skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

For many years, I have observed that folks in the Bay Area (if I might use that as the shorthand for those at the "top-end" of the technical food chain) tend to dismiss and deride the work further down the food chain, whether that work is "bashing metal" or piecing together business applications.

There are two truths I believe about this work that some do not acknowledge:

1. People who bash metal or piece together business applications have expertise and knowledge that folks higher up the food chain do not have.

Most people who make their living high up the food chain did it by proving they could rise up above those further down the food chain, so it makes sense to believe that this work is beneath them. But the domains are different, and the choice to live high up the food chain necessarily means that one chooses to miss out on experiences and knowledge that those further down the food chain will have.

2. The folks higher up the technical food chain are dependent on those lower on the food chain.

If I might pick up an imperfect analogy: Sharks are higher up the food chain than fish. Fish get bossed around by sharks. But sharks are dependent on fish to survive, not the other way around.
SoftBank to sell up to two-thirds of T-Mobile stake, worth about $20B
Is there any way to sync encrypted data to non-trusted server with Syncthing? I would like to have encrypted off-site backup.
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Thirteen Indian soldiers believed killed in fighting on Chinese border
> As someone who has used Angular 2 since beta, I can tell you, it's been a bumpy ride nonetheless.

I can second this - I've been working on a variety of Angular apps in an enterprise environment. It's worked fine and the "batteries included" has worked for my org, but it has definitely been a bumpy ride to get from beta to 9 with plenty of changes along the way.

> And here I am using HTML and CSS with tiny sprinkles of JS for most websites, and it's working just fine, and has been for many years.

This has been my favorite setup at work - pick "boring" tech like Django/Flask or Spring Boot and then sprinkle in some Javascript for highly interactive forms/pieces (React or Vue if needed).
Since I own my career but signed away all rights to the code I write as a condition of employment I'm OK with this trade-off.
Just giving you some data points, there are many people that play older games on their laptops, one such community is the Sims3 players, they got screwed when 32 bits support was dropped, some still hope EA will make a 64 bit soon (IMO it makes no sense for the devs to do the work for free for this old game).

So the people the play games on Mac are not the same group that play latest AAA shooters or arcade games, they are people that play some casual games or retro games on their laptops so no "hardcore gamers"
Ask HN: When will we have mobile browser extensions and ad-blocking?
Trying to browse the web on mobile is just a hostile experience. I have to close 2-4 popups before I can see any webpage. It feels like the early 2000s all over again and I don't know of any initiatives to move us forward.

How long are we stuck with this world?
Damn, I didn't know Russia was even that big.
> I understand Spotify's complaint about competing with Apple Music, and that does have merit, but at the same time I kind of just don't really care. Spotify is also in the process of ruining podcasts by making them exclusive to their platform, so no real love lost here for me

Spotify isn't a person. I don't care about their feelings or their hypocrisy. It's a matter of policy, which ought to be applied evenly and fairly. Monopoly behavior is harmful, and should be curbed when reasonable - whether it's being done /by/ someone we (dis)like or /to/ someone we (dis)like.
You can mock user interactions in Sketch and Figma.
And that person will still get into a great school. It just doesn’t have to be Harvard.
How is that helpful? Go bother somebody else. You obviously don't read many PDF textbooks or you wouldn't be treating me so rudely.
Because "actual" OCD is much more intense and negatively impacting your life than someone who likes their pens neat and tidy... People washing hands until they bleed every day, being unable to open a door without performing some sort of ritual, etc...
Yeah hooks have such a low barrier to entry as far as ... just make a new component with hooks. There is less code, it's easy to do, anyone who has seen a class component doesn't need much of an introduction to understand it.

I've got class heavy applications that will stay class heavy, but almost all new components are hooks and they're quick to write, evaluate what is going on, and work with.
The crucial question I guess is: Why do objects fall down a gravity well if its just a curvature?

The 'consumption' to me is more intuitive, but then again I'm just not a mathematician. Is it the field equations specifically thatI should look at or are there others?

And also what type of math structures should I be studying to understand the field equations?
I very briefly considered applying to MIT. I looked at application materials, and one of the questions was something to the effect of "What have you made/built that had impact on the world?" Knowing that I don't come from high society (both parents without college degrees), I knew I wouldn't have an interesting answer to this question relative to wealthy peers, and immediately bailed out on the process.

I know being defeatist isn't a winning strategy, but I guarantee you people won't even apply because they think their chances are so remote. And truthfully, I didn't need to go to MIT to have a successful career. I went to a less competitive institution that still offered a rigorous education. Career-wise, it has worked out.
I am a long-term user of Unison (https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) from the command line, to synchronize directories between my machines. If Unison weren't available, from studying the Syncthing documentation it would be my next choice.

