skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your impression of China manufacturing "mostly Trinkets" is decades out of date.

Chinese manufacturing is now at a very high level, to the point where many western brands have effectively become "fabless", leveraging the fact that Chinese brands still struggle with poor reputation even domestically. In this symbiotic relationship, the fact that Germany is literally "the land of virtue" in Chinese might play a role.

Chinese labor has now too become relatively expensive, its economy is moving to become a service economy, and manufacturing gets outsourced from China to even cheaper countries.
> I hit :w so reflexively and regularly in working files that swap files only occasionally saves my butt

I'm definitely one of those people too, and while I don't disable swap files I do depend heavily on `persistent-undo`. It literally changed the way I work when it was introduced. To some extent I treat it as an extension to swapfile functionality as it also operates across broken sessions(intentional or not).

> [...] the user experience with them

Christian Brabandt's Recover.vim¹ is a huge improvement for those few times when you do actually want to work with a swap file. General recommendation to poke around in his other repositories too, as he has written a heap of extremely useful vim things.

Edit: Especially unicode.vim² which improves `ga` no end, csv.vim³ which feels like magic, NrrwRgn⁴ for fellow emacs refugees, and ...

¹ https://github.com/chrisbra/Recover.vim

² https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim

³ https://github.com/chrisbra/csv.vim

⁴ https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn
it beats “share the road!”. As if the cars are deigning to do us a favor.
That's a bike lane. Not the same thing.
doesn't seem to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#CPUs_with_AVX-512
>What's interesting about this article is that it suggests that a large part of the bike safety efforts are directed at getting cyclists to adopt safe behaviors.

What? From the article

> we can conclude, that very rarely it is the cyclists who make the mistakes. Therefore, we mostly collaborate with the truck drivers and the authorities in solving the problems.

It's not a huge problem, its just one of the main recurring accident types. At most crossings the closed bike lane opens and becomes an combined right-turn lane and bike lane. It's routine to for +10 cyclist to merge with cars turning right. The fatalities from right turns are almost exclusively due to trucks and lorries that have hard time viewing cyclist in the mirror when they are close together.

Remember the majority of the population here cycles. So it is more of a public campaign to be aware of one of the more dangerous situations and provide information on how to avoid it.
The Rise and Fall of Bryan Goldberg's Gawker
hypersensativity is an autoimmune disorder, and by the way the use of aluminum salts as adjuvent is being phased out, there is great opportunity to formulate the liposomasal delivery vesicle to mimick a pathogenic cell wall.
"An unprecedented leak reveals how alleged Democractic Party members have embedded themselves inside some of the world’s biggest companies."
"An unprecedented leak reveals how alleged Republican Party members have embedded themselves inside some of the world’s biggest companies."
Wikidata is such a great companion to Wikipedia, now most structured data is moved over and shared by all languages.
The updated benchmark is about what I'd expect, they have similar top end SIMD capabilities given that both are effectively able to compute 512 bits of SIMD per cycle.

Intel: 2x256 = 512
M1: 4x128 = 512

I'd expect Zen3 would beat them both pretty easily given that it has 4x256, as would any of the Intel chips with 2x512.

Intel better be widening its execution engine, they have focused on MgHz for far too long..
The AF uses muscle cars to chase it down the runway as it lands to give the pilot feedback on their height above the concrete. They have to stall it from 2 feet up (61cm) to have a successful landing. If they do it from 4 feet up (1.2m), they'll probably damage something.

They used to use Pontiac GTOs (aka Holdens), then switched to Camaros. Not sure what they're using now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIrZCymyjNY
I guess it's more about the actual source code. I'd expect that just hearing "how" something works can still allow you to do a "clean room" in a sense that most of the algorithms aren't secret and a lot of "how" is obvious to the experienced practitioners just from the description of the behavior.
This line of reasoning (which is absolutely logical) is why hard target capability for nuclear weapons has a lot of dramatic consequences.

If your silos can largely survive an enemy missile, and retain the ability to launch, you can wait for more information to come in.

If you silos are expected to be wiped out, say, because the US re-fused their warheads [0] to increase the probability of a silo kill, then it's use-it-or-lose-it with a 15 minute decision time.

[0] https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
SolarWinds says it may have been hit in 'highly sophisticated' hack
Plenty of company do scheduled webinars for pre-sales now. Basically they walk an interested person live, video or more likely screen sharing, through the product's features. "front line for troubleshooting issues" is more or less a customer service position, isn't it?

Have your friend add an entry to the regular 'Who wants to be hired' thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
TBF, it's not just mchurch. Whether or not managers know how to make space for it varies heavily from department to department.
No one is acting.

