skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In another thread I commented that because of our knowledge of how the US government handled coronavirus and disasters such as Katrina, it's vitally important that individuals and families cast out any thought or hope of aid, assistance, or rescue from the US fed government in a disaster and instead work to prepare themselves and their community for events like this.

This article is demonstrating that this isn't a political position - it's just a fact of life in the USA.
I thought cyber attacks generally were considered acts of war.

But what are you going to do about it? Start shooting in China's general direction?
What a low effort article. Zero details. And the page is in huge part advertising and unrelated stuff.
> Nim Games Miniconf

I'd be interested in that! From my perspective Nim is ideal as an indie gamedev language since it's so fast to iterate/prototype with and get good performance, and has mega easy FFI to C/C++/JS to reuse anything in those ecosystems.
I ported computation-heavy application code on the MacOS to PowerPC architecture, and benchmarked the results for the client. I do not have the graphs handy, but I cant agree with the first section here entirely. It is true that the performance did not live up to the expectations, but overall it was a win.
There was so much money, vanity and spin at that time, bringing millions of consumers into the world of computing, multiplied by media and unscrupulous marketers. I do not know what a consumer would expect in those days, depends on who you asked and their vantage point. Every camp was guilty of exaggeration I would say.
The disruption to supply chains from COVID and panic buying has resulted in my local grocery store carrying more local and regional products to replace the ones that have shortages.

They already carried local products, but that has increased.

So relax.
This isn’t really true. Intel macos story was revealed to be very small and essentially a hobby project.

https://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secr...
I don't quite follow.
Would you please elucidate?
Found many old lists of BBS's. Listed was a BBS I would dial up years ago.....

Fond memories.
Have you considered that you are making assumptions (e.g. that I have not done reading on this subject) or that you are making personal accusations (e.g. that I may not recognize advantages) based also on assumptions? That perhaps my interest isn’t in fighting but merely challenging your assertion and assumptions?

It appears to me you take the position that you are correct, and that any challenge is necessarily one coming from a position of ignorance or malice. I invite you to re-think your approach to this sort of conversation.
Ah, Steinmetz!

> Steinmetz, Scott wrote, responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:

> Making chalk mark on generator $1.

> Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Incredible that that story is not apocryphal!
You probably are wrong, because sites like YouTube often operate multiple takedown mechanisms. They have to follow the law in areas where they operate, so for example in the US you have takedown notices under the DMCA, and various other parts of the world have similar provisions. However, there is no reason YouTube cannot also make its own private arrangements with major media companies to provide alternative takedown mechanisms.

Retaining such arrangements might be in YouTube's best interests even if laws are changed, because it doesn't want to pick expensive legal fights with rightsholders, so it may be beneficial to offer the big players a relatively simple way to take down content they don't like even if this isn't strictly a legal requirement.

The only reason this story is entertaining is that for once it was one of the big rightsholders that got hit by a mistake. But that will get fixed very quickly, and since rightsholders like Marvel probably benefit greatly from YouTube's takedown systems, I think it is extremely unlikely that anything else will change because of this.
Agreed. I want my two minutes back.
Encourage them to be a sheepdog? We trust people in leadership roles (e.g. CEO) to be focused on how our project relates to the outside world, e.g. strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Gates is an example of a leader who had too much inward (rather than outward focus) early on. Also helps to learn following before leading.
there's a very widely used measure here in the academic community: instructions per cycle (ipc). IPC boils down to how many instructions can you actually complete per clock cycle once you account for memory, caching, etc.
Because it costs more money, takes more time, and requires more knowledge about the state of things. I haven't a clue what you mean by chlorination. You're probably right, but it's not obvious.
I used to work for a technical recruiting platform. I can say that anecdotally, most startups are happy to have a FAANG engineer in their pipeline. If an engineer has the talent level for FAANG, and they want what comes with a startup role, they will generally work out. There might be some cultural ramp up, but it's almost always navigable.

The most common issue I saw around FAANG engineers and startups was actually retention (which is more broadly an issue throughout engineering). Owning a substantial piece of a company is an exciting thought when you first join, but after a year and a half of making 60% of your old salary, in which the startup has had enough ups and downs to make you question whether this equity will ever actually be worth anything, moving on can be very attractive.
The system was imposed upon them by 1) licensing agreements with major content companies and 2) EU Copyright Directive Article 17.

