skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably:

- limited production capabilities

- maybe not-so-perfect yield

- self-competition to their still selling 3000 processors and their son to (theoretically) sell discrete graphics cards

To get a chance to chip Ryzen laptops AMD needs to chip a APUs to OEMs similar for the office pre-build desktop marked. So chipping APUs to them is necessary, on the other-hand shipping it to end users is not necessary and in context of limited production capabilities it's a bad idea to ship an additional product to a marked where (in difference to OEMs) it's hard to judge how many will be sold beforehand and where selling them can negatively affect selling other AMD products.
Pinkerton has a long history of criminal activity.

It's unbelievable that Bezos gets away with this with such minimal media attention. (Yeah, it's on NPR, but I highly doubt I'll see it on CNN, at the most, maybe Fox will say something because they view Bezos as a political enemy)

My great grandfather was a miner in southern WV during the time period where Pinkerton agents intimidated and harassed the families of union members, and often assaulting them. Eventually it all culminated in this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

It should be noted that Blair Mountain was the only time in history where US warplanes (very primitive at the time) dropped bombs on US soil directed at US citizens.
I tried out Stripe's API years and years ago and it was immediately obvious that these guys were good.

I think you can tell a lot about a company by how well they do their documentation.
Same here. I'm a high school student; I learned about the Pinkertons last year in US History... (Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike https://www.britannica.com/event/Homestead-Strike)
Maybe because you need to learn basic statistics... You need to compare the number of tests to results, not the total population where nobody is getting tested. C'mon man...

I don't disagree with the spirit of self directed data exploration, but you need to be careful.
I recommend you read some of Stephen Deihl's thoughts on the subject[0].

You're not alone if you feel that cryptocurrency doesn't make sense as an investment vehicle, but the HN community will make you feel crazy for not seeing what a great thinking this is an incredible new opportunity and "things are different this time!"

There is no better indication of a bubble then people telling you that you're the crazy one for questioning it. I remember people telling me I was crazy for not buying a house in 2007, and crazy for not trading tech stocks in 1999.

[0] https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html
Ok. But there are two things that you want to be true then “onboard graphics are a requirement” and “it needs to do dual screens at 4k60”

I still don’t hear an argument here for having it all in one package. There are APUs in the Ryzen series, they perform worse, but everything is a trade off, you can’t have your cake and eat it.

You can get new and adequate GPUs for less than 100eur which will do what you want and “won’t sit idle” because they’re taxed. This GPU would struggle with even 1 screen. I think you underestimate the load a desktop has on a GPU, 2D rendering isn’t “free” and can take a lot of CPU die space and add to the heat/power delivery issues of a modern cpu.
> Partnering with companies such as Goldman Sachs is typically not a good look from an optics perspective - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs_controversies

Lol, as if having a 'Controversies' section on Wikipedia automatically precludes GS from being one of the best at what they do.

Also, a lot of this 'Optics' talk doesn't matter in the real world, which is why something like Marcus has been as successful as it is, and people have rushed to get the Apple Card.
Interfering with unionization needs to be illegal, and not met with fines that affect only the bottom line of a balance sheet, but jail time for everyone involved, with mandatory minimum sentencing. If this is true Bezos should be behind bars.
Ah, lovely of Amazon to employ the EXACT same people that Carnegie and Frick hired to beat and kill steel workers in 1892. How long before Amazon has the Pinkertons open fire on the unionizers?

Great prescident, Amazon. No bad choices here. Just the honest, fair dealings of the richest man in the world hiring the same people who've been murdering strikers and unionizers since 1850. Stay classy Jeff!
stock-market traded securities that hold crypto underlyings.
> Your comment reads very poorly and is likely against the community guidelines here

I agree with the first part, but what about it would be against any guidelines?
If you are using blockchain tokens to run an application, then you are essentially paying A large network of computer operators for their combined processing capacity. This means their electricity, maintenance cost, etc. instead of investing in servers that will be old by the end of the year. So purchasing cryptocurrency is in fact a very real investment. Think of it like an airline purchasing jet fuel three months ahead of time.
The alternative to taser use is not necessarily physical altercation.

If you didn't have a taser you might be inclined to get really good at negotiating with people. You might be less inclined to try to dominate a situation.
(disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, but entirely unrelated to the team that built this.)

The privacy ramifications are intense. As the youth is apt to say, "like woah".

That said, I would love to see a tool that gives work-day insight where the user entirely owns and controls the data.

I've found it helpful to have a summarized report on how much of my work day is spent in meetings and emails verses writing code. It helps me to have data, rather than a vague feeling as to how much time I'm spending on things and how I could optimize my time.

