skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft never had a 90% lock on computing infrastructure. They had it on desktop and laptop computers, which is a subset.
There is also the fact that people are been forced back into open offices as we speak.

There is no earthly reason I can't do my job from home (already have everything set-up from way before covid) but they want people back in the office...to have all meetings done at desk via videochat.

I pushed hard but they are not moving..which is why I will be as soon as I get a remote offer at comparable or better salary, started looking immediately after the last call where I got a hard no.

Government advice is "Should work from home if able to" but it's advice, not mandatory nor binding and there is no protection/law behind it - so pretty much nothing I can do other than quit, I've savings to get me through a year out of work but I don't want to deplete those in the middle of a pandemic when no one knows what the outcome of all this and a possible recurrence will be - so like a lot of people I'm having to balance the economic risk vs the real health risk about whether to go back or not.

My bosses bosses irrational hatred of WFH is going to put a lot of people at risk.

We are so fucked.
Well as my quote indicates I agree.

But I think it is also unhelpful / inaccurate for every non free nation that comes up we get these sort of "What about this place!?!?" false equivalency arguments.
> Java is going downhill(as in not much new code is being written in it)

This is just completely false.

- https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/1

- https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-pr...

I could link many other links showing Java as an extremely widespread language. There is just nothing comparable in the corporate world.
I'm less than pleased too. Darn it!
The parent is transparently concern trolling so it's not worth engaging with, but to answer your question it's important to remember that VPN providers have access to all of your traffic. Even if you use HTTPS and other encrypted standards you can probably infer a lot of personal information about a user by just monitoring when and where they connect to.

It's even arguably a bit worse than an ISP because any given internet connection may be shared across many users, and users often move between several connections managed by different entities. VPN on the other hand are generally personal and keeps tracking you regardless of whether you use your home connection, mobile data or a free WiFi connection.
From the policy, emphasis mine: "MUST use Google Play In-app Billing as THE method of payment."

They could be clearer that those words are significant, but in practice this is what the policy is.

Which is what you'd expect because the whole point of mandating that form of payments is to take the 30% cut (for digital goods meant to be used primarily on Android devices within apps downloaded from the Android app store).
“ask yourself if that answer doesn't make you look just a bit like a dewback's cloaca”
Maintaining fabs is expensive. AMD got to push debt onto Globalfoundries with the deal, and Globalfoundries could focus on other opportunities, not just AMD. Globalfoundries has since fallen behind in process node, with TSMC and Intel leading the way. Given the struggles Intel has had, it is hard to say that AMD would have been in a better position to get to 10nm or 7nm had they kept their fab facilities.
I will say it does seem a bit ambiguous, but I believe their intention is similar with how they view physical products.

I believe their intention is that once you download an asset (e.g. song/video/movie), it's a tangible, portable copy that's yours to do freely as you will regardless of device.

You wouldn't be able to play music downloaded via Apple Music directly on just any generic music player (like a car stereo or a CD player) due to DRM and other various restrictions, so I don't believe that this would be exempt from that condition.
We obviously have a huge variation in spread. Indeed, the choir is evidence of superspreaders who produce many cases, and we have an average R0 of 2-3. Singing loudly in enclosed spaces with many people is an example of a contact network structure that causes greatly increased susceptibility and contagion. Indeed, it proves the whole point!

But, the belief that herd immunity = 1 - (1 / R) is based on the assumption that those infected have equal susceptibility and equal probability of spread. This is a fair assumption when it comes to a vaccination program which will administer doses not correlated to susceptibility and contact network structure. It is not a fair assumption when it comes to actual spread of disease in the wild, which will preferentially spread in the more susceptible networks.

Reality is certainly better than this; the question is how much better. There's been some quality analysis of time-series data that implies the threshold may be 20-30%.

I believe that New York City's quick decline in death rates compared to jurisdictions with similar or stricter controls but lower seropositivity may imply that ~20% exposure is enough to significantly attenuate spread.
This passage struck a chord with me:

"We are, you might say, in a time when the smart money lacks all conviction, while the dumb money is filled with a passionate intensity."
rubocop -a

For the win.
There is no equivalence between the two actions.

China is claiming vast regions which are currently regarded as 'international waters', or worse 'sovereign waters of other nations' as it's own, sovereign territory.

The US is not declaring the Bahamas to be 'US Territory', for example.

Not only that, the US Navy ensures that everyone - including China, Russia, Iran etc. can have 'safe passage' in international waters, and especially Panama Canal, Suez, Gulf etc. - which is quite literally the opposite of China's intentions in the S. China sea.
It's a little funny though: living in the US means the FBI needs a warrant to read your messages and the NSA isn't supposed to at all (there was a huge scandal when they did!).