Actually, EUCD17 is a bit more insidious: it's a sliding scale of "best practices", which means that when content companies demand a better system of one licensee, every other player in the space (regardless of if they do business with that licensee) loses their liability protection until they meet that licensee's standard. That's how they were able to get away with claiming it didn't have upload filters: they just made it so that a court could point to YouTube and say "why aren't you as good as YouTube in taking things down"?
Monopoly is not necessary for antitrust enforcement - 'market power' is sufficient: https://www.justice.gov/atr/monopoly-power-and-market-power-...
> Why hasn't there been enough innovation in terms of creating alternatives despite a healthy improvement of web application distribution like PWAs(Progressive Web Apps)

This is because those who think these solutions will change things have no idea where the problem is coming from. Basically they are solving the wrong problem. They must first sit down and think hard about why it is that Apple and Google have so much power. It's because they have built products people can't live without on a daily basis (Android and iPhone)

PWA won't get you anywhere because at the end of the day your success is still at the mercy of those platform providers. Currently Google and Apple just let them be because they're just cute experiments that don't threaten their business model. But when it does become threatening, they may easily shut down access to PWAs overnight and there's nothing we can do about it other than bitching on public forums like HN.

The point is, if you want to beat Google or Apple you need to start from a platform that doesn't rely on them at all. PWA completely fails there.

> Some interesting innovation might be Dapps inside the Coinbase Wallet or Status IM. What are some reasons it is futile to take on this marketplace.

For the same reason, this "DAPP" is even sillier. Unless these "DAPP" guys are going to build their own device, at the end of the day they still rely on iOS and Android for their users to interact with their "Decentralized" app. What a joke.

The solution is not about building a "decentralized app store" or "fight against Apple and Google". It's about building something that comes out of nowhere and disrupts the current status quo in ways never expected. No other way around it.
Breakthrough Technologies for National Security – DARPA (2015) [pdf]
Oh that's interesting, I missed this one: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/review-onyx-boox-max3-a...

I know I shouldn't be complaining about price now that I've heard it exists at all, but $840 is really steep! I was thinking something more like $400. I know it's a niche product, but even so.
The pandemic may also require us to conclude that a free market in health care, and individuals making purportedly rational decisions about the value of their own lives in the context of their economic status is not what should happen in a modern society.
StretchShop – the fast and scalable e-business is growing up
We are not talking past each other. Neither colleges nor high schools are teaching marxist interpretation of history in their history courses. The exception are courses like "marxist interpretation of x" which indeed teaches what marxist interpretation of event x is.

Also, I suspect that you dont know what Marxist interpretation of historical events is.
You're describing how it can be upgraded in theory but the parent was explaining that it can't be done in practice.

One of the lessons of the last decade or so has been that only end-to-end encryption prevents ossification. To the extent that middleboxes can read stuff they will break forward compatibility.

For example certificate compression. How are we only sending that to standardisation now in 2020? Well it was impossible to deploy this before TLS 1.3. Why? Because older versions of TLS didn't encrypt certificates, and so middleboxes could read them, and so middleboxes would freak out if the certificate wasn't as expected. That's all it took to make a useful optimisation impossible to deploy.
International law barely exists and is unenforceable. If a superpower--especially a permanent Security Council member--wants to do something, there's absolutely no recourse. Look at Russia and Crimea. That's the most egregious violation of the notion of international law in recent history, and nothing of consequence happened. The big powers can do whatever they want, and the worst response will be token economic sanctions. China is so economically intertwined with the world that nothing at all would happen unless they nuked someone.
The experiences of China and Korea strongly suggest that good lockdown and tracing campaigns cannot eliminate it entirely.
Apple is unlikely to waste engineering resources and product resources on something they don't care about. Hackintoshes are largely an enthusiast phenomenon that doesn't overlap much with their core market of people willing to spend a premium on hardware that "just works" and looks nice. For the last 10 years Apple hasn't lifted a finger to stop them , why would they start now?

The danger is not so much T2 chips or the like, because that can easily be defeated in software, but locking down peripheral support would be. For instance if they only support their own custom graphics hardware that would be a problem. This is what Apple tends to do so it's the most likely scenario.
The Coming Collapse (2016)
Not just cyber attack, Australia is also under economic attack [1] for the same reason. And China just suddenly decided to sentence an Australian to death (same move they made against Canada), after five years of sitting on the case [2]. It's all about intimidation and leverage. China will press until Australia capitulates. Fortunately the Australians have backbone.

