skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple also made their own operating system, their own programming language, their own external connectors, etc. Have their competitors followed their lead in becoming more vertically integrated in any other way? I’m not really seeing it.

This wouldn’t be the first time Apple used a non-x86 chip in the Mac. Nobody followed them last time.
> more exposed to the risk of our data being collected and used by companies

You seem to be contributing to the problem by having Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics on your website. I am not sure where you are based but analytics need to be strictly opt-in according to the GDPR and that doesn't seem to be the case here.
It tastes a bit like Diet Coke but with normai sweetener instead of artificial sweetener.
> antitrust laws can be used against companies which obtain a high market share simply by anticipating future demand and responding effectively and efficiently.

This would make sense as a feature. If you subscribe to the view that competitive pressure is the source of progress, then you never want any company to actually win. Like a donkey chasing a carrot on a stick, you want companies to endlessly run towards market dominance, but never actually get there - because once they do, they stop contributing to progress.
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This is a fascinating article. To retrospectively test attendees might shed a lot of light on the early spread.
I love the product! Mine found too many companies in my footprint, is there anyway to select a few together and then delete, rather than going one by one?
So it's cloud stored localized panopticon?
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It should absolutely trigger a higher premium if driving faster means higher losses. Otherwise the people driving slower are subsidizing the risk that the people driving faster are taking. How is that fair?
The taste is certainly different in different countries. Other companies also adjust their recipes for different areas. I think it is partially because of regional taste preferences and probably also because of different regulatory requirements. There are differences in the lists of allowed and forbidden food additives in North America and the EU, for example.
These may be the challenges with a "Continous Deployment" approach. Companies usually fill these unknowns.

Gitlab releases a version once every month. Not sure how they deploy on the hosted version.
Sure, not going to quibble about word choice. The point is that many comments are like "so what, everybody knew this", but there is a material difference between "everybody knows" and "everybody knows that everybody knows".
Might even be where they got the idea.
I've only ever plugged my LG Ultrafine 5k into the right hand side of 2016 15 inch, but I find that if the room is warm (perhaps > 22 degrees C) I have 'kernel_task' apparently maxing out my CPU. Anecdotally until I discovered that aiming a fan at the underside seemed to make this problem go away. It doesn't seem to happen (that I remember...) when the big screen isn't plugged in.
> Neither SARS or MERS are even remotely similar to COVID-19.

Again, you have absolutely zero authority to make that statement, unless you forgot to mention that you are an infectious disease specialist. Same with “children can’t be infected”, in your reply you’re making statements about what “you would” do but do you have any data showing that children are being tested at the same rate as adults?

We could spend forever in a back and forth over things like CDC statements (which aren’t contradictory, but whatever) but it would just be dancing around the central point: you don’t know. You aren’t qualified to speak about it authoritatively. If an epidemiologist tried to weigh in on and online debate about the merits of Rust vs Go I’d say the same thing, but luckily for us they don’t.

Having an opinion on things is just fine, but this thread (I’m not singling you out here) is full of authoritative statements with no scientific basis.

> you take an absurd example and equate my opinion to that. What's 5G got to do with it?

The only reason it’s absurd is because you and I both know enough about 5G to know that the idea of it spreading COVID-19 is silly. How can you be confident that the assumptions you’re making aren’t equally absurd to an epidemiologist?
> Now, with all this in place, isn't the best we can do to alert people after they have already been exposed to the virus?

No, the best we can do in that case is treat COVID-19 like a dangerous communicable disease that isn't too widespread for surveillance and do specific quarantines of the infected and exposed, which then vastly limits the possibility that anyone else gets exposed, while not requiring shelter-in-place restrictions for those not already infected/exposed.

That's the whole point of disease surveillance with widespread testing and extensive contact tracing, and why it is key for a general reopening of the economy in the absence of an effective cure/vaccine.
The article explained its reasoning. Maybe you could explain yours. Specifically what is the value of testing very sick people when it cannot affect the treatment plan ?
I agree. I am hard pressed to think of a recent time that I advocate for an anti - monopoly government action, but Amazon and its current practices is one of those times. If they provide the platform they should not be able to compete with and undercut those using their platform. They are at such as scale that they can basically put anyone out of business to the detriment of all other businesses. This is what the legislation is designed for and it should be used in this case. Pro sellers on amazon also have to pay a fee averaging 13% per sale, while amazon products don't suffer that handicap. Its a competitive advantage the sellers cannot overcome.
I knew a guy who ran a small ISP in the Dayton, OH area. He went from having banks of external modems on POTS lines connected to multi-port serial cards attached to a Windows NT Server 3.51 machine to an Ascend router with a PRI and "digital modems" (CODECs in DSPs, no doubt) to finally using an outsourced dial provider, all in the space of about 18 - 24 months. I wish I'd been a little older and a little more business savvy at the time. It was clearly a wild time, and was probably lots of fun.
Slack bot to keep track of microservice ownership
https://github.com/tuwid/tonka/

YASB (Yet Another Slack Bot) that helps you keep track of who owns which.

