skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A single chip oriented at embedded systems can’t be said to have “solved all the problems Apple had” — and after years of falling behind, they really needed to get past the performance issue & its ensuing heat/reliability/cost problems. Customer loyalty only stretches so far and only the Intel option reliably closed the gap across product lines.

Putting the team to work on the future made sense: they’re incredibly profitable, the software has matured in key ways making it easier to port, and they’re moving after years of hitting high targets annually.
Can you please give me a proof that it's China and not someone else...or nothing at all?

I always hear cyber-attack's from Russia, North Korea or China, but never from Israel or the US, are they just so bad in covering up or is maybe something else behind it?
PWAs still have a long way to go before they're fully viable replacements for apps. Even on Android, which supports them vastly better than iOS, they're still lackluster. This is partially on the shoulders of mobile OS/browser vendors, but I think there's also an unavoidable ceiling to what current web architecture can do in terms of UX.

Front end web architecture is going to have to undergo a more radical evolution before native apps can reasonably be displaced. React and family were the first step of that, and I would guess the next step is building something like it into browsers themselves.
Comparing pricing directly, looks like Sketch is cheaper, if company already uses Macs. But how does it compare in reality? Do developers need additional Figma licences, or can designers just share designs with them to inspect?
> Why not keep IAP as an option vs credit cards? Let apps offer a credit card discounts. If it provides additional benefits to you: it sounds like you're willing to pay a ~30% more.

This is already the case though, right? Apple's response to Hey specifically suggested that they could offer an IAP option in the app at a markup over their web-based subscription.
Right! But it's only Australia; not like it matters. ;)
~ignore bad info~
Nice and informative blog
Can it read windows symbol files (pdb)? I understood they are complex and undocumented.
Sorry but as an Australian, Australia and backbone are two words that shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
Sure, that might work as a warning. Something like divert all Chinese traffic to /dev/null

Cable cutting is a more permanent solution if warning doesn’t suffice.
> a social contract that wearing a mask is patriotic.

I don't know when it happened exactly, but I feel like the general public has completely lost any sense of patriotism. I remember it being a big deal when I was a kid in the 90s. These days, there just isn't really any national pride. I guess probably related to 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan,etc.
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It's easier to replace the CUDA kernels with probably designed OpenCL kernels instead.
Edit: For third party: Thats what the driver does, compiles OpenGL and OpenCL code into GPU machine code. In case of mesa based on reverse engineering.
I'm old enough to remember everyone here shitting on Trump for suggesting Huawei 5G is a national security threat. This opinion is now so uncontroversial that even Eric Schmidt agrees: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/06/18/huawei-pos...
But that's not what the discussion is about. Frigidaire doesn't try to limit you to only putting stuff you bought at Walmart into their fridges.
Nope! That's why someone made that service, because neither they nor anyone else needs it.
This reminds me of "Tunnel In The Sky" by Robert Heinlein.

Teenager goes on a "growing up quest" in the hopes of becoming some type of Ranger or "Space Colony Guide". He and a group of others wormhole out to some planet and have to survive for a time before being wormholed back.

On the front end, you have to show up with equipment you think you'll need. Since you don't know anything about what environment you'll be warped in to, you have to do your absolute "Boy Scout Best". Main character shows up with a parka, a knife, this-and-that.

"Don't worry kid, you don't need that parka. Today you're not going to some arctic desert so you don't need it. Keep the knife though. I had to turn away some poor shit for bringing a space suit; regulations clearly stated a habitable environment. All set? Step on through."
Ask HN: Why shouldn’t I use corporate devices for personal use?
I currently work for a big tech co, I have done so for a few years.

At this point I have a Phone, table and Macbook from work. I use all three on my own time, and don’t have any personal equivalents other than a shared desktop with my partner where I store things like films and music library.

I’m becoming increasingly conscious of the consequences of this, so HN, why shouldn’t I?
I have a hobby project that deals a lot with graphical data structures. Think like choose-your-own-adventure-stories, mostly hierarchical, but with some DAG and even an occasional loop (but those are annoying). Each node just has a list of what it points to, and all my programming just does a lot of recursion. It's doable; while I have a number of graphs, none of them will have more than 1000 nodes, so I'm not actually hitting performance problems. But I wonder if I'm missing something; each time I think of a new graph-based feature (show only the part of the graph that leads to this category of nodes; display the graph while hiding everything downstream of node X; possibilities are endless) I'm spending hours doing recursive programming making sure I get it just right. I know there are plenty of graph algorithms out there but they're all quite academic and it's hard to grasp the utility of each one - even here, I grasp what the Knuth Transform is but it's harder to grasp what it gains me. Is there something I'm missing for a good next step, like graph theory for dummies?