You wouldn't think that writing synchronization software would be rocket science, but apparently it is: Unison's author is Benjamin C. Pierce, a prominent computer scientist and author of "Types and Programming Languages". Together with an active user community, he makes the correct call on some key design decisions.

I have tested many alternatives to expose these issues. I have not tested Syncthing, as this HN post is so poorly titled that it would sync into oblivion before I could complete the tests. I recommend writing your favorite sync software author if you find their handling of these issues problematic, though expect defensive replies.

[1] Symbolic links. They should be copied as is, not considered for their semantic content. Would you want sync software taking a half hour break if it found porn on your computer? Why should it think about symbolic links, either? It is your responsibility that they have some meaning on the target machine. Unison and Syncthing copy Unix symbolic links. All other programs wreck them or follow them. It confuses matters that some users beg for such behavior, in hopes of extending the capabilities of sync software beyond their original design.

On MacOS an application bundle, not meant to be examined by casual users, can contain internal symbolic links, for example from "latest" to a versioned directory. Software that mangles this will claim that it isn't meant for "system files" as if that is some dangerous art. It is not; they are simply handling symbolic links wrong.

[2] "Atomic" directories. If one has for example a MacOS sparse disk image open on two machines, and makes conflicting changes, one cannot simply merge the pieces, deciding arbitrarily on conflicting index files. Think of the movie "The Fly". A sparse disk image is again a directory of many files. This has many advantages, including ease of incremental backup. However, one needs to decide which copy to keep in case of conflict, at the directory level.

Unison has a way to declare this. I've never seen other software with this capability. This also applies for example to .git directories.

[3] Interactive conflict management. Using Unison, one chooses interactively how to resolve conflicts before committing to the sync. I sync many gigabytes of data, and I have no interest in dealing later with scattered renamed copies of files, many of which matter to automated tools and will never see my manual attention. I either choose a preferred copy at the time of sync, or I abort and fix the problem before the sync.

I prefer Unison's handling here to Syncthing.
My partner and I are planning a move there and somehow were totally unaware of the gold card visa. This is super helpful, thank you!
Just think of it as a function on demand. Call an API endpoint, a container spins up and does something, returns the result and shuts down, and you only pay for the milliseconds and RAM used in that amount of time.
Allowing Blue Team to fight back maybe? Or to be able to actively track the red team instead, using an active defense, instead of only passive defense?

Moreover, the outcomes are different for both teams:

- RedTeam success => they are seen as "real" hackers/heros and the BlueTeam are the poor incompetent

- RedTeam fail => the BlueTeam did "only" its job, the investments in cybersec for the company paid off... so the budget for the cybersec can be reduced.

So, for RedTeam, it's either a win or a tie. And for BlueTeam it's either a tie or a loss...

If the BlueTeam could fight back, maybe this could change...
> we have the technical capabilities to synthesize genomes

Of very limited size (for now).
We've had OpenPDK for some time. Check out the ISCA2020 presentation on OpenROAD[0], they mention that they use OpenPDK but the last piece of the puzzle is an open source standard cell library.

[0] https://youtu.be/1rfBK5KKzR0
I know where they are assembled. I also know where the displays are actually manufactured, where the RAM comes from, and where the CPU is fabbed, and where the various radio chips are sourced from. I also know where the software is written that makes it all work.

I also know that the iPhone and Macbook are not particularly difficult pieces of engineering and that the tech required to make the shiny bit of tech you see in the store is the bit of the iceberg beneath the waterline that represents a lot of the value in what we are talking about.
USGS Historical Topographic Maps
It doesn't matter if they're hypocrites. At all.

It matters that we create reasonable and sane policies and enforce them evenly and fairly across all market participants. We don't apply them selectively based on whether the company is "a nice guy." None of them are nice guys. They're not people, and folks need to stop anthropomorphizing them.
What's bad about remdesivir?
Fired FL Data Scientist Creates Competing Covid-19 Tracking Site
Taiwanese people are weirdly cautious for a country with absurdly low crime - there's massive, ugly (imo) bars on all the windows, to prevent burglars (and also hang your clothes off of).

Despite that, I've never felt safer at night than I have in Taiwan.
I don't think that you necessarily have to have an x86-to-uops decoder: there is a Chinese MIPS clone which has additional instructions which helps a lot emulation such as 80bit FP operations, etc.
So enlighten us with those reasons why these devs and businesses chose to only support 32-bit. Other than they would find it cheaper to do nothing while Apple and the users pick up the tab, of course.
> VSCode is agonizing compared to Notepad++ on Windows

you're clearly not keeping 2793 files in your session.xml
I have uMatrix and uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android. This has been available for a long time.
You realize that not everyone in an organization would have agreed with not working with Nazi Germany either?

