skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't we buy their security concern? We then declare the App Store a utility and divorce it from Apple entirely. Pay Apple off and have it run as a non-profit supported by a minimal tax from Apple and developers.
The setup makes it impractical. You would need a very powerful computer to run it in real time. And it won't tell you about what u can't see. You would need to do the same for audio and game mechanics.

Check what a top player can do: https://youtu.be/8Qf5Xlty1Cg
I doubt an AI will be anywhere close in the next 10 years.
Competitive gaming is a thing. For those cases, Valve can distribute a linux gaming OS with anti-cheat mechanisms. Then restrict competitive participation to that OS.

That or giving up the problem.
I am a bit confused. I do not think that hardware accelerated UI was a thing until quite recently and people did not really have issues with its performance. If anything it feels like that accelerated UI drawing is slower on older machines compared to software-rendered UI.
It looks an awful lot like what I expect to happen when critical code is outsourced to lowest-rate offshore contractors like HCL.
I'd imagine the Dylos will have better components and better calibration, so should provide superior accuracy.

Not convinced they're all that different though - both laser based particle counters, and results correlate pretty well in studies [0].

Certainly wouldn't trust a cheap SDS011 sensor for anything that really matters, but wouldn't characterize it as nutritional label vs blood screen either.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337399372_Dynamical...

> raw counts every second. There is no smoothing, no translation to PM2.5 scale.

Slightly confused as to what you mean by this. Particle measurements via laser are by necessity over time and thus smoothed. I guess you could look at raw counts in a given time, but people use per millions because its more meaningful...else you'd need to consider fan speed to make it comparable and manually adjust air pressure/temp yourself.
We are taught not to assail someone's feelings.

It's much easier to criticize someone's conclusions.

At least, that what I feel.
you are in the literal center of techno libertarianism, so good luck
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Not at all, it's just much much easier to cover your traces. And the transactions are much faster than auctions.
Thanks, wasn't aware that they are optional in some countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_cards_in_the...

Here in Germany, you'd also be allowed to use a passport instead. In practice, however, your home address is only on identity cards, not on passports. So not everybody will accept a passport for validation, or at least you then need an additional proof of residence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27790723

But there is plenty when you google the key words.
So basically what FP languages do?
> One thing major cities could do to stave off cheap, cookie cutter expansionism is to buy up large swaths of land for city or state parks, and also cultivate those parks for high quality outdoor recreation. Such a policy would increase land price pressure

I think you underestimate the scale of what you're proposing. You mention 200,000 acres. To buy up enough land to curb suburban development, you'd be looking at buying all the land in at least a 15 mile radius, probably much more (people "happily" commute 15+ miles into every major city), so well north of 700,000 acres. Your 100MM suggestion seems laughable, at $500/acre. Maybe you can get land for that price in the middle of nowhere, but certainly not on livable land within 15 miles of a major city. A quick search indicates farmland costs north of $3000/acre across the US.

Maintaining the land would now be a major expense on the city. It would be a political nightmare (yeah, we could fund basic infrastructure, or we could bankrupt ourselves trying to buy every livable plot within an hour's driving distance). And of course then there's the problem that people would be unwilling to sell and eminent domain attempts would likely fail in court.

> 40 acres and a mule commutes

I have no idea what you mean by this but I would suggest you not. 40 acres and a mule has a very specific context and it's not suburban spawl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule
I think a horse and buggy and a car are different classes of technology.

A better comparison is old cars and new cars. Creating waste is not the only purpose of cars, but manufacturers sure do like to push newer models for the sake of sales, disregarding the waste problem.

Right now my 40 year old car still runs just fine. But that's because public infrastructure still supports it. With tricks like manufacturer-specific garages and forced software obsolescence, a car I buy today might well not be usable in 40 year's time.
For the most part. However one person's bug is another person's feature and given the huge number of PHP users, where many aren't formally trained developers the ways in which PHP is (ab-)used is manifold. Thus sometimes things slip through as Bugfix, which then annoy people. But over recent times PHP got a lot better (maybe since I'm not involved anymore)
> Add on the fact that these programs are black boxes by design, and all of the sudden a company essentially has free reign to do whatever they want with your machine under your nose.

Unless you run flatpak, nix, lxc containers, or some other process isolation scheme, all programs on eg. A debian desktop have this sort of free reign. It’s not uncommon for accidents to happen that take out chunks of a system[0].

0: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
Off-topic, but that is a really nice personal page, I really like the design :)
> The cheapest way to reprogram a blown efuse is to buy a new efuse.

