skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You should have had a backup" is not an acceptable excuse for not having a data recovery mechanism. Furthermore, full disk encryption is not bypassable in the way you suggest. Your login password is (supposed to be) the key material for the encryption, which is stored off-device, preferably in your head. In other disk encryption systems that are not locked to a particular encryption chip, if you take the disk out of the machine and plug it into another machine, it won't be readable unless you have that password.

Furthermore, most people do not make this calculation in their head of "Okay, anything I put behind the T2 is Apple's property now so I'd better have unencrypted backups". They just buy the computer that works and says that it keeps thieves and snoops out of their data. Everything we're talking about with backups comes as a post-purchase surprise, usually AFTER the data is already lost.
Maybe because you are only looking at it’s immediate neighbors. Sweden had nearly exactly the same population size and death rate as Michigan but Michigan had a strong and lengthy lockdown.
Power usage is proportional to the square of the voltage. So, you want to keep the voltage low for battery life or to prevent your CPU from overheating.

Lower voltages also make transistors slower, though. That can be offset by making them smaller, but we couldn’t do that decades ago (https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/109533/why-a..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_core_voltage#Power_saving_...)

I guess there also is some effect along the lines “higher voltages decrease sensitivity to noise” that prevented early designs from using lower voltages and lower currents.

As to what’s used now: 3.3V was the new 5V, but state of the art CPUs are even lower at ≈1.2V
"Everything is political"

"Being apolitical is a political stance"

"If you don't take a stand you're part of the problem"

Gosh, this is tiresome.
Doesn't the Linux build system use perl as well?
You were expecting vbscript?

There are tons of examples like this. My favorite is Apple using windows xp to make and test iphones
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-uses-windows-xp-in-iph...
Which is exactly the point: Why would you compare it to dramatically different countries instead of ones that mainly differed on the axis of interest, unless you had an axe to grind?
I'm sorry, but you're incorrect on two matters of fact.

First: the EU's labor force participation rate is significantly lower than the US's (58.3% in 2019 vs 63.4%). If the US had the EU's LFPR, we'd have 13 million fewer jobs.

Second: Denmark, Austria, Finland, and Sweden all lack minimum wage laws. They have other programs that benefit poor people regardless of whether they have a job or not.
Are you trying to build product analytics usecase like mixpanel/amplitude with this as well ?
Hard to imagine a worse idea.

The problem in data warehousing is not the structure, it's the definitions. It doesn't matter one tiny little bit whether you store your data in a fact/dimension star schema, a normalized OLTP-style schema, arbitrary aggregate/rollup tables, or this one-table monstrosity you've constructed. You still have to do the work of determining what the data means.

This isn't 50% of the work of building a data warehouse. It's 99% of the work.

This "Activity Stream" concept has some merit but most data sources can't support it. Much to my eternal frustration, most systems only store current state, and have no concept of history or events. You can't extract "activities" from a data system that doesn't record them.

Still, maybe I'm wrong and your idea is great. The market will reject it.

Star schema modeling is woven into the very fabric of the data warehousing profession. We use it everywhere, whether it's appropriate or not (and it is often not appropriate). It's what all the BI tools support. It's what analysts know how to write queries against. Your thing may be cool and all but no one knows how to use it.

One last thing:
"Numbers would always match (single source of truth)..."

Not even close. This belies just massive ignorance of how analytics actually work. Let's say I have a data point that says the total amount of order #123 is $42.00. Ok... does that include shipping? Sales tax? Oh it does, and finance cares about that, so now I need to decompose that into 34.95 + 5.00 + 2.05 and label appropriately. Now Bob's report can sum the item total (no shipping, no taxes) and Alice's report can include shipping but not taxes, and Jimmy's report can sum the total, and now your wonderful "single source of truth" story goes in the toilet. Because "$42.00" isn't truth it's just a value. What turns it into truth is definition and consensus, which are social problems, not technical problems.
Aren't a lot of vaccines already required by law in a lot of countries? Why is this a bad thing, especially when faced with a global pandemic?

[edit: Actually clicked on the link now. I can see what Anti-vaxxers cranks would have against it, though of course I don't think those should be paid any heed.]
> I'm confused why stories about Sweden's success keep popping up here. The country had TEN TIMES the per capita death rate of its neighbors and still has the highest unemployment of all the Nordic countries. Seems to me like the worst of both worlds.

