skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. So damn many of them (on backend, don’t deal with frontend).

Everything new is throttled and feature flagged. A new feature rollout can have 10+ throttles to slowly ramp up. And yes, they’re difficult to keep track at times.

What we don’t have (but should) is better management of who experiences which combination of flags, since they’re done randomly by default.
The people driving in from the suburbs are who work in the city. Taxes and a huge percentage of the land being owned by non-profits keeps residents to a minimum (not to mention most of what can be used for housing in city limits is rental, not ownable, and property in the county is still extremely cheap relative to rental rates).

They could replace the car bridges with train bridges or dedicated bus bridges (after knocking down a lot of houses, which if history repeats itself will be minority-owned houses), but this is a city with a small downtown and uptown where residents have always lived in the suburbs ever since the industrial revolution, well before ubiquitous car ownership.

Residents were using bridges to get to work in the days they walked there. There's sort of a lower bound on how many bridges a city of this geography will have.
pipx looks fantastic, thanks for sharing.
They aren't forcing it on you. It's opt-in. Google's trying to force things on all their users: manifest V3, this, et cetera.
> Instead apple is using cryptography to effectively retain some property rights despite the buyer never signing a contract agree-ing to this arrangement.

You agree to the terms when you first use the device.

And if you don’t agree to the terms you can get a refund and buy another phone.
I talked to the team, but unfortunately, jax-md at the ttime didn't do bond angles or torsions, so it wasn't good for biomolecular simulations.

My work mostly predated tensorflow and was much more about massive-scale embarassingly parallel computing, and produced some interesting large-scale results from MD and protein folding.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1821
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pro.2389
All cryptography is based on the assumption that the inverse of some operation is hard to compute, because nobody's found an easy way to do it (yet).

RSA is based on the assumptions that factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms are both hard. ECC is based on the assumption that the subtraction analogue of that weird additiony thingy is hard. Afaik, neither of these things has been proven.
Excel is fine, also Trello should work. Depends what you are trying to convey. Notion usually can serve that purposes easily too
Are you familiar with PoS or DAOs? I feel like these answer your question, including making an organization do something.

For BTC specifically, having a monopoly would be similar to having a monopoly on an asset. Either people want it and pay you whatever you ask for it, or nobody wants it and you're left with a bunch of worthless diamonds/gold/property/bitcoin.
What do they need advocates for? All they need is clients.
Sure. But in the protein structure prediction field, "ab initio" is used to mean "structure was predicted with no homology or other similarity information" even though the force fields incorporate an enormous amount of protein structural knowledge.
The NSA does have an organization devoted to developing these sorts of attacks that make the NSO group look like a bunch of kindergarteners as evidenced by the Snowden leaks. The CIA also, independently of the NSA, has an organization that develops these sorts of attacks that make the NSO group also look like a bunch of kindergarteners as evidenced by the Vault 7 leaks. Almost without a doubt, the FBI, DHS, US Navy, US Army, and US Air Force all also have their own independent organizations that each make the NSO group looks like a bunch of kindergarteners given that developing a capability that makes NSO look like kindergarteners only costs on the order of ~$100M (i.e. less than a single jet fighter). There is absolutely nothing special about the NSO other than that they got caught and brought under the limelight.

The most likely reasons the FBI paid for access to Pegasus are: 1. It is another tool that frankly does not cost very much if you are the FBI. 2. The part of the FBI that bought it likely does not have authorization or possibly even knowledge of the other tools and contracted with NSO to gain those capabilities at the cost of just some money. This is like how a developer team in large stodgy old mega corporation might not be able to get IT to setup their servers so they just get a budget that they spend on AWS to do an end-run around their own IT organization.

The zero days are likely occasionally being discovered and fixed, but buying a zero-click zero day for Android/iPhone on the black market only costs on the order of $1-2M at retail. If you have your own competent team you can reasonably expect to find a zero-click zero day with only a few person-months of effort which, even at US wages, is only a few 100k per zero day. At those prices, you could keep a dozen or so stockpiled for less than the cost of starting a McDonalds franchise, so they likely did maintain a dozen or so at any one time, so if one was discovered they could just switch over to a different one and write off the old one as a cost of doing business.

They absolutely do have competition. One high profile example is Hacking Team. In terms of overall competition, I do not have any hard information, but given the size of the vulnerability markets there are probably at least a couple dozen to a few hundred organizations similar in scope to the NSO group. We do not hear about them because they mostly sell to governments.
Thanks a lot! I see now, I am able to reproduce the issue if I go into chrome://flags, search for "Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents", and select "Enabled with simple HSL-based inversion". Just choosing "Enabled" seemed to break the LaTeX entirely. (Please let me know if that isn't roughly what you did)

I don't know how I'll fix this (I've never really debugged mobile web specific stuff before), but I'll look into it this weekend.

