skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think, but no. In fact flat earthers have explanations for all that stuff. Showing them a globe doesn't work, because the people they trust tell them that that disproof is wrong.

In point of fact, a Lab Leaker might be more somewhat more scientifically literate, but the logical fallacy at work is exactly the same: believing in the truth of a subject simply because it lacks disproof is just plain wrong. And it leads to wrong conclusions.

Anyone looking at the evidence on covid rationally would say that, yes, a lab leak is a possibility. But that a natural virus remains the more likely scenario. Again: there's a pandemic every few years in some species. To date none have been started by scientists.
Even cheap GPUs are $70+ these days though, sadly. Would be nice if someone would build something new for low end instead of gt 710 as well.
This is not relevant, original, or funny.
Their platform, their rules. If the rights group needs to publish videos, they should create their own platform.
I'd suggest reading the relevant portions of the muller report and the related indictments of the GRU agents.

> The vast majority of times it's just "educated guesses" based on identifiers that any smart adversary will know how to spoof and thus utilize as false leads.

No, I'd say people on hn often vastly overstate the lengths people are willing to go to to create these false flag attacks. If we believed hn, no attacks are done, every cyber attack is actually spoofed by an even more formidable spy ring.

Sometimes the simplest answer is the right one. The attack, carried out with many technical signifiers of a Russian state backed attack, that was used to geopolitically help Russia was Russian.

The alternative is that someone (who?) was capable enough to infiltrate Russian cyber intelligence resources to then launch an attack on the us, which they then used to geopolitically assist Russia.

I'm not sure I can think of any attack where someone tried to successfully frame another nation. This doesn't mean they don't happen, but that they're rare. It also means that if they do happen, they're always successful, which seems unlikely. Far more likely is that successfully impersonating a state cyber attack is actually really really difficult, because doing so successfully would in general require persistent access to the state actor you're impersonating.
iPhone 6s supports iOS 14 and will support iOS 15 as well.
vegetarian, not vegan
That's the theory but it isn't that trivial to measure engineer's productivity, especially in small +/-20% range we're talking here. We aren't like bricklayers where you can directly and precisely measure the output.

That's why in practice google's famous "20% time" is 120% time and on other hand it also has a lot of coasters working at half pace while cashing in 100% pay.
I don't disagree. This shouldn't be an insurmountable problem, but it's definitely the current state of the art.

I'm currently in the process of having a house built, and it's infuriating to me as an engineer how little detail I'm allowed to have either before or during the process. I have to rely on change orders to fix things that were totally preventable/plannable.
Indeed! That you should be optimistic about it is the best thing to take away from the post.
Yea, you just have to checkout the version of that file from before the white spaces commit. Then run git blame on it.
> Why do you expect immutability to solve all your problems?

Immutability (and functional programming more generally) are often sold as solving issues related to state management. It's not unreasonable for someone to write about where the limits are to that. Especially when many of those limits overlap closely to the traditional types of problems we see in imperative / mutable state systems.
> Of course Russia and China are spreading it.

You know the US has and does do this too right?
Has the Carbontech Revolution Begun?
> the 8 core CPU is probably adequate

What does a “cheap OEM office PC” need even 8 cores for?

…I just realised I’m old now. People do actually use those cores for keeping loads of browser tabs open.

*sigh*, remember when office PCs only needed to run Office 97 and maybe Netscape 4?
Yup. A common way to handle this is to throw away the earliest responses, and then run your analysis. This is sometimes called “burn in”.

