skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US followed the advice of the business schools long ago and outsourced all its core competencies. 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.

Unfortunately this election gives us a choice between an utterly unacceptable racist crackpot and a bland candidate who belongs to the old guard who still believes that you can have an economy based on nothing. That doesn't make me optimistic.
The difference is that there was room for other publishers, packager, retails, cc-processors to compete. So that naturally evolved to the much better deal we have today.

But with Apples Duo-/monopoly, in 20 years we will have same 30% fee.
The first woman PhD in Computer Science was Sister Mary Kenneth Keller
One reason I procrastinate is because a decent % of my tasks just go away on their own, so if I did everything as soon as I was supposed to, I'd be wasting time.
Which subject test was it that you took?
Right so you’re saying they could randomly pick from their applicant pool because right now only perfect scores apply.

But wouldn’t that cease being the case once scores are not taken into account? Presumably (retroactively speaking) I could have applied or my friends could have applied... now if they do a random selection they could get one of us...
Another brand i vouch for is AVM, their routers are all over Germany and they're reliable workhorses for years...

Maybe, just maybe, someone should start a list with vendors that put out shitty software on their devices, never deliver firmware updates and have stupid exploits...
Dumb question, but are GPAs useless? I mean a plot of say high school GPA vs say college graduation rate or college GPA would be rather informative.
>Build a rapport with the job placement offices at these schools.

This is 100% the right answer. Source: my career in higher education has been mostly at the community college level.

Universities and 4-year colleges are not as incentivized as community colleges to build career pathways and make direct changes to curriculum based on external input. Most community colleges (I'm betting all of them, but I can't say that for sure) have committees of business leaders to inform curriculum decisions. Community colleges are also more nimble when it comes to creating degree pathways - therefore, if the graduates do not have the skills they need for your business, they can spin up a new degree in less than a year, fully accredited, while universities may take 3-5 years.

Further, businesses can impact individual class curriculum at a community college via these advisory committees. This just simply does not happen at a university.
Not hard at all, they could include uBlock add-on by default (as they did with Pocket) except allow people to disable it this time.

They do rely on Google's advertising revenue for multiple $100M of funding; so they presumably don't want to be too successful in democratising ad-blocking.

Eich used to be a controlling influence on FF (as Mozilla CEO), since he was ousted he heads Brave browser which includes content blocking by default (and a content revenue model).

In short perhaps FF/Mozilla are curtailed by financial considerations.
Tesla cuts Model S price by $5k, bumps range to 402 miles
AMA with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker
Hi HN, I work for TNW, and tomorrow (17th) we're hosting an AMA on our site with Mozilla's CEO Mitchell Baker. Please come ask a question if you like!
RISC cpus have historically been under-clocked and perceivable slower than their cisc competitors. Apple was running on risc cpus before going intel x86. They were constantly marketing their speeds as less important than speeds matter to x86 architecture.

I hope they’re able to devote two cores to UI/UX at a much higher frequency than the general compute cores. That would take some engineering know how, but could negate the performance complaints largely.
I think this is a very good start. The iOS ecosystem is a lot more monopolistic compared to android. And before someone says iOS is not a majority of the market, it easily is in several countries. In iOS, you can't even make your own browser, and neither set your webkit wrapper as default.
Let's see in a year if this was a valuable investment of public money.
Write Fewer Tests from Automation to Autogeneration
Eh? You can't "tell" what framework a site is using just by interacting with the site. What you see is what the designers decided. A better proxy, though weak, would be the number of UI bugs you encounter. The best metric would require you to have insider knowledge, to see how much work is saved by reusing components and writing them declaratively.
Go is not gonna replace SciPy