I had an itch and I scratched it, there was this situation where I needed to check outdated docs and ask people on slack to get the owner of a service so at the end I decided to write something small with a dynamodb backend to help me keep track of teams and microservices and who owns what
i take this as a positive sign that the national conversation might be starting to finally move beyond fear and panic to reason and understanding.

the primary mechanism of transmission (droplets into the nasopharangeal area) has been known since at least february (when it started to become regular news here in the US) and probably since at least december in china when it became a known infectious agent.

the better we understand the situations and environments where transmission is materially increased, the faster we devise reasonable mitigations and get back to some semblance of normalcy.

it's also important to debunk false mitigations that only serve to mollify the skittish (e.g., elaborate germophobic rituals) and thereby obstruct understanding and cause other harms. in fact, some of those mitigations can increase transmission risk simply by providing a false sense of relief (e.g., constant, but inevitably incorrect, mask usage).
Update: fixed
that seems a little simplistic. It isn't just the runtimes, but also all the tooling that goes with it. There would be a lot of work involved with recompiling all tooling and runtimes to work on ARM, and would probably alienate a large portion of developers currently using Apple products as a result.
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Is this unique to Vulkan or would the same hold true for DX12 or Metal? If it’s unique, perhaps WebGPU could steer Vulkan closer to the others in this regard. I don’t think WebGPU is meant to be a Vulkan binding exactly but pushing secure and safe low level GPU computing across platforms. If Vulkan isn’t good enough implementation layer it will just need to evolve
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Although the new definition of entitlement - that means exactly the opposite of the old definition - is.
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This isn't your term paper-you don't need to cite your sources. But, if you're going to, at least try to do it correctly (the parentheses go inside the sentence, the period goes outside the parentheses).

Regardless, it's this line: "Approximately 15% of the real money supply, or about $5,000 for every man, woman and child in the USA, had it been handed to them directly" that I was referring to. That calculation does not reflect what the M2 number actually means. You already have a definition of M2, so I'm sure you can figure out where you went wrong yourself if you just stare at that for a little bit longer.
From a Bernie Sanders interview with NPR.

Q: "Does private insurance go away under Medicare for All?"

A: "Yes, it does, because you're not going to a have a need for private insurance"

A tweet[1] from Bernie Sanders: You're damn right we're going to get rid of greedy health insurance companies.

CNBC describes Bernie Sanders plan as "Bernie Sanders is pushing a “Medicare for All” bill, which would create a government-run program and end private insurance."[2]

The Hill's headline covering Bernie's policy is "You're Damn Right Health Insurance Companies Should Be Eliminated"[3] and references a quote in an interview from MSNBC in which Bernie says universal health care can't be achieved "unless you get rid of the insurance companies."

So feel free to quibble over the nuances of what "eliminate," "end," and "abolish" mean as much as you like, but if you're a person who is concerned that your private insurance is going to be eliminated, and you're listening to Bernie Sanders talk about it, it seems like his statements would reinforce that fear.

[1] https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1111363118867927040...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/18/these-2020-democrats-want-me...

[3] https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/436033-sanders-youre-d...
I'm still on 18.04, and it doesn't do it. I remember it in an older version though.
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Also, many filters actually can stop smaller particles than you might expect based on the rating. Most people think of a filter as working the way a net does. There is a gap size between the fibers, and anything smaller than that gets through easily, and anything larger does not.

It's more complicated because there are actually 4 mechanisms that might stop a particle from getting through.

1. For particles bigger than the gaps, it does work like a net as most people expect.

2. For particular smaller than that but massive enough that they cannot change direction fast enough to follow the air stream they can miss turns of the air flow and get embedded in the fibers.

3. For even smaller particles they can get jostled around significantly by hits from gas molecules (like with Brownian motion). This can knock them into fibers where they can become embedded.

4. Some filters materials have an electrostatic effect that can attract and hold passing particles.

One of the reasons filters are commonly rated by their efficiency at 0.3 micron is that this is in the region where the filter is least efficient. For bigger particles, the gains from #2 and later #1 more than make up for #3 being irrelevant at those sizes. For smaller particular, the gains from #3 increase efficiency.

So you have the filter roughly getting worse down to the 0.3 micron ballpark, and then getting better as particles become still smaller, and at some point as you continue getting smaller it is going to get worse again. (I don't know where that final turn around is).
Unfiltered coffee brew was associated with higher mortality than filtered brew
Good. Once Amazon has gobbled up all competition, we can have one reliable place to buy every thing we'll ever need. All detractors are impeding on the approach of utopia.
I find it quite interesting that a natural inclination of some people is to believe that if it was simple for someone to think, in some way, of the feature they want, that it should also be simple to implement. Have seen this a lot.
The cheapest pack comes FROM competition. You, as the consumer, want the cheapest pack. You want competition. It's the most basic of economic principles.