If the lift goes away, you know it wasn’t real.
I’ve not run into this very much. I’ve had very good luck advocating against antisemitism while also advocating against Israeli settlement policies. I think by advocating against antisemitism I demonstrate that I’m actually committed to justice. It seems when people are accused of antisemitism they are often not only criticizing settlement policies but also advocating for the destruction of Israel and are generally silent on Jewish persecution.
I want to see it, but does a Mars colony have any chance before we’ve tested solutions for the major issues that Biosphere 2 quickly ran into?
"Focus on the downsides of democratized information; here are some cherry-picked experts." - Vox the entertainment website
I think it’s pretty funny
> or recently

Right but 'recently' is relative. To me 1960s is recently. That's when people started building 'modernly'. But I guess not for you?
This is literally intended. Arch is a rolling release distribution, and more than that, it's a distribution which sticks very closely to upstream and tries to have a single correct way to do things. To have all those things at once, you have to have competent users who are willing and able to make changes to their system to keep up with the distribution.

To give a practical example. In 2013 Arch Linux merged all binaries into /usr/bin. This architectural improvement was obviously a major change, and the way Arch is designed as a rolling distro meant that you couldn't leave users behind on the old way of doing things. After the change, everyone needed to be using the merged /usr/bin.

This is a designed lack of backwards compatibility that means you're guaranteed to be using the latest system architecture at all times, reducing the maintenance burden for the maintainers and making sure everything just works most of the time. But it also means that you have to be willing to do system maintenance to get your local system in line with what the Arch devs use. In the case of the /usr/bin merge, manual steps to perform the upgrade were required. [1] They weren't hard, but Arch requires this kind of oversight as part of its design.

If you're not willing to perform that kind of maintenance, then Do Not Use Arch! It's designed for people who are - although in practice this kind of intervention is required only about once a year.

[1]https://archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring...
By 2023 I will require new laptops to have Linux
I know how to solve this: no more democracy, just put the “smart policy” wonks in charge. What could possibly go wrong
> Their platform, their rules.

Sure. Doesn't make them immune from criticism. So here's criticsm: go to hell you fucking apologists for genocidal maniacs!
When I think of moral dilemmas I think of hard problems like "Would you stand up to the Nazis even though they might execute you?" or "Would you escape North Korea though they might punish your family?" It's depressing to realize how weak the dilemmas need to be in real life to get almost everyone to go down the immoral path. "Would you tacitly support genocide if your employer bought you lunch?"
So let's talk about video game preservation, data hoarding, and Minecraft
> Apple subjects its users to entirely different type of abuse: purposeful incompatibility and vendor lock-in on every imaginable level from cable connectors to keyboard layouts.

By cable connectors I'm assuming you are mostly referring to the lightning connector, which came before USB-C was an option. I actually still think it's a better connector than USB-C, but the advantages of adopting USB-C at this point heavily outweigh the merits of keeping it. Still, Apple doesn't shy away from adopting new standards that it thinks it's better. They famously ditched their own serial connector (ADB) for USB in the iMac.

I have no clue what you meany by keyboard layout or how Apple in any way locks someone into a specific keyboard layout.

> You always have to go all in to their ecosystem

Why do you have to go all in on their ecosystem again? There are plenty of people with airpods or an iPad without any other Apple device and are perfectly happy with just that. Apple puts a lot of effort into creating an attractive ecosystem because their business is in selling hardware.

> pay a 50% premium on everything just for the Apple logo.

... And for the software, the ecosystem, the hardware, and a lot of other factors. I find it extremely weird that you say this in the same sentence that you mention the ecosystem. Beyond that, it's not even true? What devices cost 50% more when compared against comparable options from other manufacturers?

> I guess it's a choice of if you want to bend over at the checkout or at home when you have started using the product.

You're making of choice of paying for higher quality hardware that isn't subsidized or lower quality hardware that is. The biggest slap in the face here is for people that bought premium Android TV devices like the Nvidia Shield and still have to put up with this bullshit from Google.
The popular and psychological definition are quite different from one another.

