skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
everyone and their grandma, including some of SpaceX's biggest supporters thought spacex would fail. your statement is hyperbole
Hence why you would want to use a one time pad... It would be easy to choose a key that would show any particular vote cast any way you want. Only you would know how to verify your ballot.
No, I don't think Xi and his friends are scared at all. That's almost like saying the US government is keeping a dozen carriers because it's scared of Russia (or China).

Xi is rattling his saber against Taiwan because he can and he will face no consequences.

Xi is sending police to Hong Kong because he can and he will face no consequences.

Xi is clamping down on religion because he can and ...

Maybe Xi is a bit paranoid, but you don't become a lifelong dictator of a billion people by doubting yourself. If I have to guess, Xi is convinced that he's leading China into an age of unprecedented glory, and he's surrounded by people who talk the same and mostly think the same.
"I think there needs to be a distinction between a private apology to specific individuals for specific wrongs vs public apology to an undefined amorphous set of people. The former is certainly the right thing to do and it also offers hope of redemption because the wronged individual can accept the apology and forgive (or not)."

Note that those to whom you apologize may communicate that apology to "the mob", with the result that they have proof of your guilt as well as proof of your lack of forthrightness.

In the ultimate case, if you are following your own advice, Machiavelli and my bitter cynicism suggest that not leaving live enemies behind you is the best strategy.
No. For two factor authentication to work the solution needs to be practical for most people. So it can’t involve multiple phones or backup schemes most people aren’t going to implement.

Otherwise you’re going to lock a lot of people out of their accounts which is not acceptable.

Ultimately this typically ends up with a reset scheme that depends on phone numbers or email addresses which means the protection, which is as strong as the weakest link, is worthless.
To some degree, yes. One difference is that the proposed buyers are not owned by those in power, so that direct financial benefit is not the motive for forcing the sale.
What about getting a T480 and replacing the screen itself? You can find a decent one for ~$400 USD, and a 1080p or WQHD screen for another $100.

As for screen availability, I think it's more to do with the fact that these are business computers. Lenovo only recently started blurring the line between their premium and business class devices.

I think every post-Haswell ThinkPad comes with a 720p screen in it's default configuration. At least up until Tx90/5 series.
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> But admitting to a mistake is good

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Yes - if that is what you care about. But from what I see not so many people in the world care about "good". They just "want more".

For example, when a customer reports a problem, and I admit that there is a bug and explain a workaround some of them will say: "you have buggy software, bla bla I will use Google". But if you say: "Strange. This might some very strange setup issue - here is the workaround" - no problem.

Of course, some of our customers love honesty but the vertical I'm working in, honesty is not a thing.

Depressing... I know.
The Weimar Republic was torn to pieces by the fight between Nazis and Stalinists. Either side winning was going to lead to mass murder in the millions. Is there a path for the 2020 USA Republic to survive and not fall for a similar destructive dynamic?
The second part of that whole "finding people willing and able to pay..." bit of business strategy seems to get ignored frequently.
Thermodynamics and computability are pretty directly related, actually
Destination USA
Afaik, the Chinese government is worried because of the size of the debt managed by Ant (45 billion) in comparison to their own capital (450 million, 1%). The whole risk is offloaded to good old banks which are then exposed to an excessive risk. The government is planning to change the law to set a minimum threshold of 30% of capital over managed debt, and this is the reason the IPO was withdrawn: the law is about to be made much more stringent and this changes the valuation of the company entirely.
iCloud shared albums is what we use. Easy and I believe it to be as private as you can reasonably get with a cloud platform.
A lot of leaders held off until some of the uncertainty is resolved.
Electrophone: The Victorian-era gadget that was a precursor to live-streaming
Good on you for focusing on establishing a beachhead customer! Hope things work out with that initial cohort.
ForgeFed – Federation protocol for interoperability between VCS services
IIRC, yes they can be massively parallelized because they reduce into matrix algebra.

One could also go even further and make an ASIC for solving these problems à la Tensor Cote.
If you have a simple setup and friendly hardware (e.g. all Intel), the sysadmin burden is super low.

In this regard, only NixOS compares. Even macOS is much much worse, as you need to go through upgrades. I have used the same Arch install for 8 years.
Last Run and Abandonment of Track 3 of the 42nd Street Shuttle
30kgs! Good on you ( assuming that is a healthy amount to lose). From my own point of view, I have grown to like a quality salad, and they are very easy to make quickly. Some fresh variety of greens from the store, half an avocado sliced, cubes of roasted golden beet, add roasted/salted pistachio nuts or sunflower seeds, layer a few chunks of roasted chicken on top, add olive oil and your choice of tasty vinegar (e.g., balsamic), and a dash of salt and mix. 5 minutes to prep if you have all the ingredients. Divine!
Ants lending business has doled out 1.8T on 36B of cash from Ant itself. That's 50 times the leverage they financed through ABS. A term that was very relevant in 2008.

