skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't Vietnam too small to be a real competitor to China?

No. They're too small to compete with China at everything at the same time. They can compete effectively in various industries. Samsung is utilizing Vietnam for 50% of their smartphone & tablet manufacturing for example. Vietnam is a good option for manufacturing diversification. With continued improvements in automation, it should be possible to further scale manufacturing in smaller nations in the coming decades.

Jan 2015 [1]:

"Samsung Electronics is currently manufacturing 50 percent of its mobile phones in Vietnam and only 8 percent in Korea. At present, Samsung Electronics is running six mobile phone manufacturing facilities in the six countries of Vietnam, China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, and Korea. The two plants in Vietnam have a combined annual production capacity of 240 million units. The two factories in China have a maximum capacity of 150 million phones. However, Samsung is looking to cut their production by approximately 40 million in view of the high labor costs in China."

Nov 2019 [2]:

"Around 50% of Samsung's smartphones and tablets are produced in Vietnam and exported to 128 countries and territories. As of present, 58% of Samsung's global smartphone sales globally come from its production facilities in Vietnam, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc."

[1] http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=8...

[2] http://hanoitimes.vn/58-of-samsung-smartphones-revenue-come-...
Microsoft doesn’t control the hardware either. They solved the problem in 1995. Even my old DX/2-66 DOS Compatibility Card created by Apple installed in my PowerMac 6100/60 that shipped with Windows 3.1 could run Windows 95 on release day. Apple never released new drivers for it.

If Windows ran on something that esoteric 25 years ago, why can’t Google solve the problem now?
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There is no reason to believe clouds don't have security issues or software bugs that cause inadvertent data loss.

Just because the cloud provider is a big company doesn't mean the security is better. At the end of the day, they are a team of software engineers with all the usual people and org problems and can have usual human mistakes.

But cloud solutions are better in practice due to totally non-technical reasons. Here's how -

If UCSF can afford to pay millions in ransom, they can definitely afford to hire the right experts to do their IT systems properly.

It is likely that they hire the right people, but then the most commonly recommended security policies were considered but not implemented due to resistence from powerful non-security team members inside the organization. (Usually, the highly paid CISO is playing politics with peers to keep the job by ignoring those security experts).

If it also possible that the IT+security team is incompetent and is only good for deploying expensive but useless vendor solutions that do a lot of security theater but do very little to improve actual security. Also possible that the vendor solutions are susceptible to be misconfigured easily to become insecure.

Public cloud solutions can help overcome these above shortcomings of in-house security+IT teams in a org politics friendly manner.
Facebook is used as the public square for a third of the entire world’s population. They have used this platform to extract value to the tune of billions of dollars, making Mark one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. They have more influence over society and more resources than many world governments.

This degree of power doesn’t comes without strings attached. They have a responsibility to society at large. At this scale, you don’t get a pass because you are a structured as a corporation.*

The very least is to prevent Facebook being used as a tool to amplify violence and genocide. Honestly, given the atrocities that have been effected through their platform [1], this seems like a very timid step.

* If they don’t start to accept this accountability, it will ultimately be forced upon them by society and governments across the world.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/tech...
Speak for yourself.

I think it's a worthwhile data point that the creators of Mainvest couldn't be bothered to come up with a different layout for their landing page and took it verbatim from their former employer.

It helps me make the decision of using their investment platform or not. Where else did they take shortcuts?
Getting 2-5 important messages a day seems categorically not a good use case for feeds at all. That seems like you need to create 5 filters and gradually expand the rules if they occasionally miss things.
Why not the Thinkpad T-series then?
These will certainly be popular in prisons
Perhaps you can add at the top some links for people like me that don't scroll.

Quick Start | Go to Your Boat | Join Race | Create Race

Now I see the box where I have to go. I missed it in the first time I went to the site. It is in the second map! [My boat is going in the correct direction. Perhaps not at the optimal speed. https://imgur.com/a/yE1Tfre ]

Perhaps you can offer to save the boat key in a cookie, so it's easier to return to the site.
You don't really have much of a guarantee about anything from the client when they make a request. You have to take them at good faith when they report a user-agent to you. Plus, from real-world experimentation, I'm relatively confident that the performance benefits of the solution I mentioned outweigh the cost of supporting browsers that spoof their user agents:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662405
Let me point out the dog who isn't barking:

The people completely absent from this are the 1M+ active US Police Officers. We have no idea what they think about their jobs and these issues. Sure, we hear from the unions, but they have a professional agenda.

There must be amazing stories about what policing life is actually like, how it forms you and why people do what they do. If they're being told, I have not found where.

