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> When tech is funded by government incubators, it tends to become a fake imitation of the VC funded industry that we know from Silicon Valley.

Seems a little strong?

https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/ (Cockroach Labs, GitLab, DataRobot, databricks, Cloudera, mongoDB (I know), probably more you've heard of)

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/portfolio/portfolio-projects (Tesla)

https://www.sbir.gov/news/success-stories (Qualcomm, iRobot, 23andMe, Orbital ATK, countless others)

https://sbir.nih.gov/statistics/success-stories

https://sbir.nasa.gov/success-stories

https://sbir.<any agency here>.gov/

https://www.darpa.mil/Timeline/index.html (the internet, voice recognition, virtual reality, GPS, onion routing, the computer mouse, touchscreens, etc.)

Also, the many startups that were spun out of public universities and government-funded research.
Why aren't regular expressions a lingua franca? [pdf]
Good point, can't crash a car if you can't get it to move.
Even with losing cases, there is value in having a competent legal team. With luck, the entire Internal Archive will not be at stake.
We got Firefox in the first place due to insubordination by developers, many of whom were told that we were only going to support IE.

But it was easier to debug on Mozilla so it got supported first because you could eliminate 90% of the bugs before ever having to touch IE.
The security implications of allowing communications on a platform that is subject to the absolute control of a foreign government, seems like a very very bad idea. That can be a lesson learned the easy way or the hard way.
"if you have to think about it for a second, just don't do it. Thinking about that narrow pass on the freeway? Let it go, you can pass in a couple seconds after the gap widens. Thinking about gunning through the yellow? Relax. Just stop. Etc."

That totally applies to driving a car as well!
That's fair. It'd be more correct to call it a government-granted monopoly, indeed. My point was mostly that for any given book, the publisher has no competition, so the reputation of the publisher doesn't matter too much to someone who needs to buy that book.
Prior to the acquisition Stackdriver was never best of breed among its peer group but it was acceptable. Post-acquisition the feature set appears as an end user to have more or less frozen and their UIs feel haphazard: dashboarding is a mess, the trace UI is very complex without really giving me greater query power over alternatives and the options for converting one kind of data stream into another (logs to metrics, traces to logs to metrics etc) just aren't there. Google tightly integrates Stackdriver into its other products -- I assume that's where most of the labor for the Stackdriver team has gone -- but it feels cheap and like they've had to intentionally limit options to force buy-in. For what it is, Stackdriver is surprisingly expensive and their SDKs are quite complicated for what they end up accomplishing. Why should the end-user need to internalize Stackdriver Metrics' API to be able to produce metrics about their application? (I am sympathetic to the notion that this SDK is low-level and meant to be consumed by higher-level APIs like OpenTelemetry et al).

Nowadays the Stackdriver suite just feels left behind. There's plenty of other options in this space that have a nice internal integration and are reasonably inexpensive to purchase, or run yourself. If Stackdriver weren't so tightly integrated with Google's other cloud products I have to imagine it would get even less use than it does now.
If you cheat in most such tests it just means you miss out on actually learning what you were supposed to. If it wasn't your intention to learn anyway I guess that's fine.

Rarely the purpose of tests is to assure the public of your fitness (e.g. a driving test) and cheating those might be a problem, but if you cheat my CS 101 course and then struggle because you needed remedial classes but the cheated test means you don't get them that's your problem.
If you are doing back compat for old browsers, Babel is necessary anyway.

Typescript is a choice independent from anything else.

There are alternatives to Webpack, none of which have gained traction, possibly because developers appreciate other features that webpack provides out of the box.

But, you are complaining about the developer tools, why? The source code size of emacs/vscode/vi is just as relevant, or the size of the linter, or the complexity of whatever build environment is used to deploy code to production.

All of those require upgrading and maintenance, and occasionally have bugs!
1. uBlock Origin, and some other extensions.
2. Ability to tweak css a bit, and get multi-row tabs (that was primary reason for me)
That's literally the meaning of the word...the negative connotations came afterwards.
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Political polarization is tearing the US apart and virtue signaling on social media + Media incentives are acting as accelerants. The sane voices are afraid to speak up.Our goal is to remove preference falsification from the political discourse.

We are aiming to solve this problem and would love to get your feedback. The pre launch site is www.walletpoll.com.The video and the Letter from the Founder on the site would give a good explanation of what we are attempting to do. The working prototype can be found at http://wp.demo.aezion.com/ . We are currently testing it.
Smart watches are not a niche product in 2020. Apple shipped 31 million smart watches in 2019, more than the entire Swiss watch market combined (according to The Verge). Samsung and Garmin sell millions of watches too, and almost every serious outdoorsy type person wears at least one of these brands as a fitness tracker.

