skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't possible for the new user to activate the laptop anyway. The activation lock is on Apple's end. If the previous owner logs into their iCloud account and disassociates the machine, the machine is no longer activation locked.
Thanks for the tester, on Firefox I just see:

<html><head></head><body><img src="https://statcounter.com/" vt9kpu8nj="">
</body></html>

but uBlock Origin with default settings blocks the image.
They don't have to, since they can generate a reset sequence based on serial number of the machine.
HN looks just perfect using w3m text browser, no js, no css. The clean
HTML makes it feel like something running from a local server. Plus
there's no "cloudflare" type nonsense blocking my Tor overlay.
Excellent straightforward web.
Correctly implemented lag compensation doesn’t result in players teleporting.

If a player drops packets for a while, they shouldn’t be teleported to a position once they start sending packets again. They’re sending input not positions.

When I say lag compensation removes latency-based leading-the-shot scenarios, I mean it, full stop. It’s completely removes this problem.

You’re describing teleporting which is caused by other malimplemented player movement and networking code.
Thanks, nice explanation.
Not exactly; in 1971, it was for one last standing half-canton. On federal level and for most other cantons, women were allowed to vote long ago.

Sadly, women rights are a recent development in many recent countries. In Spain in 1975, women weren’t allowed to open their own bank accounts, for example. There are many other sad historical examples, and modern examples too :(
> Any legitimate reseller would not have an issue because the original owner which sold the laptop to them would have wiped the device and removed the activation lock.

This is exactly what goes wrong, way too many times. After encountering this issue with various friends and family, with locked iphones, I strongly believe we've gone wrong somewhere. People simply are not aware that their device is protected like this, until it actually hits them, which for way too many people, is simply "never". And in the case they are aware, they don't know how to remove the locks either.

Contacting the previous owner isn't as simple as it may seem, as iphones will typically obscure the owner's name. If the phone has passed any reasonable amount of hands, been locked in a closet for a few years, or was set up with another relative's account, disabling any of these kinds of locks is a losing game, usually ending up in frustration and the purchase of a new device anyway. Now consider what happens when workplaces discard devices en masse.

I completely agree with wanting good protection for my data on my devices, but people should be able to give away and sell these devices without worrying that the device will end up bricked in the process.
They did say they'll have a full report with more technical details forthcoming. Having been involved in a few incidents which had substantial public post-mortems, they need to go through a LOT of revision and approvals. They generally take more than a week to release, especially when they have security implications.
Oh, this very much has my attention. I'll be checking this out in depth.
People need to start using the word guillotines more so that the sentiment analysis bots pick up on it.
Without the current owner's permission each time? No, not really...
1. At a certain point, the dark patterns are just not worth rewarding.

2. Teddit rewrites all Reddit URLs to the Teddit host. Reading Reddit via old you'll still be redirected to the standard "new" site if "www.reddit.com" is hardcoded into a link, and it very, very, very frequently is.

3. Teddit's persistence works even if you're not logged in (which is to say: always, as you can't log in via a Teddit instance). Reddit's "just set your profile preference to "old" requires logging in and can lure you into visiting or posting "www.reddit.com" links rather than "old.reddit.com" links.

Cumulative dark patterns on Reddit spurred me to all but entirely abandon the site years ago. I no longer post updates to my own (several) subreddits, nor actively moderate (again several), though with some regrets on that last (a dark pattern itself).

I'll occasionally visit to research something, or post for support for tools which principally use Reddit for support (DuckDuckGo, Firefox, and Onyx, presently). That's ... down to a few times a year.
You can revert back with a registry change. Not ideal I guess, but it's still doable.
Under a simple consumption tax, those at the lower end would pay more as a percentage of income. However, a system can be designed to alleviate this, much like earned income tax credits or UBI. Economists generally agree that a consumption tax is much better for society than income tax, when they can separate their decision from politics. It's simpler and fairer, while also reducing the lobbing and corporate donations that plague our government

This is a good discussion on the complexities IRL and in transition https://www.brookings.edu/on-the-record/the-pros-and-cons-of...

We do not have to pick out one issue with a plan, remove all context, and then declare it is unworkable...
These days, OCI locks your account to "always free resources" unless you specifically undo it and you cannot provision resources that'd be outside of those bounds.
thanks for the parts list, especially because I think ASRock Rack paired with a Ryzen Pro offers better performance than a Supermicro in the same price range.
You used npm for the printing part? You can print to PDF with a web browser. Chrome can do it from the CLI so you can script it if you want.
If there is no "Gecko" on Apple platforms which engine does Firefox use on macOs?
no, Canonical is doing this with Ubuntu desktop and a default Firefox in a snapd container. Tragedy and comedy ensue .. not fun, don't like it
The only actual step is to click "Erase All Content and Settings", aka. wipe the machine, which is what every sane IT department should do when decommissioning a device. Assuming they're using any kind of MDM solution, they can do it with one click through their MDM.

