skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point is that they're all clones, or running American OS, or selling excellent quality commodities (in the sense that as a designer or engineer I don't care much about the part past its specs)

Lenovo -> IBM

Samsung + Huawei -> Google

SSD, screens, ram -> commodity

You might balk at SSDs being mere commodities (or screens for that matter). Surely Samsung SSDs and screens are better! Sure, and as a designer I might care. But I probably wouldn't, past the promised MTBF, viewing angle and contrast ratio.

Put the SSD+display+CPU together and you get, for better or worse[1] , a largely American computing device. You don't get a BBC micro or an Acorn. Or a Setun.

Nintendo is the only one who obviously stands out as different, making a unique computing device (albeit with an American CPU). Although even the N64 was largely an American design (SGI)

[1] I think worse, in the sense that everything is a Unix monoculture.
Putting that figure another way, fifty thousand million dollars.

That would have sounded insane to me last xmas, now a few months on watching the economy deflate, more so. I guess economists must know more than a mere programmer like me.
Immigration would help this issue, but half the nation believes nativist and xenophobic rhetoric, so expanding immigration is a non-starter.
Brise-soleil, awnings and longer roof eaves/overhangs. Light colour roof... plant trees...
Looking into the Black Box
When did Switzerland murder millions?
ARM is still mostly the same company, softbank just holds it. That said most of the recent uarchs were designed in Austin, TX and the next gen A78 and X1 will be too. And ATI hasn't been Canadian in over a decade. The current graphics division of AMD, which used to be ATI, is headquartered in Shanghai in AMD's Asia HQ.
this is another one of those "why aren't millennials buying diamonds?!?!" out of touch takes
If women are okay with gray hair so should men be. I don't think hiding the gray hair does any good, the reasons for not hiring older people from what I understand the preference for younger culture because they don't have experience and are gullible and also the pay is lower. Dying one's hair ain't gonna solve those requirements by the hiring companies. And in addition, some people start graying as early as their 20s and never bother to dye it.
Intuitively, I don't see Zhang Yiming giving up control so easily, like most founders. Especially considering an election is coming. The US is likely to up its pressure a lot from its current stance, before a negotiated settlement could be made.
Amazing answer
Craigslist is a model company imo
Decode complexity is a real cost to x86-64 but it's not a huge one. Well, for medium devices in the Pentium range it can be pretty significant but for modern large cores it'll only end up costing 5% or so of the total power budget on x86. And there are some design effects where ARM cores will tend to make the decode unit big enough that it's never the limiting factor whereas x86 cores tend to balance the size of the decoder against the other stages more.

More significant than that, I think, is that modern 64 bit ARM is actually tend to produce denser code than modern 64 bit x86 - which is really weird when you consider that ARM-64 is fixed width and x86-64 is variable width but backwards compatibility can do that.

And more important than that, however, is that x86-64 has a very strict memory model and ARM a more relaxed one which can cause problems for programmers who aren't careful but has huge implications for the design of the memory backend.
It is not a binary choice, we need to continuously explore whether there are ways we can improve the system
"If we hadn't been stuck in a cult earlier in life we probably would have waited to start having kids."

Literally or figuratively?
James Friend is the one who got the C compiled with Emscripten, and as long as you're able to serve an entire disk image from a server (and don't crumble under the bandwidth), a browser is good enough.

Electron is only here to ensure that state is saved (save a game, quit the app, start the app, your save game is still there) and to make the mounting of disk images and transfer of files from your local machine super easy.
I currently have 13,229 bookmarks in Pinboard.in. They are all cross referenced with multiple useful tags and I add maybe 3+ every day.

Google is a poor substitute because it gives me pages of results for what I need and they may or may not be any good. I may have to search again. I may have to click through 4 or five pages before i find one that's useful even though i've been to a useful one before.

Searching in my bookmarks gives me ones that are KNOWN useful, AND because of Pinboard's archival feature they are still available even after the site has disappeared.

I bookmark things _I_ find useful and things I think will be likely be useful to the people in my circles. Then when a friend says "hey is there a good tool for x?" I can say "yes, and here's a link to it" even if i don't use that tool. Or, i can link them to full pages of useful bookmarks on a topic.

So yeah, I have thousands of curated links of _useful_ things and pieces of information that are on the internet or _were_ on the internet. I use it daily. I share links with others regularly. I'm constantly thankful when i can read the content of that blog post I bookmarked that described X better than anything currently out there... but no longer exists on the internet. It's also great for research. I can make a new tag for some topic I'm gathering info on (maybe competitors for a future project) and when i am ready to start processing that info i have a whole list of easily accessible links to go through.

re "is it a service people need anymore?" Note that the reason the thing that started off this discussion exists is because enough people are paying him money to use Pinboard.in that he was able to spend unknown thousands of dollars on Delicious for the SOLE purpose of shuttering it and putting it in read-only mode. He probably got some users who transferred their accounts to Pinboard.in out of the deal, but that wasn't his primary goal by all accounts.
That's called a false dichotomy.
Burmese person here.I had no idea and I think most people here have no idea about it as well.

