skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. There was a time I could write out a win.ini file from memory and understanding all the options. Today, doing the same on any platform would be impossible.

It's been many years. Computers have gotten far more complex and reliable. My uncle knew how to rebuild his car engine, I don't. Same thing.
My family has on several occasions personally experienced a sharp rise in atmospherice methane levels within our home after I have eaten burritos for lunch.
> A domain just for developers

> Can I buy a .dev domain even if I'm not a developer?

> Yes! From tools to platforms, programming languages to blogs, .dev is a home for all the interesting things that you build.
I think that most clients in my current part of the world (Tokyo) have a set expectation of what a work day is -- normally ~8(+) hours. I have that in the agreement to avoid this misconception if a certain client expects me to be available/reachable during all of their own working hours.

Also, I do maintain flexibility in how I work the hours -- I don't say when those hours will be worked, just how many "days" are being billed per week. Sometimes I split it up over several days, and I almost always split it up into multiple chunks on a single day. This is the part I like most about the arrangement and my current lifestyle. Eventually you have to do some work, and the number of hours/day is the number I'm comfortable with working (it's less than 8).

Now this completely goes out the window for project based pricing jobs -- If I am charging for project/milestone completion, then I do not mention "work days" because they're irrelevant, there's only the deadline and whatever scheduled checkups/sync meetings, doesn't matter if I completely ignore the project for a whole week.

This comes back to my point before -- it seems to be the only real dichotomy is whether you charge for 1 unit of time (before/after the project deadline) or whether you charge for some derivative of hourly wages (due to the preconception of what a "workday" means in most people's heads).

Assuming you understood my previous point, are you suggesting that I should just leave the definition of "work day" vague? and treat a weekly contract as a project based one? I guess this could work, but it feels more to me like project based pricing split up into milestones that happen to have weekly delivery dates -- not what everyone is saying to "charge by week". And the problem there is the same -- how do you avoid/deal with bad estimation?
Nvidia's Xavier Carmel vs. Low-Power x86 Processors
Agree with you 100%. I think all of Apple's online services are garbage (and I used them since iTools), most of their applications aren't so good either. Thankfully, their OSes get out of the way and are mostly pleasant to use, good platforms for others to build on.

I should probably add that I don't even think Apple is capable of making good online services which is one major reason I switched from iPhones to Nexus/Pixels in 2013. Sure you can use Google services with iPhones but for things like Google Photos they will always be better integrated with Android.
We need to find resources to fund "Failures in Science" journals that exclusively seek to publish interesting research that went nowhere. Personally I'd find these far more interesting to study. "Here's some background. Here's a pretty logical, plausible hypothesis we came up with and how, here's our experiment, here's our results, here's our thoughts as to why we were wildly wrong."
I have a niche interest in coffee and coffee shops, but more for the culture itself. Historically, cafes were hotbeds of intellectual discussion, debates, and political movements. Nowadays most online coffee forums are just gearheads comparing technology and flavors.
Americans, British, well everyone really.
And worse, it’s occipier based, not owner based. I own a flat in the UK and it’s my tenant, not me, who pays council tax.
It’s almost impossible to function without the big five tech giants
I think language is not the best indicator, because I think one should obey the masses to keep communication efficiently, even if it hurts a bit sometimes. (drone = quadcopter, autonomous quadcopter = autonomous drone or something, app = mobile app, AI = ML/DL/if)
Title makes it sound as if the AAAS made this statement, its a single researcher who is making this claim.
The author may have just chosen what's in stock at Amazon, given that all the links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=alikayaspor0b-20).
But it’s completely fine/effortless to use it in English, it’s even part of latin-1.

Fiancée résumé déjà vu touché.
> ... you are much more susceptible to be spied upon ...

or indeed by your own employer:

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-moderators-complain...

if we would really be worried about security (and not politics / foreign policy war mongering) we'd be speaking about threat models.. And here the China Supply Chain Threat doesn't hold up. Backdoor hardware implants are only tangentially interesting since the vulnerabilities that stem from shoddy engineering (hello crappy ASN.1 parsers and a thousand other flaws: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1093301841205456896.html) are much cheaper to harness than some hypothetical purpose-made backdoor that costs millions to implement and keep covered-up. (Occam's razor)
Gruber is way too generous with Apple here. I like Apple products a lot but there are too many problems to love them:

The throwaway design of the products should downrank environmental to a C. I'd give them a D but they show real efforts in recycling and ethical material sourcing.

iPhones are getting too expensive. They give memory size options they can use to upsell, rather than what customers need, and there are no options for people who want smaller handsets other than buy outdated devices or switch to Android. They don't ship features like Smart HDR on their 1 year old (!) device, to create artificial USPs.

