skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2-Microsoft is working toward Windows being freely available (zero cost). This dampens the motivation for an open source alternative.

Zero cost and Open Source aren't mutually exclusive. I could make a wonderful and free (as in beer, ie zero cost) operating system, then fill it with telemetry and other routines phoning home that nobody but me could deactivate, let alone remove, because I'm the only entity having access to the sources. Or, I could give public access to some sources, but prevent any modification+redistribution behind threats of legal action. That's not freedom at all.

Microsoft could reverse the OS cost by sticking a $1000 check to any Windows DVD, that is paying users to install it, but that wouldn't make it a bit more open or more trustworthy.

That's why we refer to our software of choice as FOSS: Free and Open Source Software, which is software that is free as in beer and free as in speech and open.
Should someone manage to put suspicious code into FOSS software, its free and open nature allow the community to discover that malicious code and remove it, fork it if needed, without any fear for litigation, being blocked by restrictive licenses etc.
I don't see Microsoft allowing that anytime soon with Windows or any other of their most important products.
I've always thought of Amazon as an Operating System, not in the typical way we see an OS (as something that resides on a small personal computer or server), but a large abstraction that deals with higher level concepts, yet at the same time able to handle minute details and work with lower-level concepts (Think SKUs, receipts, billing etc) and higher level concepts like AWS, which Amazon runs on due to self dogfooding.
How is Dendron different from Foam[1]? At first glance, both projects are very similar.
Very few individual employee firings will have broad impact on the company the same way a CEO firing will. The whole process is disruptive by nature, so a board needs to be sure.

This isn't just "elite culture", although there is probably some of that in many scenarios.

edit: responding to a couple of comments - yes this is a feature of how we choose to structure these companies, it is not unavoidable. However, given the distribution of decision making and responsibility in a typical American corporate structure, removing the CEO is inherently difficult.

One can imagine situations where it is less disruptive, but those companies would look and operate quite differently.
Censorship resistant publishing can be bought for a price like any other service. Blockchains need only provide a medium for buying and selling of that, not actually publish the data itself. Case in point: Storage coins are designed to reward with money those who make available data they were given for the duration of time they agreed to make it available for, or conversely punishing them with losses if they renege on that agreement.

Some things money can't buy, but for everything else a blockchain can organize payment for it.
Well, Apple has Braeburn Capital but they're probably much more risk-averse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
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> The entire idea behind credit cards is to force processing fees upon store owners.

No. As a consumer, I enjoy immense value by carrying around zero cash. In fact, I don't even carry around physical cards (thank you Apple/Google Pay).
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> trials on healthy groups are proving very little

It's proving it doesn't make healthy people unhealthy (see https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/guillain-barre-sy... and specifically the 1976 flu vaccine, for example).
Phillips left most consumer markets to refocus on industrial markets. The Phillips Hue lighting brand hasn't been owned by Phillips in several years now, as Phillips Lighting was spun out into its own company named Signify. It's an interesting question when Signify might finally take over the branding entirely rather than keep relying on the Phillips logo.
If you did start experiments with those most vulnerable you exposing them to far more risks.

Drug trials always start from learning more about safety of treatment (as opposed to efficacy) and once deemed statistically safe, you move to test for efficacy.

I assume you're thinking about treatments who could give a chance to those who have little hope/time for surviving. There's probably a chance they can benefit from taking experimental drugs but if we know little about it (because they are early in trial phases) we less confident this treatment will be useful and worst, we maybe not learn much from why it failed
> "OK Google, what percentage of people can you detect to be wearing masks on recent Instagram photos tagged at a location within a 10 mile radius of Mt. Shasta?"

Ok, so you need the assistant to:

* Already have a trained dataset of people wearing masks

* Fetch ALL instagram pictures it can find

* Not only detect if there's a mask in the picture, but count them

* Fetch the location of Mount Shasta

* Calculate a 10 mile radius around it

* Apply that calculation to the people counted in the first step

* Calculate a percentage of people wearing masks which needs:

* Count people not wearing masks.

Those steps are sub-optimal. So you need not only understand that, but to run some sort of 'query planner' in order to get the results you are looking for.

You are thinking of Jarvis from Iron Man. Forget assistants. Allow someone to construct a query like this in a couple of minutes and you have a great product you can sell. Existing ones require quite a bit of domain knowledge and setup. Not even things like Wolfram Alpha would be able to parse this query.

This reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1425/
I was curious what was different about this than Roam/Obsidian/ect. and checked the FAQ:

> Dendron is a highly opinionated note taking tool that focuses on hierarchal note taking. It provides the freedom of Roam’s every note exists everywhere philosophy while layering on top flexible hierarchies to keep track of it all. [0]

Not sure how I feel about that approach. However, it does look pretty polished and I'll likely check it out at some point.

