skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FOSS is like the exact opposite of apple. Anyone who has been paying Apple with the expectation that they're suddenly going to play well with others instead of locking everything down as much as they can is delusional.
I think it may need a more explicit description other than "immutable" for how they want the primes calculation to work.
If there is a need for new security measures...new security recommendations - Chrome is bugging me, every day, not very different from Apple.
What a world is that?
So then, someone is working against my security every day!
Looks like a war my friends...
AI vs. Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
Noam Brown: Lex Fridman Podcast #344
And if any Github reps are reading this thread, put together a presence on IPv6. If Google can do it, so can Microsoft.
That was a 5s google search.

You’re welcome.

https://help.nextcloud.com/t/ios-background-sync/145197
Is it just me or is it a good practice to glance down to the last (or two) paragraphs for the gist of the story?

I'm finding this to be frequently true but not so sure once the "evil" ChatGPT takes over.

Perhaps, it's time to make a Turing Test browser app?
I've had similar thoughts. Extremely condensing things, I'd see lots of value in:

* Better code folding, so you can cram more info into source code but also hide it easily.

* Function signatures with "types" that are arbitrary predicates and optional generators.

* Function signatures with properties e.g. this binary function is commutative over type X.

* Combine those and you can name algebraic structures.

* "Enforce" this all through property based testing.

IMO, this would make code that's much easier to reason about than untyped code while being more approachable and flexible than other typing systems.
What I would really like to know is how to mute an application. I have sounds disabled for outlook notifications in System settings and do not disturb on. Yet, I hear chimes/bells from outlook every time I receive an email.

Anybody else experience similar things?
Did you not read the article? People are suing to unredact a single three-centimeter strip of black in the middle of the page.

unless johnsondiditwegottacoveritup is written in REALLY TEENY TINY letters under the redactions, ain't shit there, man.
Yup. Suspicious just like when reddit became hostile to Tor.

It's also a violation of the spirit of the internet. Tim Berners-Lee wrote about this in the December 2010 issue of Scientific American that any walled off website that blocks you from accessing it is unacceptable because it's not the web anymore.
See also masking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masking_(personality)
You ought to check out UpWork (https://www.upwork.com/) and Fiverr (https://www.fiverr.com/). Treat it as a "buffet" of interesting work, projects, and skills. Likewise, you can hire other workers to help you with tasks, and then form your own virtual team. For example, If you'd like to build a mobile app, you could use those apps to find a graphic designer (someone skilled at Figma, in order to do design & prototyping), a back-end engineer (in order to build APIs), and a product manager (manage requirements, backlog, development cadence), and a skilled mobile app developer to build it. Depending on where your interest and skill level is, you can always pair-collaborate with these people - you'll learn a ton, feel the team vibe, and feel less "behind the times", since you have now augmented yourself with experts. Most importantly, treat the team well, prioritize quality, and have fun.
Agreed, I just don't care. I have other things to worry about.
There also is Nogasm which uses a pressure sensor to detect pressure changes in an inflatable buttplug to detect an Orgasm.
> anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river

Ok, come on. What apple’s done here is great, and I personally use an iPhone, but you couldn’t think of a good reason to use anything else? An open-source OS?
This is true. Ignoring the labels, macros, and directives, there are many ways in machine code to encode most common x86 instructions (zeroing a register even has many possible assembly instructions!). Assemblers pick the best encoding.
Sure, totally. I wasn't suggesting it's invalid, just that sometimes "we got banned, oh no!" was the plan all along.
I don't want to be an internet person either, but I'm fascinated by them, including people like Charlie Fang. I love listening to Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog's "Blocked and Reported" podcast, which covers a lot of very-online people, drama in communities you wouldn't have expected (like knitters, or the battle between the "prag libertarians" and the "Mises Libertarians"), and how much "mainstream" press gets completely wrong or lazily reports.

I think a lot of these very-online people will come to regret it, especially because the Internet never forgets and they'll never be able to shake the reputation they've established.
>My Air outperforms my desktop, has close to 20 hour battery life in my normal use, and is completely fanless. It's not perfect, but I don't see anything else that comes close (if I did I'd probably switch.. macOS is driving me more crazy with every release).

I'm on my first macbook--a M1 air--and now I finally see what the hype wrt apple hardware is. I love thinkpads, but between the battery life, the speakers, display, just how light it is, never runs hot no matter what I do to it....I can't believe I went this long without trying one out.

The hardware plus improving linux compatibility means I know this machine is worth it
I'm astounded that this article doesn't mention what to me seems like a no-brainer: We're in the golden age of television. People don't want to watch 10, unconnected movies now. They want 10-20 hours of a continuous story. Netflix, Apple TV, Prime, and other streaming platforms have been delivering a quality experience that immerses the viewer in an engagement that film can't compete with on depth, world-building, etc.