Even the D on the Macs seem generous when you consider they still act like they did nothing wrong with the Macbook keyboard, the Air/Mac Mini price increase mirrors the iPhone's and we've never heard again of the new Mac Pro, while they STILL sell the trash can.

The watch is fine, should've gotten an A imo.

Apple has gotten better with services, but a B is undeserved. Apple Music is still worse than spotify, iCloud is OK at best and Siri still sucks.

Apple could rule gaming but for whatever reason choose not to. That should've been graded and get them a C.

I have a lot more points and nuance, but these are the points just came to my mind.
Go to a grocery store or meat shop which does their own grinding. The pink slime processing is only economical at the hugest industrial scales. Anything processed at a smaller, more local scale won't have that.
I see this comment a lot and it always reminds of this:

There is no perfect pasta sauce, just perfect pasta sauces.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Moskowitz
Inside one application OK but for other use it'd be a security and stability nightmare: less memory protection..
Google isn't removing any ability to observe, log, and forward information about requests, in any way.

So the privacy angle is pure bullshit.

They are removing, among other things, the ability to dynamically cancel requests, and replacing it with a declarative API. That limits how well an adblocker can function.
This seems like optimal usage of resources, reusing the unneeded parts of the dead animal to create something edible. This should be celebrated, and it's something humanity has done for centuries.
People in poorer parts of the world are literally dying, so we can buy clothes so cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_industry_in_Bangladesh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse
> The two biggest blows came in the 1990s. The first was the shift in the US economy from manufacturing to knowledge-intensive services (a shift that has been in the making for a long time, but came to a head during the information technology revolution).

People call it "knowledge based economy," but one of my previous bosses had that phrase about it "it feels more like it is an ignorance based economy"

And yes, the service economy is there to accommodate living of very one sided people, in regards to both work and life skills.

The amount of money spent in service economy is seemingly directly proportional to at what cost intellectual ineptness comes to money earning classes of society: branding consulting, financial consulting, management consulting, "change management" - really all that stuff is available to any able minded person if he can give 5 minutes of serious thought to that. I do believe that most of HN readers have hard time understanding people buying into that stuff too.

I wonder, if I would've been a multibillionaire, would I be also paying millions to random consultants to do 2+2 things for me?
> Nobody needs an AI to figure out Tit-for-Tat is a good strategy. It isn't complicated.

That's true for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It's also pretty non-intuitive. It was formalized in 1980 which is cutting-edge for mathematics.

I think collusion can also be using real-time pricing updates as a communications channel. Collusion could even be the Nash equilibrium -- in which case, yes, that's the efficient market (I believe).
The Chinese government has fewer ways they can use my data against me

... but are perfectly willing to provide it to everywhere else, maximizing your exposure.
This is apparently github's doing, and not the people behind faceswap: https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392

Github has an infamous history with imposing their feelings on projects they don't like.
My friend from China explained to me that the surveillance of people is as much top down as much as its bottom up.

- At every village level they have "informants" for the communist party who inform their higher ups regularly about village level activity. They are financially supported with healthcare and education subsidies and so it makes sense for everyone to join in and inform, especially the poor.

- At the city level they have more ways to collect information
about people like companies feeding data bases, people interacting with the internet and retail.

He explained that the idea is even if 10% of the population is brain washed they can keep tabs on the 90% and when shit hits the fan they want to be in the know. After Tiananmen they have followed a formula: Keep enough people happy and conforming with economic prosperity and get ahead of the curb for restive remainder.
Don’t bother reading TFA. It’s spends a thousand words to tell you that Skip Ahead users are surprisingly getting 2020 H1 Windows, instead of 2019 H2 Windows as expected.

No mention of what those features are.
Similar to https://itty.bitty.site/ which was on hackernews some time ago
Don't assume this is anything new, and don't forget that many foreign nations have tariffs on imports as well. Plus another method used by past administrations was in using patent law to put up barriers to market.

The Chicken Tax has been around for decades but manufacturers do work around it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Components are not wasted or used up by being soldered to a board.
I always assumed it was coined by a manager somewhere who was impressed by his teenage intern's ability to set up his email. There are a lot of people who aren't just not technical but actively phobic of computers, I think 'digital native' is more like knowing how to drive than knowing how to fix a car.
Ask HN: Personal timesheet?
Is anyone using personal timesheets to track eg how much time they spend on learning a new topic or time spent on a (side) project ?

What are your experiences and what tools do you use for this ?
Good news, you can uninstall an extension.
The initial proposal was for a static list of blocked uris, and no api to add an item to the list.

That really speaks to a conspiracy to me. What plausible reason would there be for that? You would have had to push a new version of an extension to change the list. There's no way that omission was an "oopsie".

They did back off on that.
Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism
Nice and simple pastebin alt.

May I suggest ability to have simple E2E encryption, so you, the service provider aren't aware of the shared content, thus can reduce legal complications.

