skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't underestimate the power of your choice at the frontier, even if it takes a while to reverberate through time.

I used to think it didn't matter what tools I chose as a lone developer making consumer tech products and DSP audio applications. But over time, I saw that consumers rely on frontier-makers for fast-moving tech choices more than you’d think, even if they lag a few years behind.

When enough people make a choice, a tipping point forms in the future. Paul Graham wrote about this in "The Return of the Mac", and I believe a tipping point is forming: http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html

If Apple wants to ride on privacy, then it will fall on privacy.
If you don't like what I say that's not my problem. That's exactly how I feel. Downvote all you like if you need to feel better, I don't care. If you got a problem with how I feel that's your problem, not mine. Thanks.
Eg every EU country has laws broadly equivalent to the DMCA as a result of EU Directive 2001/29/EC [1]

The DMCA itself is just the US's implementation of the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty. 96 other countries have ratified it [2]

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...

[2] https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&tre...
Buy one of the many laptops that work out of the box with GNU/Linux. Vote for manufacturers with your money. It's not that hard.

I haven't had to spends days configuring anything for over a decade.
But why does one have to resort to hacks like this? I want the English version to work. Obviously Qwant have to iron this out, but I've waited months and they haven't even fixed it. It's a huge bug. It's like they just abandoned the project.
Ask HN: Authors, How much do you make from a single book annually?
I am currently in the early stages of non fiction book & just wanted to know what range of earnings to expect.

I understand book earnings are skewed towards a very small minority of authors. So I expect the range to vary by alot.

So if that means I will be an outlier,

Also, I am also planning to self publish via Amazon[0] both digital & print. Any advice, tip are well appreciated.

[0]: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
I'd say Youtube is still full of interesting niches, but you won't find it on trending.
But there is quite simple and obvious evidence of discrimination: the percentage of technical jobs which go to women.

Not accepting this as evidence and demanding that your own standards for evidence are met (without saying exactly what that would involve, so you could later reject any other evidence that is provided) before allowing any corrective action, is yet another way that this discrimination is perpetuated.
I think another thing that contributes to that last problem about "computer" brands is the lack of knowledge of the distinction between operating system manufacturer and hardware manufacturer -
I just moved recently, and in the process of getting to know more people and accidentally becoming their tech support, I was surprised to see how many people didn't have that basic bit of knowledge. When pointing at a chromebook, people say "Google" without questioning why "lenovo" is also written on it.
It might not be an "affirmative" defense, but to my understanding that doesn't imply it's a right. A "right" as I understand it is something that is illegal for others to violate, and that government generally has a duty to protect. But there's nothing unlawful about creating something that's uncopyable, or about guarding what you have so closely that others are unable to copy it; in fact, I would've assumed being able to do so is itself your right. And should you create something that's uncopyable, nobody will be able to copy it, even if it would be fair use for them to do so. They might be upset about this, but their rights definitely aren't being violated by your creation or protection of that thing—and the government can't force you to make your stuff copyable. (Or maybe it can with additional legislation, but I'm pretty sure we don't have such legislation.) That means "fair use" isn't anyone's right... it's just a valid defense (whether "affirmative" or otherwise).
Why Great Britain Sent Its Prisoners to Australia (2018)
dict1 + dict2 is syntactic sugar, you had been able to do `dict1.update(dict2)` since forever.
[1990] WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project
Probably a good idea to also incorporate that into some very-clearly-satire related artwork on the mask, to help with the legality. :)
And there are A LOT more than what is just happening here.

They have burnt a lot of good faith post Steve Jobs. But judging from current Apple management, they wont act until Sales numbers decline. As shown by the MacBook Pro Keyboard fiasco. And to make it worst, they seems to think most of these problem as PR and Marketing problem and dial up the marketing instead of actually fixing it.

