skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking the other statements at face value, can you talk a little bit about how Facebook circumvents ad blocking? Also, I'm a little confused by the implication that Facebook claims they do not collect personal data.

In my experience, uBlock Origin is completely effective at blocking Facebook ads. Also in my experience, it is pretty clear that Facebook is collecting personal data.
Lithium is not even remotely the problem. There is gigantic amounts of economical lithium in Western Australia. There are still large untapped lithium in North Catalina. There is untapped potential for lithium in Czech Republic. There are lithium projects in Canada as well.

There are lots of companies working on lithium extraction from clay salts, and if that is cracked, the amount is literally unlimited.

In fact, once you start locking into batteries, by far the biggest problem is actually nickel, not lithium. Nickel is of course already a large market because of stainless steel and already having issues with growth. Once we add absurd amounts of battery production for cathodes, the nickel is by far the biggest bottleneck.

Getting away from nickel would be the real win condition in terms of price and sustainability. Lithium mining is actually relatively reasonable environmentally speaking. Nickel mining however is growing in Indonesia where they use very bad process and using coal power to do it.

It doesn't help that we are already at 80-90% nickel in the cathode, and likely soon go to almost 100%. In comparison, lithium is only 1-2% of the battery, while nickel is around 50% depending on what and how we measure.

There is a reason Elon Musk tweeted out 'Mine more nickel' and not 'Mine more lithium'.
> I imagine this can be a feature in some cases and a limitation in others.

Technically true, but it's only a limitation in the sense that not being allowed to use asbestos shingles and lead pipes is a limitation for someone building a house.
> You can write a simplistic boot sector loader for PC in a few hundred ASM opcodes, that would be a lot more difficult for the average ARM bootloader because there's a lot more to do before you can just call into Linux. In general you won't even have RAM or caches available when u-boot begins executing.

This is exactly the point OP's getting at though, and the exact "discovery" features you handwave away. If I write an OS (or bootloader) on x86 w/ BIOS/uEFI, I can easily query available memory and start using it. Meanwhile u-boot has to be told via an external resource how much RAM is available before it begins initializing. This is fine for embedded/bespoke development (since you'll know the hardware you're developing for and can make assumptions), but a pain for general OS development where you have to inform the bootloader/OS of every devices capabilities.
Yep, although I'm thinking "honest and earnest" is further from a typical metric, and closer to the end goal.

One of my concerns, when I decided to be very forthright in the intro email, was that it would simply be taken as a cheat-sheet by a poor-match candidate for what culture to fake.

But I figured there would be a greater risk that we'd miss recognizing or resonating with some of the best candidates, because they were trying to stick to the rules that the interview prep books told them.

(Funny: were my company to become a FAANG, then the interview prep industry would coach everyone on the exact 5 notes to hit, at what formulaic points in the process. And to practice expressions of curiosity, to have ready in reaction to standard prompts by interviewer. Dictionaries eventually would be updated to redefine "genuine" to mean projecting a particular kind of professional persona mandated by my company. :)
After 4 years of hearing that Trump only got to where he was due to Russian interference without Twitter doing even a single fact check, let alone any banishments I think Twitter has a remarkably itchy trigger finger when it comes to Trump claiming similar reasons for Biden gaining the upper hand.
San Francisco Affordable Housing Challenge
Definitely not the only one!
Besides the obvious falsehood that being attractive is being 'born attractive', onlyfans and such sites are full of very attractive people who suck at marketing, customer engagement, etc, who essentially make beer money being naked (with the hope that things will spike up 'real soon now').

The people at the top have a lot of hard-work, skill, and "being born attractive". Sex work is work.
The only way a social system could mitigate that is to imitate the time that it worked; self determination for as many small communities as possible. Whether or not that's worth the price is up for debate.
Agreed! I recently used Windows for the first time in years, and was impressed by two of the built in monitoring programs. It was dead simple to actually get a global view of all file system activity and the processes responsible. Mac’s first party "fs_usage" tool is far less usable. As an example, there’s no way to prevent it from truncating long paths.
Isn't that covered by conspiracy (mentioned in GP)?
No. Yes.

This approach is like sneaking in blueprints to a factory (cell) that makes (proteins using mRNA) whatever it has blueprints for, and gets inspectors that come around occasionally (immune surveillance), or very frequently under active infection, looking for contraband.

When the body start producing this foreign proteins in the presence of something to trigger the immune system (called an adjuvant which all vaccines use to make the body recognise as bad and not harmless/irrelevant) the immune system starts producing a response against that.
> The whole distro bs is just plain stupid, use what works and has a stable past...that's it.

That's absolutely a reasonable point of view -- for your use case.

From the perspective of a variety of folks, including corporate IT, makers/vendors of drop-in appliances and other folks, the changes to the CentOS product will be disruptive.