There must be a way to fix it, since I don't see the issue when going to https://www.mathjax.org/#demo and entering something like this: $$\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}$$

EDIT: I actually have no idea why this would be happening, unless there is some sort of metadata that I should be providing on the page to tell chrome how to enable dark mode on my content. I don't think I'm messing with the styling on the web version at all.
See that's my point. People who understand what Merkle trees are mostly understand the various utilities in using them, but that has very little to do with what "normal people" think of when they hear blockchain.
What kind of software do you use to configure PXE servers? Or is there anything else that I'm missing?

I'm looking for a solution to make unattend installation possible.

Edit: Can use Ansible to make a PXE server. (Egg or chicken thing)
> Absolutely be collecting email addresses and general contact info (with their consent of course) of your fans or page participants

It's not hard, or expensive. Simply get consent. (Of course, you won't get much personal information on people that way, but that's how it be sometimes.)

Here's an example of how you could do it:

> Hello! I'm setting up a mailing list. If you're interested in receiving occasional updates about what's happening in this part of the community, please put your email address in this form: https://thecommunity.example.eu.org./subscribe

> I'll send you a verification email so nobody else can sign you up. There's also a link there to remove yourself from the list, and you can email unsubscribe@thecommunity.example.eu.org. any time to remove yourself from the list. (I'll send you a confirmation email to let you know you've been removed from the list.)

> If you want to unsubscribe, please just unsubscribe. If you mark the emails as spam, it might send other people's copies to their spam, too, and it might be months before anybody notices. And if you have any feedback, do let me know.
Why not? The problem is people can’t. I’m all for people learning how to code but majority of people can’t. That’s the reality.

I taught coding in college and bootcamps.
a) If it’s optional then apps will simply demand it be enabled in order to use their apps. And then it’s no longer optional in practice.

b) You need to stop using the term extralegal. You agree to the terms when you first use the phone. Apple is not doing anything without your explicit permission.
Simple, you notice it's capable of communicating with lots of mutually exclusive cloud services and note that it could be smaller if you remove some of the relevant dependencies.

Now whether that's a particularly useful observation I'm still not sure.
The 4th Amendment
The thing that makes minio a complete non starter for any serious use case imo is the fact that you can not expand volume without downtime. Also running minio in cloud in general seems like a dubious proposition given you’ll pay more for both storage (even with local volumes) and network (if you run multi-az and especially multi-cloud).
Why Orcas are The Most Disrespectful Animals on the Planet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HM3xxXP8Ms
I kinda use both. vim and my ~/.vimrc have all my sensible settings and keybindings and leader keys stuff and stays lightweight, good for just text editing or reading whatever quickly. no plugins at all really. For neovim I tried to go for the whole VIM as an IDE thing, any plugin I use is installed in it, it attaches to a few LSP servers, etc etc. Also my neovim init sources my .vimrc, so any basic keybindings I like come over there too.

Some people seem to love the lua angle to neovim, I don't really know anything about the language, I get that it allows for more powerful stuff, but it's also ugly as hell and it seems like it always takes like 34875982345 characters and 700 curly braces to just do imap jk <Esc>....
Maybe. Or maybe I should pay $1K, or $100K.

My point is that there's a market rate for new users, and that's what I should be paying. (Even if Apple is the only purveyor of Search Ads, I can acquire new users on Google or Facebook, or by any other means of advertising.)
Do you have any more info on the "raw meat crypto bro cult"?
I started self hosting when I was 12 with whatever last gen hardware at goodwill no one wanted.
It's basically like Wikipedia but it uses Git. I made a couple articles to test out the editing and it's pretty good so far.
I went on a tour of a USPS Bulk Mail Center and asked what was the weirdest thing they ever came across. Mail person said they had a box bleeding onetime. They set it aside for the postal inspectors. Turns out it was steaks.
They aren’t general purpose computers any more than a Tesla, PS5 or my fridge is.
With respect to the passing down of learned knowledge, I believe I read in the book 'Three Among the Wolves' that the author had observed a wolf pack teaching their young to be aware of and hide from small planes flying over (planes were dangerous to the wolves because hunters used them to hunt wolves in that area).
Just like some cryptocurrencies (yes, some pay in something other than what you're holding). And some of them are even deflationary.

Some cryptocurrencies buy and and burn, others have a DAO that buys assets and holds the assets in a treasury.
Does that improve the usage of it? Have you experimented with larger sizes?
I’m sorry. The question op asked wasn’t about side loading or about separate stores. It was about what makes a laptop different from a phone.

But that’s an interesting question anyway. Apple and google can remove apps distributed through their stores. If a side loaded malicious app exploited this bug, would you have been in favor of google being able to disable those apps? Or should users wait a month until it is sort of fixed on some phones, and be unable to dial emergency services during the month where this was unpatched?
I think he is stating that as a general rule and referring to the latest r/Antiwork fiasco.
John Kay wrote a good book about this (Radical Uncertainty). There is a trend to falsely quantify questions that take place either under conditions of uncertainty or where numbers are just axiomatic assumptions rather than based on regular observations.

