skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all this discussion misses the real solution to improve our life in the short and long term:

education!

only if we raise the level of education in the worlds population as a whole, only if we give everyone the tools to understand the dangers we are facing, and we allow everyone to make the right decision without blindly following any leaders, only then we will be able to lift humanity to new heights and solve all our problems, both in the sort term and in the long term.

climate change is not a leadership problem (as one commenter here puts it). having a charismatic leader tell everyone what to do may work for a short term, until the next leader comes along and tells something else.

climate change is an education problem. only if everyone actually understands why it is a problem, are we able to make effective changes. the same is true for every other problem we are facing.

education will help lift people out of poverty, it will remove racism and any other form of discrimination. it will enable everyone to make a contribution to the advancement of humanity.

education will allow us to better understand any problems we are facing, and solve them faster. it will enable global cooperation towards a better future for everyone.
My point is that if users feel their OS is more and more hostile, they will slowly start migrating away. Going towards Apple is a disaster from the point of view of open systems. Nevertheless, this is where people will mostly go. Only power users can allow themselves to migrate to open systems like Linux, BSD and more exotic ones.
Apps for daily needs part 3: image editors – Fedora Magazine
That's not always true. Developers like to well, develop, and so they like to implement all of these things irrespective of the fact if those things are actually needed.
Not knowing how people might respond to this post I didn't think to be clearer.

The RSS protocol works as well as it ever did. I'm not mourning the protocol. And yes there are sites that do publish feeds, some even full-feeds but many just excerpts.

What I am mourning is the future where people published for themselves and shared content via RSS. But companies that depend upon advertising are inimical to that future and they won (at least for now).

It's that future that I mourn for.
> made false representations to creditors in attempt to wipe out debts

Funny how that got him a suspended sentence, while the gambling did not.
Having your email address boils down to password recovery. For instance, I only ever send 3 types of emails:

1 - Activation email with activation code to ensure the person actually owns the email address (non-OAUTH sign-up)

2 - Password recovery for when they have forgotten their password. Yes, a user doesn't need this with OAUTH but sometimes they will have forgotten that they used OAUTH to start with and need to sign in with email & pss

3 - When push is turned off and someone has messaged you

I don't think this is beyond reasonable but I'm willing to take criticism
struct ID { uint32_t val; };

void check_id(struct ID id);
hmm, ok. I think I might have heard that as well one time but I forgot, probably less interesting to me than the first idea.

I think it is that, although it doesn't match exactly what I remember either.

I wonder what Saeed Dehnadi says about it though.
User preference media features client hints headers
The motivation is probably that this could be taken down by initiation.
This is getting more and more ridiculous. I even heard about GitOps (ops that use git). What is next? CliOps?

Thank you for all the buzzwords without which poor sysadmin old me would've never heard of coding, automation, security, version control and so on. /s
But it isn't a privacy feature. A privacy feature would be to create an account with a password without mail validation.

I you use Apple ID, Apple gets the info which services you are using. The service might request additional infos about your person. Most people will always confirm that in reality. This way many services will end up with more user information. Many people will just share everything but might think about it if they needed to provide this info manually.

It is maybe a privacy feature because Apple might be better than Google or Facebook. Well...
Makes sense. The climate movement has always blatantly been about non-productive people appropriating money from others who have been engaged in productive enterprise.
At least in my organization, these Ops people did not get the whole point about DevOps. They are basically just administering servers and using Ansible to do it. E.g. if a services does not start after running a playbook, they are logging in and restarting it, instead of fixing the playbook. Ansible runs on a weekly schedule instead of provisioning based on application needs. They have their own playbooks for standard systems and doing custom modifications through SSH, if you have special needs. I could go on. They just totally missed the point of DevOps, it's just Ops with DevOps tools.

You can compare it with how we/they are doing agile.
The ship being ~90m underwater probably matters more. Water pressure at that depth would break the seals on all the amphorae before the wreck even hit the bottom.
Same here, but I turned on reader mode on mobile Safari and was able to read it
How OneFlow Made Training GPT-3 Easier?
"Even if an excellent data scientist who knows and can solve all algorithm problems related to Transformer, he may still be puzzled by other knowledge about distributed training, and fails to run a project."
I like reading that blog, but this article seems to leave a lot of questions unanswered. Perhaps because there is no known answer.

Diocletian's reforms were probably forced by necessity and the western part of the empire continued to exist and even thrive a long time after Diocletian was dead. We would not pin the Cold War on Napoleonic reforms either.

The foederati system does not seem as bad as Bret Devereaux puts it. It is not that different from modern NATO and a ton of other, earlier alliances among sovereigns. And a lot of Germanic people actually integrated into late Roman society, including a famous general named Stilicho, who was of Vandal origin.

