skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that bothers me is that it's not even restricted to iDevices.

I was recently looking into replacing Time Machine on my MBP (which has a tendency to corrupt over SMB) with APFS snapshots, synced to ZFS snapshots on my NAS.

Unfortunately, I quickly found that Apple has locked the relevant API (fs_snapshot_create) away behind a private entitlement, only to be granted to select backup software that abides by their rules.

It's gotten to the point that I want to "jailbreak" my laptop. Just give myself the ability to grant any entitlement, for local use only.
1/6 looked pretty easy. It also looked like it was pretty easy to catch the most gods-awfully expensive intelligence agencies in the world completely flat-footed.
> These tools may not be as accessible to end users as BASIC, but that is because these tools support much more than basic math and graphics.

Okay, so where are the options that only support basic math and graphics?
Honestly I’m not surprised. The prior work could be argued as being fair use of the Tetris copyright. It certainly isn’t stealing any market from any official licensed Tetris products or services. Morally, I can find it very easily defensible.

This “Lovetris” work is a blatant copying and republishing of someone else’s proprietary work effort with no permission. Morally, I don’t see this as an egregious abuse, but I can see why this community would object to someone not acting in the spirit of open source licensing.
I chose bike shop arbitrarily. I could have said hardware store, cake supply store, game store, toy store, etc.
Money and power, as usual
If you are asking to live as long as you desire, I am all for that! But the comment I was replying to was ridiculing the idea of planning for the eventual end of one's existence so presumably they want to live literally forever. And that's a very long time.

For arguments sake imagine that your consciousness is transferred into a simulation that runs at a highly accelerated rate so you can experience a very long existence. The custodian of the simulation is benevolent, it tries to keep you happy, lets you shape the world in whatever way you want but the one hard rule is that you are not allowed to end.

You will probably have an awesome time for the first few hundred years. So many fun experiences you could only dream of before. You can explore the stars, turn the world into paradise, come up with new forms of art that no one has imagined.

After a few thousand years things might start getting a bit samey but you will still find new things to do. But how about after a few million years? Or billion? It might start getting pretty boring. You have done all the fun things countless times and all the terrible things too just to do something different. But your looooong adventure is only beginning! There is no exit button. Welcome to hell.

The scenario is not completely implausible, agreed? I think one of the Iain M Banks novels had something similar going on. I think the custodian there was evil but I am arguing that on the looong run that makes little difference.

One might argue that they would transform themselves into something that can tolerate the infinite existence but I call that cheating, such a thing wouldn't really be you anymore. And the custodian might see it that way too.
Thank you! Exactly this. I'm gonna c&p it to all the other studies like that I always see.
Thanks for the helpful examples, makes sense. I had assumed it was accurate and I just wasn’t seeing it so good to understand why (also sleeping 4 hours a night with a new puppy so that doesn’t help).
I think the lack of images JavaScript, etc definitely contributes. Pages on sourcehut load faster than any major website I know of.
'The Desert Music' by Reich is really wonderful, worth giving a listen!
Yep, there also won't ever be a person who lives forever, since one can only observe someone who has lived for a finite amount of time.

But whether it's good or bad is something that only an individual can determine. It's more/less along the same lines as the question "is life worth living?"
The "level of productivity" when writing a browser app is going to depend completely on your other skills as a developer and not on the superficial differences between JS and Cljs. Only language zealots say Cljs gives them "whole new levels of productivity" over JS, learn to recognize them and ignore them.

For many, learning Clojure can make them better developers but most don't keep using it once they realized they can apply all the hindsights they learn from Clojure to a more productive ecosystem.
From what I understand, that would just be overcomplicating the matter, because most modern video gambling machines just use a set number of wins per time interval.
Faraday was a book binder. Einstein a patent clerk. Susskind background helped advance theory. Professionals have their problems. Citation gaming. It's possible to get a degree relying on a jargon and learning by wrote without a true comprehension.

It makes you not just rely on particle or gravity field. People starting from scratch have to really explain themselves.

Dark matter, you have gravity forces with far less visible mass. If you want a dark matter particle, it has to absorb from the surroundings without changing its surroundings, while not radiating light.

Gravity, heat transfer through the changing of relative clocks works well enough.
> She could have used it to get more flexibility, better job security, maybe a more interesting role, etc

She could have had a 3 x higher salary and done all those things (or so I think, based on GP's description).

When you understand your own worth (workplace wise), the others respect you more, and it's simpler to change things the way you want.
My favorite calculators.

I had a 48G that was destroyed and a 48GX that was stolen from an autorepair shop, while the car was in for service.
free space (air)

Surely that's not the science. Space and air are not the same thing. Air is, of course, a scattering medium.
In an honest world, yes. Blockchain prevents people tampering or revising the data, ie removing unflattering stuff like the refrigeration being turned off on their container, or stuff being sent to a third port, etc.