That's where you're missing the point. Smart watches have become popular because of the fitness component, and have also shown great versatility beyond that, including invoking a voice assistant and screening notifications.

I haven't taken my phone off silent in years, I will only have my watch on vibrate and a select few apps filtered to send notifications to my phone. The rest are not of immediate consequence, so I don't get them "in real time". Plus, if the watch is off my wrist, it vibrates my desk just like a phone. Notifications are dismissed automatically after a timeout, or a button to dismiss.

I find my glasses come off for far more serious activities than my watch. I never intended for my watch to be a phone replacement where I can respond to messages, but it's sure good at letting me know a message needs my attention.

A few things a watch offers you while lifting, specifically:

- rep counting

- heart rate monitoring

- music, without a phone, by pairing a BT headset directly to the watch

A few more things smart watches are great at:

- forget your wallet in the car? Contactless payments. Or, buy a bottle of water in the middle of a run or bike.

- sleep tracking

- leave your phone in your pocket more and enjoy life

- don't even bring your phone on a run, built in GPS tracks for you

- don't even bring your phone on a bike, same reason

- built in topo maps for hiking

When you think about it, smart watches are /far/ more useful than they seem because of all the tech and sensors packed into a device that (potentially) lasts days at a time. And I think most people get that, which is why smart watches are already a huge industry.
It's an (interesting) portfolio of random ideas. Not a platform.
Read up on topics of interest to you ... join online forums on these topics ... get immersed in the unsolved challenges ... work to solve problems which take time to resolve ... progressively solve ever harder challenges ... talk to people who listen and ask hard questions

Above will get you started ... engaging in abstract thought takes time and focused attention ... coding software can provide a medium to express yourself so can expository long form writing ... before bedtime bring to mind an unsolved question then upon awakening harvest solutions ... that habit can provide feedstock for ongoing evolutionary jumps

over time increase the complexity of these long form projects ... grow them so their course may stretch for days to weeks to months to ...

nurture friendships with interesting folks ... travel wide ... gain inspiration give guidance cherish the moment
> Unless we support alternatives we really shouldn't complain when they gradually die off in a space that is increasingly coming under the control of giant corporations with bottomless pockets.

The company behind Chrome also supports Firefox. And will continue to, for fear of their browser dominance being used against them within an antitrust action.
New in Firefox 78
>In June 2015, the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting the records of as many as four million people

I'm pretty sure that tiktok has more than 4M users. I guess you can argue that OPM has more % of "high value" users compared to tiktok, but it's also 5 years out of date and contains different sets of data entirely. OPM data doesn't have your minute-by-minute location history and clipboard history, for instance.
They'd have to have had their head in the sand if they didn't understand all PPEs(N95/non-N95 masks, shields, gowns) were in short/critical supply. There were also shady deals being made at high prices, and counterfeits flooding the market. Once again the market optimized for the profit of a few and not preparedness or quality of life.
I think Linus is at fault here. Having a PR process that requires sending a patch over email, email threads done with super old mailing list software, etc instead of the more modern workflow of using forks, PRs in a web UI, etc is tedious and annoying. Making kernel development and maintaining more accesible to younger people would increase the pool of potential maintainers.
Also, https://wtf.tw/ref/meadows.pdf
Probably from here: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

Hyperapp does outperform React in most benchmarks (along with many other frameworks). Not sure how the "2x" was measured, though.
In my experience it is a lot easier to tell your friends that you don't have any social media, rather than saying that you don't have a specific social media app/account/thing. Why? It's harder to understand why someone wouldn't install TikTok when they already have Snapchat/Instagram/everything else.

(I'm a high school student, abstaining from social media other than HN.)

Edit: Have you tried explaining to your daughter why TikTok is Chinese spyware?
That's interesting. If having a monitor above the monitor makes it seem like you are gazing down (timid) then is there anything about having the webcam near the bottom of the monitor (nose cam in dells or just putting a webcam below it on the desk)?
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Is the fact that it's mature and stable for all uses the reason for it not being very actively worked on in the last few years?
Generally, Intel is still best for TCO. AMD is better on specific high core count workloads. Arm isn't really competitive in the HPC/Cloud space, or at least hasn't been historically. Maybe that's starting to change?
If this is supposed to be the probability density then it looks way off. I suspect that there is a mistake in calculating the absolute value of the wave function.

Edit: In this base the absolute value of the wave function is supposed to be rotational symmetric around the z axis.
Part of my motivation in commenting was hoping it already exists. There's not much to it. The key is that it has to be very vertically integrated. I need to be able to buy (or port), manage, and use the domain all from the same simple interface.

