skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> an alliance between industry and government against the people.

Well at least this guy's got a definition, that's the first time I've ever seen someone try to define fascism in an internet argument. Hell even Wikipedia doesn't do that!

Unfortunately I don't see how the definition fits to the three classical examples of fascist regimes, Japan, Italy, or Germany. In all of those cases the nationalized industries were aligned with the groups perceived to be "the people." The oppression was against perceived internal aliens but the majority of people benefited in the short term and that's why these leaders were popular.

The genocide is a necessary side effect of perceiving some internal groups as authentic and others as aliens or oppressors.

The real parallel can be drawn with attitudes on the Left today who perceive BIPOC people as authentic Americans and those of European descent to be Colonizers responsible for everything wrong with our society who should give the land back. Unfortunately this attitude has also energized morons like the Proud Boys to "fight back," but at least for now all these idiots are just LARPing revolution. Hope it stays that way.
This seems no better than a password manager that stores encrypted passwords but not the decryption key.
Video chats are more personal. We communicate a lot via body language.
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We really need a one-bill-one-topic amendment to the constitution. I think that one be one of the most effective reforms we could possibly make to reduce both idiotic laws and wasteful spending. Both of these things often get shoehorned into other bills that "must" pass.

The line item veto is a backhanded way to try to do this, but isn't the best solution.
Growing up poor and now making more than average, nothing has changed for me. I've always acknowledged that it's unfortunate, but also always consider it just part of humanity. I never wasted time moping about obstacles or people having it better than me, instead I just make the most of opportunities I have, try to get more opportunities for myself, and try to help my loved ones. Beyond that isn't my problem
Take a look at NSFetchedResultsController, it gives you what you want from NSObjectController and NSArrayController, and there aren't really UI widgets on iOS where NSTreeController is appropriate like there are in AppKit.
I don't really play games so that's not my rationale.
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Passing a big structure to a function doesn't make that function impure. But passing a structure containing objects with impure methods does make the called function impure.

Passing a big structure to a function is a bad idea in any paradigm because it's a big dependency. Instead, you should write the function to operate on the data that it needs and pass just that when you call it.
I wish I had your optimism. Based on his cabinet choices so far, this is going to be another corrupt organization filled with corporate types whose misdeeds will never get talked about in the mainstream media. Obama II. W Bush III. Same shitpile that pissed people off enough to make them vote Trump.
I have a 7$ Chinese knockoff HDMI-USB dongle, it works perfectly well even in Linux. Quality is quite good.
Definitely want the same.
India’s booming dark data economy
The results from California's prop 65 cancer labels should be kept in mind when trying to label broad classes of objects as hazardous. That is to say, it will be ignored.
It appears there's two camps in the audience. The camp I'm familiar with (and it appears the author as well) use bare-metal to mean running on your own computers (either in-house or colo) instead of in a VM on a cloud provider.
Psychologically, if they quote to you the price without taxes, it looks cheaper even if you know about the extra 20% in sales tax and service fees and city tax and and...

Someone showed me the bill from some street corner food vendor in SF. It had like 4 taxes on it over the advertised price.
Let’s look at a sample of posts on the Voat front page as of right now:

- Where else can I say “Kill yourself, you glowing n+gg+rf+gg+t landwhale k+ke” without being banned? Voat is the only place I know of where I can do that.

- The Holocaust is a lie. It didn’t happen, but it should have,

- Voat will go away but its deep disgust of jews will forever remain in my heart.

Slurs not censored in the actual posts, obviously. So, you’ll forgive me for thinking Voat is full of literal Nazis.

Edit, censored with plus signs because asterisks were italicizing the text.
Has anyone investigated buying a top tier android phone from like 2015 or so and then just making that a permanent webcam? Surely that would be relatively cheap and high quality.
You do realize there are several SoC's in modern cars right? There's the ABS and stability systems, torque vectoring systems, lane keeping/driving automation, the infotainment system, and more. Sure they're not made to the 5nm level at the moment, but supply chain wise a 15nm part is about the same as a 5nm part when it comes to making the silicon. This is especially true when you're needing them to be more resilient temperature-wise and have other restrictions needed in the automotive space.

