skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it's a keyboard. Are you expecting the flux capacitor to get backed up and thrash the alluvial dampers or something?
Wayland keeps the same behaviour
> I think the reason is probably what you mentioned - very few people are starting large Perl projects nowadays.

And that won't change unless Perl is allowed to change.
Just echo back on U.S. doesn't have precedents of blocking software in the article. I don't think that's true. U.S. has both means (file request to Apple and Google to pull software off the shelf, remove the domain from root DNS etc) and done these before for piracy and other reasons.
they wouldn't be employed anywhere else?
I do believe in actual checks and balances, especially of the transparent kind, just not in those dark pockets of unchecked power that have always existed in between the parts of government that do have proper c&b. Pretty much all the stuff labeled "national security" in the US are such pockets of largely unchecked power, even more so, they are deliberately engineered pockets of unchecked power that are designed to evade proper oversight - because, you know, "it's a matter of national security, just don't ask questions".

Also, I've never stated that the entire US governmental system was "tantamount" to a dictatorship - this is a straw man you're putting up there. I named very particular legislation that I indeed consider equivalent to what it is you're suggesting the Chinese government is doing. If you want to rebuke that argument - fine, I'm listening! But please stop putting up straw men just because it turns out that it's kind of hard to defend the existence of such opaque and unchecked pockets of power if your entire argument builds on the superiority of a system that is designed to balance and limit individuals' power over one that just lets those in power reign over anyone else.

Also, abbub brought up a great point here that I want to emphasize: "checks and balances" that are weak in practice and depend on those in power to "just behave" are ineffective and shouldn't be considered equal to actual, enforceable limitations. I was stunned how close a US president can get to a dictator in terms of effective powers if he just decides to stop caring about morals, political conventions and other "soft limits". This experience seems to be an argument against the concept of "let's just trust everyone to play nice" and a clear indicator for the need of actual, effective and enforceable limitations to power. Those regulations that I criticized now are the exact opposite of this.
There are people out there resisting these efforts. For example, I know people who are against smartphones and use a so called 'dumbphone' or feature phone for their main number. If they need to buy groceries, they refuse to use a loyalty card, and always pay in cash. They typically have a secure and private laptop with something like Ubuntu on it, and use Firefox with all the anti-tracking features enabled, and uBlock Origin installed, JS turned off by default etc. The typical steps people take to minimize their footprint against these predictive algos
Why bother with one standardized keyboard for all locales? What's wrong with different regions having their own?
"The chances of hiring folks to build an MVP and getting enough paying users off that to bring them on full time or getting enough traction to raise money are absurdly small."

What about the chances if you build yourself? Any better?
Learning to program will give you resilience. As a founder you are "the last resort" of the project. You will find yourself in this scenario many times and it's better to not depend on anyone.

When it comes to starting up, resilience and determination are much more important skills than outstanding programming skills. Or at least that's what experience has taught many of us.

Nowadays you can do a lot with few resources thanks to no-code tools [0], try to keep it simple and reduce LoC as much as possible. If you need a backend, tools like Firebase/Netlify/Saasify [1] are enough to build an MVP and get the ball rolling. And of course, do not try to build something that has 0 demand, just try to build the MVP that meets the demand you have identified and then take it from there.

[0] https://nocodelist.co/

[1] https://saasify.sh/
> Then let it die in maturity

That can be achieved right now for anyone who is interested: download Perl5.32 and never update it. No one will ever force you to upgrade to Perl7 if you don't want to. Why hold everyone else back when remaining in a static state can be done in isolation?
For games, gpus are often busy rendering. Parts of a physics engine (integrators mainly) parallelize well, but in my experience, all the rest of the code is very branchy, which doesn't work as well.
I think your perspective is one of not having read any books on China, not having studied anything about China and not having been to China.
Germany: underfunding its commitment to defense while undermining its national security by making itself completely dependent on Russia’s energy. Look how well that’s working out for Ukraine (starved of the energy that’s instead going to be routed through the Nordstream 2). And what about your former chancellor caught in the middle of selling out your sovereignty: Gerhard Schröder.

As for your last comment, the one insisting sanctions against the US: Merkel might have her foot on the throat of the rest of Europe, but we’re not going to see the day when Germany finally builds the empire of their dreams.
You're assuming everyone expects to get Hug'o'Deathed. I suppose a site like the one here should expect a higher bandwidth around competition and announcement time, but for independent people who happen to get picked up on HN/Reddit/etc?
> I prefer art not selected by the government.

That's not even remotely how most art grants work though? The selection process in most (democratic) countries is quite detached from the government.
So the 'paying' bit happened because of Mp3s, not because of streaming. Artists, were they given the choice, would choose neither, they would chose a kind of DRM.