To go even further, there are multiple definitions to the word in psychology, depending on what sources you rely upon (ie Jung’s, the "Big Five"’s, and probably others)

So, yes, there is a lot of room for miscommunication
You're right, the Book of the SubGenius is certainly not for everyone. We can't have people questioning reality, it would unleash chaos.
This world is bigger than it seems

and/or

maybe the ability from a small group of humans to deceive an entire civilization is a lot better than many think it would be.
Oh boy can't wait, when is the next one?
MSFT dividend yield is nothing to write home about. Less than 1% per year at the moment.
Saved me a reply. I appreciate that!
Or blame on human error like Microsoft did after the Tank Man/Bing issue.
Gopher and Gemini are attempts at this. There are a few comfortable online communities out there when you get away from the big web properties. Unless you’re into gamification of showing how orthodox and au currant you are. Then there’s Reddit.
Of course - I’m not making any sort of moral declaration. I’m just amused at those who aren’t sure if Russia and China are poisoning Facebook - if they aren’t some apparatchik should be getting fired.
There's a little difference though... There wasn't an English state in New Zealand since about 10th century BCE.
But does it let you talk with God?
I stopped keeping in contact with my friends when I realized that it was more trouble than it was worth. I grew up. They didn't. I'd rather spend time nurturing my kids than talk about the latest infantilized product that they're consuming or their furrogate babies. Someone might ask "Maybe you need to find new friends," but why? I don't need to validate my identity or views. Most social hobbies are tedious timesinks. Other parents make shortsighted, contagious decisions concerning their kids behavior; Why should I even open that attack surface? It's all just so tiresome.
I would guess also that it has to do with "normalizing" relationships with China as well. Every country has skeletons in its closet. And every government seeks to rationize and minimize those skeletons as much as possible. As a country gains stake in mefia institutions, those institutions internalize some of the propaganda of that country.
Author here, this project is just for fun, nothing more than that.

The OS is designed for MIPS architecture at this stage, I don't think tcc supports MIPS at the moment.
How long until google’s PR team is replaced by an AI
Request:

Make a blog post on the experience. What does the heatmap of changes look like over 5 years? I cant imagine you burnt the candle on both ends for that whole time.

What is the final lines of code?

What blockers did you not anticipate that killed a lot of time? Hardest problem?

I think you've got a treasure of interesting retrospectives to share :)
Idle conspiracy speculation you’ve provided here.
A related cool-idea-that-won't-happen would be some less-locked-down form of Windows in an XBox. More so than last gen's Jaguar cores, this console gen's CPU cores should be fine for PC use for a while.

It'd probably have to be kind of a VM in a 'game', to avoid revamping the outer OS. They'd probably want to nerf the GPU in Windows to reduce folks' temptation to use it to route around the XBox store (for graphically intense games at least), and maybe price Windows to make up for decreased game revenue per console. Even given all that it might let folks with XBoxes cheaply "get a PC" of sorts, and so come a bit closer to the rest of MS's world.

Probably technical, business, and other issues with that, but again, I did say fun idea that won't happen.
My guess is that 8th gen was picked since that's when quad core became standard across the product line, but that leaves out the earlier HQ series (such as the i5-7300HQ on my ThinkPad T470p) that are quad core. And of course the Celerons aren't either, so it doesn't make any sense.
It's not that we particularly favor new construction; it's more that we have a lot of empty land. Most new houses are going up on land that was either unused or farmland previously as opposed to having to demolish an existing house and rebuild on the plot.
10 took over 7 only because it was actually what people asked for, worked well and it worked like people expect Windows to behave.

No, it took over only because of the silent forced upgrades that also included some typical malware-like dark patterns. There's plenty of stories here and elsewhere about it. Some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837609