This is because production servers and appliances generally need to run, for extended periods (measured in years) the application set specifically designed and implemented for the particular set of software versions on a particular OS/distro.

For many of the above folks, CentOS fit that bill nicely, as it reliably tracked (that is, was slightly behind) a commercial (i.e., you need to purchase a support contract to access updates and support from the vendor) Linux distro (Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- RHEL), but did not require any support contracts or fees above those for hardware, installation and administration.

The problems for the above implementation/management/administration strategy comes out of changes to the CentOS long term support policy.

CentOS (with versions 6 and 7) provide(d) a ten year support window for those versions and promised the same for CentOS 8 (released in 2019).

Many of those who had chosen CentOS for it's free (as in gratis[0]) access to the commercial RHEL platform took CentOS (whose developers/maintainers were hired by RedHat[1] to continue that work in 2014) at its word that support for CentOS 8 would also be supported for that same ten year span, updated their environments and applications to the latest version.

That promise of support has now been rescinded, as CentOS will now be the gamma/release candidate version of RHEL and will lead RHEL slightly rather than trail it.

AIUI, there are many reasons for this change to CentOS development, the biggest being that Fedora (the community project that RHEL used as its Beta platform) is now so far ahead (via its rolling release schedule -- for example the RHEL/CentOS 8 kernel is v4.18 vs. Fedora 33 kernel v. 5.9 -- more than two years) that it's no longer providing that utility.

I absolutely understand why some folks are upset, but claims that "CentOS is dead" and the like are rather hyperbolic in my estimation.

Disclosure: I have no financial interest in IBM or Red Hat, nor am I a user of CentOS

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

[1] https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janu...
Seriously, why not? And why was wnevets getting downvoted?

The linked article references a source I’m sure most on HN would agree is reputable, to the extent it confirms their biases.

> A report in [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...) claims that Apple is trying to weaken provisions in the bill.

> > Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, highlighting the clash between its business imperatives and its official stance on human rights.
> It was always thus. In fact, until the ‘60s, a girl had to rely on her beauty and personality to eat and survive, i.e. by marrying.

The way this is framed today by people is soo disgusting.

1) Women did work before 1960.

2) Two incomes are better than one. Married couples are better off financially. Many women worked part time while the children were at school or in the evenings when the husband was back at home. I know this because my grandmother did and many of her friends.

3) A married couple typically provides the best environment for raising children. Most people want children.

4) Most people were dirt poor in the past in the western world by today's standards.
>> student wouldn't be legally obligated to inform you of a vulnerability, and it wouldn't make sense to if you weren't willing to pay.

Which leads to a very interesting situation in negotiating. It's not the first time someone tried to sell information or an idea without getting ripped off. But how can one agree the value of information without knowing it. Is there a standard word or phrase to describe that situation?
My hypothesis is that between GM, Toyota, VW, Ford and FCA, at least one of them will make amply attractive electric vehicles that are competitive in some sense with Tesla. (Also don't forget Nissan!) Tesla still competes on the higher end of the scale.

Yes, I know, "average" new car price and all - but for ICE vehicles, most expensive vehicles are trucks and they bring the average up. Sedans/hatchbacks tend to be below that average. SUVs are right around that average, but higher for electric versions.

So vehicles like the Mustang Mach-E and VW's ID.3, ID.4, etc. will get siblings and provide consumer choice. Vehicles like the Cybertruck, Ford F150 electric, whatever GM makes after the Hummer, etc. will compete in the electric pickup race.

And between all these traditional manufacturers and governments, enough alternative charging networks will exist to be reasonable competitors to Tesla.
Memories of developers not logging stuff on datadog not to go over limit.

We ended up running our own ELK stack and it was much better.
> a broken storefront

not everybody cares about the selling part more than the building part...
nice job changing the goalposts from "[Mr Fan's rights are] all enumerated in the Chinese constitution" to "[Mr Fan doesn't have rights, but...] every party member has a right to stand in meetings and press for change."
The terms big data and machine learning describe very different things though. You can't use them interchangeably. I would also argue that big data is the more sensational one of the two. Machine learning can be easily defined as a group of algorithms. Big data on the other hand is a vague notion that doesn't make it clear what is happening at all and this ambiguity allows sensationalizing.
Ghost-Gun Company Raided by Federal Agents
https://archive.vn/RMaz2
There’s no harm in making a demand. It’s adding “or else” that would get you in trouble. In this case that would be extortion.
> The less light your eyes receive, the less work they have to do.

Or, the less light you receive, the more work they have to do focusing.

> LEDs consumes more energy the brighter the light is

The opposite is true of LCD screens. But that isn't relevant.

>excess light at times of the day when the Sun don't shine messes up our evolutionary psycho-biology

What about not enough light at times of the day when the sun should be shining? The light from any monitor is insignifcant compared to that from the sun anyway.