I think this somewhat undersells what a monumental task un-blowing an e-fuse on a chip would be (e.g. resetting something like the USB boot enable bit on the RaspberryPi's SoC). If it's even feasible with today's technology, it would take a top-class semiconductor research facility and significant effort to pull it off. It's $millions compared to taking a new ~$1 chip off the shelf.
> it is though.

What is this? A game of 'it is', 'it isn't'?

NFT is not a crypto with total supply of 1, its not even a crypto, its at best a by-product of crypto transaction.
Very simple: CPUs do not execute a constant number of instructions on each cycle. Some instructions are really slow, and their slowness is measured in cycles. You can usually do one XOR in one cycle, because it's a really simple piece of circuitry. Some instructions have complicated circuitry, which means that it takes multiple pulses of electricity to move the input signals through all the logic gates inside. XOR can do it in one pulse, but a division might take 20 pulses. Cycles are just pulses.

One important component of a program's performance, especially in numeric code, is how many instructions it manages to execute per cycle. If you have written your program's instructions in a 'good' order, then the CPU will e.g. not queue up many divisions in a row that depend on each other. It can do two different things at the same time. You can't do anything in less than one cycle, but you can do two of the same thing in the same cycle if you have two available execution units for that task.

The most direct answer to your question is that different instruction sets have different ideas about how much work a single instruction should do. The basic divide is between CISC (complex instructions, x86 qualifies) and RISC (basic instructions, ARM). It is a dramatic oversimplification but one instruction in a CISC architecture might involve 10 instructions in a RISC. So you can't compare instruction counts between architectures. But you can compare cycles and still make a bit of sense.

If this is interesting to you, you should try this game, where you can build a CPU purely out of the most basic logic gates: https://nandgame.com/
It was some paperwork for his marriage to his fiancée, yep. But it's even worse because it was just an embassy, he didn't go back to the country, and even though a Chinese "reeducation" camp doesn't sound a fun experience, it's still probably better than getting chopped up.
All well and good and I support Valve's dedication as well. They are doing what everyone else is afraid of doing. Kudos!

One thing: stay the hell away from my kernel. I use Linux for the freedom it gives me. If you are going to install a rootkit just so I don't aim-bot in your precious little game, the deal is off.

I'll keep a close eye this year on how do you install Steam's layer on Linux. `sudo` will not be ever involved! If I can't install it just in my $HOME directory without kernel shenanigans then they'll get a huge "Nope!" from me.
Yes but there is science that backs it up and I'm not paid to convince you otherwise.
No, I've never been treated like that at work and I wouldn't take it. But I see where you're coming from.

Regardless, I'd rather you evaluate the post's content on its own merits rather than from your or my personal background.
> What is it about games that makes you particularly worried about this? Why is that an industry that is more susceptible to this kind of "nefarious" activity as you put it?

Because it targets a younger, more ignorant user base that is much more likely than a company with security audits to blindly install. I certainly was at that age.

> Wouldn't it make more sense for business-related products to do this, since the odds of being on a computer that has actual useful information to steal would be much, much higher?

It does happen, but its less successful due to folks that work in operational security. If I suggested installing software with this type of driver at any job I've ever worked at with a security professional halfway worth their salt, I'd instantly be rejected.

> full of people who will go over it with a fine-toothed comb (gamers are obsessive)

Show me a gamer that has seen the code of one of these drivers. Name a single person. Those programs are black box by design.
i have never visited albania, but from personal experience i can tell you that countries of former yugoslavia (albania's neighborhood with significant albanian minorities) are amongst the safest in terms of public safety (with exception of petty theft in large cities such as zagreb, belgrade, and sarajevo). importantly, this is not due to these places being heavily policed as is the case in australia for example, but because of culture. i imagine the same to be true for albania
>Only a bunch of people jumping on to a seemingly good thing a company did to be a killjoy about it.

That's 100% the reaction here every time Microsoft launches something benefiting devs and consumers. Everything is scrutinized with skepticism. Why should other billion dollar tech companies get a pass? Or why the double standards?

How do you think Valve would be towards consumers if they were to become a monopoly in the PC gaming sales space? Not knocking them, I'm just saying it's good to be paranoid when billion dollar tech companies are being too generous and benevolent with consumers, and not get romantically attached to these corporations.
Sorry, you lost me there. It was a bit of an annoyance at first, but I am all-in on the USB-A to USB-C/DP/Thunderbolt/PD unified port transition. I plug in my laptop to a Thunderbolt 5K monitor and also get power for the laptop as well as a bridge to USB devices plugged into the monitor hub. I have zero interest in going back to USB-A.
I disagree. As someone who plays online shooters only casually once or twice a week, nothing sucks more than having a full session in Apex ruined by an obvious cheater. The fact that I don't spend 8 hours a day doing this makes it far worse for me, the time for gaming is very limited when you have a small child and having it ruined because of some script kiddies is incredibly demoralizing.

