skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple would buy GF long before they ever get the chance to buy TSMC (which I'm sure they would do if they could).

GF has a decent 14/12nm node and they've basically said they have given up going smaller. That slashes their long term projections and valuation.

Apple comes in with a decent, but not great, offer while GF is still getting orders for their mature process. Then Apple does what only it can do, spend billions without blinking. Apple take 5 years to refine a 4nm node while using TSMC in the interim. R&D costs are offset with (1) whatever customers GF has, (2) building whatever it can on GF's 12nm node.
That is a ripoff, not even the wheels are interluded.
I love Thomas Sowell. It’s extraordinarily impressive that while Dr. Sowell is 90 years old, he’s still sharp as an arrow. As a matter of fact he’s about to release a new book.

Also, from what I could gather from Twitter, it appears that recently more and more people are following his unofficial Twitter account. I’ve counted thousand new followers by the day.
> Most people simply haven't learned the hygiene yet.

This whole pandemic kind of proves that we haven't learned the real-life hygiene, after decades and decades of that being drilled into us, and real-life hygiene having actual life-or-death consequences.

Don't hold your breath about digital hygiene.
Not all.

1. Apple obfuscate email - this complicates the support system, and as per them Apple hadn't thought about it thoroughly. Collaboration is obstructed. Password recovery is not an easy process.
2. Cross Platform - The post states that Apple vaguely says that sign in on Android is possible, but doesn't state how it is to be done.
nothing bizarre even in Europe, I am yet to see teenager going to university who would want to stay living with parents supervision, everyone prefers dorm or shared apartment

if people return back to parents after university it's not really their choice, but financial decision, although I don't see many people returning even after graduation, rather take mortgage or share apartment once you enjoy freedom away from parents

personally my parents (mother) moved away from me when I was like 19 :-) then when she moved back I moved out, although I think the apartment in hometown was even for some time empty, nobody interested to keep living there
Same video is posted at the bottom of their website.
There's a theory (known as rice culture theory) that states that rice farming requires cooperation from your neighbors to farm successfully, which solidified a culture of collective values. Wheat, the Western staple, has no such requirements.

If you depended on your neighbor's cooperation, the ideals of Confucianism help the village survive.

If your neighbors were like the Americans who refuse to put on a mask, your whole village would starve to death within the generation. The theory explains why individualism was suppressed and collective values so uplifted in Chinese culture.
I agree that tech driven solutions sometimes neglect the human aspects of the human experience.

In this case it might be a tool for better understanding and application of the right human interaction as well. It seems the AI is used to find the right type of treatment and even catching circumstances that clinicians would have missed.
That sounds like a nightmare. How did they handle things like being on call? Was the loner responsible for their genius 24/7?
Is there a bootstrapping problem with these types supervised of approaches?

Per the article:

"Current methods used to diagnose and treat depression are imprecise at best, relying largely on subjective answers to survey questions..."

"... they deployed an algorithm to interpret brainwave patterns unique to individuals with depression..."

Presumably the diagnoses of those "individuals with depression" were based on the same imprecise subjective answers to questions. Thus, is this just modelling the flawed diagnostic?
> The smaller the steps you take, the smaller the risk you step in the wrong direction.

This is the route to local maxima.
The censor package does pretty much this: https://ctan.org/pkg/censor.
Having a user name solve this. Github collaboration works the same way.
I'm currently using Patreon and GitHub Sponsors to accept donations. If you are doing anything software related, I would definitely encourage you to set up GitHub Sponsors right away.

GitHub Sponsors:
- Zero fees (compared to the ~10% Patreon takes) (!)
- They match all donations (up to a limit of $5000) for the first year (!!)
- Great exposure. Tons of people have found me through GitHub. (I don't think anyone ever found me through Patreon.)

It's still worth it for me to use both services, as some people have strong feelings about one or the other. And in fact, I also have a PayPal for people who don't trust either one. :)
For sure, central planning is so inadequate. And China's economic failure compared to liberal countries like India is a great illustration of that. Oh wait…

(Also relevant, in the 20s and 30s, USSR came from a shithole agricultural country with no industry, to the second biggest industrial economy of the world).

I'm not saying that central planning is desirable, but it's for sure more than adequate of your goal is development.
As a french I completely disagree. These laws are harmful to everyone who dears to speak.

In France, censorship is a real problem for most intellectuals and individual citizens
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Assa Traoré, the leading personality protesting against police violence has been repeatedly sued. Charlie Hebdo, the satiric newspaper that was attacked by terrorists who killed 12 people had been repeatedly sued. Eric Zemmour, a right-wing intellectual has also been condemned for speaking. Citizens who have placed a "Macronavirus" (concatenation of Macron, our president and Virus) sign in front of their house have spent a night at the local police station.