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11784337
If anybody wants there to be desktop OS options, they should consider donating to Debian, the fsf, gnome, and/or some other foss project
Dmtcp or criu help a lot there. Also vm periodic snapshots if you can accept the vm computing tax and the working set fits on disk (and you have a large nvme thing). Only keep the n latest snapshots.
Google is fundamentally an advertising company, that’s why I don’t use any of their services and certainly would never pay for a product from them, because this is their M.O
The hardest part is debugging concurrency and weird scheduling bug. It's hard to debug because I can't reproduce it, which is quite frustrating. Over time, I found that making educated guesses, or running the code in my brain, it a lot more efficient than debugging every line of the code.
It's basically the biggest reason I stick with Opera on Android. It handles text wrapping on zoom so well, that I can use old desktop Reddit on a really tight phone without issue.
Predictable outrage towards big tech is predictable. HN doesn't care when YouTube host thousands of videos from a human rights group with over a hundred million views. However, when they remove a dozen of them and promise to reinstate them if they blur out some PII, HN treats it like it's 1984.
Those people just promise that they will reduce suffering it, but is fake advertising. This is the real problem.

Cherry picking the most outrageous cases and in denial about the real consequences of their actions. Releasing minks, for example, is increasing animal suffering, not decreasing it. Opening the chimp cages in a zoo leads not to the chimps being happy, it leads to chimps being shoot and dead, etc, etc...

But they are basically blind to anything excepts what it fits in the narrative. They just choose the next victim, collect the money, and move on.
Yeah, but I concur with the gp: I've never seen the phrase "previously owned" applied to housing; it sounds made up. Listings either specify "new construction" or it's assumed that the house is currently occupied.
What else other than Intel’s marketing materials use “xth gen” notation? That itself suggests it’s a marketing ploy.
Win 11 won't even be available till the end of the year, and much can change by then. Don't panic, and let things play out a bit. It's more than likely that there will be workarounds or adaptations. MS doesn't want to lose a big portion of their customer base.
At the risk of being overly opinionated, I think that developers do not learn what is good or bad cryptography from writing it. We learn what is good or bad code from writing and maintaining it. People learn what is good or bad cryptography from studying the mathematics of cryptography and listening to cryptographers. However, it's very possible for good code to be terrible cryptography for reasons you are very unlikely to learn by writing the code.

The catch with trying the reasonable compromises that are acceptable in other specialist areas often backfire in cryptography. "It's fine, this isn't serious, we'll fix it later" is something you can live with when it just results in a half-baked ORM, but much less fine when it results in seriously flawed cryptography that endangers people.

Cryptocat - and decryptocat - is a good example on both points.
It's all three
I’m certain they can for your Internet if they don’t like your packets.

But in either situation, phone calls are not analogous because they’re 1:1. YouTube is about public broadcast. You also don’t pay for their service to host your videos.
Is any part of Google still operating in China? All Google domains are blocked in China. If you use an Android device in China with Google Play Services (or microG), you will not receive any push notifications through Firebase Cloud Messaging unless you use a VPN (or equivalent), and many VPNs are blocked or throttled to an unusable level. Even Android's internet connectivity check is broken in AOSP, since the Great Firewall blocks the android.com domain, which hosts the test page.
But macOS 12 will release just before Windows 11 does (shortly after fall iPhone announcement vs. holiday season), since Apple has abandoned the use of yearly point releases for good. So that wouldn't work out very well for MS.
I’m kind of curious here: if I were creating any service or running any group that had any chance of getting taken down completely from my provider (versus in the SRE sense of high availability), I would have multiple options on standby at the ready at all times, ready to deploy. This seems obvious, am I missing something here?
If usability is what you're looking for, your alternatives are MacOS, or some form of Linux.

From my perspective, the Linux distro called ElementaryOS[1] is the best blend of beautiful out of the box, accessible and usable, and not littered with ads, spyware, or other user-hostile antifeatures.

For other options, many many people do well with MacOS, and so it may be a fine choice.

A higher end Chromebook running ChomeOS might possibly be a choice, if the software you need will run there.

Aside from that your options are few. HaikuOS[2] might someday be a viable option but realistically is not there yet. ReactOS[3] might be something to consider if Windows familiarity would be a plus.

