skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to sound personal, but your arguments left the realm of facts somewhere up there. I see your account has some duration and karma, which negates the usual argument of paid marketing accounts, the practice so prevalent these days (and past decade).

As for walled monopoly - what if Apple allowed Firefox with its free extension model - what argument would you come up then? One can easily use ublock origin with Firefox, a thing Apple fears quite a bit - its by far the best ad-blocking and to certain extent tracking technology out there currently. We all know here on HN that Apple is moving to marketing more and more (currently 4 billion/year for them and growing fast), so they will never allow this unless forced by law.

Which is one of those situations where users lose and corporation wins (unless you consider ads and tracking a good thing when Apple does it, but that's... illogical to be polite).
That is an interesting concept in itself, if the idea is sound, why does the originator matter?
Switching from Windows to Linux
It is more complex than that, but hey, we needed another Englishman to tell how to run India.
"It's too big for infrastructure" is a garbage take made up by American conservatives to pretend our absurdly bad infrastructure is not directly their fault from neglect and lack of funding.

Meanwhile, 80 years ago we had no problems literally covering the entire country with brand new highways and giant dams and bridges everywhere, so many that we don't even inspect them all right now. We could build infrastructure perfectly fine when we taxed high incomes and invested heavily in infrastructure.

Canada is not a poor country and could very well afford such infrastructure as well.
I feel there are 2 main types: ADHD and the other type that we need to respect and be kind to. I suppose there is a gamut of sub-types in-between. Come and enter the "realm" of developers!
Only if "do not disturb" meant "do not enter", which is what I want the sign to mean.
>Yeah, extra work for overworked IT departments. I'm sure they'll be happy to add extra work they dont have to do.

But at the benefit of less-burdened security teams, and greatly enhanced peace of mind for users and info-sensitive organizations? You can argue it's taking something highly risky like security and shifting those man hours to something not as threatening.
Life is digital nowadays.

Hotel reservations, check-in and check-out are done online, tickets are online, etc.

How do you travel without using anything digital?
How have they been rendering unusable displays from stolen phones?
Most people selling their Macs do not even know that they have to formally pass ownership on to someone else, as though it were a car. This is a restriction that was not there pre-M1.
How about a book?
Babbage created the analytical engine 1834-1842. Ada Lovelace comes along late 1842, helps him translate some notes about his analytical engine from French and ends up writing a single program for it. That's all great, but she doesn't deserve the level of worship that she gets from the woke CS crowd.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the original poster's concern. :)
No, the article doesn't address at all why schools/businesses aren't unlocking.

It doesn't address any risks associating with Apple having the power to unlock.

And the article disingenuously claims MacBooks are being sold for "scrap" (which implies merely recovering materials like aluminum) and the intro scarily talks about processes for a part which "ground them into carcinogenic dust". The article doesn't even mention selling for parts until halfway through, and it presents that in a negative light rather than examining why that might be a tradeoff that makes perfect sense, especially since parts availability helps enable third-party repair. (I myself have sometimes found I could get significantly more money selling something as separate parts on eBay rather than as a working whole, which means it's actually better because there's more demand.)
No, if you reinstall macos without removing the machine from your apple account it will lock down just like a factory reset iPhone and require you to login to the original account.
The problem is that they are not properly scrapped. A perfectly good laptop ends up as electronic waste, and not just stolen laptops, it happens to end-of-life laptops from big companies too.

If you could ask Apple to pick up the laptop for free, so that they can refurbish it and sell it at a discounted price, it would be no problem. No business for thieves, no waste, and more good machines available for a budget. But they have no reason to do that as it goes against their business model.
I'm not missing anything. The recyclers are not the original owners so of course they cannot unlock them.
Yes. Iust can't see the word 'semitic' or 'carthage' there, am I missing something?
Large Language Model

https://www.mlq.ai/what-is-a-large-language-model-llm/
That expression, "ideas are easy, implementations are hard", is lacking nuance. No, new ideas are ridiculously hard: can you have the idea for an alphabet if you have never seen one before?, even the banal equals sign is a ridiculously hard idea, Euclid and al-Khwarizmi never had such an idea [1]. Ideas are hard, implementations are sometimes hard, idea collages or idea twistings are almost always easy, given a ripening context: sliced bread; sell things, but on the internet.

[1] "Robert Recorde invented the equals sign (=) and also introduced the pre-existing plus sign (+) to English speakers in 1557." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde
As a programmer, large language models let me solve an increasing range of problems that I couldn't have solved without them. So I think they are a very big deal.

Just one example: parsing structured data out of a big pile of poorly formatted PDF documents.

That used to be too difficult and expensive for me to tackle without a small army of data entry people to help do the work.

Today I can point Textract OCR at it and then use a language model to extract structured data.

