skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like many topics today, there is often absolutely nothing you can say that will convince someone else your intensions are not bad.

Sometimes it's better to not even try. Acting is always the more powerful move. Just do your thing. You wrote an awesome program that downloads stuff, they got offended and banned it. You've already accomplished your goal so you let it go... But if you cared enough you could just write a scraper for the website itself. What are they gonna do about it?

In an ideal world, downloading copywritten data would be so easy and ubiquitous that the intellectual property laws would be unenforceable. Sure, they would get mad but who cares? There's very little they can do about it.
Intel, a US company, was #1 and GlobalFoundries was arguably #2 until three years ago. It will probably take the government 5-10 years to do anything about this situation.
if this can be used to make a type checker for SQL strings like https://github.com/MedFlyt/mfsqlchecker or https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql but for C# I will be stoked!
Very interesting! Thank you.

I might start using firejail now.
I know that this transition will benefit the real apple users, managers, influencers and cool kids. Obviously I will keep and refurbish my 2013 macbook pro for Linux, will run offline Windows for design (thanks to Affinity) and have fun with Logic on some apple device/computer. Future computing will be fragmented..
Apple's performance claims for their M1 in-house chip
Don't think I agree with the unstated assumption here that debating chops and ability to improvise are endemic of high intelligence.
OSX and overall better dev experience?
More ram is patch for components that aren’t hyper-optimized to work together. The whole point of what apple is doing with their own silicon is to create that optimization, thus reducing the need for excessive ram.

It’s worked for them for iPad and iPhone. Samsung et all would boast more ram but oddly enough iPhones were and remain faster
> Which other key do you miss now that Esc is back?

I really need a Forward-Delete key - pressing Cmd+Backspace just doesn't work for me.
I have been using it for quite some time now. I use it mostly to catch up or feel like I should not be procrastinating.

Nice to see the improvements and that it's open source now. Kudos to you.
Here[1] is an article from The Verge that goes into the full differences with confirmation from Apple. For those too lazy to click through, yes the fan is the biggest difference. Beyond that the screen in the Air is slightly darker, the base model has worse chips due to binning, the battery is smaller, and there is obviously the Touchbar.

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21559228/apple-new-macbo...
I think the idea of a Cyrillic orthography for Polish is about as comforting to most Poles as the idea of spelling English using Spanish orthography is to those Jingo-Americans who drive around with bumper stickers that say "if you can read this in English, thank a soldier."
Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale at Bloomberg
Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. "Inventor of Email"

Analyzed the results in Michigan and came to the conclusion that 69k votes were taken from Trump and given to Biden.

His reasoning here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztu5Y5obWPk&feature=youtu.be
I didn't see it mentioned in the article, so just to clarify, this was fixed with https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4616-1
I think what they're saying is that they'd expect a $500 price increase to update specs as well.
Here in Boston our officers were in uniform all day but they told us they drop off all the ballots out of uniform in their own personal vehicles, he surmised to be less obvious a target. I thought it was an interesting approach, perhaps not super effective but interesting.
Anonymous Donations to Universities Skyrocketing
Send an anonymous donation to your alma mater - and stay off of annoying email lists.
At practically every desk in Silicon Valley for 4+ years, yes. Two 27" 4K Dell UltraSharps and a choice of 13" or 15" Macbook Pro are standard issue for an engineer.
I recall that the word "constable" was used in the big voter rights posters we had to put up, but frankly don't know any more than that.
i think it's code for, we're definitely, positively, conclusively faster than the Latest PC Laptop Chip, for sure.
If what you say is correct, Intel appears to be a generation and a half behind right now. Isn't that the kind of lead Intel used to have that made them untouchable?
Even the M1 isn't appreciably better than an AMD chip, especially not an upcoming 5nm chip.
Things change over time. Also note that HN used to be over-run by libertarians that would make Ayn blush. Kuro5hin escaped by dying. There is lobsters, but it has almost zero discussion and overly focuses on "the rules".

I think norms are better and more powerful. Be the norm you would like to see in the world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609308
How so? The way I see it is that they rake in thousands while not giving anything permanently, on the other hand there are people who risk financial and emotional ruin from predatory sex workers (I am not saying all of them are that way, I have met honest ones myself).

If you are talking about pimps, Onlyfans has mostly indepenent workers AFAIK.
The sooner these scammers, charlatans and child molesters are eliminated the better.
It is no secret that they are both morally and financially bankrupt.
I see these “everyone gush about how great excel is” threads and I always recoil in horror and go in to see if there’s anyone who agrees with my perplexingly minority viewpoint.

For trivial things and certain specific use cases spreadsheets are fine. But it never is left at that. For lack of awareness of any other programming language they get used for programming and analytics platforms and turn into byzantine, unmaintainable, undocumented beasts with hard to read and check formulas and business logic.