I'm not trying to suggest film isn't an art form in itself, that often has significant differences from television, but watching trends have been favouring television over film lately, especially by hour watched.
If you can't reinvent the wheel on company time, I would urge you to try and do it on your own time. You don't necessarily have to use the solution you come up with, but it helps to get a deeper understanding of the code beneath the libraries you use. Using this technique definitely made me a better developer when I was younger. I still like to take small portions of libraries I use and try to code them myself, just to get a better feeling for how things work (even if the code is vastly different from the library I use).
Does that restriction go away after you get enough reputation? Or does every single comment need to be vouched for even after several have been posted and accumulated upvotes?
You should post back here what the bot generates for the message to lay off the Communications Specialists. We're interested to see.
archive.today (and WayBack Machine, and many others) doesn’t do anything supernatural. It can get a full article because publishers let it. And that’s the main reason no one’s shutting down it.

Try it with Elsevier and see that they won’t give an article for free under no circumstanses. There’s no free copies of any of their articles on archive.today.
Oh I didn't know about the "inactive" days. I thought you could get reimbursed or request a delayed billing cycle so once you hop back on the COBRA plan, they'd retro-actively cover it. Is that not the case?

I looked at the price for COBRA coverage for me and the family when I left my previous employer - $34,000 / year. Ouch.
It's also a statistical question that involves how many black holes there are. Do you have a strong sense of that number, because I sure don't?

Quick search says there are a very large amount of black holes but maybe not so many super-massive that produce these beams of light so eh, who knows.
(Not an iMessage user) Does iMessage actually have a way to display the raw public key(s) locally associated with a contact and your public key(s)? Wondering if you can verify keys out of band or if you have to trust Apple to be the authority.
It's funny how the most "holier than thou" people are usually the biggest hypocrites as well.
Photos are synced in the background via location change events (and thus requiring Location permission). It can be a bit unreliable from time to time, but generally works. Contacts and calendars are synced in the background via iOS' CalDav/CardDav integration.

Nextcloud app also exposed itself as file provider in Files.app, so it's possible to use it in place of iCloud Drive for apps that use the appropriate API. (Unfortunately most apps use CloudKit, which sync over iCloud.)
In my experience having released an E2EE contact info sharing app, most people don't think about privacy protection and they won't tolerate much inconvenience to add them. So the more a large company supports efforts to mainstream E2EE, the better it is for everyone.
An annoying thing about btop is that it only uses the snap package manager and nothing else. You can still install it yourself easily but I don’t understand why they’d stick stick with snap alone.
Isn't Android backup end-to-end encrypted since 2018 or something? Why are so many people commenting like something revolutionary is happening?
I'm not up to date, but when I knew about this stuff the cost of memory for routing tables was only a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost of a network. Most of the cost is burying and maintaining fiber.

So unless something big has changed, it seems like a terrible choice to twist the whole system into uselessness to try to save a small amount of RAM cost.
DC sues Amazon for ‘stealing’ $60M in tips from Flex drivers
Someone (preferably in the area of material science) needs to redo the N-95 aerosolize test using a 5.8 to 6.2 pH based aerosolizable liquid instead of the 8.0 Latex-based aerosolized liquid that is frequently cites in numerous whitepapers.

After all, COVID-19 best infects in that 5.8 to 6.2 pH range.
Anecdata point of one, but I voice the H on hypothesis. Im a native American English speaker, but from the northwest.
How many people would buy an iPhone if they knew a better camera was coming a year down the line?
I've been hearing about how we (California, not sure about other states) aren't doing proper forest management, and that we need to allow it to burn, since I was a kid in elementary school in the late '80s.

Don't hold your breath.
Your description is very accurate, but I would suggest that they are often the types to complain most fiercely about HR departments in general, not specific organizations per se but rather about the existence of HR as a social class that sets cultural norms. Terminally online folks dwell on both sides of the pro- and counter-establishment cultural divide.
How does not-home-delivery work then? If I send a package to your address, how will you get it? Automatically by home delivery?

When you send a package the only information provided is often the shipping address. If the service uses home-delivery that means that someone comes knocking on my door. If they don't provide home-delivery it will delivered to the nearest pickup-point and I'll get a note in my mailbox saying that there is a package to pick up (in reality I already know this because of tracking information via the web, app and/or sms+email if that was provided when the package was sent).

If the web site I'm ordering from provides it I can pick different options and depending on option I can pick which pickup point I prefer.

But what if they don't? What if I'm ordering something from a different country? What if the shipping provider they offer in that country don't operate in my country?

Even more common, it isn't even listed what provider they use for sending. They might probably use different providers depending on package size. If it is small it is going in my mailbox, if it is really big it can be too big even for my local gas station. So after ordering I get a tracking number and then I know which provider is gonna deliver it. And then I know if I have to WFH just to receive that package.