(I haven't implemented this particular example just yet, but I'm looking for an opportunity to do so.)
Tech Layoffs vs Chess.com vs New Year's Resolutions
I got the Chess.com "database is overloaded error message" when I went to login today. This is a new error for me, and I wonder whether is driven by the high number of layoffs or because many people decided to play more chess as part of their 2023 Resolutions?
Excellent point!

I almost forgot about electrical ionization!

In other words, if water (or any other chemical) is electrically ionized (part of an electrical circuit while the chemical reaction is taking place) -- then that will change some of the other chemicals that it will react with, and by how much, and at what temperature/pressure...

Which then leads into if the chemicals in question are reactive to RF -- and other electromagnetic wavelengths...
All of them? Admittedly the oldest hardware I've used such adapters on is a circa 1998 motherboard with UDMA/ATA4 support, but I have at least three different chips on the ones I've picked up the past decade.
> All FIDO keys support a PIN

CTAP 2 compatible keys, e.g. FIDO 2 (certified or not). Older U2F-only keys won't support a PIN.
Another vote for Linode. Everything I need, Multiple domains, E-mail for all family members and a buddy's business E-mail, and light web hosting run on a $5 Linode running basic vanilla Debian, exim4, dovecot, lighttpd.

Word of caution: If you're doing this to achieve resilience from the risk of big tech canceling your accounts and making your life difficult, moving to a VPS doesn't fully solve it. You're now at risk of VPS provider canceling your account and making your life difficult. Less likely than RandomCloudProvider, but still a risk. I'm currently experimenting with self-hosting on my own iron at home, to mitigate this. This is a bit more challenging, mostly due to your residential IP address having low-reputation among the E-mail system. It might be a good temporary fail-over solution for when you have to find a different VPS provider.

Of course home-hosting mitigates the VPS provider risk, but then you're at risk of your ISP canceling you. Unfortunately, it's "dependence on corporations" all the way down...
Oh mah goodness.
New Zealand is an ecotourism destination, officially and explicitly marketed as such. If anything, banning smoking would increase the perceived quality of their stay for anyone in that segment.
It was (is?) a common thing in Germany and probably in Switzerland as well.
Ugh that would be horrible.
The Cold Start Problem and Matchmakers are two good books about marketplace dynamics.
For an individual, this is absolutely worth it. The problem is corporate/education IT departments do not operate on the same economics as you or I. You'd think that you can just multiply 60 laptops by their value as "for parts" versus their value as used, properly reset devices minus the intern's hourly rate. Clever you, you've found a way to make money! But big corporations don't think that way, they already know how their bread is buttered and don't have flexible processes in place to reward the elimination of inefficiencies or creative discovery of new income sources.

I've bought a number of used Thinkpads, laser printers/copiers, workstations, etc. that were previously owned by big companies. They don't go through the wiping process. If it has a removable drive caddy the whole thing comes out and goes in the trash, and you need to find a spare part that costs as much as the whole used laptop if a lookalike isn't available. They don't care whether the BIOS is locked, that doesn't have their data on it.

The intern saddled with unloading the pallet of old laptops is never going to see any of that hypothetical $500-$1500. And who would ever give an intern the local admin password to run erase assistant, potentially letting them decrypt the data of a senior employee previously logged into the Mac, just before covering their tracks by deleting the access logs?
False. It's not 9 steps. It takes less than 5 minutes and requires nearly no effort.
My parents/grandparents/brother wouldn't ever know they NEED to unlock the thing before selling it. THAT'S the problem. The people Apple markets most strongly towards have no idea this is an issue or part of the device transfer process.

Forget stolen, the idea that you have to go back to the original vendor to transfer a product is anathema to the prior 100 years of product purchasing experience.

Why isn't this an infringement of the "First Sale Doctrine"?
> Apple changed webapps to delete indexedDB periodically even if they are inatalled on the home screen.

Source? I had thought the usage counter ignored days when you didn't open the webapp.
Yet still continuing to Tweet and complain about Twitter on Twitter. Clearly Gruber is too scared to lose his reach there and go all in on building it up again from scratch somewhere else.

Seriously just delete your Twitter account(s) already instead of constantly complaining about Twitter. The 200M+ daily users there still don't care.
I'm curious what keeps you invested in BSD. I'm not a hater or anything, and in fact I have some experience, my last Sysadmin job involved a network with almost exclusively FreeBSD servers and I had to do some fast learning on their spin.

It was objectively great, but eventually I migrated everything to Linux in order to make things more accessible to the people coming over from Windows servers, and I didn't find that things got any less stable or reliable. Of course, it might be that I'm the common factor there, for good or ill :>
Hm. That would be 'Schnupftabak' here. Aeons ago I actually used the white powdered menthol variants in ways which could be mistaken for something else. Made for some hilarious situations :-)

I see it's still legal in .de, and according to wikipedia has no tobacco-taxes on it since 1993! The real stuff, not only that white grapesugar/menthol stuff.
They've been compared and nothing of note was found. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34494938
Folks have worked up macro support for replacing Unicode symbols w/ equivalent LaTeX commands, as well as the reverse, so that it's possible to round-trip.
Here's what people are voting on:

1.) [person does x], it's OK,

2.) if a megacorp [does x], it's not.

