skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, you haven't actually responded with any hard evidence that these projects were "shut down by the US" – i.e. what exactly did the US do? when exactly did it do it? – just the claim that they were and that the (alleged) fact that they were is "fairly well known" (by whom?).

Concorde was always pushing the envelope in terms of technology and economics. I think a big part of why it ultimately failed, was that improvements in the luxuriousness of business class and first class made it more attractive for many people to spend less money on getting there slower in luxury than spending more to get there quicker but in Concorde's far less luxurious conditions. Add to that the small addressable market (due to the high price point and limited number of aircraft), the post-9/11 aviation downturn, the Air France Flight 4590 accident, the very high maintenance costs, the fact that it was only ever used by two airlines (whose Concorde operations were only profitable because the British and French governments had written off the lion's share of development costs), and Concorde's ageing technology. (The British and French governments were not willing to pay for Concorde 2.0, and the airlines could never afford to pay for the 1.0 version themselves anyway.)

In the case of TSR-2, the UK government cancelled it because they believed the US F-111 was cheaper. They chose to prioritise cost over the interests of their domestic aircraft industry. That may have been a foolishly shortsighted decision, but ultimately fault for it lies with the UK not the US.

> It does require capitulation from weak or compromised leaders in the producing nation. Take France as a counter example of a country that refused to capitulate

My original point was about how differences in culture can potentially lead to differences in economic outcomes. I think differences in culture could also play a role in whether a country's leaders are "weak".
Technology infuses ancient hajj rites tailored for pandemic
Was going to ask that too
It is not just irrational association.

When the relationship goes bad, being homemaker is massive disadvantage. It is not just money lost by staying at home, it is making it super hard to find any job after being at home for long (and plus having kids dependent on you). Even when they stay together in mutually resentful relationship, it quickly becomes his money that she is wasting rather then our money.

Plus, men die. And if he dies and she did not had a job for years, it gets pretty bad.

The domestic violence rates go up with female earning power and down with female unemployment. It is opposite for males relative earnings. Partly it shifts power in the family and partly it simply allows her to leave.

That is not even speaking about male resentment from having to work while she is chilling at home. Because not every male is winning in a job that he loves, plenty of them are working jobs they dislike for sociopaths bosses.

The single income arrangement does not have to turn badly. But when it turns badly, it is very bad. And the guys who are intentionally looking to make someone dependent on them so that they can have upper hand are favoring this arrangement - making it more vulnerable situation then it would if only honest guys would be interested in that.
Seconded. I bet if we could get a pipe between someone using nuance dragon and an Amazon print as you go book service, we could sell a lot more of these extremely niche books / memoirs.
Odd use of the word "after" in the BBC News article's headline.

According to the official announcement (https://support.bynorth.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045128691-W...), the refunds started June 30th and the glasses will stop working July 31st.

So in this case, "after" means "one month before".

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Incidentally, there is an issue of ambiguous/confusing phrasing in the official announcement. It says "refunds will be given for all paid Focals orders starting June 30th, 2020". This could be interpreted to mean (1) that orders before June 30th will never be refunded or (2) that all orders will be refunded and the process will start on June 30th.

However, the comments on a Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/focals/comments/hjvgol/focals_refun...) show older orders were refunded and refunds started happening shortly after June 30th, so interpretation #2 looks correct.
Apple and Google actually take 15% for subscriptions after the first year of consecutive subscription.
Somethink like this except that it is done with the tongue and a finger:

https://invisiverse.wonderhowto.com/how-to/clear-your-stuffy...

I need to clarify that i did not have a sinus infection though, i had a persisting rhinitis for which doctors could not provide anything else but prescribe over the nose drops or flonaise
CanDID: Decentralized Identity with Legacy Compatibility and Accountability [pdf]
Toxic hand sanitizers flood the market
https://archive.is/HPt5G
You could indeed end debating with the strawman.

Contrasting merits of scientific processes with traditional knowledge is not scientism. If anything claiming tradition is an infinitely robust source of knowledge is some sort of dogmatism.
"Offensive" is both in the eye of the beholder and changes as time goes on.

An innocuous and innocent opinion today could be, in 10 years, considered extremely offensive. Anyone can drag that "now offensive" comment out of the past to nail you.

I can think of jokes I made 20 years ago that were not even slightly offensive at the time, that would get me instantly fired today. Good thing I didn't post them on a medium like the Internet that is infinitely achievable and searchable.
If your slot starts, and then something comes up - your elderly grandmother phones, your internet goes down, your roof springs a leak - that would be pretty annoying.
> Questioning someone's reproductive choices is incredibly rude.