There's a lot of fraud in food.
Nintendo was not going after SEGA, it was Congress. Nintendo did act like they're better behaved though.
You can't fight fire with fire, but you can fight Monty with Monte. :-)
Interestingly, if the host picks randomly (and if he reveals the car, you... start over, or you get the car, or you get nothing, or ... it doesn't matter because it happens not to have happened in the time we're considering) then you are faced with a 50/50 chance.
The epilogue: "A few days after Erdos left, he telephoned to say that Ron Graham of AT&T explained to him the reasoning behind the answer and that now he understood. He proceeded to tell me the reasoning but I couldn’t fathom his explanation." -- Vazsonyi [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131827/http://www.decisi...
This is always how I thought about it. The host is giving you more information about the 2/3 doors you did not choose, while the amount of information stays the same about the 1/3 door you did choose. It's this asymmetry that makes switching make sense.
Maybe this is a good opportunity to create a "reverse Amazon" service for small businesses?
This reminds me of San Francisco. Maybe because the general phenomenon here is local optimization at the cost of global optimization. NIMBY leads to city-wide failure.
I have no knowledge in general of this stuff, but my assumption is that your average company is horrible with security, but huge corporations dump tons of money into security (being a big target with the most users) making it more effective.

Not saying breaches never happen with apple or google of course, it's just less often than your trusty todo list app being pwned and your clear text passwords being dumped online.

You raise a very good point though. You can't judge the security of a company by any metric except their record. It would be interesting to have a registry that logs breaches, how severe they are, and give an overall rating to them.
You often can and should fight fire with fire. For a literal instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn
Libzip.org Is Down
This particular one isn’t that hard to just do by hand. Which I did at the time, was surprised at the result, and stared at the column long enough to convince myself why she was right.
Right, Windows is totally stable and an OS update would never break basic functionality [0] or delete peoples' files [1].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/blue-screen-of-the-d...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsoft-suspends-d...
Because Sabine is easier to type and pronounce than Hossenfelder.
Projecting in the sense that.. my personal experience with this viewpoint has been exclusively made by friends, family, and randos on social media parroting this exact viewpoint for the exact reason I posited. Sure.

But yeah such political content is unfortunately bound to be flagged in HN unless it has some sort of explicit tech connection.
Right, so if you pick the absolute worst moment to buy, you still make a profit in 10 years. Sounds like a good bet to me, especially considering you have to live somewhere and pay rent or a mortgage.
For the glib answer: probably the public intellectual who received the fewest responses, period.
And that, boys and girls, is how we got adtech.
Doesn't Ireland have some of that?
There’s nothing in this article indicating the operator has a recovery plan in place involving restoring backups to get these systems online. Seems grossly negligent on their behalf, and made almost satiric by the fact that Fireye can be mentioned without reference to their own massive security lapses.

Too much focus always on the “hackers” and never the obvious security lapses solved by diverting executive pay to more bodies and training to cover them, but oh well right?
As a cluster immigrants are very conservative. Also makes sense to not want to get taxed on benefits you dont get.
Rock n roll died before Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Pink Floyd had release any albums?
I just watched a movie with 84 murders on screen, and it's rated teen, but show a naked person and everybody looses their mind
could you expane?
I know that's the reason, and it makes no sense. You'd think educators would know enough to know that they're both computers and having a QWERTY keyboard doesn't make it any easier to cheat.
The best intuitive explanation I know modifies the problem to have 100 doors, and after you choose one, the host opens 98 doors that don’t have the prize.
Any other wargamers here?

I got into 40k in middle school because the lore and toys were awesome, ditched it in high school as girls suddenly became more interesting than space marines (and seemed mutually exclusive), and in the past few years got back into historical wargaming. Spent most of quarantine painting opposing French and Austrian divisions for the war of 1809, among some other projects.

One thing I’ve really enjoyed about historical games , at least with the groups I’ve been playing with, is the focus on process over result. Winning is nice, but the narrative and choices that develop over the course of the game are really what everyone’s there for.

Edit: totally forgot to add! HN’s favorite Bret Devereux recently appeared on a 40k podcast, where he talked historical precedent for the imperium of man. Great listen! https://www.frontlinegaming.org/2021/02/15/chapter-tactics-1...
Private property, of which corporations reside within and servers consist of, are not equivalent to an event in a public square, either.

Apple is not the only company of its kind on Planet Earth.

Whether it's Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot or your 10 user niche hobby forum, none of the people who own the private servers that each of those venues reside on are required to host your words.