My current company is plagued by these built by no-coders over decades. There’s teams of people whose primary job function is to click copy and paste between these to generate regular reports. Excel is a curse.
Looks interesting but what I don’t understand is if it really is sandboxed, how would a Firefox know that there is another Firefox running and open a tab there (as per the FAQ) instead of a new Firefox in a different sandbox?
Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007 5 years later:

Instead of always looking for ideas, lets try and ask this: What problem in your industry would be a successful startup if someone decided to solve it?
Except for the rich insulting the poor. Dang allows rich people to say some fucked up shit, but if you defend your honor in that situation, you are the asshole. Classism exists everywhere.
The biggest flaw is the use of voting machines. Machines can be rigged so easily, that I can't understand why the 'old-fashioned paper and pencil' ballots aren't insisted upon.

Naturally, voting machines are used because they are so easily 'fixed'.
Are you talking about back in 2008 when the third launch of the Falcon 1 failed to reach orbit? That was a long time ago. They are not near that situation now. The main goal of SpaceX is creating a human civilization on Mars. Seems to me like they do have the right combination of getting things done and the long view.
Whenever I get a subscription I end up with drawers full of spare tooth brushes, shaving knifes, etc. It is best to buy it when you need it, as you never know what is going to happen (e.g. COVID)
I agree, but the real question becomes whether users would prefer 11th gen Intel processors or zen 2/3 over what they're shipping now. Would you take AMD seriously if they started talking about how their 5950 beat an ancient 8th gen Intel processor? I expect a higher standard from hardware makers and don't give a free pass to anyone over that kind of shenanigan.
I see this comment.
Oh good to know! I forgot it's hidden until that section is enabled. Does feel like a feature that should be top level, OSIT!
OnlyFans is a curious phenomena, it will be curious to see if OnlyFans results in a dilution of the general value of dating women. I support the right for someone to sell images of their body, however it seems idiotic to think that this kind of social acceptance of "being an e-hoe" (in my girlfriends words) won't come with any negative societal effects. And to be clear, I say this as someone who dates an online sex worker.

Edit - to be clear, yes, I am currently in a "real" relationship (we share a domicile) with a woman who works a professional job during the day and does part time sex work to supplement her income.
I think resetting instead of bricking doesn't compromise security, but saves a burner laptop from ending up in landfill. I get your point, but I think company would have to demonstrate that e.g. serialising meets particular business need that is different from planned obsolescence. Could be a part of certification processes that products before getting marketed have to go through.
two wrongs don't make a right.
Only for US citizens and Green Card holders. Hundreds of thousands of H1B immigrants stuck in forever Green Card backlogs stay where they are to comply with immigration laws.
FusionAuth 1.21
I don't look when I type. The touchbar makes me look down from my screen if I want to interact with it.
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This is against the TOS. Just because Expo enables it with their update's api doesn't mean Apple is okay with it.

> 2.5.2... "nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app"

Expo makes the OTA updates so so so easy it would be hard for any developer not to take advantage though :D
The name "current working directory" is used (eg /proc/self/cwd), and that meaning makes just as much sense.
I thought so too, but it seems like the highest end 13" does have 4
Having been through a xenon acquisition, their strategy is entirely based upon arbitrage of vcs’ total lack of interest in non-unicorns.
> To be able to do that, you have to add Options<T> to the constructor of every class in the chain and then configure DI for it.

You really don't - just inject your populated config object where you need it.
This is incredibly concerning as only twitter or inherently biased "fact checking" services will likely control the definition of what is or is not "misinformation".

This is the big-tech equivalent of saying "we might be joking or being cheeky when we ban someone" just to add more legal ambiguity and grey areas when it comes to explaining why they banned / flagged something or let something be allowed.
How am I supposed to feel about a sentence like this?

> "Like there was one guy who paid me to make a reaction video about his ‘appendage’ and it took me like seven takes to sound like I was excited by it."

To me, that's just deeply sad. Paying a woman to act as though she's interested in you is the commoditization of an innate yearning for companionship. It's turning something that poems are written about into mere transaction. And it's baffling to me how people who tend to be "against capitalism" somehow rally to the free market when it comes to selling sex.
Just look at the blatant lies he said about COVID19, it's laughable if the consequences wouldn't be so serious and tragic. Yes, politicians do lie (mostly in terms of vague while being up for election), but that doesn't mean Trump lying and other politicians lying are similar. I haven't seen other first world leaders state, without a doubt, that the COVID19 virus is a hoax, it's not real and all the other crap Trump espoused in regards to COVID.
Would decriminalization really help in this particular case? The author isn't in jail for dealing, possession, or consumption of drugs. They're in jail for breaking into someone's house and stealing things to buy drugs. That particular problem doesn't go away if drugs are legal. They still cost money. Maybe you can argue that legal drugs could be cheaper, but there's not really much evidence of that; legal weed is just about the same price as black market weed, often more. I have no reason to think that legal heroin or cocaine or other drugs would be so cheap as to eliminate crime related to obtaining drug money. People deep in the throes of addiction are still going to have trouble holding down jobs to feed their habit, and legal drugs are not going to be free. Making addiction itself less criminal isn't going to eliminate all the accompanying social problems. Addicts are going to have trouble working, maintaining relationships, caring for children, staying housed, or avoiding crimes related to both obtaining money for their habits or as a result of poor decisions they make while intoxicated.