No operator overloading, and scientists ain't gonna look twice at anything without that
A photo of every Monopoly street in London
I agree with you that "dangerous" isn't binary. To be clear, the medical literature I was referencing are focused on medical grade HCQ. I apologize that I was glib in my "like candy" comment. I'm reacting strongly to this topic because the current level of pop-culture medical expertise, partiuclary around HCQ and also vaccines, is concerning to me.
Maybe you should start with understanding non relativistic quantum mechanics before understanding QFT. QFT's only a small jump from QM, more or less. As well as understanding classical field theory and Noether's theorem. There are some ad hoc things done seemingly at random, like having to add terms to a Lagrangian to make it invariant under U(1) transformations, and that may seem weird at first, but it's those leaps of faith that got us to where we are.
Factual, I was there.
Also related, for those who'd rather read an article: https://css-tricks.com/model-based-testing-in-react-with-sta...
That definition of "maximalist" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but okay.

Your "full-stack" definition is... more or less in the right ballpark, I suppose, but doesn't that imply that Ridge actually integrates an HTML templating language as well?
I think it is different because gaming consoles are single purpose devices. Whereas smartphones are marketed as general purpose.

I am all for forcing the manufacturers of the gaming consoles to allow running of arbitrary unsigned code in a different sandbox than their DRM.

Also I believe in the right to have root on all devices you have.
Final Rosetta Photos Show Comet 67P in ‘Chilling’ Detail
> Windows, particularly given the ability to run a full-on Linux environment without virtualization

An effort that Windows seems to be in the direction of abandoning. (Plus, writing these kinds of compatibility layers is complicated but not super complicated. What you really want is performance, and that’s hard.)
A Jupyter Kernel for SQLite
Visual Story Telling: Revisiting Minard’s Map of Napoléon’s Russian Campaign
How would games work? I understand that the Xbox One runs a build of Windows 10, and I would expect that to continue on the Series X. Are Xbox One games Win32 binaries?
Thank you for saying that. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Most high school students take the SAT/ACT in their junior year already. Many only take the test that once.

Many high schools have test-taking built into the curriculum for the first half of that year of school.

Some states have replaced their standardized testing with the SAT/ACT.
Figma?
Is it taboo in Germany to suggest that increasing the supply of labour would drive down the price?
Interestingly nobody ever thought of Peter Sagan of a good downhill racer. The very best sprinter of course. But his position looked strange, not as strange as Froome's or Pantani's though. And I never thought he'd won any race because of his downhill advances. Only because of his sprinting abilities. Strong bias. But he always had a strong technical team behind him, and that shows.
Hi, I'm studying Sex Robots for my Doctoral research in Forensic Psycholo (cont)
No, LLVM IR has platform specific parts baked into it like the ABI, and you can't really jump archs like that.
It has real tabs? Which you can click and that show the filename? And I'm also not aware of line bookmarks, and don't see them in the shortcut list? Also nothing for compiling the current project, but that I really might just miss.

The replace function though is a lot less powerful. Even if I give it the benefit of the doubt that probably there is a way to use regexpressions in an arcane syntax (because just entering them definitely does not work).

Though in general that exchange is typical for nano :) So many think it can do almost nothing and then are surprised when it can do so much more. Often included me. Like syntax highlighting, it was cool when I found out it can do that.
> Or did we never get confirmation that it was effective?

The reverse, there's confirmation it's ineffective. It may not be dangerous (I don't know) but it's no longer allowed as treatment in the US as the evidence has shown it's not useful.

Can we stop talking about this and move on yet?
It was only ever really of interest because Trump was flailing about for anything to make it look like he had a plan earlier in the year.
I forget the specifics, but risc winds up feeling slower because it’s a more “correct” arch than cisc. Been a while since this came up!
Photoshop is already running on ARM—specifically, on Apple's A-series chips.[0]

Unless you're doing something at least moderately esoteric, if you have an actively-developed macOS application today, you'll be able to produce an ARM version of it tomorrow (or, y'know, whenever Apple actually activates this capability) by ticking the right box in Xcode.

There might very well be a compatibility layer available for a transition period (there was for 68k->PPC, Classic->OS X, and PPC->Intel), but that's not at all the same thing as saying Apple will build in hardware-level x86 support in perpetuity.

