skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can't think of a way to abuse me by having my data, it doesn't mean that someone else doesn't. I would really rather avoid all this discussion by them not having my data to begin with.
Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7
That's not really a good example, Google has been doing a lot of similar things to hamstring anyone who tries to run a competing store.
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The Chinese military attack on Nortel
It's a chain of events. If Epic can't develop on iOS or MacOS, they can't continue to work on Unreal, which makes it effectively an abandoned product for others. Yes, they can still use it, but it would be basically EOL. That was the point in threatening to revoke Epic's license to develop on the platform, and the danger in the increasing monoculture inside Apple. You can only use these specific ordained tools, and they control access to the tools.
I'm always frustrated by journalists who never mention the case number (why not?), let alone link to a copy of the actual ruling.

Here's a PDF of the ruling, I think it's worth reading: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21814075/c...
GloFo is sinking because TSMC aggressively courted AMD. In an alternate universe where TSMC was content to sit back and extract margin, GloFo would still be in the running.

Even if TSMC decided tomorrow to sit back and extract margin, GloFo could still probably get back in the game. That ability decays with time, of course, and that decay is what TSMC buys with their low margins. They are suffocating their competition to build a moat. It's a much better strategy than "extract margin and make big bets on fancy new tech to stay one node ahead," with Intel as Exhibit A.
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Many frauds go unreported because they're too embarrassing to the business to be public.
Ask HN: Survey for developers – answers highly appreciated
Greetings! My name is Momchil and I'm a Marketing Manager at a software company that focuses on serving developers.
As an employee that got recently hired I want to impress my employers as much as I can.
Look, as I've been reading this forum for quite a while, I know you guys aren't dumb and some of you can be very skeptical and critical. Therefore, I'll try to be as sincere and honest as possible.
Here goes...
As a marketing manager, I need to understand how my "ideal customer" looks like, thinks, and acts. So, I have prepared some questions for you guys. If you decide to share your 2 cents, it'd be highly appreciated. If not, all good.

1. What does your typical morning look like: Do you drive? What are you listening to? Through what kind of headphones? What apps are you checking?

2. What are your “Seinfeld Moments”? Those little everyday annoyances you encounter: the person who takes forever to order at Starbucks, the moment you feel unfairly obligated to respond to a fb message or iMessage because it’s marked as “read”, etc.

3. What does your night routine look like? Pretending to meditate, sipping lavender tea, reading 10 pages of the latest self-help bestseller before your eyes give out?

4. What books/shows/media are you likely to be consuming right now? Netflix, Stranger Things, CNN, The Food Channel, etc.

6. What are your top 3 daily frustrations as a developer?

7. What are you TIRED of seeing? What makes you sick? (ie. marketing gurus with hyped up promises and rented lambos)

The following might be hard to share but still... the universe won't stop moving.

8. Where are you judging yourself most critically?

9. What can’t you accept/tolerate in yourself?

10. What would you be most embarrassed by if your peers saw or knew?

11. Where have you failed to meet your own expectations? The expectations of others?

12. What do you like and don't like about GitHub?

P.S. A personal fact about me: I'm a narcissist.
Yeah but I wonder if you truly need 60-70% for herd immunity in such a spread out place like Sweden. Even stockholm is very wide, completely different than a place like NYC.
In order to communicate effectively you need a mental model of your audience. The same sentence can be cumbersome to some readers, just right for others, and even condescendingly simplistic for a small minority.

The fact that you found the article to be useful simply means that you are part of their target audience, which is great. Just keep in mind that the same advice will not work as well when you communicate with a different audience
> late-Anthropocene

Is it always the late-Anthropocene, or do you know something?
Yes, I agree with the first half of what you said, which is not was the OP said.

As for the rest, I have seen far too many “this time, Apple is doomed for real” events to agree with your last sentence. Apple could stop selling any device today and still be around in 10 years.
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This is super useful, thank you!
Just to clarify what "conservative" means here.

Oversimplifying, if you distribute the radiation that was released evenly in a group of 8000 persons, each one has a 50% chance of dying, so you expect to see 4000 deaths.

If you distribute the same radiation evenly in a group of 80000 persons, each one has a 5% chance of dying, so you expect to see 4000 deaths.

If you distribute the same radiation evenly in a group of 8000000 persons, each one has a 0.05% chance of dying, so you expect to see 4000 death.

But in the 8000000 group the radiation level is too low and there is also normal background radiation, and other normal risk, so the real number is probably less than 4000 deaths.

In a realistic scenario, some people get more radiation and some less radiation, but the nice part of the simplified model is that it always predict 4000 deaths. But this number is like an upper bound, the real number of deaths is probably less.
Given that per-capita GDP is higher in US than in most those countries (actually all of them except oil-propelled Norway), you can argue that the bar could be even lower
So, ZFS would be in the exact same situation as the NVidia driver - shim layer would be derived work, and the CDDL code wouldn't. It is dubious, sure, but then the whole idea of GPL virality is.
Am I being overly optimistic if I think "hey maybe the buildup of fuel on the ground goes away in a fire"?
I read, on average, about two books per week on Kindle.