"Hate Speech" is a way too broad definition. And the censorship in France is getting bigger and bigger, notably since the highly-controversial Avia Law that forces Social Media platforms to censor "Hate Speech".

All these examples, have been made with non-evil governments. Our current president is a centrist and the last one was a leftist. Now, imagine what could happen when the far-right has to decide what "Hate Speech" is? I don't want to live that, and the Rassemblement National has been rising to dangerous levels.

We would be much better with constitutional and absolute free speech as in the US.
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It's ranked 8,648 from what I can tell

https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/thedonald.win

I have never heard of the other sites you mention, so I can't speak to their popularity. But as far as I can see this all seems very fringe for lack of a better word. There doesn't really seem to be a groundswell of movement towards alternate platforms because of censorship.
Yeah, definitely not the kind of job you give to the lowest bidder.
> In every other discipline, you would ask engineers for an estimate. It's insanity to do otherwise.

I studied engineering in university and profs had plenty of stories about bosses sending business analysts to look at similar projects, generating a time estimate from those projects, and then send that estimate to the engineers as their deadline for completing the project.

It being insane doesn't stop people.
> I'm not sure a system like this would have a productive effect on lifeguards.

> If these systems are coupled with the right sort of training, they might be a net benefit. Or maybe the system could be designed in such a way that requires the lifeguard to stay attentive, such as requiring the lifeguard to input the current headcount.

I too worked as a lifeguard and I think only a really bad implementation can have a counter-productive effect. Spontaneously, I can think of sunglasses with AR-overlay and a feedback loop:

* mark all people in field of view, color coded

* let lifeguard acknowledge/ignore problems

* allow for "problem"-handover to next post (e.g. if busy or if it is a swimmer in a current)

What definitely does not help is to have lifeguards behind monitors because they'd miss out on 99% of the real daily "action": dealing with littering, violence, ordinance violations, answering questions, pointing new arrivals towards safe zones....
Free file encryption software and monitor file fixed by other user?
free file encryption software not for folder

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I really like lua. Especially when it comes to game with Love2d beeing so wonderful. I wish more projects adopted it as a scripting interface...
Very few people care to read the official Scrum documentation. It is not a long read. Some posts on HN have more words than the Scrum Book.

As a result of not reading the documentation, not many understand what Scrum is and what they're criticizing. I have been in that situation myself at some point. One day, I found myself so frustrated that I read the Scrum book over and over again until I could complete the certification assessment with passing score, just to understand if Scrum was to blame for the problems I perceived.

What I learned in the process was that scrum does not recognize the role of a project manager and it does not make distinctions between development team members. The development team is defined as self-organizing and empowered to make decisions to a very reasonable extent.

The problems described here often start when some the self-organization and autonomy of the development team is taken away. This can take many forms, like adding roles like project managers or by redefining existing roles, such as making the scrum master role absorb responsibilities from the development team.

Those adjustments are suboptimal and almost inevitably result in an imbalance of power between product and engineering, and that's a really bad idea that will often result in engineering disasters.

Some companies create engineering holidays such as hackathons, where engineers can take the time to work on neglected aspects of projects. But then, in many companies, product people have started to intervene those events as well, perpetuating engineering frustration.
At first this may not sound that bad, but it is truly Hitler-level stuff:

China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population, report says

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713
You didn’t answer the question, which is itself an answer. And as you know, the EU is an empty husk, not a world power. It can’t even agree which countries are members.

If you truly believe the US is only self interested, why get angry about things like the Iraq war? Surely this is normal for a self interested nation to conquer others?
And how did you define "white nationalism"?

HN routinely votes down to the max all kinds of mainstream and legitimate viewpoints that aren't "white nationalism" but aren't supportive of globalism either. Literally any criticism of the EU will hit -4 within hours regardless of how grounded in facts it is. Given the rhetoric that often accompanies that topic, without a doubt some people consider any criticism of the EU institutions or ideologies to be some sort of racist zealotry, although it's utterly mainstream throughout Europe.
Yeah, Sowell is still writing books like age never impacted him! He's amazing. He's also very careful to stay politically neutral about every issue he touches upon.

His book "Basic Economics" keeps getting updates every 5 years or so, at this stage it's almost an encyclopedia of economic principles.
Yes. I deliberately avoided saying anything about how well they handle these higher levels of abstraction. ;)

I believe knowing the fundamentals is critical for being able to reason well about the higher levels of abstraction. As Alan Perlis put it back in 1968:

> In a situation where code actually has to be produced, nobody should be allowed in the system who doesn’t write some given number of lines of code per month. I think that one of the major problems with the very large programming projects has been the lack of competence in programming which one observes as soon as one goes above the very bottom level.

