skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats always the, excuse my french, bullshit reaction i see here and is ignoring several important facts:

1. Since you share your vpn exit IP with several users, sometimes hundreds, it becomes harder for any website or service you use to track you by IP alone.

2. My ISP is mandated by law to save all my browsing data (germany here, this law changes every two month but you can assume they all log anyway). My VPN Provider is not mandated and has at least some incentive to not log any data. Cost and Reputation beeing the main ones.

3. I can for example have all my torrents exit in a country where filesharing is not illegal, making any persecution much less likely, same for other laws that are not the same everywhere.
Covid-19 Pandemic Policy Actions Harm Vulnerable Populations
Microsoft has been trying to move in that direction for years for its B2C segment. The 'mobile' world was 'nudged' on Windows users in a disastrous way with Windows 8.0. App stores for windows and other Microsoft 'platforms' (Outlook, SharePoint, ...) were introduced. The importance of extended validation code signing became more prominent, and an "S" mode was introduced for Windows 10 that lets the system restrict to running App store only applications.
It would be very instructive to compare this with the SpaceX development process. I think the AMA for them has still not been completed, and know of no other source of insight into their process. (To be clear, I also agree with the other comments. With few exceptions (flight, autonomous vehicles, medical, power) lives do not depend on our software, so this is likely not the right process for most of us.)
> The Euro made companies rich and the population poor.

In absolute terms, this is patently false.

In relative terms, the outcome may be true, but are you so sure that the euro is to blame?
Is front end churn really so prevalent? I hear this opinion all the time, but React is 7 years old. I've been using it for around 5 years, I think. Redux is 5 years old. How old does the most popular web framework need to be before we consider it to be low churn?

[Edit: Also, anecdote: before JS, I was mostly a C# developer, and the churn there was at least as bad, maybe worse in my personal experience. Over 15 years of my career, I had to learn ASP, then ASP.NET, and in the Windows app world, we went from WinForms to XAML, then .NET Core came out, and things shifted again... See Rails' history for more examples of churn. It's not like every other platform is a paragon of stability. Clojure is a bulwark of stability compared to just about anything else, but it's hardly fair to hold the front-end community up against that gold standard...]
As far as I know, the obvious difference comes down to depravation.

If you have a computer that does all sorts of important things, like work, or even playing games, then exploring how it works isn't the obvious first thing that comes to mind for interacting with it.

But if you have a computer that doesn't really have any use-cases that you personally care about, exploring how it works is pretty much the only thing you there is to do, when playing around with it.

Similarly, if you break your computer while exploring it, and you have plenty of other things to do, then you'll maybe give up on your explorations.

But if you break your computer and you have nothing else to play with, you'll see the breakage as an obstacle in the way of your continued entertainment—sort of like you might see the Internet being down—and try to figure out how to get it back up and working again. You might not succeed, but it's the attempt to get it working that builds the "engineering mindset", not the success per se.

I'm a programmer today mostly because: my parents weren't always around to bug; I didn't live near-enough to friends to always have them over or visit them; and I didn't own any video games, but merely rented them (mostly timed to when said friends came over.) Then, when I was 9-or-so, my family got a computer that ran Windows 98, had no Internet connection, and had no games installed. I "played" with it by poking around in MS Paint and discovering the hidden sets of system MIDI files; but also by doing weird things like making "Briefcases" just to see what they did; or creating desktop shortcuts to nothing-in-particular just so I could put some of the "cool" icons from pifmgr.dll on my desktop, as if I was collecting game power-ups.
People always underestimate how important games are to PC sales, and Apple is traditionally the worst about this given their bicycle for the mind rhetoric. I don't think it is a coincidence that Apple laptops became very popular after you started being able to boot them in Windows to play a game. You got the benefit of MacOS, Apple hardware and PC game libraries.
> Purely due to union / regional scoping rules.

These aren't significant outside of the US market. And okay, the US market is a significant market for aircraft, but by way of comparison most of the major orders of the larger E-Jets have been non-US airlines.

The A220 has a very big order book for an aircraft of its size.
As highlighted in the article, Apple's A13 is on par with Intel's i9-9900K in SPECint2006 and only 15% behind in SPECfp2006.
Miro?
Semiconductor manufacturing is not what average Joe thinks when they talk manufacturing. It’s highly localized and requires not that many, but very highly educated workers.

While I highly support US investing there more, it’s not something that gives US blue collar jobs in the rural America. And push for more manufacturing in USA is about that.
That’s right, the average effect of test prep is around 0 increase.
DD-WRT is has access to some proprietary (Broadcom?) code which enables NAT acceleration on some models which, at least in my case, greatly improved performance over OpenWRT.
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It's a bad choice of words on the part of the journalist, but that's journalists for you. "Aid" implies an economic motive, whereas here the motive is very clearly national security. We don't give "aid" to the Marines or the Air Force. We spend public dollars on things are are important to national defense and security. Semiconductors fall into that category.
While this mistake by one person may have happened, you cannot really use that to dismiss the whole trial.

