skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www-ft-com.eur.idm.oclc.org/content/3c561ccf-2e95-46...
There is no evidence at all that China puts the thumbs on the scale when it comes to content being served in the US, TikTok has kept US data out of China, and now is actually willing to open source key parts of its code base to auditors, which is a ridiculous double standard anyway given the disinformation campaigns on domestic platforms who are under no such obligations.

That aside, the US is a free country. Everyone can spread propaganda. I was under the impression that American citizens of voting age are able to discern information themselves and distinguish between hoax and reality.

Since when is it the task of the US government to police media companies?
Basic goods demand is fairly stable. Poor people will always need to pay for food, shelter, etc. Just with basic income, they won’t have to worry about how they’re going to scrape together the money next month for the rest of their lives.
These inflation concerns also assume zero elasticity on the supply side, which seems odd since there is no monopoly situation on any basic good, with the exception of housing in specific areas. Fortunately, the ability to move places strongly increases with a guaranteed income too.
Right, seems like the first question people would be interested in hearing an answer to. I assume there is no answer yet. With a quick check, I was surprised to see that Blue Origin is developing a rocket which would be capable of launching these things (launch in 2021?)
Goodhart's law comes in because students who do not deserve good grades still can get them via other means besides than the professor intended. Hence grades become less trustworthy (they might lack understanding but "hacked" their way through via cramming etc). However understanding the material also leads to good grades. It's not like there's a trade-off there where students must choose one and thereby lose the other.
If TikTok is put on the Entities List (doesn’t require congressional review), then Apple and Google will be banned from doing business with TikTok. This forces TikTok off the App Store and Play Store, effectively killing the app globally.
Cosmology Is in Crisis
>The web is the last free thing we have that keeps us from being eternally bound to rent seekers.

On the contrary, ever since the web got hot, all we've had is rent seekers...

Everything is now a SaaS, closed code behind closed servers, and on the web everything major people would want to use (from Gmail to Basecamp, and from Notion to Slack), is either ad-supported (yuck) or requires a paid subscription.

I'd rather have the old native apps of yore: mine, forever after I paid for them (plus a freeware ecosystem, plus shareware, plus FOSS).
Climbing Towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data [pdf]
The only album that comes to mind is Exile on Main Street, but I'm not particularly into back stories. Were a lot of people doing this in the 70s?

I'm D'Angelo is as good as it gets. Voodoo and Black Messiah are two of my absolute favorite albums, and they're the only two albums he's put out in the last 20 years. Other than it being a long process, I don't know a lot about the Black Messiah recording process, but Voodoo was multiple years of jamming with super-talented musicians then condensing that material into an album. They'd listen to classics like There's a Riot Going On then use that inspiration to guide the jam sessions. I think this approach is pretty similar to what you're referring to. On the other hand, look at how quickly acts like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones put out music in the 60s. The Beatles released two albums in '67 then a double-album in '68; Dylan released two albums in '65 then a double-album in '66 - then recorded all the Basement Tapes material in '67 and released another album that same year.
Huh, now that would be some fantastic retaliation from China!
I've found that the academics, the writers of the papers and studies which are referenced by "the woke" are often willing and eager to discuss their research. However they are not the subjects that the "anti woke" people want to debate with. These primary sources and academics often would not identify themselves with the groups that the "anti woke" are targeting, although they would have sympathy and their support.

So we have a situation where there are at least 3 groups of people. 1) the social justice academics. 2) the social justice activists and 3) the anti social justice crew.

The academics have nuance and subtleties in their research which are often removed by the activists. The mob doesn't write papers. No mob debates.

These different groups are the reason why some people say that the idea that the universities are full of anti-truth religious purist moralists is a conspiracy theory.
I understand the enjoyment of collecting stuff or completing lists compiled by other people, but that isn't connected to what I enjoy about art, so I'm still not finding this a fun suggestion.
Not quite sure that COVID counts as a Black Swan event, at least according to his own definition. From Wikipedia:

The theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain:

1. The disproportionate role of high-profile, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology.

2. The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities).

3. The psychological biases that blind people, both individually and collectively, to uncertainty and to a rare event's massive role in historical affairs.

From your article:

Taleb, in a March 30 interview on Bloomberg Television, said a pandemic like the coronavirus outbreak was predictable and investors who weren’t hedged paid the price with steep losses. What’s impossible to predict is the timing of such an event, he said, which is why insurance must be in place at all times.

So essentially his "big idea" is the concept of insurance? That doesn't quite qualify as intellectually significant to me.
What Experts Know About Covid-19 That They Didn't Know Then
Yes, bring half the native performance and non-native/non-web GUIs to the browsers...
You basically wrote "you should hire me because I am not a straight, white male", wow
Show HN: JavaScript-free personal bio hosting
I always write a cover letter. Sometimes they read it.