So yes, you make a good point about the long tail.

However - the barrier was reasonable. It was possible to make an album and get it out without killing yourself - the actual manufacture of a CD/Cassette is not that much.

So that barrier was maybe artificial, but it did definitely make it so that most big music was good. The secondary acts could make demo/mix tapes.

By dropping the barrier you definitely get a bunch of artists we would not otherwise, but the signal to noise ratio is immense. There are 100 waste-of-time-noise artists for every serious one, and it's harder for the good one's to get through.

We see this on the top pop charts. There are still mega acts with decent production qualities like Taylor Swift - where the artistry is getting low (she is no Michael Jackson), and then the rest of it is unlistenable, reductive garbage. There was always quite a lot of that (i.e. a lot of not-very-good music on the charts) - but the signal to noise ratio is a much bigger problem now.

So - the 'decent music' that is not 'really pop' like Taylor Swift never gets through. Decent artists are stuck in a pile of noise and rubble.
I use pipenv,and it works well enough for what I'm doing, but in reality the problem is that python just isnt designed to be distributed. There are various techniques each with their own pros and cons, but the only consensus is that it's a pain in the ass.
> Also, not really the best idea to apply secret proprietary algorithms to these kinds of decisions because you're eventually going to have to disprove improper bias

You only have to disprove that if the applicant can first show the existence of bias, which with a secret proprietary algo that they don't have access to either the inputs or outputs of or know exists, is pretty hard to do.
When Jobs first came back, he eliminated every product that put Apple in competition with itself. I feel like that motivation stuck around for a while, though I think it may have been gone even before Jobs’ passing.
As someone who dabbles in alternative mobile OSes (and would like to switch to one full-time again soon), it's frustrating when there isn't a fallback option to standard protocols. Thankfully email/SMS are still fairly ubiquitous, but I don't like the idea of that going away for something important like banking and being locked into one of the big two platforms.
You think the demand is so high that increasing the supply of shares for sale won’t have an effect on price?
Training does work to reduce the amount of succesful untargeted attacks. For spear-phishing it's hit and miss on how good the attack is, but a good enough attack will work against almost anyone. As someone that sees really well crafted phish, I can tell you I myself will fall for a good phish. It has to do with eliminating the element of surprise, if I didn't expect the email I will assume it's a phish. But if rapport is built and the subject is something very specific only a few people are privy to then my guard will be lowered. Business email compromise comes to mind, they just reply to an existing thread with a link to a trusted site like onedrive
I feel too biased in judging candidates based on specific business tech problems.

I have deep domain knowledge and context around the problem and am familiar with our frameworks and design patterns.

Something that seems trivial to me might not be for another qualified candidate.

General tech questions control for these variables more making it easier to judge those with more diverse tech backgrounds.
I mean, it's already standard practice (All states except CA) to use credit score in things like pricing your auto insurance.

It's only a tiny leap to incorporate a similar magic number some company comes up with. Actually due to competition, if it correlates to risk, all companies will literally be forced to use the magic numbers or go into an adverse selection death spiral.

Unless there is regulation against it, like in CA. Not all regulation is bad.
Coronavirus: Russia plans mass vaccination campaign in October
If you believe in a Secure Enclave then there is no need for Fully Homomorphic Encryption anymore as all the computation can be carried securely in the SE. The question is the SE is not trustable for many people.
"Enough is an abundance to the wise." -Euripides

If you want to be happy, let go of your ego. Love or be kind to other people without expectations of reciprocity - even the a*holes.
"Diplomatic immunity"
It’s already happening. Georgia had a anti-opioid program where they could score every pregnant woman in the state for likelihood to become dependent on opioids during pregnancy. Babies born with addiction cost the state about $1M each.

There were a few similar programs a few years ago when federal grants were made available. Iirc, they were modeled on the stuff built to identify people vulnerable to becoming extremist terrorist types. Insurance companies have databases of way more lifestyle and other behavior data than people realize. (Everything from sports, politics, to porn and gambling habits — anything for sale) I’m pretty sure Georgia mashed that against Medicaid claim data to build the model.

It’s a reason why we all need to watch “pre-existing condition” debates closely. If insurers know that 45 year old divorced father of 3 who moves every 3 months is a smoker, gambler and drinker, they don’t want to write a policy — the guy is a trainwreck with no support system.
Great addition by the bootstrap team. I think the lasting success of Font Awesome[0] shows that this could potentially be a revenue angle for the bootstrap team as well, in addition to the fact they just put out some great first party icons!

There is a small downside here in that they are as of this alpha release (alpha.1) svg only, so they don’t fallback to a font icon, which may or may not be desirable. I know generally SVG is preferred (in part to accessibility concerns, IIRC, as well as being easier to style and of course SVGs scale well for sizing concerns)

None the less, very impressive!