As a superpower capable of standing off with China, the US should be stepping in and offering very public political and economic support to Australia. It's the only approach that will work when dealing with China's new era of extreme belligerence. If the US were currently being led by a wiser politician, they would be rallying allies old and new (such as India) at China's expense.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/21/austr...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/china/australian-drug-smuggli...
Apple doesn't seem to understand they are running out of track. This is not about some disgruntled developers, because to be honest those developers don't have enough leverage over Apple. This is about the EU's investigation. History tells us that these sorts of investigations tend to result in big fines and restrictions being applied, at least if harm to EU businesses can be demonstrated. A big American tech giant harming European businesses like Spotify? Everyone can read those tea leaves.

Now, the real question is this, what scenario is more likely?

1. Apple gets out in front of this, and opens up the app store just enough that they don't get fined / restricted.

2. The EU applies fines and restrictions to Apple and only Apple.

3. The EU drafts a digital store directive, and applies it to all digital download stores, including Apple's.

The third scenario is probably going to happen at some point anyway, but the current complaint may be the catalyst. I don't know whether to hope for it or fear it, because you never know whether it's going to be a well-written directive.
Just a note on the final line:

>Apple needs to decide if it wants to be “right,” or if it wants to be happy.

I think Siracusa is referencing a line from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, spoken by Slartibartfast as part of an exchange with Arthur Dent:

>"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."

>"And are you?"

>"No, that's where it all falls down, of course."

>"Pity," said Arthur with sympathy. "It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise."

I love the book, but that particular line has stuck with me for quite a while. I try to use it as a guide whenever I start to lean toward being right over happiness. Works for relationships, code reviews, whatever you like.
I wish Figma would add page formatting and links so that it could be used as a wiki also. Figma is on a much better track to make a good product than Notion.
Is there anyone doing research on the irrational aspects of human nature (the inability to reason about large numbers and small probabilities, the fixation on outliers, hindsight bias, etc) and their intersection with social media? I would be interested to see an analysis of this kind of stuff from a systemic point of view.
Apple certainly has a monopoly in the iPhone app market.
Interestingly enough the EU is looking at that.

Also, the US FTC threatened to investigate Apple over the "no third-party tools" thing they imposed on developers alongside "Thoughts on Flash". That's why they never followed through and removed it from their App Store guidelines.

So there is a limit - somewhere between "technical lockouts" and "we won't approve things made with third-party tools".
The govt is giving out free money and people will do something with this money. Sometimes the intention the govt has is for it to be spent to support the economy.

Today we are seeing people park money in stocks, and companies buying back stocks with cheap debt. It's likely overvalued from excessive buying.

The FED seems ok with this and hopes the economy will catch up. So really the market is overvalued today but with hopes that main street can catch up before a crash happens.
SpaceX live now launch Falcon 9 [video]
Taiwan and Mainland China both claim to be true China. Taiwan used to be on UN security council till it was ousted and replaced by PRC: http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/04/taiwan-still-permanent-member....

We just have to replace them again.
The list of Macs supported by Catalina goes back to 2012: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210222
How to Get Worse at Starcraft II
Fair enough (I’d delete it but cannot now)
Well, I stopped buying Haagen-Dazs when their tubs shrank and stuck to Ben & Jerry instead. And I stopped buying Tropicana Orange Juice when they shrank their juice containers from 64 fl. oz. to 59. You can't fool all of the people all the time.
> Internally Apple always had an x86 build of OS X running.
This is true.

> Intel chips ran cooler, had better power efficiency and were way faster at a lot of things than PowerPC.

This is false, and so much so that it brings into question the whole comment. Heat from Intel parts was massively greater, and power consumption overall was greater on Intel parts for similar work. "faster" would have to include some specifics. A low-end Intel part would not beat an expensive PowerPC part, obviously.

> Leadership was actually super reluctant to switch and it took a demo from an engineer showing the massive improvement to convince them.

There were many demos internally and many casts of characters at the executive level, all along.

>If Apple is ready to switch to ARM they must have some impressive CPU.

hint- it is about the money
Figma is a great piece of engineering, but I'm sticking with Sketch for personal use since it checks all of my boxes.

I've been watching it though, because I'm curious to see if they'll ever switch away from Electron for their desktop app. As far as I can tell, it doesn't need much from the browser other than a canvas. A lightweight standalone webassembly+canvas runtime would probably be enough to run it with some tweaks and could net significant performance/efficiency improvements (especially if said runtime leveraged Vulkan, Metal, etc). If they do that, it'll grab my attention and may kick off a new way to build cross-platform high-performance desktop apps.
Thank you for this.
I feel relieved to read two opinions like this in a 15-minute span, the first one being on Reddit.