IBM literally sold them information retrieval technology they used to keep track of concentration camp inmates. So clearly the important decision-makers did not agree.

I guess it is like any other question of what an organization should do. Those with the power to make decisions will decide based on some combination of their own ethical standards or (more likely) what think they is "good for the business", where PR as well as employee morale are components of that. The employees without the power to decide directly can organize to try to convince those with the power to make decisions of the correct ethical choice, or of what's good for the business, or to try to change the calculus of what's good for the business by effecting PR and employee morale etc.

I mean, this is kind of just a description of how human organizations or collective decision-making works....

I personally think that what ICE is doing is absolutely immoral and unethical, putting people, including asylum seekers, into (yes I think it's appropriate language) concentration camps, without a trial or hearing or access to a lawyer, in unsafe conditions (covid makes this even more extreme), separating children from parents, etc. If we looked for an external arbiter of this, I think it also clearly violates international law and agreements on the rights of migrants and refugees, so that could be another argument, don't sell software to organizations that will use it to violate international law.

I personally wouldn't at this point call for github (or anyone) to avoid business with the federal governmetn entirely -- just to avoid your products being used for the programs that are violating international human rights. That is, avoid doing business with ICE, for sure. Maybe with DHS in general, or particular programs/units in DHS.

I can't make you agree. People disagree, this is part of human life. But if I were in github, I'd be working to convince other co-workers of this, and to convince decision-makers leaders of it, as those in the article are presumably doing (I still can't read the article because paywall, so I'm only guessing as I think most commenting are!) This is how humans in organizations work.
> And I don’t think anyone’s saying the Oxford candidate vaccine will actually be available and approved for mass use this year?

That genuinely is the goal. The current aim is October I believe. A quote from their website says "deliveries starting by the end of 2020".

https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/astrazeneca-to-supply-europe-w...

That assumes everything goes well, which is a big if, but seems possible. The fact we've had no bad news so far despite the advanced trials is good news.
And master keys. And master works. And dungeon masters. And MasterCard. And the treatment "Mister". And so on.
It would be super complicated, but technically feasible. DynamoDB has a change log called streams that would technically work, with a lot of aggregation, even with the distributed nature. But I would think about it only as a late stage and very expensive feature.
thank you for clarifying. Is it fair to say that it is a faux pas to be hyperbolic around charged issues in public?
What's harder: gaining admission to a prestigious private high school that costs $50,000 a year or getting a few cheap SAT test books, watching some free YouTube videos and practicing for a few weeks?

The point is that the SAT can be practiced for (to a small extent), but the resources necessary to improve one's score are cheap and widely available. It's one of the most equitable aspects of college admissions we have.
> People wouldnt procrastinate if there wasn't some evolutionary advantage...

The awful truth is that "doing nothing" or at least "waiting a bit" is quite often the right thing to do from a survival perspective.
Part of them. If you just want to use one-off old software then emulation is adequate. If you actually care about performance, then no, not really.
It's the typical EPA range figure that everyone has to use. It's already greater than more than a few mid-size SUVs, such as this BMW: https://www.cars.com/research/bmw-x6_m-2017/

Or this Lexus:
https://www.cars.com/research/lexus-gx_460-2017/

Or this Lincoln:
https://www.cars.com/research/lincoln-mkt-2017/

Of this list of 2017 mid-size SUVs, this Model S at 402 miles of EPA range goes further on a charge than 9 out of 32 of these vehicles for which range is given:
https://www.cars.com/articles/2017-mid-size-suv-driving-rang...
This, coupled with the fact that, as an American, my ability to see a particular doctor (or even supporting staff) is highly dependent on whom I am employed with at any given time.

If you switch jobs regularly, you will likely end up on multiple insurance plans, each with their own set of participating medical professionals. Sometimes there is overlap, often there is not.
I've reading this news at least for the third time here on HW in this week.

Nice achievement but keep it DRY
Post-2002 developments that come to mind that hadn't occurred at the time of writing: anything involving Fourier analysis of the boolean hypercube, like Ryan Williams' circuit lower-bounds & the Unique Games Conjecture, and work on pseudorandomness.

More broadly, I'm always fascinated how interaction of (probabilistic) functions is the underlying concept across such a broad swath of recent developments in complexity theory. Looking forward to seeing where the next paradigm shift comes from
One of my teammates said he thought he coded best with a slight buzz, but who knows - maybe he was just creating tech debt and vulnerabilities at scale.
with respect this yt review of the item talks too long and as best i can see does NOT even test / demo this item? Just (eventually...) talks about a 3rd party review?