[0] https://fontawesome.com/
Apple always has treated the iPad as a very different platform from the Mac, and the software has quite some differences. The iPad as a tablet still has a lot of differentiation features. Also, the iPad market size is way bigger than the Mac. Finally, as they keep the margins on all the products they sell pretty close to each other, why would they care if people bought a few MacBooks instead of the iPads? Here, more the marketshare vs. PC laptops would be the incentive for Apple to be very competitive on the MacBook price. With the Apple Silicon, no longer a substential part of the device revenue goes to Intel.
The MBA Reading List According to the Top Business Schools in the World
Even if the reality is in the middle, the likely difference between 1k a month claimed and 90k a month claimed surely puts him in the very wealthy category.

I agree with other posters, it’s a little annoying to have wildly successful people talk about “being happy with what you have” and “money isn’t that important” and “enough” etc.

While the concept is absolutely correct, and I believe “if you weren’t happy before hitting the lottery you probably won’t be happy after”, be successful independently twice then talk to me about how it’s done.
An implicit premise here might be that music is good if people think it’s good.

If a genre is taken up through “natural selection,” that means a lot of people like it, and it is therefore good music to those people - regardless of what some critic might think.
My view isn't the opposite of that.
Look up Ukraine and Nordstream 2. Also you need to look up the purpose of the pipeline. It’s supposed to become the primary pipeline, not a simple small supplement.

Basically: grow dependence, extract concessions. The same way a crack dealer on a street corner does.
> Why wouldn't an HR person or hiring staffer immediately out the company or even sue them?

They wouldn't out the company because hurting the company for no private gain doesn't help them, and they wouldn't sue the company because they’d be a beneficiary, not an injured party, and so would have no damages to claim.

And also because both acts would destroy their future employability in the field.
How I Got Beta Access to OpenAI's GPT-3 API [video]
Ask HN: Water Hole Submissions
How easy would it be to initiate a watering hole post on HN?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering_hole_attack
what happened to perl6? I'm confused :)
Because there isn’t 32 trillion in cash laying around with in various island vaults.

This thread is rife with lack of knowledge about what wealth even is and how to re distribute it to society.
"Also available in Figma" -- nice touch!
I think there was some validity at the time this article was written, but things changed a lot in the decade that followed. It also shows why growth based valuations are difficult.
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Thanks!

penetrum has this nice white paper:

Penetrum_TikTok_Security_Analysis_whitepaper.pdf

This is their conclusion:

"After extensive research, we have found that not only is TikTok a massive security flaw waiting to happen, but the ties that they have to Chinese parties and Chinese ISP’s make it a very vulnerable source of data that still has more to be investigated. Data harvesting, tracking, fingerprinting, and user information occurs throughout the entire application. As a US company, we feel that it is our responsibility to raise awareness of this extensive data harvesting to TikTok’s 1 billion users."

There is bad coding in the app but is that enough for the ban?

They also seems to get telemetry data, who does not :-)
Search became less useful because it's optimizing for ad revenue, not user experience. I don't see that conflict of interest here. If anything, better subtitles would lead to more watch minutes (from non-natives) and hence more ad revenue.
That was to simplify the product line. They had multiple consumer “Performa” Macs. They were about to go bankrupt.

Under Jobs they also introduced the iPod Nano and killed the iPod Mini even though it was the best selling iPod.

Of course they introduced the iPhone at the height of the iPods popularity.

The iPad overtook the popularity and revenue of the Mac while he was CEO.
Hello - exciting times. I would reconsider learning to do it all from scratch. The economic law of comparative advantage, I believe, also applies to people allocating their time. Pair up with 1-2 people who have complimentary skill sets so you can each bring your best to the table, motivate each other and drive toward your final outcome faster. Time is your enemy.

I’m a non technical cofounder and CEO of a 70-person SAAS company (that’s bootstrapped). We could not have gotten where we are with without the other cofounders (there were three) and me pretending I could do everything and doing nothing well. We each were responsible for doing a job the others hated.

Anyway just food for thought. Email me if you want to hop on a call.
I was not following Apple closely back then, but I heard, that when Steve Jobs came back, the whole product lineup was a mess with many directly competing offerings. The iPad and the MacBook are not such a direct competition. Also, before the iPhone was introduced, but the rumor mills were already running hot, many people doubted that Apple would make a phone which could cannibalize their cash-cow back then, the iPod. Well, they did, they actually placed it in direct competition, and we know how that ended up :).
Added a switch for American units
Well then these people are fucked. Much like how using no credit means you have no credit history and a low credit score, you will have a very hard time trying to buy a house.

