skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interfaction looks like it means between-factions, in fact I could swear I've seen it used like that... anyway, it looks to me like it would be describing some sort of civil unrest (interfactional fighting broke out in <country> today...) or bureaucratic nonsense in a company (BigSoftwareCompany was unable to respond to their upstart rivals due to interfactional disagreements about which pointy haired boss would get more seats to fill). Neither is really badass -- the latter is mostly tedious, the former is often horrifying.
Calling EU politicians tech bros is frankly hilarious, thanks for the laugh, your display of complete lack of knowledge on the subject is very entertaining.
> I just gave you a fairly straightforward and realistic method of malware injection into an app. Signed binaries prevent me from re-uploading the malware. What is unsubstantiated here?

You have not demonstrated that this is a serious and widespread problem. People have been sideloading for years without getting overrun with malware.
Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
In the USSR, there was democratic control by the public at each given level of the economy. Which is why people who were born to poor rural farmers were able to get education, and then get to the top of the USSR's economy and politics.

In the US, that never has been the case. Even in its golden years.

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/class_domination.html

Even in 1960s, 30,000 people (families, children included) dominated all US economic and political institutions. This group was an exclusive group with class consciousness, thwarting any reduction of their control and keeping outsiders out. This phenomenon continues today. Some freak successes in tech space did not change the pattern.
I wonder what modern mega engineering projects are actually a good idea?
It's not clear to me if Lockdown Mode would have prevented Hermit, the latest mobile APT which targeted iOS via sideloading by enrolling in the Apple Developer Enterprise Program.

The list of lockdown features don't seem to explicitly list that in-house app sideloading is disabled - is it? If not, then this mode seems like security theater from Apple, in that it doesn't actually lock down the parts of the attack surface that are actively being leveraged. How about instead, or better yet alongside this, Apple explains how they granted entry in the Enterprise program to the spyware company, and what measures they're taking to prevent it from happening again.
Hm, why does my mom call me every few months for help with her Windows laptop, then? She never needed help with her phone, since she tossed the Android one for my old iPhone (ok, actually once, but that was a faulty charging cable)..
Its amazing to me that something as small a jumping spider has the hardware in its head to process vision as well as humans.
It's MS.
You can hardly compare any of these one-off projects to something like numpy (let alone something like pytorch etc. which Julia is going after).
Apple has been hacked and is no better than Android.
There is a severe lack of competent and inspiring leadership. With no clear vision for the future people become trapped in pointless political squabbles.

What makes life worth living for you?
Of course, back in the real world – "diversity" is not a value which is calculated based on "how many women leaders has the party had". I'm sure you appreciate that to say so would be a silly partisan talking point without any value.
> and yet despite adding more and more countries it has continued to decline as a share of world GDP

please refer to this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

You don't understand how things works and so don't understand how much wrong you are.

It's like saying that when rape became a crime, rape crimes skyrocketed...

BUT, since you don't know how much you don't know, I'll leave you with this

USA global GDP share 1980: 25%

USA global GDP share 2021: 15%

China global GDP share 1980: 10%

China global GDP share 2021: 18.6%

China GDP per capita in 1980 was only 2% of that of USA, now it's >65%
Or work on a product that isn’t a 24/7 hosted service, and enjoy your evenings and weekends.

I’ve never been on call, never will be, and it hasn’t impacted my employment.
How to choose a region is not only a matter of latency, unfortunately.
Oh yes please, I would love to see Facebook do that. They're already in hot enough water with GDPR, doing this would absolutely nuke them out of existence in the EU.

I know it's a complicated concept to understand, but we have multiple sets of laws that are aimed at punishing exactly what you're saying. The DMA passing doesn't mean ePrivacy or GDPR is gone.
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This is opening the market. A few megacorps have created walled gardens that prevent competition. EU finally says "no more".
Chat control looks dead. (fingers crossed)
I was just thinking that dungeons and diagrams would make a great addition to this collection. Maybe a fun weekend project to implement that.
That's because GPT and Dall-E are famously locked behind a use case restricting paywall/invite-wall ("Open"AI, my a...). You can already see things picking up with GPT-J-6B, Midjourney, Dall-E Mini and GPT-4chan, all of which are much less restrictive and therefore easier to use for casual creation.

