skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned in another post that I am a big proponent of moving to Canada, but I have my eyes wide open. Canadian salaries do not even come close. Also, I have filed taxes in CA for 12 straight years. The tax burden gets diluted by a lot of different factors like deductions, mortgage deductions, tax credits etc. In 2018, I took my total $$$ paid to Fed + CA and divided over total income and effective rate was only 28%. The top rate in CA is 9% which is a progressive rate. Effective rate is actually close to a flat 5%
If I walk into a store and make no purchase creates no value for the store. Visiting a website with a Facebook tracker (21.9% of the web) and making no purchase creates value for Facebook.
Yes. My uncle recently started working from home and it looks as though it is going to be a long term thing. It a a win win for both the employer and the employee in many cases.
I did a double take when he said this. It's already translucent and takes on the color of your desktop picture, in Catalina! Does he not know that?
Which competitors? Windows and ChromeOS have already been sold on ARM hardware.
You came with your strawman that it was for its own sake, they just stated it was a profitable move and "amazing for Apple and its shareholders, which is hard to refute. OP even said "They don't need to deal with single-supplier hassles and they get much more control over what cores go into their SoC." It seems you are now arguing with your own points.
Why some physicists think there's a 'mirror universe' hiding in space-time
Our team has used SnapEDA many times on our projects and it has been a huge timesaver. The new Altium native support has made things a lot easier too.
Disclaimer: I don't make the rules, and the rules are probably unsubstantiated.

There's no shame in going to toilet, it's just not in to do it in plain view.

It's not the "feeding your child" bit that raises eyebrows, it's "naking your boobs".
I'm not sure you're making an argument in good faith here.

Still feel free to see my response just below. That said I'm not management but our devs are smart and knowledgeable and I'm sure are getting offers from other companies. And I like to think they are treated well and I hope I get to work with them for a long time to come.
Anything with grip strength. Work on the forearms and biceps. Basically anything above the waist is good for your hands.

However, do not try to focus on only the hands. The human body is a big bundle of sticks and elastic see-saws. It a very real way (as hippy dippy as it sounds) the human body is all one-thingness.

Do:

Pushups, all kinds.

Pullups, all kinds.

Punches, presses, windmills, do it all.

Have a 15 minute daily exercise routine before breakfast. Make it up yourself. If you have room to turn around you have enough room to exercize.

There's tons of body weight exercizes to find online for free. This is your body. No amount of money can get you a new one or improve the one you have. The only way to get better is discipline and consistent effort. Just 15 minutes a day, I swear.
I think the outside is less dangerous not because of UV, but because a far smaller percentage of the air you breath in was breathed out by someone else in the last 15 minutes.
Cybersecurity practices for remote workers class
This is just my opinion but I think it's great for consumers and a good restriction for developers.

As a consumer you shouldn't be running unsigned software because you're putting not only your data at risk but any data you have access to.

And as a developer on mac you can still run anything reasonably well in a VM.
If you're using node, you should be running that in a virtualized environment in the first place, albeit I'm too lazy myself to always set that all up.

Actually it's pretty amazing that now we'll be able to run an entire x86 OS environment on an ARM chip and get very usable performance too.
This is really cool! Will you be using it for other crypto as well?
Latency increases as cache size increases. That's well a well known fact.
I think you are spot on. Any kind of cost savings here is going to be gravy and won’t come for a long time. This is going to let Apple reuse so much from phones in the future Mac line - all their R&D on hardware, the developer community, etc. It will be very interesting to see what the actual products are like, and whether the x86 emulation is any good.
Staff as opposed to freelance. Staff as in "We want to keep you around."
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The main thing Apple has done to improve their A-series chips has been massive L2 caches.

I still major advantages of putting a A-series chip into a MacBook Pro.

1) There will be a much larger thermal and power draw envelope available to new A-series chip. I suspect we will see insane “boosting” clock speeds.

2) Incredible “at idle” performance well beyond what X86 can provide with on did GPU cores, which means a bit better battery life for that screen.

3) More opportunity for tightly integrated acceleration chips On die for codec, ML, and other hardware acceleration methods for Apple only software libraries.

4) Easy porting between iOS and macOS, and tvOS.

#3 will be the most significant.
Real change is slow, one of the biggest differences is you used to simply not hear about similar things.

Back during the Bush jr administration my mother’s PHD advisor was getting threading/demeaning phone calls late at night from senior members of the administration over some research she had published. What struck me is the story was shared because the researcher thought it was funny rather than actually intimidating. For context some aspect of no child left behind was being pushed because it would line specific people’s pockets and rather than simply be discreet about they where pushing a narrative.