The question:

> When I read comments coming from people who don't use PHP which are always negative or condescending, I wonder - how do you imagine programmers who use PHP are like?

Your answer:

> I imagine programmers who do not place a high value on the impact that their tools have on their ability to think through problems effectively

Even in the most charitable of circumstances it's hard to read your words in a way that isn't a slight against someone who chooses PHP. Especially when taken in the context of the discussion to which you are responding. And even more so because you have yet to substantiate (or even define) that claim in any meaningful way.

I have no problem with someone who doesn't like PHP (or any language). I don't particularly like PHP. And you know what? I hate python! But I am not making sweeping generalizations about those who program in python and whether or not they value their "ability to think through problems effectively"[0]. Mostly because that claim would make no sense at all...

It's hard to rationalize your answer above to mean anything like "Don't eat lasagna if you're lactose intolerant", so forgive me when I say that you are the one acting. Hey! I get it. You don't like PHP and you took a cheap shot at it. We all do it. The "PHP sucks" trope is hard to resist! But don't act like that isn't what happened. Have some self-knowledge and take the rejection. It's healthier that way.

[0] or import a file in a sane way :)
I almost fell prey to one such ad. A friend asked me to buy him a communicator device that came in two modes that were poorly differentiated. The seller wouldn't answer my emails about the differentiation and the contact number was not valid (one digit short). Then I googled said product only to to find that:

(1) The device was a kickstarter project and obviously wasn't ready for sale
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator#/

(2) The device was being offered for sale on many sites e.g.
https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/cosmo-communicator

I reported to Facebook but no action was taken as far as I could see.
Not within individual societies.

While there is less research into men's fertility and education, in developed countries evidence suggests that highly-educated men display higher levels of childbearing compared to less-educated men.

Education however reduces women’s fertility.
Nice progress! I'm curious how project management works; do you pick specific releases to just be bugfixes or did it just shake out this way?
FWIW, I read the parent as agreeing with your overall claim, but pointing out that the situation is actually even worse than you implied. (Namely, that the communist witch hunt never really stopped, and is ongoing concurrently with the white supremacist witch hunt.)
Related:

FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State. The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/technology/fireeye-hacked...
Difficult to get it back on the ground without killing yourself too - to the point that the backup pilot drives behind at ~140mph, calling out helpful information [1].

Saw a U-2 at an airshow and somehow I expected more. It had really badly damaged paint and just looked like some neglected museum exhibit that had been left outside too long.

1: https://jalopnik.com/the-140-mph-chase-cars-of-the-u-s-air-f...
How Do Stressed-Out Corals Smell?
I normally open VSCode directly from terminal using `code .`

Having a home screen for it would imply you're opening it, but not necessarily using it for editing right away. Is there a benefit to this, genuine question.
Building the wall will inhibit smugglers. We'll see if it reduces the cartels income.

What the USA should not do (again) is "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
> even like two good shows would be an enormous accomplishment.

Ted Lasso is stellar. Mythic Quest is great.

Boys State was a great purchase. I haven't watched Earth at Night in Color yet, but it looks really cool and promising.

It's not really worth $5/mo yet. But it came for free with my new iPhone and I've enjoyed the content so far.

Edit: Why on earth would anyone downvote this? Because I liked a few shows on AppleTV? Y'all crazy and make zero sense.
Could Tim really be upset about being outed when he posed for photos with MBS? It seems like he doesn't care that much about LGBT.
I like that idea for a documentary, but think it'd perhaps come off as arrogant -- like someone producing a dramatic biopic about themselves.
It makes sense because very few investors actually sell their Bitcoin. The market might be worth 20T but that does not mean 20T of value actually was exchanged.

At risk of sounding a bit tinfoil, this is the same system of a weird pyramid scheme rich people are doing with art, wine, relics, real estate, etc. As long as everyone does not sell at the same time, and supply is (artificially) constrained, there is a huge amount of wealth locked up, no longer participating.

If you want to compare BTC to hold, you need to compare how much of the gold market is actually being traded, vs how much of the crypto market.

I bet there's actually a factor 10 difference there, if not more.
How to De-Anonymize Scam/Knock-Off Sites Hiding Behind Cloudflare
> Like Amazon, even like two good shows would be an enormous accomplishment

They've, imo, already gone one amazing show in 'Ted Lasso'. The premise doesn't sound like it should work. A comedy based on old American soccer commercials? But somehow it really, really works.
Human Clock
Even better, or worse, you have to make it into a lawyer industry where they start putting ads on billboards. Then you will really hyper charge it and insurance companies will start acting accordingly. Hell there might be changes to cars themselves to reduce their insurance costs in some vague future.
McCarthyism is back, baby! This time with extra racism!
> If you're alluding to "120% time", fair enough, but that's not what GP was referring to.