Be aware that FranceSoir is not a reputable source, you could liken it to the UK's Daily Mail. And Covexit also looks like a French conspiracist website set up by Pr Raoult's fans.

Sources matter in this debate because populists across the world (and especially in France with controversial Pr. Raoult) are championing hydroxychloroquine with inexplicable passion.

It fits their conspiracist view that the truth about cheap, easily accessible treatments has been hidden so that big pharma could sell more expensive drugs (the news about dexamethasone destroys that argument)

Much like for climate change deniers, you always see the same few rogue scientists and news outlets, and I could immediately spot which side your comment was on just by looking at the links.
Then it is odd I have ever only read the story about ARM. Do Intel's/AMD's proto's run on their I/O pins?
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By far the most english-speaking country in Asia (after singapore). You wouldn't have issue to communicate with people, have a normal daily life. Might have issue to communicate with the old generation, but most of the people will go out their way to help you. Mandarin is the official language, but they are now making a huge push to become a bilingual language[1]

For safety, from 0 to 10, I'd give it a 9.5.
I like to joke about the daily biggest national news being a grandma who lost its cat, since not much "bad things" happens here. Most of the thing I lost were returned, for example I thought I've lost my bag with my ipad few years ago in a bar, but someone returned it the day after x)

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/06/13/2...
This! The economic damage is largely caused by our response to the infection risk, rather than by the infections themselves. There are numerous countries with enormous economic damage and very few infections, and others with large numbers of infections and relatively less economic damage. They don't seem to be particularly correlated.
I've often wondered if mass can locally affect the rate of expansion of the universe, causing gravity as a side effect.
Hey.com Invites Being Bidded Up on eBay (Like Gmail 2005)
I think it'd do just fine. The A12X has 10 billion transistors. Sandy Bridge has 1 billion.
What superpower conflicts mean for indigenous peoples
The worst thing is when you put something off, like a project at work, and then it gets cancelled. That's the type of positive reinforcement that leads to even more procrastiantion. :-)
Haha, I love the idea of impressing women by showing them your computer skills.
It's a high-variance form of marketing.
I'd wager it's because he criticizes Biden (too), but come on, people...
> [...] are Apple users really okay with not having access to a single Steam game?

The fraction of people using Macs that care about gaming is tiny, and among them those who care about Steam even more so.
Maybe people ignore fancy ideas like HATEOAS because they don't actually help them make something useful for users. This particular fancy idea appears to exist mostly so people can make comments like yours.

If this wasn't true, as a user you would notice if the thing you were using didn't use HATEOAS, even though it should. The thing's functionality would be deficient in some manner that you could discern. I doubt that has ever happened.
Or a closer analogy, like someone saying "Oh I'm such OCD" because they arranged their pens in colour order.
Easy answer: Intel chips have more cores than Apple ARM chips.

But if they have the same number of cores it's generally a power tradeoff. A 12W chip can give 12W to one core or 3W to 4 cores. Transistors are optimized for a particular voltage & current, so when they run at a different power, performance scaling is not linear.
We're not talking about good economic policy here, we're talking about what makes sense from a national security standpoint.
> Running a Raspberry Pi (or any system) from any cheap flash storage setup like SD cards or cheap eMMCs degrades desktop responsivity a lot.

Not really, if the system has enough free RAM to use as disk cache. For many scenarios, that suffices to run quite acceptably.
> Are Xbox One games Win32 binaries?

Nope. You can run UWP on Xbox, but most games don't (because functionality is limited).
It seems a bit silly to discuss servers based on Apple's architecture before they reveal something with several cores. Mainstream x86 processors have 64 cores per socket. These are the top contenders in SPEC performance-per-watt benchmarks. Notably, nobody has ever even bothered submitting a SPEC result for an ARM server, in particular not Ampere, whose product "provides industry leading power efficiency/core" even though there is no evidence to back this claim.
Blaise Pascal is another example. Heard he did something with all kinds of triangles.

He was quite invasive with his faith though.
Because cars in dense cities have far more disadvantages than benefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfree_city#Effects

Cars are dumb for the many, not for you personally at this very moment. We can easily build carfree cities (by improving bike infrastructure and public transport), what is dumb is focusing on short-term benefits for one's personal comfort/safety.

I don't know one resident of a car-free city who regret the transition. Would you?
> Anything that isn't praise and "we'll all be better off" is taboo, and it doesn't matter what party, what your other positions are, it's sacrilegious.