The invasion of the Huns was pretty traumatic for the Western Roman Empire and it is possible that if it did not happen, or if the Huns met defeat early, the empire could have limped along for next thousand years, just like the Eastern Empire did.

In studying defeats and collapses, we tend to overlook other instances of similar problems that did not end up catastrophically.

Austria, and later Austria-Hungary, a hodgepodge of nations of unequal standing, was able to survive for many centuries before disintegrating in 1918 because it lost a major war so thoroughly that the civilian population was struck by long famine.
The Truth About the Quietest Town in America
"quality in a tiny expensive package"

Pretty much sums up all Apple products.
No one is forcing users to use Google or FB. They can do traditional email signup
I have absolutely no love for oil companies, but retroactive penalties for actions that weren't illegal at the time and that all of American society contributed to seems misguided to me. This is in the same vein to me as letting websites get sued for actions of their users, and gun manufacturers getting sued for shootings. It's antithetical with the concept of personal responsibility and impossible for a business owner to plan for.

I wish our politicians would focus more aggressively on actually incentivising emission reduction/carbon capture investment and less on pointing fingers and shifting blame.
There are limits to how far you can take the price of these marginal quality improvements.
At some point you get into side grades and Veblen status goods, which also have limits - their positioning relies on scarcity.

Plus, the $100 steak is more environmentally expensive too, even if lab grown.
Well, it's a trade-off, isn't it?

Complexity can result from features which pay for themselves. Complexity is not automatically always wrong.

At scale, complexity solves problems that you might not otherwise realize exist. Some of these problems are intrinsically complex, they can't be solved with a simpler solution. Not without "simple" organically growing into a much worse mess than the dominant complex solution that was designed by acknowledging complexity from the start.

But what I want to respond to is your trying to explain that "KISS is always the right approach".
Rules of thumb like these are cheap.

They cause people to apply the same patterns regardless of the situation. Dispensing folk wisdom indiscriminately only serves to stop all thought and analysis.

Zealous rule-based engineering is the deathrattle of good systems design, and it makes me ill at ease.
Pretty much every girl I ever dated has said the same thing about how they got away with shoplifting. And several of them worked at a department store at one time or another. Seems to be a thing.

I never stole anything, but I never worked at Nordstrom so who the hell am I to judge.
Yes, let's replace these computers and smartphones with pen, paper and dumbphones.
Email... defeats half the purpose of RSS. With RSS, you control what you want to receive and when. Its a pull mechanism. With email, it becomes push and then it gets abused. Remember when smartphone notifications were actual notifications with useful alert/content? Nowadays they are just another advertisement delivery channel.

That's why RSS is still important, and why RSS feeds should not be delivered via Email.
Yep. And as an added benefit of the email relay, we can now see exactly which app shared all your emails or got hacked.
A $3 burger is made from mechanically reclaimed scraps with a high level of automation. A $100 burger is made from prime cuts by hand by skilled butchers. It's not inconceivable that the resource consumption is 30x more.
They would have to actually seize drugs (in the USA) to make a case unless there was something else…
Yep and in optimal amounts, which is surprisingly little.
But if the companies knew what they were doing was harmful and did it anyways? Or what if the companies purposefully suppressed research that showed that their actions are bad?
> "draft legislation [...] directs the Treasury Department and the Environmental Protection Agency to identify the companies that released the most greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from 2000 to 2019 and assess a fee based on the amounts they emitted

Seems pretty reasonable to retroactively tax previously untaxed externalities.

By 2000, the science was pretty conclusive. If fossil fuel companies' reaction was full-steam-ahead, they deserve what they get.

That said, the revenue generated should definitely be used to fund climate mitigation and backstop unfunded insurance shortfalls. I.e. costs directly caused by the profits made.

Also, cited in article as an example of work to base such a decision off of, Climate Accountability's "Carbon Majors Report": https://climateaccountability.org/carbonmajors.html (attempts to quantify emissions by company)
There are other ways to do password recovery. Email is categorically not the only solution to this problem.
Not to mention, more historically accurate. Gibbon's work is, of course, a milestone in historical research, but his thesis in a nutshell was "Rome fell because of the spread of Christianity and a general loss of morality". This more or less translates to "immigrants corrupted the core values of classical Roman identity", which is exactly the overall theme that this series of posts tries (successfully, in my opinion) to confute.
'Can earn high figures' - so what are others earning? 'Mid five figures', so $50k, for a professional? In the US? That's not good anywhere.
I agree with what you say, but this makes me think my argument wasn't clear enough.

I think that "regular users" don't make a difference between operating systems, as in it's not something they consider and, most importantly, it's not something they change after the fact. As a sibling said, people upgrade when they change computers.

