skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a fear mongering article intended to SELL extra Azure services for $$$ that in theory maybe fix some of the Microsoft's own Security vulnerabilities. Like internet facing RDP (aka Ransomware Deployment Protocol) server.

Notice how everyone in this thread is scared of "nation-state" and Russia - this is the exact emotion and reaction Microsoft wants. After fear of some "god-level Russian state hacker superpower" is seeded, the next logical step is to SELL some crappy cloud subscriptions for $$$ and keep milking your fear and making money.
They did- https://psychopy.org/general/timing/millisecondPrecision.htm...

> The stimulus presentation on MacOS used to be very good, up until version 10.12. In MacOS 10.13 something changed and it appears that a form of triple buffering has been added and, to date, none of the major experiment generators have managed to turn this off. As a result, since MacOS 10.13 stimuli appear always to be presented a screen refresh period later than expected, resulting in a delay of 16.66 ms in the apparent response times to visual stimuli.
Appreciate the link! Also, a follow up: it seems like a lot of potential time wasted for both sides if we completed the entire interview process only to then learn we're on different pages regarding remote policies. Thoughts?
Rafael Conde's Personal Website
"What the hell is all this?"

It's okay Ive. It's called "something useable" or even, if I might be so bold, "something the users want".
Put this in context of a lot of other species who were not able to evolve a mechanism like that.

The way I understand this there was likely a very small population of elephants already without tusks, maybe some kind of genetic defect that happened to be an advantage once you add greedy people into the mix. Or what else is possible is that there was one off mutation that produced small family of elephants that poachers wouldn't touch and these spread over decades.

Think about this, if today Covid mutated to kill almost all people but spared 0.1% with a certain gene, you would suddenly observe entire human population becoming immune to Covid.

This does not necessarily mean any new genetic material or "nature responding". Maybe nobody noticed the gene and it suddenly became very visible and comprising large part of population (while it declined dramatically as elephant population did). We may have missed elephants without tusks because they were just freak of nature but now they become proliferating because it becomes an advantage.

EDIT:

Selective pressure is part of evolution process, but it is not enough for evolution.

Evolution requires both mutation AND selection.

So, if the mutation was present BEFORE poachers happened, you can't really say that Mother Nature RESPONDED to poaching by evolving new mechanism. The word "response" implies causal relationship between poachers and mutation+selection of better equipped elephants. But if the mutation has already been present then there is no causal relationship and this wasn't a new mechanism.
Demystifying Apache Arrow
It’s been a LONG time since I worked on menubar stuff in macOS, but is it possible that this is happening because iStat is drawing the icons in a non-standard way?

Can this happen to a menubar with just stock menus - say by reducing the display resolution?
I find myself comparing lower case L. I prefer the L's that don't look like the number 1. l1l1l1
definite improvement!
It seems to me that responsible way to think about this sort of calculation would be to include something like QALYs lost due to premature death caused by fossil fuels on one side of the ledger, and QALYs gained due to cheap energy (supporting the development of advanced medical technology and food abundance) on the other.

It has always been a problem that the mental trick of weighing costs and benefits doesn't come naturally to human beings, but I've definitely been noticing it more and more during this era of COVID, wherein the idea of tradeoffs and cost/benefit, which should be central to any pandemic response, is rarely invoked.
Looking at the available options, I like that it can display the extended attributes of the files, because I use extended attributes for various purposes.

On the other hand, it could not replace ls for me, because exa does not have any equivalent of the ls option --full-time. All the possible exa options to display the time truncate the timestamps to various resolutions (much coarser than how the timestamps are stored in the file system).
Couldn't one instead record at a higher sample rate (192 KHz+) and then align in software instead of phase matching the mics?
I saw that article, which portrayed that statement as speculation by a non-expert, before even a post-mortem examination. I'm not saying something controversial happened, but I haven't found information on what did happen.
Agreed, though the world of Tolkien is a way deeper rabbit hole than Dune's. It's more detailed, more thought of, the backstory actually exists written down and it goes back millenia, some of its constructed languages you can actually speak in, whereas most of the backstory of Dune is only hinted at. Forgetting the non-canon and widely repudiated attempts by Herbert's son, that is.