Are you sure that you're not mixing up that position being wrong with it being taboo? It seems to have become very popular these days, especially among the alt right, to blame the ridicule and ignoring of their opinions on the "PC mainstream" having labelled them as taboo or "censoring" them. Projecting snowflakes like they've time and time been shown to be.
My great aunt who is a nun got a masters in Chemistry in the 1950s. She said that the only other women in her program were nuns.
i don't know where you are from, but the education about the holocaust i received was especially memorable because it went through great detail explaining how the holocaust was different from the millenia of bloodshed and genocide that happened before. (European history is drowned in blood and suppresion sadly).

The holocaust is especially horrifying because it turned killing into an abstract process that made apathy the "silent killer" so to speak.

The holocaust was possible because step by step, the dehumanization and abstraction of the process resulted in people being able to be apathetic to it.
It doesn't go away. Newtons law of gravity still applies F = Gm1m2/r^2. When you are on earth the gravity of Mars is still affecting you, but r is such a large number (and then we square it) that you can basically ignore it, but it is still there even if we can't measure it. When you get in the rocket you increase the r for how earth's gravity affects you, eventually getting to the point where it is insignificant and then where Mars gravity dominates everything else and so we ignore it, but earth is still affecting things even though it couldn't be measured.

The above applies to the moon, sun, even every atom in the universe. Fortunately most of them are far enough away that we can ignore them: we don't actually know how to calculate all the math if we wanted to account for them all.
> While I agree that the higher-end machines will still have discrete graphics, that doesn't mean they won't also use on-die graphics

But there's no reason those have to work in Windows. Apple isn't going to care if Windows gets crappy battery life.

The bigger question is, if Bootcamp would only work with a small portion of Apple's machines anyway, and you'd have to run a version of Windows which no one really wants, and Windows just generally isn't as necessary in 2020 as it was in 2006... is Apple going to bother?
Incredible post! I've been struggling with anxiety, depression, and a lack of motivation at work for the past year or so, and slowly coagulating towards the feeling that I needed to focus on my work.

This article feels like it gives me the how - thank you.
Oh, and let's not forget about Hydro-Québec's innovation with an all electric motor-wheel(early 90's!).
Way ahead of it's time, and canned for suspicious reasons.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https:/...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moteur-roue_d%27Hydro-Qu%C3%A9...
I think you get it by going to the same doctor over many years. Continuity of care is important!
I find it interesting the blog post mentioned Kent Dodds article recommending everyone rewrite fetch. I just argued adamantly against Redux docs about writing tests being switched off of Enzyme to his library because it’s “more trendy”.

https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/pull/3708

Unfortunately, the community overruled me and the docs no longer show how to test Redux apps with enzyme. It only shows Kent’s “react testing library”. The library authors are complicit in this. Rather than showing the pros and cons of both, the trends are being pushed, leading people to falsely believe they must rewrite their whole code base in my experience.

The troubling part for me is often those creating these trends may be working on a very different type of app. When you’re writing something complicated, and the ecosystem is dominated by patterns (also preached by Kent) that work best in simpler apps like “only write integration tests” it can be frustrating.

If Kent thought enzyme promoted anti patterns he could have technically made a docs PR or just written a thin layer on top of enzyme. Now we have yet another divisive issue. Getting him early access to new react apis and officially recommending RTL in the react docs (while he sells his training videos) make it sit worse with me. It doesn’t feel like the trends are always based on the merits, it feels more like “not invented here” and “nepotism” driving some of these trends for sure.
402 miles, if you drive 55.
Tails is the sum of all components including browser and video players.
I can't say for certain, but I believe that statement is being downvoted because the first paragraph is factually inaccurate in each sentence:

> The US followed the advice of the business schools long ago and outsourced all its core competencies.

Bashing metal and low-tech widget-forming has never really been a core competency of the US. It was useful to keep people employed for a 50 years or so but for the past century the US seems to have aimed for technological synthesis and increasingly high-tech production as a core strength.

> The US' loss of technical and manufacturing expertise is going to be extremely hard to reverse, and reversing it is going to require a rejection of financial capitalist economic ideology and things like "maximizing shareholder value" as the prime directive.

It is unnecessary to reverse something which was not lost in the first place. As others have repeatedly pointed out all over the comments on this article the US has continued to climb up the manufacturing food chain and dominates the top-end. It may employ fewer people, but the productivity and economic benefit of the US manufacturing sector has simply not declined at all and therefore no 'rejection of financial capitalist economic ideology' will be required.
Apple has to significantly invest to continue with Bootcamp, only to offer people Windows on ARM. Windows on ARM is actually a great product, but it's not what people use Bootcamp for. There's no value add here for Apple, and I simply can't see them doing it. Not even if they continue using AMD graphics in (some of) their machines. It's not worth any effort to run a platform that is still as niche as Windows on ARM.

