skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s also not possible to audit the code for anything unusual without taking it all the way back through all tools source, all hardware, down through the chips, through the doping in the chips, and even lower.

Are you implying that since we can't audit every single thing, auditing anything is useless?
I got my old google account banned when I enabled adsense (and did absolutely nothing with it). They blocked me from random number of their services so that account became unusable. And I dis nothing wrong. And no way for appeal.
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I can imagine a lot of people would start boycotting Twitter after that. Fewer users and their activity means fewer ads displays means fewer $$$ for Twitter.
A small sample of retirement. The seasons become your timepiece...
Not everyone joined the https party. The additional overhead on sites isn't justified for sites you don't even log into.
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They're all the same company. Volkswagen owns 12 automotive brands:

https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/brands-and-models.html

And Volkswagen will soon be making further investments in Chinese brands:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-investment-chi...
There was a concerted effort to smear him from within his own party, it’s not surprising that you got that impression.

Edit: There is even a sister reply to this comment repeating the same nonsense, from a Google employee. Misinformation winning again.
The weather needs to be good enough for a safe recovery downrange if there's an abort.
As an American it's not surprising at all. Six figures of student loan debt, job insecurity, healthcare insecurity, rampant poverty / homelessness, the most despicable president to disgrace the white house (who didn't even win the popular vote), stay-at-home orders because the U.S. couldn't manage the crisis, lack of community (doesn't help that 99% of the country is sprawl), rampant obesity, and general lack of hope. The U.S. is more and more resembling a failed state, a mere shadow of what it used to be.
How do you handle the creation of the database for a new user?

Any issues with maxing out connections to the DB?
> by the most reliable major manufacturer in the industry

You might want to revisit that.

If you are looking for reliability, ThinkPads are way better.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson
No surprise here, Google is now full on 90's - style Microsoft, with a twist of SJW thrown in, and hipsters everywhere.
Astonished to see this in 2020.
The difference is that everyone knows “we have the best burgers in the world” is subjective, and therefore, not true. When it comes to statistics (read: not subjective measures), it’s possible to lie.
Exactly the same for me. It feels like time is passing extremely fast, but at the same time it's the same "late March" that is being dragged for ages. Last week I told my therapist that it feels like I meet her every 2 hours. It really does feel this way. Suddenly it's monday, suddenly it's friday, suddenly it's monday again.

And I'm living alone with a cat. I can't imagine how this is with people living with a whole bunch of children.
The same reason 30 minutes in a dentist waiting room seems like hours, while a day at the amusement park seems to pass in a flash. Novel experiences and their rate must be involved.
Creator here! Feel free to give feedback or suggest any features you think would be useful.

I've been using utility first CSS for a while now and one of the patterns popular in that community is using inline SVG icons. I've always found Font Awesome's library helpful when I need something more than the normal left/right arrow.

Built with Laravel and Vue.js. I used Laravel as a base so the project can easily pull new updates from Github without a giant build chain.

This project is heavily inspired by Heroicons.dev so all props to that project for setting a good example!

Thanks for checking it out :)
Variolation is a form of vaccination like any other (a treatment given to healthy individuals) so is subject to all the safety requirements of any other vaccine. So its an idea for a vaccine but it's not a magical shortcut compared to all the other vaccines under development (some of which are based on attenuated virus).
IIRC you should strive to never reach the extremes; i.e. keep in the 20–80% range in order to maximize its lifespan.

Another tip was to avoid rapid energy consumption (such as from intensive use of CPU or discrete GPU usage) while on battery.

My main issue is that whenever you plug an external monitor, this automatically trigger the discrete GPU, and I'm using an external monitor for working from home (due to the cervical), so I'm mostly using the charger.
Then the tweet wasn't 'factually incorrect' as was claimed, perhaps unsubstantiated given past performance isn't a guarantee of future performance but certainly election security is nothing to turn a blind eye to.
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I was recently using Bootcamp on a relative's 2020 Macbook Air, and I was generally impressed with how well everything worked. Especially the Trackpad, which I remembered being a problem under Bootcamp many years ago.

If I didn't dislike Windows so much, I thought I could see myself using that setup full time.

I didn't look at battery life though.
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The URL bar is helpful to fighting phishing attacks. It's one of the things everyone at my company, including the non-technical people, is askedt to check before entering information.