It's even more rude to attack someone's sincere attempt to elicit discussion about a serious matter.
> US demanding that Tiktok technical staff be completely changed, AI algorithm be based in the US

plot twist, HQ moved to Israel and entire company becomes un-critique-able
Statement by Jeffrey P. Bezos before the U.S. House of Representatives [pdf]
There is a lot of implied ill-will on HN, I'm guessing the phrase "embrace extend extinguish" in Microsoft related threads gets upvoted? From the post I see that many Microsoft employees (at least in research) use Blender. Microsoft decided to pay for the software their employees are using, which happens to be open source, so the best way to do that is to donate to their foundation. Epic Games, Google, Nvidia, Valve, AMD, Intel, Ubisoft and others have done this (looking at the list of corporate sponsors is easy). This isn't a plot to take over Blender and destroy it from within...
No, you cannot buy TPUs. You can only buy their usage hours from GCP.
I can't make heads or tails of this and am hoping you could elaborate so I can understand what I'm missing.
I love to think back on the early social web and consider how much we got right, particularly with forums. Presence and personality via avatars went a long way to feeling like a community in an era when the masses were still figuring out how to do that via technology.

I still find chronologically ordered, flat discussion threads to be far superior to nested and vote ordered discussions.
In the last local council elections, pro-Beijing candidates got 42% of all votes, while pro-democracy candidates got 57%. That the pro-democracy candidates won almost 90% of the seats is an artifact of the election system, which doesn't guarantee proportional representation.
> The cuckoo clock.

At least that's something I could hang on my wall.
Try to push your youtube bubble around. It takes days to weeks.

Unfortunately you'll need to already know a number of entry searches to "seed" the movement. After that you can try to just move around by surfing from the seeds.

I think it's easier if your target bubble uses a different script, or at least a different language.
There’s nothing immoral about it if you tell applicants. It’s basically how hiring for sales is done and no one is under any illusion that you won’t keep your job if you don’t perform.

The point here is more nuanced than the straw man you’re painting. Everyone that passes the interview process stays is a bad sign because it confirms something highly unlikely about the interview process: that it succeeds in generalising aptitude.

You’re right that startups can’t do it though other than through intern programmes. Lots of companies do it through intern programmes. Only the fit interns survive and get a job.
Show HN: Letting GPT-3 do my presentation slides
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Well, that doesn't matter in the end. Part of extend is to take whatever you embraced, and add things you cannot do. So it's a success in that sense. Seems you're trying to put it as "What can Microsoft do if Linux doesn't support it?" when they can, if they want to, do plenty about it.
Oh no, Blender has a master branch. Better rename that quickly.
Well said; you've obviously given this a lot of thought.
You mean like taliban funded by US against Russia.
That's what I used to think be after looking at it, the US is constantly funding destabilization efforts like this. Yes including the recent China riots.

What if it was true and we were the ones fed propaganda. The truth is out there
When I was at Amazon, it was full of two pizza teams. Seems like a good enough strategy to me.

I don’t know that necessarily cuts down on “this meeting should’ve been an email”.

And I would often walk past conference rooms to see the TV showing four remote meetings of other two person teams. Which means in that meeting was a ten pizza meeting, IDK if that was the plan.
The article doesn't really explain why mass surveillance or surveillance capitalism has to end.

In fact, if the exemplary tools of resistance are lasers and traffic cones, it sounds like the system is well on its way to being perfected.
The title doesn't mention feelings or thoughts, so I have no idea what you are going on about. OP is correct, this title this title tries to masquerade opinion as fact, and is total misleading clickbait.
Yahoo was good at handling these types of things, but they were also good at keeping line management updated.

I did have someone in my team at Yahoo I had to go to HR to get approval for special considerations due to a family member with cancer, and it was approved literally in minutes.

But it's also well known that they were for a while very lax about handling unauthorised absence.
Not sure if this qualifies but there’s this[0] embarrassing (to say the least) technical decision.

[0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershe...
A Cyberattack on Garmin Disrupted More Than Workouts
How are they shaping public opinion to benefit Democrats?
Anecdotally, there is a Russian word with the same spelling which means "a dumb person". There might be a coincidence...
Self-directed initiatives need not be private -- that isn't some kind of big gotcha there, see for example: all open source work.
Excellent non-answer to what a globalist is. Who are some prominent globalists? What are their agendas? What do they look like? What is the opposite of a globalist? What are some links from balanced and fairly researched news sources that can tell us about your views on globalists?

Hmmmmmmmmm.
Mobile app idea #84: Thinking-To-Voice
Black Tech Professionals Are Still Paid Less Than Their White Colleagues
I have a nuclear take, as someone who still uses TikTok: Your data and life are not special in any way. The government will never be interested in finding out about you, and if they really wanted to they could do it with ease, and definitely don't need an app to do it. This is serious in terms of larger scale surveillance implications, but then that's not really a reason to stop using TikTok for individual purposes is it? We've seen people become presidents even after their entire dirty past was revealed. I literally do not care if a random Chinese employee knows everything about my life.