I expect that one part of it is that cops are asked to do impossible things. There are things we citizens don't want to deal with or know about, but still want handled, and these are the people who take care of it.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/independent-science-news/
Devil's Advocate: Assuming predictive policing actually worked...How much racism (or classism) is tolerable versus how much of a cut in crime?

Extreme case: Would we accept 1 racist interaction for 1000 cases where predictive policing solved the case?

Realistic case: Would we accept 1 racist interaction for 10 cases where predictive policing solved the case?

My point: We know about implicit and institutional racism being VERY hard to erase...can we live with a small amount of it in return for a much more effective police force?
>Within a few years, it is virtually certain that the critiques will be irrelevant.

Really? So you're saying Driver Signature Enforcement will suddenly disappear I can run unblessed by Microsoft drivers again so I can maintain the capability to keep my out-of-support hardware configurations running?

Oh wait, that's not going away... That fix wasn't even really for me. That was so the media distribution industry could sleep well at night, and who cares if it makes a bunch of User's hardware unsupportable?

Windows will stop running reams of telemetry, and stop pushing all their Cloud offerings on my users so that they actually know where their things are? They'll stop with their user hostile UXconfiguration so I can just present them an interface that mostly workswithout having to rejigger things after every update?

Windows will stop taking a sledge hammer to my EFI partition every damn time I let it update, resetting itself as the primary boot option until I go in and reset things manually?

It is so difficult nowadays for me to get across to kids just how different computing is now and how even if you do have more "stable" or "resilient" systems, how much more difficult it is to actually be able to figure out what is going on beneath the hood because of the encroachment into the computing industry of every special interest industry or some programmer looking to obfuscate their shitty software because those sniveling lusers should be happy they're getting a machine that does anything at all!

It's no surprise at all to me that encouraging computational literacy is such a challenge, because the entire industry has gotten so bewitched by capitalization and innovation (not of computing itself but) of applying computers to enable previously practically infeasible business models that I've grown to hate the behemoth the tech industry has become.

Half the time anymore, I can't even justify to myself going to the latest, greatest, computer hardware anymore, or checking out that new game, because every damn time I look into it, the majority of the damn thing isn't about doing anything better for the user, but providing some hook through which to monetize the user.

Sorry, but I can't take these sorts of "it's not that bad.
" posts seriously. Excessive compute has largely just enabled the vices of those who build things in the first place. I see programs that fulfill the same end user use cases as programs we had 20+ years ago, less efficiently, with greater bloat, more 3rd party info leaks, superfluousnetwork connectivity, anti-user nannies/safe-guards which are less about the user's safety than aboutenabling someone else to extract rent.

Frankly, the same thing goes for most tech companies nowadays. Even some of the notable FOSS ones, who insteadofrentseeking in the traditional sense, fight over "developer mindshare".

Might have overshot my intended message, but God bless, it needed to be said.

Get off my LAN, and never darken my ports with your packets ever again!
It really is the irony of entire Substack platform: the inspiration of it is Stratechery yet one of Ben Thompson's most consistent themes (aggregation theory) makes it clear how precarious of a situation it can be when you rely on another company for your audience reach and when it comes to establishing a brand.

Granted, I do think Substack is more of a platform than an aggregator compared to Facebook. But people that want to hop on Substack just need to know that you are (as of now) going to be sharing your brand with Substack and also that you will be at the whim of their feature development and what their roadmap looks like. They raised their Series A a year ago but their progress with site features has been... well, underwhelming.
Simulator of the Finnish m/83 parsa military encryption device (AES/E2EE)
That becomes pretty obvious in the overall stats.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Well, Windows forces you to use vs code remote or pay a huge performance penalty in drive performance in wsl 2,that's no little compromise.
And no Thunderbolt for patent reasons
Does it run WhatsApp? Not really an option for most of the world if not.
Lucky you, I have had several laptops that don't work without OEM drivers and require the explicit Windows version that was sold with the laptop.

As an example, the webcam drivers and power management settings that without OEM drivers will just fry the CPU until the security takes over and forces a hard shutdown.
> unless you’ve implemented some sort of state store that all of your API services and server share.

Yes, it's called session storage, and it used to be incredibly common. These issues are not "orthogonal", because a primary promise of JWTs were the ability to get rid of that shared session storage and just put that identifying info into the signed token.
An LCD panel backlit by a CRT or a DLP projector was/is a way to make a high-dynamic-range display.

http://anyhere.com/gward/papers/Siggraph04.pdf
I think people tend to overestimate progress. Skyscrapers happened a hundred years ago with advent of elevators. I've visited some Roman cites, they are massive. They had five storey residential buildings - just like these days.