From other comments, it's obvious that 1) Google expects you to do your 100%, and then a 20% on top of that of "Google related projects", most likely owned by Google, for free.
But if the images are unique you now have N instances to manage... when the dependencies are strongly coupled!
Yeah, so in a sense, I reject once removed nepotism in the pursuit of the merictocracy,
I'm glad it's not like that in the USA. If the bicyclist is breaking the law and causes the accident then they are 100% liable for it in most states. When you choose to use a bike you make choices that have consequences and choose to take risks in the current version of reality. I do feel cities should lower speed limits in heavy traffic areas though and provide far more bike lanes than they do in most US urban areas. I would never ride a bike in most cities unless I knew of a bike path (lane) from source to destination that was clearly marked off.
The Next Pandemic Could Come from an American Factory Farm
> relative lines might also be worth checking out: "set relativenumber".

I really like the behaviour of `set number relativenumber`, where it shows me my actual line number of the current line and relative numbers on the lines I'm going to operate on.
I think if you picked a random population of cars, and a random population of bikes, the cars would more regularly break the law - generally speeding (full disclosure, I generally go 10-15 over the speed limit when driving).

Then consider injuries caused by breaking the law on the road. Bikes breaking the law cause few, speeding cars cause many.

Dismissing the regular lawbreaking of cars doesn’t seem rational. Just because you don’t like the way bikes break the law doesn’t mean bikes breaking the law has a negative impact.

Cursory search turns this up:

> Speeding was a factor in 26% of all traffic fatalities in 2018, killing 9,378, or an average of over 25 people per day.

Source: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/motor-vehicle-safe...
I could see this working better for a shared folder structure. I tried it for about six months with my personal documents and it went horribly. Between maintaining the index, constantly trying to decide where something should go, and running out of IDs once and having to rename a bunch of stuff, it was just a huge pain.

Now I just name things verbosely and use Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/).
Ted Lasso/Morning Show/Mythic Quest are easily my favorite shows this year.
Everyone chasing yield is driving down risk premium. Look at the rate on Illinois and Puerto Rico bonds.
Back in 1985 when I started I had the original "The C Programming Language", a book from IBM with the various interrupts to access system resources and the "Pink Shirt" book (be Peter Norton).

I once wrote a program in assembler that was 7 bytes long (the executable was 7 bytes) to reset the graphics card.

It was great time to be a "programmer" in those days because you got to try so many different things instead of just cutting and pasting something from the internet. A lot of those things failed and you learn a lot from your failures.
Parody pearl.
Has Michael said that micro strategy self custody publicly? If so where? Most institutional holders don’t self custody their own crypto for a variety of reasons ranging from governance (who signs off on coins going where, especially if Michael were to die), security and the ability to get the best price for a trade (read up on coinbases tagomi acquisition).

Disclaimer I work at coinbase on a team related to borrowing.
Yeah, but it wouldn't be if that were the requirement.
> It's not intended to just be using 20% of your work time to work on whatever the heck you want to.

Yes it is, I quote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20%25_Project

The 20% Project is an initiative where company employees are allocated twenty-percent of their paid work time to pursue personal projects. The objective of the program is to inspire innovation in participating employees and ultimately increase company potential. The 20% Project was influenced by a comparable program, launched in 1948, by manufacturing multinational 3M which required employees to dedicate fifteen-percent of their paid hours to a personal interest.[1]

Nothing say anything about company related projects, it only mentions personal projects. If you're talking about company projects, then it's not a 20% project. Even less so if you are talking about doing 100% of your company work beside.

I've got a feeling SV companies have hijacked the term 1) for PR bs, and 2) to get more work from employees.
Wow. Dude cuts a spiral on a tear drop--freehand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PwAQZNLy0I
They work quite well from the safety point of view though they are a bit tedious and annoying from the driving point of view.
I'm a maths BSc at Fernuni Hagen. Not everything is perfect, but the distance learning really worked well for me (I already have another degree and I'm working 4 days a week).
This is a bug fix release only - only bug fixes have been pulled into the 0.7.x branch. The release is cut when all the issues with the 0.7.1 milestone are fixed. The main branch has new features already that are not in this release. They will be available with 0.8.0.
I've been trying to think of ideas of how they could help themselves. The only thing I can think of is to use technology - camera's everywhere, body cams and tracking devices on vehicles and people. I know they aren't wealthy, but the town could put cameras on the streets like the do in London. I'm just brainstorming here... Such a sad situation they are in.
The post with egregious errors was also put up on a Sunday afternoon. And while we're all acting conciliatory now, it's pretty remarkable how biased the post was, the author using some clearly erroneous numbers to prove their prior, baseless claim that the "M1 chip is far inferior" in some respects, when those respects were specifically SIMD. Then becoming strangely defensive when some people rightly pointed out that ARM64 has 128-bit NEON and a number of other advantages.