Example:

* Have a encryption key generated on client side

* Share link will becomes http://txti.es/{POST_ID}/{E2E_KEY}

* You, as service provider, only stores POST_ID and its encrypted content.

* Link sharer passes the complete URL around, which contains the key to unlock the content

* Content are fetched and decrypt on client side
USB Type-C Authentication Program launched to protect your devices
Having been subject to a lot of buzzword-blarers over the last term I'd say that you just tell everybody that you are working the foundations of what all the other people are doing if they ask, what makes you special. If you can back it up, why not ride the wave. I would refrain from putting the sticker on everything though. I als made a turnaround and now spin everything I do which takes time (basically automating my research and data-vis) as building blocks for (gradschool) ML-based research.
That supervisor is someone who "made it in academia" so it might be good to not sneer and cringe at them and your peers.
It has a direct relation if the religion requires you to believe in God. If atheism renders the religion useless, then atheism is untenable.
Case in point : LHC Higgs results - how many detection's vs how many events? How were the detection's determined... The answer is with a large booster [1]

I postulate that out of 12 billion random events it would be remarkable if a booster didn't extract 100 or so items that looked similar to a Higgs detection.

Well, let's give it 20 years and a new generation of PI's who aren't invested in this and have grad students who are keen to find something different in the data.

But ohh.. all the data has been thrown aways... oh! [2]

[1] https://indico.cern.ch/event/705941/contributions/2897000/at...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/09/13/has-...
Instead of allows failures (which would be also good btw), i would increase the time at disposal needed to pubblish something worthwhile.

The greatest thinkers in history had no pressure outside their own urgence to solve/explore. Surely, not everyone is Galileo but today science need that kind of freedom.
I rather use my free 30 minutes playing with my 3d printer or laser engraver. As others stated, we only have limited free time and I really don't want to use it to fix my ripped tshirt or shirt and make it look barely okay. I agree with you, but I also think there are more satisfying and educational things than fixing cheap stuff. (Also clothing is not as expensive as 100 years ago, we don't buy tailored anymore so no need fixing as much.)
> That's definitely untrue.

I think he meant Efficient Market Hypothesis, which could be posed as a strategy.

> That's also pretty untrue, or so pedantic as to be meaningless.

It's still collusion.

> You're really stuck applying Econ 101 in one of the worst places, retail.

This is Game Theory, not Econ 101. I also think it's one of the best places.

> But sellers on Amazon? C'mon man, sellers coordinate prices via implicit information exchange on Amazon in a way that, if they were allowed to, they would just collude straightforwardly to do so.

I've seen it happen. I've even seen collusion with online reviews on there.
Thanks for the kind words. It was also a lot of fun, and full of good learnings for future projects.
Monolithic Repos Are Evil
This would make more sense for proctologists than geophysicists.
My understanding is that the best AMD Vulkan implementation is still the indipendently developed one as AMD took forever to open source their own.
There is zero entitlement to assets from sperm donor. This is very clearly spelled out in law.
Having any rate helps to do algebra too. Clients can suppose that $x/hour ~= $8x/day ~= $40x/week ~= $1760x/year. So even if you quote an hourly rate the discussion can still be "how much should we budget for a team of ten people next year."

Maybe the correlation between hourly billing and bad projects is not causal.
Lots of comments of how innocent China is being hard done by, really have a look at what China has done to exploit developing nations and censorship of their own people. People dont appreciate their freedoms until they get taken away
> Is there any published evidence that Goggle and Facebrick ads are actually effective?

Effective means ROI positive which is pretty easy to demonstrate.
Strange, the last incompatibility-problems I saw were those caused by disappearing interfaces - things like parallel printer and SCSI ports - but those are all long gone. If I'm not using my HP SJ5200 scanner (with parallel and USB interface) - it is because the thing is slower than the somewhat newer version I came across at a flea market, not because it is incompatible. That thing is probably around 20 years old if not more but it works fine. The same goes for more or less all other 'old' external hardware - internal is often hampered by the absence of internal PCI (or VESA local bus or ISA or what have you) slots - so I can't really identify with this idiom of 'everything needing to be upgraded after a desktop refresh'.

It might help that I use Linux and as such am spared from forced upgrade trajectories.
The only argument that made sense to me was the one that the current APIs makes it quite difficult to reason about what the extension actually does once installed and running.

By dynamically installing rules downloaded from the web a nefarious ad blocker could, for example, not just block ads but also hide certain political content from search results.

By requiring the list of rules to be hard-coded in the extension, it's easier to see what exactly the extension will do once installed.

For me though, this benefit does not outweigh the cost.
Ask HN: Silicon Valley Bank alternative without visit?
I have a C-Corp registered via Stripe Atlas with SVB as my bank.