[0] https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ipad.html
Overhead cranes.

They move everything in the supply chain. From raw material and resource extraction, to ports, to manufacturing facilities and paper plants, and even standing up rockets for NASA and SpaceX.

Every time I tell people I work for a crane company, they think cranes that build buildings, which are totally not our industry.
Immigration is recent and secondary (but also a factor). The Euro and eastern expansion of the EU came first. The Euro was directly justified with historical references and allegedly a precondition for the German reunification.

The Euro made companies rich and the population poor.
I'm a little lost on the examples.

There are reasons to use fetch and hooks, and the article seems to relegate them to being unnecessary 'trends' without doing what it suggests, actually evaluating what value they might have...

In React you can use hooks with a class heavy application and still be just fine / get the benefits of hooks in a given component(s).

If you want to use fetch, that also is hardly an ordeal to do / should not be a big cognitive load for anyone.

I get it, resume driven development bad, we get it, we hear it in opinion pieces all the time. Also you should think about it before rewriting an entire application. Yup, that makes sense.

But here we have examples of small changes that are pretty light weight... and no effort is made to do exactly what it suggests, evaluate those choices.
Agreed. I think a lot of folks suffer from not understanding how web 1.0 worked and really groking REST/HATEOAS (which has since been hijacked for JSON APIs, which is complete nonsense.)

Sometimes I jokingly call htmx "web 1.1 tech", but increasingly I wonder if I'm really joking.
As for vendor lock in, I think that is one of the bigger constraints with serverless. There are a couple tools that help make the transition easier, like Serverless Framework[0], but when you get into things like AWS Dynamo DB, which seems to be there perfered DB for serverless workloads, it can get tricky. Thankfully, it seems like the format of basic serverless functions is pretty standard across different platforms, but I think the real tricky part comes from other services on the platform you use, like data persistence.

[0] https://www.serverless.com/
I don't know here.

The choices aren't like those in a DoD company (we assume from the poster this is a FAANG company). You aren't actually building weapons platforms. It's a bit more like slot machine engineers here; people's lives are 'worse', but not 'over'.

As such, I think it's very personal.

If they are OK with building digital casino-like places, so be it. If they are not, then they should make a plan to leave. If they feel that the money is the only thing keeping them there, they have to look into their own mirrors.
To be clear, it's generally advisable to only take a prescription drug under the direction of a doctor. This isn't unique to dexamethasone.

Steroids plus eyes can lead to glaucoma. My doc won't let me use them anywhere near the face.
Do those ARM systems have graphics chips, or are they rendering the UI on the CPU? Modern x86 processors have integrated graphics for GUI basics, video, etc. Linux desktops can theoretically run off of just the CPU, just... not super well.
Official ones are behind two-factor authentication, only downloadable using Internet Explorer. Yeah.
(Speculation) Jim Keller to Apple soon?
As Alan says in the article, ‘“absorption” […] means that light is absorbed over distance as it travels through the object.’ So you can make an object darker by increasing the material's attenuation of light going through it, but it'll also become darker when you keep the material the same, but scale the object to a larger size.

This is introduced together with refraction because, in that context, it's important for rays that go through the object, as opposed to bouncing off the surface. When you look at diffuse reflections, darker materials also technically absorb more light penetrating through the surface than lighter ones. The difference is the scale at which the effect becomes significant enough that you want to spend computations on simulating it. A piece of rock doesn't change brightness when you scale it up — unless you're looking at grains of sand. With clear water it's the opposite: You don't need absorption to render a cup of water, but you do need it to render a lake.
> That is an exaggerated fear to have, school shootings are not the norm there.

Nearly once a week in 2019 (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/15/us/2019-us-school-shootin...). March 2020 was the first March since 2002 to pass without a single school shooting thanks to the 'rona lockdowns (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-first-march-without...).