On the other hand, it's the NSA's job to read all the FSB's data. So by using the non-US-based program, you make it easier for the US government to spy on you.
It’s MIT License. You’re free to fork.
The US not directly, but certainly EU can. And if China actually starts a war, it is likely that the EU would be rather opposed to helping China.
>In fact I believe there’s even a US law to this effect.

No law in the United States of America compels businesses and their leaderships to maximise profit for shareholders.
Isn't that up to Snowden?

I don't think the Snowden of China gets such an option.
One of the hills I am willing to die on is auto-formatting. Code formatting is easily automated to an acceptable level, and people's personal preferences are subjective.

I like to solve interesting problems, and concentrate on crafting high quality software. Manual code formatting contributes to neither of these disciplines. Code formatting is BORING robot work, not human work. Total pointless drudgery. Toiling away because you like your bracket with a different spacing is IDIOTIC. Run the formatter and move on.
You need to have really pissed them off for them to poison you, much like how you really need to piss the Department of State off for them to drone strike you, or to throw you in a sack, mark it 'DIPLOMATIC MAIL', and ship you to Gitmo.
It should be somewhat difficult to end a program affecting 700k people, especially when that has enormous impact on those people.
The Bilbao Crystallographic Server is another great database including properties of crystallographic symmetry groups: https://www.cryst.ehu.es/
I was excited in the WashPo coverage that they said Colin would be pushing more coverage of prison reform.

It took me awhile, including attending a few events run by public defenders, to come around to the far end of the spectrum of reform which is abolition[1]. Abolitionists would say that reformers are wasting their time and that prisons work as designed.

Prison abolition, like defunding the police, is a topic that's reasonable if you dig into it but sounds radical and dangerous on the surface. So it's something the main stream media won't cover well or will cover with a lot of both-sidesism. I never read what the WashPo or NYT say on this topic because I know it'll be frustratingly bad.

So I see this as a great moment for Medium, to be a place where this topic can be covered fully and in depth. It's a win for their subscription model, which is generating the revenue that allows for high quality coverage. It's just great. I'm so excited.

[1] If abolition sounds dangerous or radical, the key point that got me over the hump was that it is a long term goal, say a hundred years, that is meant to be executed category by category. Once you see the goal that way, it's easy to first of all find categories that can simply be eliminated by decriminalization. And then as you keep going you find ways to either do restorative justice where the focus is on making amends or ways to solve the root issue prompting crime. It's not until the end where you would face the possibly impossible issues of what to do with a Jeffrey Dahmer for instance.
I am starting to feel this way about just git.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. That's in the site guidelines: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Nothing interesting's going to come from changing the topic to VC in general, and certainly not if you do it snarkily and with a shallow dismissal—both of which are also in the site guidelines, so this comment is a sort of trifecta.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would be interesting to see this benchmarked against absl::flat_hash_map[1] and folly::f14:F14FastMap[2].

[1] https://abseil.io/about/design/swisstables

[2] https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/containe...
This is an inane comment, there's TONS of new code being written in it, probably more than any other language. Outside the HN bubble of Rust/Draco/OCaml companies tend to stick with the Java/JS/Ruby/C# languages.
This is indeed exactly what I'm intending to say :)
All of New Relic's open source projects
Looks like they launched a new website that documents all of their open source projects and contributions.
Wirecard AG Auditor Says 1.9bn EUR Missing
I assume the possible scam is paying an anonymous bunch of people in BTC in the hopes that they ship you a working machine (also not sure how that works for support...). It seems like the Hackintosh community has gone to great lengths to test and recommend working hardware, so I am not sure why you'd want to gamble on buying something pre-fab (when I know I'd want to carefully double-check all their choices against those lists myself anyhow).
For services like Netflix and hey.com they're not primarily iOS apps. They're services usable from multiple platforms and devices. I shouldn't have to use iOS to manage my Netflix subscript just because I downloaded the iOS first.
Forget the VPN--I already have a VPN provider and I have no interest in changing. Offer a paid e-mail service, on the other hand, and I'd sign on up Day 1.
Only the shaping takes place at low temperatures. The material still needs a heat treatment at well over 1000°C for its final form.
As if licenses mean anything. What exactly does forking by you?
> startups that fail put you very far behind relative to peers

I think this really depends on what metric you're using for success. If it's finances, a failed startup is almost certainly a significant setback. In terms of experience, that's much more debatable.
All My Rockets That Didn't Work
Space Science with Python – A Data Science Tutorial Series
I have just got a U2720Q, it worked at 60Hz right away. But I am connecting over USB-C, with the provided cable.