Yet Lord of the Rings often tops the list of books (fiction) readers prefer!

I think LotR used to be obscure as Dune is nowadays, or maybe even more, and at some point it sprung into the mainstream and it hasn't left since. Peter Jackson helped tremendously, but I think the surge in popularity happened even before that. Everybody knows about Elves (and the fact they are spelled "Elves" and not "Elfs") and Hobbits, but not as many people know about Arrakis, Fremen and Harkonnen.
So what happens if there's actually space on the left side of the notch to put something? In this video, the app menu is already bumped up against the notch, so I'm not sure what they expected.
All Apple had to was to have the touch bar over function keys, and nobody would complain at all.
I imagine the LTT Store is a net positive with fantastic margins.
My experience with expanded lithium batteries says otherwise.
Hacking your browser directly, or using a proxy rewrite to remove the tag (problematic, but not impossible, for TLS/SSL sites) would likely be your best options.

Few console-mode browsers respect meta-refresh IME. Feature.
I tend to go with RPC style apis with JSON/Protofbuf payloads for most things these days. IMHO it's the best of both worlds.
Have a chronological time series newsfeed only from friends. Once you have caught up show the recommended / algo posts.

+

Facebook should allow you to go filter and show posts using a calendar.
Like all post from X date to Y date, from this location / friends. It will actually improve usage.

Miss the old photo sharing days.
No I'm pretty sure he did fine, NFTs are little more than a vehicle for money laundering and a joke for a normal people.
Funnier question is that if Tesla speeds, who will pay?. What would be 80 Day-Fines for Elon Musk?
I can relate. Even though I own a smart phone, I've turned off all notifications and sounds that can distract me except for incoming calls. Never used Facebook. Don't want a car.
I loved those games when I was a kid. I replayed LBA 1 in 2010 and it had aged quite well.
Looking forward to see an analysis from Fabien Sanglard.
You need a passport to leave your country. You need a drivers license to drive a car.
It's illegal to employ people without a work visa.

Relax. Don't pretend this is something new or the end of the world. This is how civilization works, through society making decisions on whats acceptable and what isn't.
There's all sorts of sensible restrictions already and this is another one that makes sense.
I'm not convinced it's the subject matter and/or length turning people off Cryptonomicon. For all its weird made up words and spec-fic wankery, the fact is that Anathem has a pretty standard YA-esque protagonist and a relatively coherent plot that's paced well (IMO) and carries its momentum through to the end. This makes it read more like a mainstream page-turner than a lot of his other works, the most prominent of which is probably Cryptonomicon. I mentioned Reamde for the same reason, though as you say it's a lot more grounded in the world we know.

It seems like at least one child of my comment agrees with me. It's interesting (and kind of neat) how much fans of Stephenson seem to disagree on the merits of his individual works.
As an estimate you can look at life expectancy before we used fossil fuels and compare them with after.

Since fossil fuels are the foundation of all modern technology that changed that life expectancy, from plastics to fertiliser to most medicines.

But Im sure, since fossil fuels like oil are now pretty much completely owned by China and Russia we may just get to find out what a world without them looks like, since neither are big on sharing right now.
The gold standard set out by Syd Field in his famous screenwriting book is that for a 2 hour movie this is the breakdown:
act 1 - 30 minutes
act 2 - 60 minutes
act 3 - 30 minutes

But of course rules are made to be broken and they're also adapting a novelistic story structure.