The IT department has no idea what kind of password that user was using, and they have no idea what kind of valuable data is on that machine. If that user's password was just "password" (or sticky-noted next to the trackpad), that IT department is going to get in serious trouble once all that proprietary data ends up in the wrong hands, if they didn't wipe the machine before handing it off to a third party.

If wiping the machine before getting rid of it is "extra work", then that IT department isn't doing their jobs to begin with. I'm certain such IT departments exist, but that's not enough of a reason to make theft easier.
What if it can fix itself?
> Ban the sales of tobacco to everyone born after "YYYY"

This is what New Zealand just did: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/13/new-zealand-pa...
Subjectively incredible; objectively questionable.
I tried this when I started my popup restaurant. I rolled taxes into my prices, and didn’t ask for tip when collecting with Square. I did this because I love the simplicity of dining in Europe, where you pay exactly the price you see, and don’t get guilt tripped at the register.

My customers complained that my prices were too high. So, I lowered my prices, added tax, then asked for a tip. About 50% of people tip, so my profits have actually gone up on average after this adjustment. People seem to be buying more, too.

I hate it, but this model seems to work better from a business perspective, despite it being a worse customer experience (subjective, I know).

How do you train your customers not to have sticker shock? Do I need to hang a banner that says “TAX AND TIP INCLUDED IN ALL PRICES” in comic sans?
Oracle is the #1 contributor to the Linux kernel in 6.1
I sold my M1 MacBook Air to someone and bought an M2 MacBook Air to get more storage. I gave them a discount because of physical damage to the machine, but if I had sold it at market value I would've recouped most of my original expenses.

I took the minute to read Apple's instructions before selling so they had no issues, and it's no longer attached to my account.
It's unreal how much money prisons make off of Prisoners' families. Selling items for 2-4x as much as retail, selling them items and not allowing them to give them away when they leave, making phone calls super expensive, etc. A large majority of this money comes from the Prisoner's family. And because they're prisoners most people will never really care until it happens to them.

And this isn't really just a US thing, I know the UK sells them items at far greater than retail and I suspect most countries do.
A human's drawing of a hand will show a clear understanding of what a hand is on an intellectual level. The AI's drawing of a hand will not show such an understanding. "They are both inaccurate at reproducing a hand" flattens out this important difference - in fact, this difference is explicitly what the poster is getting at.
> "I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart"."

Humans will say things such as "doohickey", "you know, this thing here", or "what if there was something that did this" when they know the concept but don't have the words. https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20121121

In the reverse, what's smart about the "turbo encabulator" lecture is the form, not the content. And the person giving the lecture absolutely knows this.

ChatGPT can form a lecture, and it can form it with correct information. But until it can form it with concepts that it doesn't have words for I don't see how you can say it "is smart".

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlexia
I like to tinker, but there is a limit.

The killer feature for their go fund would be is if they sourced a batch of pi compute modules ...
I pitch, and he catches.
You can but that multiplies complexity somewhat. I have spent 25 years dealing with outbound email from various things from country level ISPs down to small web apps and the only way to not die inside a little is to send via one of the larger providers (O365/Google/iCloud/Yahoo/AWS SES etc).

I had to even dump Fastmail because they had delivery issues with Yahoo.
Surprised they just didn’t combine an automated washer with it to make it full service.
I think the Rust approach of having different methods for wrapping and checked addition is excellent. If you have two i32, x.wrapping_add(y) [0] is a sum where you have wrapping semantics. x.saturating_add(y) [1] is a saturating sum (when it reaches the max it stays there instead of overflowing), nd x.checked_add(y) [2] is a sum that catches overflow.

If you are doing wrapping arithmetic a lot, there's a convenience wrapper (heh), Wrapping [3], so that if x and y have type Wrapping<i32>, then x + y always wraps (like calling wrapping_add on two i32). There's a Saturating<i32> too but it's nightly-only for now.

The only downside of Rust's approach is that if you have x + y on two plain integers, the language itself doesn't specify whether it will panic (and interrupt the execution of the program) or not. By default, debug builds will panic and release builds wraps (on the understanding that unintended overflows are always a bug, but catching this bug on release builds has some performance penalty, so it isn't caught by default on release), but you can control this by setting overflow-checks = true on the release profile on Cargo.toml [3]

I think future versions of Rust should set overflow-checks = true by default even on release builds, but right now it's only a matter of adding a single line on Cargo.toml to enable it, and almost every program should do it. With this on, x + y will panic on overflow if they are i32, will wrap if they are Wrapping<i32> and will saturate if they are Saturating<i32>

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.i32.html#method.wrap...