> That would be like saying you're afraid of the Islamic terrorism amok on the streets of Europe.

Whole Europe has had 1 incident in 2019, 7 in 2018 and 10 in 2017/2016. Even with record 17 incidents in 2015, five years of Islamist terror together don't even come close to one average year of school shootings in the US, and are a blip compared to one year of mass shootings in the US.
The base x86_64 patents are about to expire.
Oh, it's this guy - nothing to see here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong
You can usually tell react based things from the poor performance and bad handling of network conditions.
Bending your spacetime frame of reference costs energy because you have to leverage something and change its frame. And you can use your bend spacetime frame to extract energy by bringing it in contact with another frame. But the bending itself, or maintaining it, or changing it, doesn't cost or yield energy.
I think a big chunk of that is power thermals -- Apple's ARM chips are only used currently in passively-cooled, handheld, power-restricted chassis (phones & tablets). Intel's chips are generally actively cooled and run on mains power, so they can run hotter and draw more power, so they can make up the difference by stuffing more hot cores onto the chip compared to what Apple has been doing.
> What is possible today that was very hard to do 10 years ago in web dev land?

Declaratively writing components and reusing behavior (e.g., hooks) across components/applications was basically impossible with the tools of 10 years ago. The benefit to the user is more stable interfaces and a faster release rate.
Almost everything we do can be explained by desire to seek rewarding feelings and avoid uncomfortable ones
As previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14523587
To build a business empire, own an opinion (not a marketing budget)
You’re forgetting the most underrated piece of hardware to come from Apple in the last couple of years, the 12” MacBook. The weight to capability ratio of that machine is off the charts and it’s the perfect encapsulation of what a portable Mac should be.
Harvard can be corrupt. There's a very average girl in my town who wouldn't get admitted to grad school at Harvard if her dad wasn't a law professor at Harvard.

Regarding asians. It's not about race. Diversity in academia is important for many reasons. It's not about being asian, it's about living in a rich family at a top school district, regardless of your race. A poor kid from a bad neighborhood cannot compete with that. The key is to find those who can close the gap. Taking someone's background into consideration is the right thing to do. There's some subjectivity in the process, so it's not ideal and someone would always be upset, but it's better than just looking at test scores.

To give you an example. I have friends who live at one of the top school districts in MA. In the last 3 years of their daughter's high school, they optimized her acceptance to college. Spending a lot of money on private lessons, making sure she volunteers in the right places since it looks good on the college application, paying money for a local expert to help her with the admission essay, etc. This is on top of the fact that she is already at a great high school who is optimized for getting its students into top schools.
If customers would be anonymous, would you mind if ICE used GitHub since nobody at GitHub would be aware of it?

If GitHub were to go through with it, that would make for an interesting middle-man company business model.
It would be like attempting to patent testosterone. I'm going to boldly claim that it couldn't happen. Maybe a big PR campaign could cause everyone to switch to a new version which is very expensive and has no different properties, but this drug's going nowhere.
Not really. LLVM is not a single interoperable IR, it's more like a family of IR's with many arch-specific details. WASM+WASI could work though.
Perhaps I should have been more precise. You're absolutely right about being apologetic for the atrocities committed.

I was referring to trying to justify Soviet Union's attacks on Poland and Finland as well as annexation of parts of Romania. E.g.'The Soviet Union was prepared to allow
other nations to fight one another so that it could have a share of the spoils'.
It was not 'other nations' fighting and Soviet-German alliance provided room for Soviet expansionism.
Not by itself, but of course the LLVM infrastructure has deep support for cross-compilation. (Objective-C can be translated to IR as well; it goes through largely the same pipeline once the frontend is done with it.)
I don't know. I don't want to dunk on the effort, but the world has moved on a lot since then.

The "Northwood" Pentium 4 was a 130nm lithography product.

131mm^2 die size, 35x35mm package and a 54W TDP to implement 55M transistors for the 2GHz version; one core, one thread, 32 bits, 256KB of L2 cache.