[0] - https://www.dendron.so/notes/683740e3-70ce-4a47-a1f4-1f140e8...
Not the author, but foam isn't hierarchical for one
On the website you mention using it in conjunction with other note taking tools. How do you envision using Dendron in conjunction with another note taking tool like Roam?
iPG: YC Interview Questions (With Voice)
The classic YC interview tool, with a speech synthesizer. Works well for practicing over headphones on mobile.
The main issue with Borat wasn't the negative stereotypes of Kazakhstanians, it was the treatment of the villagers of God, how they were paid and lied to about how they'd be depicted in the movie that I at least personally didn't appreciate. It's a great film and Sascha Baron Cohen is a brilliant actor making actually meaningful content like Who Is America.
If the US regulated interchange fees like Europe did (In the EU, interchange fees are capped to 0.3% of the transaction for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards, no cap for corporate cards), everyone would still get the benefit of cashless transactions without the processing rake credit card processors and related entities take.
Thanks Ketzo! We hope we'll be able to build the best note-taking app for this use case and make you a happy user :)
ZGC is not yet generational (it will be), so I expect C4 to hold up better to very high allocation rates.
> 1. Voice based operations in factories, construction workers who want to have both the hands free but want to navigate via a device

They can't understand speech properly in a quiet environment, and you want them to get your commands on a factory floor or construction site? :)
The point is if the two groups behave differently wrt risk then the trial is probably ruined. Maybe you're assuming the vaccine will be 100% effective; experts I've heard are saying to expect something like the flu shot.
> If their digital forensic experts haven't found evidence of foul play

We only know the FBI subpoenaed the laptop because it was leaked to Fox News. The leak itself is presumably accurate, but we have no information about what the FBI did or did not find on the laptop – except for a letter that they have "nothing to add at this time" to an appearance by DNI John Ratcliffe on Fox Business.

In that appearance, Ratcliffe (a highly partisan official) did claim that the laptop was not part of a disinformation campaign, but also said that "I know so little about those emails and what is apparently on Hunter Biden's laptop". So it seems like he was referring to a lack of information about the laptop from the intelligence community rather than inside information from the FBI.

Admittedly, the FBI generally can share information with the intelligence community, and apparently in this case it has not. That does suggest that they probably don't have e.g. evidence that a specific foreign actor was behind things. But we don't know whether they've found evidence that foul play in general occurred or might have occurred. Heck, it's even possible that they found evidence of foul play by a specific entity, but didn't send it to the intelligence community because that entity is American – though I wouldn't say that's likely.

As for the lawyer, the closest we have to hard evidence is a screenshot of an email apparently showing that a lawyer for Hunter Biden spoke with the repair shop owner after Hunter was presumably asked for comment by the Post; it doesn't show any specific claims made by the lawyer. Beyond that we just have Adam Housley and Rudy Giuliani relaying the claims of the repair shop owner. Leaving aside those sources' lack of trustworthiness, Housley himself claimed that the attorney had the wrong year for when Hunter dropped off the laptop and "didn't even know when he left em there" [1]. If anything, that suggests that Hunter doesn't know the provenance, though it's hard to say without more information.

[1] https://twitter.com/adamhousley/status/1317319606126604288
Tcl is awesome, thank you for sharing this!

The design of Tcl is indeed simple and elegant. For example, check out the Tcl man page linked in the article:

https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/Tcl.htm

The 12 stated rules suffice to define the syntax and semantics of the language.

And indeed, the Tcl/Tk tandem is great for building applications with convenient graphical user interfaces!
This looks neat, will keep an eye on this! Good luck with the Google Security Assessment. The first one takes quite a bit of time to cover all the bases, but the future ones are much easier once familiar with the process.
I assume that it is primarily not about DirectX (or specifically DirectDraw) compatibility but about W9x games assuming that they can use DirectDraw to setup particular video mode, somehow get pointer to directly mapped framebuffer with particular organization and pixel format, write into that directly and completely ignore DirectDraw after the initialization.
I just hate when people refer to that specific part of his standup as anti-environmentalist. I think he didn't meant it like people are quoting him to approve destroying nature. The planet will be fine (c), sure, this stone rock will be fine. Humans won't be, animals won't be, plants won't be. We probably won't be able to exterminate all living things on Earth, and some plankton and bacteria will evolve into something new again. But again, current snapshot of "nature", the one we are all living in will be lost if it continued to be destroyed.
For more generic web indexing you need to use a browser. You do not index pages served by a server anymore, you index pages rendered by javascript apps in the browser. So as a part of the "fetch" stage I usually let parsing of title and other page metadata to a javascript script running inside the browser (using https://www.browserless.io/) and then as part of the "parse" phase I use cheerio to extract links and such. It is very tempting to do everything in the browser, but architecturally it does not belong there. So you need to find the balance that works best for you.
My immediate thought is that this is due to visibility. You can churn through the lowest level positions for a while before questions are asked, but you can't do that for CEOs. Its also the case for other prominent positions. If someone with a big following joins and then leaves very quickly someone will comment on it and if its big enough an article will be written. No company wants to be noticed for people leaving, but they'll make a big song and dance when big wig from X company moves to them.
What percentage of people would rate portrait photo with bokeh much much better from a DSLR than from an iPhone 12 pro (or any other top Android phone) in a blind test? I would say that more people will prefer the phone photo, unless you edit the dslr photo (which phone is doing automatically unless you shoot RAW on iPhone).
> Source: My partner is Kazakh.