But I time box them to an hour. For me, the cover letter is an exercise in reflection on how much I want to work there. If I feel really enthusiastic then my cover letter just flows. At other times they are more formal.

It teaches me a lot about myself.
What I learnt from dozens of C++ interviews over a few months in London, is that interviewers are obsessed with the tiny, niche corners of C++ that they're familiar with, and normal developers would consult the docs for, and have zero interest in whether you can write clear and concise code that solves a problem. When would I ever write my own std::enable_if.... on a whiteboard?

Years ago, C++ interviews used to be 'what's the difference between pointers and references, stack and the heap', and a bit about v-tables and memory management to prove you know something about C++.

Welcome to 2020, and language that needs to be quietly put out of its misery.
Yeah, I have to agree, as much as I want to love GIMP, it's really difficult to do very basic things.

I wish they would work on a way to drag a layer and have it snap to either the X / Y center of the screen or the nearest object, along with seeing a visual indicator (such as a temporary ruler). So many other editors do this seamlessly and it's something you need to do so often when editing many different types of images.
The best names, of course, do tend to evoke complex emotions. 'Virgin', and 'Plan B' are the classic example in the branding industry.

CockroachDB is my favorite in tech, and also my favorite example of how tech people and their faux rationality are useless for tasks involving creativity and imagination.
It would be a wonderful way to make "prior art" too, effectively blocking such patent trolls.
A short shell script that returns you your IPv4 address and its geolocation
That's the whole selling point. It's a controlled platform, not a dumpster fire.
I'm sure it is. I use it because it works well in my config, specifically I was able to configure the fonts the way I wanted it. Before that I used xterm and it was absolutely fine. Typing lag? Please. The only terminals I've ever seen performance issues are the Mac ones like iTerm 2.
One point of data: My large organization’s HR department lists a cover letter as a requirement and will forbid us from moving ahead with even a first round interview if the application is incomplete. So yes, really, we can’t interview candidates who demonstrate right at the front door that they can’t/won’t/haven’t read the application requirements.
If they fire for one failed test, they need to understand that people learn from mistakes.

If they fire for repeated failed test, perhaps the person who is failing is not very well suited for a role where you have to resist phishing.
I won't torture your POWs if you don't torture ours.

I won't nationalize your assets in my country if you don't nationalize my assets in your country.

I will ban your books if you ban mine.

"I will x if you will also x" makes you reactionary and gives agency to someone else to act on your behalf.
I wonder if some sort of method of sharing Redux actions over a websocket could possibly work to make an app work like this - although it would quite obviously add a lot of overhead to development complexity and production resources, so only certain apps would really benefit enough for the complexity. Worth trying, though.
How “Fragments” can help in your web-development
GIMP - Free and you only pay with your time and sanity.

Now if we could only come up with some word for people that exchange time for money...
Like Bitcoin, Voice Will Be Essential to Preserve Future Freedom of Ideas
> Unfortunately this has a serious downside: asyncio locks are associated with the loop where they were created. Since the lock variable is global, maybe_initialize() can only be called from the same loop that loaded the module. asyncio.run() creates a new loop so it’s incompatible.

I work on several async projects, but I never had to use multiple event loops. What are use cases for using multiple event loops?
I think they wanted to make fun of the name GIMP and hinted that it might be a recursive acronym:

(G)IMP (I)s a (M)ediocre (P)hotoshop
For anyone not interested in the out of context garbage here

He says the quote at the 22 min mark -

https://www.autonews.com/weekend-drive-podcast/daily-drive-p...
I would argue that secure enclaves do not exist in practice. You have to assume a physical device where the private key cannot be extracted and the operation cannot be observed. The threat model is much weaker than for FHE, and imo not really useful for operating in large sets of private data.

MPC introduces a trust assumption. MPC is only private if some threshold of the multiple parties are honest and destroy their secrets. Though often this threshold is just one, efficient MPC often only has 3 participants total.

FHE gives you a better security model than either of these, as it neither relies on physics for safety nor needs to assume any level of honesty from the person running the computation.
Part of what's going on here is conflicting definitions of what "Turing complete" means in a formal context and how it's often used among practitioners.

A specific circuit has a fixed running time, but it can do arbitrary computations in that runtime, including emulating a fixed number of steps of an arbitrary Turing machine.

Our physical computers also have limitations (particularly space) on what Turing machines they can simulate, however they are often called "Turing complete" in general parlance. Obviously a laptop though has limitations that are on completely different orders of magnitude though, and are much more efficient.

Many "surprisingly Turing complete"[1] systems have similar limitations, but the more interesting question is "can you use this system to simulate a bounded number of steps of a Universal Turing machine?" and the answer for those systems, and FHE is yes.