Let me put it this way - I'd much rather play an online shooter with a hardcore kernel level anticheat than a one without it.
When I see comments such as a book needing a "trigger warning", or concerns with the race or gender of the author, I can only shake my head with sadness. Those who believe such things have been poorly served by their education. Those who recommend books such as Das Kapital are either trolling the thread or historically ignorant of the death and destruction caused by Marxism. Try something like Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Nozick and quit being part of the granfalloon.
But Nim uses a C backend, right? So this should put it in a good position to compare well with C, I'd assume.

EDIT: Downvoters - is that not the case?
Whose speech do you think would have been censored though, the majority or the minority. Minority groups are always the ones who suffer from restrictions on speech. Supporting speech censorship will always lead to restrictions on minority groups, not the majority. I feel that there is confusion in this topic because there are so many people who think they are fighting hate-speech against minorities. Since it then feels morally superior to suppress speech that they don't agree with they think it's in the best interest of the minority. However the arguments and policies that are established to suppress free speech will inevitably lead to restricting the speech of minority groups. This is simply because the majority at any given point in time will only suppress the non-majority opinions. You see that now, none of these groups trying to restrict speech are trying to restrict popular speech that they agree with, only the minority opinions.

The majority will always have the freedom of their speech.
> won’t be destroyed by foreigners

Should I expand on this? Do I really have to show that countries with a larger foreign born population (such as Sweden or Germany or Switzerland) are doing better than the UK?

You have made an exceptional claim, that is immigration will make England poorer. You should come up with some historical examples and maybe a description of how it would happen, because it would the first time it happened in the history of humanity.
> There is no elsewhere, when you consider network effects

There is an elsewhere. Playstation, XBoX, Nintendo, GoG, Epic, Apple Games, Android. Network effects aren't anything to do with a company being your friend. You aren't staying through friendship with the company; why is it non-silly to criticise them for not being your friend?
I just bought whatever was at Lowes. This is completely commodity technology. Generic is as high quality as an brand name.

I think it's the AO Smith one. https://www.lowes.com/pd/A-O-Smith-Clean-Water-Filter-with-R...

It includes a 4th stage to add a known mineral mix back in, but I didn't like the flavor so I just skipped that final filter. It's all just hooked together with 1/4” tubing so it's super simple to customize.
I have experience as a reliability engineer in infrastructure. I would say it's very context dependent, but for the most part it's cheaper to maintain up to a point. A lot of the contextual distinction comes with the criticality of the component. Critical components, by the definition of being critical, have a high downside of failure (whether that's cost of operational). I will say that there are some occasions where it may be cheaper (both in financial cost and availability) to run something to failure.

The real problem IMO is that cognitive biases can prevent people from making those objective decisions. When dealing with things like probability of failure where there's uncertainty, it's easy to be swayed by a competing priority that feels like it has more immediacy and less uncertainty.
China has veto power in the UN, it's not like they wouldn't veto anything against them ( like the US and Russia do).
In rural areas, cars make sense, because public transport is (usually) abysmal: bad connections, not often, don't go on saturdays/sundays, lots of walking, have to take various different connections, or have to phone them up to come (great way to get rid of customers even when they state they need it every workday). A bike is useful, but has its limits. Yes, you can clothe yourself, but doing groceries or going out and about with the family to a remote location (say 50+ km away) is a no-go.

In a city, bikes are useful because everything is compact and therefore relatively easy to reach. If more people go by bike, the traffic must adapt to bicycle popularity (as happened in Berlin, as is default in The Netherlands). Public transport is also good because its popular and various options for various ranges (tram, metro, train, ferry, etc). If both of these are good, the need for cars is less there, and public parking spaces are usually sparse in big cities, therefore expensive (also the required security costs money).

One thing car/bike have which public transport don't is that you are in a relatively private space instead of sharing the commons. In COVID-19 pandemic that's a plus, if you like being social to strangers (I don't, I'm a private person, but I don't condone such behaviour).

It doesn't have to be completely anti or completely pro car. Just like with FOSS and veganism and what not, there are shades of gray, people.
I agree on everything you said and let me add: I get to pick my chair, desk, displays and overall computer peripherals in my home. I control the temperature, freshness of air, lighting, noise level, internet speed. And having your own toilet is cool too.

Personally just being lifted from a 1h + 1h car commute has dramatically increased the quality of my day to day life, so much that friends and relatives noticed an uplift in my mood.
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Migadu.com supports unlimited domains, in case the core reason for you was having an email address with a custom domain. It is a paid service though.
If you’re anti-car you also need to be pro-city-shack for yourself.