This isn't reddit. You don't need to defend your opinion.
In the developer options of nearly any android phone since like at least 8, is a setting for "Select mock location app". It's current use? People often used it to cheat in Pokemon Go
Very well done! I like video animations. What software do you use to make them?
> If you are following “covid best practices” it is extremely unlikely that you will contract covid.

It’s spreading like wildfire to people following best practices too all over the world. It only takes a small subset not following these practices to spread it all over.
That doesn't solve the distribution problem; if you can use centralised trust you'd of course have no need to distribution, but then this isn't the solution to use.
Just quickly watched this[1] video showing an intro to Dendron.

I'm currently using tiddlywiki[2] so that's primarily what I'm comparing it too.

Both tiddlywiki and dendron look very similar, supporting various forms of linking to one another. Dendron seems to have a more complete hierarchical way of combining pages, at least compared to the way that I use tiddlywiki.

Tiddlywiki's advantage is the amount of plugins it has available. I think I also still prefer tiddlywiki because I just have it hosted on a server, so I can access my notes from whatever machine, including my phone. For dendron ( an electron app ) I'm guessing I would have to have some sort of Dropbox/Nextcloud system setup to sync notes between machines. The fact that I'm in my browser all the time and can just open a web page to access tiddlywiki is also preferable. The least amount of friction between a thought in my head to being able to write it down, the better.

I was interested in Dendron because looking at its website, dendron supports a graph visualization of all your notes, like concept mapping[3]. But unfortunately it doesn't look like this concept mapping feature is prioritized, or the main focus of dendron. That's really the main thing I would like to add to tiddlywiki, some sort of functional concept mapping feature. I've tried tiddlymap[4], but its not very well supported.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3io2fHRmZsE

[2] https://tiddlywiki.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map

[4] http://tiddlymap.org/
I haven't written any Tcl in years but one of the things I liked about it was that it's not deep at all. Very simple rules, with enough flexibility built-in to (usually) make it do what you want.
Can you make a movie stereotyping and disparaging The protected class Cohen belongs to? Of course not. In many countries, doing so is actually a crime. That’s what’s so objectionable to me.
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Proposed decision authorizing drivered and driverless ride hailing in California [pdf]
Yes,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793170
goes into great detail about removing a problem person from the board. (From the CEO of CircleUp.)
I know of a small company run by a retired man, that designed and installed several industrial control systems. All of these are air-gapped and run by very old computers on DOS 3, I think they might be 16-bit. It's run by him and him alone. He travels out to fix them in different cities once in awhile. I asked in passing if he tried moving to VMs, he has but didn't describe it, he said it didn't work out.
It's disruptive by design. Does it need to be that way?
The claim that it is a tiny minority is not very relevant considering the recent dominance of intolerant identity-politics type views in the media. For example, read Matt Taibbi on the US media:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i...
And here I thought the entire idea behind credit cards was to make up to 22% interest from the user. The 3.5% per transaction from the retailers just seems like bonus. If not even considered a double dipping since most retailers will take the 3.5% into consideration of their pricing.
Why the WSJ didn't publish the Hunter Biden story and the old media comeback
Weird. I don't get that. I used https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/
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The thrust of my argument is that there’s more of everything in a bigger city. As such you have more options and more competition.

The competition means that a lot of places scraping by in smaller cities can’t make it in a bigger city. In theory that means median quality is higher.

And even a 3-star restaurant won’t survive in a place that doesn’t get enough well-to-do visitors to sustain it.

For a more casual perspective, SF has 126 restaurants on the Michelin list (not all hve stars). My entire home country has 52.
That's a better link than Wikipedia because it has opinions.
Cultural practices exist for a variety of reasons. This is one of them. The people in the ownership class need each other for various reasons because they have control over substantial resources than can disrupt the plans of other members. For lower level employees, their only strength is numbers and unless they realize this they can be treated much worse for arbitrary reasons.
>in general, you can't know what the program will do until you run it

It needs to be added that in Common Lisp, once the program is running you can do everything with it while it's running: Inspect the stack frames, change variable values, rewrite/recomiple/update functions, update class definitions, update objects to said new class definitions, save the current program state to disk,etc.