And some modern techniques seems unreal [1]

[1] 1920s skyscrapers builders without safety ropes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDN4c2wnx3E&t=55
It may be a good idea to consider a 7 day or 30 day trial before you charge the credit card, so that you're not an attractive target for thieves using your company as a credit card verification service in the future.
Great point!

If 'Dinomen' existed, we may see it in the other dinos or plants via domestication. If they were carnivores, we may see dinos bred to be fatter or larger. If they were herbivores, then we'd see certain plants that were bred for food, and maybe dinos bred for labor or as pets. One of the issues with domestication is controlling the breeding/birthing cycles of animals. Chickens and pigeons tend to be easier to do this with because they are dinosaurs and lay eggs.

We see this in our own mammalian species like cows. Their bone structure is (slightly) different from wild cattle and certain breeds have massive horns because us humans just like it. Dogs too, we've made a lot of breeds of them that all look very different. I'd imagine that a lot of the world should be covered in cow and dog bones of a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

Come to think of it, the ceratopsids (like triceratops) have a large variety of head crests, there were tons of them about, and they were pretty fat and muscular. Hmmm ...
I've gotten neb to ship residential...
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The Internet Peering Playbook
FreeDVDBoot – Hacking the Playstation 2 through its DVD player
all this has been happening for quite a while now and yet emissions keep rising every freaking year. You tell me why.

> EVs are doing well due to COVID

due to COVID - wat?
That might be the strangest apologetics for pollution that I’ve ever seen.
Senators propose lawful access to encrypted data
Yes. (her words, not mine)
Thus Asians are definitely underrepresented in leadership vs employee population, but still overrepresented vs general population.

I'd be interested to see how this chops up by immigration status, years in country, and English proficiency. I guess then we'd be in even less PC waters, but it's quite clear PhD -> h1b crowd is quite different from Asian Americans in a lot of ways, and I'd have to imagine this is one of them
Proper data hygiene at large enterprise levels is, in fact, exceedingly difficult.

Creating a hermetically sealed IT environment where only way to exfiltrate data that remains is the employees eyeballs is definitely possible and is increasingly done well by a lot of large organizations.

Defending against insider threat (malicious employees) is still a challenge for most civilian (non-military) organizations.
What do you mean by design? I run a customized version of mdbook to render https://docs.hyperdeck.io

I’m fairly happy with mdbook (although it took some time to get the customizations work correctly)
… as if you can’t “return” the data and keep a copy at the same time …
Green stimulus plans, plus the added knowledge of smog and pollution having been reduced, has been a boost to EVs. Tesla is reportedly on the way to a record quarter of deliveries, they'll have a stock value above 1000, meanwhile we have countries left and right doubling down on EVs (europe especially).
Not exactly. We know the broad strokes. He figures a price for a company by estimating their lifetime earnings and then factoring in the time value of money. He's talked about a mental checklist he goes through when looking at quarterly reports, but he never talks about the exact details of this process. Whether he's lost his edge, that's debatable too. The time since he's beaten the S&P is now entering into the long-term.
> I'm obviously missing something. Why would distance travelled on a unit of fuel be a bad way to measure the efficiency of a car?

Because it has a sublinear relationship to absolute efficiency: an 11mpg car is significantly more efficient than a 10mpg car, while a 41mpg car much less so in relation to a 40mpg car: both provide an extra mile per gallon, which translates into a 10% and 2.5% increase in efficiency respectively.

> So what is a better way to measure the efficiency of a car?

gpm (aka L/100km which is what's used in most metric countries).

It's less convenient when you know how much fuel you have and want to know what distance you can expect, but it's way more convenient to compare efficiencies, as well as to calculate how much fuel you'll need for a given trip: the examples above are 21.4L/100, 23.5L/100, 5.7 L/100km and 5.9 L/100km. From this, it's obvious that the absolute gain in efficiency is much greater going from 10 to 11 (2L/100km economy) than from 40 to 41 (0.2L/100km)
This project came out of some friends and I missing watching bad movies together. I'm of the mind that writing software takes practice. So it was a great chance to practice general p2p design and specific WebRTC implementation.

The basic idea is, one person can open a theater and share their screen or load a video file. Then anyone with the audience link can watch along with them.

I hope it lets some people enjoy some movies together!

I'd love any and all feedback / contributions to the code https://github.com/whytheplatypus/shareable.theater!
Robotron: Eugene Jarvis' development of this iconic arcade game
Not only are most deaths traffic deaths, the next largest reason for deaths on the job are heart attacks, which are preventable with a proper diet and exercise.
It's political, just like wearing masks to prevent covid infection has become politicized. Both masks and meters have become associated with left-wing intellectual elites, and so the right reflexively rebels against them.

