skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly the optimal solution is RFID subdermal microchipping for all children, isn't it? Technology exists for boosted RFID (basically a tiny battery and solar PV linked to the RFID tag) which should work under the skin fairly well. Then install scanners at all public venues and schools, and link to the NSA database out in Utah, so that everyone can be safely location-tracked at all times. Removing the chip would of course be a felony.

Why stop there? Facial recognition, retina scan, DNA marker databases... a personalized AI minder for each troublesome human being (oh, that's your Alphabet/Meta tracker & recommendation algorithm, isn't it)?

This of course is all for the safety of the children and the FBI would never dream of using it to spy on citizens for political reasons, or implement a Chinese style social-credit system, or to ensure you're watching your daily dose of Orwellian positivity content.
If you think this is changing up English, you may not be speaking English as a first language? Referring to products as a proper noun is very common. E.g. Ford will tell you "Mustang offers a powerful engine... blah blah blah" not "The Mustang offers..."
I have not. It looks promising as it seems to offer multi dimensional data storage and some compression aspects.

I must also admit, that I like my simple approach of just keeping data in compressed local files. With fast SSDs it is super easy to scale and fault tolerant. Nodes can just `rsync` data to keep up to date.

In the past I used InfluxDB, TimescaleDB and ClickHouseDB. They also offer good solutions for time-series data, but add a lot of maintenance overhead.
Fair argument but I don’t see why training should inherently be unpaid.

In fact, I don’t see why the ability to have a good standard of living should be predicated on your profession in the first place.

The fact that engineering training is… unpaid as you say seems to put people who cannot afford to not make money for rent, food, etc. at a clear disadvantage. Those already rich (and able to afford unpaid training) would just get richer if they are paid more than an “untrained” worker.
> The FBI is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app.

So what's the advantage of using this vs. the photos you probably already have of your child, and a notes app for recording height and weight?
That first list is interesting because I recognize most of them as terrible products.

My mental model of brands was as a quality stamp, as in people would recognize a product from advertising but if they disliked the product then it wouldn’t help. But, I think there is a second effect in play. If you start with something of high quality that people consume regularly you can very slowly lower the quality without people noticing. Continue long enough and old brands are going to end up as lower quality.
For many in the HN audience, this may not be a good buy. You'd need to buy the 16GB + 512GB version since the bundled 256GB SSD is considerably slower than the previous gen as reported by many people. That bumps the price to $1599, which isn't significantly cheaper than the 14" MacBook Pro - which sells for $1799 on Best Buy.
I was thinking of Anta Sports (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anta_Sports) which owns a lot of skiing/mountaineering stuff but I was remembering wrong.

I guess you get good news every day!
You absolutely obliterated me. Congrats.
Honestly the keyboard prevented me from purchasing a MacBook from 2014 until 2020. I still despise the 2020 keyboard but I’ll reluctantly use it to type a password and then plug in a USB keyboard.

The 2022 is a dream come true for me.
Fun fact: The movie industry was established in Hollywood to evade patent fees, thanks to the distance from the east coast, and the local court's aversion to enforcing patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company
I switched to a single ultra wide 38 from LG and it was a huge improvement over my dual monitor setup. I’m on M1 Air, and switched my work pc to the same.
Well so was the case in USA few years back.

It is not about govt per se (which is grappling with bigger issues - Russia, Srilanka..) but is about mid and lower level politicians, govt and police officers..

Also the pattern is inconsistent, some regions in India is polar opposite to this kind of right leanings - Ex. East of India. Some are neutral - most of South India. India is a large and complex country; the general sentiment is no different than looking at Ireland and thinking French politics generally sucks (or whatever appropriate example.. I have no clue how politics is in either of these countries).
Who, Gary? Yeah, go for it. No one will miss him.
I remember that as well. Just assumed that the unstated reason was to assist in identifying deceased kids.
> Sure I have pictures of my kids but am I alive to display them?

So how does this app help?
I think the simpler explanation was that for that period of time, the mac wasn't their flagship. They were 100% on mobile devices.
No, actually, "we" don't all know whatever you're not talking about.
The "old web" was quirky and cool, but it could also be extremely horrifying and disgusting. I miss some of it, but definitely not all of it.
Title doesn’t matter. Taking a step back in seniority will actually improve your chances of getting promoted because you’re starting from an earlier position.

If you like the tangibles, and you think the company culture and coworkers are good, take the deal (after some negotiation of course)
> They could totally support 2 Apple studio displays, at least on the 24GB model.