( You can see that with Apple's marketing, especially with recent iPhone 12, with VPs explaining in podcast )
Maybe you use Duktape or https://bellard.org/quickjs/ to make a sandbox?
I've been using Linux as my primary OS since 2008

Today my mouse and keyboard were acting as if they weren't plugged in. Just no power, no reason, no change. Reboot fixed it for now

The thing that's changed recently is that I had to update the kernel to support my audio interface.. which was also a pain in the tits

The only relevant search results are StackOverflow spam talking about a version 10 years old

Linux awaits
Do you use a single program on all of your devices for all possible computer-related tasks? Do you see a fault in such logic? Why do you think the deployment space is any different: do you use kubernetes for everything?

I dare you. Do mention any tool/any language that handles all the above use cases without sacrificing the requirements for each use-case.
I guess the farmer is not so happy about it
Playstation 5 Unboxing: Here is What it Contains
>Use a properly supported -buntu distro and you are good.

Honestly it sounds insane but I've started recommending Manjaro KDE.
Stuff breaking due to rolling release seems to happen less often than me avoiding having to do other stuff that newcomers to Linux are unfamiliar with.

Like adding a ppa or struggling to find a package since it lets you easily add the AUR, snaps, flatpaks, what have you without a care about the competition between those.
The install is painless. KDE's stuff feels intuitive and familiar to windows users and is customisable enough you don't have to deal with some minor personal preference annoyances.
I am surprised that you think what's important is whether he meant them literally.

Isn't it a very bad thing to write down in black and white about another human being even as a figure of speech or whatever it qualifies as?

I think it's reasonable to want people to be moderate in their public discourse. Do you think so?
not really meant as a hard judgement, just sharing my experience. i am 100% sure there are folks at all age levels that can be and are better than me. i have definitely worked with some.
Yes, but the list of criteria they use for controls is pretty reasonable and more importantly, unbiased by woke ideology. We all know many firms have a very strong bias towards women that grades them as more well qualified (desirable to hire), so we'd expect a re-run using purely objective metrics to detect that. The outcome of this study isn't a surprise, the only surprise is that the bias is "only" 10%.
How much worse are they? Can you explain your experience?
It depends on the vitamin. 1 microgram of vitamin D is 40 IU.
Show HN: Legible.ai – Simple Transcription for Podcasters
My opinion on what excellent technical project managers do
Starfire Director's Cut
Interesting - but how come it does not even mention politics? The reason organizations get bureaucratic is because people make decisions that is in their own benefit, but not necessarily in the benefit of the organization.
Sure, as I said, the comments were unnecessary, especially in this difficult political situation. Bannon is not dumb and should know better than to use graphic metaphors.

I’m more concerned that people following this story think Steve Bannon literally called for Fauci to be beheaded. That’s how it is being reported and that’s how numerous comments in this thread are interpreting it.

I don’t know if people genuinely believe this, or if they simply pretend to be offended because it’s politically expedient. I’m afraid the gap between the two is rapidly shrinking, and that worries me.
Just runs with 2 versions of the same library (32/64), and with older programs that can't take advantage of 64bit ABI / arch changes...
Can you take a view of what is the least or easiest way to deliver functionality? Then compare to your intended solution to see why your design is good or whether you need to adopt ideas from the simpler solution?
Which wouldn't matter much in the grand scheme of things - we'd get back to where we are (if we wanted to) faster than we did the last time around.
You don't need a nuclear war for all that to happen.

As I once read in one defence publication, USA is only 4 biggest fertiliser complexes away from the famine, assuming the assailing party can blockade the country to prevent food importation.

The same is for the biggest oil, and fuel manufacturing complexes.

USA is also "just" 50 power stations away from the grid becoming useless. USA is though much, much better off than most countries on this, as its power generation is much more decentralised, thanks to largely private operation.

USA has domestic capacity to manufacture small, and medium sized turbines, but largest ones used in the superplants mentioned above are made by GE Energy in France, and some even in Japan, and China.