Let's just be clear that the content of the argument doesn't matter and that most people in this conversation are guilty of base populism.
The reason laptops or phones are stolen is simply because they're perceived as valuable. If stealing an Apple product isn't perceived as a good opportunity people will opt to steal other phones and laptops instead. It will take time for this feedback loop to be circled a few times.
Why respect your origin when you can just submit to American imperialism after all?
18 random characters out of 36 is equivalent to ~93 bits of entropy[1]- that's pretty conservative indeed.

I would aim for 70 bits (safely north of 64 bits) - the paranoid for 96..128 bits.

[1] 18*log2(36) ~ 93
Effect of Black Lives Matter on 2020 Election
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Yeah, however. If a machine is activation locked, it's associated with an Apple ID. That Apple ID in itself is a contact point. Like the article states, a system where you have 30 days to deny an unlock would be nice. Or you could just report to Apple right away the machine was stolen, which blacklists the machine from an unlock request.
Do you mean "upset with Mozilla"? The PWA Wikipedia article claims that Safari has better PWA support than Firefox.
HN's front page is algorithmically determined, but not personalized to each user.
Yep, this is exactly why the TouchID component is paired with the motherboard/display.

Otherwise the thief could just steal the phone, wire in a hacked Touch ID that accepts any thumbprint and resell the phone.

This way it's way too expensive to be profitable unless you're doing it on an industrial scale. Most thieves resort to trying to con the previous owner into giving their Apple ID for unlocking.
But why, when I could easily just tell the AI to generate the code for the CRUD app for me, thus resulting in minmal dev costs while also getting minimal infrastructure requirements?
Take a closer look at Step 2:

If you're using macOS Monterey or later on a Mac with Apple silicon or a Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip, use Erase All Content and Settings instead of the remaining steps in this article. For any other Mac or macOS, continue to step 3.
Not to suggest that I enjoy this from either party, I but I remember when XBox was the one not wanting to work with Sony to make things cross-play and what not. I remember saying "Sony won't forget this" and they clearly haven't.

Both Microsoft and Sony do this, and pretending it's just one side is forgetting history. Microsoft isn't some innocent person in this area, either.

Further, GoW is a first-party Sony game. COD is not a Microsoft game.
Guess this is a good reason for repairers/resellers or buyers to ensure activation status on any Apple device they get their hands on. Easy for repairers/resellers to ensure since they tend to be directly in contact with the company and make it policy. For general buyers, they have to be proactive before making any purchases over an Apple device. As it's easier to contact the seller in question while they are actively selling vs hoping they'll respond post-sale.
That is terribly unethical
Unicode Fraction Creator
Tell HN: Spotify's iOS app struggles with downloaded content
I know this has been an issue for years but it's remarkable to me that it hasn't been solved yet.

Video here: https://imgur.com/a/T2shvb8

On Spotify's iOS app, if you have any cell service connection at all (even if its so weak that you have no internet/data connection), Spotify will try to load the live version of downloaded content (playlist/album/podcast) even if you have that content pre-downloaded locally. The app doesn't even time out of trying to load the online content, it'll just fail to load indefinitely or will load once you get an internet connection.

This is super frustrating on the subway. If I have content pre-downloaded and I'm underground (with 0/1 bars and no internet service), I need to disable my cell service entirely to access the already downloaded content.

Is there any easier way to force Spotify to prefer the downloaded version if one exists, regardless of connection status?
Buying EV’s is a huge improvement over not buying EV’s because they last for ~25 years. The size of their batteries is basically irrelevant in comparison.

Sure, after we have electrified highways and improved cities they become more viable and could hopefully be the norm. But, in the short term the biggest impact of small batteries is convincing people EV’s suck. Especially when they don’t last for the full lifetime of a car.
Most of these steps don't affect activation lock - removing activation lock is as simple as disabling Find My, which can also be done by signing out of iCloud. Removing from iCloud.com (Find My) is also sufficient.

Nothing else is needed to disable activation lock.
While the first item in their "Why LaTeX?" list is "Separates content from formatting/styling", I would say that my biggest problems with Latex is it doesn't actually separates content from formatting/styling. While there is a limited support for something almost akin to a stylesheet, in practice for the user, changing the style of something inevitably means changing the macro you call on your content instead of changing the style elsewhere. Latex was maybe the best tool in the 80s, but since the 90s or 00s XML/HTML/SGML/... are much better alternatives, with actual separation of content from formatting/styling.
Noise, fed through a very clever variational decompressor.