Also techie and non-techie people have been using the same browsers for how many decades now? Aren't the majority of people in many countries on the internet? It seems like the average non-techie users succeeded in figuring things out so far.
What are those divisions?
My old mbp swelled up enough to shatter the trackpad glass. During zoom calls it would overheat and swell and disable keyboard and trackpad function until it cooled off.
The cold war is back, the fashion is back and out of all the things that are back I am glad that the USA is back in space flights.

Wish you the best luck and hope that this will lead to some serious competition. Soyuz is great but we need to do more as species.
> Logistics companies rely on huge amounts of optimization and problem-solving. Finding routes for drivers and deliveries, planning schedules, optimizing store layouts, etc. -- that's AI.

Your definition of AI seems to be particularly broad. There are several general and specific algorithms designed to handle the examples you gave and they have been working well for the last few decades, some even earlier and have been implemented on computers later. E.g. linear programming was designed to solve several classes of programs and was initially done on paper. Lumping all this as "AI" doesn't seem fair to me.
I had a friend who bought one and it stopped working after two years. Their build quality is worse.
> So... no evidence of fraudulent use.

First link has plenty of people convicted of voter fraud using absentee ballots: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p...

> 28 million out of how many? "almost 1 in 5". so roughly 150 million ballots mailed out over multiple years and elections, and < 20% are not returned. Or something else?

The second link was there to provide data on what happens to absentee ballots along the chain of trust. As you said 1/5 is unaccounted for.

The third link is one court case of a mail man meddling with absentee ballots, and admitting to doing so. It shows the chain-of-trust of mail system is much weaker than what we expect with in-person voting.

Would you be happy if 1/5 of the people that showed up at the voting office was unaccounted for?

> It seems that when there's evidence found - as in, criminal investigations turn up fraud and people are charged and prosecuted - "there's evidence of fraud!".

Seems like you commented without inspecting all evidence or in bad faith when you ignore the evidence in the first link of convicted cases of absentee ballot fraud, then state this.
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He is not a credible source on this, or pretty much anything else. He has some utterly reprehensible views, and is part of a very questionable cult of self-important people.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson
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I agree, but want to mention another variable that throws a wrench into things:

The longer it takes for one to accumulate that substantial tranche, the more entrenched they become in their home city (family, friends, community) and the more challenging it is to move.
From the source, how DuckDuckGo generates revenue: https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliat...
Yes, i'm not a proponent of HCQ, not without RCT as some of my previous post might tell you, but the "raw" data of the Lancet study seems pretty well harmonized for raw data, i wouldn't trust this study for my national policies.

I can't take HCQ as i already have extrasystole and a allergies treatment that already can cause arythmia, so i hope this won't be the "best" treatment, but really this paper, while interesting, should not be used to take decisions.
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I share the same sentiment. I'm not even a graybeard yet, and I'm sick of the work culture/environment/processes. I'm in my late thirties, so I'm somewhere in the middle.

I've been around long enough to recognize that older, more experienced people are incredibly valuable to learn from. They also have one thing you can't shortcut: perspective, and knowing where the bullshit is and how to avoid it. There's shit I'm just not willing to put up with anymore, that I would have been eager to do in my twenties. It wears you down.
The only thing pinning my week down is Twitch streams - certain people broadcast on certain days.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ottawa-sends-body-ba...
Yeah, but then you have another vendor lock in, not to mention that apple products are expensive for me, I don't have an US salary.
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Talking about soft real-time here… do you think multimedia apps should be native-only? That it’s a bad idea to put multimedia apps on the web?
Compilers may not be as relevant for AI-related work, but databases are, imho. So much of real world AI work is setting up data pipelines. Knowing how transactions, indexes, and joins work is very useful.
I read "skipping steps 1-3" instead of "keeping steps 1-3", my bad.

Do you have good resources for learning Elixir with OTP and Phoenix ? I also believe LiveView can deliver the 80% of functionalities for 20% of the price, so I'm very interested in learning it
AMP is a terrifying solution to an awful problem.
I have the same monitor and connect over usb-c with a 2018 13' MBP running 10.15.4. I have not experienced any such issue, even though Catalina broke several other things.

In my case, if I use the usb-c port of the monitor to connect the ethernet adaptor, it works for a few minutes and then drops all the packets. This was never an issue before Catalina or with a windows machine.

Another weird issue that I have with this monitor and Mac OS (not only Catalina) is related to the Microsoft sculpt ergonomic keyboard receiver, when plugged to one of the USB ports of the monitor. If I unplug a the MBP and connect a windows machine to the monitor, when I connect the MBP again, there is a >50% chance the receiver will not be recognised. Plugging and unplugging does not work. I have to do a restart of the MBP.

