skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's absolutely reprehensible and cunning.

In addition to counterfeiting and deception, another problem is in the definition of what constitutes, for example, a "Made in Switzerland" product. According to Swiss law, 60% of the manufacturing BOM cost needs to be domestically sourced [1]. Therein lies the problem of enforcement as well as impossibilities due to the entangled supply-chain with China as well as accountability and prevention of abuse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_made
The bookshops I know (in Germany) have an excellent ordering service, especially the academic bookshops in my university town.

I used to order everything via Amazon, but eventually I figured I wanted to support one of our lovely little local bookshops, so I buy all my books there now. They rarely have the books I want, so I still have to order (via them), but it's almost as fast as Amazon, if not always quite as cheap. But I love the old ladies that run it, and simply dropping in for a chat with them is worth the extra cost and effort :-)
I'll give my personal take as a ex-CS major who dropped out to major in something else (math), tried to escape a career in software development, and ultimately wound up back in it when I saw how much more work and stress the other alternatives were (for me at least).

- Computer science to me sounded way more fun than it actually was. I loved building things and programming, but that's not what CS is. CS is theory. I was bored to tears learning about sorting algorithms and binary search trees.

Same applies to machine learning and AI. The reality of studying it was way less fun than the idea. Even my AI professor acknowledged that.

- As someone who'd always taught myself programming on my own, I didn't see the point in dedicating my 4 years of study to something I felt like I could teach myself. Since there was a good chance I'd probably end up working as a software engineer anyways, I thought it'd be smarter to study something I probably wouldn't otherwise ever teach myself on my own.

- This is rude and shallow, but I didn't like my CS classmates. There was such a disproportionately high amount of weirdos, and I didn't want to be surrounded with those people all day and god forbid become one of them. I vividly remember studying in the CS lounge and having to stop myself from face-palming. If I was a sociable kid it probably wouldn't matter, but as a socially awkward kid it would be too easy to only be surrounded like similar people the rest of my life and never evolve.

- Software engineering seemed boring, just being stuck in a cubicle all day. I did an internship as a programmer, and although it was relatively easy, moderately interesting, and stress-fee, I was terrified of the thought of spending the rest of my life in that cubicle.

- I wanted more money and status. At the time (almost 10 years ago), it seemed that finance was the highest paying and most prestigious field to go into. Finance sounded more exciting, and I liked the idea of their being no ceiling on compensation, whereas software engineering seemed capped at $200k/yr. Of course now things have changed, and tech comp at big corporations tops out at more like $500k/yr (or more if you get equity and win the startup lotto), and tech is way more respected than before. High finance still pays the most, but those jobs are basically limited to Ivy League graduates, the hours are insane, authoritarian work cultures, no remote work, and IMO the work is extremely boring and utterly meaningless, even moreso than software engineering where at least you're actually creating something.

Of course my views nearly a decade since graduating have evolved. I gave in and took on a career in software engineering, which I've attempted to leave at times but always ended up returning (though once I'm financially independent you better believe I'll be gone for good). But at least at the time those were some reasons why I dropped my CS major despite being convinced since high school that that was my calling.
It's about harm and risk reduction. All other things held equal, you would expect your enemies to be doing more to undermine you than your allies would.
Yup. Living with parents. Cancelled my lease (saving $3500/mo). My manager agreed to let me stay at home at least for the rest of 2020. Honestly, it's been nice. My mom cooks for me like I'm a teenager again, and I only recently graduated and I went to school pretty close to home so I have close HS friends or college friends nearby to physically distanced socialize. I was planning on moving back here in the future but if a lot of companies start permanent WFH I might accelerate my timeline.
The page visibility API should be on the list.

It's none of your business if I'm looking at your page or not.
Checked it out, and promptly got banned. There was some discussion going on about how the liberal press criticized Trump for wanting to criminalize flag burning but didn't criticize Hillary Clinton for the same thing even though she had actually cosponsored legislation to do that when she was in Congress.

I had never actually heard of that, so looked up the bill to see what it proposed. I posted the summary from congress.gov in case anyone else was curious too:

> Flag Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions regarding desecration of the flag to prohibit: (1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace; (2) intentionally threatening or intimidating any person, or group of persons, by burning a U.S. flag; or (3) stealing or knowingly converting the use of a U.S. flag belonging to the United States, or belonging to another person on U.S. lands, and intentionally destroying or damaging that flag

Banned for posting anti-Trump material.
Good bookstores are so rare, Powell's is about the only one worth visiting. Chain bookstores sell so much pulp, garbage, remaindered coffee table books about cats, etc.
Worth noting that from my perspective, reddit is basically a right-wing propaganda outlet and always has been (at least the last 10+ years).