What are you basing this assumption on?
In a similar vein, I like Marginala's discover/site hopping mode. The little cards make it easier to get the vibe of more than one site at a time too.

https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
Author himself links to articles how said ISP was injecting news ads, since 2020. Current news is about Ukraine, thus must be propaganda.
I think that is the terminal reason for your complaint, if it was unpopular we probably also wouldn't even be talking about this.
It's more a matter of scale and how embedded it is in everyday life.

Getting almost anything done without having to wait months / years / decades requires some form of black money payment ie a bribe.
If there was one comment or tweet that lead me to follow him, it was this [1]

"1ms is an eternity for computers"

When was the last time you heard a Web Developer, frontend, backend or web tooling Dev state that? [2] It is always, oh the network latency dominate, or the DB response time dominate. It is only one tenth of a second ( 100ms ) it doesn't matter. It is fast enoughTM.

[1] https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1477775398700158980

[2] Actually Nick Craver does that a lot during his StackOverflow era.
Around 20% of what iphone makes - not the most important category, but not a rounding error either.
We're discussing why shootings are on the rise in America. The fact that they have guns has remained constant. Stop your bad faith arguing.
Only if you don't pay much attention to PR. Lots of manufacturers talk this way when referring to their own products. Apple isn't blazing a new trail here.
For fiction: it's a hard tossup between Snow Crash and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, though Ender's Game, The Bicentennial Man, Rendezvous with Rama series, and Atlas Shrugged also would be contenders for me.

For nonfiction: some current contenders would be Democracy: The God that Failed, The Physics of Immortality (very thought-provoking and mind-bending), and some of Robert Green's books particularly The 48 Laws of Power.
Their Mac business is still a Fortune 500 company in terms of revenue by itself. Besides Halo effect, they still make a ton of money off Macs, and now that their chips cross pollinate with the iOS devices, it makes no sense to kill it off.
If terrorists attack Americans, they are called 'terrorists'.

If terrorists attack Indians, they are called 'militants' or simply 'fighters'.
Firefox’s Pocket recommendations took a good approach. The browser downloads a big daily file with “potential recommendations”, then filters it at the client side.

The big downside was that, because it was turned on by default, a whole bunch of people who didn’t actually want it had it foisted upon them, so it got a very bad reputation right out the gate. Right algorithm, bad execution.
Compared to the M1 Macbook Air, the M2 Macbook Air has:
a £50 premium in the UK vs US.
A €200 Euro premium in Ireland (for example) vs US.

So, you are right. Apple raised prices. I suspect exchange rates. It is easier to account for unfavorable exchange rates in new products than in raising prices of existing products.
Wasn't that the reason the iphone was only released on AT&T at first? The "smart phones" before iphones were riddled with adware and other carrier installed garbage.
In my BMW, I can trigger a false positive by plugging my iPad or iPhone into the car's USB charging port, and setting it on the passenger seat.
>new uniform design

From unflattering dress blues to incredibly uncomfortably and noisy (yes, noisy as in creates loud sounds) workout clothes, Air Force uniform design is terrible in my experience and subjectively seems to be the worst of all the services (I was always envious of Navy PT gear, looked a lot better than ours).
FWIW, this is why nobody ought to buy a phone where they can't replace the OS when the first-party manufacturer goes crazy.
I guess this is the first step to nanosites[1] from "Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson.

[1] https://en.gyaanipedia.com/wiki/Nanosite
If it’s prolonged by staying under the speed limit then perhaps the other vehicle isn’t actually going that slowly and so doesn’t need to be overtaken?
It also predates Apple by a long time. Steve Jobs didn't invent this, though he did use it.
And you can choose not to be there.

My network forces TLS: https://darkscience.net

Forcing people to "do what you want" is against the spirit of open standards.
I'm sorry if this doesn't add anything to the discussion, but one of MKBHD's latest reviews discusses the differences between the MacBook Pro 13 and this new MacBook Air. The video does a great job of shining a light on all of the tradeoffs between the two devices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSdKnNj7ozk

This little device is a beast!
Razorpay might be in trouble for processing foreign funds without FCRA approval.
> at least once pulled a global search engine RESET resulting in Firefox search engine being set to "default" which is Google's.

Yeah, I’ll need to see a source here.
release what valuable information here? What information is being "released" that is going to be helpful in a way that if it wasn't for the FBI App, you would be regretting it?
Wait, news on actual irl Drexlerian nano?