Lack of light is thought to be a cause of myopia, or in other words, light is literally good for you.
Nox Archaist – The long-waited Apple II RPG has been launched
Crypto Theses for 2021 with Balaji Srinivasan [video]
Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change (1998) [pdf]
Then, can’t Tesla just buy their solid state battery from Toyota? Or from whoever Toyota’s battery manufacturer is?

The battery pack is not really the critical factor. It’s actually the limiting factor.

If Tesla can find a better battery technology, then I’m sure they would love to just license it, and slap on a new battery to their cars.

The critical factors in the electric car are all the other components, or the lack of, which makes the electric car more reliable than traditional gasoline cars.
> ...should there be any punishment for taking something classified and putting it into public domain...

"something" is a word that goes to a core issues of the whole thing. For democracy to function, people need to be able to argue that things are bad ideas.

Say the military classifies a video because it would undermine public support for a war. There should be no punishment for leaking that, as it is information that is relevant to the public - if it would sway their decision making, then it shouldn't be kept from them.

Say the military classifies troop deployments that are irrelevant to all public decision making - leaking that should be punishable.

So to decide if something is punishable or not, we have to deal with a specific issue and make a judgement on whether that specific issue could reasonably have influenced public decision making.
Not quite. The US alone graduates 2 million Computer Science students of various stripes every year. It's been graduating (smaller numbers) of them for over 40-50 years now. There are now second and third generation comp sci. workers and graduates.

So let's say 1% of 1 million/year are up to this, I suspect it's rather more, but I can't be bothered to do the curve on past graduation rates, and figure out what the world wide figure is... you've easily got a couple of million people world wide.

When I think it's going to get really interesting is in another 10 years or so when there start to be significant numbers of bored retired former developers. At any rate the market rate probably isn't that bad.
> E-ink is not the most suitable thing for it in its current form.

What would you say is?
I think SolidPower is actually more interesting, and they don't have a 25 billion $ valuation and are much less prone to hype up their product to boost the stock price.
Except for the fact that they don’t include proprietary drivers in the official install image.
At 25% yearly they better start getting all the populated planets in this spiral arm of the galaxy to sign up.

Hey... what if the first time we receive an alien signal it ends up being a social network invite?
No one ever got fired for recommending Cisco routers or switches.
Chrome is making everything slow *even when it's not running
You have something here. Python the card game. You have a list of monsters, create tuples in your list (which is a group of monsters that can be thought of as one object).
Wow. That sounds surprisingly probable, now that you bring it up. Ubuntu is wildly popular, but requires a lot of money. Microsoft has a lot of money and seems to be trending toward open source.
Violence breaks out at Wistron Corp’s iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru
With most apps I've seen, it is indeed a choice. It's not a choice when someone records their dark mode screen/app and shares that content. There's a lot of very valuable tech education on youtube (people demonstrating frameworks, languages, etc.); when the kind people making those videos are using dark mode, some of their viewers are out of luck. That, and the conference talk projector example, are cases where it is not a choice.

So I'm encouraging people to consider their audience. If there is no audience, then one has only oneself to consider :).
Did I say something about the opinion being correct or valid?
How is this possible?

Even in my 1 weekend web apps I ensure password reset tokens are secured against their user and token type, but Facebook, a $720,000,000,000 company, can't do it for their ADMIN site?
I was shocked by your "people remember 20% of what they read vs 80% of what they see" statistic. I followed chain of sources, which led to a broken hp page [1]. It looks like HP pulled this number out of their ass [2]. Making a claim without a source is one thing; making a claim with a false source is another. This sort of practice is very damaging to the authenticity of information on the internet.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20111117203151/http://www.hp.com...

[2] https://policyviz.com/2015/10/21/more-statistical-fallacies/
I’ve answered this previously here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24238783

In a nutshell it’s to handle federated identities.
Yep, both Firefox and Chrome report that the cert is bad on my CenturyLink internet.
Includes the game packaged into an emulator for people not playing on vintage hardware.

Personally, I enjoy these retro computing and gaming projects. Labors of love I am happy to support.

Tonight, I get to boot my Apple //e and enjoy starting this Ultima style game. Too fun.
Would such a technique help an immune compromised or suppressed person ?
Antitrust isn't necessarily about being evil. AT&T wasn't evil either, but they needed to be broken up. Apple's abusive app store policies, they are certainly worth looking at and they should probably be forced to allow for alternative app stores and maybe forced to have stronger support for Progressive Web Apps. That would be a reasonable remedy.
Yeah I did this exact mod with a madcatz 5 button pump pad and picked up Xbox to USB adapter to play StepF2. There are so few pump pads. I would have loved to have done this with a 9 button pad for ddr/piu but the main issue is that the buttons are different sizes in those games.