That is the part that you're missing when you misinterpret the private party metaphor.
There’s discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27086403
Is nationalist propaganda allowed here?
Maybe check out a newer library. Maybe this one:

https://github.com/lewissbaker/cppcoro

This, or something like it, will eventually be standardized I think.
A simple probability table works just as well
Yeah Aljazeera does lack honesty indeed.
but is it the point now?
you know what's that called, it's called gaslighting. stop it.

yeah striking back is not civilized by did you consider their options?

maybe take a trip, live their, see what civilised options they have.

having enough nukes to wipe out the planet is civilised I assume?

killing children taking land committing war crimes, all these are civilised actions when taken against non-anglo people right?
wiping out entire races to build democracy, pretty much, civilised. always has been.
Hall clarified that things worked a bit differently than the scenario presented by the Parade reader in vos Savant’s column.

This is partly why I think it's hard for some to comprehend "the Monty Hall problem". If you've ever seen Let's Make a Deal, you'll notice the big deal is set up very close to, but still materially different than how "the Monty Hall" problem is set up.

I wonder if people who have never seen the show can understand the math quicker...
Another statistically unintuitive problem (which I've witnessed a lecture hall enter a state of uproar over):

There are 2 red and 2 blue balls in a box.
One ball is removed at random, what are the odds that the ball is blue?

Now we repeat the problem, but before examining the ball, we remove a second ball. We observe that the second ball is blue. In this case, what are the odds that the first ball is blue?
That's probably true, since satisfaction with an explanation tends not to motivate letter-writing in any situation.
What's more, laws tend to limit how much the machines pay out, not how little. (Other than making sure the game is 'fair'.) Someone who loses a lot tends to limit how much they have to play. By contrast, the thrill of frequent winning gets people to lose more, in total, then they otherwise would haver.
it seems most ppl on HN have already conceded their rights to private property. We are moving to a sort of digital peasantry and everyone is okay with that because Apple is like a digital lord, and their 'rights' to their land are more important than our personal liberty
I hope this ransomware called itself the Da Vinci virus? Because this sounds a whole lot like the plot of Hackers [1].

The greatest movie of all time, btw.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)
It's oddly not true for previous attempts at the thing, though - Second Life was not very popular. (I think because originality is too much effort and the client performance was poor)

Also, previous metaverses were only popular among specific demographics, like perverts/furries, or suburban teenage boys.
WA/TX/FL do not have an income tax and still pay more to the Federal Government than they receive.

IMO the SALT deduction is a horrible thing and allows state governments to become way too bloated.
That is incorrect, and most likely illegal anywhere gambling is legalized.

The machines are random, with no enforcement on wins per time interval.

Source: I work in the industry.
> The case was later partially overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969, which limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot).

Relevant (to my example) portion still applies and was not overturned. May seem like a nitpick but I do think it's an important distinction to make.
This is a very good explanation. I hope you won't mind if I say the exact same thing you did in just a slightly different way that might help it click for someone still not getting it.

Your initial chances of choosing correctly are 1 in 3. So the car is behind the door you chose 1/3 of the time. After the host reveals which of the 3 doors definitely does not have the car it's still the case that your initial choice will have the car 1/3 of the time [0]. That means the other door must contain the car 2/3 of the time. So you should switch.

[0] The haters are correct that the host hasn't changed the odds that your initial choice is correct. They just aren't tracking the implications of that fact.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of times it was cluelessness. I'm just saying, I find myself going "this is stupid" far more often than it -was- stupid. It might be now, but the reasons for it then sometimes made sense.
My favorite thing is when somebody says, “what if I want to win the goat?” Because you instantly know they’re a contrarian for its own sake.
Here's the intuition that helps me.

Imagine you're lost somewhere in the entire universe, trying to find your way home. Friendly (but tricksy) aliens offer you a deal. First, you pick some coordinates.

(Possibility 1) If the coordinates you pick aren't on earth, they'll take you to earth.

(Possibility 2) If the coordinates you pick happen to be on earth, they'll take you god knows where.

You also have the option to be taken to the coordinates you picked.

As a lost spaceman, perhaps going by the name Arthur Dent, what's your most likely path home? Odds are, if you pick a random point in the universe, it's not on earth. The odds are literally astronomical. So you're almost certainly going to find yourself in possibility 1.

Or just imagine monty hall with infinite doors. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and infinity (secretly, it's 19083412039102388171230123). You pick a number, and then I'll narrow down your choice to two options. Do you think you just happened to pick my number, or do you switch?
No, printers/scanners work without the manufacturer's software; if it's supported (which, I admit, is incomplete but more than you might expect), you just plug it in, tell CUPS to add a printer (which it can do seamlessly without installing extra garbage from the manufacturer), open Simple Scan (or any other SANE frontend) and off you go.
I work at tiktok in mountain view and this article seems exaggerated. I don't know about the UK office but while there are may be folks in the US working 996, most of my peers do not have that schedule. If I were to stereotype with my biases, I'd say the hours would be similar to a FB/Amazon (>=45 hrs/wk) than a Google (<=40hrs) but that some members of teams here may also have 1-2 nights a week with 7PM calls (10AM Shanghai). Although, if you're a team lead or manager, you may have more frequent alignment meetings.