Weird how that goes.
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I wouldn’t compare onlyfans to prostitution, it’s not the same as going out on the street. If anything it’s empowering.
It doesnt surprise me that the antisemitic stuff didnt make it to the front page, but for the record there was a LOT of it in the top posts of the subreddits. Caricatures in the posts, conspiracies in the comments. They also really focused on vasectomies, which strangely has become a strong signal for alt right presence in a community.
No it's not. It's Lazarus Long from Time Enough for Love.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man
The public health toll of social media will not be fully understood for another 30 years it seems.

People with adolescents and teen daughters please chime in here. The rates of suicide, cutting, and psychological problems are climbing. My wife and I find a charity that offers counseling and therapy to young girls. What is common place now was nearly unheard of in my generation (X).
Right. There aren’t really “superspreaders” as much as “superspreading events”.

It takes a combination of 1) high viral presentation, 2) breath activity that generates lots of droplets, such as singing, public speaking, shouting, exercise, cough or sneeze, and 3) a location where lots of unprotected people will breath the same air for a significant period of time.

Preventing the 1st is difficult, we don’t know who is infectious. The 2nd is where masks as source prevention are critical. The 3rd is where social distance and 3C interventions help.
So, basically, Apple users are doomed to stay inside their walled garden in the sake of privacy (which mostly means that Apple is reserving access to their private data solely for itself). No functional-rich PWAs for them. Well, it is always people's (customer's) choice.
I'm curious how this will affect the local startup scene. There's definitely a great demand for these products that now needs to be fulfilled by local / non-Chinese international players.

If this ban lasts:

My concern is that Facebook will introduce India-specific products to fill this void, while my hope is that local players significantly up their product quality and reach to build a strong domestic tech scene - the way China did a decade and a half ago w/ Tencent, Baidu, ByteDance, etc. This domestic talent expansion will help build a stronger domestic tech ecosystem.

Why the concern w/ Facebook? They already have a deathly grip on Indian consumers w/ WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram. Tik Tok was the only major social platform used by Indians that wasn't owned by Facebook, and now they have a chance to potentially grab that as well. I'm not comfortable with one company owning that much attention, I don't trust their privacy policies with their data privacy track record and they don't iterate quickly enough on localized product-features meaning Indian users lag months / years behind western regions (e.g. Instagram in-app shopping experience).
Using opportunity to actually perform a good thing for privacy (tiktok at least was found snooping all it can from users phones, not sure about the rest but given how chinese run things that would be expected).

No tear will be shed for those apps, regardless from which country they come from (I know this is very targeted due to recent tensions, but its still a step in the right direction re privacy)
Best grumpy-used-book-store-owner experience ever: A friend and I went into an exceedingly cramped used book store in SF years ago, each looking for a particular title. Books were on shelves and also stacked in piles scattered along the two narrow aisles. There were a few labeled "sections", but within a section, everything was random. There was one other customer, my friend, and me, all tripping over one-another, looking for our books.

Owner, from the front register, in a rather annoyed voice: "You know, you should call ahead, so I can tell you if we have your title, and have it ready for you when you come. We don't have room for customers to be rummaging around." So, we accepted defeat, and as we went to leave, the store phone rang, and the owner picked up. After a beat, and as I was stepping out the door, I heard the owner grumpily responding to the caller: "How should I know? I can't keep track of all the books here; you have to come in and look for it yourself..."
Some DX4 from AMD made it to 160Mhz overclocked.

Super Socket 7!
Define failed?
I'm 30, in grad school, and moved back in with my parents just prior to the corona lockdown.

I didn't break my old lease, so I didn't save much money until last month when the lease was up. I thought I was going to move out again around August but with nothing opening up I don't really see a point in it, and will probably live here for the foreseeable future. Plus, I actually really enjoy living at home.

I feel vaguely embarrassed about it but with nothing open it doesn't really come up much.
Not for a 9 yr old.
This exact scenario is now evolving in dozens of labs the world over to use the essence of the initial CRISPR mechanism in a new and superior(patentable) way to perform gene edits in the precise location with the precise new information required. It will end up better, but probably slower and surer.
The China censors things so we should too stance just seems to strengthen their position of censorship...
WhatsApp is incredibly popular in India.
Do you all think Steve is ok? Like on a personal health level? The constant onslaught of "you're a nazi and racist" and being overwhelmingly hated by your user base must take a toll. How do CEOs in positions like this not burn out or avoid major stress-related health problems?
Depends what you're building, I have what I would consider a small server app (Less than 10 JSON HTTP endpoints with some postgres), a dev incremental build takes 17.21s and a release build 7m 12s. A similar app in Go would probably take less than a second to build, they're obviously quite different languages but that doesn't feel that fast.
"Printing books in bulk" has survived quite a few epidemics in the past 500 years... Why do you think this one is different?
Exactly correct, the rub is how much phase error (inaccuracy) are you willing to tolerate.