Apple's A13 Bionic is based on TSMC's 2nd generation 7nm product (this is what's in an iPhone 11).

98.5mm^2 die size, package is scarcely larger, 6W TDP to implement 8.5B transistors with clock speeds up to 2.66GHz; 6 cores for compute; 4 cores for GPU, 64 bits, 4MB of L2 cache.

The Apple product is a system-on-chip design so the comparison is actually worse than that: there's a whole bunch of stuff living elsewhere on the motherboard for Pentium 4 that's on the same die on the A13.

It's difficult to find comparative benchmarks for technologies so far apart in time and application, but there are some SPEC2006 benchmarks for Pentium 4 (a 90nm version with a much faster clock speed and a lot more L2 cache, in a Fujitsu-Siemens workstation from 2005) and A13 (in an iPhone 11).

The iPhone delivers SPECint_2006 = 52.82 / SPECfp_2006 = 65.27; vs the Pentium 4 with SPECint_2006 = 12.3 / SPECfp_2006 = 12.1.
Its also pushing kids into career directions that they may not really want to do and in some cases are not just suited to.

The only time I have seen some one who was just not suited to development was case of this.
KarGo – Autonomous Delivery Vehicles
Besides energy usage reported by the activity monitor, there is also the matter of how long the a user can stay on battery power. For laptop users, energy usage can be a huge deal for their overall satisfaction, even if the user isn't quite sure where they're gaining or losing anything.
One of the funnier, not funniest
Just checked it out. It has the toolbar heavy/MS Paint feel to it that I don't like. This could just be me though. Realtime stuff looks slick.

Do you use it? What do you use it for?
Odds are we'll all soon move to Desktop-as-a-Servic
>>>just 1 woman representative realistically would not change the culture so much

I've never been on the board of a large public corporation....but I've been in all-male military units, and nothing starts to tear up unit cohesion quite like a female getting dropped into the mix. Over the past 10 years in Japan, I definitely see some parallels between the two cultures. The Japanese are very big on "shared experience" as a means of bonding as a team. Maybe in a team of young entrepreneurs adding a single female would make fewer waves, but on leadership team of 40-70yo established Japanese businessmen? I would not expect it to go smoothly. At all.
That is entirely possible. When I drive out of my driveway and down the road, it sounds like the tires are ripping the asphalt off the road and flinging at the underside of the car. Sticky things.

In the winter I run snow tires, but then there's the low temperature and corresponding use of the climate control that destroys range. And in the summer I've got the performance wheels and tires installed. So I'll never see optimal range. But Tesla probably shouldn't be quoting 300+ miles of range for the Performance model, either.

Given the climate where I live is pretty mild, and snow is relatively rare and short-lived, I've given some consideration to ditching the performance tires and snow tires both and replacing with 19 inch Conti DWS to run year-round. If I got away with that on my Camaro, it would probably work on my AWD Tesla, LOL.
Can you back that statement up. You're saying that Brave inserts spam content in to pages? Do you have examples?

Never seen that myself in my time using Brave.

FWIW I quite like the BAT and affiliate link model and was made aware of both prior to my install.
You can see the PowerPC 615 for an example of this (dual powerpc and x86 decoders).

There it was implemented as new jump instruction for both archs in order to mode switch.
Boop: A Scriptable Scratchpad for Developers
Mind sharing? PLEASE!!!!!
That's a really interesting point. For years I got my best work done between 11pm and 2am. Maybe this is why.
Couldn't diversity be considered an objectively good thing to strive to have?

Anecdotally, I went to a technical school but some of my biggest shifts in perspective came from interacting with liberal arts and minority students.
why not display the pdf in the browser? that keeps the url in the address bar
Ideally Tor users should use something like the Whonix approach: two VMs are set up, a gateway for connecting to the internet and a workstation the user browses from. The gateway sets up the Tor connection, and the workstation is on a restricted virtual network that can only connect to the gateway.