> may one day..

oh, nevermind. Microbots "may one day" do shit, not "can".
If you are talking about the "Today" view (one screen to the left of the first home screen) then it's press and hold to delete a widget (just like for apps). I would bet a good bit of money no one paid Apple to put the news widget there, Apple probably did it attempt to get people to use their news app more and eventually pay for news+. I'm perfectly ok with all of that, especially since I deleted it immediately without issue. That said, if I was going to use a free or paid news service then Apple News+ would be high on my list for a number of reasons.
"For more than 200 years, the federal courts have unanimously determined that the Second Amendment concerns only the arming of the people in service to an organized state militia; it does not guarantee immediate access to guns for private purposes. The nation can no longer afford to let the gun lobby's distortion of the Constitution cripple every reasonable attempt to implement an effective national policy toward guns and crime" - Warren Burger
I agree, but We need focus now on Hindu Terrorism. That's the major threat to the country and the world.
Bun is 60% faster than node on an M1 for a Fibonacci number implementation
Long press -> remove

They make it incredibly easy to remove widgets
No Language Left Behind
A book you could have read in 1997, but probably didn't, was Philip Greenspun's "Database Backed Web Sites: The Thinking Person's Guide to Web Publishing".
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Holy cow. Thanks for the context.

> - Two people get murdered (one beheaded and the video streamed) for supporting Nupur Sharma on Social Media

JFC, humans suck.

Also interesting after looking into it is that ZooBear has tweet after tweet mocking Hinduism, yet takes extreme offense at someone mocking Islam and seems to consider it hate speech.
String work in C for starters. Commonly accepted best practice is to use the least powerful language for any given problem. This is so it's (a) readable (b) portable (c) nominally secure (d) preserving of programmer time.

While there are exceptions, their reasons are questionable at best. It seems more like a declaration of a cultish C culture. Which, in context, is probably attractive to some of the people they're looking for, but hideously backward by general standards. Use the right tool for the job.
This image illustrates the differences: https://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1-11.jpg

The difference is that one keyboard is made for humans who touch type, and the other keyboard is made for people who like to lift up their hand and move it every time they want to hit return... or left shift.

The ones with the shorter left shift and narrower/taller return key are just bad designs. They make keys you use frequently less accessible, and the tradeoff is that keys you rarely use are now in reach.
You should find developer work in Iran first, get some experience.
best mmo of my time
I believe it’s also a branding and copyright protection tactic to prevent diluting the name.
English is my first language, and yes to me that sentence would sound odd. Perhaps that's something common in American advertisement and not elsewhere
Clearly this guy has not seen the pink beam of light.
It's only people like yourselves that fight for the right to hold the government to account that allows the US to be such a paragon of democracy where all your people, of any race, gender or financial status is fairly represented by your government.

Those countries that gave up the right to bear arms are such failures of democracy.
Being 70 yo makes you high risk wrt Covid, but it doesn’t mean you have a life expectancy of 6-12 months.

You must confuse with terminally ill cancer patients.

Where are your numbers coming from?
I believe in stricter gun control, but the US was awash with civilian M1s in 1960s. The civilian marksmanship program gave them out for peanuts.
Because it's corporate and serious business.
> its real mission

The FBI's primary objective in practice seems to have always been "maintaining the existing social and political order" [1], with some swaying justification of national security and preventing violence, corruption, espionage, terrorism, cyber attacks, and other vague, broad, non-specific, topical threats.

1. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/9475...

> mistrust the FBI has earned in recent years

Do you consider COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE recent?

https://archive.org/details/FBI-COINTELPRO-BLACK/100-HQ-4480...
In the early days

telnet your.host.domain 80

GET / HTTP/1.0

and copy and paste from the scrollback buffer of the terminal. Chances were that the code was handcrafted and easily readable.

That would work unless you were in the vast unlucky majority with Windows and no telnet or no access to a Linux / Unix server.

Anyway, I did it plenty of times. Then wget and curl.
> It only makes a difference in the eyes of the beholder, not for those actually dying

Unfortunately, that's the one (not) making the decision in this case.

> Not thinking too hard about reality because reality is nasty is something of a huge bug in the human cognition.

Is, though? I mean, in general we should strive to improve the world, but does getting overwhelmed by all the bad things that you should be doing something about really doesn't help.
Can you build a civilization without negative reinforcement?
A quick search is saying the average US cost of childcare is around $850, but we're talking about a family who's unemployed. Why are we assuming a hypothetical married household is paying for childcare when both parents are unemployed?

> And bear in mind, you have to be bringing in that much taxable income in the first place to actually get anything back.

The 2021 child tax credit was fully refundable. You get it whether you owe taxes or not.
Nice to see it still going.

For those unaware, Squeak linage descends directly from the last Xerox Smalltalk-80 images before being bootstraped.
> Civilization was miles ahead outside of Europe for a long time.

Yes, and what happened to it? It withered after flourishing. Almost all of discoveries made anywhere else in the world were meaningless because they ended up not changing anything.