[1]: https://elementary.io

[2]: https://haiku-os.org

[3]: https://reactos.org
Dismantling a Free Society: Hong Kong One Year After the National Security Law
That just sounds like an inability of Google to aptly scale work.
Can Massive Cargo Ships Use Wind to Go Green?
What Republican policies are you referring to? Dems at least have some subgroup willing to defund the police.
I feel this. If I got married tomorrow, I'm honestly not sure I could find a best man.
Thanks, that's a good point. I'll definitely do that
Is there a way to avoid ever getting windows 11, or will it be a forced sneaky upgrade like last time?
Thanks mate :D
> my circle of friends expanded after my breakup, which makes sense.

This surprises me. Usually breakups cost friends, as some are associated more with the partner you're leaving.

> I'd think smaller families would increase availability for socialization

I dunno, there can be a lot of socialization within the extended family. It has a lot to do with culture though. In some there'll be a WhatsApp group full of cousins and aunties, plus three generations actually living together in a big compound, and all the socialization you could need (and then some). And if you travel you'll never need a hotel. Lots of cultures like this.
So, of course my suggestion might seem naive given I don't have access to the numbers or knowing exactly the stack or employee numbers, etc. but it's a good exercise.

So:

I would basically copy Patreon in service of getting content creators paid.

In support of that:

1. A lot of the structure already exists so it shouldn't be a lot of work. For instance, there are already personal subreddits, there is already a payment gateway, there are coins that can be used for microtransactions, etc. I need to implement sub-only features and paying for individual content.

2. I can cite Patreon/OnlyFans etc revenue and MAU.

3. I can cite how many users have links to their Patreon/OnlyFans in their profiles. Beyond individual users I can make the case that organizations might want a piece of this too.

4. I believe in this vision which means I can sell it to the team, to the users and to the public better. It's also a positive vision around which people can rally.

5. Then I expend the rest of my political capital pushing this through and stake my job on it. I'd be OK doing that since I'd be doing something I really believe in.

6. If it doesn't work, there's two possibilities. Either it didn't work in a suitable
time frame but there is traction in which case I can demonstrate that we are making progress and perhaps buy more time. Or it didn't work at all in which case I've failed at doing something I believed in.

7. If it does work then I've regained all my capital and much more. At which point I can go further into becoming a platform where content creators can get paid. Think Gumroad, TeeSpring, Etsy, etc.
I haven’t looked at RT recently, but I didnt see conspiracy talk. I never saw a truther debate there. RT doesn’t have to lie at all to document many of the problems in the west. It was usually what should be Capt. Obvious stuff, stories not covered in the US media, Syria/Iraq/Afghanistan coverage, Snowden and Assange (take off the RT logo and the HN crowd would be orgasming to it), stories of racial inequality, financial fraud, crazy defense budgets, etc.

I suppose giving Commies like Chris Hedges and Noam Chomskys of the world a platform (that they can’t get in US media) is some noxious evil compared to mainlining on MSNBC or Fox.

Propaganda can be 100% true, and from what I remember, they were quite good at it.
Reality often has a bias in favour of scientific fact. Most of us have learned to live with that.
That's right!

After spending 5 years to write the OS, if you can spare 1-2 additional days to write down your experience, it'll be extra useful.
Same population density different social environment. I went from wealthy to all blue collar neighborhood.
ever think of jumping back into CIG ? i think they could use more programmers.
I'll bet Windows 11 will be reasonably usable, and favorite laptop CPUs of today no longer necessarily that great, by October 2025.
“Kanal Istanbul” project kicks off with bridge construction
Ask HN: Favourite games to play with kids during lockdown
Sydney, Australia has just entered lockdown for the first time in 14 months due to Covid19.

For those of us with kids (especially toddlers), it can be particularly challenging.

What was the favourite game* you played with your little ones in times like this?

*Physical, not digital :)
I think you can also disable w32t and install an ntp client and point it to your preferred ntp server(s).
Imagine the dirt the tech giants have on all government officials on the planet. Imagine if the tech giants went on a human rights offensive against the state.