skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because, for example, the US has 85% of the global semiconductor sales

This is incorrect. I looked at the PDF that you had linked to[0], and it says, on page 14 (of the PDF) that the total sales in the Americas is 22% of global sales. They say "Americas", so that includes Canada, Mexico, Central, and South America. The Asia Pacific region is where 60.3% of all semiconductors are sold to. And China is the largest consumer of semiconductors, at 33.8%.

[0] https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20... (under Section 2: Global Market, on page 15 of the PDF / page 11 of the numbering scheme they use)
But that’s exactly my point. Why regulate if things get worse. If you regulate think about enforcing beforehand. What’s the use?
Is it coffee? Or is it caffeine (i.e. tea, etc.)?

I consume around 500-1000mg of caffeine a day (very carefully timed so as not to get jitters). I can't handle a higher dose of Adderall XR, so I've embraced my higher caffeine intakes as a way to soothe the mind. That said, I don't care for the flavor of coffee, so I typically consume it via Red Bull/5hr/tablet form.
Psyched to see this shipping! Congrats folks :)
Wake therapy is a well known treatment for depression, but I have a theory that for some people this sort of thing is a sign of sleep apnea. The reason being sleep breathing is more likely to be disturbed during REM which is more predominant in the later hours of sleep. So skipping those last 1 or 2 REM cycles could be skipping out on, for sleep apneacs, the most stressful parts of the sleep.
Depends what you're into. You can use the pinouts to control motors, or lights, or take inputs from sensors. You can use it as a tiny server. You can use the stuff on raspbian to learn programming. You can add a battery pack and have a tiny portable linux box. If you can dream it, you can probably do it.
Because it won't take off. Right now, the advertisers are basically hoping for you to be too lazy to click around ten minutes to find the 'no'-option. If every user would be presented with a fairly weighted chance once, hardly anyone would click yes. Accepting this standard would undermine their business even more.
Multiple statements can be true at the same time:

1. Google has a lack of ethics.

2. Google's ethics team is not doing a good job.

I'm not saying either of these are true. But if they are, there's no contraction here. In fact, 2 would support 1.
I work in academic bioinformatics, doing translational cancer research. Most techniques are done in R/python/bash/HPC/AWS and include unsupervised/exploratory statistics, biological preprocessing of raw data, data curation/ETL and clinical statistics. Love the work. I have a BS in bio/bioinformatics and a BE in applied math.
Would any peer reviewed journals accept this? Does not mean that this is wrong, but it's a pretty good signal.
Note - this is NOT about whole genome sequencing.
Are Postgrex/Ecto usable with cockroach now?

I’m about to start a new project, and would very much like to utilize an existing cluster.
Ask HN: Running SaaS Outside EU
I will be launching a small one-man-show SaaS next year. I live in EU and the bureaucracy in here, especially when it comes to international trade, is INSANE. Brussels is full of clerks and red tape and that's what the entire continent looks like.

So I am looking at ways to setup shop outside of EU and avoid the trouble that EU brings. But I am not looking to move out just yet. So I wonder if there is a way to setup shop "online" somewhere outside of EU and be able to use payment gateways to legally receive payments form my users.

For example I know Bulgaria has 10% tax which would be nice. Gibraltar should have 0% but cost of setting up a business there is quite high per annum.
Sexual harassment is illegal, that is very different from something you find unethical.

eg. Disabling safety equipment so that a job can be completed faster - illegal

Locating toys and candy to low shelves at registers so that children see them and nag their parents to buy them, increasing sales. - unethical in my view but called good marketing by many others.
Yeah, I've experimented. It is actually surprisingly close to native performance! A testament to the wasm engine, I guess.

There's discussion on this topic here: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/1355
If the reactions are fake why would you suspect that the engineering is anything other than smoke and mirrors as well?
Assuming that fab equipment has a relatively flat price in terms of production capability, it will be true over time. These are the places that purchase 85% the equipment, the equipment produces chips, so these places produce 85% of chips. Of course, some of the equipment will yield higher or lower chip outputs than others, and some of it will be shipped/resold elsewhere, but with large geographic and time scales, the output percentage will tend toward the capital spent percentage.
Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates
In studies on wake therapy I've seen, there is a percentage that have long-lasting positive improvement from just one night of sleep deprivation.
A one way hash of an IPv4 address is no more private than the address itself. If you know the has algorithm, you can build a rainbow table of all the hashes in under a second. Even with a random salt it doesn't take long to build a rainbow table with all possible salts.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the concept of clockless computing.
It's just a want, not a need, so I haven't looked any further (just keep the occasional eye on the amazon price). May become a need (or at least, a financially-justifiable want) a few months after the google photos storage limit starts
Ask HN: Sample Ask HN Question?
This is just for sample question.
Ask HN: Have you made any low (10/15k) investments in startups?
Is doing low amount personal investments in companies a thing or do most investors pool their money in an investment company?

