetting Fitbit.

That's very debatable, considering the smartwatches from Samsung, Fossil, Garmin...
He got hit with a fire extinguisher which is awful. It's still not an insurrection though. There was no attempt to over throw the US Government. Calling this an insurrection is like calling everyone that ways "All Lives Matter" a nazi and cheapens debate.
This is how most nutrition "science" is conducted.
I think focus on Linux is also reasonable because Apple refuse to support Vulkan. I don't think Wine developers should waste their time adding Metal support in addition.

Wine developers said in the past, that they were considering dropping macOS support altogether because of issues like that.
Here's the actual change:

> Starting with the upcoming Elastic 7.11 release, we will be moving the Apache 2.0-licensed code of Elasticsearch and Kibana to be dual licensed under SSPL and the Elastic License, giving users the choice of which license to apply.

So starting with 7.11 no parts of Elasticsearch will be released under an open source license.

They aren't making everything SSPL, though. Their paid features continue to be only available under the Elastic License.
Why is it robbery? Perhaps your beef is with the ISPs?
That's not 'scary' it's rational.

What's 'scary' are the stakes involved.

People in 'comfortable offices' are right now deciding who gets vaccines, and who will not until later.

People are dying in the US due to lack of access to healthcare due to other people making decisions in 'comfortable offices'.

We entrust those in positions of power with such legitimate authority.

And finally: "I think this option is more favourable to us than peace" - is an inappropriate analogy because it's generally never the case. If the US were to have entered WW1 and 2 earlier, a lot of lives would have been saved. While those were easier decisions in hindsight, they're all nuanced, for example, the US+Coalition decision to liberate Kuwait after Saddam's incursion.
This is what Bear did for Evernote, and it's great.
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This definitely is a feature. You can use sandboxing if you want to. See kernel namespaces (used by Docker), Ubuntu's snaps, etc.

But breaking almost all software by default just because some incompetent users keep choosing to install malware is not a great strategy.
U.S. jobless numbers surge as worsening Covid-19 pandemic hurts businesses
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But highly regulating drug ads will be a far cry from every NFL broadcast having a Budweiser commercial with people smiling in bars.
That's how it should be. But plenty of people have been convicted in this way, unfortunately. Plus they have probable cause to search your house which isn't much fun either.
One-time spraying isn't convenient when it starts raining. Voice commands are useless to people like me with a heavy accent. Touch screen while driving is not a safe distraction.
So just how fast are channels anyway? (2017)
Theoretically nothing, but neither party wants to piss off the FBI.
How should we handle the majority of customers that aren't technically savvy and are just looking to upload pictures of granny?

Or to further your shoe store idea. The majority of people know how to tie their shoes. Most shoe stores usually don't keep a lot of stock of shoes larger than a US size 12 men's shoe. My foot happens to be larger. I have a different use case. So I often have to go through a different workflow (e.g. ordering online, having the store custom order my shoes, etc.).

If you want full data security, you need additional technical knowledge and a different workflow. iCloud isn't for you.
How Chicken Run became a cult classic in the Mi'kmaw language
According to the article "at least several" out of 2+ million active users were in the Capitol. If this is the standard to upload, we would have to ban every social media app ever made.
BERT engineer? That acronym is essentially ungooglable, since you just find every person ever named Bert.

This is what I finally found:
BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805
If Google Images is any indication a "tactical hooded trench coat" seems like exactly the kind of thing you see the HN demographic wearing while walking to work on a rainy day.

TBH I was expecting to see actual trench coats but they all seem like normal tight-ish fitting jackets in various grays, greens, browns and camo.
I actually think this is a good sign. I'd rather live in a world where social norms relax to take into account the loss of privacy and anonymity. The ideal world would be one with those two things still intact, but I guess that ship has long sailed...

The unexpected Trump era served to speed this up, which is probably one of the few silver linings it has. Remember the debates about whether future politicians could be blackmailed on account of what they posted online in their youth? A Boomer of all people just dove right in and bypassed that.
"... and be dual-width"
Like everyone who has an account on HN, I'm aware that there are companies acquired by Google that no longer exist. But some -- Android, youtube, Nest, etc. -- still exist. What makes you think Fitbit will fall in the former category? Random probability?
> A smartwatch should not be burning a lot of RAM.

Then again, the Gen 5 has 1Go and works fine. That's the same amount than an Apple watch serie 4/5.

> It has a battery the size of a dime, it should be doing very little with processor or memory.

Wear OS is far from perfect but that's more on the Snapdragon 3100. Samsung and Apple CPU are far better but they don't sell them.