Presumably they approached things like this because they thought it would work without blowing up in their faces. Now days I think the risk vs reward on such things has changed slightly. In another 20 years things will be likely be mostly the same but probably with minor improvements.
I'm puzzled by this question.

How else would you place documents on your website that you have made available for download or reading on-site? You need those documents to be in some cheap, widely available format.

In today's world, that format is .PDF. (A few decades back, that might have been Microsoft's Word .DOC, and earlier still it would have been plain old .TXT.)
The entire meme of "selling their data" is deeply wrong. They take pains to minimize the leakage - if it was all available they could practically DYI it when targetting customers losing only the hosted ads themselves.
That most of the die area is L1/2/3 cache.
I've been working on an OS in Rust that has an aarch64 port, and I've for sure seen some... questionable output. It's all been valid code for the input, but not nearly as optimized as I've come to expect out of LLVM based compilers. I'm sure there's some low hanging fruit that needs attention is all.
Microsoft Teams now available for personal use
Or vice versa...
Between the zoonotic origins of covid (and just epidemiology generally) and the book “are we smart enough to know how smart animals are” by Franz de Waal I’m really resetting my understanding of life. Animals are just way way smarter than we give them credit for - not the least because of eons of telling ourselves we’re the living beings and they’re the automatons (seriously, go read how Descartes wrote about them). We’re also clearly made of largely similar systems and “parts” since bugs are capable of going between different organisms. Like getting viruses from bats or pangolins or chickens or ferrets to humans. The “software” and “hardware” must all be similar enough for us to a little more humility.
That approach gets you to do most you can, weeding out those unwilling in a Darwinian matter.

Successful CEOs are outside 6 sigma freaks in a certain respect.
and hold open a resource longer than necessary? or when looping over lines multiple times? it doesn't unambiguously belong in there. often, yes, but not always.
Not an instructive data point. Adam Neumann owned way more than that?

It's not flattering if retail investors prefer your stock over institutions.

Edit: The exception being Tesla. But Tesla's really different.
This is probably relevant to your search for good UX

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589798
Management doesn't care about this. They don't care about language barriers, cultural differences, time zones, etc. All they care about is reporting to their boss that they cut expenses by 50% and hired people who at a glance look just as suitable for the job.
This is a creative solution! You can also create a proper HTTP API using Google Apps Script and expose it to the web:

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web

This allows you to parse all kinds of payloads, including ones not specifically tailored to your app. For example, I wrote a script that could receive webhooks from PayPal and record them in a spreadsheet.
Haha also i guess you might also decide that correctness is unimportant. How often does this bug happen? Is it a once-a-week thing with no user-facing effect? Just let it ride until you're scaling hard. Your labor as a programmer is expensive, no need to chase down every possible bug.
I would guess that it's an antenna.
Well O 1 visas not dual intent though. In order to actually obtain permanent residency, you would still need to move to a h1b.

There are several valid reasons to seek permanent residency - which I don't want to dive into here or moralize.

Just wanted to call out again that O 1 is a dead end.
It was also pretty common in the early days of SSL to have a similar outboard accelerator and webserver plugins to call it.

That still exists for Allwinner CPUs. You can offload the TLS handshake.
Posting like this will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended. It doesn't look like you've been in the habit of breaking the guidelines, so that should be easy.
On iOS, it also has no way of knowing that you have installed Firefox to give you that choice, which makes using Firefox on iOS even more of a nonstarter than it already is.
I don't know how Star Citizen is going to hold off against Elite Dangerous. It's probably great for Chris to actualize his dreams, but he should realize he's doing in on somebody else's dime. Let's be honest, the space sim has generally one viable gameplay loop formula (the 4Xs, as a puny individual and then as a collective). I've played a few, and by far I liked ED the most (in its execution) and even then, it devolves into farm fest. Which I assume Star Citizen is going to turn out anyways. In the coming ED update they would be similar in terms of features.

I'm saying it's not making me want to play Star Citizen at all (unless if I backed the game, that would be a different story).
As with many thing this administration has done, this move may have some nefarious and xenophobic motivations. I don't want to speculate about those things.

However, I have heard the notion that, with unemployment numbers soaring, the American job market ought to prioritize the re-employment of Americans before serving the employment interests of foreign nationals.

I don't know what the numbers are, but anecdotally I know a few people in my social circle who are highly skilled/educated and have been jobless due to the pandemic.

Will this work visa suspension be a positive development for those people?
pure speculation:

the FPGA does the PCIe and all necessary data marshaling, which allows a lot of flexibility for updates and bug fixing on the most finicky parts of hardware

two ASICs because once you have one manufactured, most of the costs are sunk and per unit it's cheap to stick a second on the board
I mean, that was nearly a decade ago and we're still doing just fine for general purpose computation.