Just wait until these things start to trickle down to the "plebs" like us and non-technical people. The amount of compute required to re-create and run these systems is the main bottleneck for now, but once the hardware is there and the models shrink to make them easier to run... that's when things will get fascinating.
To get this great new shiny "game" just follow these steps to install it on your iPhone: ..
This is a great piece of advice. I hope it helps me someday.
Just bought it thanks. I had no idea checkers was so involved!
I think Russia is absolutely trying to warm Siberia via CO2 production.
But what is the perception of the spider like?
It's to be expected. Almost nobody really cared about accelerating AI computations, so I expect that AI chips will be catching up.
> It's not creativity though. It's a program that arranges pixels in a way that is statistically similar to some training data set. It doesn't "draw" anything

that's the exact argument made against chess engines - are they "really" playing chess?

What's to say that the brain works different than people imagine creativity to be? That we think we are creative might be an illusion, because the brain is tricking you into thinking that you creatively came up with an original idea, when the reality is that the idea came from a long list of training data that one might've been exposed to all his life.

And who's to say that brute force, and statistical methods of producing content is not creative?
Of course , I can’t tell you what worked because I’m not tracking the origin of the visits to the point of purchase but here is what I did:

Used Google AdWords but with a real low budget (10€ per day)

Used Reddit to share it and hacker news , there was a post I did in Reddit which took a lot of attention and was the cause of having to put it paid due to the amount of usage:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/v3z5q9/microsoft...

Shared solutions and contributed in Microsoft tech support community

Was careful to use keywords based on google trends and Google AdWords recommendations on my blog posts

Posted on Hacker News

I didn’t send any cold emails but was thinking about it although there might be gdpr issues and spam risk and just bothering people
Software piracy is good.
Russia absolutely is intentionally trying to warm Siberia.
Spoiler: Santa survives the furnace.
https://archive.is/P4Jo2
apt has done parallel downloading for at least the last two Ubuntu LTS releases, so there's one advantage which isn't.

Package management in Python with yum has tainted my view of it. It was awfully slow. A real-time animation or video of this working might convince me to look at it.
Curious, have you tried doing a annual opt-in?

Ask because if you’re really not making money on it, likely good idea and my guess is if you have been running it 12 years, you’ll get a significant percentage of emails that do not opt-in.

You do not even have to be aggressive about it. Just mention it 3x in your regular newsletter with a clear deadline and communicate it’s an annual opt-in. If after the 3rd inline notice, send a 4th and final email explicitly stating to get more emails they need to re-optin.
Yes, Python is the only outlier.

Rust very much could still fizzle. If it does, it will be because it failed to change to be adoptable by more users. All existing users are tolerant of niche qualities. If it succeeds, the programmers who already know it will constitute less than 2% of the total, and the 98% will have picked it up after it changed to be more readily taken up.

If it fizzles, current users will always be at least 70% of the total.

So, if you want it to succeed, you will need to welcome the changes that can get it there.
Possibly unrelated, but there used to be a healthy population of "wild" parrots in Bakersfield, of all places.
Sure you can get more complicated than that, but the distance is the first thing once could cut out.
You missed a guy named Bobby Fischer, for one - a rather big name in chess history I would say. He was arguably a major driving force in turning chess into a professional discipline outside of the USSR.

As for computers, they've certainly changed the landscape tremendously, but it doesn't mean that players simply play like chess engines. You don't just get to transfer the chess engine heuristics to a human mind. Chess engines help players find ideas, refutations etc., and they're certainly significant when it comes to opening theory. The role of memorization in opening theory (at the highest level) predates computers though.

Computers have also levelled the playing field, improving (buzzword alert) inclusiveness. Players from countries with flourishing chess tradition, such as Russia, don't have the inherent advantage anymore. That's why the current top 2 (on the rating list) are from Norway and China, which would be rather unlikely a few decades ago.
I've spent so many hours on 'Pattern' and 'Keen'.... both quite recommendable.
Property-based tests let us state the formal properties we want, even though we can't verify them. For example, ScalaCheck lets me state the following:

forAll (x: Int) { assert(x.abs >= 0) }

This is useful as a spec, as documentation, and as a test suite: e.g. ScalaCheck can try to disprove such properties by checking a bunch of random inputs.

Whilst such approaches don't let us prove such statements (except for exhaustively checking small input spaces, e.g. `forAll (x: Boolean, y: Boolean) ...` only needs four tests), I find it just as easy as normal unit testing, and far less effort than formal proofs (e.g. using Coq or Agda)

(FYI that property is in fact false, since it doesn't hold for -2147483648; ScalaCheck's random generators are biased towards such "problematic" values, e.g. -inf, NaN, etc., so it usually find such things)
Yeah, conservatism is great, sure.
Good luck with life.
>> I don't want web apps which use double the energy, don't look and feel like they were designed for iPhone/Mac.