If you spend your whole life being anonymous, be prepared to be treated as a high risk consumer who cannot participate in certain things, because of a low social score.
It is trivial, even for someone not that technically oriented to send a mass SMS from Android, with the appropriate app. Since it's easier to sideload on Android, it would be even easier for a malicious spammer to pay people to install sketchy APK's that spam from the user's phone relentlessly.
We generally don’t think it’s a good thing when people are forced to work multiple jobs, and we call it a food desert when you have to hunt lots of different stores to get the basics.

The idea that more choices is always better is just ideology.

It is quite obviously possible to move from a situation in which there is no choice and where there are some problems, to a situation where there are multiple choices and none of them are as good as the be no-choice case.

I do think there are problems with Apple’s store.

I think law may be needed.

I don’t think antitrust law forcing ‘competition’ has any likelihood of solving the problems.

If we think there are rights vendors should have over stores - e.g. the right to describe their product however they like, we should establish that in law for all stores.

If we want to use law to force our cooperations to limit the practices they can use in other countries as a way to put pressure on other political systems, those are called sanctions. I’m fine with those being applied if our government decides to apply them.

Again, nothing to do with anti-trust.
While I appreciate the idea there is never anything truly "free from Google." At this point I would rather pay to self-host or get fewer but sufficient features from an entity that allows me to control my data, including prohibiting it from ever ending up in marketing/data-mining systems owned by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, et al.
I had a bunch of equity in a startup that had a cost basis of, essentially, $0. Under normal circumstances, I would have sold this for $millions, and would have paid nearly 20% in capital gains taxes immediately.

Instead, I contributed my equity to a CRUT. I paid zero capital gains taxes at that moment, and the CRUT pays zero capital gains taxes ever. Also, because a contribution to the trust is a contribution in part to charity (with proportions calculated according to actuarial figures of my life expectancy), I got a charitable tax deduction of many million dollars which I was able to carry forward for many years.

Each year I owe taxes on the 5% which the CRUT distributes to me every year, but since this is capital gains income, it is taxed at a very low rate -- which is effectively reduced even further because it is offset by the charitable deduction which I have been able to carry forward.

The net effect is that I'm paying capital gains taxes in a tiny trickle over the remainder of my lifetime, and I also got a giant charitable deduction to offset those capital gains taxes. When I die, the principal in the trust goes to charity. The IRS will never get the kind of bite at this equity that I would intuitively expect it to get.

I don't understand how this capital gains tax loophole could be beneficial to society. I think it should be removed from the tax code.

Another side effect of the CRUT I hadn't anticipated: Occasionally, I note the intrusive thought that my continued life is the one and only barrier which is keeping a decent amount of capital from serving charitable purposes right now. That's honestly pretty depressing sometimes.
Is tap water not sold for commercial use at market rates? The public resource steward is leaving money on the table if they aren't.
> I'm not sure I've seen it work even once

I've seen it work several times ... but maybe no interesting times. One example would be Algol58 to Algol60!
We fought a war against the Nazis, with millions dead, to end fascism. We'd (hopefully) do it again if it were necessary.

It's really off the mark to criticize the US for not having done enough against Nazis! Forget banning, we invaded and killed those fuckers.
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The cheapest air is already cheaper than some higher-spec iPhones. But it will be interesting, whether they bring cellular connectivity to their laptops with Apple Silicon or whether that stays exclusive to iPhone and iPad.
so there is no potential for unknown dimensional qualities associated with language? i mean if that were the case, i doubt that sex would sell as well as it does....
Music is a commodity, a very easy to produce and distribute commodity. The facts are that the market was artificially controlled for the later half of the 20th century. Musicians, throughout history, have seldom made money. The later half of the 20th century was the anomaly, not the market of today or of prior...

As a musician and someone who spent years in the "biz". Its never going to be like it was in the 70's. Those days are gone.
Agree completely. Poetry has been a watershed moment for my development. For dependency management it's so much better than conda and VE pip.
Do you have anything to contribute beyond ad hominem and argument from authority?
A better angle would be for them to become the US Public Education system. Schools designed by Apple, curriculums for the next generation of thinkers and doers.
They would just put the money and company shares in trusts. It wouldn't change anything.

What we really need is for capitalism as we know it to die. It's unethical that people are having to worry about starvation, not having a roof, and not having access to medical care in the US while Mark Zuckerburg is colonizing an island of Hawaii and suing native residents out of their family land.
Bottom of the line laptop cheaper than top of the line phone isn’t too hard to believe... it’s still more than double the price of their cheapest phone
Patreon has a per-piece (max 1 per month) price plan
Funny how the cookie wall is the first thing that pops up.

It’s not a bad one though, to be fair
Godspeed. SMS is unlikely to ever improve, consider more durable alternatives.