Now if you you had planned to include a localization option in the satellites, that would be an interesting thing.
Arguably Microsoft would have had more time/energy to devote to bringing first party apps/components to Fluent Design if it didn't keep doing 270 degree turns in Windows 8. It's hard to follow through when customers keep backseat driving and yelling at you to swerve. (Whether or not those were the right decisions, and I'm not implying that listening to customers is necessarily a bad thing, just that you can't have your cake and eat it too: you can't complain that Microsoft didn't follow through on the straight path when you complain that they needed to swerve in the first place.)
In addition, mastodon, and even the protocol, has a lot in place to mitigate targeted harassment by a community.

Individual Instance blocks, where a user can block an entire instance are in place. Instance blocks on your instance, where an admin blocks another instance for all the users of that instance.
And, community driven, blacklists where an admin can copy paste from.

Even more interesting, is that some instances block any instance that in themselves don't block another instance. In practice, this means that if you don't block Gab, there are a lot of instances that don't want to talk to you.

This works. This gives people the freedom to pick and choose or to move somewhere where they have more or less freedom to listen to others.
Then people are fucking morons. There are no two ways about it - abusable power will be abused. Hell "security risk" as a rationale is a vague layer to shield from criticism of policies. Since it is implicitly the magical special pleading wand known as "national security".
Do we have numbers to compare with the Snapdragon-based Windows laptops?

edit: we do: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-s-Snapdragon-8cx-amas...
Wow, it's amazing how close this article comes to describing the present day situation of the big 3 textbook companies!
Would iMessage work between India and China?
Logged in just to thank you for your comment (which is 100% correct). So few people understand the role & importance of consent and your comment is appreciated.

Thank you!
Kids can't vote.
I'm not quite sure there are many actual Communists in the US.

Even if there are any (and there probably is, given the number of people in America), more importantly, they certainly hold zero political power and have no sway in any but tiny, niche political discussion.

These days, "Communist" is more likely to used by a conservative commentator in bad faith when trying to lazily vilify their opponent (communism has a bad rep in mainstream American politics since the cold war) than to actually refer to a bona fide communist. See also: "socialist".
I haven't seen this mentioned in any stories but r/antifa is also banned. It could have come about as something else but I took a peak in it Thursday and it was there.
Asking for actual proof now is a bit of a tall bar since the subreddit is no longer accessible!
> Do people want to be on a platform where other folks on the same platform are targeting their community with dishonest and often bigoted content?

What's wrong with a decentralized "platform" that works like the web?

Anybody, right now, can submit some bigoted trolling to HN. It'll get flagged and killed in ten seconds. And then people don't much bother because there's no advantage in immediate failure.

You can have a "platform" that shares formats and protocols and supports shared links but has independently-moderated subsections, and then the contents of each one is reflected in how it's moderated.
And blocked in China.
The New York Times Removes Its Articles from Apple News
the announcement itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/updat...
Something that the pandemic and the associated housing churn offers to young and childless city dwellers is the opportunity to move somewhere they can find a sense of community, which for many is something that is lacking in their lives as evidenced by the long HN threads on the very real subject of alienation felt by young workers in physically anonymous environments.

They might find this back in the small town they came from, or it might be just in another neighborhood of the same city that has more of a sense of community. It's not unusual for large impact events like this to cause people to consider switching to different style of life - and matching setting - that involves getting more connected with the people who live around them, or moving to a place more amenable to that.

I've already seen several examples of this happening on a local level, so I figure it's a real sub-trend among the many sudden human movement patterns initiated by the pandemic.
This is pretty cool! Do you have support for GPU/TPU acceleration? I saw you can deploy in your own AWS VPC, can you do the same on GCP? Also, what model frameworks do you support right now? TF 1.x/2.x and PyTorch?
Just from a more farcical standpoint, the idea of one country attacking another via dance trends feels like a page out of Zoolander.
You're not alone. A lot of my peers in their 20s have already moved back in with their parents or were already with them to begin with (if their parents lived in the area). Some of the moved cross country shortly after the WFH orders went into place - presumably to save money.

If you get along with your family well enough, where they live makes sense for your job (internet/timezone), and they have the space to house you for then why not do it.