Then don't use web apps. You can still use only native apps and safari just like people could (until recently) use win32 apps and internet explorer.
Part of the answer is that atmospheric explosions generate a lot less fallout precisely because they move less dirt: that first link states that a 30m high tower was used in large part to minimise fallout and left a crater with maximum depth of 140cm. So "Trinity" 75 years later isn't a very good indicator of how atomic civil engineering on a short timescale will fare.

It's interesting and perhaps a little reassuring that the 2009 review of natural background exposure didn't find conclusive effects other than for radon, but the enthusiasm in the US for peaceful nuclear explosions had already ebbed more than 40 years earlier after some quite cavalier experiments, so it's not so much "why is it unpopular?" as "why couldn't the topic be reconsidered in the light of newer research and less as a cheerleading exercise for nuclear weapons development?". Probably it's hard to judge the economics of PNEs Vs conventional civil engineering since the nuclear industry is quite coupled to the military.
You think? This looks pretty good to me.

https://www.kia.com/us/en/movement/our-instrument
What is this open ecosystem worth if it's not as good as the closed one we have now? The choice always was there as one can buy Android (and install some Open(TM)Rom) or any niche OS.
Its liability avoidance.
> Configuration profiles cannot be installed, and the device cannot enroll into mobile device management (MDM), while Lockdown Mode is turned on.

(From the article)

So this would have prevented Hermit as you'd need to install a new configuration profile to allow sideloading of applications from that source.
What's strange about that? A rotor/stator system is indeed simpler, lighter, and quieter than a counterrotating system, which is what it's being compared to (see previous paragraph).
Freedom to choose what software you use is completely different than having the freedom to force developers to give you features that you want.

You do have the freedom of software choice already.
> But the problem here is, that the EU concepts are often adapted elsewhere

oh no anything but that
Instead of getting cause and effect backwards over and over again maybe one should think that the reverse is true instead?

It is so easy to blame politicians because that means you get to blame someone else.

What if the economic system is broken to begin with and the only thing you can do is shift the suffering away from your interest group to another interest group?

In other words, the economic system itself has created interest group politics.

From that perspective having better leadership is irrelevant. Not even a centrally planned economy can be the solution since it can only shuffle the suffering around.

What is the underlying problem? Increasing your personal share of wealth without creating new wealth aka rent seeking. If politicians were merely in the business of getting rid of rent seeking, their "competence" would hardly matter.
These video essays are nothing more than opinion pieces since they never provide any evidence and citation on what they say.
This is a great answer, thank you.

I think what hindered my understanding was the claim that Nix was purely functional, so it never made sense why flakes were needed. Knowing that Nix is not purely functional, i.e., that channels were still an implicit input, might be the missing piece for me.
Will a Nile canal project dry up Africa’s largest wetland?
Re [3], yeah so you mean a program which is faster, better documented, and has more functionality, has a longer source code? Hm yeah?

> using speed as the only justification for merging a patch is probably not the right thing to do for a bigger project

I don't get this. Speed is important. Energy efficience is important. Have we gotten so used to the bloat that performance and energy saving must be disregarded?
So does US and other developed nations.

US GDP was %40 of the entire worlds economy, it dropped to %30 by the 1985 and today its below %24.

That's simply a function of population and development and in world where every nation reaches property it would be proportional to the population.

If China and India happens to transform itself into prosperous countries, US and EU and everybody else will follow and for the better because this is not going to happen in their current state of affairs.
"Yes, the one with the touch-sensitive buttons."

Aren't all buttons touch-sensitive by definition?

What does it means? Does it supports different levels of pressure? Does-it support not pushing them but just contacting the surface?
Then I would have to wait for it to arrive and deal with delivery people, returns,etc...
Easter Eggs were, to me; part of the early charm of the weird aesthetic to 90’s software and web things.

It’s definitely a bit sad to see Easter Eggs be less common these days, but I do understand how it’s not always the best practice.
Statistics for a thing that’s currently impossible due to Apple’s current policies?
Well, to sum it up Apple-wise, it's making iOS more like Android. I like iOS. I don't like Android. Short story..
Obviously, I don't know the full story, but one thing the three things I named have in common is relatively inelastic demand. In the case of education and healthcare, I suspect Baumol's cost disease is also a factor.