Only rarely does that produce useful original thoughts, but I doubt that's any different from humans, really? The difference is that humans can second-guess themselves.
Kudos for transparency. On the other hand it reads the same as any other breach press statement I've read. It seems to be clearly carved to not include a single bit more information than necessary(undeniable).

Wish these were written by security people instead of a PR/Compliance/legal taskforce.
What to do instead of a Slack message
"However, by taking advantage of two classical bits and an entangled qubit pair"

Yes one needs entanglement.

https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/teleportation.html
Recycler should make it worth doing for them.
Honestly would love to see how these games are built...
That’s right the 80/20 arises from hierarchy and associated bias in how the work is being assigned unless you happened to pick up highly uneven talent which is unlikely.
Genome-wide RNA polymerase stalling shapes the transcriptome during aging
Sometimes capitalism works!
Just checked your CV and it seems like the PDF version has several typos, specifically it says you are CTO at Meltwater when I think you meant at Pureskill.gg and is missing the entry for Seam

:)
You did not read the guide correctly -- those other steps are for older versions of the mac. Recent T2 on Apple Silicon is a very short, easy reset.
And you will almost immediately run into the fundamental problem with current iterations of GPT - You can not trust it to be correct or actually do the thing you want, only something that resembles the thing you want.

The description in this link puts some really high hopes on the ability of AI to simply "figure out" what you want with little input. In reality, it will give you something that sorta kinda looks like what you want if you squint but falls immediately flat the moment you need to put it into an actual production (or even testing) environment.
> Sony could acquire EA, Nintendo, or a whole bunch of other top game companies and nobody would bat an eye.

Pretty sure MS would.
But it has been there for a good decade for iPhones.

The buyer should know this and ask the seller to unlock their device(s). And if it's a legit seller, you can contact them afterwards and have them unlock it.
If it helps, don't think about operations on infinite sets as "things that are true (or false)". Rather, think about it as "an abstract model with certain rules, that can produce interesting results if applied in careful ways."

Like √-1. Does that exist? Well, not really. But if we make up a pretend number i that we say is equal to √-1, we can perform interesting mathematical operations on it that can still produce useful results in the real world. But only if we follow a given set of rules carefully and consistently.

"All models are wrong, but some models are useful."

Infinity isn't real - at least, not in our universe. It certainly isn't a number. But it's a concept we can use to produce useful results sometimes, if we handle it carefully. But it's also a concept that can produce some weird results, even if we follow all the rules.
I had the same thought. I think if you took random human-generated articles on the same subjects you’d find similar levels of similarity.

The clickbait article is a formulaic format.
I think these are fantastic, but I really wish it had a BMC so one could do remote management. I'd love for version 2 to have it so I could buy a bunch for my datacenter.
I don't mind reading all sort of opinions, won't burn my eyes. "I won't read it because it is written by people from a different political persuasion" is a very strange statement to make, and the very definition of a bubble.
NASA has discovered an asteroid called 2023 BU travelling at about 33,300mph
*pet drying chamber, in case anyone else was confused. Definitely surreal.
I'm not on Twitter. I still find his post useful as a data point on the health of the service since I'm interested in what's happening with Twitter even if I'm not on it.
When San Francisco is mentioned, what comes to mind is America’s Largest alpine lake, Lake Tahoe. This is great news for bikers and campers. Well, skiing enthusiasts aren’t left behind.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482397

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171970
I was about to downvote you until I read your comment after watching the video.

This video leads me to believe that there will soon be a time when popular people will just pick some pre-made advertisements. No need to go and film it since that has already been done without that person. We'll then accept deep fakes as a valid marketing strategy (or whatever purpose may come up), until some protests require them to be watermarked.
If there's anything we could actually call "institutionalised racism", I think tipping culture fits the bill.

It's a system literally implemented because a large portion of society didn't want to pay black people wages.
> because the original owner which sold the laptop to them would have wiped the device and removed the activation lock

You want to bet? Theres a large body of non technical users.
After you've read two or three, the next one feels like reheated food. He has a kind of formula. Best consumed in moderation.
This is exactly the same thing as the Feds saying they should be able to have a backdoor that works for them and nobody else. The whole point of this lock is that only the owner can unlock it. If Apple (or anyone else) can, it’s backdoored and therefore broken.
RE: chatGPT ...

There was an "ask HN" a week or so ago about knowing how your personal machine was or was not compromised ...

I am imagining training a model on all of the PDFs and email and receipts and contracts that I have spent the last 30 years protecting ... and then exploding my home directory with 2M parallel copies.

Now what ?

Which is the real correspondence ? Which contracts are real ? Which invoices and receipts ?

Could one construct a framework where all data at rest is worthless and only witnessed transactions and traffic have any surveillance value ?