I’m 40 and have lived in the US my entire life. I grew up in a very rural area, went to college in a small town, and now live in a tiny urban apartment. I have been anti-car my whole life and have never learned to drive.

Makes me laugh to see anyone in the suburbs say, “Boy I wish I didn’t have to drive everywhere.” You don’t have to drive everywhere! I’m living proof of that. You just have to make different choices and prioritize not-driving over having a McMansion. Yes, it’s inconvenient at times but that’s the trade off.

The gulf between what people say they value and what their actions say they value is monumental.
I'm not so sure. My OK brother-in-law was decrying the state of his primary education. He mentioned it took a full year of remedial tutoring to be ready for college at 18.

I asked "So, an entire primary education can be recapitulated in a few months by an 18-year-old. Why then do we torment children with 12 years of schooling? If it isn't necessary?"

He had no answer, being a teacher himself. But I wonder.
GreenCell and Luxnote, but I'm in the EU.
> (eg: using nuclear energy to grow rice indoors)

You gave a right example, to prove the current problem... the prices are high now... go build a nuclear energy heater to grow rice, I'll wait.

The prices for chips are high now, the process of building a production facility is very very expensive, and takes a lot of time, and the people building them (and quite a few are being built right now), are still unsure if the high prices will hold, to make it worthwhile.
> A corporation could make my gaming rig into part of what amounts to a spyware botnet with me being none the wiser other than encrypted traffic coming OUT of my machine

For the average user they can do that with basic permissions anyway. I wouldn't notice a steady stream of 2-300 kbps of binary data uploading from my machine, for example. I'd chalk it down to shitty programming.

On any windows or Linux system, there is nothing stopping a binary from sniffing your clipboard, reading your .ssh directory, or just deleting your home folder/filling the files with garbage.
It’s only “a bit of a bummer” when you experience it once every dozen games or less. If it occurs every other game, it starts to become a bad time investment to even start the game and try to get in a match.
> What overwhelming amounts of spam/attacks?

The majority of all email has been spam, for more than a decade.

> You don't get to decide what's acceptable to everyone else

If you operate a mailserver, you do actually get to decide what kind of stuff you are willing to accept, and from who. "Everybody else" does not get an automatic right to inject data into my computer.

> The kind of policy you advocate punishes small ISPs

Not at all (perhaps you meant MSPs?) Blocklisting Google was a reasonable policy, at one time. Blocklisting MailChimp is perfectly reasonable now.

> Block actual spam sources

Of course, good plan. Unless the sender's ISP is in the habit of moving spammers from one address to another, so they can evade blocks. Then you have to block the ISP, or eat their spam.

Postmasters can't inspect every inbound spam!
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>I understand that for some people Apple is monopolist and closed garden, but for me my family this is exactly what I want. They don't care for security, 3rd party providers, iCloud storage options or how to not lose their photos and videos - and I don't want to be made to care for them for updates, configuration, security etc, and receive a call phone very single time they are confused by dialog (with state-mandated COVID app I spent ~40m with multiple people each on phone clicking them through the app).

But don't be selfish. You and your family are fine today but tomorrow some Apple decision will affect you and only then will you start complaining. You need to just the option to leave the garden , nobody is forcing you , say if buying an audio book and paying with PayPal is 25% cheaper but you love Apple so, so much you want o pay more nobody would force you not to pay with Apple(Apple could demand an Apple payment option but should not force that they get the smaller prices like Amazon do). Same with applications, nobody forces you to install a third party App Store, Apple can make this setting hidden, make a clear video on why this is bad (they should be honest though and not spread FUD). The truth is that on OSX you don't see the MAc users installing like retards malware and on Android I did not see any major app refusing to publish in the Google Play Store, Unfortunetly the reverse is true, you can't find most apps directly on the source website but you are forced to install the Google Store.

TL:DR

1 is not about security, it is about money.

2 nobody is forced to use anything else then Apple(no FB will not move their app from the store, they did not do it in Android and there is no intelligent argument they would do it for iOS)
Their saga with the Play Store shows that that isn’t the case.[0] Once you allow third parties to use different stores, and those stores aren’t as restrictive, you bet businesses are gonna move there. The whole “if you like the App Store, just don’t use the others” doesn’t work in practice. See also: the whole Steam vs Epic issue on Windows.

Should Apple open their store? Sure. But it’s not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.

[0]: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/how-to-install...
The internet is a globally-accessible system controlled by no single authority, too, with an awful lot of Turing-complete systems using it. The smarter question to ask is what problems require a global append-only database with code execution capabilities, and how much value there is in that approach relative to the much cheaper alternatives. Using a blockchain locks in significant costs relative to everything else so there has to be a really compelling answer to that question to be worth the extra cost and risk.