P.S. making comments without a basic education of a topic is equally boring to read. I would rather you say it and have the chance to learn than silence you though.
this is ridiculous and misleading

no CloudFlare is not decrypting traffic

my lord as if a VPN tunnel is such a bad thing
Malwarebytes launches new privacy-focused VPN
Confirming this. When I bought X1E it was a pain to get 18.04 working. But 18.04 on this device was for me the worst Linux experience since the 90s :-( It is probably because of Nvidia, but I blame Gnome too - the latency got worse than 20 years ago. I just want to be able to type on the terminal and have a browser.

Am now to leave Ubuntu, that I used for the last 15 years or so. Thanks for helping me out that long. Going to NixOS and hope it will make my life easier, even if the start is more involved.
Speaking of vaping, what do you think about the nicotinic covid hypothesis?
i'm from india, the city i'm targeting has imposed ban on billboards because here there are way too many, taking up too much space and more importantly they are not authorised by the government.

To avoid distracted driving we only allow Gif's instead of videos.
The rich have much more fragile and much more litigious lives than the poor. Those self-sufficient retreaters will also have disputes among themselves.
Why are we still talking about Bernie Sanders?
The target is to ensure that each case infects no more than one additional person (‘R<1’).

Each infected person will come into contact with some other people. Testing allows three things—

- first, we can tell this person to stay at home and so stop them from infecting more people;

- second, we can tell the people they have seen to stay at home with good contact-tracing, so that even if they get it they don’t spread it further; and

- third, with enough tests and contact tracing, those who were exposed but not infected don’t have to stay at home.

We are winning so long as R<1, even if there is some chance the infection spreads; we do not need R=0.

The other way of reducing R requiring much less testing and contact tracing is a lockdown. This has obvious downsides. The point of a programme of testing and conyact tracing is that we can turn the cost of avoiding disaster from a lockdown to sticking some things up people’s noses.

edit: typo in first para
you are deeply wrong
You are right that it is not 100% true, but it is mostly true.

The US uses corn syrup because the US government heavily subsidizes corn. Some Mexican producers in Mexico do use corn syrup, which is a cheap import from the US, but even here the majority use sugar.

This kind of thing happens in with other countries as well. In New Zealand you can get local coke which is sugar-sweetened or imported American coke with corn syrup. People didn't switch to corn syrup because it's better or even cheaper in and of itself, they switched because the US government goes to ridiculous lengths to make it cheap.
Love this!! Been using it for a few days now :)
> Finally, in grocery retail - once you have the order and deliver, you DO get paid regardless of whether product sells.

It's been quite a long time since I worked in the grocery business, but I don't think this is accurate. A lot of vendors stock their products themselves or use food brokers that do it, and they are on the hook for expired and returned product. And there was a shitload of bribery and corruption happening to steal shelf space and end unit space from competitors. It's a surprisingly cut throat business.
Neither do Python, JS, or Ruby. Personally I’d say a good dynamic language like Python is better than a rough dynamic language, but a good static language is better than a good dynamic language.
Awesome idea. Do you have any intention to support more privacy regulations other than GDPR and CPPA?
This is the best feature of the USB-C MBPpro. I don't mind getting hot on one of the sides because of it :)
> The vector instructions can't really be farmed out because they can be scattered inline with regular scalar code.

If you believe this, you won't believe what's in this box[1].

[1]: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/egfx-breakaway-puck.html

> A memcopy of a small to medium-sized struct might be compiled into a bunch of 128bit mov for example and then immediately working on that moved struct

I'm not sure that's true: rep movs is pretty fast these days.
> This is true; the UK has suffered under "temporary" austerity measures for over a decade now as well, in practice it means the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, while the health care system is underfunded culminating now in a pandemic for which they don't have the means to handle

Laughable number of mischaracterisations in there. Focused entirely on oft repeated spurious memetically distributed fake news items. Which no doubt you would Google and paste to support your assertions.

Political hatchery 101
is it you

are you “they”
The FCC ratified Wi-Fi 6E this morning
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I was specifically talking about the default, trusted Ubuntu Apt repositories, not custom PPAs which are of course inherently untrusted.

> You install it, at worst it will cryptomine that is it.

If that happens then I have no choice but to assume a full system compromise and nuke my machine. It's not a risk I'm willing to take, as there's essentially no way to definitively prove that that's all the malicious Snap was doing.

> Oh and you can remove it completely with all traces unlike deb equivalents.