Because a lot of people, mainly for ideological reasons, would have preferred the US and the rest of Europe have done similar. A key part of justifying that view is to be convinced it was a success, true or not.
For those interested, the book probably expands on the following paper from a few months ago: https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theo... (paper linked to from blog post)

There's also a recent Lex Fridman podcast episode where he interviews Jeff Hawkins on this theme: https://lexfridman.com/jeff-hawkins/
Why would I not? Why should I accept everything companies do without ever complaining? Am I not allowed to tell the fishmonger that his fish doesn’t look that fresh to me? In the same way, I’m free to tell Apple their fish would taste better with some adjustments.
My personal pet theory is contractual obligations and/or high-value customer placation. There are certain high-frequency business travelers that need(ed) to travel on whatever date and time they pleased, and just cutting one's flight network entirely meant losing them as a customer and potentially paying some fines. However, actually running that many flights is extremely uneconomical. So instead they basically cancel whatever flights don't have one of these particular business travelers on it to try and move demand around.

Of course, those high-value fliers have reduced their use of air travel in the same way everyone else has, so a lot of flights are basically "virtual" and will never actually fly unless they meet some particular threshold of value to the airline. If that's the actual case, then what airlines should be looking into is bringing back standby ticketing.
To be fair, part of that (as suggested by "getting mad at me that I hadn't updated the file to work with newer versions"), is that macNchz was providing a service that should have been provided officially by Apple, and many users lack (or decline to exhibit) the perceptiveness to realize that Apple has abrogated its reponsibility to correct defects in products it recieves payment for, and that this is not a official Apple website, but rather a internet rando cleaning up after one small subset of Apple's negligence.

Though, as MiroF points out, some people are just jerks.
I did not participate in the project, and I agree the seed is almost worthless to the world but I don't think the project was a waste of anything.

The minute inherent value of the answer is not why it was done. Finding the answer became personally valuable to people for a few reasons:

The unavailability made it seem more valuable. The idea of making something seemingly unknowable known is enticing. Making headway on a problem makes the solution personally valuable. The production, rhetoric, and appeals to nostalgia in Sal's first video about the project made it seem more valuable to many. Being part of a group who share an objective that matter to them is inherently valuable to humans.

I believe the project added value to the lives of everyone involved, and the experience gained and the connections made will add value to the rest of the world.

All of this could have been true for a project that actually matters, yes, but those projects tend to have high barriers to entry, consequences for failure, and distant horizons of success. I think this project replaced time and computing power that would have been spent on games and youtube, not on important problems.
That was awesome. She was being truthful, to say the least. :D
> I never said this. What does this have to do with anything?

You said "Corporations can set rules" and I wanted to punctuate the point that theses rules don't come from the nether.

> I don't. That's what no political discussion means and it applies to everyone. Why do you assume people can't follow their own rules?

I meant no insult to your character. The point is you think everyone agree with your list on what is political is political or not and I don't.

To give examples:

You might say "I arrived late again, I wish they would build a new highway" and I'm thinking it's political because really they should build more subway

I might say "I have a cat it's nice, I recommend it to everyone" and you might think it's political because you think cats are decimating the bird wild life and should be banned"

> Talking about weather

Not the example I would have used in your place with climate change...

> or our tech stack

Open source/ closed source is a political debate for example. But they are also some who dismiss technologies based on their country of origin.

So again you might think you follow the rule because for you it's not a political statement but for me it might be and inversely.
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When someone tells us what they think, and we dismiss it by saying that's exactly what someone of their race would be expected to think, that's racism in one of its worst manifestations.
Wow...doesn't it suck when that happens?
You are of course right that most people aren't like this. This thread is about those few who are, and how they can end up dividing everyone else, unwillingly, into accolytes versus enemies. It's not safe to say "I am left/center/right/whatever but I don't think this is the way to go about it" around this type. It is a separate axis from left-right, and is maybe correlated with the authoritarian-libertarian axis.
Just a heads up, you linked to the main Rust Playground page, not an actual gist.
Thanks for the link. This library unfortunately highlights further challenges with Web Components like mixing custom WCs with native form elements. To use Shoelace form elements at all, you'll end up writing a bunch of JavaScript.

> Shoelace forms don't make use of action and method attributes and they don't submit the same was as native forms. To handle submission, you need to listen for the slSubmit event as shown in the example below and make an XHR request with the resulting form data.

> https://shoelace.style/components/form
>"The path to an IPO is to purge Black and Brown people from Coinbase ... this is very unbecoming of a federal contractor"

Do normal people actually believe stuff like this???
The uncertainty was all the more reason to be more aggressive!

We are freaking lucky that COVID’s death rate is by the lower end of all the estimates. If the actual rate was closer to what Italy was seeing, or even a smaller fraction of thst, Sweden would have had far more dead.

And the death rate is down because we understand the virus better and so are able to take actions that do not involve locking down to control it. And also it wasn’t a massive emergency at this time with massive shortages of PPE etc.
> Any platform has power over what appears on the platform. Pointing out that Google does as well is practically axiomatic.

That's not what I'm pointing out or focusing on.