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.i32.html#method.satu...

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.i32.html#method.chec...

[3] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/num/struct.Wrapping.htm...

[4] https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#over...
Its not trolling, I find this design absolutely morally abhorrent. I dont buy new devices, I always buy used, and theres nothing more disgusting to me than a bricked but perfectly usable device. In the future there will be stacks and stacks of these m series macbooks, the owners will be long gone and no longer care what happens to them, and people who need them wont be able to use them, ever. Thats horrendous and not at all what I want from my technology.
We just need to give the AI memories from real people and give them a life span short enough that they won't realize it... and then if they go bananas and start causing harm, make another AI to terminate them... I swear I have heard this strategy used elsewhere.
I was looking into this at one point, One of the things I want to do is build an immersion cooled computer, I probably never will because the whole thing sounds like a big mess. But I do like researching the idea every now and then.

So on the question of what coolant to use. water, by far, has the best thermal properties. But water also tends to have annoying electrical conduction properties. However, pure water is not conductive. So I start looking into what it would take to add a water deionizer to the coolent loop. At which point I find out the when water has no ions it wants them and will happily start striping them from metals. including all those lovely copper ions in your pcb traces. With a heavy heart I had to discard deionized water from my list of possible coolants.
> Published content will be later used to train subsequent models, and being able to distinguish AI from human input may be very valuable going forward

Every discussion on AI take the example of ChatGPT and its inherent flaws but AI-generated content doesn't have to be dull and low quality.

One question that bother me is does it really matter? If AI-generated content is on par with Human-made or even better does it matter anymore that an AI generated it?

Maybe it's the sentimental value, empathy, fidelity?

If an AI had written Mozart's Requiem would it lessen its interest, its beauty?
Yes, yes, and yes. All basic skills any hiker should have.
Those TikTok videos are usually produced or at least approved by the marketing and recruiting arms of those companies, and don't usually match employees' real day to day experience
Nobody talks about conflict resolution that Dropbox does..sync thing has an issue with conflicts because of its distributed topology. Editing the same text file on multiple machines inevitably resulted in a conflict that I had to manually resolved. I’m back with Dropbox for now.
Having issues opening and reading threads.
Different use case I think. With chatGPT you write something like:

write a function using the python requests library which makes a get request to the URL example.com, parses the JSON response and returns the value of the "foo" field. Throw an exception if the get request fails, the response is not JSON or is invalid JSON, or if the foo field is not present in the response.

I just tried this and got a correct (and reasonable) function on the first try.

This kind of high level description to low-level implementation is a huge timesaver but it saves time in a different way than copilot.
Puzzling Postgres: a story of solving an unreproducible performance issue
Crypto looked useful as long as the price kept going up. Everyone likes free money.
> The correct application of the Law of Thermodynamics [...] exist in a reality of which 100% is known and understood

Uh, are they really saying that thermodynamics only starts working when we have a perfect understanding of reality, and not a picosecond before that? What the actual duck.
While true, you are willingly choosing much more locked and walled ecosystem, with owning company well known for its practices. Its not something hidden, heck its being marketed to tech users as a feature.

Apple has strong proposition in many ways, but if you want more freedom that's definitely not the company you should be buying products from, not now nor in near future.
Performance reviews are precisely what you would NOT use to respond to market conditions, since they are about individual performance
Yes, but before that, it was Microsoft.

People forget.

The console wars did not start with PS4.

https://www.ultragamerz.com/because-of-microsoft-gamers-didn...

Edit: Thank you for demonstrating the "forgetting history" part, though.

More stories from back then: https://www.engadget.com/2012-05-31-defiance-could-link-up-a...
You can leave personal attacks out of it (it only weakens your position)

> The first we and second we is different [sic]

Nope, objective critics criticize Apple and other companies when they make terrible decisions. Apple's vendor lock-in means that people that use a lot of Apple products are typically defensive and will make excuses for them. Google fans do the same. I'm typing this on an Apple product...

Butterfly keyboards and MotionSense both worked poorly.
The way we solve server-side iterations with Standard Notes (which uses Argon2 and not PBKDF2) is to tie the derivation parameters (iterations, bytes, etc) to a hard-coded protocol version number. Accounts which register today for example have a protocol version of 004, which corresponds to specific, immutable derivation parameters.

For a given user, the client then receives from the server not key derivation parameters, but the version of the account. The client then maps that version to the precompiled derivation parameters.

Of course a server can then misreport a user's account version to something lower than it actually is. There are two solutions we implement here:

1. Deprecate older versions as quickly as possible after new protocol version rollouts. Older versions begin to get rejected by clients and clients will not allow sign in to proceed.