Since the WFH, I've been getting more and more meeting requests, often in the form of a calendar invite coming by mail. That gave me the idea of self-hosting my calendar (email is already de-googled, I have my domain + a hosting plan, etc.). I've literally spent a whole day looking at all the existing options, trying a few of them on my VPS and my Pi, etc. Incomplete documentation, abandonware, half-baked tutorials. No one seem to come close to Google calendar (the most common for the layman).

And I'm saddened that every time I want to make such a move, it's like everything is telling me to learn a skill (Python, Docker, code, etc.) before achieving my goals. This is appealing to the average user. I have a day job (that is nowhere close to tech and programming) and if something has to require not only involvement but also learning new skills before being done, it's barely worth the cost. That's, for example, why GUI took over the console for the general public.

Back to my issue, I've decided to create a Google account (without Gmail) for the sake of Calendar, Drive, etc. Unfortunately. If someone like Mozilla offered an alternative productivity suite, I'd pay for it in a heartbeat. In the mean time, I'll have to go back to big-G. Unfortunately.
Not sure about the other ones, but Blender runs on ARM[0], and it seems like adobe is already working on it[1]

[0] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=blender
[1] https://www.neowin.net/news/adobe-is-working-to-bring-all-of...
Depends on your base-line. Take Taiwan.

Taiwan was masked up and implemented international quarantine in January along with full contract/tracing. Yes, they have characteristics and infrastructure we cannot perfectly replicate like a homogeneous population with relatively even socio-economic status, social cohesions and a strong societal memory of SARs with infrastructure to go along with it and a complete mistrust of information coming from WHO and China.

But even if we did 80% as well as Taiwan we are talking about almost 100,000 deaths. I think the excess mortality is around 2x what we are seeing in the official death figures so more like 200,000 deaths.

Add in the trillions in the bailout and economic damage, this might be the worst decision ever.

Taleb et.al issued a warning on Jan 26 about this. As he said - governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions.” [1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-is...
When Russia occupied Crimea, we introduced some half-assed trade sanctions for a little while.
Lack of support for antitrust. People are still enjoying massive corporate profit margins and S&P500 gains. Literally the entire pensions system depends on super high profit margins.

This is by no means unique to our times and tech. Happened many times in the past.

PS. When was the last time that Wilshire 5000 actually had 5000 companies in it? Google tells me it was in Dec 2005.
Everyone is free to innovate and create alternatives. Go ahead -- go out and build something that people want and is a platform that people are willing to / want to develop on, and can be charged fewer fees (or no fees at all).

An app store is not a public utility or place of public accommodation that entitles people to a certain kind or level of access. Or a right to sue, claiming that a certain price is fair.

Feel free to make something newer and better.
Because we keep buying devices locked into app stores, and we tell ourselves that is A Good Thing for security.

I have an android device and never considered a third party app store. It is hard enough to trust most apps in the approved store, let alone a stranger's. At best, I go straight to the content owner and use their website.

Sandstorm tried something like this, but never took off because most people- producers and consumers alike- don't find them more helpful than what already exists.
I have a local convience store that has fresh foods and some canned goods. It's the chain convience stores that don't carry anything.
Just cut the undersea cables from China, there has to be a time when the world says enough is enough
Sure, and Frigidaire has a monopoly on Frigidaire refrigerators.

I said legally-justifiable antitrust claims. Apple has a minority of the smartphone market. You can make anything into a "monopoly" if you define it narrowly enough but that's not legally justifiable in any way.
Why is it the US' problem? If AUSTRALIA were currently being led by a wiser politician, or indeed had in the last .. 20 years .. been led by wise politicians .. it wouldn't be in this mess right now in the first place.

Its only because Australia kowtows with fluidity every time the US snaps its fingers that its in this mess right now. Australians need to stop being the lapdogs to the American empire, and start thinking about their own future. Australias future isn't white American: it is multi-cultural and mostly Asian.
Couldn't they just charge people coming from the app store MAXINT dollars to be technically compliant (the best kind of compliant)?
Compact Fusion Systems recently got funding to push this approach. On LinkedIn they announced purchase of surplus high-energy capacitors (from the old Shiva Star at AFRL) to build a prototype.

They seem to have taken to hear some lessons learned from previous experiments (cannot assume lossless compression, must pay attention to RT instabilities, must think about vaporization of first-wall).

One downside to a fully liquid blanket: the peak temperature is limited by the vapor pressure of the first wall, which in turn is limited by the impurity tolerance of the plasma. In a non-imploding device, it would be possible to run the majority of the blanket at a higher temperature & separate that from the cooler first-wall liquid. Of course, this puts some solid material closer to the neutrons, so YMMV.

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/ALPHA_TURCHI.p...
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/06_TURCHI.pdf