You're welcome to feel differently, I never force these opinions on other people. Yet everyone seems to want to tell me I'm crazy. Yeah, I'm the crazy one, not the guy who thinks the government is interested in him as an individual rather than a collective for policing and advertising purposes, which by the way has already been going on for decades.
Is there any chance that some of the upcoming open-source cross-platform standards like WebGPU could have an effect on this, if tooling around them was built to support writing more GPGPU-focused code?
That Vice article is talking about the difficulty of decoupling economic growth from material resource usage growth.

It's possible that our inability to recycle (in an economically efficient way) will end up putting some limit on economic growth, but this is very different from the global thermodynamic argument being made by the article that I was responding to above.
Bingo. They're not being paid any more or any less per hour if you get a discount. Why not do something nice for people?

Plus those cards often have points or other rewards, e.g. spend 2400 points and get these cucumbers for $1 off, so it's a win for them too.
Yet another incredible journey ends in the Google graveyard.
In what way is this overcooked?
There's a Hole in the Boot
Teaching GPT-3 to Identify Nonsense
I really did not understand what the DynamicLand is about. I get that vaguely it is a place to think physically and share ideas. But how will it be implemented concretely ? For example lets say i want to learn about aerodynamics or electromagnetism. The only possible way i could think is to do the math and think about the equation mostly in solitude. How would DynamicLand change the learning ?
Dig a little deeper in the thread. I don't think this is accurate.
I wonder what you consider valid opinions then.

Suppose a foreigner posts a video on Youtube, showing that he's on the street in China, speaking about Hong Kong. Would you say that that is a valid opinion?

Also, if we're so skeptical about all sorts of online comments, do you believe I should consider all HN comments about anything political, to be invalid too because they might be disinformation campaigns?
> These publishers call for the destruction of the 1.5 million digital books that Internet Archive makes available to our patrons. This form of digital book burning is unprecedented and unfairly disadvantages people with print disabilities.

It's a stretch to call this a book burning. It is not a politically motivated campaign to destroy books, or a witch hunt to root out deviant social or religious teachings. It's a dispute over copyright law.

In addition, I thought the justification for expanding controlled digital lending was around COVID-19, not rights for people who have low vision. Was this issue a central part of the the IA's reasoning before the lawsuit?
For that low low price they'll also reject your app for random reasons and make it impossible to find in their store.
> I'm 99% sure that if SpaceX's starship takes off, it will fly to Mars and back within a few years.

I'm 99% sure that's wrong.
Yeah, it's very similar to the Theia IDE, but it's easier (last I checked which was a year ago) to self host with authentication and I think has a much smaller form factor, both on the server and the client.
ARMv8.6 exists

Apple uses V8.4

Current ARM designs use v8.2

As you might suspect, that leaves Apple stuck doing the software support. It also gives them additional instructions that aren't proprietary to them, but are currently unique to them.
> Pretty much everyone in them agrees, even now, that while the case is not quite as clear-cut as some would have you think

I think you should dig into this a little deeper, because I think it is disingenuous to portray their take as just being somewhat suspicious of the case. When I dug deeper with my conservative friends, they think that Floyd is a "thug" and drug addict, and fall short of saying that he definitely had what happened to him coming, but that's the implication.
But Hong Kong has never had a great firewall?
The problem is with word choice. "Tech" has little to do with the business domain.
I also argue that it's the heavy commissions which push nearly every App to an ad based model, or physical services Apps which don't charge anything.

This in turn shifts more and more apps in the direction of invading our privacy with invasive ads libraries, leading to also worse privacy as a consequence. It's already pretty hard to convince users to pay for an app, the 30% cut almost guaranties it will be a bad business model.
Man I really wish I bought AMD stock when Ryzen was announced.
I'm surprised how low a Corporate Gold membership is, just €30k a year. They claim that is half of a developer year.

https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/

Is the assumption that beyond that you would just hire your own developer to work on blender?
Likely part of a grouped test - which absolutely should have been retested by the lab.
Because the numbers back it up. People flock to Facebook (1 account for many things), Google (1 account for many things), Amazon (1 account for many things), Apple (1 account for many things), Reddit (1 account for many things). Blogs are dying, forums are moribund, small online stores are dying.

HNers discussing about Facebook/Google logins in their apps regularly mention that more than half their users use those options, instead of creating an account using their email.

Just go ask a bunch of your non-techie acquaintances if they use those web browser features you mention.
Sorry, I just cleaned that paragraph up. Cheers for the heads up.
A fair and equitable App Store model that also protects users would be one where it’s opt-in. Apple vetting an app should be independent of distribution. Developers can then choose whether they want to use the App Store or not.
Play Store
"I personally have nothing to hide so I don't have a problem with intrusive surveillance" is not a nuclear or even hot take, in fact it's about the lukewarmest take I can think of.
One silver lining of living in these United States is that you can be assured that complex technology picked up by cities and counties (and often even states) will be implemented carelessly and wielded by only the hammiest fists.