I imagine the term angel investor is reserved for those who make a career out of it and are pretty rich.
A case study on strict null checks
I call it fundamental dishonesty. Some big problems for team fb:

1. It is difficult to recover from such an obviously dishonest position.

2. Users are supposed to be the customers, not small businesses. If users aren't the customers, they can't receive Facebook as a product "for free."

3. The current business model offers outsized returns because it leverages tech people don't want or don't yet know they don't want.
I appreciate the perspective and agree with a lot of what you wrote. That said, software is not some abstract thing that exists (or at least exists usefully) outside of the context of computer hardware--which is clearly in the domain of electrical engineering.

That can be less true today given the additional layers of abstraction we continue to pile on in general. But I'd still argue that computer science is closely tied to the hardware that computer science concepts as implemented in software runs on. And therefore, it can make sense to lump it in with the engineering and, specifically, electrical engineering.

(Certainly my opinion is probably flavored by the fact that, where I got a different engineering degree, electrical engineers and CS majors typically get the same Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering degree.)
Big brains and white matter: New clues about autism subtypes
Interesting idea! I did a quick look through your site and have a few issues:

1. What MFA methods do you support? TOTP? App based auth? U2F? FIDO2? (FIDO2 USB? BLE? Platform authenticators?) Smart cards (especially for enterprise)? Backup OTP's? New device detection?

2. Your docs mention not playing nice with password manager autofill by default. Are there plans to address this?

3. Password reset emails come from @supertokens.io, which specifically raises phishing red flags when you get a password reset email from a domain that is not the one you're logging into. How would an integrator go about addressing this?
Crucial definitions:

> “Websites” refers to www.cloudflare.com, as well as the other websites that Cloudflare operates and that link to these Terms, and (ii) “Online Services” means Cloudflare’s products and services that are publicly available without a subscription or a Cloudflare account, including, but not limited to, the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver service, including 1.1.1.1 for Families, Cloudflare Time Services, and RPKI Portal.
Their greenboards say MADE IN THE UK, but the chips themselves are all Asia I think...
Thanks for your comment :)

> What is the usecase for supertoken instead something like identity server for .net, whatever Java spring uses or something like django or flasks authentication?

We plan on building a much more feature rich auth solution in a modular way - providing passwordless, 2fa, social, email / password login (exists already) + very secure session management using rotating refresh tokens (exists already). Being "modular" will enable users to only pick what they care about making it easy for them to implement. So we differentiate in terms of features and simplicity of use.

> Even something like e-mail verification is something I will not go without anymore.
Makes sense! Next on our feature list

> Is this something you would use for your first 3000 customers?
We aim that this would scale to a very large number of users - so you can implement it once, and then spend minimal time on it after.
Lost both my parents over the years. For my mom I sunk all available income paying for in-home care. For my dad I... couldn't, so we had to go the purposeful route.

Condolences on the financial stresses, it truly is a burden that arrives at the worst of times.
I would recommend GoatCounter.

https://www.goatcounter.com/
The infamed laser on Tu 142 was said to get to only get to 50m, but that was a "direct imager" which relied on direct reflection, and seventies-eighties era technology.

Newer ones are directly sensing density, and temperature changes in the seawater by sensing Raman shift, and are supposedly much better. No known data in public of course.
And now new entries into the market will have to spend an equivalent amount of capital on compliance to be competitive with incumbents.

Thanks Europe.
Two objections.

1. A law that aims to prevent stealing should be deterring thieves, not just regulating padlocks.

2. Technical measures are insufficient because cookies are regulated by purpose. A third-party cookie for fraud detection is allowed; a first-party cookie for analytics requires consent. It also prevents using necessary cookies for secondary purposes, something that literally cannot be accomplished through technical means alone.

As a minor point, the so-called "cookie law" also regulates browser fingerprinting. I have a hard time imagining that you could legislatively mandate effective anti-fingerprinting approaches.
* Basically all of the brokerages make money this way.

* Robinhood took a bigger slice of the pie than the other brokerages did.

* Robinhood claimed in marketing materials that they were not taking more of the pie.

* Even factoring in the fee savings, Robinhood took so much of the pie that you'd get a better deal at other brokerages.

The issue on HN is always going to be a litigation about PFOF itself. But that's not the SEC's complaint here; rather, it's that when you enter into a PFOF rebate deal, you dial in profits for yourself against savings for customers. Everybody does that, but Robinhood both (1) turned the dial way towards themselves and (2) claimed otherwise.
Easy. Just ignore it. Tech, like anything else, is just a bunch of cycles that keep on repeating themselves. The same principles are being constantly re-invented and re-discovered over and over again.