Any source?
On (2), what does "similar specs" mean to you? I can think of several interpretations like performance/watt or performance/dollar. It is not my understanding that Intel hardware generally beats ARM in these categories.

I suppose that Intel would win in a competition of "maximum single-thread perf regardless of power or cost". But that does not sounds like something that is intended by "simlar specs".

On (1), I would point out that saving power is beneficial to everyone and will likely only become more important in the future.

(3) is a bummer but is something that we can possibly solve with technologies like the Linux Device Tree. Certainly, it is not impossible to build an open platform on ARM if the manufacturer cooperates. To what extent they will do so, remains to be seen I think.
Ignore the media, make time for your own research and critical thinking.
Mmm, easier than I thought so.
That is a terrible deal, because it amounts to letting them clone your technology in depth.

On the other hand, until the US kicked over the table, the UK had a national security oversight centre for Huawei where people with UK security clearances performed code review ..
Speak for yourself, I made one this year. For the economy of course.
Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman
> The only advantage I see in x64 is that the complex instructions are a form of 'compression' for the micro-instructions. Maaaaybe the resultant bandwidth reduction in reading isntructions is worth the performance overhead of x64 instruction decoding.

It would be sensible to expect that, but as it turns out the RISC-V C ("compressed instructions") extension is quite competitive with x86/amd64. Of course, ARM64 doesn't seem to have an equivalent to RISC-V C, even the old Thumb mode is gone.
Prediction:

Color me pessimistic, but it's obviously not going to be the entire picture. This explanation is going to live that sort of vague truth/lie land that the majority of news today exists.

It will instill confidence amongst less tech-savvy people, by "putting it out there" that TikTok is actually magnanimous in releasing it's secret sauce.

If by some magic they do release the real thing, it will be gamed so quickly that it will be rendered moot.

If I were them, I would do the second. That way you'll release the truth (at that time) and reap the benefits of good PR.

edit: grammar.
> So your argument is that because it works for your disease, it must work for covid.

That's a strawman if I ever heard one.
How do people still attack the straw man like this and reduce everything to “communism bad”?
That's easy: Python, Java, C++, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL, Postgres, MySQL,...

A better question would be: what software technologies will not be around 20 years from now? My bet: Babel, npm, Vue.js, React, Angular, Zend, most of the SaaS/IaaS we know and use, Kubernetes, Visual Studio Code, ...
Maybe people will start listening to degrowthers like Jason Hickel that advocate for a rethinking of our economical systems' reliance on infinite growth on a finite planet https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/10/27/degrowth-a-call-...
It's debated because it's not a binary choice. We can improve whatever economic system we currently have, even if it's better than other economic systems.
Similar to how Red Bull in Thailand and Red Bull in the west taste completely different?
People want to spend more time with their children. I propose the 3 days workweek.
Transmeta hired him, he moved, he liked it and stayed.
The Charles Jones working paper cited in the article is here: https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/emptyplanet.pdf. His papers homepage is here: https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/papers.html

I haven't had the time to read it in full, but keep in mind that the paper lays out a model. It is not the model, it is just one of many many possible ways to model the world. As the aphorism goes, "all models are wrong, but some are useful." It's important to consider how and why a model is "wrong", in order to evaluate how "useful" it is.
I've been finding lately that as overall web usability declines, ive been relying on bookmarks more. For example, at work I can never navigate jira correctly to the page I want, so I have a bookmark. Twitter shows tweets out of order and from random people I don't follow, so I have a bookmark to the search page with a query to have people I follow sorted by date. I too haven't used bookmarks for years until recently discovering that it's the easiest way to "hack" a bad service.
So let's be real for a sec: if one cannot even rhetorically accept that there's a yawning chasm between Stalinism (bad! awful! really shit! which you have to say because otherwise people think you're a goddamn tankie!) and capital-uber-alles (let's ask the untold generations left in its wake?), what do you envision contributing to a discussion?
"Apple Silicon" is simply a marketing term for, well, Apple's silicon. They're making this major change to their computers with the promise of better performance, functionality and battery life. Apple's made major investments to have the best chips in their class. Many of the functional improvements come from SoC siblings like GPU, neural cores, hardware codecs, etc. Why would Apple want to give ARM all the credit for that?

Apple isn't shy about communicating to developers that Apple Silicon uses ARM ISA. This is about conveying to consumers their unique platform advantage.
We were stuck by choice, until we both gained a sense of rationality and started to understand logic. Left soon after.
It is your patriotic duty to condemn yourself and your progeny to poverty by having babies you can't afford, so that somewhere out there, your retired parents can enjoy the benefits of social security and a slightly-better-performing 401k.
Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inciting secession in HK
We only had two kids because we’re mostly financial independent in our 30s from choices I made in my 20s.