I won't be doing it for multiple reasons but I feel like I'm the minority. Most of my peers get along with their parents. (would be hard for them to break into the SF Bay Area with no parental support) I don't get along with mine - so I'll continue to pay out my ass to rent a substandard living space.
I wonder if/how China will use the tiktok data when all these teens are adults.
I’m 29 and living in downtown Manhattan at the moment. I decided to re-sign for my lease, which would have ended this month, after negotiating some concessions from my landlord.

Everyone’s got different priorities, but I enjoy living here and I’ve budgeted to account for my rent even if my job situation changes drastically.

Lockdown was unpleasant-but-tolerable through the worst of it (end of March -> end of April), and at this point I’ve got a good system for dealing with another one.

Generally though, I’m concerned that other states and municipalities aren’t going to deal with a resurgence as well as the NYC metro area might. My family lives in New Jersey, so I’d be comfortable going out there if I felt that I had to, but I’d absolutely prefer paying to stay in NYC over returning to family living in most of the other US states.
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I recently learned of https://bookshop.org/, which is a website that pays out part of their earnings to local bookstores. As someone who loves local shopping and wants to see us move away from an economy ruled by a few mega tech corps, this seems like a happy medium that retains the convenience of online shopping while retaining local, independent stores.
I remember years ago there was a very obvious console message (related to an invalid date) that was spamming the system log frequently for at least a month, across multiple minor OS updates, in nearly every application. It was actually noticeably impacting the CPU because it appeared so often.

Now I’m wondering if this console “rewrite” happened around the same time, perhaps in response to it. Maybe after seeing one difficult-to-wrangle log message, they concluded that gaining complete control over all logging was the only solution?

In any case, they went way too far. Console is effectively useless now; I got so tired of opening it up and finding nothing of value that I stopped even looking, and just apply every other possible debugging method first.

Their push for multi-process solutions like XPC have made logging even more useless because by default the new log system refuses to show output from sub-processes AT ALL. So imagine an app that previously had a nice sequential log for in-process actions A, B, and C; after migrating to sub-processes, now you see only the output of action B because the A and C actions are in different sub-processes! While there is a way to enable the output from all of them, it’s not the default and it’s not obvious and it’s just another stupid debugging hurdle.
China bad
This is such an important topic. What I do when learning something new is create a Word or vim file to document my own learning process, filling in the gaps left by the tutorial as I go. That document becomes my own personal tutorial.

People who write tutorials will counter: "You can't teach EVERYTHING -- you have to assume some knowledge!" Which is true, which any parent who has endured an infinite chain of "why" questions from a child can attest. But most online tutorials could be MUCH better than they are.

I've come to the conclusion that the reason most tutorials are so bad is because -- unlike myself -- most people who write tutorials don't like teaching. They think it is a distraction which takes them away from their "real" work. But I would challenge those who write tutorials: Create a work of art! Good documentation is something to be proud of.
> Apple is far from the worst of it. But there are some very disturbing trends in tech and the world that warrant our skepticism

Well we can agree on that. I am basically speaking against the reductive argument “big corporation = bad.“

Apple does good things and Apple does bad things. On balance I think they do more good than bad. We can have a debate about that. But we can’t debate if the opposition just thinks big corporation = bad and no freedom. I chose Apple because that is the company that started this discussion.
I've been considering a new desk recently, since I will be WFH for the foreseeable future, and I'm considering the Jarvis.

How's the lateral stability in a Jarvis? I want to be able to mount a gaming wheel with very strong force feedback to my desk, and the Jarvis's lack of a cross bar makes me doubt it's as strong as an UpLift V2 desk which I'm also considering.
Suggesting they are in a trough implies that there was an initial bump of enthusiasm which seems completely absent. There was a bit of advertising driven early uptake, but it didn't stick at all. I'm not even sure I'd consider a celebrity backed company that was backed by nearly $2B out of the gate a startup in the normal sense.
I'm not sure the underlying premise is true. There are all the experiments about how your hands are constantly covered in germs unless you literally just washed them; I don't know why the same wouldn't be true of the air.
Part of me wishes that browsers dropped support for web push notifications entirely. Or at least bury it in the browser settings somewhere. At best, they provide marginal value to me, and at worse, they're just spammy.

My parents aren't techsavy at all, so when they get those push notification requests, they just hit "accept". They now get dozens of spammy ads sent to them via push notifications (eg, "30% off sale, buy now!")

I've disabled web push notifications entirely, but I still get JavaScript-based prompts asking me for permission to turn on notifications. I already explicitly said no, yet web developers still feel compelled to find workarounds to interrupt my work and ask me for permissions (why?).

I get that in theory, web notifications are supposed to be valuable, but in practice its been nothing more than a constant annoyance for me.