The same for big, top tier transformers for the grid.
Scientists spot a 'kilonova' flash so bright they can barely explain it
All OSes are chatty in some way or another. It's a small price to pay for having your system 'just work' without going down the Arch Linux road and having ultra control over every component of the OS. Even Ubuntu constantly phones home to `snapcraft.io` and `canonical.com` but needs to do that to check for updates and do things like sync the clock with NTP. Do I care that Canonical now knows when my box goes online? Hardly. It's a small price to pay for having a pretty solid OS that has good hardware compatibility and I have no issues with my printer, and it's plug-and-play. If I need to use Windows to open a .DOCX file (for work) I use Virtualbox where I have a Windows VM to do Windows things. I don't see the fuss really in using Linux as my daily driver. Others are so biased and fanboi-ish towards MacOS it's disturbing to witness.
I appreciate you not spoiling the twist, but I wonder whether people will go back and read through the whole piece to find the interviewer’s identity. Maybe I’ll add the hint that this interviewer is intimately, uncommonly familiar with Vonnegut’s worldview.
Does it cost money to do that or it is only time consuming?
I think a firmware- or hardware-level exfiltration system that works anywhere would be valuable enough that they are not likely to burn it by putting it in systems sold widely to consumers, where it would only be a matter of time before it was detected. Unless monocasa is someone fairly important, that is!
> But x86 and Intel are losing badly in the highest growth part of the market: mobile/smart phones.

x86 and Intel are making all their money running your k8s on AWS, GCP and other server platforms so you can consume on your locked down ARM device. That's where the big money and margins are.

Apple never really could get a foothold in that market.
That seems like something that could gather a 2/3 vote.
Don't Linux distros accomplish these checks with GPG key signing, which don't need to phone home?
That begs an even bigger why, given it's such an awful OS in many ways.
Oracle cloud is part of the HN bubble?

From what I gather AWS also offers AMD and ARM-based instances.

I don't see how it benefits the cloud providers not to offer these choices. No one benefits from a monopoly and they want to drive the cost of their services down.
> If you're not reading all the source of everything you're running, any or all of it it absolutely could be reporting usage/stats/your data to a "mothership".

there's a big difference in threat vector between one mothership and 200.

Just because there's no single central org involved doesn't make it safe.
And the Lebanon explosion more recently.
> Any law that is trying to control human nature is pointless.

Yet religions still seem be around and getting humans to do dumb things? ;)
The Mac version being a plugin rather than an app makes a lot of difference, enough to make the price difference worth it, IMO.
Use mouse. It works out of the box and more convenient anyway.
Before declaring the end of the world, is there any official or even unofficial Apple information that can confirm all the explanations here correct and this was intended behavior? Or explain their position on it?

Discussions here seem to have had several thousand comments without obtaining this basic info. It would be good to know, I would think?
>This isn't true. This perception continues to hurt the Linux community along with others. Use a properly supported -buntu distro and you are good.

And yet, unvariably people aren't good, and when they complain, they are told, "use this other distro" or whatever...
Could also be selective memory. "I can't recall having any hardware related issues since, oh, 2005 or so" --> oh, that issue? Yes, of course I had that, everybody has that, that's par for the course...
I don't know about Steam specifically, but in the Apple keynote they said that existing games can run under Rosetta 2 and that some of them even have higher frame rates due to M1 speed despite emulation
Ask HN: Is it legal for WhatsApp to cannot export your data?
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messenging app in the world. Even if it offers ways to backup your data to Google Drive or iCloud, it doesn't offer a way for users to export the data in an interoperable way. Something that would allow me to move my chat data to other apps, like Signal.