I have no desire for HR or my management to see that information and I fully see where others having that data is ripe for abuse, but for my own sake if I totally control the data, it's useful.
If you sum up all the excess deaths above the CDC 2015-2019 average, it comes to 335k so far this year, and their data lags by several weeks.
Take them all to a local children's hospital and drop them off if they embarrass you. Sell them on eBay by the kilo/pound if they embarrass you but you want the money in exchange for them.
Are bio-plastics really a big improvement though? Growing corn burns a lot of fossil fuels. I think there's a case to be made that plastic that ends up in a landfill after few carbon emissions is better for the environment than plastic that degrades after lots of carbon emissions. Not saying that's definitely the case, just that I'm not sure it's so clear.
I don't know about cocaine, but I know a little about Colombia. This is a bold move that could single-handedly project the Country to a first world player position.
ETH and BTC dominance is closer to 73% at the moment.[1] But your point is still very much valid.

[1] https://www.coingecko.com/en
The fact that these products are out of stock everywhere implies more sales than if they were sitting on shelves.
I'm really excited by what Playwright has been up to on the python side recently with the pytest-playwright package. Browser-testing a Django app can be as simple as:

def test_homepage(live_server, page):
page.goto(live_server.url)
assert page.innerText('#splash-quote') == 'our splash-quote'

$ pytest -k test_homepage --browser chromium --browser firefox --verbose
tests/test_browser.py::test_homepage[chromium] PASSED [ 50%]
tests/test_browser.py::test_homepage[firefox] PASSED [100%]
Agreed. We're building HATEOAS-powered SPA's for customers, and we've ultimately built an architecture that reimplements features we wished browsers did better. Our end-goal is ultimately exposing a graph, make everything addressable, have great cache control and means for different parts in the stack to decide when caches should expire.

All of these are features of the 'web'. But clients and servers are a bit behind what we would like to see.
"So here is the more complete CDC advice: "Wear a mask, stay at least 6 feet apart, avoid crowds, and wash your hands often.""

It is unbelievable that this list of behaviors does not include airing out or ventilating indoor public spaces.

Here in sunny California, where the weather in the Bay Area has been mild and warm through December 3, I find myself walking into shops or offices every day that have operable windows and doors: all shut tight.

Many of these spaces could be indistinguishable from the outdoors in terms of fresh air flow. For reasons I cannot fathom this simplest (and healthiest) mitigation is not practiced.
Ask HN: As a group, what could HN users do?
As a long time HN user, there’s a ton I like about this community. There is a shared ethos and a lot of very smart, skilled people on HN. Some themes I see on HN more than anywhere are open sourcing, discussions of tools of all kinds (using them/making them/improving them), spread of novel ideas, financially supporting certain projects, products, people (patreon), generally a broad interest in advanced STEM topics, and the list goes on.

So, my question is, if us HN users were to “organize” for lack of better word and do something - what would it be?
Advance a project, contribute labor to some new thing, raise/donate money for xyz, commission some art, it could be anything. But I’d like to think of it as potentially achievable (sorry Elon, HN probably can’t take you to Mars).
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It'll always stay true, because they're buying it to sell it. And just like the producers will have a guaranteed buyer, so will the government.
"You are unreasonable for calling out a bad thing, since I can conceive of an even worse thing."
I want a "hot" M1, one that runs at 5Ghz and burns 120W (or whatever) at load because it will be even faster. That is how this works, the reason your seeing "fast and cool" is because the target is 15W. If that becomes 25W then there is budget for more cores, or faster clocks (or whatever) and the the result is a faster machine. Which is why a lot of people are holding out for the M2 (again or whatever) the next version they put in the bigger machines because it should be even more impressive if apple can scale it.
I’d argue that’s not a new phenomenon by any extent. Climate change denial has had a strong following for over a decade. We’re just seeing how devastating the effects of this sort of behavior can be in a short timeline (I agree with Chomsky that ultimately Covid is a blip and climate change is far more catastrophic long term).
Pinkertons were one of the enemies in RDR2!
unionizing amazon would be horrible, I've been working at usps for 15+ years and unions are the reason for most of our troubles. Please lets not turn a company who makes a good product and pays people well for it into the enemy
The Huawei Mate 14 2020 AMD is an outstanding machine, with a 3:2 display that has the same vertical space as a 16" 16:9, and a 4800H, and a solid all-metal chassis (only 16GB RAM, though). It's available in the UK, unfortunately with their god-awful UK QWERTY layout.

The big problem is 4800H availability. I gave up waiting for the Tuxedo Pulse 14 with it, and got a M1 Macbook Air instead.
Some things I use corporate access on my phone for:

* Receiving pages when on call

* Team chat notifications

* Meetings while walking around the neighborhood

* Filing android bug reports

* Testing unreleased software
It is incredibly played up.