He goes on to propose a scheme were people at all levels in the development effort get some time to get their hands dirty on a rotating schedule. That sounds very sensible, in my opinion.
Baseless in the same way as me saying "I bet your mom dropped you a lot when you were a baby." It's a claim not based on anything and therefore baseless. It's racist because you are claiming that race is a significant factor.
A party in OAuth authentication can request some obligatory information, and if email is part of it, you won't be able to deselect it.

In general, sites use email as an indication of a unique, real person. I imagine most of them do not really care about it afterwards, which is why the SSO systems even work (though, they can demand an email too).
Posting blatant spam message got removed by NLP pipelines, spammers evolves to be more implicit, for example, the avatar of the user contains an image of crypto currency ad, then the spammer "liked" your video. You got a notification, and you noticed his/her avatar.

Had to OCR all those god damn avatars.
Certainly in some cases it is caused by genetics, but from what I've read, the evidence suggests that some other factor is at play for the overwhelming majority of cases. Here is an excerpt from a nature article which leads me to believe that this is the case.

https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120

> East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia, also known as short-sightedness. Sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted. Today, up to 90% of teenagers and young adults are. In Seoul, a whopping 96.5% of 19-year-old men are short-sighted.

I don't know how that change is possible in one generation if genetics are to blame. It's possible I'm missing something though.
I think it differs a great deal between countries in the EU. I'm Swedish and I have an Amex card and most of my friends and colleagues use Amex as well. I use it for about 85% of my spending each month. The only places in Stockholm that don't accept it are smaller coffee shops, restaurants that don't get that many tourists and mom and pop stores.

You could probably get by here with just an Amex card and cash, but I keep a backup card for the places that don't accept Amex.
I can confidently say, having rubbed shoulders with the botting / gold farming / hacker community in China that it is HUGE. Like YYYUGE! back when the whole ride hailing industry was still in a subsidy war, you had drivers who were spoofing their rides to get kickbacks from didi/Uber. Pinduoduo suffered a pretty big loss a while back from not accounts scalping subsidies. I have friends in my wechat who used to share their huge walls of remotely controlled phones. So yes it is a huge problem in China. There is even a phrase for it, 撸羊毛
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Likewise OpenResty is "stuck" on 5.1.
So stable it has multiple ongoing civil conflicts. Come visit Russia, we didn’t shoot down any airliners this year!
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Shh, HN is super pro EU. You're not allowed to point out that nobody cares about them outside of trade.
For this use case there is no need to collect real email address. The obfuscated email that apple provides can be used to send emails to the user.
I met him years ago, he was never ok
Yes, personally I'd go live to China for a while before than to the US.

All isn't as white and black as "we have ideals and they're the baddies". The US has a lot of negative things too like x40 guns per citizen [0] or a prohibitively expensive healthcare [1]

I'd also like to learn Mandarin, but that's on me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_systems_by_country...
You have 1 btc lets say 10k usd.

So in one year i have to pay you 11k.

It is basically 10% interest.
A lot of depression cases are purely chemical in origin. At least 20% of patients are 95% recovered once they find the right medication. Keep in mind that the psychiatric definition of “depression” is quite different from the layperson’s definition. It’s not a sadness or melancholy, it’s basically a shutdown of almost all higher-order mental functions.
I wonder why we still have passwords. Couldn't we have a simple USB device that is encrypted, cooperates with the native O/S in an encrypted manner, and then allows remote login to sites also in an encrypted manner?

The device could be programmed to automatically generate new passwords/keys/whatever needed for remote authentication.

It would also have a 'disable' functionality that would render it useless if stolen.

(Perhaps this thing already exists. I am too lazy to google it as I type this :-)).
They literally don’t, and those that do are exceedingly desperate.
It's a decent article.

Defining "scrum" in a debate-club fashion here is meaningless and is actually a valid strategy to discredit any criticism of it.

1. Scrum being a "philosophy" itself isn't clearly defined.

2. Different orgs practice Scrum differently, hence the more specifically you define Scrum, the less of the practice falls under that definition.

3. Best definition in this context is "set of practices most orgs call Scrum", which might as well be omitted.

And all of that has no bearing on the fact, that if team leadership busts out Scrum boards and Jira tickets more often than discussing problems, teaching/promoting knowledge and figuring out the best product design, then it's probably a mediocre shitshow.
Esp so since Android Auto is just your phone on your car's screen.
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I'll tell you a cure for most depression.

A loving partner thats right.

Unfortunately due to hypergamy most males will not find a loving loyal partner, please look up male suicide statistics and be shocked.