Knowing that this data isn't stored on their servers but on users device, is it a way to bypass the GDPR protections?
Sounds like someone (not me) needs to register "thegitbay.org" or similar. And maybe a .onion variant too. ;)
And yet every news article and forum (I'm looking at you Reddit) goes straight into "it's all a giant CCP cover-up and you're a wumao shill" if you note that China has been successful at controlling COVID, using the same formula as every other successful country: lock down hard, get to zero and stay there before loosening up. Sigh.
More widespread homesteading would partially mitigate these kinds of disruptions. And make people more prepared in general.
That is awful! Thank You I think Apple needs to do something about this.
Researchers trap electrons to create long-hypothesized (1934) Wigner crystal
Having downloaded my data from both Apple and Google, "Google levels of data collection" seems inaccurate.
Even though the max speed is 70, I feel like 75 is the average traffic flow speed.
Hah. All good insights.

W/r/t the whiteboard thing - one of my interviews recently used google jamboard, and my input was lagging by like 30 seconds. I was writing a solution, and talking through it, and one of the interviewers started trying to help by starting a solution directly on top of mine. So apparently I just sounded like I was talking about hypothetical code. No harm, really - the interviewer was embarrassed, we moved on. But it was pretty awkward not inhabiting the same visual reality, and thus building divergent mental models of the interaction.

I live with a therapist, who confirms that their rapport building is encumbered via video chat. She's incredibly warm and emotive, and I think this compensates: her content is presumably affirming, and her tone (which comes through the thin walls) just oozes authenticity and positive regard. Certainly rapport building isn't dead, but the relative value of the parameters seem to have shifted.

You've inspired me to go read one of the guides on videoconferencing lighting I keep seeing. Hopefully to let my, um, inner beauty and competence shine through.
Maybe so people like you can point out why it is utterly wrong?
Bootleg: Chasing the Tail with Self-Supervised Named Entity Disambiguation
If we are taxing things that make disproportionately larger economic gains maybe we should start with taxing Deutchebank.
R package for airborne Lidar data processing in forestry application
They were on Akamai and Limestone before, but some years ago they began using their CDN for live event streaming and iOS App Downloads. ( They were very late to their own CDN when I was actively following it. ) Not sure if the three are kept intact.

Still no reason not to use their own CDN infrastructure of macOS. And 110M Mac users aren't exactly a small number either.
Australia's anti-encryption laws make me very wary of buying anything based there.

The Singles Day ad on the landing page made me think it was a domain squatting ad page.
Just for fun I've driven at 55 for a few weeks when I was trying to see how high I can get my mpg number. Every car was passing me, including semis. Even when driving purely in the right lane.
Cant we just attach all nukes to one side of the moon, make it explode so hard that it pushes the moon toward the earth that it hits like a cool asteroid? Haha
Customs duty is a thing in most countries.
You're only getting it for cheaper by breaking the law (gray area that it may be for some)
If your car breaks you would spend 400 eur in an instant without even thinking. If you feel something is off or to do this comprehensive biochemical tests every 3 or 5 years is not that expensive.
> Chromium-based applications (the browser and Electron apps like VS Code)

This is most likely because they don't support Wayland. The scaling with XWayland doesn't really work great a lot of the time.

I don't use scaling for my 4K monitor, and just set text sizes larger. It feels a bit weird for a while but eventually it's actually quite a nice balance where the content is relatively larger vs. the chrome.
I would hope so
I think the point is that before, if you had a computer, you had the ability to inspect, modify and program, and with curiosity you'd learn. Now, most people get computers where those things are forbidden. You still can get "programmable" computers, but you have to do it explicitly. Before, it was implicit. So there's a filter that some people won't pass and won't learn, and the pool of people shrinks.
Trying it out and not actually that much revolutionary! Sorry but it's just UI change mostly (80%) and some features to old apps, some performance to safari and ... NOT MUCH BASICALLY
I have not read the article through, but as far as I can tell this is about US citizens.