But now kind of curious to watch some of this writer's films and time out these 40 minute act breaks.
Thanks. Had a hunch that might be it ;-)
I really don't understand why macbooks are set up to still draw off the battery when under AC power. You can only get a mac to run off ac power only if you start it up with the battery physically removed iirc. I had a macbook where I was spinning fans for most of the day and I got it down to 85% battery capacity within a year since it keeps straining the battery even when its just sitting on my desk running off a 90W power adapter at 100% charge. Its like, whats the point of paying for these workhorse laptops if you are going to be blowing through batteries once you actually start to utilize the power you are paying egregiously for? Might as well get a powerful mac mini and connect to it with ssh from a much cheaper laptop.
"blade style drive" -> M.2

I also replaced the SSD in my 15" MacBook Pro 2014, and currently use a 4 TB M.2 drive.

When a replacement battery fried my logic board, I didn't lose my data. It didn't take multiple hours to re-clone from backup; I just used a screwdriver to move the SSD over to my spare laptop (13" Pro 2015).

A computer for me is primarily a data storage and retrieval device. Data loss is an existential risk to it. Data security doesn't bother me as much as it does other people; once the hardware is accessible, all bets are off anyway. I do get some strange behaviour with the new SSD (periodic weekly crash/reboot) but still accept that in order to have the larger capacity (4 TB is much more than the 512 GB when the laptop was new).
Another idea is to synchronise scrolling within the code samples, so if I scroll in one, the other automatically scrolls to the same line.
Virtual 3D Fly Brain
replaceable battery and permanent surveillance ?
The article seems to miss the point of the experiment. It wasn't an actual proposal to turn off the news feed for everybody. The purpose was to validate the news feed, which it did. So FB did not "give up". The experiment was a success.
It can also be a culturally-adopted thing. From the 90's til now, wearing a mask was normalized to be necessary while navigating through cities like Taipei with dense smog and particulate matter. There's a reason why it's some times referred to as the moped capital of the world.

I guess when word got out that there was a potential spread of infection, Asians had no problem adapting mask wearing on other forms of mass transportation as well.
> Apple's spec sheet says two external monitors at 6k/60hz supported this way via TB4.

It’s 2 for the Pro but 4 for the Max (technically 3 plus I think 4K@60, because that’s the limit of the hdmi port).
This was the first thing I wondered when I saw that notch. I figured there would be overflow "more" menus before the notch but uh... nope. Really lazy and weak design tbh.
> bringing up manpages in the terminal

Ha, that was one of my use cases as well. Not an extremely compelling one, though, to be fair. (^⌘? does the trick with a keyboard shortcut).
Weird, I really like discourse and their forums. I find, search and cross sharing between discourse forums quite nice. they strike a good balance on desktop and mobile, its easy to catch up on what I haven't read, etc.
Having that name and wearing the bikini means that much of her popularity will be because of sex appeal, with relatively little being because of the merits of her actions or her writings. As this is Hacker News, not Virtual Idol News, this absolutely means that anything about her that is related to her actions or her writings should be viewed with the utmost skepticism.

Also, calling herself sexy and wearing a bikini is specifically aimed at males, so no defense of her should include the phrase "white male". Of course most people paying attention to anything she does are male--she's doing that deliberately!

Finally, the Halo Effect is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
If Ive had stayed for one more year they probably would have been selling 1mm thick rectangles of anodized aluminium. There's probably an Onion report for that.

It's ironic the extremes Apple design has ended up at, because there was a point in time (when both Ive and Jobs were working together) when Dieter Rams claimed Apple was the only company that really followed his ethos, minimalism with a critical qualification of honesty, where form follows function... but for the last decade it's been more like the aesthetic of minimalism at all cost... it's funny because that sounds quite a lot like skeuomorphism, it's pretentious.
No, it's universally loved because it has universally saved macbooks from nasty falls. I upgraded to a sans-MagSafe 2020 16" MBP when my 2015 MBP had a $600 screen failure. I broke the 2020's screen in the first week. Sold it, repaired my 2015 and have been happy ever since.