It's very much everywhere now, not just in abstract philosophy like this but even in a lot of real world scenarios like the pandemic. Instead of giving a qualitative narrative and leaving space for human intuition people try to present arguments as more certain than they are by slapping some numbers / models onto them.
Just imagine if we had a key escrow or other backdoor like FBI asked for. If governments were made up of 99.9% very honest people, hundreds of untrustworthy individuals would still have enormous power ready to be abused.
What a refreshingly retro tale of decades ago when advocating use of personal protective equipment was a daring and controversial notion!
I grew up with their albums (my hippy mom had a few from their psychedelic period, my step father had some of their last few).

If you listen to the albums, not what the DJ's spin in the radio, you got a much richer tapestry of songs, maybe a greater respect for their creativity, inventiveness.

As an example, people unfamiliar with the Beatles complete catalog have of late been flipping over "Tomorrow Never Knows" [1] (from 1966!) and overlooked gems like [2] "Hey Bulldog".

And some people thought they were just "Yesterday" and "Yellow Submarine"....

[1] https://youtu.be/pHNbHn3i9S4

[2] https://youtu.be/M4vbJQ-MrKo
then [why is my computer fan whirring?](https://foldingathome.org/)
I think people need to start to wake up to the reality that if you have some valuable social network on Facebook, it can be disabled (by hacker, overzealous moderator, dumb overfit AI, anything) anytime, you have absolutely no recourse over it, and Facebook genuinely couldn't care less. It's how it is supposed to work. I'm reading stories like this almost ever week now, and the common tune is always there's nothing to be done. Unless of course you happen to know people, which may ask somebody inside for a favor. But usually not.

I think people who value their social communities should be actively looking for platforms that see their users as something other that raw clicks and engagement profiles to sell in bulk to the advertisers.
> You’ll need to submit a request to receive a link to your unlisted app.

This is still a shit deal
I wonder if they could sell it to consumers instead of focusing on malls and places. There are certain type of Arcade that offer better experience beyond console and computer gaming.

But I guess that is too courages move for a Japanese company.
It isn't that hard to become a bestseller so it probably happens to any book that gets so much media attention.

I'm not sure why people would upvote this story except to call conservative parents idiots.
Not everyone can play in the NBA. Not everyone can safely drive a car. Not everyone can architect and write good code.

Yes, you can spend a LOT of time and get kinda good-ish at basketball, but you'll never make it to the NBA. You lack the biological talent (height, speed). Sure, you can work very hard and take serious driving classes, but you'll never win an F1 race even if given a chance. You lack the biological talent (reaction speed, ears able to better hear details in the engine noise, higher visual acuity). And sure, you can work very hard and learn how to write code, but that will not magically make you good at architecting solutions properly and producing code worth paying for. You lack the talent (ability to think abstractly)

Please do not try to counter any of these examples. They are clearly just that. I am sure sometime someone was short in the NBA and maybe your aunt once took a defensive driving class and it saved her life, but the point is clear.
Some time in the next decade or two, a global interoperable online ID system will be created. The properties of that system will reflect, and be reflected in, the global political and power structures that develop alongside it.

We have a limited window in which to get right the important design decisions, like privacy and self-sovereignty, otherwise we will find ourselves with a system that is too much of a Schelling point to ever escape.
As you do, when you're the market leader. Wouldn't want people to be able to swap their GPUs to AMD. This is a real problem at the moment.

Of course AMD is making their own system that works on AMD and nVidia and Intel GPUs. It'll probably get locked down again if AMD gets market dominance.
Would you pay an extra 20k for your tv so it could have 500MB of memory and have all it's apps work?
I knew that kind of comment would pop up, and oddly enough, I have the exact opposite opinion.

I am NOT a native English speaker. I cannot even write my name with ASCII letters.

To me, the situation looks exactly the reverse of your comment, I see the urge of putting Unicode everywhere as an essentially white savior syndrome that nobody asked for.

I want to be able to write name in Word or other text processing software, but nothing more. The command line, network protocols, etc. There are not the realm of fancy dynamic length characters. I want simple glyphs with fixed size bytes mapping. I don't want to embed a complicated Unicode parsing library in every software.

When I'm in the realm of programming, I'm not here to do politics. I'm here for the most reasonable, straightforward, working solution for a set of problems. If that means accepting a fixed set of characters, I'm 100% fine with that.
>China is not, in any way, even remotely like Nazi Germany.

Yes it absolutely is. I checked your comment history. I'm not interested in endless discussions with propagandists that have zero objective views regarding China.