> you're implying that no platform should be allowed to dictate what gets on the platform

I never said or implied that.

> but you seem to automatically believe whatever they do will be bad

I don't believe that, and have not said anything to suggest that I do.

The assumptions you are making about me or my argument to arrive at these conclusions seem to be inaccurate. I would be happy to continue this discussion, as long as you ask me to clarify something rather than attempt to arrive at your own conclusions, potentially derailing the whole conversation.
Well, my original post got flagged and disappeared, so I'll try again.

This does not compete with OBS. It's useless for people doing remote well.

If you're doing remote teaching, learning, or work well, you have an appropriate camera and microphone setup.

Microphone should be close to the mouth (headset or similar), and because of power laws, at reasonable amplification, it will pick up almost no background noise. You should be using headphones/headset, and microphone won't pick up speaker noise, which is the other major source of audio issues. That can even be had with a $5 gas station headset. The audio noise / issue cleanup is for people who can't/won't/don't do this.

Automatic camera cropping is an anti-feature. You want to be able to show people things (whether kids holding up STEM projects, or business presentations showing tools and slides), and have cameras set up appropriately for that. Tools like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams become unusable for serious remote interactions precisely because of autocropping.

It's possible to buy hardware to do remote well for <$100, and likely <$50 if you're thrifty. An RTX card costs hundreds of dollars. The NVidia tool is helpful if you're rich, stupid, /and/ incompetent. OBS is helpful is you're competent, willing to do the work to learn new things and do things well, and then set up a proper remote work setup. It's a different crowd.

I suspect I got flagged since I criticized Google Meet for doing annoying things like autocropping. I apologize to all Googlers. I was wrong. You were right. When I present a document camera, with my face in the corner, my video conferencing tool SHOULD autocrop what I'm writing. If I'm presenting a PPT behind me, Google is smart to autocrop my presentation. Google is right. Google is always right. Since Google is always right, if I disagree with Google or criticize Google, Googlers are right to remove me from the Internet.
> it suffers from the same oversight every other web component library (polymer, mdl) suffers from:

> - I can't swipe left/right between the tabs

> - I can't pull the menu out from the left by swiping the entire page right

Most native apps don't do either of those two things either... at least on iOS. I can't speak to how Android apps behave these days.

Maybe these are your favorite interaction modes, but it really has nothing to do with whether X is "up to par with native apps."

I'm certain these things could be implemented. Clearly they weren't considered desirable by the authors of Shoelace.

What really holds HTML5 apps back is the fact that Apple consistently drags their heels on adopting push notifications for web. It only has to be available for apps that have been added to the home screen, so all the users who complain about getting nagged for notifications as they browse the web would still be perfectly happy not to be getting nagged. Without notification support, the number of companies who seriously invest in HTML5 apps (instead of native apps) is nearly zero, which really hinders investment in HTML5 frameworks targeting mobile app development (not frameworks just targeting mobile website development).

Clearly, Apple benefits from pushing app developers into the App Store where they can require those developers to give them a cut of the profits.
It seems when we have these conversations that people bring up the capacitive and inductive liabilities of having a large chunk of electrically conductive material near a circuit. Chunks of copper 'cost' more than lost real estate. Nobody has done that yet in this thread so I might as well volunteer it.

There are materials that are electrical insulators but not thermal insulators, but I don't know how you put them into a chip. How long before we circle back to chips made of synthetic diamond?

Also as you stack the chip features deeper, does the variability in thermal expansion of all of the materials start to cause bigger and bigger problems? Is that an unspoken assumption under the umbrella of "moving heat from the middle of the chip"? I've seen midwestern roads after a hard winter and a hot summer. Thermal cycling can be brutal.
Well tax minimisation is not illegal - supposedly starbucks can pay less taxes in UK than I do alone
"ChatOps" almost invariably means Slack. That's why GitLab is divesting in that space.

Look at what happened HipChat, Stride, etc.
Lots of practice, learning, and failure. This guy got a great combination of product/market fit, timing, and exposure. Finding product/market fit is a skill trainable like anything else (although an incredibly difficult skill to master), timing is just that (plenty of luck involved - but easier with product/market fit). Finally: exposure is easy with the first two - if you have solved a hot problem really well, of course everyone will pick up on that and make it viral.

Start with practicing finding product market fit and getting better at timing things. If you can do those, the rest (exposure, wealth, connections, etc) fall into place. It’s that simple, but it definitely isn’t easy at all
ReactOS has always taken a "we will rebuild anything from complete ignorance of the source" approach, precisely because of the legal liabilities. They are so good at it though, that people at Microsoft have actually claimed that the developers must have source code access.
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You should learn about Apple vs Pepper.
Linux under WSL2 can be leaking
We have tested a few other VPN clients from competitors and found that all of them leak in the same way. The way Microsoft has implemented virtual networking for Linux guests makes it very difficult to properly secure them.
Modern stuff used as little voltage as possible. We are taking under 1v at times for silicon core voltage. They also use VRMs to dynamically adjust voltage depending on load.