YAGNI and KISS.
Poll: Does your dev team do standups?
Yes, in-person
Yes, remotely (Zoom, etc.)
Yes, async (Slack, etc.)
No, ad hoc updates shared as-needed
No, updates posted to a ticketing system (Linear, Jira, etc.)
What's a standup?
Does the book give sources for this? And do those sources actually support this claim? It doesn't sound completely correct.
> Even when you have strong employee representation, in which case that influence is via the employee representatives on the board, not via employees just doing whatever the hell they want.

But then you have a recourse that might not be available where this is not the case. Even in your telling of it, we have a company that does whatever the hell it wants and employees doing whatever the hell they want, and I see no reason to hold employees to a higher standard than we hold the company.

> Once again, if you want to agitate against the company, you are free to do this. Just don't expect the company to employe you.

Sure, but that is a question of power and tactics. The company could sack you, and it could also suffer negative PR as a result. Both sides use whichever power they have to their advantage. You could argue that what the employees are doing is not smart and that they might be overplaying their hand, but not that what they're doing is wrong.

> Not without limits. Boards are answerable to shareholders, and may be held liable if they act against the interests of shareholders.

Yes, but even the interests of shareholders are a result of political action.

> But even then it is the board that decides this, not random employee X.

But whether or not employees are on the board is itself a result of political action. In the US, they're not (as a result of political activism), but anyone is free to take any political action to change that.

> As an employee, you are in a chain of command (tends to also be in your contract, which you entered into voluntarily).

But as long as you're not breaking the law, you're allowed to take whatever action you please, including one that risks termination. The company might well be within its rights to sack you, but that has a cost so they might not do it. Corporations do such things all the time, sometimes choosing to risk litigation, and I see no reason why workers couldn't or shouldn't. Each side uses whatever power they have to their advantage.
In aviation, the relevant phrase is "aviate, navigate, communicate", in that order. I wonder if the design here is that you ascertain facts and follow a protocol promptly, before communicating their results?
> Related, and I've mentioned this before—the Zotero app is built on XULRunner/Gecko, but XULRunner was killed by the big brained folks who had the power to do so in an attempt to free up resources for their totally successful designs for the future. Rather than throwing Zotero contributors under the bus and into a potential quagmire of dealing with C++ and Rust compiler output that they don't care about on failed builds, and costing them hours for successful builds (if a successful build is even possible for the hardware), the Zotero build scripts instead download Firefox and then repack it, et voilà—when you open it you're running Zotero.

IIRC the plan was for Zotero to rebase on Electron, though I haven't followed how this project has proceeded.
Here's a much more nuanced view: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3596551/microsoft-xbox-serie...

I'd say I agree it's a terrible time to build a high-end PC system. But I'm also saying that based on idle searches for components. I bought most of my PC parts in April 2019, and my (mid-range $300) GPU in spring 2020, with no issues with availability.

But it seems like motherboards are 25-100% more expensive now, and we are still waiting on $200-300 graphic cards from this generation.

I do think, though, that comparing a relatively single-purpose item like a gaming console to a general purpose desktop computer is also going to have pros and cons on both sides.

I'd much rather be shopping for mid-range (or last generation but still quite performant) computer parts than trying to get one of the consoles right now.
This is basically what arch linux has done with their repo/packages.

> zstd and xz trade blows in their compression ratio. Recompressing all packages to zstd with our options yields a total ~0.8% increase in package size on all of our packages combined, but the decompression time for all packages saw a ~1300% speedup.
A lot of companies would rather not send their user data to a 3rd party. For those, we offer the option of self hosting. The ones that you do not mind using a 3rd party, we also offer a SaaS version of our product.

And yes, indeed. We will add the option where our SaaS will also write to your own DB as opposed to ours.
>Fun fact: the e privacy directive (which defines the cookie rules) isn't actually passed yet and technically you don't need cookie banners how they are now. Purely informational banners would be enough, but the directive already _should_ have passed but was delayed, and since gdpr spooked everyone, everything and everyone is using cookie banners now anyway

The ePrivacy Directive passed in 2002. It was amended in 2009 to include the cookie rule. The ePrivacy Regulation which would codify cookie requirements as an EU-wide regulation has not passed yet.
> but redistribution of book itself is not permitted

Correction: redistribution in unmodified form is allowed (under terms of CC-BY-NC-ND), but resale of book is not permitted.
At least in the UK attempts to gift money to relatives or sell a house to prevent it being sold to pay for social care is seen as "deprivation of assets" in a financial assessment.
thanks steve :) <3
Browsers, no, they haven't shipped support at present.