Astronomy was practiced in all the major civilizations. The telescope just happened to be invented in Europe in ~1600, and it brought to Mughal India and Imperial China (and spread by 'osmosis' to the Ottomans): they were not interested in it.

Certain individuals took it up, but as a whole those other societies disregarded it.
Here is an example of data abuse.

You are comparing 2 different products' prices.

The M2 Air is up £49 compared to its US counterpart. A ~5% increase.
And its up €200 compared to its US counterpart. An ~18% increase.

Exchange rates explain this easily.
I don't even know what "ability to spray bullets in front of several people" means, but the Las Vegas massacre didn't happen in a school or grocery store so it's entirely irrelevant to the point I was making.
Which, at the time, was nothing short of a miracle (no carrier installed garbage). If carriers could go back in time I'd bet they'd do everything in their power to collectively reject that deal because they gave up a ton of power.
The rust belt is littered with the remains of what were at one time or another some of the most successful companies in the US or the world.

Corporations are ran by fallible people and are perfectly capable of running themselves into the ground. I'd argue it's nearly their natural trajectory to become bloated and inefficient over time. General Motors was largest and most successful auto manufacturer in the world right up until it crashed and burned in 2008 and had to be bailed out by the federal government.
Honestly - Pretty much every laptop Apple released from 2018 to 2021 was a complete turd.

I have the 16 inch 2019 model (issued by work, I don't buy apple products) and it's... just not a good machine.

It gets amazingly hot, the fans run ALL the time, the usb-c ports are flakey at best (frequently stop working after a suspend/resume cycle, or if you unplug while the machine is closed).

It's got a shitty touch bar instead of function keys (although at least it reverted to a real esc-key, the touchbar only esc was literally a joke).

It has frequent rendering glitches and artifacts.

The battery life is bad (basically a given for how much power this thing is dumping right into my lap as heat).

----

Before the M line, I was about to go have a real fight with our IT department to get me issued literally anything other than another Mac. The last couple of models they've put out in the intel line are just genuinely bad machines, across both the pro and air lines.
This was my first thought when reading OP's post. A big chunk of VPN usage is almost by definition for "nefarious" purposes. But the pt is that trusting government to reliably and morally define "nefarious" for you is incredibly foolish.
I've met someone who claims to make about $600k USD per year by managing the chats of mid-level OnlyFans women. He got his start in Los Angeles, California, where he began to realize the need for his service in the marketplace.

He simply chats all day to lonely men, pretending to be women, so the women don't have to.
I think some folks have their head in the sand with regard to the demographic shift that's happened. First, you finally got some of the younger boomers retiring on time or a bit early. They're flush with cash due to having stuck around with their 401ks and paid off their mortgages. This demographic won't be coming back in sufficient numbers to the work force. Second, the shut downs have forced people to find work where they could as for many their bills didn't pause during that time (barring the rent moratoriums), so folks either started up businesses, side gigs, or whatever they could to pay those bills. Third, many people took the opportunity that the enhanced unemployment benefits offered them to go into more stable industries. I'm sure many code bootcamps saw a marked increase in students. Fourth, some jobs were reshored in the US to tackle the supply chain issue which probably added more jobs than expected. So ultimately, this isn't a one facet problem, it's a multi-faceted problem that comes down to there being fewer people to replace the ones that left the economy (boomers) and this is going to be the new normal for at least a decade I'm guessing. The fact that right wingers refuse to acknowledge this in the US is just... weird. Absolutely weird.
What if just one employee works for the FBI? We don't need to guess about that sort of stuff, supposedly Apple has complied with PRISM for nearly a decade now. I'd bet there's a lot more than just one US intelligence officer working at Apple.
That's true, but there's:

A. No way for me to verify nothing shady is in the investment deal, and

B. The government may be able to turn around when the project gets big, and say "hey remember when we funded you? Yeah, now we have a say. We need you to do ___."

I don't like using software or projects funded by things I disagree with. And the government is overwhelmingly so.
Every developed country in the world has access to mass media built in the image of the American networks (not to mention the American networks themselves). Mass shootings don't happen very often in any of those places though. Just America. It's the guns.
https://www.ibtimes.com/hindu-nationalists-historical-links-...

Hindu Nationalist’s Historical Links to Nazism and Fascism

Sorry for the awful source, but the predecessors of the BJP were openly patterned after European fascist movements, there were contacts between them and a mutual affection. There's even a strain of European mystic Hindu Nazism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savitri_Devi
I am not saying that the terrorism (covid, child abuse, etc.) is not a big problem. It must be a big, highly visible problem to be used by politicians to justify their policies. But that justification is often lacking, as claiming that this is a fight against a highly visible, important problem suffices.