One thing I wish I'd done differently is just used MDF instead of plywood, my piece ended up being slightly warped which makes it annoying to use on hardwood, but it plays fine if it's sitting on carpet.
> Really? We've got a lot more data on COVID than we do on the vaccines.

Sure, but we don't know much about long-term morbidity tied to COVID infection, or exactly how many people it will get in the end. Even if I've got it all wrong--- the vaccine is riskier than our current data implies in the age 24-30 group, and fewer people from age 24-30 will get it because things burnt themselves out earlier-- what about the risks of long-term morbidity from COVID-19 infection in this group? Even that alone dwarfs likely vaccine risks. A whole lot of people are getting hospitalized, and even only 5% of them ending up with some degree of long term disability is daunting.

There's big error bars all around, but they largely don't overlap, and COVID has profound downside risks.
I worked for several bug bounty programs; showboating didn't really seem to be a major issue.
What are some of the common applications for diffing an image?
>rule on what the law is, not decide what the law should be

There's a huge grey area there. Both require the court to insert its judgement instead of that of elected officials making the law. Whether or not they are ruling on "what the law should be" is not a binary determination and different people draw the line in different places. Every judicial act at that level is one of interpretation, and that will always necessarily carry the risk of an interpretation that is not in keeping with the legislative intent. In which case the remedy is additional legislation to clarify that intent.

In this example, should Congress decide monetary damages should not be in the scope of "appropriate relief", they can change the law. Right now there are undoubted some-- the DOJ who fought this issue for example-- who believe the court just "decided what the law should be." That's probably in the nature of most decisions the court makes-- the losing side will thing the court got it wrong.
Mostly being troubled the value added isn't proportionate to the payload increase. Double my LoC because I don't like typing out "getElementById" or want a throttle/debounce function or two or don't want to deal with hash changes? It seems unjustified if I'm targeting modern browsers.
Kuo: iPhone 13 Models Won't Face Mass Production Delays Like iPhone 12 Lineup
I really do not understand buying these when you can get a similarly priced pair of Sennheisers that will be much better quality.
>> Which is essentially market driven blackmail as far as I can see.

Modern medicine can also be like blackmail. Nobody has to actually threaten you, but nature will kill you unless you pay whatever the price of treatment. That's why we need competition, and why pharma companies like monopolies.
If you use VS Code, Sundial extension does this.
They aren’t. They are groups of people.

If we apply your statement are you saying corporations have zero constitutional protections? The state could seize their assets without compensation? Enter a company’s property to search it at any time and without a warrant?
This dark mode topic came up in the past, and I commented similarly. One (typically knowledgeable) HN reader replied to my comment with an explanation about this. I would have to really dig to find it though...

I'm not sure, but I suspect that in general, dark mode syntax highlighted (highlit?) text is on average lower contrast than syntax highlighted light mode text. That could affect compression behaviors, perhaps.
2019 - deadline was April 2020
This is why I don't game anymore.

It used to be you popped in a cd and in 10 ~ 20 minutes tops you were playing a polished game. Those were also $60 but a much better deal.

Now you get buggy releases, multi-hour mandatory updates for both the console and game (not an issue only if you're in gigabit internet, but some of us aren't), etc.
Ideas from a Bored Coder
Well, that's pretty much the tradeoff you make when you use a distro that is aggressively free software.
Results:

https://beebreeders.com/architecturecompetitions/sanfrancisc...
The lazy bastard that I am, I already knew ReactJS. ClojureScript's stack traces suck. I just didn't want to have to implement stuff in ClojureScript when I could write it in a language I was more familiar with. ReAgent/ClojureScript just seemed hacky. I don't remember specifics as it was almost 2 years ago.
adjuvent is not neccesary for immune response, it is nessecary for spreading out the antigen producing character among more doses, rather than using a concentration of mRNA that in itself produces enough protien to induce immune response
No offence, but in most startups, even the CEO is just a line manager who wouldn't make more than 200k in a second tier company. Unless you own 10% of the preferred shares in that startup, you're giving them a huge discount. If I were you, I'd exchange this VP title for a L7 manager job at bigco, make there a couple millions and start my own shop, now in the founder role.
That's exactly what every corporation would tell their employees.
Cannot find a price average for the full build. I’d be so interested in building one…
I was working on a decentralized website backend with a few people and while Rust has some really good libraries, damn does Diesel suck. Because of that we moved to Typescript.
Looks like a for loop iterating over each pixel one row at a time.

What makes this fast?
This implies that employees actually have more valuable stuff to work on or that the leadership in the company know what's valuable, which is not always the case.

Given the limited number of projects creating values, it's often a choice of working on the next failed project or saving the company 100 grand.
I may have got it wrong, but I interpreted the page to say only that Chrome and/or its updater made Window Server work hard, not that they're impersonating it.