People are looking for things that cause depression, the main cause is being ALONE! Read up about female hypergamy please.

My 2 sisters and female friends open tinder and they have 100's (some even thousands) of matches. They have constant support and relationship.

My average friends are lucky to get a few tinder likes a month if that. Even my most good looking friend has been cheated on numerous times.

Even boomer women are starting to get hypergamous , my younger coworker brags about hooking up with married women who lie to their older husbands.

Its a sick world we live in a technology is the root cause with all these shitty dating apps and social media.

Think about it boys who are reading this, how many of you have had any female attention in the past few years? be honest with your self. Its not normal at all, 50 years ago we would have had numerous girlfriends and ended up marrying the love of our life but now it's all just a dream.

Women are just a few swipes away from a male model on tinder. You don't even register on their scale.

I'm now depressed thinking about all this.
If you follow spez at all that shouldn’t surprise you.

Hell he directly edited the comment database on the_donald one time
Complicated tasks get deprioritized

Features over robust code

An effect is "birth defects are forever". An early design mistake is very difficult to correct in a scrum-like "agile" process. The incremental nature of the process favors patching around it.

This is OK for webcrap, but not OK for systems that have strong internal consistency or time constraints.
They make $400K+, and also have the highest malpractice insurance rates of all the disciplines. On the upside, they have low overhead, since they don't need an office to see patients in.
> 25th percentile means 3/4 of the worlds nations have a lower life expectancy

LOL

what did you miss from despite having the highest spending per capita?

US has the lowest life expectancy in the entire west.

And it's going down, not up.

It's 46th in that ranking, my country, Italy, is 6th.

USA is even below Lebanon and Estonia.

Lebanon has been at war for the past 40 years and has been bombed several times.

Do you think US citizen know that int their country life expectancy is worse than a country which is literally in ruins?

> I suspect you will find yourself consistently down voted and flagged when you speak like this.\

Do you really believe I care about the downvotes ?

You should care about living in a country where some living standards are lower than many third world countries,

- Infant mortality (deaths/1,000 live births)

USA is 46th, worse than Latvia, Lithuania, Cuba, Belarus, Estonia, Antigua and Barbuda

- Under-five mortality rate per 1000 live births.

USA is 44th, again after countries they consider thirld World, including ex USSR (Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Estonia) and Cuba

BTW, when you talk about other countries fascism, true or not, you should remember that in my country there are US military bases, not Chinese.

The Itavia Flight 870 was shot down in 1980 by NATO fighter jets fighting Libyan jets in civil air space, killing 81 people

It wasn't the Chinese

In the 80s CIA was involved with far right terrorism that killed many innocent people, they were scared that Italy was going "too leftist"

The father of a friend of mine was killed on the 2nd of August of 1980, he was waiting at the train station in Bologna.

We were both kids.

Wikileaks revealed the "Kissinger Cables", documents that Henry Kissinger sent to express the intolerance of the US administration for the Italian justice system that was "being too hard" on the neofascists groups.

If you look at the English Wikipedia page for "strategy of tension" and then at this https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategia_della_tensione_in_It... you will see there's a great difference in the story told and the amount of documentation presented. In particular any document that calls out the US, including all the evidence found in over 40 years of investigation by the Italian authorities, is not mentioned.

Can you guess why?

The Strage del Cermis (Cavalese cable disaster for you non Italian speakers) was caused by an US air pilot, 20 (TWENTY) people died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_%2...

It wasn't the Chinese

And there are many other...

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Can you guess now why I don't care about your downvotes?
I have my doubts about results of study with only 24 participants aged 28-72 years where they say SOME people over 40 have seen improvements, why don't tell how many of these SOME people were over 40? We will end up with what, 5-10 people who saw some improvement? That's anecdotic evidence.
Yeah, but now you're most likely leaving the field of software engineering and are going higher up the promotion ladder.
Bringing cash to a bank either via deposit boxes or by collection is not free and coinage is even more expensive than paper. At least here in Europe
I hope Airbnb will never be the same...

There are already stories out there of people renting flats to use in Airbnb only.

While you have and had strict regulations on hotels and renting flats out, Airbnb just ignored it. What happened? Cheap rooms for Tourists, pushing rent prices higher, and putting a dent on hotels who have to have high standards and high investments.
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Reddit's not just banning the subreddits, it's banning mentions of the websites where these communities are moving.

Reddit does not want to host these groups anymore. But it doesn't want them to organize and find another host.

It's a lot of power for a free forum hoster.
And sadly it is true. Perhaps in some century their governments will care about something other than wholesale slaughter. Probably not in my lifetime.
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