Weird how my colleagues that immigrated from rural China state that it's exactly like you say it isn't.
The issue is with what it means to “make the world a better place”. Many people think blockchains are working towards that while others don’t see value in what is offered.

As long as we transition to Proof of Stake networks, people who aren’t interested in blockchains should just ignore them and governments can go after anyone who uses blockchain (or any other technology) to scam people.
I'm not sure this qualifies as a materially different story than the original, which was already discussed.

I do find it amusing the lengths that this tech blog and others have gone to spin it as a major disruption to spotify. The only story I see here is that reality won't get in the way of a story about the consequences of failure to censor. It reminds me of a (n even much weaker) version of the "employee protests" over Dave Chappelle's comedy show on Netflix.
Perhaps Firefox would not be "barely surviving" if it was able to have a presence on one of the most valuable mobile platforms, iOS?
I answer some of this in other comments.

> Given those premises, I'd argue that stocks like AAPL or TSLA are part speculative asset (what you're calling a Ponzi scheme), while most crypto is all speculative asset.

So you're just placing cryptocurrency in the same bracket as a stock that is more iffy than AAPL or TSLA?

I do appreciate your use of "most" instead of "all".
Charge nothing. They make money when they sell phones.
It does the same on line 22. But I'm not at a computer to see if addressing it there as well will have a comparable performance improvement.
See https://covidestim.org/ for a quantification of your "feeling". Summary: 80% of the population in California and New York state have been infected. Other states are in a similar range, but I was unable to find a USA-wide figure so I refrain from making a more general statement.

The 2% number is an overestimate. For the US over two years we had about 800K dead and 250M infected (ballpark assuming that 80% holds everywhere), which yields about .3% death probability per individual ever infected. For context, a bit less than 1% of the entire population dies each year (2,854,838 died in the US in 2019 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db395.htm#secti...), so about 6M people would have died in two years anyway even without covid.
What makes it harder?
You can buy the device without agreeing to any terms of service. Now you may not be able to use iOS without accepting the TOS durning setup. However, the fact is the hardware is still a separate entity from OS and is still locked down.

The problem still persists that apple is selling hardware that you don’t have full control over. What if I wanted to run linux instead or even bare metal code that I wrote myself? Apple does not permit this nor will sign such software so that boot-rom will load it to RAM. Just because your average user may not do those things does not mean their rights are not being effectively diminished compared to other tangible property they buy.
Sure, lots, go look for studies on estimation of defects based on LOC and project size/complexity (they go back to the 1970s). But you don't need to look, the principles are simple.

Unless an application is filled with JPEGs or uncompressed arbitrary data files, its size reflects lines of code (machine code, interpreted code, etc). Bigger the app, the more lines of code.

Every line of code has a non-zero bug probability. Every new line of code increases probability. More lines of code, higher probability. Bugs include security bugs; higher probability of bugs, higher probability of security bugs.

CPU cache is finite. Only so many lines of code can be cached or optimized. Larger size takes up more room in memory, which when combined with lot of other gigantic apps, means less memory for heap space, disk cache, etc. Larger size also takes up more room on disk, which adds up when you don't delete old builds on disk and loop over a build process. Since larger size means more lines of code, that means longer compile times, which means longer wait every time you change a line and need to recompile, copy an artifact somewhere, retest.

More lines of code means more code executed. If you have 10 lines of code in a function, and you add 100 lines to it, the compiler doesn't just optimize away all 100 new lines, it's going to add more machine code and code paths. Unless you only ever add new code paths, some of that new code will extend existing code paths or add instructions, and that means more CPU cycles to complete execution. (Same concept for interpreted code)

More lines of code means more code paths. More code paths increases complexity. The more code paths, the longer and more difficult testing gets to the point you can't even develop enough tests to cover all the code paths, so it's impossible to even find all the bugs. More complexity leads to difficulty in humans understanding and working with the codebase, and difficulty in understanding leads to slower and more error-prone development.

Larger means more network bandwidth, meaning file transfers take longer, increasing speed to iterate and producing worse UX. If people download your app every 10 minutes in their CI/CD pipeline, larger size means more network bandwidth used. "Free" CDNs have limits; the larger a project gets, the more file size affects network performance, reliability, and cost. If you pay for bandwidth, a 100MB file costs 100x more than a 1MB file.

The more apps you use that are big, the more every one of these effects increase. One big app you might not notice. 100 big apps lead to noticeable slowness, bugs, less memory, less disk space.
on the other hand, i took a general relativity class solely because Prof Penrose was teaching it, did none of the homeworks, and still walked away having learned a lot from the many comments Penrose made that conveyed a big picture understanding; an experience of illumination that so many maths classes fail to provide. and unlike the famous business people you cite, Prof Tao has done a lot of actual maths.
Also physical security, power, physical rack cost, networking, salaries to manage everything, and all those other hidden costs