EDIT: to all the people downvoting this comment without explaining why: you are actually proving my point.
When I had a Commodore PET computer I tried making colour by flashing areas at different rates. You can get a very limited colour by changing the length of flashes but not only did I get it to work (poorly) I also got terrible eye strain looking at those flashing squares.
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Hello,

We created trango, a (W)LAN based audio/video calling and file sharing solution. Ideal for talking to colleagues, family and friends in any shared space. Can be used by offices, hotels, factories, off-grid establishments and any shared space. It is free, open source and cross platform. A self hosted version is also available for Linux and Windows machines/servers. With self-host, you completely bypass the internet which can be found at https://github.com/trango-io/trango-self-hosted. The web version only uses the internet to discover those on the same network as you. In either case, your data never leaves your own network. We have even encrypted it for further security. Group calls and online calls are being added as we speak.

We are working on an Android and iOS mobile app along with desktop apps for more convenience. We are also enhancing the functionality of the self-hosted version so that it can work on an enterprise level with a slew of admin and security features. The program is still in beta so please bear with us.

Background: We started using trango in our factory of 100 or so people since the internet connectivity wasn’t great. Also, due to Covid, we were shunning meetings and reluctant to meet eachother in person. Other establishments around us liked the idea of communicating over LAN so we deployed trango for them and now they too are using trango instead of their local landlines (intercom/pbx). Trango is very simple to set up and we would like to keep it that way. On the client side, trango is also easy to use due to its visual nature. The goal is to create an instant messaging solution which works online and offline seamlessly.

We would love your feedback on trango. If anyone of you wish to contribute to open-source, you are most welcome. You can also subscribe on our webapp https://web.trango.io to keep yourself updated to our full launch and other feature additions.

Thanking you,

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Well, OS's take a lot of effort and resources to update, maintain, and release.

The entities that put forward the resources have strong reasons/goals, and they are going to target their OS or distribution toward those reasons/goals.

It never was or every will be different.

An OS is a platform, so a vendor will want to appeal to users/customers. But that's one of several concerns they balance. They generally target a market -- a group or multiple groups of users with a similar perspective. If you aren't in one of the groups they are targeting, you will probably be unhappy with a relatively large number of tradeoffs they make. In other words, maybe that OS isn't for you.

That's OK.

In the end, you will be disappointed if you were expecting anyone to do a lot of work or expend a lot of resources to cater to your needs to the detriment of their own.

Put another way: No one's your mother and father but your mother and father (not even them in some cases, but you all don't need to hear details of my childhood).

Also: it never made any sense for Apple to adopt Vulkan into their OSs. A general OS needs a low-level abstraction on top of the GPU. Adopting an external API for this purpose means OS releases would tied to a dependency they don't control.

(Not to mention: Metal predates Vulkan. Imagine the awkward transition that would have been to drop Metal a year or two in and adopt Vulkan instead.)

So, e.g, the next version of iOS might not be able to drop because a Vulcan committee debate on the semantics of a new API are running long... thus delaying the release of the next iPhone which depends on the new OS version. (That would be bad for the vendor and for the customers who want that new iPhone.)

That was just never gonna happen.

Apple could have developed and supported Vulkan API as a translation on top of their native graphics abstraction API (Metal), but that's something really much better done by a third-party via an independent library. A game, e.g., is much better off targeting a specific Vulcan API version and including the library that implements it (with its own platform compatibility support) in their own release.

If Apple did it as part of the OS, a game dev would have to work with whatever version that shipped with the OS the end-user is running. You need an API to be stable to release software written to run on top of it.

Think of it this way: if Vulkan was the native graphics hardware abstraction API of macOS or iOS, game devs would need another abstraction on top of it, to write their games against. (Many do this already, of course, with Unity or other game engines.)
It's not clear to me that "AI guided robotics" have much industrial utility. Where those sort of systems might excel is in finding solutions to novel problems. But mass production is all about avoiding the introduction of novel problems in the first place; that's been the premise of mass manufacturing since the 19th century. Parts are made to a spec and interchange with each other, allowing machines without intelligence to make and assemble them.

Which is not to say advanced tech like computer vision or whatnot don't have industrial applications; it definitely does. Industrial robots using computer vision are already common today, used for things like quality control (e.g. inspecting each individual potato chip on a conveyor belt.) I suspect that to the extent other AI systems might plausibly be relevant to industrial-scale production, industrial robotics companies have been investing. I sincerely doubt Boston Dynamics is going to leapfrog Siemens in any foreseeable future.