Everything will be fine until the central bank raise interests, or if economy goes down the shitter. The new regulation limits the leverage cap from infinite to about 15, closer to bank's 10. This limits risk, and is considered a reasonable move.

A truly desperate move would be to allow these bubbles to go ahead and IPO. Which almost happened, everything will be fine and dandy for a while, until it's not. Whether it's due to Xi's insecurity or not, I'd say that China dodged a bullet here.
I'm curious as to where you live. Here in the Bay Area, pretty much every casual dining has a wait on Fri/Sat/Sun (pre-pandemic of course). Places like Chilis with an average $25pp and places like Korean BBQ, where it's closer to $40pp.

Same thing in Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, NYC, Chicago, pretty much any major city. Which is also where a lot of economic activity comes from.
Even simple serverless applications have complex architecture diagrams,so what?
Because any self-respecting developer will reformat and reinstall Windows or ideally Linux and problem solved, no spyware.
What are you talking about. Mojave is 2 years old. That isn’t a particularly small window. Even with the 2 year window on MacOS, an alternative was delivered.

But you are confirming the point - nobody even knows what is deprecated or what the alternatives are.

You still haven’t answered the question of how someone is supposed to tell whether Cairo is supported or not.

Is it done? How do you know. Does it need to be developed further? It sounds like it does since people say it’s very slow compared to skia.

It seems like you think you know what the status of things are, but other people don’t. How can that be?

This is the reality of Linux.
I have memorized copy-paste hotkeys thank you very much
On an iPhone it took me a hell of a long time to swipe over to the US, we are talking minutes with all the miss swipes which accidentally forwarded me to other pages etc. for such a UI/UX focused company that seems fishy
Been in Sweden last year. Couldn't buy almost anything with cash. People have not noticed how an important liberty has been taken from them. Once cash is gone, government has complete information about you, and complete control over you, no shackles needed.
The difference of today is our world's global businesses look up to the major Communist force of our world today instead of seeing it as a competitor, they have noted the methods of censorship and totalitarianism and have taken notes back-home.
In reality that would only be the first of several meetings. It might be funny if it wasn't true.

I recall a couple of years back I was trying to purchase a POEditor subscription, which is $14/m. This was for a large dev project where the customer was paying us around $10M. After several meetings encompassing a ridiculous number of people, many of whom weren't related to the project in any way, I added up the costs and showed the PM: it was well into 5 figures, not accounting for loss of productive time for our customer. The PM just shrugged, "that's the way it works, they won't change".
I don't hear that very often from submitters :)
> Authoritarianism is bad for business.

Not all authoritarianism, for instance Singapore is great for business. Totalitarianism maybe?
I have — Linux was my daily driver for three years ending in 2018, and I tried to use it for everything from print design to video editing to software development. I was even using it on two different generations of the Dell XPS machines that officially support Linux. I still eventually gave up and went back to macOS. I want my tools to work, not to work on my tools.
The best thing I learned from this article: to calculate a dog's human age, you don't multiply their age times 7 (7x). You use the following formula:

ln(x)*16+31

It makes sense, because a 1-year-old dog definitely seems much more grown up than a 7 year old kid.
Full time drivers already enjoyed benefits under California law. While Prop 22 talked about giving benefits, that’s not what the law does in practice at all. In fact, it actually removes protections. The key to this surprising revelation is that Uber et al wrote proposition so that only when you’re actively driving do the minutes count towards the amount you need to gain the benefit. In other words, to get the 25 hours of engaged time, you need to be available for 40+ hours. That’s a full time job.

To make this a concrete example, consider a DoorDash driver. They get an order to drive to a restaurant. Clock starts, they get 15 minutes. The order isn’t ready, so they’re waiting for another 15 minutes, but the clock is stopped. Then they drive to your house, which takes another 15. A 45 minute task, but only 30 minutes counts. “But they’re not working when they’re waiting!” DoorDash cries. But they’re not free to leave, because then they’d lose the entire payout and get blackballed. It’s just a process inefficiency. If the driver worked for the restaurant, they’d still get paid while waiting.

The original law that Prop 22 replaced, addressed this down time, and because of this, Prop 22 was written.

While there maybe reasonable arguments to be made about how gig work is different from full time and traditional contractor work, the most damning part of Prop 22 for me was the 7/8s majority needed to amend the new law. That’s just bullshit.
You would either not even boot due to buggy UEFI implementation, or it was cheaping out on some hardware that there is not driver for anything except the OS release it came with.