Far inferior becomes....actually superior in many cases, even at SIMD.
my grandfather flew one over southeast asia in the 50s, and later was in charge of a team that flew u-2's and a-12's (cia version of sr-71) over china. i transcribed a letter he wrote about it, mostly regarding the mechanical experience of piloting:

https://hyperstition.al/u2-james-black/

he actually mentions a bit about the difficulty of landing:

> The most difficult part of flying the U-2 was to make a good landing. It was a tail-dragger and in order to make a decent landing, you had to come across the threshold at three to five feet and ten knots above the stall speed. And the threshold speed was based on the amount of fuel on board. The aircraft attitude at the threshold had the tail higher than when parked. The residual (idle) RPM was 65% and during the check-outs, only 15% of flaps were used. The trick was to fly down the runway, holding the main wheel one-to-three feet off the runway, while the airspeed dissipated and the attitude of the aircraft rotated from that slightly-tail-high to the parked attitude, without letting the main gear touch the runway. For if the main gear touched too early, you got a bounce and that was a go-around. The same thing is true in a J-3 (40 HP) cub. In other words, you do not make “wheels” landings – placing the main gear on the ground first. It is said, that you can never recover from a bounce. For you will always be 180 degrees out of synchronization. Years later, as a reconnaissance staff officer at the 15th AF Headquarters, March AFB, Calif., I worked for a lieutenant colonel who had been in the RB-47 program at Farber AFB, Kansas for many years and the RB-47 was also a “tail-dragger” and the same was true about it and the bounce. (But it didn’t have a high-aspect wing, such as used on gliders, and the -47 had six engines, so when all six were in idle it settled down very smoothly.)
Its Amazon MO. They similarly killed IMDB by disabling message boards, my main source of interesting details about movies/actors. Why bother with IMDB now when I can read same info on wikipedia?
Pretty remarkable when the National Review looks back at Camus, Malraux and Eliot as a Golden Age. What was radical becomes conventional.

“The novel, which among its other functions used to bring the news about how we live and much more, has in its contemporary effusions lost its excitement”.

And then cites Bonfires of the Vanities as the last great novel with that sensibility. Wolfe’s book wasn’t about how “we” live, it was about how a very particular subculture in NYC lived. When people stopped thinking that NYC (and soon CA) was the aspirational archetype of modern US life, novels about NYC (literature is the essential art form of NYC) became less relevant.

I think there is a trust element in novels that can, and has, been broken. I don’t need to “trust” a non-fiction author...I can manage that by reading several authors and synthesizing the fact-based narratives. I don’t need to “trust” a poet, much as I don’t need to “trust” a violinist.

To enjoy a novel, you need to “trust” the novelist not to abuse the reader with polemics or a perverse psychology. That might be the reason for the rise of fantasy literature...an orc never asked anyone to vote. And any peculiarities are in a fantasy world disengaged with the personal. “Well, elves are just like that as a race...”

NB: here I define “perverse” as anything that impedes kindness and empathy for others here on Earth.
We need Gucci Mane to code break this ASAP.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was Fireeye figuring out how they got hacked, then them or federal investigators checking around to see if it was done anywhere else.
Well, it's a great plane. Also an unfortunate, terrible plane - judging by some important characteristics. It's a pity that this is still the state of the art, with those shortcomings still there. Sometimes the progress is surprisingly hard to get.
Coolest hack is 2 dishwashers and alternating them.
Very closely.

The original architect of Turbo Pascal is Anders Hejlsberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg), who also was recruited to Microsoft directly by Bill Gates.

Anders went on to architect J++, the .NET Framework and C#, and TypeScript.

C# is heavily influenced by Turbo Pascal / Delphi because they have the same original architect. And Lazarus + FPC are open-source implementations of the Delphi 7 IDE + Object-Pascal language (same as Delphi).

If you are at home in Visual Studio, using Lazarus will feel very familiar.

Object-Pascal is easy to learn. A great site to bookmark when learning Delphi or Lazarus + FPC is:
http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/
Evangelicalism in Mexico is a considerably different topic than in the US as well.
Sorta related, this is a good film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)

Also, one of the subplots in the excellent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_(film) is in Mexico.

Babel is by Mexican directors and writers. See the previous two in the triptych too.
We had a similar story about Apple interfering with creative direction before Apple TV+ was released, saying that the content would be family-friendly. This was clearly not true based on the first crop of content that was released. I wonder if this was really what was happening? Or maybe this is yet another misunderstanding of how Apple is exercising their influence?