What it did find off-putting is that Dell say they don't test with Macs, and thus can't support them, but they just assume that Appl follow the same specification they do. A bit weak, but the monitor does work fine.
> So basically all research projects have to redirect funds to cover part of the "open access fees"

Yes, the cost of publishing results, as well as review, editing, etc, should be incorporated into the research budget (researchers can of course choose other means of sharing their findings than through publication). In an open access model, the publishing costs are offset by money saved in not paying for access to other articles the research project needs.
I would hope that opting out means that projects have to pay fees on articles they'd otherwise get for free through this agreement, rather than riding on everyone else doing their bit.

One would imagine the fee schedule is set in the agreement UCB reached with Springer (presumably the agreement will be published at some point...)
This is actually a really good point.

At two recent jobs where each time i got approx 40% raise, I was the right person at the right time to fill that specific niche they really needed.
I would be a bit surprised if this is true, because it implies that when you're writing code that will be formatted you do not think of the reader's experience.

This could be the case if you have extreme confidence in the formatter, but I have def seen some very funky black outputs. It seems like when writing people will likely do so with a model of how black will yield the final code in mind. (Eg "if I add more characters to this one line list statement, it will get exploded across 5 lines", and affect readability, etc..)
? US strategic investment in semiconductors is probably the only way to fight Large State Actors dumping on world markets, by your very own logic.

$25B is about the right number as well, the challenge will be related to how efficiently it is spent.
> The idea that China could build an alternative to TSMC instead of trying to take it apparently doesn't compute.

The author does point out that it will take years for any new replacement to reach TMSC's capacity.
I'm not exactly late in my career but having been doing this for ~7 years I'm not clear how people are able to accumulate the capital to start a business and have enough cash to live on until it makes money. It's something that seems like a great experience, and I can see myself wishing I had been able to, but I just don't know how I'd afford it.

Even assuming you have virtually no business expenses other than cloud hosting, are you just supposed to watch your emergency fund disappear?
Git activity is the most praised metric at my company. Refactoring and commenting is highly rewarded. The utility of this metric is dubious.
Masked arsonist might’ve gotten away with it if she hadn’t left Etsy review
Cellular Nanosponges Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity
how do we know that achievement is of value?

how is it possible to know what is _actually_ of value as opposed to what is _apparently_ of value?

in your profile you mention:

> I do software nowadays, but I'm constantly looking for opportunities to do something actually useful for humanity.

how does one arrive at a belief about what is useful?
I appreciate that you're sharing your own experience, but you can do that without nationalistic and racial flamebait,
which your comments in this subthread unfortunately contain. I'm sure that was unintentional, but those are the things that people are going to react to, and when that happens, we won't end up anywhere interesting or good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask yourself why you want a VPN.

Is it to avoid your ISP collecting browsing data off you and selling it?

Perhaps using 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS might be good enough.

Is it to watch geo region blocked videos?

Then pretty much any service will work for you. Except that video streaming sites have caught on and blocked hosting provider IP blocks.
So that might require you to shop around.

Do you want the most privacy or want to get around blocking?

Then get a VM from a provider and configure a VPN to it.
Wireguard works fine.

Want to do something illegal?

Don't expect a VPN to save you.
One way to think about it is that elementary particles are so extremely small that they can't have that much complexity.

Entirely unprovable intuitive reasoning, I know. But I think there is something to it.
I wasn't sure if you could identify the origin of the request, I guess it makes sense that would not be possible or it could end up being cat and mouse between extensions.

For me specifically I had done some work with Firefox extensions, pre-quantum.
I was unimpressed until I clicked through to the team page and scrolled down to see that Aza Raskin is part of it. Cool!

The site is largely blank with JS disabled, FYI.

(Okay, activate JS, let's see what we got.)

A lot of static content (you don't need JS for that!) and some animation. Looks good.

The content (now that I can see it) is inspiring, seems to me like some very good ideas here.

The one thing I would suggest is don't make a browser, make a local proxy (like proxomitron or cookiengineer's "Stealth" project)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxomitron

https://github.hillwoodhome.net/cookiengineer/stealth

I feel that that gives you the required control or intervention points without the overhead of creating a whole browser (although "stealth" is also kind of a browser).

I feel like making a new browser is just adding a barrier to entry. If I'm at your website I should already be using your thing (though the site, with standard APIs and such.)