The political winds shift and blow away any short term cover the operators ever enjoyed.

The ACLU's CCOPS efforts were launched in 2016 [0] and have since resulted in multiple cities across the country wresting oversight of local surveillance technology into the hands of deliberative bodies.

I joined a local effort to put this oversight model in place in my city, and we're on track to receive unanimous approval from my (large) city council this year. It takes work to do it. You will have to get hands on if you want to participate in this change.

ACLU NorCal has put together a nice guide on how to build the movement in your city if one has not already begun. [1]

[0] https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-...

[1] https://www.aclunc.org/publications/fighting-local-surveilla...
> create [emphasis added] FLOSS alternative to Adobe Suit [sic] like Photoshop/Other Graphic Design programs

What's wrong with Krita, GIMP, Inkscape, etc.?
The positive gain from albedo feedback has been well-known for quite some time. Its part of why the Arctic is heating up so much faster than the rest of the world right now.

The negative gain from weathering and volcanism is also quite well-known.

The authors of this paper put 2 and 2 together and showed that you only need a brief period of reduced insolation to trigger a snowball earth, and that once insolation returns to normal it can stay in the snowball state for much longer.
We emacsers tend towards a ptolemaic view of our editor.
I setup an RSS / ytdownloader script a year or two back for my subscriptions. It just mirrors the latest videos to my private CDN overnight, and sends me an email first thing in the morning with a digest. Much nicer way to watch YouTube
What Was Tekoi? (CGP Grey)
Some products don't reach the stage of a public lawsuit, i.e. their fate is determined during private negotiations.
Minor quibble, UTF-8 is used to represent Unicode code points, not integers. People like to map the bit patterns to integers in various bases for stuff like ordering but it is inherently a different sort of thing.
If you want to spend $700 to go to prison for a while so you don't crash your car, I don't think there should be a law against it.
Well, of course I hope to have many posts to come on my blog, rendering this solution less and less practical ;)

Besides that, I didn't feel like re-implementing all the things I get for free from a mature library as Lucene, like word stemming, result highlighting etc. This alternative is discussed shortly in the post.
I didn't make those numbers up. They came straight from the USDA and include actual estimated costs that actual Americans paid to raise their children. My numbers were adjusted for my city which is more expensive than average. The $3,000/month is averaging out the total cost over the lifetime of a child, not what a parent would expect to pay on a monthly basis.

Here is the report. If you feel strongly that their information is wrong, contact the USDA: https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/crc2015_M...
Then you’d be a jerk. There are many, many ways to be a jerk in life.
Blender is doing so good nowadays it is crazy... Everyone is supporting them.

I hope they keep the team smallish as always!
Advocacy on Humane Tech (Discuss)
That's generally true. In this case, it's a petition about a national security law, so does that still hold? I would say that anybody signing support for a national security law has to be mad (under normal circumstances), no matter how easy it is to put down a signature.
I never said it was a good thing — of course evidence tampering is utterly unacceptable. The systems here simply hew closely to expected standards of behaviour from institutions, and in any event there are a range of mechanisms to address the behaviour without needing to criminalise it.
MSFT figures out how to play with Open Source:
If you can't defeat them join them
It's hit 35%, and has broken 40% in many countries: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

IPv4 will probably never go away because it's a better choice for private networks.
This does not match my experience with my App, Nikola. I've been able to match up the transactions and refunds as 1 to 1, price-wise.
It's not close to an ideal solution, but I've started working around this by distributing all new games I get between three different accounts, all part of the same family. That way playing a game only renders 1/3 of the library unavailable to others, instead of all of it.
I thought they wanted to bring DX natively to Linux as well but got rejected. That would be an extend that easily leads to extinguish. You get Linux application developers to use the proprietary API to build stuff, then reduce support for everything but "MS Linux". This is why people need to be vigilant about the freedom of the entire stack.

Over time we may see MS playing nice, but there really is no value to FLOSS developers in having a closed source graphics API on Linux.
I can't speak to your specific situation, but I grew up around consultants.

Consultants have a rule: "Never say No. Always say: this is how much it will cost".

It's a "no" but with a threshold.
Grubbing Secure Boot the Wrong Way: CVE-2020-10713
I have had multiple conversations with family and friends, both technical and non, where they express the concern about their phone or Facebook listening to conversations. They may not use the work "surveillance", but people are definitely concerned.

A bill for "my phone is not allowed to eavesdrop" would have wide public support, and would open up the conversation on all the ways that surveillance takes place that does not include listening to conversations.