Through all it's faults and problems, I can't shake how good my 2015 MacBook Pro has been: great keyboard, MagSafe, good enough everything, great keyboard. Did I mention how great the keyboard is? It's on my lap right now, purring and tethered to power as usual.
Three groups all seeking profits, but where do the profits come from? Tether?
Wikipedia censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing
Learning from Our Defeat: The Skill of the Vulcans
Good that they're getting their own self-hosted forum.

I don't like all the centralization happening and reddit becoming the forum for everything.
IMO Typescript will grow on the backend. It's mainly just not as mature as alternatives and will get better over time. There are small problems similar to python though, like module-level mutable global state. That interferes with certain tools and fast restarts, but can be mitigated the same way as is done in python, ie https://instagram-engineering.com/python-at-scale-strict-mod...

Go is not dynamic enough to build useful abstractions. It does not allow developers to make themselves more productive. It's also more difficult to build hot reloading and high quality reflection based debugging.
> Touch Bar? This was nothing more than adding expense to raise the ASP

I thought it was a great idea, and I still do, but am so glad they removed it. It sounds great on paper, but practically, I used it for nothing other than adjusting brightness and volume.

> The butterfly keyboard was Ive shaving off 0.5mm of the width for a worse user experience with a higher production cost and less reliability.

Agreed. It really wasn't great. From a design perspective, it's quite clever, but from a usability perspective it was horrible.

> USB-C only was a philosophical move rather than a practical one that forced people everywhere to carry dongles.

Apple has a long, long history of doing this. Headphone jack? Gone. Ethernet port? Gone. VGA port? Gone. Floppy disk drive? Gone.

I'm fine with it in moderation, frankly. USB-C is so clearly the future that where I take offense is that the rest of Apple's lineup doesn't work with it (iPhones, AirPods, some iPads, etc.).

> Replaceable RAM and SSD being lost is still painful.

Perhaps, but now that RAM is not only part of the SoC but a significant reason that the SoC is so good (high bandwidth shared memory between CPU and GPU), it's a change I'm more than fine with.

> Ive is gone and every one of those decisions has been reversed or at least significantly amended. This is no accident.

Agreed. This finally, truly, feels like a Pro machine: "design first" is an approach for consumer products and, to Apple's credit, works very nicely on the iPad and iPhone and consumer MacBooks (generally). "Design first" for pro machines is great for the 3 minutes after opening the box, but when trying to do real work, you'd sacrifice all the bezels in the world to shave 30% off compile times.
It was all going well until somebody said 'let's have a notch!' when they'd already decided not to add face ID...
And where in my derision and mockery of the idea of democide, and folks who support it, as glib and thoughtless do you see me praise it? Looks like you've misread, or misconstrued, my comment as the exact opposite of what I had written.

With respect to changing what I read, I like being exposed to opinions I disagree with, even ones I find abhorrent like this. It's useful to survey the opinions out there, even the nonsense ones.
Data wins arguments. One of my least favorite Facebook quotes. Bad data wins arguments, too.

The misdirection term here is 'news feed ranking algorithm'... and what that means in the experiment versus what you might think that means, huge difference. e.g. I think most would assume the algorithm is responsible for showing you an unknown post that a friend merely liked, but it's right there in the article as still happening.

The results and how people used it don't at all say to me that they enjoyed it less, it shows explicit care & intention to curate their own feed by hiding what they don't like.. which is how it should be. If they find the group posts too overwhelming, they can mute/unfollow/leave, or other methods of grouping posts can be explored.

But look, they did this one bad science experiment, and now it's taken as fact and becomes folklore.
Why post that? Do you think the world is unaware that you exist, a conservative culture warrior or fellow traveler? Does it add anything but inflammatory politics?