At what point do we stop saying "he was so prescient, look we're almost there," and just admit things haven't turned out as badly as people feared? DRM has turned out be more of a nuisance than an apocalypse, and general purpose computing is at least as available today as it was in 2011.

In some ways it is even easier; for example anyone with an email address can get access to a cloud-hosted computer for free.
Yes, Safari is far behind the other browsers in standards support, and at this point of being so far behind for so long, we can say that it will always be so just to kneecap the web as an alternative to the app store.
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No most streamers have given up already because without a network effect it can take a decade to turn a profit.

Letting streamers utilize their existing social network is a potential game change for early channel growth.
You can do that? /me looks it up... OMG you can do that. Thank you so much!
It cheers my heart to hear stories of tech thriving outside of SV.
This is absolutely a PR piece and the other glowingly positive comment on this page is from an account created 2 minutes before posting.

I've also never had much luck with SnapEDA and prefer to use SamacSys for footprints and models.

As others have stated, there are many operators in this space (findchips, octopart, etc) with varying levels of integration with the major component suppliers.

They're all just trying to insert themselves into the middle of the transaction between designer/manufacturer and supplier.
I too dismissed the Gravitron cpus for a long time, until today actually when I saw the benchmarks.

Man, I would not know if amazon was bribing anandtech or something, but the gravitron2s are they're wiping the floor here with Intel and Amd when it comes to performance per cost and even holding their own single threaded which I did not expect.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
IMO you vastly overestimate the care Apple has for "old-timey folks who want root access." They will remove your usecase in due time, when they decide to merge the two(MacOS and iPadOS).
I don't know, I don't see the similarity. I didn't really like Prey (or any prop hunt games for that matter). It's a new genre mix. I guess I can see the appeal.
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Confused, why is new Yorker publishing an old story by kafka? Or is this something newly discovered?
Show HN: My game, Sky Fleet, just went up on Steam
Still a ton of work to do to but this is a huge step. Any suggestions are appreciated!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1347540/Sky_Fleet/
I would highly, highly recommend not traveling. My fiancee already has an H-1B, and we were traveling together when all this broke out. She has not been allowed back in the country, and it unlikely she is able to be let back in anytime soon. I have not seen her in over five months, and there is no rainbow in sight as to when she can return.
Why do we need to buy so many devices anyway? Why can't I just plug my iPad or iPhone into a dumb dock with a laptop screen and its own storage and battery, and use the CPU and GPU from the phone/ipad?
Here's a clickable link. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1347540/Sky_Fleet/
Certainly I can see Microsoft simply integrating video chat into the Office suite. I'm kind of shocked they haven't yet really solved real-time collaboration given that they own Skype and Office.
I'm a hiring manager at a FAANG company and exclusively hire PhDs. The very first question that I try to answer when looking at a candidate who can't get OPT is "can this person feasible get an O-1". Then I bring a resume to the lawyers. I have a lot of experience evaluating whether somebody can feasibly get an O-1.

Just having a publication record is not enough. It needs to be a strong record and you need to have strong ties to the academic community through things like program committees. I've sadly had to turn down a lot of people who would easily improve the country by working here because their publication record isn't enough to get an O-1 visa.

I know faculty at MIT who aren't on O-1s.

It's not easy.
The high price of MacBooks is treated as a status symbol and the marketing department clearly knows as much, so I don't think they will be willing to give that up, so I lean towards your second option.
Ask HN: WWDC news on improved iOS support for Web apps?
iOS is the only significant part of the web where users can't use the browser engine they want, which gives Apple a great deal of power to impede the development of the web platform, not just for iOS users but for everyone.

I'm wondering if anyone has heard from or can ask Apple what new web capabilities Safari for iOS 14 is adding. Best not to mention PWAs by name, because that name is associated with Google and annoys Apple, but someone please ask about "installable, offline web app support". (Apple seems okay with "installable web app" as a name, and I like it more too, but I don't get the feeling they like it as a concept.)
> One interesting question I think is outstanding - from parsing the video carefully, it seems to me that devs are going to want ARM linux virtualized, vs AMD64. I’m not highly conversant with ARM linux, but in my mind I imagine it’s still largely a second class citizen — I wonder if systems developers will get on board, deal with slower / higher battery draw intel virtualization, or move on from Apple.

It's in fairly good shape, and has an active community. With the current proliferation of IoT devices, both the kernel and userland are well-maintained, and plenty of distros are available. The kernel also benefits from much of the work done for Android and Chromebooks as well.