I buy, on average, about one book per month on paper.

There's nothing quite like the smell and feel and experience of paper books, and there's nothing quite like the convenience of Kindle.
But your refusal doesn’t change the reality.

Kinda like refusing to believe that climate change is real does not change the reality.
I pointed this out in a thread, but with the e-reader devices at least, you do have an option. It's opt-out, which sucks, but it does exist.
It is sad they don't have rooted developer phones available. I'd switch platforms in a second if they started allowing me root on my own device.
Thank you!

Nerves I still love you!
We're clearly talking about different groups of people. You say "the idea of a photographer" would be absurd among "these people" - meaning people you know, but I was pretty clear that I was talking about people I know. Not fictions. Real people, with whom I have shared drinks and laughs. Seems awfully presumptuous of you to act as though your concept of "rich" must be universal and others' lived experience with a different level of "rich" must be imaginary. With your "left coast" and "Lexington Karen" stereotyping, it rather seems that you are the one who's talking about caricatures instead of facts.

> I'm a masshole

I live in Massachusetts, but your statement also involves personality traits I don't have. Please don't project.
We’ve been using chips with larger transistor sizes, made elsewhere, for decades.

Nobody is going to lift a finger for Taiwan over (checks notes) slightly smaller transistors.

We had an audition for disrupted supply chains just this year. It turned out hardly any of it really mattered.
It’s important to understand the context for what’s being said. “given the low doses received by the majority of exposed individuals, any increase in cancer incidence or mortality will be difficult to detect in epidemiological studies.”

Detecting an increase in cancer deaths from a specific source when cancers represent 1 in 6 deaths worldwide is extremely difficult. If cancer killed 100 people per year then detecting an increase of ~X00 extra deaths per year would be much simpler. On the other hand try to isolate ~1 extra cancer death per 10,000 deaths is a pipe dream.
How do you figure? Apple's customers usually have gaming as a pretty low priority for purchasing of Apple products.

The PR hit?
Freedom of choice, like which store to buy their Epic Game Store exclusive games at... oh wait.
I'm sorry, HN. I built an open-source coding platform but I need help
To all the readers who have already read about my platform on HN, I apologize for constantly posting the same thing. It might come off as rude and indecent and I can assure you that those are not my intentions.

I'm in highschool right now and over the past ~8 weeks, I made an open source coding platform called DomeCode. "DomeCode is an open source platform to help you advance your coding journey with pre-existing resources to learn programming concepts ( in Python as of now ), take notes, plan tasks, practice coding problems in 6 different languages including, Python, Go, Java, C++, C or Rust.
You can also discuss interesting stuff on the forum, meet other developers and most all even get to listen to music conveniently without ever leaving this open source platform to navigate to paid platforms." This is what the description on my platform's landing page suggests and for the most part, that explains it well.

However, the issue is that it's kind of hard to acquire users, all the users I have gotten till now ( 237 in all ) are through Reddit and a few through HN and organic searches but I don't see a fast user growth. I launched the platform on 5th August ( the alpha version ) and I'm very much against the idea of advertising so I haven't tried that yet. On top of that, I want DomeCode to be a profitable startup. So far, I haven't received any donations/sponsorships. If you could help me with that, I'd be more than grateful to you. And if there's any contributor who likes open-source, I'd love for you to contribute at https://github.com/the-domecode/

I really don't want to cause any chaos or disturb you with spam on HN but I don't seem to have any other option it seems. You can contact me at founder@domecode.com with any proposal you might have or if you wanna mentor a highschooler like me who's into programming. And ofc, feedback is more than appreciated.
Can you provide the URLs so we can use pihole to block the requests?
it tried to blend in ;-)

mv is a clever idea. rename to something safe, which can be undone if you get it wrong.

i use a similar approach when deleting a lot but not all files from a directory. i first move the files into a new directory, double check that every file is in the right place and then delete the new directory safely.
All analogies will have that problem, it's unconstructive to dismiss them like this. Understanding this is part of how arguing and exchanging ideas takes place.

I don't think it's Apple's fault if other companies try to copy them poorly. I'm very familiar with what you mean and it bothers me too, but I don't think that means Apple needs to change.
It would probably be equally ok for both cases; the difference is that Linux developers are not the court, and can use whatever excuse they like.
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Just curious, what would you have liked to see the U.S. do about Hong Kong? Arguably if anyone was gonna do something it should probably be the British being their agreement was broken. I'm sure the British would have U.S. backing them if they wanted to retaliate.