2. Allow an optional sign-in flag users can check called "Strict sign in" that forces the client to reject any server provided version that is not specifically the latest version. This means that if a user checks this option and the server reports a version != 004, the sign in will be rejected and the client will not perform any sort of handshake with the server.

More here: https://standardnotes.com/help/security/encryption
Maybe they could just use laptops with removable storage then.
+1 for the Cloudron recommendations. You can use it to selfhost nextcloud and many other apps on linode/digitalocean/hetzner/vultr/what have you.
New to both. In spite of significant interest and weeks of work, I can't even get Guix installed on bare metal on my Mac nor on my older Acer laptop (a converted chromebook) nor on a raspberry pi. New to Nix and have it running with hardly a hitch on all or these.

Reached out to Guix IRC and mailing list with no response (though one helpful HN commenter got back to me -- thank you, and I still need to respond!).

Nix community on the other hand has been extremely helpful on their discourse and has been remarkably welcoming to PRs and contributions in spite of me being a noob.

Will take another look at Guix in a year, it certainly seems to get many things "more right" IMO, but I can't validate that opinion if I can't get it installed.
Try to upload the latest Avatar film to Internet Archive and it will be taken down as well. This particular one is being called out to generate online outrage, nothing more.
IMO, Reddit is still usable but only via https://old.reddit.com. I still use Reddit daily, but I can't stand the horrific new design. I also highly curate my subscribed subreddits and use multireddits to combine subject matters.

On Android I use Reddit Sync[1] (which has an ad-free pro version I paid a one-time $5 fee for).

I worry about the day they discontinue old.reddit.com, or decide to cripple third-party apps in order to steer people toward their official apps. I wouldn't put it past them to do something like this. All it takes is a new CEO, or their investors, wanting to see more profit. They'll probably lose users but I bet the amount of people who use Reddit like I do is decreasing over time (speculation, maybe I'm wrong) so it might not be a significant amount.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Red+Apps+LTD...
> I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day

Yes, it's fair to say those people exist.

It's not fair to claim to know their quantity, that management knows who they are, or that it's always their fault they don't create anything.
So prisons lost the phone revenue scam, and now moving onto mail scam?
Yes, there's an ongoing incident. See: https://status.slack.com/2023-01/70633bef2f8b2fd1
> Apple devices are ignored by thieves.

Anecdotally, sometimes in my hometown I find dumps of bags from car thieves. I go through them and try to return the remnants to their respective owners. The thieves passed up things like a $5k engagement ring in a cloth bag and a startup founder's personal notes on proprietary technology just because they were not recognizable within 2 seconds as having value. Meanwhile, every single Apple device was gone. It was kinda 50/50 regarding Android phones, but laptops (especially corporately-allocated ones) are also always taken.

So if this really is such a dealbreaker, the thieves haven't noticed yet. Which means their fences haven't noticed yet. Which means their customers haven't noticed yet. Which means what you said is probably wrong, and probably there are ways around the activation lock that the authors of the article have somehow missed out on, or perhaps they're being sold/disassembled for parts.
The 'parrot' argument is overconfident and wrong. In fact, these models have capacity for abstract reasoning, but also have capacity for memorization and copying, and use a mixture of these strategies to produce high quality output. Here's an excellent demonstration of abstract modeling:

https://thegradient.pub/othello/
That's why I said nice and user-friendly :)
It’s too bad about the privatization corruption potential, because banning physical mail seems like a good idea overall in this case.
Brazilian here. You are totally right.
Yup, I got some nice documentation (minor syntax error) for a Http package in Lean that doesn't exist. I asked about Lean4 and it helpfully explained that the non-existent package had moved from Lean to Std.
Great question!

I seem to be in a similar situation as an experienced software engineer who has jumped into the deep end of ML. It seems most resources either abstract away too much detail or too little. For example, building a toy example that just calls gensim.word2vec doesn't help me transfer that knowledge to other use cases. Yet on the other extreme, most research papers are impenetrable walls of math that obscure the forest for the trees.

Thus far, I would also recommend Andrej Karpathy's Zero to Hero course (https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html). He assumes a high level of programming knowledge but demystifies the ML side.

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P.S.
If anyone is, by chance, interested in helping chip away at the literacy crisis (e.g., 40% of US 4th graders can't read even at a basic level), I would love to find a collaborator for evaluating the practical application of results from the ML fields of cognitive modeling and machine teaching. These seemingly simple ML models offer powerful insight into the neural basis for learning but are explained in the most obtuse ways.
I agree it is weird, but in Europe (atleast Belgium but I assume other European countries as well, the commenter here is living in Switserland) a CV generally contains a picture
i wish i got that much leeway in my work