I'm not arguing whether apple's hardware prices are justified or not (I personally consider they were up until a few years ago – I own multiple MBPs). I'm specifically talking about cheap computers. But the fact is I can walk into a random supermarket in my parents' small town and walk out with a windows laptop for a few hundred euros. Not sure where you can find "low end macs priced below windows machines" (or maybe I misunderstood your point). Chromebooks do look like an alternative, though, and can be found just as easily.

Of course, many people are taking up alternatives to windows pcs, like chromebooks or tablets. But I doubt they do this because they can't run windows 11 specifically. They probably realized they only browse randomly the internet, so they don't need a "full-blown" computer. Bonus points for chromebooks being cheap, and for tablets being light. But I think they only make this change when it's time to buy a new computer, not in response to some MS decision.

And more importantly, they won't install some other OS on some PC they have when they realize it can't run windows 11. They'll just keep running windows 10 until the pc won't boot anymore.
Actually, from the article and the rule referenced (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sig...),

the rule seems somewhat orthogonal to developers getting emails. Developers can still request login by the old school email-and-password with (or without) sign-up verification by email. On the other hand, some third-party logins don't give developers their users' contact information (just a token to verify that they're on their platform with no authentication permissions, or a dev can request that this be so else the third-party will inform the user that the dev is requesting their contact info).
A truly strange take. For decades people barely cared about scientists warning of the horrors to come. Participating in the climate movement is a very inefficient way to acquire money.
Why would that happen? The wine inside the amphorae is an uncompressible liquid.
We're so busy attacking supply, and yet demand continues to grow an grow.

Why do I feel like we're heading for another energy crisis?
Special mentions to the github actions log output, which not only overrides ctrl+f with their own search, but have a completely broken search. Which means logs are unsearchable. Thanks a lot.
The answer is yes, by simple costs of communication. Communication is neither free in energy, nor instantaneous or faster than light. Fanout limits the speed too.

So essentially at some point the economy becomes unmanageable and unstable by pure lag. Earlier than that, by human reaction time and decision failures.

HFT is already riding on speed of light distance differences. If you grow the economy even more (in number of actors), the costs become exponentially higher.

And if you're talking real economy, then we're talking actual real resources which are even more finite and scarce than electricity and time lag.
>You put those 2 sentences together but they actually belong in separate paragraphs.

They belong in two successive paragraphs.

And the Google thing is a non-sequitur otherwise, given that most of the post he laments against Apple ID's requirements.
It's a lot easier with a touchscreen.
> This is in the same vein to me as letting websites get sued for actions of their users, and gun manufacturers getting sued for shootings

I wonder why you think these are comparable to retroactive sanctions?

I think the idea is that the penalties are retroactive because the companies knew the damage they were causing and didn't care. A more similar comparison point would be retroactive fines against tobacco companies that knew they were making people sick and didn't care.
> Writing another language in the language I am coding is wrong.

Yeah but you're writing your strings in english anyway.
Some Lisps were probably passable options in the early 90s, but as the sibling comment says, the lack of documentation and tutorials makes it not all that beginner friendly, along with the dizzying array of what to even choose if you want to use "a" Lisp.

No ML was a realistic workable option back then at all. Haskell is fine now, but was barely introduced in 1993. OCaml has become a workable option almost entirely due to the gargantuan effort of Jane Street, but again, it wasn't then. Standard ML remains terrible. Library support is sparse, there is almost no community outside of academics, no consistent implementation of the standard basis, compilers are wildly different from each other. The REPLs tend to be great, but it's very difficult to get from a set of source files to a portable executable, whereas with Python and Ruby, just writing the source files already gets you that.
We get away with shoplifting, easier police encounters and with authority in general except when it comes to large amounts of money (business, still not seeing that rise in funding for women) or politics. Grass is greener..
At least the modern lightning and USB-C cables can be replaced easily and cheaply. In the bad old day of MagSafe, a cable failure meant replacing the entire charger.

As for Apple's recent cables, the rubber has become discoloured on my very-well-used 2017 MacBook Pro USB-C charging cable, but it's still completely intact with no signs of fraying or failing. My ~2.5 year old USB-C to lightning cable seems to be holding up well so far too.
The change is already there, prefab build techniques lead to construction companies keeping everything in-house - from crane operators to plumbers. The building is split into parts that can be built in-house and then assembled on-site - the aim is to have the structure with a roof on it as quickly as possible, since that makes you more independent of weather for finishing it. Especially for warehouses and facotries it's really impressive.

It's the difference between trying to take the factory to the site and just taking the parts to the site.