In some aspects, the hardware on high-end-insh laptops have moved nowhere in the last few years. Yeah, they've got slightly better GPUs to handle 4k, Vulkan/SPIRV and new media codecs, and faster SSDs once they've got rid of SATA, but the CPU performance moved just in percents and it comes with the same memory. My wife still uses 2012 i7 Thinkpad (T430s) with 16 GB RAM, and there are not many cheap machines that could be objectively called better. Certainly not in the $300 range. Heck, until Ice Lake, you couldn't purchase a laptop with more RAM unless you went into luggable workstation segment, so it is no wonder that MacOS works relatively OK on 5yo machines. They are still way better than $300 Acer, despite that Acer having possibly some better paper specs.
Honestly, as someone also currently inside a v. large bureaucracy, I concur. Sometimes it almost feels as if half of the "value" or "work" in selling to big businesses that I hear of is in navigating the purchasing departments. Once you've done that, you're golden. It's like picking the lock on a safe.
I'm not "free" to ignore stop signs, stop lights, and speed limits. They impact my freedom to drive as I'd wish -- because otherwise I might hurt you.

I'm not "free" to start cooking commercially out of my home kitchen without inspections and licensing. This impacts my ability to earn an income -- because otherwise I might make you sick.

It's public health risk mitigation. We do it all the time.
You don't apologize, you just own it.

"Yeah, I made a mistake, shit happens, now I know better".

Though looking at current leaders of industries and countries, you could get away with just pretending you did nothing wrong.
This isn't about whether @madhadron's point in that paragraph was wrong, it's about civility. The usage of "ghetto" was gratuitous.
No, I don't feel any need to hunt for engagement with people operating in bad faith. It is reasonable to draw a conclusion from the evidence. Jesse Singal this is not. Surprised that you don't immediately see the distinction here; it's unlike you.
Throwaway for obvious reasons

Don’t work for Boring Company - too much Covid

And I will leave it at that
Although let's not kid ourselves. Lazy Bastard is way more work then just playing normally :D
This comment was downvoted, which seems to imply that it's false. Is it? I know nothing about the laws of accounting and I am curious if you can truly offload discounts into marketing expenses.
Are the "powers to be" simple comic book villains motivated by something as simple as a hatred of freedom? Why would governments across the world nearly uniformly sabotage their own economies for something so intangible? And all acting in concert? Communist China and the capitalist USA are in this together?

Game theory alone tells you that if this were deliberate and unnecessary then there would be an immense payoff to any power that decided not to wreck their economy as this would catapult them ahead of their neighbors.

I am reading some unstated skepticism about the scope or severity of the pandemic in your response here, the so-called "Plandemic". I would urge you to look at this issue again, as you clearly are concerned about creeping authoritarianism, but feel you are making a serious attribution error here.
There are dozens of us! I took Cal 2 and 3 from him.
Great article.

The remarkable thing to me is that Apple is working so hard to distinguish itself from other competitors about how much they value privacy. Tim Cook famously said, "privacy, to us, is a human right [1]." I wonder how (or even if) they'll acknowledge this one and walk it back. Hopefully more articles like this will ring even more loudly.

Sending all this stuff via plaintext is just plain scary. I've never worked at Apple, but from my experience at other big tech companies, this would never pass a rudimentary security/privacy review (which surely this had, given the scale that this feature is operating at), which leads me to believe it's intentional.

On the other hand, given how badly it crippled people's computers, perhaps it was just really poorly engineered. I think Apple's response (or lack thereof) could be really significant. I don't own any Apple hardware, but am still keen to follow this story.

1. https://medium.com/@profgalloway/no-mercy-no-malice-apples-c...
That post is about a lot more than just "basic refactoring ability". Why are you trying to discredit the author?
I personally have a "vanity" domain that spells out my last name (the TLD forms the last two letters). So I just have <firstname>@<domain> for personal stuff, and then for example git@<my domain> for github, spotify@<my domain> for spotify etc.

The mail@firstnamelastname.com approach seems like a clean way to do it as well.
It does not look like you can edit your uploads unlike with Play Music. Admittedly that's very probably a feature used by few people (although I know that for all of the people that use it, it is because of some very obscure track they are very attached to and can only listen to if they upload it, making it a must have feature).

And more generally, while I don't necessarily mind a rebrand (although I have to admit that this being Google, I have my suspicions that this will be handled the same way they handle all their messaging services) and I can be forgiving for a v1, this is still so far below play music that I don't really see myself using it.
DIY camera uses machine learning to tell you what it sees
Electric horsepower curves are different from ICE horsepower. [1] ICE engines typically only put out peak horsepower at higher RPMs. A Honda Fit has a peak horsepower of 128. However at 2000 RPM the Fit only has 27HP, like this Kandi K27. [2]

At similar gross weights the Kandi with the pedal to the metal will accelerate like a Honda Fit driven casually or a truck with a trailer. Enough for 55 mph highways, city streets, or the slow lane of a 65 mph Freeway.

[1] https://auto.howstuffworks.com/how-does-horsepower-figure-in....