Curious if there are any alternatives that I can use

1) As a foreigner (Canadian), sole shareholder

2) Without an in-person visit. I'm in Asia until September and don't plan any visit to the US.

Thank you,
Surprised that cellular photo syncing is turned off when you are roaming. Even native iOS gives you option to roam data at your discretion.
What method would you use to yield scientific knowledge in the sense of cause-reaction? Many important processes really do have large numbers of causal factors that interact non-linearly. If we want to try to learn about that, some statistical method that deals with many parameters will be needed. Such models are generally referred to as "Machine Learning". Their generalisation or causal inference properties are particular to each implementation and identification strategy, but you can't just say "ML will never yield scientific knowledge".
How is that protected by TLS? Wouldn't you need a good A/AAAA record to make a connection to a TLS server?

Or do you perhaps mean DNS over (TLS|HTTPS)? I never saw that as a complete replacement for DNSSEC; it provides transport security, yes, but how do we know we aren't talking to a malicious resolver? Maybe that's not as much of a threat if people aren't using DNS servers from their ISP -- which sometimes inject ads or otherwise tamper with traffic.
> I was expecting Gruber to give out A+ on all fronts based on the things he posts about Apple

That's a common sentiment on Hacker News.

In fact, Gruber is regularly criticizing Apple, often quite harshly.

Just not on HN's pet peeves.
> What does it mean exactly to be ground? When I look at their product, it looks like it's come out of a meat grinder to me.

I can show you some incredible fake and inedible food that looks just like the real thing. Appearance isn't really a good measure for what something is.

As for what it means to grind: "To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion." I don't think the process meets any reasonable definition of ground.

I'd probably personally buy it, but I'd really want it to be labeled in some other way.
In the old days, it was understood as the division of responsibility - one of the spouse, mostly the male, would be responsibile to earn and provide for the family, while the other would be in charge of managing the finance and other household responsibilities.

My point is that it is a modern perspective to paint the "house wife" / "home maker" (mostly the wife due to tradition) as someone who just does menial chores and as an "unproductive" member of society - just because she doesn't earn capital. Where as if you see it from the perspectibe of a family member, she / he as a home maker has different but equally important responsibilities too and plays a vital role in a family unit / society.
I believe the precedent is that this is actually enforced with a very narrow scope in these cases.
regression is not a black box.
> 7. Solder in order of cost and success rate.

I would recommend that if you're new to surface mount, to get a couple of SMD practice boards so you can exercise your skills and get a feel for what will be hard/risky and what will be easy/repairable. They're a few dollars online.
The encryption key should be passed in the fragment portion of the URL like http://txti.es/{POST_ID}#{E2E_KEY}. Else, it's still being sent to the server (and potentially logged or intercepted).
Back in the 1950s, minimum wage and CoL were based on a metric of a single woman living very frugally and sharing a 2-bedroom apartment.
if I spend an hour fixing this; this is an hour less I spend with my kids or an hour I miss chatting to my wife.

Doing chores and fixing stuff can be an interesting activity for a kid, depending on the age. Granted, I'm not good at mending either.
If you wear belts, you might decide you don't need to repair the button because the belt hides it, and duplicates its function of holding the pants up. This will eventually result in the zipper breaking, which cannot be hidden with a belt, and is much more difficult to repair. The button has the additional non-obvious function of reducing load on the zipper, so you should repair it even if it looks unnecessary.
Also GMO, 5G, advert effects of vaccination, misprescribing and overprescribing of drugs, bad diets, lack of exercise... lets not ignore.
I think I'm missing what you're worried about. The article says that pink slime can be called "ground beef", not that it can be called steak.
This is one positive aspect of Trump’s presidency. He has definitively shown Korea, Japan, and Europe that the Pax Americana can not be relied upon as much as it once was. Those countries will have to start leading more and have a stronger voice. They may not like the accompanying expense and tough choices this entails but I welcome it.
Funny reading here « going solo » but get a « lawyer », an « accountant », etc.
By parts of Europe, I meant that this may not be very common in the UK or Germany (no idea about Germany), but is definitely common in large parts of EU (Poland, sure, but also Portugal, and I think it's relatively common among the nordics, for example).
Bruno Ganz Has Died. Good Luck Watching His Movies on Netflix
I grew up in a way that didn’t involve learning traditional skills from my parents. That seems almost antiquated although I’m sure some people my age did have it like that. Divorced parents, not so much time spent with grandparents. Mom didn’t have a lot of need for mending, etc. There was no war, affordable stuff was plentiful enough. Many people my age describe this kind of rupture in the passing down of skills. But we are also quite resourceful and it’s like we are teaching ourselves to be different as we grow up into parental age. We also have a sense that life might be getting more difficult when we project decades ahead, so we want to resurrect some of this lost knowledge.