I think certain teams and functions may have higher demands perhaps due to lack of resourcing, sudden business priorities, or a need to resolve ambiguities during the transition of a scope but it feels like it's getting better overall. From my experience, people will work overtime if needed but definitely not for the sake of a 996.
I have a blog post that similarly talks about unintended negative consequences of Humean ideas, through the lens of Judea Pearl's work on causation: https://vishakh.medium.com/empiricism-and-scientific-change-....
small but not the only thing and showing people how much power a small minority of people have, having a non evangelical religion, a lot of closed doors and supposed to be charities while committing unhuman actions and whatnot is quite fine though.
nothing to worry about.
> Being able to detect forgeries requires some pretty intense domain expertise, and that tends to come with a lot of experience and schooling

Does it really require that? Perhaps for some items expensive enough to have expert forgeries (like with artwork where sometimes you need to test the composition of the paint itself or x-ray the canvas) but I doubt that’s the case for the typical knock-off item where all you need are pictures.

Here’s how I would go about this if I, as someone who knows absolutely nothing about any of this, wanted to setup this kind of business.

First, I would search for images of popular items which have known knock-offs produced. Let’s say the Nike sneakers or the Louis Vuitton bag mentioned. I would gather as many pictures of the known, proven knock-offs as I could. Then I would find official images published by Nike and Louis Vuitton. Put the images side-by-side and it’s simply a matter of going through that children’s exercise where you spot as many differences between the two pictures as you can.

Then given all the differences I spotted, I would start writing up guides documenting all of what my rudimentary exercise discovered. Publish the guides to gain credibility and then participate in various forums where those products are discussed. Pump the free guides and get established as an authority, even though all I’ve done is use my eyes to spot differences.

Then, just as they wrote up, start offering to check people’s stuff for free. When it hits a certain volume, offer priority service, etc. Same playbook for that.

When you get an item you’ve never reviewed before — say, a Rolex watch — ask the customer to submit photos that exactly match ones that Rolex publishes (actually, you should always ask for matching photos to make the work 100% trivial). Rinse and repeat: spot the differences.

You may not find 100% of the differences but you can get close enough to authoritatively state if it’s a knock-off or not. If you hit a wall where you’re not sure if the Rolex is real or not, there are two options. If Rolex is amenable to this, send the images to Rolex and ask them if there are obvious signs of a fake. Then you’re just playing the middleman and if Rolex needs more photos to authenticate, relay that back to the customer. If they’re not, I’m sure it’s not too difficult to locate someone who you know has a Rolex. Or maybe partner with a jeweler and cut them in.

Hey, now it’s not just you anymore and you can claim you have a team of people performing authentications behind the scenes. Customers don’t need to know that your team is really just you and a buddy who can spot differences between pictures, plus occasional ad-how strangers, and maybe even the official companies themselves from time to time.

I’d be somewhat surprised if they didn’t do exactly what I described.
The presentation of the problem included the phrase "the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door", so I think in that case the interpretation that Monty deliberately reveals a goat is more appropriate (in addition, obviously, to being what was intended), although I agree there is wiggle room enough to admit both possibilities and clarity about which case you are discussing is important as it changes the answer.
This will sound simplistic, but do hospitals/doctors conduct any type of general questionnaire about patient lifestyle details (general habits, type of food/drink consumed, sleep habits, type of shampoo/toothpaste/hand cream they use, where their drinking water comes from, etc) that could be used for cross reference in relation to whatever disease/cancer they have?

I feel like given the sheer number of healthcare patients, we should be able to identify trends with a few simple Excel formulas. E.g. People are more likely to get ${disease} who drank well water from ${location} between ${yearStart}-${yearEnd}

It's worth remembering that healthcare industry decision-makers (on the business side of things) aren't naturally incentivized to actually fix any major healthcare issues...their focus is how to maximize profit, and reducing the number of patients doesn't align with that. In other words, it feels like something there is ripe for disruption.
> In this: "the host will open the door at random and in this example it happen to have a goat" vs "the host will never open a door with a car behind it".)

If the host opens a door with a goat, then it doesn't matter whether or not it was intentional.
Discord already gave up on that, and it was probably part of their discussions with Microsoft about a merger, not an app store thing.

Tumblr's porn ban was popularly thought to be an app store thing, but it was more likely about sex trafficking laws.