Also, as far as I understand, 3D-printing concrete does not give you any way to construct larger buildings, where you need pretensioned and reinforced parts...
I smiled when I heard a hedge fund was using a "data engineering" solution that many today would consider outdated - I guess I'd invest with them.
ah, yes.

The joys of working for small businesses.

I worked for someone who moved from reselling operating systems to selling childrens toys.

I worked for someone who built an on-premise competitor to google analytics and despite having many big customers never made a single dime.

I worked for someome who build a crappy web app and sold liceses for >20k a month to twenty clients and made a good living.
It's easily defensible as a story for entertainment.
Or opioid manufacturers and distributors who knew they were getting people addicted and didn't care.
Don't forget the huge bias in all of the materials describing Russia/USSR in the West, even coming from Russians themselves (like Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, and other defectors/traitors/dissidents).

One prominent goal of the Western world was always to destroy Russia (last prominent example: German invasion in 1941 which clearly stated that the final goal is to exterminate Slavs). There were and there are numerous plans in the current Europe and USA that continue the work of Hitler. Almost every day you can read in the news on the new plan of USA/NATO/GB to start a war with Russia.

So, all the news, all the books, all the history you get on the West is dedicated to one thing: paint Russia and Russians as the most evil savages, the history of Russia as a bloody bloodbath, etc, etc.

There's simply no English source on Russia/USSR/Russian-USSR history I've seen that was free from that bias. Even English prose contains absurd exaggerations when telling about Russia.

Speech of famous USSR/Russian dissidents require different explanation, but most of them exaggerate the rusophobic bullshit with even more zealousness than anglosaxons themselves. I think the main reasons are that they need to find vindication for their treason and they need to demonstrate to the Western world that they're loyal. Also, it's possibly the only source of income for many Russian emigrants that have some humanitarian degree (writers, journalists) is to write rusophobic pamphlets.
I'm probably not as technical as the average HN commenter so maybe you can fill me in...

I've had personal computers for years and none of them have been on corporate networks so I don't see how MS should care about me in that - and for actual businesses aren't their hardware turnaround times generally less than 5 years? Is this all worth it to shave off that 1%?
As if it wasn't obvious the mass isolation and sedentarism will have massive mental and health impact.
“One thing that might strike you as odd is the bizarre graphics.”

No, no! It's quite enjoyable, actually! The cute sheep. The purple cow. They gave me a good and hearty laugh once I saw them.
Was very inefficient perhaps. Now it is a prerequisite for politicians and scientists. Otherwise, no funds for you.
What about leaded fuel? They had their own handsomely paid "scientist" to "debunk" the "leaded fuel pollutes the air" hypothesis. We just had a discussion yesterday, in the ebay thread IIRC about big companies trying to silence people who try to challenge their highly profitable practices that detrimental to everyone else.
I think we miss some other Ops:

ProdBizSupportUxGitDevSecOps - one person doing everything (or maybe I am msising some other Ops)

On a more serious note I think there is a trend to ask a lot of deep knowledge from one single person in too many areas.
DLib is a facial feature extractor that extracts 68 keypoints.

I've used DLib very extensively in the wild. It's fast, has decent python integration and is easy to use.

But it get confused pretty easily. I've had even the CNN model confuse a blurry photo of a clock for a face.

It's useful enough to build facial recognizers that mostly work ok. But if you are using it for a facial authentication system... it's a pretty bad idea to say the least.
> and depend on the current interpretations of the various courts

it's run time interpretation vs compiled, and the interpreters vary wildly with respect to speed and how they were built. running a scenario through one court may not give you the same output as another, and may not even give you the same output 6 months later as it did previously.
may be they are focusing on "Fastness"
So I understand the first part of your argument, and it may be very bad headline, I agree.

But to say it has no chance to work against Face ID is just saying YOU don't know how to make it work.

It is short sighted, to say it delicately.

An intelligent enough person will understand there are millions even more intelligent and highly motivated people and there is no way to be sure about what they can't do short of breaking physics laws.
Blindsight by Peter Watts, it's available for free [1] (CC-License on his website), he releases all his books like that, except for the most recent one, which is only available through publishers.

You can also download it on the site as epub or PDF.

Edit: Also, it's one of the few Sci-Fi books I know (all from Watts) that cites scientific literature and has a bibliography, to make an argument for plausability and give explanations in an afterword. Watts worked as a marine biologist before writing scifi, IIRC.

[1] https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
They don't. People who are conditioned to want to run malware will be more likely to switch off they are able to run their malware of choice though.
My problem is that all of these are incompatible. Woe be to whomever has an OSS app, an ALSA app, a JACK app, and a PulseAudio app, all of which want to run at the same time.

I don't get why this was never fixed at the kernel level. You have onions of layers.