10 years ago, warehouse conditions were the same or worse as they are now except you would be lucky to get $16/hr without a forklift operator certification or some other credential that made it more than just 'unskilled labor'
Just ask Larry Fink.
My response is that we should be mad at the government for failing to enact policies to actually eradicate COVID, who instead decided that it's hopeless and that we should only use halfhearted, ill-enforced methods of questionable effectiveness. And further more, we should be mad at them for failing to take more effective fiscal measures in response to the pandemic to actually support people who are hurting financially as a result of it.

The rough price of a human life in estimates of cost-benefit analysis is on the order of $10-100 million. That puts the cost of pandemic in lives lost in the US alone as of this date to a couple of trillion dollars. Were the pandemic to infect everyone in the US, the resulting death toll would have a calculated cost of approximately 100% of yearly GDP. The economic costs of a lockdown are a bargain in comparison.
This depends on what AWS service we're talking about, doesn't it? For example a Kinesis stream compared to running a (say) 5 EC2 node Kafka cluster with zookeeper etc. Isn't it within the realm of possibility the managed service comes out cheaper?
Can you describe a little more?
It's not virtue signalling, it's awareness signalling.

Wear the damn mask, and wear it properly. This tells the world that you get it, that you take it seriously, and that you're probably doing all the other trivial but necessary things also.

Yes, it's slightly inconvenient. But generally no more so for you than for everyone else. So get over it.

Also, use your turn signal, even if there are no other cars within 100 meters of you.

Also, don't leave your shopping cart in the middle of the grocery aisle while deciding which product to select, even if no one else is presently trying to get past you.

Do all the simple things that signal "it makes more sense to be courteous and clear, than to demonstrate disregard for others (whether purposeful or oblivious, because they are often hard to tell apart)".
The way that capitalism works is to prevent proper regulation.
It was just $default_game in a very successful operating system. It could have been almost any game and been just as successful.
Microsoft Windows 1.01 simulation in JavaScript
My new M1 Macbook Air arrived today.
The excitement was quickly replaced by sober frustration.

Yes apple did a remarkable job with the M1, no they've still lost their mojo when it comes to high quality software.

I've spend the last 3 hours trying the wipe and reinstall the thing, because their non-virgin-os migration assistant is simply unreliable.

So far, I've had issues where the fused Data/OS drive would just split apart, with no clear way on how to properly format the drive back to an installable state.
Disk utility giving no indication whatsoever on which level of nested APFS concepts a wipe should even occur.
And with absurd error messages like "can't install MacOs, no admin user found" - 'yeah no shit', during install.

I really really really wanna like this machine, but MacOs is stuck in this limbo of not wanting to give you any control, yet not taking over those functions for you, so you constantly have to guess what's doable and expected.
That’s different. That would just ask you to confirm again if the app prompts.

The iOS counterpart blocks location requests quietly when the app is in the background and allows them when the app is in the foreground.
I'd say not at all, but then I live in the north where we have very few cases and at least in my city there is no mask compliance problem at all. I tend to hear worse stories from further south.
I went to NYU with Serge, we would walk home from school to catch the subway home.. and it warms my heart to hear him talk about the good old days of the internet bubble...and that he's still in the game.. more than ever.
Money management accounts created with Stripe Treasury can send bill payments, which depending on the payee may be delivered entirely electronically or as checks. We have no current intentions of making printable paper checks a feature, but please get in touch if you have a compelling use case for that that isn’t solved by online bill pay.

The accounts can also do both push and pull ACH payments.

While we do not currently support depositing checks into the accounts, we expect to soon, via “remote deposit capture.” You may have seen this sort of experience in mobile applications for many U.S. banks the last few years: take a picture, check gets deposited. If we offer this, we will do it in a fashion which minimizes the engineering work required by the software company, like we broadly try to minimize non-value-creating engineering work for our users.
Virtue signaling? Honestly?

People should just shut up and wear a mask. (And social distance. And wash their hands. And refrain from touching their face. And, and, and)

If there's even a 0.000001% chance that you could prevent the spread of a rampantly spreading disease that has hospitals in many regions at or above capacity, by putting a damn piece of cloth over your face, then just do it. It's not burdensome.

I think about past generations in the US that had to sacrifice mightily in the great depression or WWII, and then I look at today and how many people are whining over petty nonsense like this, and I shudder at what the country has become.
Fine but you had to use alternative sources to get that information.

This particular piece is trash because it didn't go get those leaked documents and then discuss them in depth like the vice link. That is real investigative journalism. This linked piece speculated the entire way through.

This should be dropped from the front page and we should be discussing the vice or gizmodo article which actually put in the work to go through the allegations.
>why are we still debating this?