These days, IO voltage is usually detached from core voltage, and there may actually be multiple IO voltages. Memory and PCIe often get their own carefully turned IO voltages.

For lower speed, low cost devices, 3.3v is basically standardized, though on battery powered devices you will commonly see 1.8v.

Anything hobbyist is being dragged to 3.3v. 5v devices keep getting harder and harder to find.
IMO the first 8 hours of someone's time is worth a living wage, and any time beyond that is worth even more. Because time is the only non renewable resource; it's literally a person's life. So to hire someone at less than a living wage to do any task is equivalent to saying their life is worth less than the job you're hiring them to do. Which is dehumanizing at best, and approaches slavery at worst.
> I firmly believe probably 80% of people’s success is down to luck and consequently think a strong welfare state and 99% inheritance tax is the correct way to run things.

So you think wealth is based on 80% luck and your solution is to reset the family wealth every time?

So a family who isn't "lucky" can't pass on their little wealth to their children and have that compound over time? You'd prefer the children get the reset button?

You have some flawed understanding of how people can actually increase the probability to generate wealth.
I agree with you, I supported the lockdowns in the United States, and I think, for instance, the SF Bay Area did a good job.

But it's still an interesting data point.
> He's spending money to influence public policy, in the direction of mandatory and global vaccination

Okay.

> All the worst things in history were done for the best of intentions.

I'm sure I'd be entertained at your explanation of the best intentions behind the Holocaust and several other historical genocides, but even of we accept that generalization as true it doesn't imply that all things done with good intentions are likely to lead to bad ends.
Lithium production is a bit strained but lithium resources are fairly high. At Tesla's Battery Day they said just the lithium in Nevada is enough to electrify the entire US fleet. They also plan to do their own recycling, which they expect to work well since they can customize it to their battery.

Given the amount of energy that comes from fusion fuel, even extracting lithium from seawater would probably be economical.

Beryllium is much less common so that could be an issue. But maybe we can find more beryllium if we look harder; right now we barely use it. If we can't find enough, we could probably design a reactor to use lead instead. Either one acts as a neutron multiplier, and General Fusion's design uses lead instead of beryllium, for the same purpose.
Do you work for a non-profit in the United States, Canada, the UK, France, or another western country and pay taxes?

Do your taxes contribute to murdering foreigners in a desert far away?

Are you evil?

This isn't a personal attack, I just really struggle when I see moral absolutism and binary thinking. The world isn't binary even though our work with computers and human systems often lead us to pretend that it is.
Huawei and the Turkish government very much require their employees to endorse specific political expressions. It's my understanding that Raytheon does not and I think they're an entirely reasonable company for a SWE to consider.
Yeah... Not sure I'd be spiking the football in the endzone yet on Sweden. Case count is slowly going back up. Looking likely that they'll have another wave here in another month or so.
spartapride creator here. facebook and twitter are there because of the "see recent facebook posts" and "see recent twitter posts" on the right side of the website.

The 30 other trackers from discus were loaded because of discus. When I setup the site originally my adblock/tracker blocker actually blocked discus so I never saw the other trackers being loaded.. When themarkup pointed it out to me I ended up allowing discus through and saw all the other trackers being loaded.

Thanks to them, I removed discus from my site. :)

I'm not a web developer, the server is running ghost blogging platform with a theme.
I've heard it said as "luck favors the well prepared"
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The "cheap labor"/"greedy company" epithet is such a knee-jerk response to "H1b" on HN, is a testament to the very successful demonization of H1b by some entitled and spoiled bunch of Americans who feel tech jobs are just owed to them at $ whatever-number-i-state.

Businesses need not be apologetic about h1b - there is of course some fraud, but vast majority are very valuable contributors to the US. Instead we should highlight these "american programmer" groups are shakedown artists and often outright racist and should not be countenanced.

I would invite open-minded HN-ers to read Anna Lee-Saxenian's work at UC Berkeley.
I came here to say basically this. An employer is responsible for its own political positions because of how corporate governance is organized. Employees who disagree with said positions, whatever they may be, are free to terminate their employment if management doesn't agree to be lobbied by employees to assume certain positions. True say comes with ownership.
I don't think meanings are really being twisted it's just colloquial discourse with a smidge of rhetoric. If inaction leads to 'the opposition' gaining an advantage it's easy to see why people might see that as defacto support and describe it as such even if that support is quite passive. I can also appreciate you don't enjoy being characterised this way and can definitely see causing that discomfort as being part of the point.