CloudFlare does a lot of this, but you need a public server for them to proxy. They seem well positioned to add a CLI tool for the last mile ngrok-like part though.
On the other hand, when I'm cycling, I'm typically not moving at >15 mph or so. When I'm walking, reduce that to 3mph. That seems like it would do a lot to counteract the car's crumple zones and airbags in terms of severity of injury.

In fact, once you take into account severity, the GP's claim seems extremely suspect: maybe the chance of any injury on a bike or by foot is higher, but I'd be skeptical of claims that the same applies to death, or even chance of serious injury (since that's what I, personally, care about), without serious backing evidence.
> We are winding down Focals 1.0 and we will not be shipping Focals 2.0, but we hope you will continue the journey with us as we start this next chapter.

Isn't this just a classic acquihire?

I'm sure it will be on Our Incredible Journey soon.
Care to elaborate how attestation is privacy infringing?

As far as I understand, private attestation is a specific design goal of WebAuthN, achieved by either sharing an attestation credential with at least 100 000 instances of a given authenticator or via cryptographic means.

There have been instances of authenticator vendors getting this wrong, but I remember reading that browsers will detect it and strip any attestation response in this case.
I mean it's "smart" and "efficient" but it's also fragile. The simplest way to manage your finances is to avoid debt wherever possible (especially consumer debt). Very hard to go into bankruptcy when you don't owe anyone anything!

The "smartest" way to manage your finances is to use credit cards that give you points and pay you back via a few hundred dollars worth of free flights a year. But there's a bunch of opportunity costs associated with pursuing that route, and a level of diligence that frankly most people do not have.

The best thing about debt is that it lets you move really really quickly - if you don't have $2k for that furniture set, you can just finance things and pay it off over 2 years. But that's the worst thing about debt as well - you now have a monthly obligation that's going to be a line item expense for the next 24 months. If you'd spent 12 months saving up for that furniture set and paid cash, the day you buy the goods is the day your financial obligations start and end.

I am not opposed to debt entirely, and think it can be a great strategic lever (I used a credit card to finance my initial move to America which has done wonders for my income and my career, far exceeding the interest costs that I paid). However I think for most consumer purposes it's less of a help and more of a hindrance. Take the new 84 month car loans. That's 7 years! That's a long time to assume that your life will have no material changes, or that nothing will go wrong.
Anarcho-capitalists don't see capitalism as a power structure though. They see it as something natural that emerges organically, without it being imposed on top. They argue that, for example, markets appear in failed states, they emerge even when the states try to suppress them (black markets), and they're a natural outcome of different skills and needs. So it's not a power structure any more than say, mountains are a power structure, even though some people can exploit mountains pretty effectively to gain advantage.
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It depends. If EUs are actually the bottleneck then doing SSE or AVX wouldn't have any different in speed in such case.

However, when instruction decode/retire is the bottleneck, AVX can be faster. I remembered this can be the case on Intel Sandy Bridge (first-gen AVX, double pumped, retire 3 instructions/cycle), where AVX can sometimes be faster (usually it's not that different)

With recent CPUs from both Intel/AMD able to at decode/retire at least 4 instructions per cycle this really cease to be the case.
Wow, this is a last from the past for me. Ruby and shoes were some of my earliest programming experiences. _why's book seemed like the most fascinating and wonderful weird creation, unlike any learning material I had come across. I've just fired up my 'space defenders' game, made 8 years ago, using the newest shoes version. It works! A pleasant surprise - I'd assumed this library died when _why went walkabout :)
Sure:

Healthcare:
- In the US it is expensive but you get decent care. If you are not making enough you get medicaid or subsidized healthcare that actually works (even in most rural areas).
- In for example Ukraine, technically there is socialized healthcare, but you still have to pay due to corruption. For the average Ukrainian, it's not an unsubstantial amount. They don't have the newest drugs, technology, or that sorts. I'm using Ukraine as an example but also applies to other developing countries generally.

Infrastructure:
- US has bad infrastructure compared to Japan. But the roads are generally paved (even in most rural areas), there is normally some sort of government that fixes the infrastructure. Sure there are cases of the dam breaking, but there are many, many examples of the government building parks, dams, paving new roads, fixing things, etc.
- In developing or even worse in an ldc, the rural roads are not normally paved except for 'main' roads. Outside major cities the road quality, building construction rapidly deteriorates. China is an exception to this, but I could talk a bit about China and how it is unique.

Water:
- In the US water is generally safe. You are able to point to Flint, Michigan which has a population of less than 100k, and a few others.
- In developing countries the water is bad. For instance when I first went to Moldova I got a very itchy and weird rash. When I started drinking bottled water, it went away. In other countries you can get parasites or diarrhea from drinking the water. This is not normally an issue in the US.