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
Or just younger than 35 or so! It’s been a movie a young person has to learn about and deliberately seek out for awhile now. For many, Samuel L Jackson may be the only recognizable actor due to his Marvel franchise gig.
Nope, but when someone asks me IRL, at work say, "you're into FOSS what are your most used graphics tools" then I'm not mentioning The GIMP (which I've used for, what, 15 years).

Glimpse is a good name, though I never got why they couldn't just call it GNU Imp - Wilber might as well be an Imp.
The way canonical is pushing snap reminds me of how Google once tried to force Google+ into everything.
So does Google bot protection (not a robot checkmark). It's necessary to score users at least in that dimension to eliminate normally created accounts that post spam or in worse cases malware.
The meaning of "arbitrary" here is that the decision is based on the whims of the White House, rather than on well-established rules that apply to everyone - regardless of how well-reasoned the authors of such a ban might think themselves.
Cover letters reduce in value as the size of the organisation increases. When applying for large companies with HR departments I’ve found they don’t really get read because piles of CVs are what gets passed around, but I know for a fact my cover letter is what got me into the interview for both the early stage startups I’ve worked for - when you’re starting as developer number 1 or 2 founders really care about who they’re hiring, and a good cover letter is what allows you to frame the CV in light of the company. For example my current job is with a company that does IoT based home security - a skim of my CV at the time would have been completely unimpressive in that context, but the cover letter allowed me to go into some detail about the fact I’ve been done home automation and electronics as a hobby since before I even had a job.
I have a nasty feeling sometimes that being socially savy in a way is a red flag flag for some coding jobs.
Maybe Amish? But they are really unlikely to buy your products!
The obvious answer is that if the source of the problems is in state that is persisted, then an active cleanup process may be required. Turning a database off and on again will not help reduce its index bloat.
Look, this isn’t ideological. This is about Trump being butt hurt. I wish I could put a more nuanced spin on it, but that’s all to this story. TikTok has been a big platform for his critics and he is in a perpetual fight with China. That’s how we ended up here. WeChat is not on his radar and makes no difference to him. It won’t get banned. To be fair, I have a feeling TikTok will simply sue and win since this is blatantly unlawful, but I guess we will see.
Do you consider USSR capitalist since it had trade, research, and engineering? Incoherent.
Virtual box has always been a sub par experience on both Mac and Windows. Parallels is the best.

I stopped doing VMs and just ssh or Remote Desktop to my Linux and Windows boxes. For a little while I was running a small ESXI server.
What Does and Doesn’t Work for Fair Use in the DMCA
Yea, gotta rake in that sweet DLC money. In fact, the base game is just a vessel to extract as much money from people as possible. Flight Sim X has 272 pieces of DLC costing many thousands of dollars. It's obscene, and they should be ashamed. I can't believe people are actually hyped about this money sink.
> Because most banks offer cash back deals when you do. I get a 3% discount on all my transactions when I use my CC, some get points to travel for free.

That's an American thing, it's non-existant in Europe (at least in The Netherlands). Also, in the end it's not a discount, it's just your own money that you get back in an inconvenient way. It's paid from the creditcard fees that retailers pay, which pass it on to you (either directly as a fee, or indirectly as higher prices). The whole idea of e.g. paying less for gas when you pay in cash is insane in most of Europe.

> Credit cards help you build a good credit score to get better interest rates on loans and mortgages.

Credit scores are another American thing that seem insane to most Europeans.
Good idea or bad idea: browser profiles where User enters their level of understanding for a variety of subjects. browser sends the level specific to each web request. Server customizes content, returning the same article, styles ranging from explain-it-like-I'm-five to just-show-the-research-paper.
It is standard behaviour in international trade though. “If you ban our products from your country, we’ll ban your products from ours”.

Suppose hypothetically, that the EU banned imports of Australian wine, why would it be “reactionary” for Australia to respond in kind by banning imports of EU wine?
I don't know the intent of the questions, but they do seem reasonable.

Rewarding: Creators would also be interested in how engaged those viewers are. How well can this traffic convert into services which the creator might offer outside of TikTok? Would that traffic be worth the time of creating professional videos?

Real: This is a great question. Are the views real? I still have the story of Facebook faking video engagement numbers fresh in my brain. There's an argument that Facebook may be responsible for setting off the wave of intrusive auto-play video around the web.

I guess these are things which marketers will be working on, assuming the US doesn't block the application.
> It's engineered to match your preference.

No, these things are literally engineered to maximize engagement. Preferences are complicated, and we often actually prefer to consume less content... or at least would prefer to prefer to do so. Apps don’t measure that, they see eyeballs and maximize.
As someone on the other side of the table now I’m almost at the point where I’ll bring anyone who provides a single page CV in for interview, just because they’ve clearly put some thought into it. I’m so sick of trawling through five page CVs which contain absolutely everything apart from a reason to hire you.
You do realize the reason people now die of dementia is because medical science and improved standards of living have largely eliminated all the things that used to kill them before they got old enough to develop it? The same goes for cancers.