All of the usual FOSS software is ported and runs well. As of this moment, you could easily take your pick from any of Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, Slack, or Alpine just for starters, plus a whole mess of specialty distros. Many of those offer both 32- and 64-bit ARM versions.

Also bear in mind that recent ARM CPUs do support hardware-assisted virtualization as well. KVM and Xen are both available for ARM today, and I'd be shocked if Apple's Hypervisor.framework doesn't roll out with ARM support in the new macOS version as well.

(I'm writing this from Firefox in Manjaro ARM on a PineBook Pro, that I use as my daily driver)
> When there's no pro software, the mac will be just an iPad with a keyboard.

Maybe in your segment but I can't think of using Windows as a web developer even without any of the "Pro" app from Apple.
Why would they make the ios line worse? Surely they still want to prioritize phones?
That’s not why the web won over gopher. This is why:

“Both Gopher and the Web embraced the idea of hypertext. Both allowed users to follow a conceptual path through a virtual space by following links, with little need to understand the structure that existed underneath. They differed considerably, however, in the information architecture that they established for laying out hyperlinked information. The main difference between the two is that the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) of the Web was built up around documents in HyperText Markup Language (HTML). This markup language allowed document creators to place links within documents, whereas Gopher provided pointers to documents through menu files, which existed separate from the documents themselves. The indexing component of the two information architectures -- i.e. the part that enumerated what items existed within the information space and where they could be found -- thus differed considerably.” From https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

I was using Gopher and WAIS (nobody seems to remember that), both improved versions of FTP, when the web appeared. It immediately captured my imagination, and I and everyone around me forgot about the other protocols (except FTP, which hung on for ever). It had nothing to do with licensing. It was hypertext.
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Sounds brutal. Are you still running your company? Sincerely, good luck.

I didn't understand what you meant by going to bat for your employees - bat against whom?
Why is it very likely ahead of Apple? Apple has been doing the dedicated low power core approach for a while.
Robpike/Lisp
True, but we can blame the programmer as we usually do
While not an excuse, the design looks like it has much more contrast than 10.10 - 10.15.
google alien communication movie

good luck
BigCo often cant see the answer in front of them - can't iterate either when every HiPPO needs to put their mark on a product.
There is so much that Windows 95 got right that the snoots coming out of design college with funny haircuts have been trying their darnedest to get wrong.
This is very useful. Thank you!
I think you nailed it by pointing out how overlooked the research part of development is. Technical folks often understand this but it can be a challenging concept for people who have not worked as a developer. They can have a distorted view of the research to coding ratio. I imagine they often believe that writing code takes up 90% of a developer's time when in reality time spent researching and thinking is the dominant activity.
Many celebrities have an "appearance fee" meaning they'll meet for a certain number of hours for whatever you pay for (within reason). So, for example, if you're rich enough you could get in touch with their agent and book your favourite celebrity for a lunch or dinner. This just takes it to a scale that wouldn't be possible before.
I thought it was going to be a post about a service outage.
Sounds like pokemon
Very interesting post. One thing I'm thinking of is if an enterprise uses something like Slack then you could have persistent video rooms similar to the audio rooms in Discord.

The last paragraph makes a good point though. As good as Slack is, there is something that still feels inefficient to me. When I'm trying to communicate with people it's almost like shouting out into the ether. Did they see my message? Why haven't they responded yet? I need this question answered now.

It's strange. Email for the most part you were reasonably assured when you hit the send button that it was off into their inbox. It would be kind of cool to see what the Snap of business comms could look like.
I'm not going to spend the time to look but there were definitely complaints about printing which was still much more of a thing than it is today. (It's still sometimes annoying with both iPad and Chromebook but it's occasional enough that I just mail what I need printed to a computer.)

The thing for me with the original iPad was coming to the realization that it was a (very nice) luxury device that was mostly useful for me (at the time) when traveling. And, when I gave one to my dad, it was a revelation relative to computers that he never could really use.
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I have no idea what this company does but her account of it is genuine, honest and makes me appreciate the true difficulty of being a female leader.

It's a bit unfortunate there isn't a government support for women in power to take with huge risks while bearing children. It's unclear as an outsider what a free market could do to help here and that's sad.
I would argue a many, perhaps most, people that won't eat a McDonald's hamburger because of some perceived lack of quality probably haven't had one in many years and are instead working off public perceptions and status indicators about what they think it represents and must be like.

And then we've come full circle to Apple products.
https://www.starkbros.com/products/fruit-trees/pawpaw-trees

To eat cut in half and eat with a spoon. So good.

I planted a three variety pack 5ish years ago and got a lot last year. Safely a late freeze mostly got them this year