Facebook is using it for its HTTP traffic to its apps though. We've seen significant benefits. The compression ratio is pretty comparable to Brotli, but it decompresses very much faster, which is nice when the client is a mobile device--lower latency, longer battery life, etc.
What does it mean that they simultaneously are responsible for 1-3% of emissions and have a filter? If it is filtered, it isn’t released?
Extremely unhappy too with Stripe's support. Patrick Collison never answered my emails (not that I expected to). They disabled and re-enabled our Stripe account multiple times thinking it was a forbidden business. With another company we received 2 chargebacks out of 20 transactions and balance ($6K+) has been blocked for 90 days. Not to mention that the chargebacks arrived much later, and the reason it has not been paid out early (weeks earlier) prior to the chargebacks (weekly schedule) was because of an unknown bug or something. Basically the payout date moved to the next day every single day the payout was supposed to happen. or so it seems, who knows! no emails, no nothing. Stripe's support that bad.

I emailed Stripe and the chat support 10+ times and all I received is 10(!!) days later was a copy paste "sorry can't do anything about that" - referring to the fact that by then the chargeback rate was 10% because of 2....so statistically insignificant... chargebacks. which again, happened much later, after the supposed payout date.

Oh. And to add to it, we requested 10+ days ago for a migration of our data to Braintree / Paypal and they never got back to us. again. it's just a shitshow.

Very sketchy and nonsensical business practices, if you ask me.

if someone from stripe is wiling to actually fix this shitshow (aka perform the migration and payout our money or at least explain why prior to any chargeback the money hasn't been paid out), you can email me at: arturaregnante90 at gmail
A limit order just specifies the maximum that you are willing to spend per share.

For example, putting in a limit order at $100 for a share of "X", means that you won't pay more than $100. If the best available price for "X" at the time is $98, and Robinhood gives you a share for $99, that is still an inferior execution.
While it's less directly relevant to the specific point, I suspect (as some other commenters noted) the reason for including it is that nearly all the old politicians are white.
In a novel I read years ago one of the characters hates the idea of movies being considered serious art and says something to the effect of, "How can you take a medium seriously that plays music throughout to tell the audience how to feel in any given scene".

That part always stuck with me and made me really notice how overt many movies and tv shows are about the music they use.
We're just as good at spending our private money badly, really
Thank you for working on such a horrible problem for developers. Looks amazing tbh. Will definitely try this out on a future project.

Edit: open source part = huge. Great work
AKA the indexes are too large and we don't want to spend the money
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It’s released from their mounds and into the atmosphere.
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Is this really Walker? I think that Alexey Guzey responded to this blog post though. It doesn't really counter any of Alexey's points.
I've studied a wider range of literature, and I suggest to not discuss this question one way or another. Let's leave genetics to geneticists.
I spent so many hours with this when I was a teenager. I loved it.
For sure they are a kind of black box and have more information than needed. But I met a lot of people who trust blindly on them and it is crazy for someone who came from Brazil - the place where no one trust on government about anything.

But, for me, in the end, email must die.
I think this is especially clear in nvidia GPUs. It would have been unlikely for nvidia to try doubling GPU prices for fear of the backlash and the risk of losing out if that wasn't countered by enough people willing to buy at the higher price.

But then the bitcoin gpu shortage happened and people were paying double for mid tier GTX 10xx cards. The shortage went away and prices went back to normal, but then the 20xx cards launched with a huge price bump, likely helped by the shortage scalpers proving how much people would pay.
The science behind Project Kuiper customer terminal antenna
I was going to but it seemed like it was based on one persons word, regardless of the person involved(high level military individual) for me its labelled folklore and not hard data. The other examples I listed all have paper trails with institutions that have rock solid credentials, in addition to the videos released by the pentagon(video evidence).
That's likely solely because of supply-side constraints. Trying ordering AirPods Max on Apple's website right now, and you'll be informed of a 3-4 month ETA.

I don't believe Apple would want to charge $750/ea if they had ample supply.
Global Foundries had capital issues and decided to pull the plug on their 7nm process in 2018. I wonder if they regret that now.
Discord Secures $140M, Doubles Valuation to $7B
thanks! all our code is still on github so you could just download the "testing" version we use on the cloud and run that.

the slower schedule of the official "stable" self-hosted release is to simply make it possible for us to make it work.

we're a two person team and because of the popularity of the product, we've become overwhelmed with support requests from self-hosters and needed to make a change in the expectations and the process
Security Guard Robots Now Equipped to Detect Shoppers' High Body Temperature
Metronome usability issue possible cause for Beethoven’s accelerated markings