The only way I see this happening if someone else would do the work. And that someone else would have to be Microsoft. Why? They're the only ones with an incentive to do it. ARM Macs would be a highly available, highly performant development platform for Windows on ARM. Apple could be accidentally solving a supply problem here for Microsoft - a supply of quality high performance ARM desktop hardware. Apple might even be inclined to work with Microsoft (or they might not), but even if unlikely the only way I see this play out is without Apple paying for any of the work.
True, but usually the smart CEOs bosses etc. give instructions coded in a way that can seem vague in a court of law (“We need to do something about Tony”) but are not at all vague to their subordinates. This is why you see Mob bosses frequently get 20 year sentences while their henchmen get life without parole because they can’t be conclusively tied to the murder.
The phrase “incorrect view of reality” makes it sound like I’d be exchanging one set of biases for another. I think it’s time to question belief in a single objective reality.
> the vehicles drain some juice while parked

When we had a Tesla in the garage to install some aftermarket equipment on it, this parked power drain astonished me. Several miles PER DAY.

And we have the nerve to bother TV makers about a watt here and a watt there.
My run-of-the-mill state school had quite lax admission standards. It was understood that most of the freshman class each year would just party and flunk out after one or two semesters. As long as grading standards are maintained, I suppose that's another way to go.
It's always dangerous. It has a black box warning for arrhythmia.
I suspect this will help "privileged" kids more than disadvantaged ones. They have parents that can pull strings to get high school grades inflated or attend special schools for "bright" kids that inflate grades and have the support to get good extracurricular activities to appear well-rounded. And they have help writing college application essays, etc.
I'm not so sure that generalizes. Steam has a huge userbase and according to https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey, 4% of that is using MacOS. That's a big number - especially keeping in mind how much inferior MacOS is in gaming support compared to Linux, where almost everything works. I don't see that going well with the ARM switch.
I applaud everything in this article except this:

> Calendar sync? Why on Earth would FILE SYNCHRONIZATION application wants to access my calendar?

It's very handy to have shared calendars across multiple devices. Dropbox's advertised solution for this is garbage because I have no interest in letting Google or Outlook manage my calendars.

But there's another solution that used to work with Dropbox that doesn't any more. And the breakage is Apple's fault, not Dropbox's. Say you have two Macs and you want their Calendar apps to be in sync. Further, you don't want to use iCloud because you know from painful experience that Apple has no idea how to sync anything properly. It used to be possible to move ~/Library/Calendars to Dropbox and put a folder symlink in its place. If you do this on both machines, Dropbox automagically syncs your calendars. But in later versions of MacOS when you replace Library folders with symlinks the apps in question stop working. Thanks Apple. Looks like Syncthing might fix this problem for me again, and I won't even need Dropbox any more.
Well, if they didn't pay the suppliers, they didn't really spend that €900m, did they?
Low-cost Dexamethasone reduced deaths by one-third in ventilated Covid patients
It's not really a fair comparison, because it's not the same TDP niche.

I imagine Intel Quarks will though. Probably any of the SoC versions as well.

I've actually had to design around this in a board once. Had a chip where the reset line didn't hook up to all the logic inside it. Originally just put FETs on the power lines, but that wasn't enough and I had to gate off all the I/O lines too.
Row level security was usually handled through database views.
Note that those recommendations are made for medical professionals, and in fact that recommendation does not conflict with this study. For people with mild symptoms (not requiring oxygen nor ventilation) it doesn't change the mortality risk, so indeed it shouldn't be used as a routine drug for everyone who is COVID-19 positive. In fact, knowledge of SARS and MERS indicated that corticosteroids could be harmful, so it was absolutely the right call to make: if they aren't indicated for a certain reason, don't use them routinely for most patients.
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As others have mentioned, a vertical monitor helps.

I use one of these[1] as a second monitor, as I was able to get a surplus one from work for ~$30. The stand it comes with has a 90° swivel, allowing you to rotate it from landscape to portrait orientation (the product images on that page show it in that orientation). It's fantastic for keeping up any long-text materials I need to reference (docs, PDFs, email, spreadsheets, etc). I also use Magnet[2] to make it easy to divide the screen into thirds or halves when I don't need any references up and want to use things that work better in a more standard landscape orientation.

If you want to use a monitor that doesn't have standard support for swiveling, you can get an after-market VESA mount such as this[3] one which supports it. The key to look for on product pages is Swivel being listed in the specs, with a Swivel Range of at least 90° being what's needed to turn it from landscape to portrait mode.

[1] https://www.dell.com/hr/business/p/dell-p2217h-monitor/pd

[2] https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

[3] https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5402
It's not that hard to survive on English in Taipei. The official language is Mandarin (though the typical local accent is different from the Beijing-esque prestige dialect). The streets are safe from crime, if that's what you mean, though the competency of the average vehicle driver leaves something to be desired.