As for heart disease, that’s largely a product of lifestyle choices: smoking, obesity, inactivity. And doctors already tell their patients to eat healthily and exercise daily, but who wants to hear that when they’re young enough not to feel the consequences, or old enough not to want to change their ways now?

Hence the eternal market for easy, quick magical pills and their silver-tongued salesmen that promise to cure it all.

We began as a species programmed to spot the difference between a zebra and lion on the plains of the Serengeti, and we’ve barely evolved since—if anything, we’re even easier to hack now. Just ask the vampires.
I would prefer to see a cover letter in applications. It shows effort and that's important. Also, you only have to write one.
That is a gorgeous keyboard. Perfect in every way except for the dealbreaker...

The dealbreaker for me is the connectivity. A keyboard should be able to connect over a wire (and/or a wireless dongle), Bluetooth 3, Bluetooth 5 and telepathy.

A £10 mouse can connect with a dongle that is stored inside the mouse, or via BT 3/5. There are chips for this.

I might have to send an email in block caps to Durgod with my demands, since their products are so nice, down to the keycaps labels.

Thanks for the tip.
But then again he hasn't, so what's your point?
Why would I want to work for a company that has 1 year of runway and pays below market rate?

If the chance of making millions was 1/100, maybe I would try it. But it seems the real chance is 1/1000? Possibly even 1/5000?
Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
> And those people who don't have data for their phone?

It works fine over wifi. For those without internet at all, well, then you can't order anything online either ;)

(I know of at least one bank, but there are probably more, that also offers a (free) hardware device for people without a smartphone.)
>It's difficult to imagine how a UI designed for iOS would ever not feel strange on a laptop.

What is Apple offers a touch screen? Then it becomes essentially an iPad with a keyboard..
"This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area ..."
too nad it doesn't do phonetics.
it could catch

hank ewlay

shu pameyla

and funnily
Felicity Shagwell is only flagged for 'lik'
The start menu, that need to index your files in background, or do other stuff, is named "cortana".

I don't think you want to disable this "cortana".
I think the above poster probably means to say "unilaterally."
And apparently some people still haven't gotten anything because the state systems still haven't gotten around to processing their claims.
I agree.

Machinery does not need to sleep. Networks do not need to sleep. Roads do not need to sleep.

Living creatures do.

Machines and Living creatures are not the same thing, they do 'learn' the same way.
That has not been my experience with woke academics. They're glad to lecture, but debate stops as soon as they meet someone who can stand up to them and argue back with a similar level of rhetorical prowess and expertise.

They'll debate strawmen, only -- undergrads, unsophisticated public, and similar.

To be clear, that's not true of all academics -- just this group.
He's just closing the gap between people who want the book but can't pay. It's just arbitrage, don't worry.
What is preventing you from setting up a Samba share on your home network? I can even VPN into my home and back up on the go. Upload would take forever depending on your upload speed.
From a native Chinese’s perspective, this is scary: what’s the next thing he will ban?

- Wechat: this make a virtual “family separation”

- A purge of any app related to China (TuSimple, Zoom etc)

- Suspend F1 and H1B visa for “suspected” Chinese and make special scrutiny during immigration interviews for all Chinese applicants

- witch hunt more

Let me tell you what’s this: Chinese Exclusion Act II
If you read my comment, note that I didn’t present anything as universal. I’m sure both are real accounts of what happens.

The point is that you don’t need perfection to have a big change. Video chat doesn’t need to hit 100% of meetings, classes, and conferences to have a big impact on those industries. Delivery services don’t need to completely replace brick and mortar to have a big impact in low margin industries. Maybe you personally want to check every tomato but ask how many people care that much every time, even when they’re busy, etc. Do you think that’ll be enough to shift an industry?
Doesn't work for Thai at all. I tried the top 10 offensive words and their most common Romanizations.
> extraordinary processing speed options that are orders or magnitude faster than any other laptop

If ARM-based chips can be "orders of magnitude" faster than x86, they'll already be dominating datacenters. The performance improvement in sustained compute (within a power envelope) will be incremental rather than the giant leap you're hoping for.

x86 CPUs do not execute their CISC instructions natively; they get decoded to simpler instructions. But the decoder consumes only around 5% of the power budget, so it's not like x86 is spending significant amounts of energy because of the legacy instruction set. Now, due to a decade of high-stakes innovation in the mobile market, ARM solutions will do significantly better in idle power consumption (which was essential for phones).

So, I'll expect way better standby and well managed low-power states/transitions. But a minor increase in full throttle power.
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