It's cheaper to incite a race/sex/gender war than fight a class war against 300 million people.
US gov will never allow it.
Read the remainder of that paragraph.
>people who are forced to work in Amazon's warehouses with terrible working conditions

It really sucks that we decided to bring back indentured servitude. Good thing those unions are there to help the worker and not just some parasitic middleman who sees an opportunity.
Pinkerton the company or the idea of Pinkerton I’m confused.
Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
We absolutely want platforms to make money on Treasury and our other financial services products (Capital and Issuing.) For our Issuing and Treasury products, contact us to talk more about how this works -- there’s a lot of flexibility in how a platform can structure monetization. For loans, it’s more immediately straightforward: you’ll earn a revenue share on all loans extended, with zero financial liability on credit losses.
That family of drugs is highly promising because in combination with other HIV drugs it may be able to deplete the inactive form of the virus hiding and really curve HIV.
It's a lot to ask the whole country to do a half-assed but still really inconvenient year-long thing. We should have done the right thing, which is a proper month-long strict stay at home, then we could have returned to normal life like Taiwan or Vietnam.
Jenkins Security Advisory 2020-12-03
Is Vienna/Austria interesting (enough) for developers? Or not? Or maybe only for certain types of developers?
Amazon had all kinds of issues in Poland. They were paying so badly at the beginning that many people who applied for the job were former convicts. Some of them took advantage of the opportunity and start steeling stuff from packages (inventing ingenious methods of smuggling them outside in the process). This was a plague at some point.

Eventually thiefs were caught and fired. But then they applied for the job again through agency and came back (Agency was an employer, not Amazon, so, probably Amazon did not have enough data to check who i who).

The fact that Amazon needs to employ top notch investigators is in itself rather hilarious. Those super agents are chasing people who earn about $610 a month (minus taxes).
There are... quite a number of reasons you should give pause to the idea of running AWS hosted elastic.

If you’re really up against the wall and don’t want to manage elasticsearch I would highly recommend getting the managed services from Elastic themselves. Support is decent and they’re cost competitive.
> Second, concurrency. An individual web request runs in a single PHP thread.

Erlang/Elixir (or any BEAM language) runs every request in a separate green thread which scales much better than OS threads since most of those green threads can be generously multiplexed on just 4-8 CPU cores due to 90% of the time being spent waiting on a database.

One OS thread per request is such a... strange thing to brag about in 2020.
Won't happen. The US sends massive amounts of aid to columbia, both cash and military support. That is premised on the drug war. Legalize cocaine harvesting and that aid probably stops.

"U.S. bilateral foreign assistance of $391 million - a part of the Administrations's $450 million whole of government request to support Colombia"

https://foreignassistance.gov/explore/country/Colombia

All agency US aid: 800million

https://explorer.usaid.gov/cd/COL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia

"The official objectives of Plan Colombia were to end the Colombian armed conflict by increasing funding and training of Colombian military and para-military forces and creating an anti-cocaine strategy to eradicate coca cultivation. Partly as a result of the plan, FARC lost much of its power against the Colombian government, and cocaine production in Colombia dropped 72% from 2001 to 2012."
Can someone comment on what does this mean for VMware? On one hand this supports their new vSphere offering, but on the other it provides a competition for managed Kubernetes clusters. In the FAQ they write "Adding bare-metal support will address customer desire to eliminate the license cost and operational overhead of managing VMware." But is this really going to happen with enterprises running on bare metal serves? Seems rather unrealistic.
> Currently, afaik, this problem is primarily driven by Asia, so I think the effort that would have the most impact is figuring out how to convince Asian countries to stop throwing plastic in to rivers.

The west could start by not exporting a huge portion of its plastic waste to said Asian countries.

> I think this is overblown. The earth is already 'full' of... toxic things.

The earth was certainly not "full" of macro-, micro-, and nano-plastics 50 years ago.

Americans ingest and inhale tens to hundreds of thousands of microplastic particles per year[0]. Microplastics likely impair cognition in hermit crabs[1]. Nanoplastics accumulate in plants[2]. It's not just waterways.

Nobody really understands how this might affect human health. We're all participants in a planet-sized experiment to find out.

[0]: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0030

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b01517

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0707-4
I looked at Timestream at my previous job and my research left me thinking, "Who uses this thing?". Expensive but most annoying of all, the only Grafana plugin was in private paid beta. It looks like they've finally open-sourced it.
We generated $100k in 45 days using 'brand positioning'
The original piece of reporting that this interview is discussing:

“Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups” https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...

Edit: Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25189167
I agree with you, but a hacky workaround is @mythreadreader
I'm from (east) Germany and over here it's kinda mixed. Most people have a sort of passive acceptance for american cultural imports, but many also dislike large parts of it.
I was more shocked to hear there are at least 550 actively traded coins.
"Rates of entrepreneurship are higher in Scandinavian countries."

Source ? Genuinely interested.

As an American who has traveled, and has friends, in Scandinavia, I would be surprised to learn this ...
So anyone that fires ethicists is not ethical?