Also, I like storing my data in mysql for other reasons so I don't want to switch everything wholesale to a graph database, but I wonder if I should be loading the graphical part of the data into something in memory, like a graph cache, that I can easily query rather than having to do all the recursive programming myself. Does something like that exist, a simple free library that acts as an in-memory graph db?
I believe CityLab was a startup that was created to "bring tech" to Architecture and (as similar startups) pivoted into Media. Architecture is probably one of the most difficult sectors to disrupt. It's obscure but there is a lot of research already (most architecture interns are doing it and often for free) and no low hanging fruit to pick. Most startups aim to transform this research in "tech money" but soon they acknowledge that their task is sisyphean.

Architect here.
Given the details, it might be a nation state, it might be some bored teenager.

People are constantly claiming to be attacked by nation states to hide their incompetence (nobody ever gets blamed that they failed to deter "China")
I meant it on foobar2000 with its foo_vis_shpeck plugin, which is a wrapper for Winamp visualization plugins. I have run it successfully under Windows but I recall having trouble on Wine some 5 years ago.
Figma sounds like a great tool, but it feels overhyped to me - especially in this article.

This reads like a long-winded pitch to a Figma investor more than an honest review.

I’ve been wanting to try it out but this article was a little bit of a turn off because it is so enthusiastic. Every tool has strengths and weaknesses so an article like this makes me wonder, what are the trade offs?
The chinese censorship machine would be quite happy about that
How do you "shut down" a PWA? At the end of the day, it's just a website?!
How did JS not make it? It's the most ubiquitous programming language on earth and runs on more devices and environments than any other. JS will always be here.
you can use android and not use google as evident from huawei's latest devices. at least in my country they are selling just fine even though google services are not enabled.
I don't understand what the problem is.

Either the value makes sense to you at the point of purchase or it doesn't. What does it matter to anyone what it used to cost yesterday? This isn't yesterday and you aren't being offered the product at yesterday's price, so forget about what happened yesterday. Take the current price or leave it.

The article talks about 'sneakiness'. I don't get it. Are they lying about the volume or weight of the product? No? So what on earth is the problem? Sometimes prices go up, sometimes they go down. It's not some secret conspiracy. Prices fluctuate, world markets and supply conditions change, labour prices change. Does he think it's the job of a manufacturer of ice cream to protect him from the sands of time?

And for some of the examples in the article... do people really need larger servings of 'fruit loops' of all things? Come on.
This is an interesting thread and I appreciate both you and bananabreakfast for it. America has a unique perspective of the wild among western countries. The way this manifests itself is that the American wild is furnished at an absolute bare minimum, as opposed to the European wild with huts, villages, towns and resorts around every bend. The European property is not owned by the government in the same way it is owned by the government in the United States. This is likely a result of incredibly low population density of the United States as whole, especially of wild places in the United States, and also the result of the near extinction of native peoples by colonizers and awful control by the subsequent American government.

Property and ownership also has a unique definition for the United States, and the "wild" referred to in this conversation is owned by the government, plain and simple. With this perspective it should be clear why individuals cannot just go out and "do whatever they like" even if this is a hypothetical argument. There is no un-owned place in the United States. There are positives and negatives to this reality, but it is reality and should help to ground the conversation.

I wonder what another model that could fit the massive expanses of space set aside in the Unite States; certainly one with a less consistent hierarchy of responsibility would be worse than the current system. It is also important to realize how artificial the "wild" is in the United States given the American philosophy of individualism and property ownership, especially given the status of the population as exceptionally empowered by rights, wealth and technology. I say artificial because without the organization that protects the wild spaces, they would not exist as they do today.

It would be interesting to discuss the meaning of "the wild" or its equivalents in other cultures, as I imagine we would see an incredible variety of meaning. I, however, have mainly experienced and philosophized about the American and European wilds.

I deeply resonate with the sentiment expressed by the Alaskan ranger in the top level comment. As a guide of private and commercial expeditions I am constantly amazed at the alternate realities of understanding and respect people have about wilderness and I cherish my role, however small, as an ambassador to the wild.

I know a few Search and Rescue workers, volunteers and Rangers, they regret their job as babysitters for the incompetent but command respect by outdoorsmen. They are essential to the wild as we have it in the United States.

I used the word unique in this piece too much, but there are a number of special things about the United States and the American psyche that are central to this conversation. I do not claim these perspectives are right or correct or ideal, but it is how I see it today.
I agree and would like to add that people have been proven to be very bad at making at least certain kinds of predictions.

Humans may still be around after 100 thousand years. The electron had not even been discovered just 130 years ago.

It is very difficult to make good predictions about the possible practical applications of our current physics knowledge. Of course, it is much more difficult to make such predictions about as yet undiscovered physics...