Because of that I'm wondering why the cover photo is from Bruges, Belgium, more specifically:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2091441,3.2241047,3a,90y,334...
I think most people know he doesn't literally mean it, but many people fear that he uses language like this to create a world in which he could actually mean it. That I think is why violent language upsets people: he's floating a wild idea, of course it's just a metaphor and ten years later it's just business as usual at the guillotine.
Elon Musk catches cold, after 4 Covid tests, he says something bogus is going on
Do i need to use Little Snitch, or can LuLu block ocsp.apple.com., too?
Hm, so if you get modifications thousands of times a second, then ... something is wrong. I'm tempted to say you're "holding it wrong". Meaning that on one hand you do something that goes against how it ought to be, but also Angular despite all its mighty compiler/optimizer/typing magic doesn't stop you from doing this and doesn't help you to fix this.

As a rule of thumb naive change detection is fine for a small app, but if you want performance, just opt out of the default and manage it yourself: https://angular.io/api/core/ChangeDetectorRef#usage-notes (and probably you have a component that spams changes, where you should completely opt out: https://gist.github.com/jhades/269ee42b83937418e0dbe00e49413... )

Also, I don't think they're moving away from zone.js. They are simply providing an alternative for the more minimalistic minded folks, who like to put their own stack together.

> While setting a property does not usually cause anything to happen in Javascript, so I have trouble getting my head around how it works and what Angular is doing behind the scenes, and realizing that it must be polling, which isn't usually a good pattern.

... um. It's a bit ironic that you say that Angular is going against JS, but maybe you forgot about the wonders of Object.defineProperty which allows the unflinching true hackers to virtually override assignment operation itself!

But Angular doesn't work that way, saner heads prevailed apparently. Hence the use of TS annotations, like the @Input property, which basically wraps the field to trigger change detection. And zone.js, which ... well, basically it does work that way. (It simply replaces global objects with a wrapped version. It wraps timers and I/O, as in click, type, touch, fetch, and websocket events, and who knows what.) So no polling, but yes monkey patching.
We can assume buffer overflows are less common in Java than in C and I doubt that Java programmers are better craftsmen.

The same with types: they make some kind of errors much less likely though there is no silver bullet in general e.g., I much prefer a general purpose language such as Python for expressing complex requirements in tests over any type system (even if your type system is turing complete and you can express any requirement in it; it doesn't mean it is a good idea)
In my head I read that as a monologue given by Rick from Rick and Morty. Made it very entertaining.
It's the hypocrisy of Apple using privacy in their marketing and then turning around and doing this.
It sounds like we're more philosophically aligned than might be clear.

I agree about all of that - I have spent substantial time figuring out grooming/dressing/posture, and it helps.

But in my thinking, I take the nature of initial conditions out to the extreme. The fact that I was able to identify deficiencies, make a plan, and execute that plan - that's just kind of lucky. If I was too emotionally dysregulated to follow through on plans, I'd be hosed. Or if I wasn't intellectually capable of identifying problems and forming viable plans, I'd be hosed.

And even on a day to day basis: I feel like my ability to program is a product of decisions my past self made. My current self isn't responsible for my capabilities, he's just the beneficiary/victim of past choices I've made.

Maybe this is all a little woo, I don't know. But I feel like the only reality is the one directly before me, and the only meaningful choices are the ones I make in this moment.
President Trump's GOP wall of support is cracking
A Tale of Two Pandemics, the Nordic Response
I blame them both: The company that choose to use this awful law, and the ones who actively choose not to repeal it.
Please note that most of your Apple computer hardware (except for the most recent iteration) will run Linux without any major problems.
Stefan Thomas - Future of Micropayments 2020 [Video]
The dynamics change a little now that the language server protocol is becoming more popular, as it drops the cost of developing new tooling, though there's lots more work to do.
I agree, it’s one of the reasons I stopped teaching my kids Python and switched to JS. It is so easy to share and so portable, and runs everywhere!
I Made Among Us and It Will Destroy Your PC
Who says we will go back to eating out in restaurants near work (why not near home?) and use the bike instead of public transport?