The U.S. started removing the extra trade agreements from Hong Kong (which arguably is a large part of what made Hong Kong what it is today) and sanctioned individuals in the Chinese government [1]. While this seems to be a "weak" response, I'm not sure what else I would like to see short of getting the military involved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Autonomy_Act
What kind of equipment are we talking here?

First thing that comes to mind are lithography machines, but for the very high-end ASML is the only game in town currently afaik. And they are sitting in the Netherlands (working with Zeiss in Germany). For larger feature sizes there are vendors too.
re 1. In my experience, it's often the first vague idea for a school project a teacher will give their students.

Personnally, like many things, I've built a custom script atop git to manage my notes. And another to manage a journal. And another, and another. Just building off of git.
Also, just posted this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24272065.
Terms of service are written to be understandable by lawyers, not average end-users. At this point, understanding every terms of service, privacy policy, etc. presented by every piece of software, website, etc. encountered by an average user would require them to spend hours per week on it. This is assuming that they even have the language skills necessary to decipher the document (think of non-native English speakers, people without higher education, and so on.)

Creative Commons was on the right track with their human-readable licenses, see e.g. this example [1]. Apple is on the right track with their App Store "nutrition labels" [2]. This is what we need for people to make informed decisions. For physical objects like a Kindle, I believe such "nutrition labels" should ideally be put on the box (physical store) and website (online stores), so the consumer is aware before they go home and turn on the device (this makes it easier to compare the Kindle to a Boox or Nook at the store).

[1]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

[2]: https://mashable.com/article/apple-privacy-nutrition-labels-...
The aggravating bit - beyond the fact that Amazon doesn't let you opt out, is that this sometimes affects performance. Switching over to the kindle app occasionally hangs. Killing the app and restarting it usually works, but there are times when I have to go to airplane mode and kill and restart the app just to open a book!
> you should never modify your world view in response to a scientific publication until many credible sources all say the same thing.

I'd say that should be a basic LifeHacker rule; regardless of whether or not it's scientific.

Completely agree.
What is the URL pattern?
Hi, I apologize for the rather inflammatory nature of my post. I actually built a brewing controller back in the day with Nerves and it's still kicking today! At that point I was much more of an elixir noob and was referring back to my knowledge of nerves at the time.

Thank you for educating me and informing me that I was wrong ;). We need more people like you who know how to tell others they're wrong while doing so in a cordial and friendly matter.

cheers!
Show HN: Hand gesture recognition in WebXR via Euclidean distance (Handy.js R4)
Sync is opt-in.

And, good question. It would be nice, though I'm sure they've buried it in their multi-page privacy doc somewhere.

EDIT: No, it's not opt-in. Reading failure on my part.
Taiwan is

Depends on who you ask.
"you visit someone else’s server, and therefore they get data about your visit"

I don't think the average person knows this. A lot of people even have no clue about internet. So there is no consent most of the time. And we, the developers, just let the logs running.

"with kindle, you’re using your own device and there’s no expectation that amazon will be snooping"

Well I would absolutely have this expectation. I expect a device that is connected to the internet snooping on me. Then there is the Amazon brand. I absolutely don't trust them so I expect them to snoop in me.

But to be clear: I absolutely hate that my privacy is gone. I use all kinds of blockers to disable tracking and I also agree with jacquesm snooping is wrong. But I still think his point is too black and white and therefore unfair.
I just looked this up responding to another comment and noticed that Mt. Tateyama is actually the official name recognized by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan.

https://www.gsi.go.jp/common/000138865.pdf
The market share and dominance is not even remotely comparable.
I think the reason to send a sync every page turn is you don’t know if the device will be in contact when any alternate sync trigger happens so to keep it mostly up to date the best option is to constantly sync whenever you have connectivity.
I'm just learning all this; but couldn't you run a DB Cluster persistently on EC2, managed separately from K8s, and VPC it to the K8s cluster? Is there transfer charges involved and/or is the latency to night to consider a setup like this? Is this cost effective to RDS?
The 'government' is not an independent actor - its soft power. And its especially soft in US. This whole thing with 'executive power', look at me I am doing things - its all smoke and mirrors.

Obama promised to end wars close down Guantanamo bay and in the ended up keeping up all war campaigns and on top of that he started droning people around the world.

The 'big boys' of the industry have enough fingers in the pie(s) to have their say in things that would affect them.

And independence of Taiwan is definitely one.

> Hong Kong fell without a peep from the U.S.

Because it was mostly Chinese businessmen window to the world, is fall of independent HK really that big of a deal for US or UK?
companies headquartered in Santa Clara Valley that care about fabs:

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Lam Research, Applied Materials, KLA, GlobalFoundries, Broadcom, Apple, Xilinx, Maxim Integrated (now part of Analog Devices), Linear Technology (now part of Analog Devices), Marvell, Cisco, Cypress, Google, Cadence, Synopsys, Western Digital, Seagate.
Hide a problem from your client and now you've got 2 problems
Agreed. But, for the sake of those app businesses that fit the right definition, we should allow for a choice of sideloading or competing app stores.