Besides, HEP experiments aim to expand our knowledge about the fundamental laws of nature. Fundamental laws are by definition applicable to all energy scales.
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Could you give some examples of these outliers?

I do not know any successful entrepreneurs that project vulnerability nor self-doubt. For a VC's that's a big no no. So you have made me curious and this is a sincere question.
Such large scale attacks are organized and effectively weapons.

Now, think which country wants to attack Australia and teach it lesson for various noises it has been making against it.

Now look at the past history of the said country.

There is your evidence.
If the world were to say that enough was enough, the response would take the form of economic sanctions.
Well tbf, stuxnet & flame are probably the two cyber-attacks that can actually beyond all doubt be called cyber warfare.

Most everything else seems more about finding a scapegoat to blame.
There are better examples than Russia and Crimea.

I am not Russian, and have nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine or whatever (I am Brazillian, of Iberian descent).

Still, Crimea was not a "invasion" or "conquest".

Long story short:

Russia invaded Crimea in 1700s, taking it from Tartars.

When a Ukranian became leader of URSS, he "gave" Crimea to Ukraine, it was only nominal, nothing changed in Crimea itself, the place still was basically a navy base for Russia.

When URSS broke up, because of previous decision, it was decided Crimea was Ukranian, except most of population there is Russian (including a huge amount of Russian military), and their only warmwater seaport deep enough for the good warships Russia had, was still there, to make this work, Russia "rented" the place from Ukraine.

When Ukraine most recent revolution happened, do you think all the Russian military personel families that live there since 1700s would want to leave?

Now... if you want to claim what is happening in Donbass is a invasion, then that is more plausible.
Great point! That's a much more accurate example, thank you
You literally can't sideload any app on an iPhone and Apple will never relent on that unless they're compelled by law. So either you get people to stop buying iPhones or lawmakers to admit that's a problem, and neither is likely to happen nowadays.
Don’t let people pin it to their home screen and push an alternative that does distribute through the App Store. That will effectively kill the business.
> Even if you have an open eBook reader, where are you going to get the books from?

There's a huge ebook pirating scene, so you could always do that, buying the book beforehand if the ethics disturb you.

What is sad to me is that there's no way to check out an ebook from a library in a way that doesn't involve Amazon.
What use case is there for Fridgidaire refrigerators that cannot be fulfilled by other brands?
You can't always trust the online address checker. In this case it was likely right, but CenturyLink's checker for our address has never been right. For a while it said far higher than what the tech said we could get, and now it shows lower than what we actually have.
They depend on OS support. Apple/Google would just remove support.
I don't get what you're saying. Are you claiming he lied? Based on him deleting a bunch of campaign related pages after he ended his campaign?
newbie to VPN stuff, mind giving reasons why?
> Add in the trillions in the bailout and economic damage, this might be the worst decision ever.

This was caused by the pandemic itself, not by the reaction to it. There's no scenario in which a pandemic ravaging unchecked through the populace does not create massive economic damage.
Given enough time, customers will eventually exit the market. Ex: I have completely stopped buying processed cereal (Cheerios etc) in favor of natural oatmeal.

I have a 40lb bag of oatmeal at home that will last 4 months. Also much healthier.

When I see tiny cereal boxes on a store shelf...I shake my head.
But do you use it daily as your primary system?
> stealthily shrinking

They have their weight or volume printed on them.
The big subjective improvements appear to have been in screen resolutions/sharpness and in SSDs. An 8-year-old LCD will likely have dimmed substantially.

On the other hand if you like it, you like it, and cheap is beautiful.
Nor does Apple: you can have as many PWAs as you want. As JS is Turing complete, you can then have every sort of app. They've always encouraged PWAs.

Unless you want to legally force every company to surrender their source code (which I enthusiastically would support), there's no legal basis for Apple not being able to have their proprietary feature phone locked down.

Though if you'd like, you can look at Keurig, which does limit what you can put into it to "only Keurig products" or one of the millions of other things that limit what you can put into it.
It's definitely not. Thank Baal for uBlock Origin and temporary containers firefox et al. Medium is basically quora with a slightly bigger "stick" I mean who pays for it? Not me.

I'll start paying for medium once the nukes go off. After that it's self service. Don't pay for Medium it's a shit place. As convenient as the concentration camps back in the old days. convenient doesn't mean good. Boycott medium quora and all these shit places. Or let them drown on their own just choose your ad blockers right and don't pay for medium it's trivial to circumvent. Fucking cynical fuckstars. Fuck medium and the indian enclave of quora. What a piece of shit

0/0 would not pay. Will never pay. Fuck medium and quora with a circumcised atlantic ocean depth interrogance. let them burn. What a cocksucking show
no common drivers, hardware, or software.
I never read the price per unit, I always read the price per liter, kg etc. and use that to compare products.
> How do you "shut down" a PWA? At the end of the day, it's just a website?!