So it's programming that is geared to RUNNING the program and modifying it while its running.
The DOSBox X branch (an independent project) can IIRC run Windows 95 decently. Maybe even stock DOSBox.
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Ask HN: Is there a way to programmatically test an API?
I am trying to build a test suite for a REST API that is transitioning to GRPC. I am wondering if, with the OPEN API spec, there is a way to programmatically test the API. Any services or libraries are welcome. Currently we are writing test cases with PyTest, which is calling the REST API. Thanks!
Surveillance Startup Verkada Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers
But people who get disillusioned with tech are not people who don't want to talk about "JS frameworks" or similar tech topics. Quite the contrary, they want their view to win, broadly speaking, in the conversation or the deployment. It is the lack of agency, not the conversation, the problem for the tech-frustrated.
I am on iOS 14 and this app doesn't show any identifier. Also, I can't delete it!
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I like where your head is at but, at least for our company, our workload is such that we’d be doing those puzzles in OT.

Also if there was free time to be put to puzzles, I’d rather remove my mind from programming entirely to refresh when I return.
FWIW, I read it the same way OP did.
Can the author tell me the similarities and differences between this and Emacs org-mode?
TIL about the "jab" word in this context (English is not my first language). I thought the author had misspelled "lab".
> It should be possible for tooling to just show you the expansion of any given macro invocation. In fact, when I used Clojure a decade ago, there was an Emacs command that would expand the macro invocation under your cursor, so you could see what code was actually being generated.

Exactly. On common lisp, for example, it's just a keypress, and it has a "macro stepper" so it shows the first expansion possible, then the second expansion, and so on and so on... until you end up with compiler primitives!
That's a great point, and after re-reading your blog-piece, I'm not sure that point came through so clearly as you just declared it here.

A LONG time ago, I used to use it (tcl/tk) to do quick-and-dirty apps on X-windowed Unix boxes and port them to Windows without really knowing much about Windows. (That was handy!)

And Expect blew me away back in the day of distributed systems management (I'm more of a programmer than a sys-admin, so I guess it would even be more important to those folks?).

The whole "There is no math, only strings" thing, still irritates me to this day, but I suspect you are right - this might be tied to the simplicity and strengths.

IDK. Food for though. Interesting piece. I think that I'm the only person I know that still dabbles in TCL after about 15~20 years ago (maybe I need to get out more), but it certainly rocks where it rocks! It is always surprising and pleasant to see a modern piece on it.
You have to sort cash, count it, deal with counterfeit bills, run it to the bank, etc. There must be a break-even point if a business values its time.
The portion of Congress which disagrees with this doesn't have control of anything. One of them is Warren, and Pelosi was campaigning against Markey just a month ago.
I envision the tank being between the engine and the capsule, not wrapped around the engine or something like that. As another commenter points out, you only need a shadow shield. I don't think there would be much more heat transferred from the engine to the fuel tank than in traditional engines; the neutrons would warm up the fuel some but perhaps naively I assume that effect would be fairly small. Now that I think about it more, I'm not sure. Is it the neutrons that heat the water in a nuclear reactor?
This ran on Java 11. This isn't so much of an issue for us. We are trying to avoid allocations, even as trivial as those. There are other examples that allocated where they should not, for example this lambda will allocate.

() -> System.out.println(1)

I lost hope in escape analysis quite frankly.

Rnd is something I have written because Java's Random is slow and clunky.

https://github.com/questdb/questdb/blob/master/core/src/main...
Thanks! Yeah for now we're waiting to get more paying customers and then we'll pay for the security assessment ourselves (or get an Angel investor), probably in January.

But 20k is a steep price :/ especially for a bootstrapped company like us.

Some might say Google is trying to prevent small companies to innovate upon Gmail...
I got the iPhone 12 Pro after using my iPhone X for the last three years. I was mostly excited about a big camera upgrade, and there are definitely some big improvements from what I have been using. But I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to keep it. I'm not sure I'm blown away enough for just shy of CDN $2,000. Even though it's almost the same size, it feels considerably bigger than my X, and I'm not a fan of the matte back which slides off my hands much easier than the polished glass of the X. I know the regular 12 and mini have a polished back, and the mini looks like a good option for me except for the fact that I'd be losing the 2x lens. If I have two lenses, I'd rather have the wide and 2x of my X than a wide and ultra-wide that the 12 and 11 before it have.
Because in capitalism the end state of every successful business is finance or real estate.