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ascii211/status/12686310690514534...

sorry for any bad attitude. just found the yt vid irritatingly slow, repetitive and in the end not even from a user of this device.
> The effect is clearly larger for women

I don't think it's that simple, given that their data show both the share of posts posted and shown as lower for women.

And there has to be a non-linear effect from increasing the share of posts posted with nudity, given that if it was, say, 66% then it would be impossible to boost that by 54%.
The Dawn of 2020 Was a Boom Time for Tech Professionals
I doubt it was intentional
Yeah :) The two key questions to always keep in mind:

(1) What's the desired outcome?

(2) What's the next action?
Sometimes productivity isn't about doing more; it's about maintaining sanity
That's true, though it's interesting that many companies still talk and act like employees should be "loyal". They don't seem to understand how that worked.
That's good. Perhaps something like if they can attribute the attack to a particular machine the red team gets "arrested".
I feel this is representative of a lack of understanding of how a people can feel pride and attachment to a location, that is, the territory itself, and also of how insanely fortified the nation is.

A land invasion of Taiwan would quite possibly be the most painful land invasion imaginable.
> here have been people sounding the alarm on the reckless policy of the Fed for decades

Yes, and they've been wrong for decades, over and over and over again.
One of the redeeming features of the R7000 is that it can run AdvancedTomato, DD-WRT, etc.
Sorry that was clear as mud. This is what i was remembering: isbn 978-0131118928. In grad school i frequently used Griffiths as a solid jumping off point for more challenging resources.
1. Amazon already has your payment information. I was on my phone looking to order something. The first link that came up was Walmart. I went and searched on Amazon because I could just press “Order Now” and not have to create a new account and dig up my credit card.

2. I’m already paying for Amazon Prime. Why not get full use out of it for shipping?

3. Amazon marketplace has network effects. Third party sellers use it because the buyers are there.

4. I wanted to rent a movie on my Roku TV. Again, Amazon already has my payment information and I’m already signed in to Prime Video.

5. I get 3% discounts on my Amazon card when ordering from Amazon.

I’ve been downvoted to oblivion plenty of times about being against the government interfering in $BigTech whether it be Google, Amazon, or Apple so I’m definitely not proposing they should be broken up because of a “monopoly”.
You can still get duffers in such jobs as often a candidate is put forward who's agreeable all parties and as such can be the lowest common denominator who won't rock the boat.
>If Apple were forced to allow NFC access, third party stores and real side-loading, then nothing would change for you. You could continue to use their app store [0] and their payment app just like you are doing now.

Not necessarily, if banks pull out of Apple Pay you might end up having to open each banking app every time you want to use that card, rather than having easy access to all your cards in one app (Apple Pay).
AMD to Launch New Ryzen 3000 XT CPUs: Zen 2 with More MHz
I agree, too many steps. I already logged in, why do i have to type my email again?
Would be interesting to know what they based that on.
Interesting topic. Any of you doing everything right - work, sports, cooking, some reading, etc - but procrastinating social life? I feel like that's what I do. I always have excuses not to go out to meet new people or meet the people I know. Meeting people in general feels like something I should do and thereby not that enjoyable. Work feels like something I should do less - because I want to have a life! - and thereby is highly enjoyable.
This is one of the strategies which 18F pursues: either remote work or working out of offices around the country is much less of a losing game than trying to match DC/SF salaries directly. It’s not perfect but given that the DC salary cap can’t be lifted without the Vice President and Congress getting raises it’s a lot more in their control.
The first ARM was designed as a CPU for a desktop computer ( the Archimedes )
I have been following both the UMN study and this Recovery Trial. I realize, in between whether HCQ prevents SARS-CoV2 and whether the same helps severe hospitalized cases, we have another question of whether it works as early treatment. The first question seem to have been well answered by Dr Boulware's team. The third one seem to also have been definitively been answered by the Recovery team. However, as yet, other than people taking sides in what has now become something of a religious war, I am yet to come across a study that definitively answers this question of whether HCQ can work when given as early treatment. Most of the Covid-19 related literature that is so far accessible seem to be of a very poor quality. But, still, I am hoping we will have properly conducted and sufficiently powered randomized control trials in due course that should answer most of these questions as well as find out a good way out of this quagmire.
The issue is not you can't keep up with traffic, it's if you do keep up with traffic, you use your stored energy very fast.

I was commuting with a plug in hybrid and it was very similar. If traffic was bad, I could make it nearly home on nearly all electric, but if traffic was light, the battery would be drained even if it was running in normal hybrid mode. Not a problem for me, the gas engine works fine, but it would be an issue for a leaf.