The above make it very annoying when I have to switch laptops. Sometimes I have to work on 3 machines at the same time, which by coincidence run 3 different operating systems (Win 10, ubuntu and mac). The reason I got this monitor is mostly for the build in hub. If it worked properly, I would just plug everything on the monitor and I would only need to plug the usb-C to the laptop and be ready to go.
Sometimes it does work and I feel like I am in the future, using a dock that can support every device, with just one universal cable. Now I often have to plug and plug things directly at the laptops.

One last thing for people who might consider a similar set up. Due to USB limitations, if you plug any storage device on the monitor and the monitor is at 4k@60Hz, you are limited to USB2 speeds.
For non-Home Basic versions of Windows you can change the policy for this (which I've done, and which works well, for exactly the reasons you've mentioned):

https://www.techspot.com/guides/230-prevent-automatic-window...

You can also disable Cortana, the telemetry stuff etc. https://blogs.systweak.com/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data...
"site:somewebsite.com some_search" works just fine on DDG.
I’m very junior, so take what I say with a grain of salt. But when I was determining if I should use Firebase or not, my biggest hesitation was simply that if Firebase ended today, I have to completely transition my application’s architecture.

Though that is unrealistic, even thinking about it was enough to make me want to be in full control of my application’s various layers.
Brilliant move by Trump's team forcing Twitter into this. He can now visibly blame another media outlet and continue building the narrative that the election results need to be challenged in case he lost. While also making sure voter turnout is high enough because his base thinks they need to "fight" this because it's deemed unfair.
Any intelligent moral person is going to have "a history of anti-Trump tweets" if they're a Twitter user, which presumably someone who works for Twitter would be. Same logic goes for calling a person acting like Nazis a Nazi.
Amp-the-standard is not the same thing as amp-the-google-UX.

I'd love for sites to adopt AMP, as a standard for web design which leads to very lean sites without content pop-in. That'd be awesome! Give me a little icon next to the search result that says "this site is AMP certified" so I know it'll be fast.

But what I don't love, is that Google uses AMP as a trojan horse to keep me inside the google search results as I browse the internet, by:

- Rehosting the amp sites on their CDN

- Pre-rendering sites I haven't clicked yet to make them load faster

- Putting the site in some pop-over div which makes me feel like I'm still in the google results (so I can pop right back quickly and spend more time on google!)

- Breaking the swipe gesture

- Breaking the URL bar

- Breaking my phone's auto-hide for the URL bar

- etc etc
iOS can do offline speech recognition (for English at least). It is even available to apps as an API. The quality is not great.
Politicians, news companies, and yes, Facebook, all promote divisiveness IMO. It seems to trigger a primal instinct in (some?) humans to belong to "this" tribe or "that" tribe, and they will go to great lengths to preserve and promote "their" tribe while at the same time trying to squash & demoralize the "other" tribe. I've known people like this, and for them, it seems to be almost like a sport: they enjoy arguing about why they are right and you are wrong.

A person like me who doesn't share this black/white tribal thinking will eventually (usually quickly) walk away from someone super aggressive about their opinions (which they usually believe are facts). It's boring and becomes quickly obvious that there is no point in trying to have any kind of intelligent discussion, because thinking is not part of the process.

Now if you can get two of these aggressive types going at it against each other, now you have a real spectator sport. It will never end, because neither side is thinking about what the other is saying; they are both just defending their entrenched positions, and they both enjoy the "battle".

The arguing becomes like entertainment for these folks, and the more they argue, the more engaged they become in the argument. IMO, that's why politicians, news, and companies like Facebook, _want_ divisiveness. They want their audience to feel compelled to interact and engage.

The thing I don't understand is that, while I don't know it for a fact, it seems that the "middle", those who are not fanatics, is a much larger audience. They are turned off by all the aggressive black/white arguing among politicians, news, and internet sites like Facebook. I've never been on Facebook or looked at a Facebook page. I stopped watching TV news after it turned into shouting matches over opinions instead of delivering facts. Same for politicians.

It seems like courting the middle, moderate audience would lead to a larger customer base. But that must be wrong, because surely these gigantic media companies would have tried it by now.
That's been my experience on my mid-2013 Macbook Air - for what it is worth.
I suggest Roche or Pharmaceutical companies in general.

During my time in Roche (through a consultancy) at 29 I was one of the youngest on board.
I mostly agree, and I for one would welcome the rock as president, so maybe I'm part of the problem. However, any time I catch myself thinking that the idiots have taken over[1] I am reminded of this XKCD[2] from over 10 years ago, and I try to knock myself down a peg

[1] NOFX reference, I normally wouldnt refer to anyone as an idiot, especially on HN which is where I come to feel dumb by comparison.