I'm in favor of decriminalizing all drugs, because I don't think getting high should be a crime by itself; because I don't think the government has any right to control what people do with their own bodies; because the war on drugs costs a fortune and doesn't do anything to prevent drug use; because unregulated drugs are more dangerous than legal ones; and because our prisons are overflowing with people whose only crime was possessing the drugs themselves. But if someone breaks into my house and steals my shit to feed their habit, I still want them locked up. It's a terrifying experience to be victimized, and it's not always just a property crime; there's a lot of violent crime too.
I placed an order this morning for a new MacBook Pro to replace my 2016 with Touchbar, but after humming and hawing all day, I cancelled it. Since I'm working from home these days without any prospect of that changing, I've decided to get a new M1 Mac mini instead. It's actually going to eliminate the need for this Elgato Thunderbolt dock I have, and really the only think I'll really miss is TouchID. Some things allow me to use my Apple Watch instead, so that'll have to do to.

At the end of the day, after four years, I want to be buying a replacement laptop that feels even moderately evolved from what I already have. I have a 12" MacBook that I love, so that will be my on-the-go computer for the times I need that.

With the money I'm saving going with the mini, I'm upgrading my daughter's iPad and still have some left over after that.

I'll re-evaluate in the future when hopefully Apple puts some more energy into the laptops. I do actually like the TouchBar but I would expect that after four years, they could at least add proper haptic feedback. As well, the USB-C ports only one side (and the wrong side for me) feels like a downgrade from my 2016 model which has two on each side.
With that title you spoke my mind and coincidentally I am of similar age. Maybe the internet didn't change so much, maybe you just got tired of it? Ultimately, I think doing things is more fulfilling than being on the internet so it might be actually a healthy reaction that you become depressed.
> "faster than 98% of PC laptops sold in the last year"

Keep in mind that the $3k MBP is probably part of the 2% in the above quote. The large majority of laptops sold are ~$1k, and not the super high end machines.
Oops, my bad, you're right. Even at the time i figured it was further out not so close to Vancouver.

And yeah, the squamish highway in that area is relatively murder free. It was pretty deadly for accidents prior to being redone though.

I guess disregard my nonsense about the murder highway.

Sorry.
I bought a house in San Francisco a year ago and it’s estimate has gone up 100k.

I rarely see needles unless I get pho in the Tenderloin, which is the neighborhood that some people seem to think is the only one in the city. SF is the most beautiful city I’ve lived in by a mile.

My SO works at Twitter and was shocked to see journalists say they were permanently WFH. What Dorsey actually said was that if managers approve certain roles can stay remote, but most managers plan to bring teams back to the office, with 2-3 day WFH being the most popular option.

Rents went down downtown, because everything is closed. It’s a huge leap to assume that will stick and rents are still astronomical given everything is closed.

I can’t tell you the reason, but people are just obsessed with this “end of San Francisco” narrative despite a ton of hard evidence to the contrary. I studied CS after the dotcom and people were convinced all programming jobs were going abroad since programming can be done anywhere, instead Bay Area engineering comp quadrupled. Now instead of going to Mumbai it’s going to Denver or Montana, doubtful.

People saw companies like Reddit, Yahoo, and Twitter lay off all their remote workers. They saw Googlers in MTV get the most promotions. There is understands skepticism “this time is different.”

It’s funny how there are so many articles about how Silicon Valley is leaving the Bay Area but not a single one about how Wall Street is leaving New York. People just get hung up on “code monkey work can be done anywhere “ and ride the media wave. There’s been a tech bubble waiting to pop and an exodus from Bay Area for 10 years now, in the minds of journalists and the blogosphere. In the real world, not so much.
Prices will compete with black market prices. Black market for weed in California is still a thing because it is much cheaper.

Edit: someone already mentioned it and provided evidence.
My estimate is that in the US COVID-19 will cause roughly 3X the number of drug overdose deaths this year. The drug overdose deaths from 2018 are about 67K, as reported by the CDC [0]. The US is at about 240K COVID-19 deaths, increasing about 1K/day. Of course, the US mortality from COVID-19 is an exception wrt other developed countries.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
That's not true in the US- CDC statistics are ~72000 OD deaths for 2019. The worst numbers I've seen are a 50% increase in OD deaths, so we can probably expect the 2020 numbers to come in at 105,000 or less. There are 220,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide in the US so far.