Snap sandboxing is rarely utilised in a meaningful way, and the permissions for a particular app are controlled by the author by default. In most cases there's nothing explicitly preventing a malicious Snap from gaining persistence even after it is removed.

In other words, Snap sandboxing is in no way comparable to a 'proper' solution like a well-configured Firejail or a VM.
I feel Apple is now run by business people. The numbers are good so things are good and no need to change.
To add a little more color, the "which is sweeter" question, which drove the shift to New Coke, was as a leadership failure actually secondary to the deeper brand failing that was New Coke. Coke's brand has always been a golden-age concept, a celebration of all the good times you've had in the past drinking coke with family and friends (think of all the old timey photos and artwork you've seen in Coke ads, and it's been like that pretty much from the start). Pepsi's brand is the reverse, it's new and exciting and the future (for many years their slogan was "The choice of a new generation"). You'd think this was because Coke was the older product and Pepsi was the newer product, but they were both launched around the same time, and both are ancient compared to the age of their average consumers. When Coke became New Coke, it wasn't just making its flavor look like Pepsi's, it was committing the much bigger sin of making its brand look like Pepsi's. Given how tremendously much stronger Coke's brand was than Pepsi's, the idea of rebranding itself as "New" was the much deeper failing on Coke management's part than the flavor change, and arguably was the thing consumers actually reacted most negatively to, because it was destroying their relationship to one of the strongest brands in the world. No one wanted Coke to be New. They had Pepsi for that. They preferred Coke to be their connection to the golden age of all their past good times.
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But isn't deploying applications one of its use cases?
i sent out emails to marketing heads of 200 companies, but they would not check.

How do i proceed?
iPhones are >5x the revenue of Mac sales, and probably much more than that for profit:

"For the fiscal year 2019, the company's iPhone business accounted for approximately 54.7% of total sales; the company's Services segment made up approximately 17.7% of revenue; Mac sales generated 9.8% of total revenue; Wearables, Home and Accessories segment comprised 9.4% of the company's sales; the iPad accounted for 8.1% of the company's sales."

https://www.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines...
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this is a fallacy because it equates the chances for something working to that of not working. We all know how complex process tend to turn out.

If someone claims to write a brand new e-commerce website that serves the entire United States and rivals Amazon in just three months. Would you consider that a realistic promise? Would only devops and programmers have sufficient expertise to express valid concerns on its feasibility?
Quiz: How Devs Are Using Basic Git Commands in Daily Work
I finally "understood" C++ after writing a bit of Rust and studying the ownership principle.
I also like this model. There's a little air gap between the computer and the stand, but being solid aluminum I figure it's going to move a lot more heat away than, say, a wooden desk surface or cloth-covered human legs.
Amazon basics isnt the only amazon store brand, it has many others that are not labeled amazon in any way.
According to this[1], SXSW brings Austin about $350 million annually. According to Wikipedia, Austin's annual GDP is about $1.5B so 350/1500 = roughly 23% of the city's annual GDP.

Anecdotally I know of many people who work year round to prepare for an event at SXSW and rely on it for their entire annual income.

Cancelling SXSW is a big deal to this city. It hurts. It's not to be downplayed.

[1] https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/09-27-17-econom...
so, for tech, how does that conflict with all the recruiters on linkedin.com?
I don't care. They'll eventually die just like everybody
That's what I want to know. Do you just need oxygen tanks at home?
> stick with Flatpak like everyone else

Can you please write who "everyone else" is?
Who else remembers the original Crystal Pepsi, before they changed the formula? I will admit I drank that stuff like water.
Anyone else seeing Firefox blocked a fingerprinter?

Outline link: https://outline.com/uqNUEe
I think more importantly, it's much easier to pull a list of people attending a particular concert or other ticketed mass gathering, compared to getting a recursive enumeration of people whose paths intersected with any of a set of suspected people on mass transit during the course of a couple of days.
The only reason Electron isn't on your Apple Watch today is because of App Store Review.
“ To accommodate the dedicated workers, the company gave them an increase in wages and provided beds, kitchens, groceries, internet access and iPads, WPVI reported.” Bravo! I wish all our essential workers called to do extra work were treated like this.
Maybe not "heavily". It was 2B out of a 50B corn crop. So, 4% classed as 'heavily subsidized'?
And a large portion of this is in the form of insurance against bad weather/crop loss. Otherwise, we'd have no farmers left in a couple of year (everybody has a crop loss once in a while).

FWIW.
That’s a lot of words for

“I’m unable to secure BGP at my shit ISP and now I blame cloudflare for my ineptitude and bad press”
IC unit shipments to drop for 2nd consecutive year in 2020
Target and probably other physical retailers do the same exact thing. Bring a product line in. See how it sells. Replace that with a white label brand they own once data proves a winner.