And no harm would come to consumers by giving them that choice.
RF GAN vs. Ldmos for 5G
GDPR actually forces all websites to carefully keep track of what gets logged and for how long these logfiles are retained. So yes, legislators are pushing back against the common practice of logging everything just cause.
Ten minutes into his lecture, the German professor exclaimed to his restless audience, “Don’t leave yet, I was just getting to the verb.”
Correction for my sleep deprivation /r/richpeoplepf
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My hypothesis is they are selling "transformation". I think that humans find a lot of meaning from starting fresh with a new method or point of view. This fact drives everything from baptism to Marie Kondo (not equating the two or saying either is stupid).
This is a fascinating discussion.

Could the tension/buffering in that sentence be resolved with something like: "Which basket has got that exquisite marble figurine"? When spoken by a native speaker 'has got' would likely be contracted to "which basket's got"

Sub out 'has got' for 'contains' if you want to be more formal.
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I think they're just trying to convey the idea that it's some grand "holy" war of questionable origins.
That's actually really useful.
I have no dog in the fight, but if this comment is actually wrong (as implied by the downvotes), it'd be nice to hear why.
Yes, for years I wanted what you're talking about, a fully offline, LAN-based communication tool, tried many times but was unable to do it in a way that didn't require the user to have a PhD in distributed systems.

In the end, I just want a tool that allows people to send things to each other easily when they're near. This tool achieves that and we can just ignore the fact that it isn't really LAN-based.

Also being just a chat room with an arbitrary name you can invite people from external places to join your "LAN" chat, which can be useful.
I don't think so. I think the info was obtained from our allies which dig it up somewhere in the middle East.
Large volume manufacturing deals are negotiated sometimes years before, TSMC had no idea how much demand there was or how badly Intel fails when AMD, NVDA and Apple bought the capacity.

New GIGAFAB takes time to build.
It is quite a bit more in-depth than that.. It really is more of a structured data pipeline in a programming environment. It's more like Spark than Awk.

There are bulti-in methods like `parse` and `split`, `format` which can provide awk-like behavior. However, there are many other built-in methods which operate on tables, floats, vectors and integers.

I actually have a ticket in to make some of the parsing behavior a bit more "awk like" (https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/2375)
I think email alias is a better choice for privacy. Take a look at SimpleLogin.
It can happen if Congress passes a law and the President signs it.

I love how the intellectually dishonest Apple workers downvote. As I said, this should apply to all systems that electronically attempt to “corner the market” on an unsuspecting public, for example non-critical apps running on your car’s infotainment screen, your refrigerator, digital picture frames, thermostats, ... Let the manufacturers do what they want, so long as they allow users to do what they want after they’ve forked over their cash.
This a hundred times. Do yourself a favour and use Dhall/Cue/Jsonnet to develop some abstractions that fit your workload and environment. There is not much value proposition in a tool like this if you can use a slightly lower-level, more generic tool (like a configuration-centric programming language, which is an actually full-fledged programming language) to accomplish the same goal in a more flexible and more powerful fashion, that leaves you space for evolution and unforeseen structure changes.

The idea of tools mandating what 'environments' are is absurd, as it's pretty much always different for everyone (and that's good!).
I use this (in a docker image) to generate certificates automatically: https://github.com/adferrand/dnsrobocert

Expect to spend 1-2 hours first time you try it until you can setup the correct DNS records, API keys and configuration.

Afterwards it's pretty hands off, every three months you'll receive an email from letsencrypt and you'll have to rerun this script to regenerate your certificates. Takes 2-3 minutes max (but of course you still need to distribute your certificates to all relevant services...)
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If you know of an alternative that offers client-side encrypted sync, I'd love to hear it. I'm considering alternatives to the Kindle as well, even if for reasons unrelated to the analytics.
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Amazon loses when users take the discounted kindle, never enable wifi and source books from libgen. These users would be addressing their privacy concerns and saving money. Perhaps it isn't the largest market, but Amazon isn't exactly incentivizing participation with these privacy policies.
Then go to Wikipedia and look up "insurance fraud".
You simply specify the stack image that your service needs along with the service source/binaries. See here for more:
https://github.com/hyscale/hyscale/wiki/Tutorial#using-hysca...
That’s a bit of a stretch isn’t it? You still have Global foundries, Samsung and the off chance, Intel opening their fabs.
To make compiled ZFS module a derived work of Linux and ZFS, it would need to contain (ie include) parts of Linux source code, which is easily avoidable with a shim layer.
That's a problem (paying for training and loosing their doctors) for foreign countries, not the US.