Last week I got a package that I had ordered from a large companies EU site. No idea even what country the package was going to be sent from. And I had no idea how it was gonna be delivered - free shipping though. A week after ordering I got an text message saying that amazon would send the package (f*ck, bad sign) and that it would arrive between 19 and 22 the very same day (someone even paid extra for evening delivery huh?). Well, I wasn't home that day so... Lucky for me they were overbooked and couldn't get to my place and by 23 they sent a message saying that they postponed it to the next day (at which point I happened to be home).

Or, what if they could just have dropped it off at the local pickup-point and I'd have it as soon as I got home? Not an option.
> Nobody would be so critical of iCloud if it wasn't your only sync option on iPhone

I sync my photos with Google Photos because they are a magnitude faster and more predictable than Apple's own Photos.

My passwords are in 1Password.

Can't really say I sync much else.
It's pretty hard to sign up for an email account over Tor. The closest I've seen is Protonmail, which will let you make an anonymous account in exchange for a Bitcoin payment.
Well, it is the most populous city in the world.
The scale still holds true. For an order of magnitude less, around $100 I can get a perfectly workable end table that doesn't look horrible but is rather generic.

Honestly I meant to say dresser as they commonly start at $1kish for a decent one, but end table still works.
Sometimes, yes. I don't really find it necessary. A lot of the things I don't want to see on the web I handle by using an ad blocker.
You can use a high entropy passcode for iCloud. You just can’t stay signed in when you’re not using it. I don’t understand the issue here
Charity money launched Sam Bankman-Fried's empire
Once a black hole -- a collapsar -- forms, and you want to toss something into it, it is best to imagine two timelines.

From the point of view of the object being hurled into the black hole, things proceed more or less normally: you accelerate as you fall, but light behind you becomes curiously more blue and brighter. You eventually reach the event horizon, which ought to be called EH-sub-0, because it is only the first event horizon. It might be helpful to think of a black hole's interior as infinitely layered event horizons, event horizons "all the way down." You'd note a restriction of movement -- "up" (away from the black hole) is no longer a possibility; every direction is some variation of down, perhaps down and to the left, down and east, whatever, but always down. Eventually tidal forces take over depending on the size of the thing -- you might notice them before or after the outmost event horizon, and "spaghettification" occurs even as you are pummeled with X-rays and gamma radiation from behind (millennia of impacting photons blueshifted and jammed into a smaller timeline).

From the outside, however, your astronaut or thrown Cylume lightstick becomes more and more red, and dim, slowly approaching that event horizon but you'll never see it get there as it now emits infrared and not much of that. You switch on your FLIR and you can see it, for a while, but it grows dimmer and eventually disappears off of that. Eventually it emits very weak radio waves, and you lose track of the thing, but even if you spent a million years building longer and longer antennae, you'd never see it hit.

The effects you see of a black hole are 1) gravitational lensing (photons bending in their trajectory around the exterior of a black hole, just above the outermost event horizon), 2) the formation of an accretion disc (as matter swirls into it, growing hot from friction and compression), 3) absolute blackness if you managed to get a "transit" of something particularly large across a light path, 4) other knock-on gravitational effects, like disturbed orbits.
Tor can be made substantially less obvious if you make sure the bitrate and packet timings over each 'hop' of users connections are fixed.

Eg. each client sends out 1000 1 kbyte packets per second to each peer, once per millisecond. Inside each packet, they send the onion encrypted user data. The rest of the packet is filled with rand().

Without that protection, any network attacker can do packet size and timing analysis to unmask nearly any user rather quickly.
The technical proposals are equally odious, and Europe is, what, 30 years removed from all sorts of authoritarian hijinks?

In any case, selective support for technical proposals based on broader political vibes is not a particularly inspiring stance.
Ah, I see this now. Me and my boyfriend tried switching to Nextcloud a few years ago, but this wasn't implemented on iOS yet so we had to look elsewhere. Nice to see this opened up, it's about time. Hopefully they'll reverse their sideloading opinions as well.
Still on retromags. Go grab them before they possibly disappear.

https://www.retromags.com/magazines/usa/nintendo-power/
give solvespace a try. it is very limited compared to the ones you listed. however I find it enjoyable, fun you may even say, to use. But I have to admit I would have a hard time using it professionally.

https://solvespace.com/index.pl
Haven't heard the name Merb in forever.
This is so fraught with problems.

First of all, doesn't it also need to have the condition (c > a - b)? Maybe you just left this part out?

Secondly, you're worried that (a + b) could overflow. The triangles in your applications are just THE MOST EXTREME! That's how cool your application is! You have the MOST EXTREME TRIANGLES!