You limit the capabilities of the web apps, like not allowing notifications from websites.
I'll put Snipcart (https://snipcart.com/) in the ring. It's nice because it has only the server logic part in the cloud but it's very easy for a programmer to set up and do themselves.
What do you think you're contributing with this?
> You clearly didn't read the article closely enough

It's against the site rules here to accuse people of not reading the article.
> This is some next level theater.

It's what I suppose both the 'left' and 'right' call "lib shit". It's at the heart of what's gotten me very confused politically: I'm probably proper left, but find myself oddly sympathetic of the the pretty bad part of what is called 'right'. So which am I, 'politically realistic' and as a result 'a lib', or do I just want to simultaneously tune out and 'fuck shit up' and feel both guilty and apathetic about /that/ too. There are only so many turtles I can go down a day.
China attacked U.S. Health and Human Services, hospitals and labs in April:
https://www.wltz.com/2020/04/27/foreign-hackers-launch-attac...

The Chinese aircraft carrier strike force threatened Taiwan : https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11394307/china-warships-taiwan... .

The General Secretary of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is up to something.
It works again...but for production...nah probably not, they just need more peoples who work on bk itself and on a hosting platform like BkBits....its a bit a sad state for such a great product.

But yes you can host bkbits for yourself, but i have no clue in witch repos it is, maybe ask here:

https://users.bitkeeper.org/

Sorry for being not a big help
My fruit and veg us definitely smaller. We've started ordering from a local supplier, and the onions, carrots, celery, Aubergines, garlic, and herbs are all probably 30% bigger, smell better and taste better too
What use case is there for Apple devices that cannot be fulfilled by other brands? Literally none.
> Germany, France and Britain are also falling down on the job as well (because they're economically scared), so there's plenty of blame to go around.

In the case of Britain we've had a disastrous handling of the pandemic which is still on going (both the illness and the handling of it) on top of Brexit and incredibly poor leadership.

It'll be a decade before we return to something like normality and even then it will be in a new reality.

Leaving the EU lost us our ability to stand up to the US or China in any meaningful way - for them we are just another Tuesday.
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hey , guys i am trying to get on youtube , i need just a review how to improve this kind of videos , and if you have others video idea :D
Okay. Let's only ban making app stores mandatory then, not app stores themselves.
Pure “viewer” licenses are free on figma. You only pay per editor.

And IMHO the price delta between sketch and figma is basically a rounding error on the wage cost of your designers, so it’s barely even worth thinking about.
I couldn't help but notice that the latest commit on the repo was over 3 years ago
> The word master is too closely related to the word slave, a practice that goes against B12’s values.

Isn't this is a bit of over correction? Check out the synonyms of the word 'master' https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/master. It has lot of other meanings which does not mean 'master-slave'.

Also by this weird logic, the company mastercard should change their name.
Because it's expensive and difficult to directly compete with trillion dollar companies?

That's why we have a government, because when companies get big enough, that's the only entity left that can restore the balance of power.

Since we're living in a corporatocracy, it has become unclear which corporate abuse gets a slap on the wrist and when, because there are so many. It's become profitable to do what you want now, ask for forgiveness later. It turns out you can even ruin the world's economy and instead of getting punished, receive a bail-out and your usual hefty bonuses!

I can only assume these decisions get made behind closed doors by groups of politicians and multi-national corporations. When a consensus gets reached, they announce it to the public, not unlike when crime syndicates get together with the police and give them a few sacrificial lambs, to continue business as usual.
I'm so glad that US police brutality is now sorted out.
Thanks Adam.
What mandate would the Taiwan government have to rule China? Nobody on the mainland voted for them.
Check out /e/ (https://e.foundation/). It’s an Android rom that is privacy oriented and that removed google services. They also sell devices that have /e/ preinstalled.
> or is maybe something else behind it?

What precisely are you saying?
Samsung Blu-ray players are trapped in a startup loop
“Our government response to the pandemic was terrible!”

...

“If the pandemic may also require us to conclude that we need more government!”

I’ll never understand this line of thinking.
Goodbye KBSecret, Hello Kbs2
Looking for Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves
The Lucene ecosystem has been around since the early 2000s.. it's old enough to vote if not drink.

Maybe eventually RDBMS systems will have full-text search out of the box that makes it unnecessary, but until they do, any predictions of death are certainly premature. (also, the lifecycle of indexed documents is different enough from transactional records that it's not as easy as it sounds).
Similar service: https://politepol.com/en/
People are buying the new products due to a lack of cheaper alternatives, which you said yourself (it's the whole reason they're carrying local items in the first place).

Once those cheaper items return to shelves, a significant portion of the shoppers will return to them.