Had we not been well off, I would’ve gotten snipped before the first kid. $500 versus hundreds of thousands of dollars per kid is a no brainer (sidenote: cryopreserve some tissue before you do this, it’s only $1500-$2000 and gives you options in the future).

America is designed for extraction, not nurturing the future. We’re bouncing to Oceania (AUS and Taz specifically) in the future (universal healthcare).

TLDR Don’t have kids unless you’re rich or you can live somewhere that values you having them, or just values people in general.
A lot of what we call Card Shufflers are actually Card Rifflers - interleaving 2 halves of a deck together.

Juan Tamariz has made a career in card magic based on most people not knowing the difference.
A few ideas:

- Grant tax incentives or write offs for children born. It'd be incredibly unfair and unconstitutional to scale with kids' grades due to socioeconomic backgrounds being a major factor, but perhaps educational expenses can be subsidized. Or maybe we should just put more money into early education.

- Make family leave a mandatory benefit for parents of all children, born or adopted.

- Open up to immigration. Don't shut it down. This seems like the simplest solution.

- Maybe we don't need a bigger population?
There are a lot of room for open source improvements when it comes to bookmark management. I envision a CLI and web server that uses TOML, YAML and JSON like Hugo.
TikTok = CCP
is this trolling? I think this is trolling.
Lacking things like dual power supplies and out of band management, that probably isn't the context the GP meant.
Neither were promised to you by Airbus under a specific contract.

I mean, if you're saying that Musk's claims are less extravagant than those of newspaper columnists playing at futurology, then, yes, that's true. But it's the lowest of low bars.
Thanks for the pointer; I'll take this for the specific question of prophylactic use of HCQ.

But I'm going to stand behind my broader point that the media is doing a lousy job of communicating science with any finesse, and that this is leading a lot of people to mistakenly believe that "being scientific".

Last week a post on a local town Facebook page said something like

My family is into science so we understand that wearing masks is beneficial to the whole community. Also, covid-19 may cause male infertility so that may drive your decision as well.

Two things caught my eye here. First is the implication that there's some "being into science" that's binary, and if you follow the news headlines then you'll always be in possession of absolutely true facts. (I won't belabor all the various ways in which this is false.) And second is that while they like to think that they're even doing that much, they're still picking up on anecdata, presumably being it sounds vaguely science-y.
Or you just buy a 5$ wrench: https://xkcd.com/538/
Quoting from the article:

"In April, 78% of those in households experiencing job loss felt that that situation would be temporarily. But now, 47% think that job loss is likely to be permanent, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research."

It's based on an opinion poll rather than number of businesses closed or some more solid number. A better title might be that "Half of those who have lost their jobs believe they may be gone permanently".
"Sufficiently Powerful Optimization of Any Known Target Destroys All Value" https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...
Sounds like a last ditch effort to prevent the app from getting banned in several countries. I have two takes, one it's very admirable for a company to release its algorithms and drive more transparency and I think it will help the public trust ByteDance more.

The other take is much more cynical. When they finally release the algorithm how will we know that's the whole story? I'm sure researchers will have to formally verify it somehow (not an expert here so I'm speculating). Also this does nothing to actually prevent them from further abusing user data. Seems like this release is just a red herring that diverts attention from the other shady stuff they are doing.
Actually banning it would create some backlash from part of the userbase in an election year, whereas more regulations would be welcomed by mostly everyone (such as requiring data/algorithms/engineers to be based in the US).
It's Bloomberg, after all. I don't think there's anything wrong with studying the financial implications of a social issue by themselves.
Does it support working offline only? If it can't connect to the internet, it can't spy on you.
Many, many years (15!) ago Jon Udell posted a screencast that introduced me to del.icio.us [1] through the lens of evolving tagging vocabularies in public discourse, and I still remember it to this day. Well worth watching to see this time capsule of what the web once was.

[1] http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/delicious/delicious.html
Uhhh, I was this person exactly. Being addicted to things isn’t fun.
If the economy relies on population growth then the economy needs to change. Doing some back of an envelope calculations:

Current Human Population: 7.80E+09
Current worldwide growth rate: 1.05%
Current Land Surface of Earth: 1.49E+14

If we presume the latter figures stay the same (they won't) then in a mere 944 years the human population would be such that there's only one square meter of land per human alive.

Granted we'd probably kill each other well before we reached that point, but the point remains, we need to figure out how to make the economy work with zero population growth.
Zoom Security Exploit: Cracking private meeting passwords
My favorite is https://readwise.io
I agree with your points but the game has changed.