Corruption:
- In the US you can go to the government and not worry about bribing or corruption in general. The police will not stop you and ask for money. The opposite is true in many developing nations.

Internet:
- In the US, even in rural America, you can get Internet that is somewhat acceptable. Most Americans can visit Google and watch YouTube without major connection issues or that sort. Many places in rural areas of developing countries have bad connections at best.

Banking:
- In the US you have FDIC, many banking regulations, solid legal framework, trusted institutions. It's a bit sketchy in other countries, though might be because I'm a foreigner. Banking fees are much higher from what I have seen, especially in Argentina+Chile. I was blown away when I was there.

These are just some of the things I could think of from the top of my head. There are many more things and experience I could talk about, but this is a good start. There is a reason why millions of people try and immigrate to the US each year, that's not just random. I'm sure you could point of exceptions to what I laid out, but those are just exceptions.
While I believe the USA and most of the western world is indeed declining, there is another side to this: Corona might be a wake up call.

Could anyone believe an article like this would be published in a major news org before Corona? It was unthinkable.

But now we all see the governements blundering from one incompetent stupidity to the next. All western governements, not only the USA.

Before Corona, people knew but didn't care much. Apathy and cynicism everywhere. But now, reaction is building. Slowly, but at last something is moving.

I think we need a rude wake up call. I just hope this is rude enough.
@tptacek and I discussed this a bit downthread. I’m not an expert in community moderation and I’ve seen a lot of them go from decent to terrible very quick, so I know roughly how much effort it takes to prevent that. I do think it’s improving, and I think slow is the only way it ever improves.

I think a lot of women see terrible stuff come up here either in comments or on the front page and assume (wrongly) that the community as a whole is ok with it, before it ends up flagkilled by everyone else and often you will come into the thread and warn them if it’s particularly bad. I know I’ve had a good few “why the FUCK is this garbage on the front page” reactions over the years, but those submissions inevitably end up flagged too.

I do recall being warned by you for responding in kind to somebody writing inflammatory stuff or acting in bad faith, and this is a reaction I have had to learn to control as a result. That doesn’t feel great, because in the moment it feels like being scolded for hitting back from a position of less power, and this happens a lot to minorities in tech. However, over time I’ve learned that there’s a discursive norm against flamey stuff in general, and that this norm prevents the conversation from being drowned in pile-ons about one person’s bad behavior, which of course ends up Streisanding bad comments too. HN seems like one of the few places where “don’t feed the troll” is actually sensible advice, because there is sufficient enforcement against trolls (community based and explicit moderation) that they aren’t allowed to fester and multiply.

I think a lot of women are jaded and burnt out from having to deal with ugly comments and bad actors in less-well-moderated areas of the web where the community sentiment is actually against us participating. I know it was really difficult for me to learn to set aside my gut reaction and ignore the ugly bits, but I did it because I believed it would be ultimately worth it. It’s a question of trust, right? People have to trust that this space is actually different, that misogynistic pot-stirring and verbal abuse aren’t actually welcome, and that they will be treated as equals. These are depressingly common and even quotidian almost everywhere else, which is I think what builds the reputation.
In this case, I don't think the "asset" has any monetary value though.
More like 96% distraction.
> the publishers could almost certainly bankrupt the IA

They do that and they will find themselves with a Napster/sci-hub problem.

If it weren't so destructive, the chronic inability of legacy industries to learn would be funny.
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“The move will likely place Hong Kong's role as a leading global financial hub in jeopardy.”

Hong Kong’s prosperity as the democratic storefront to China’s exploitation of their people and resources has been doomed since July 1, 1997. It was a matter of time until a single autocrat assumed total control of China and viewed HK autonomy as a threat to his personal power. That’s what happened, that’s where we are, and Xi will continue to trade prosperity for power until it crashes down on his head.
Websites should absolutely be requiring attestation.

The attack scenario here is malware on your computer pretending to be a hardware authenticator (during sign-up or 2FA enrolment) but really just emulating one in software.
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Perhaps you were referring to this Ira Glass quote [0], maybe not. Either way, this is a good thought to share, so I'll link it here.

[0] https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/the-gap-by-ira-glass-9651...
You don't necessarily have to have measured the prevalence of myopia among children 60 years ago to extrapolate from the prevalence of myopia among 70yo today (since myopia is, by and large, a progressive condition and not typically reversed spontaneously).

Sure, you have to be worried about selection biases of all sorts including survivorship bias (eg. suppose myopic people mostly died before they reached 50), but in general, if myopia is as high or higher among 20yo than 60yo today, it tells you something pretty darn significant.