Overall this is really exciting and potent. I hope it comes together!
But that's the thing - they ended up drawing that trade-off line in more or less the same spot as most other mainstream PLs with generics. I don't understand why it took so long to basically acknowledge that prevailing wisdom is correct.
Hair-bearing human skin generated entirely from pluripotent stem cells
Especially the links at the bottom.
He certainly got his day in the court of public opinion, half the country thinks he's a traitor.

If I were him, I, uh, would not try my hand in a court of law.
It's not that you're wrong; it's that that I wouldn't be so sure that you're right about it.

Russia's leadership is not monolithic, and it's decisions are not rational. Some critics are killed even though they do not pose a significant threat. Some are able to continue their fight. Some have allies on the inside; some are said to actually be controlled by the government.

If anything, history of such politics teaches me that it's chaos all the way down and almost no one has the full picture, neither knows what he's doing.
Reminds me of the saying that among the two best days are the day you buy a boat and the day you sell it.
How so? If the canonical format is applied every time you save, you'll always be doing a diff with files using the same format. Of course, it does mean the code in the diffs may not be in your preferred format.
China is also make large investments in side stepping Intel and AMD in the form of Zhaoxin's x86 CPUs. At the rate they are progressing, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they at least match Intel and AMD on x86 performance within 10 years.
> And if Ford says that installing a third party radio without their authorization voids your warranty or otherwise makes it impossible to do so, it’s generally accepted to be OK.

No, not really. In the EU for example, a unauthorized change to one part can legally never void the warranty to an unrelated part.
Isn’t $4.99 pricey for a VPN? I pay about 3 for Nord.
NordVPN shares offices in Estonia with ProtonVPN. For that reason I find it sketchy.
Accelerating Machine Learning with Rapids (GPU Platform)
Intersting, always fun to read some BSD content. One thing that bothered me though is that no bootup times are specified anywhere in the article which after all focuses on exactly this, it would be very nice to see boot time of Fakecracker vs Docker vs NetBSD amd64 w. bootloader (and unmodified), and compared to the minimal Linux kernel menitoned in the begining.
It does. The Snowball was designed in a ruggedised fashion. It can take some extremely large shocks while in transit without putting customer data at risk. I forget the precise tests carried out, but I believe they even included "dropped from roof of multi-storey building".

Stuff going missing in shipping is solved by very low powered tracking chips in them. AWS knows where those devices are and could tell shipping firms if needs be.
>They might have the current technology, but no ability to advance to newer technologies.

How much needed are further advancements? Aren't we reaching the limits of shrinkage and clock speed? Computers can be used for years because there are no more huge increases. It may cost some more energy, but the current technology should be good enough for 10 to 15 years until China has its own knowledge.
Well, world war yes, but we just saw Russia annex a part of a different country by force. So China could say: Taiwan is Chinese, we belong together. And would the rest of the world not say: Well, we can't start a world war, because it's an extinction level event, so let's just condemn China in a very strongly worded letter?
I can work fully remote, no bullshit meetings ever. 1 or 2 phone calls a week (15-45min), otherwise I can work on with no interruptions.

Pretty hard to do better I guess
This right here. And a hosted suite of productivity tools that have documented, public formats that contain all of your data (and not just a link to the cloud-hosted copies).

Amazing that GSuite's only real competitor in 2020 in Office365.
I wish there was good C# one (and ideally a standard one like go). When switching between typescript with prettier and C# the first thing I notice is the lack of autoformating.

edit: seems https://github.com/dotnet/format is the closest thing
I regularly think that claims of astroturfing are overblown, but it is common in the "privacy" focused industry to FUD competitors to gain market share.

I'm immediately reminded of some shady search engine CEO going on OAN and other fringe shows posing as a security researcher to spread FUD about DDG to drive traffic to his site (can't find the link for it now.) That OAN video even went around the security industry (among compliance and less technical folk) who were persuaded DDG was now worse than Google for consumer privacy.
> What makes you think WASM is going to give developers an appetite for statically typed languages?

Well, they did say it will give TypeScript developers better alternatives. Presumably, if you're using TypeScript, you already had an appetite for statically typed languages.
If you want to diff against anything in the past you get a bunch of formatting noise that occludes real changes.
This weirded me out, but the Dockerfile [0] reveals how this just pulls together a bunch of linters. A nice convenience to have taken care of, but nothing groundbreaking or closed-off. I guess this still counts as an "Extend" step, though.

[0]: https://github.com/github/super-linter/blob/master/Dockerfil...