But wait! When are you dealing with integer lengths of triangles? You never specified they were integers. In 99.99% of all real-world applications dealing with triangles, their coordinates are floating-point. I think it's fair to say overflow isn't nearly your biggest arithmetic problem with floating points -- rather, once you get to extreme (and extremely different) exponent values, you have all sorts of accuracy and loss issues, long before overflow becomes an issue. Do you expect the candidate to also handle the case where one side is 1e-155 and another is 1e274? Because otherwise their code is "wrong"!

So left unspecified, your "gotcha" is completely ridiculous and just a mind-reading trap to arbitrarily filter out people who don't think exactly (and erroneously) like you do!

Or maybe you did mean that the sides of the triangle are constrained to integer lengths? That would be extremely unusual, so you absolutely need to specify that. But if you're constraining the side lengths to integers, are you also constraining the vertex coordinates to integers? It would be extremely strange to require integer lengths but allow floating-point coordinates; but it would also be extremely strange to only allow integer coordinates, as most triangles with integer coordinates have a least one non-integer side length! And it doesn't sound like a trivial problem at all to find whether a given set of integer lengths could form a triangle on an integer lattice, but that seems to be what you maybe think you're asking? Do you even know what you're asking?

If integers are involved at all, it's far more likely that the coordinates are integers, but the side lengths are floating point.

What a tremendously awful interview question. I really hope your description is just extremely limited and flawed and mis-remembered, because if that's the actual question, you are perpetuating the "arbitrary leetcode interviews" problem that competent software engineers always complain about when they look for jobs.
Yes you can push back.

Of course woman in tech can be pretty. Grace Hopper is 100x more pretty than any model in the world.
what echo chamber, and what toxicity are you referring too
Anything you can share on latency?

(congrats on the achievement)
What if this is not a mistake? If you have 5 people and 10 projects, you hire 5 more to meet the need. If 4 projects go away, you fire 4 people as some would have nothing to do.

Where is the mistake?

I’m not saying it is always like this and the scenarios above is simplified to illustrate a point. However, it would be silly to assume all companies always grow in headcount, and any downsizing is the CEO somehow messing up.
Yea, thats the point.

Let me re-phrase, by giving Apple control over the keys, you give control over the data to whoever controls apple - which is non-zero (Eg. LEO), and whoever may gain control (security vuln).
I'd love if there was someplace we could go to test this assertion instead of relying on unbacked statements.

I'm not saying it's untrue, but there is a lot of ambiguity in this claim as things stand. Are you referring to abuse of their monopoly power to censor speech? Abuse of same to compromise human rights? Nefarious trickery to subvert their own security model? Use of forced labor to assemble devices? Each is its own form of evil; the evidence for each ranges from beyond doubt to (afaik) non-existent; typing them out every time one wishes to discuss apple is daunting.
“Another person’s vanity only bothers us if it goes against our own.” —Nietzsche
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Well then, I think I need to commission from the Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/business/caroline-ell...
Plaid lays off 20% of staff, ‘hired and invested ahead of revenue growth’
I listened to an interesting interview[1] this week with Blender’s creator (and current foundation chairman) Ton Roosendaal.

He thought that one of Blender’s major challenges was recent developments in the real-time rendering space - notably Unreal Engine.

They’re not direct competitors, of course (and Epic has donated to the foundation) but it does speak to how impressive UE’s render pipeline is.

Again, it’s not a direct comparison, but it’s remarkable what UE5 can do at 60fps on a mid-range Nvidia 30 series card (even without DLSS) versus how long it takes Cycles to render a single frame.

I’ve no doubt Blender will be a future innovator in this space too.

[1] https://overcast.fm/+mSOZes2FM
That wouldn't work very well. An aerial firefighting plane can dump and restock water much faster than it can consume fuel.
> If, to use it, you need C++, it's a C++ system, period. If parts are in C, that is an implementation detail

C and C++ are different languages, you can't necessarily treat a codebase of mixed C and C++ as if it were written entirely in C++.

This isn't purely academic, either. For a long time the MSVC compiler had pretty good C++ language support but surprisingly poor C support, which inconvenienced some folks.

> modernizing those to C++ would make them more robust and probably faster

I agree that adopting C++'s insistence on explicit type conversions is a good move for C codebases. I'd be surprised if performance were improved by reworking a C codebase to get it to compile as C++, though.
It is rather reassuring to laugh at a devil for being a knockoff imp rather than the great dragon. OLD!!!!!!
I think you're missing the point. You're a network engineer and know what you are doing. Most people aren't.

IP4+ would be easier because it's more incremental and less change than IPv6.

Yes, there exists solutions to all the problems that IP4+ would solve, but the point is backwards compatibility and incremental change is always easier than doing something new.
You seem to have missed my point entirely then. I'm in full support of Apple holding themselves accountable for the data they hold, but they don't. As a result, we rely on "broader political vibes" to read between the lines.