I intended nothing either way; I was informing people about the book. Please don't include me in your politicize-everything motivations.
Indeed, in security this term works well because it means often “not explicitly related national agents acting for the state”. This loose coupling allows the responsible states to deny accusation while harming their target through unofficial partners (national or not).
Can any users give their opinion on how it's helping their productivity? What problems are they finding, if any?
For the most part it's correct, they emded the experiment. However, it would probably communicate better to say "Then had to turn back." That probably conveys what happened, in that the "bad" stuff that we attribute to the algorithm still managed to grow without it, and normal engagement went down.
I've used A.S., TopK and Melonboy without any issues.
Erlang/Elixir is great for sure, but it's very slow at computations so if you're talking about more lower-level projects that will directly verify or do calculations on the blockchain, then that's a showstopper. (If you don't let something like Rust handle that, but then you might not get that much benefit compared to writing it all in Rust.)
I use wired headphones. I don't like charging my headphones. I'm not big into mobile phones or other devices though, so IDK, I'm probably an atypical user. I'm actually annoyed that phones no longer have headphone ports on them.
yeah but you have to edit yucky text files. this is a huge "ew nope" to windows users.
the companies are rent-seekers because they gained an overwhelming market share (read: monopoly) using their VC war-chests and positioned themselves as unavoidable middlemen. this can be anything from a gig economy app like Uber or DoorDash, to the proprietary pharmaceutical recipes 'owned' as intellectual property produced under a brand name and sold with a massive markup far in excess of the material ingredient costs, as well as the 'cost' of labor under our current system. we know this because the same meds that are sold in America often cost orders of magnitude less in European countries.

the underlying strategy here is about starving or buying out competitors until one brand name becomes a literal verb. that is to say: the usage of a proprietary product or service becomes so ubiquitous that we are conditioned to rely on the profit-seeking monopolizing Silicon Valley/Wall Street juggernauts in every aspect of our daily lives. so it's no longer "i'm getting a taxi to your place", it's now "i'm Ubering to your place". or "i'm going to search the internet using a search engine" has now become ”i'm going to google".

so to use tech platforms as an example: the client-server software paradigm obscures and hides all algorithms, protocols, and personal data behind a black box server/software/system. in another article, Wendy Liu writes:

"What I want is to see Uber’s technology become a protocol. Same with Airbnb, same with Postmates, same with other companies in the gig and sharing economies. Same with lots of other important technology companies, while we’re at it. Obviously this can’t happen overnight, but if the technology is useful enough to provide real value, then it’s too useful to be subjugated to the whims of profit forever. I would love to see these technology platforms either fully decentralised, or centralised in such a way that the entity running it is not-for-profit and, ideally, accountable to all stakeholders. The actual mechanisms for making this work are beyond the scope of this post, but I want to throw this idea out there and get people thinking about it, because it’s the only way of making the future work for all of us." [1]

the most exciting emergent project where i am starting to see the development of fully distributed protocols/software become a reality is the holochain framework. the team behind this open source library are aiming to make it as simple to use as Ruby on Rails was to make centralized apps. other projects in the dweb space that i'm following are activitypub, DAT and SSB. i've heard the above described shift referred to with different names: platform cooperativism, protocol cooperativism, platform socialism, protocol socialism and more. i am personally most excited about the holochain framework, because of the way it uniquely combines proven existing tech: Git, DHT's, etc.

[1] https://medium.com/@dellsystem/dont-put-your-faith-in-uber-7...
And if there ever was anything you might have an opinion on or need for and want to configure chances are those products will tell you to go jump in a lake.

When you make the whole of the world a GUI suddenly only features for which convenient GUIs can be made cheaply and pretty enough are worth supporting.
Completely breaks with uBlock Origin.
I googled the talk name and found these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw5u4nth6_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsDeG3jQ61s

Neither seems to be _exactly_ the same deck, but lot's of overlap - should be pretty close.
Have a look at Microsoft Research's Seeing AI. It is still under development but can describe scenes and objects within, plus a bunch of other stuff such as documents, people, light, colour, currency, products etc. The app is only on Apple (no Android!) but the home page does have videos of each feature.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai
Like Coca Cola's New Coke solution.