It's very much a chicken and egg situation. Qualcomm doesn't invest because there is not market and there is no market because poor CPUs lead to products which are not competitive. Google could have unlocked the situation but I guess they were wainting for the Fitbit acquisition to go through before going back to wearables.
Just because they failed doesn’t mean they didn’t try to do so.
I’m not sure I follow the “only giant, mature, and billions/trillion dollar companies should be allowed to have public services” argument.

Twitter had 30 engineers at one point, they weren’t deplatformed before becoming a better product.
Ask HN: Government back doors, would you rather?
Ignoring, for the sake of specificity in discussion, the alternatives such as “no back doors ever”, using whatever reasoning you want for how the false dichotomy may hypothetically arise (mine being a what-if scenario: what if a domestic US warrant were acquired to bug a physical residence of an entity with video surveillance and the equivalent were needed for electronic residence), would you rather:

Have a government backdoor to encryption?

OR

Have a government backdoor to screen capture?

I know the question is heavily loaded, but I’m curious as to where warrant-based screen capturing would be placed relative to warrant-based encryption back doors.
I get what you're saying but this conflates two issues: people who live in PR and DC have zero voting representation in Congress. Let's fix that and then separately address the problems of the whole system.
I never suggested banning words and agree that opinions should not be surpressed.

The issue occurring is that bad actors are using social media as a tool to enrage people and shape their opinions.

I do not have a solution but I feel as though identitying this as a real problem is part of the solution. Most people are not aware that social media is filled with computational propaganda
> I didn't really find anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conch_Republic
I'd like to know what dang learned moderating HN.
His mistake in his assumption is all games are the same. Sometimes I play a game that is kind of 'boring' and relaxing like a bit of solitaire. Other times I play a fragfest with 15 other people looking to take my head off. Sometimes I intend to play something exciting and end up playing max/min stats. Sometimes I just suck at the game...
Bear web clipper has worked great for me over the past year or so. It was definitely not great before that.
Signed copies protect you from litigation in court, not loss of brand value in the court of public opinion. Plenty of people bitten by it will just never use a backup product from you again, and every time apple sneezes a flurry of journalists are there to document it.
I live in the US, in a major East Coast city. FAANG level income lets me live a fairly worry-free life in a nice neighborhood, including a nice 2-3 bedroom flat and a private school. It's a tremendous luxury, for which I'm greatly appreciative.

Many of my colleagues in Europe, make far less than 1/2 of what I do from a compensation perspective. However, they're able to live essentially the same lifestyle I am. Nice flat in a vibrant, walkable, top-tier urban locale with the ability to afford most things in life. They're able to do so because they have less worry about surprise medical bills, paying to care for their elders, saving $200k for the kids' college, etc. My employment is also at will. I can leave or be forced to leave at a moment's notice.

Obviously, I'm only offering anecdotes here, but (IMHO) once that lifestyle moves out of reach, then companies will be forced to increase pay.
It's a fairly crappy Hynix part. There are tons of better eMMC parts out there; this particular chip is known for not-great cycle life.
It, as many words can, can be used for more than that. From the top of my head alone:

- a member of the Homo sapiens species.

- a member of the Homo genus

- a male member of any of the two above

- a male adult member of any of the two above

- a brave member of any of the two above

- a soldier

- a commoner

- any vaguely humanoidly shaped being

The word is certainly not special in that regard; I could give a similar list of “Russia” or “chess” for instance — but seemingly this word sometimes faces objection when the meaning the objector desires not be the one used, and I find that it is invariably a difference of gender lines in meaning if that be the case, and that it is rooted in gender politics.

I have never seen such wilfull denial of descriptive usage of the word “chess” and objections when it is used to, for instance, mean the entire family of games that descend from a common ancestor, or when it is used by metaphor for any exercise in great tactical planning.

The original meaning of the word “man” was the first I gave, all others arose by narrowing or widening it by analogy, much as what happened with “chess”.
Conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream. It is as if the age of reason -- the era of evidential argument -- is ending. Knowledge is de-legitimized and scientific consensus is dismissed. Democracy which depends on shared truths is in retreat, and autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march. All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history.

The above is by Sacha Baron Cohen, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM

More excerpts:

Voltaire was right when he said "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." And social media lets authoritarians push absurdities to millions of people. President Trump using Twitter has spread conspiracy theories more than 1700 times to his 67 million followers.

Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. Sadly There will always be racists, misogynists, anti-Semites, and child abusers. We should not be giving bigots and pedophiles a free platform to amplify their views and target their victims.

Zuckerberg says people should decide what's credible, not tech companies. When 2/3rds of millennials have not heard of Auschwitz how are they supposed to know what's true? There is such a thing as objective truth. Facts do exist.