[2] https://www.automobile-catalog.com/curve/2018/2566010/honda_...
That's almost the main point, to be bad for business. Specifically business coming from a foreign dictatorship that is hostile to our businesses, threatens national security, etc.
Photoshop works pretty well in Wine, and Windows runs quickly using KVM.

Linux also has native support for hardware pass-through if your machine has an IOMMU, so you can give virtual machines direct access to graphics cards and get GPU acceleration in your VM, along with USB devices, etc. VirtIO is built into the kernel and can provide you with paravirtualized network and storage access, which can speed things up considerably.
The American social contract delegated the role of filling those 'cracks' to the employment relationship. It might not be ideal, but it's not obvious to me why its any less legitimate than other arrangements.

Gig work is new, and doesn't fit cleanly into the existing framework. Uber et al.'s patch for reconciling gig-work appears to many to be essentially a wholesale rejection of the spirit of the agreement, thus opening up new existential risks for those of small means.

While those arguments may land short of the complete truth, they do appear to hold some merit; Maybe it's simply ignorance, but I'm not aware of Uber advocating for a comprehensive review of how California provides life-support benefits to residents in a way that ensures their service providers are not unduly at risk relative to the general population. Instead, proposition 22 appears to be as close to 'I've transacted profitably; fuck your life, it's not my problem.' as they could hope to achieve.
So this one time, our main customer database fell over. The primary key wasn't wide enough, we hit 2 billion rows, and everyone panicked.

We had been working unwise hours for several days, and we got the fix together, and I made a mistake: I pushed it directly to production.

Man, my boss was really mad; no one had been getting enough sleep and we were all stressed. I apologized profusely and said it would never happen again. Fortunately, the fix was correct, so this could have been worse.

Ok. Do you notice what's missing from this story?

We never addressed the flaw in our deployment which made it possible to push to prod without passing test.

Apologies are for when you harm others. Some mistakes do, and some don't. A blanket policy that a mistake is an occasion for apology and navel-gazing is culturally harmful, because it casts mistakes as personal failings, when they are frequently the result of institutional or procedural shortcomings which can and should be addressed.
So there's two kinds of accounting, GAAP and non-GAAP.

A great example of non-GAAP accounting was WeWork's "community-adjusted EBITDA." When you use non-GAAP metrics to measure your business, you get to kind of define the standard by which you're measuring yourself. You get to do things exactly like the parent suggested, where you count 100% of the income as revenue and all your incentive spending as "marketing expenses."

Uber does this too, for instance (back when it was a thing) 100% of the sticker price of an Uber Pool ride was reported as revenue while only the 30% cut of an UberX or Uber Black was reported as revenue, and yes, they would list driver incentives as marketing expenses.
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Do you also feel a general lack of leadership and/or authority? Many things are best resolved by bringing the hammer down, but if no one is qualified to wield it you will be wasting your life trying to protect order from chaos.
Yes, the US has been trending towards authoritarianism in my lifetime and that’s one example consequence.
Even better, but unfortunately linked in the last reply in the thread: https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-the...
Fair point, but he does mention PCR in a later tweet:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1327305722384719872
It's true, but any limit will have a constraining effect on some titles. We have to weigh that against other concerns like the visual proportions of the front page and the site value of economy of expression.

Having worked with thousands of HN titles over the years, it's amazing how rarely the 80 char limit really gets in the way. It's nearly always possible to make a good title fit, without resorting to weird abbreviations or other gimmicks. So I see it as one of those constraints that serves creativity.

You can see this in the OP actually. The direct quote is:

Is there still somebody around in the cairo community who is willing and able to make a release?

...which is 96 chars. The shortened version seems clearly better as a title, and all I did was take out some redundancies (or, if you prefer, some subtleties that are superfluous in a title).

Edit: if anyone's wondering why so much attention on a mere title - I used to wonder that too, but titles turn out to be a much deeper issue for the site than they at first seem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20429573

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> I have significant doubts that we will see it launch at that price-point within the next 10 years.

But what if it is only half as expensive per ton to low-Earth orbit as Falcon-9/Heavy? And if it can only deliver 100 tons at a time, not 150?

That's still going to dominate the launch market for some time.

If they eventually prove it to be safe for human passengers and can demonstrate in-orbit refueling? It then replaces SLS, and is still a fraction of the cost.
I'm not deeply versed in the Whitmer case, but Federal agents are supposed to follow a set of guidelines to avoid entrapment, which is what you're describing & is supposed to cause the case to be thrown out.
> I mean do you see China becoming the next world power

I don't see there being a next clear world power because I don't think the world works that way anymore.. capital is way too trans-national at this point.
> There is no country that doesn't have a managed economy.

True, but there's "more managed" and "less managed", and the difference matters. It matters to your ability to make money, and it matters to the economy's ability to actually produce what people want.