Cars and other manufactured goods tend to get cheaper over time because they can take advantage of economies of scale, as well as global supply chains and free trade. We're seeing that very concretely right now as the global chip shortage has put pressure on the used car market.

Education, housing, and healthcare are largely unaffected by free trade, and Baumol's cost disease is literally a statement about how certain industries cannot take advantage of economies of scale.

Come to think of it, let's also toss childcare in the bucket of "things that have gotten more expensive faster than inflation over time" since, among households with children, we have a predominance of households where all parents who are present work. Again, we have inelastic demand and Baumol's cost disease rearing their ugly heads, so maybe there's something to this theory.
That's a good question, and an illustrative one. It means what supports my argument, considering I have only invoked the amendment by name rather than by any specific consequence or ruling. I hope this helps to illustrate the sham of simply calling out "the constitution" or "the 2nd amendment" as a reason.
> I hope the costs of this isn't hurting archive's ability to keep doing what they do.

It absolutely is.

I hope the board will step down after they inevitably lose this case badly.
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There should be a body of these "koans", little program specs to implement to explore various technologies.
> The list of lockdown features don't seem to explicitly list that in-house app sideloading is disabled - is it? If not, then this mode seems like security theater from Apple, in that it doesn't actually lock down the parts of the attack surface that are actively being leveraged. How about instead, or better yet alongside this, Apple explains how they granted entry in the Enterprise program to the spyware company, and what measures they're taking to prevent it from happening again.

Im pretty sure that iMessage is one, if not the most targeted parts of the iOS ecosystem for practical exploitation. Disabling link previews and restricting the formats that are rendered likely renders this much more difficult.

The side loaded app would likely have to target non technical people as i'm pretty sure side loaded apps require lots of clicking through and trusting of certificates to get to run on a phone.
> While we could be doing better, we've made immense strides over the past ten years, to the point where we've already avoided the worst outcome

This is only perhaps true if you project the current progress into the future as if this is a foregone conclusion. That is dangerously wrong - most of what has been done to combat global warming is the table stakes, the things that its easy to do and should have either been done decades ago, or are simple economic shifts (transitioning some coal power to wind and solar).

But reaching net 0 emissions is going to be extremely hard, much harder than halving our past emissions. And we have to do that in the next 30-40 years to avoid 2 degrees of warming, which is already catastrophic.

To get to net 0, we would have to replace virtually all transportation in the world with BEVs (cars are easy to replace, planes, trucks and cargo ships almost impossible, and definitely not in 30 years).

We will need to produce at least twice as much electricity as today while closing virtually all coal and gas power plants (but we don't have anywhere near enough energy storage to run the whole grid off renewables, nor is there any realistic chance to do so in the next 30 years).

And finally, we will have to close down the vast majority of industrial animal farming pursuits, which supply much of the world's food.

There is no real chance that the current rate of improvement will lead anywhere close to curtailing emissions enough to avoid 2-3 degrees of warming. Plus, the appetite for these changes may well sour as the bigger impact ones will come to pass.
It's frustrating because it's not for us. We want to know "why? what's wrong with a duct?" But this isn't a technical brief, it's some kind of press release focusing on when and where Airbus will be spending money on this thing, probably for shareholders. I imagine that's why it reads like they're paid by the word.
> Aren't all buttons touch-sensitive by definition?

Maybe some are insensitive.
This is classic engineering thinking.

Sure the core technology, right now, might be "obvious", but a company is so much more than the tech. Without a story, marketing and sales, the company is nothing!

The founders might be bringing connection, validation of the product, LOIs, etc. All of which are much, much* more difficult than the tech.

*usually.
Think you're gonna have to be a bit more specific what kind of sounds you want to make, or how you'd like to modify them. The space is very wide in general, when it comes to "generating sound". Also, a lot of sound generator/modification will involve quite a bit of math, but with the right environment, you can make it more around trying different things and seeing what sounds good, rather than writing algorithms with text.

A very easy way to get started would be to use something like NoiseCraft, here is one example of what you could do: https://noisecraft.app/608

Then if you'd like to create more advanced stuff (or rather, faster at creating more advanced stuff, NoiseCraft can do a lot in the right hands), Max for Live is a pretty solid environment: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/max-for-live/
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Linux has been hacked and is no better when Windows?
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