It’s not AMD vs Intel

It’s AMD vs INTEL vs Apple vs Amazon (and nvidia might be next.
Ask HN: How do you manager boilerplates?
So, how do you manage your boilerplates?

The possibilities that come to mind:

- Clone a repo and it's ready to go;
- Clone a repo and run a script to setup everything;
- Use tools like yeoman, create-react-app, etc;

What's your setup?
Playstation is pretty much American. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, its a division under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a subsiadry under Sony Corp America. Both the PS4/pro and PS5 were American designs led by Mark Cerny
I think part of the issue may be in how we measure the success of our society. Developed nations may be wealthy, but it should be clear by now that "more wealth" isn't the most pressing issue faced by people in developed nations. Instead, maybe we should focus on why we don't have time for children, or why we kill ourselves at 10x the rate we did when we were impoverished farmers.
I would be interested in hearing arguments as to why the social contract doesn't obligate all able men and women to replace themselves for the perpetuation of its other benefits.
This instantly reminded me of the classic magician misdirection engine. Get people looking at the fake algo's while the real damaging stuff stays hidden from view.
Which, in this economy, usually points towards “don’t have children”.
More hate towards the media and always saying the media is guilty of everything is not going to solve anything.
FYI biggest media companies are now tech companies, So what are we doing to improve things?
I am glad you asked, here are the references.

1. Please read "Liber Abaci". It is right there in the prologue section. Hard to find a free copy of this link hence posting a link to tweet[1] with screenshot of the relevent page. You can also cross verify with Italian version on archive.org[2]

2. Same story repeat itself with Indian numbers and algorithms.[3][4]

[1] https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1198526477026807809

[2] https://archive.org/details/LiberAbaci/page/n5/mode/2up

[3] https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1180777105778307072

[4] http://kutubltd.com/book-details.aspx?CID=11&ID=30591
Flat Earther is not one of the options available from what I can tell. I suppose it falls under conspiracist although that is a pretty broad category.

Fruitarian, Prepper, Liberal, Conservative, Conspiracist, Climate Denier

The web design is really good! And it's funded by Mozilla which is cool
Cool work, very nice!

It seems that not all your projects, that are download-able, are on Github. Why is that?
People don't want a discussion, they want a dichotomy they can throw rocks at.
Not all Germans killed jews or supported hitler.

But we all know how that played out..
I started using del.icio.us VERY early in its inception but stopped well before the sell off. This part struck me though.

>If you had data on the site before 2010, whether I still have it depends on whether you completed the "opt-in" process in 2011, when Yahoo transferred the site to AVOS.

I'm not sure I ever remember doing that (although it was 9 years ago). But I think I still do have an old export left over...

Hopefully there will be an import feature that can read the same data file, because I'd be interested in returning to it under Pinboard's stewardship.
Because productivity has gone up so much over the past decades, we should have the same standard of living with less working ours / higher ratio of retires. Full stop.

Screw "growth", raise the cost of labor so that we find all the unproductive weakest links and fix them.
Thanks! It’s a first for me. Nothing better.
I get what you're saying, but people learn the math in 4-6 years or so, so while it's definitely a lot of work (not that many other things that people spend that much time learning), it's also fairly well bounded. You know that if you study hard for long enough you'll know most of what you need to know, and then the parts you don't know yet, you have enough awareness of to know when you need to learn more about them.
To tack on to this, NetNewsWire on Mac OS X also provides a Safari extension.
What do you mean? The device tree is just a nested hash table, the interpretation of which is completely up to the device driver(s). If there is a limitation like you say, I guess it is fixable by patching the relevant driver?
I would say that a smartphone is not quite so reliable as this author seems to think. Batteries and signal fail all the time, for one. The drama that can be created with smartphones is at least as much as that created with a landline. Text messages, for example: what about a message half written and accidentally sent, or the sending of a risky text and seeing a long typing indicator before recieving just "OK", or perhaps an unsent message left to be rediscovered a day or so later, after everything has changed? Or with calls: the embarrassment of realising too late that you're on speaker, or calling a hundred times and hearing only "the number you are calling is not available" (why? Is it no signal, have they turned off their phone?), or even just getting a call from an unknown number, which has all the mystery of a call from a landline. Even caller ID has drama: why are they calling at this hour? Is the person on the phone the same as the caller ID? Social media adds so much, too. Is it Facebook, where you're friends with your parents, or Snapchat, with just your friends? Is it a public post, or a select group? There's so much scope for drama, and we're seeing more and more use of it in modern writing.
Other stories where a mobile phone would have saved the day: (spoilers)

Romeo and Juliet (Juliet can't tell Romeo she has faked her death)

Assault on Precinct 13 (rioters cut phonelines to a besieged police station)

The opening credits for Terry and June [0] (they are looking for each other in the same shopping centre)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_and_June
Not being facetious here, I'm genuinely asking - does it matter at all? What difference does it make if something will be used in 20 years?