Horrible numbers eithier way, but there has NOT 4x the number of deaths from drug overdose in the US compared to COVID-19.
It's been three years, can we please stop repeating this lie? Trump has disavowed white supremacists clearly and repeatedly, and the claim that he called them "fine people" is not true. Let me say that again: it's wrong. This is not ambiguous:
it would have taken you a single Google search to find out that when Trump talked about "fine people" at Charlottesville he explicitly said that he wasn't talking about the white supremacists and neo-Nazis and that those people should be "condemned totally." And that's just one of countless times that he's condemned white supremacists and distanced himself from them.

The media repeats this easily-debunkable falsehood again and again and again and again, people like you fall for it, and then they have the nerve to tell us that it's only the Right who engage in "misinformation".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CuwFa0c-GnM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9JmOSsv-KSg

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/03/21/trump_...
> You've converted me from a never Trumper to a Trump supporter.

You've been echoing Trump talking points and explicitly defending Trump here for months.

That's the kind of dishonest rhetorical trick that works better when the history isn't readily visible.
Turmoil at Pentagon as President Trump shakes up leadership team
They're not extrapolated; that's the actual performance of an iPhone 12. The "estimate" stuff is legalese.
You can't invent the next big thing in your garage when you can't afford a garage. Some of the things that made the valley( * ) a success are gone. I think the valley will live on, like it always has, but it will be different this time, just like each other time brought something different.

The internet has now reached a stage where location matters less than ever. It is no longer necessary to amass engineers in one physical location. I think a lot of us would be more creative(albeit less focused and productive) if we were living on a piece of land with the time and extra money needed to play with the things we are good at.

(*) The valley, not SF. The line is blurry but they are not the same.
I had the pleasure to attend a talk given by Joe Armstrong. For some reason he was always looking over to Phil Wadler, apparently looking for approving nods, but there were none to be found :-)

I hear what you are saying. I also find it unfortunate that something simple like UI is so fragmented. But then again, maybe UI is not so simple after all. The current paradigm that SwiftUI copies and evolves is that of React, and it just didn't exist 20 years ago. Funny also that this new paradigm was invented for the web first. While a lot of web stuff is crappy indeed, this is one of those examples where it produced a superior paradigm that is now copied and evolved outside of web as well, for example by SwiftUI, also by Flutter.

That's just how progress looks like.
Yes, but since they control the background service too, they can just update the service to make it respond to CORS requests.
If you're going to have 10+ People in the meeting, there will be issues. Video/Audio getting bad, People loose have signal, etc. There is also a very noticable load on even more powerful PCs once you have some more people in the call.

So jitsi might work for one-on-ones but slightly bigger conference calls are a no-go.
Well it won't work if everyone goes to the same place. Most places can tolerate (and maybe even benefit from) a small influx of wealthy outsiders.

I think it's somewhat common for people to move back to where they came from if they get tired of big-city life.
Interesting - I truly expected Stripe to buy Baremetrics.
Any indication on how the performance of the MBP with the M1 compares with the more expensive MBP with the i5?
I've been using Azure for all of my projects for 5 years now, with zero problems.
They are giving quite a lot permanently. Their images will always be out there on the internet and in the world, and could be used against them when applying for future jobs, etc. The sex worker generally doesn't have XXX footage of their clients. It's the other way around.

Sure, some people give them more than they can afford. Sometimes car dealerships sell people dumb cars they can't afford too.

edit: Regarding pimps, there's plenty of women who are forced by pimps to perform online. It's extremely common. I imagine moreso with COVID.
The "Fabric" is the interconnect between different components on the chip. It's what the different units use to communicate and transport data.

The "Neural Engine" is a special compute unit specifically for machine learning. The iPhone Camera app uses it for semantic segmentation, for example.
Excellent job Of research and presentation!
Great improvement over the ROT13 encryption.
Part of the constable's duties is to open and close the polls. I'm not sure if they're required to be there the whole time or not. Our's is usually there. Sometimes he is in uniform, and sometimes not.
This little discussion got me curious about how hard it actually is to use COM interop with .NET.
Using Visual Studio its just a right click on your dependencies, selecting 'Add COM Reference...' and choosing the library you want to use.
I was then able to call SAPI very easily like this:

var voice = new SpeechLib.SpVoiceClass();
voice.Speak("Hello World!");

The documentation for SAPI could use some love though. The sample code that is supposed to be there is nowhere to be found.
Why beating around the bush? If the function of extra tax is to stop producers from implementing planned obsolescence, then why not just stop them directly and require that components are not serialised etc. as a part of certifications products need to go through? If you add tax, then all you do is restricting access to such products for people with lower income.
Pacifism is the dumbest ideology ever