[2] https://xkcd.com/603/
More than 10. Chrome came out in 2008.
The word quarantine originated from quarantining all people entering an area a certain number of days. Not just visibly sick people.
Because there is still a persistent and almost certainly naive hope that HEP will eventually give us warp drives and accessible interstellar colonization. You know, the things sci-fi is made of.

Turbulence is just about as likely to offer up such secrets, but that's less obvious :)
Google got into HTML 5 games a little while ago with Game Snacks. Here is a blog post with about it.

https://www.blog.google/technology/area-120/gamesnacks-bring...
I'm not sure if I like the conciseness or if I'm leaning more towards "that's all?"
Cheapest Taycan I could find was $145k. 192 mile range. I'll take the Model S that is faster and nearly double the range at this point.
"The days are long but the years are short" - ???

Paraphrasing, but this is a phrase that's often used on uncertain situations. It feels like that too for me.
No, the HR guys always want 'business professionals' doing the interviewing.
Same here on a 2015 MBP, no external monitors. Constantly kernel panics during sleep, occasionally while I'm actively using it.

Meanwhile, my 2013 MBP running Mojave and connected to an external monitor and peripherals has been chugging along with no issues pretty much 24/7.
You might be forgetting that multimedia apps are often soft real-time.
This looks very interesting... NodeJS is decently performant out of the box but I'd love to have the capability to run advanced profiling tools.
Various reasons, well explained here (in several answers, including one pointing out that Challenger blew up in part due to cold weather): https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4967/why-are-rocke...
An interesting tidbit about the origin of two terms from Wikipedia:

> Until the very early 1800s, inoculation referred only to the practice of variolation, the predecessor to the smallpox vaccine. Edward Jenner introduced the latter in 1798, when it was called cowpox inoculation, or vaccine inoculation (from Latin vacca = cow). Smallpox inoculation continued to be referred to as variolation (from variola = smallpox), whereas cowpox inoculation was referred to as vaccination (from Jenner's use of variolae vaccinae = smallpox of the cow).

The article goes on to explain how the meanings of the terms have since expanded: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation
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Below a certain rpm you practically cant hear the fans. Even with them screetching, if you are in a room with an ac unit or outside, it would be tough to notice.

Never got this gripe personally, as I’ve never had a quiet device in my life. Certainly not from apple.
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Quite the flame bait there, you're claiming that half the country is not intelligent or moral.
I occasionally do some consulting but mostly manage a small portfolio of investments I made over the years which spins off enough income to be financially ok.

I don't have a CS degree, which is an immediate filter. I don't have any patents (due to a corporate edict). I made a small but apparently vocal group of enemies in a previous role (which I've written about previously but…never be the apex point of contact/control for a new technology in a F100 company if you can avoid it). On all the credential axes that recruiters / companies evaluate I'm a paper tiger.

To anyone offering advice to me personally: it’s been seven years since I worked FTE. Almost all companies (US at least) will not consider you for employment if you have not worked in the past three months, let alone six months or seven years. I know what your policies are, I'm just telling you what your practices are in reality.

I'm not looking for work. I am fine where I am. The industry is happy to pay to relearn the lessons I and others have learned instead of just…you know…paying people who’ve already had the experience.

And I'm at peace with that at this point.
> COBOL is 65% of active code used today; and runs 85% of all business transactions.

Citation needed
And the Department of Justice is investigating whether this results in higher prices for consumers, if so their business conduct will deserve antitrust restraint under the current consumer welfare standard.
It's fairly easy to install multiple versions of macOS on your drive to test [0]. You could create a separate install of Catalina and test your applications with it before making the move (which Apple now thinks is a bit more urgent for some reason).

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208891
This is essentially the Andrew Wakefield fiasco on speedrun, isn't it?

My skepticism was founded entirely on seeing who was promoting this idea, and it is slowly being vindicated.
Who does the same app over and over, and if then why not just copy it? With new tech there are a lot of churn, who knows Google will announce the shutdown of the db service tommorow, and next week you need to rewrite the app in the latest version of the framework. Meanwhile old boring tech will still work just fine 20 years from now.
Running Windows / Linux on bootcamp will decrease performance since the fan curves and other thermal settings aren't preserved when in Bootcamp.

A weird think to notice is that running a MacBook Air under bootcamp will make the display 300 nits brighter.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Apple-MacBook-Air-2020-is-...