I drive a 2017 Santa Fe. Its a pretty basic car tech-wise compared to many others on the market these days. There's still the computerized ABS and traction control system taking samples thousands of times a second and making split second decisions on how to handle the car. There are radar sensors tracking the distance to vehicles around me, that data is being fed to computer systems for automatic cruise control and alert aids. The car features lane keeping features which is based off computer vision systems to track the lines on the road. The transmission system is computerized, being more like a computer controlled manual transmission rather than a traditional automatic. The infotainment system is obviously driven by some kind of computer and contains WiFi, LTE, Bluetooth, GNSS, satellite, AM, FM, and digital FM radio systems along with cameras and radar sensors.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some additional computerized systems on this list. So honestly there are several iPhones worth of computer systems on this list, all with more extreme hardening requirements to expect a longer deployed lifetime than an iPhone and all of which need to reliably talk to each other in some kind of fashion.
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If you have to team up against antitrust action, you're DEFINITELY doing the definition of monopolizing industries. Tear these companies apart.
Collusion is on the anti trust bingo card.
Will you have to carry a vaccine passport on your phone?
I think Dapr has the same goals as Micro. Dapr is from the team who built Azure Service Fabric, which is basically a microservices platform, and with this they've decided to take an open source angle for kubernetes. We're going the other way. Open source is great, but it's not enough. Micro 3.0 is a hosted platform and focused on removing that operation burden but also providing value add higher level services.

I think like most things you either prefer dapr's primitives or ours. As was the same with go-micro vs grpc-go.

Micro can be self hosted. It's an open source project for which you can find the docs here https://micro.mu.
I would pay this sum if such a service existed.
It seems like some company there (besides Apple), should seize the opportunity to differentiate themselves on quality, and deliver supply-chain controlled "boutique" hardware, which I'm certain many would shell out for.
That suggests that Apple don’t use CoreData internally but my understanding is that they use it quite heavily – Photos for example.

If anything I would argue it’s the other way round; the API is designed first and foremost for internal clients which creates quite a burden of complexity and nuance for third-party clients to come up to speed.

I think the tough thing for Core Data is that it’s effectively a big caching layer and whilst that brings great performance benefits if you understand how and why it does what it does, it also brings a level of complexity and confusion if you don’t.

Having said that, its API is starting to show its age in this new era of type-safety.
Same with parler. It's now totally dominated by weenieheads.
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My experience as a developer is

- people don't care about my status (e.g. "busy", "dnd")

- people don't care about my communication preferences

-- if i'm not blocked they will call, no matter the priority

- they are not interested in any priortization not done by them.
And last and the most related to this approach:

- They do not read any documentation I write about me or my software. They hardly read the contents of mails.

I shoud remark that i do not work for a software-house but in medium scale distribution.
Still did not find a way to communicate to my peers on how important phases of concentration and defined communication channels are.
In my opinion, another documentation is not gonna work...

edit: formatting
> or happen to not be a white dude

White people are underrepresented at Google in the US, if you go by general demographics [1] [2]. This is probably not the best way to think about it, as there are many other variables, but it's also not at all compatible with "Google only hires white dudes".

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/311810/google-employee-e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
Motions of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? Opinions of enthusiasts with pet theories? What are you talking about?

You illustrate my point better than I could ever explain.
I check both when doing reviews. Style and "cleanliness" of the code is important as other people are also expected to work with it. Also I follow the saying that code is more often read than (re)written, so that should not be neglected.

Structure of the code, as in relationship of classes, data flow and high level design is also important and checked during review.
Running for election even at local levels is not cheap... Let alone federal offices. At least if you want to have any chance of winning
It depends on whether you think the creators of something do or do not have the right to sell or not sell it if they choose. If they do, then surely they can choose to include or not include any parts of their creation. Why should anyone have a right to cut footage the owner has chosen not to sell?
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1971
No, they don’t in fact.
Astronomers say myths about 'seven sisters' stars may date back 100k years
BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima
You can also get shielding with a thick enough atmosphere, or being under a solid ice/rock crust. But both of those also make it much harder to reach space.
Every time there's a microplastics article on HN, there's someone who has to posit that ingesting pounds of plastic may not be bad.
> Here absolute fact is only clear when the effect is so strong it's too late.

This! I strongly agree that one should not mix up scientific hard knowledge with hypotheses, statements of likelihood, educated guesses and so on.

However, I do not agree at all with the demand that you always need to be 100% sure to act decisively on something important. That is just not how life works!

It does not work like that in the small. If you are a parent and you smell smoke, and your children are playing upstairs, there is no requirement that you know with certainty there is a fire before you get your kids out of the house. You get them out.

If you are a bus driver packed full with people chopping a long a foggy motorway in the morning, and three hundred meters ahead appears something which looks like an overthrown heavy truck, you do not need to be 100& certain to hit the brakes. You brake.

If you are captain of a frigate in heavy weather and with serious navigation difficulties, and ahead appears something which looks damn likely like a rock or a VLCC, you do not need absolute certainty to change course. You just change.

And in fact we demand the same from industrial and military leaders all the time. It is even one defining element of leadership to act both wisely and decidedly under uncertain conditions.

And now, we go and demand that the evidence we get from scientists has 100% certainty before we act. That's wrong. It is not intelligent behaviour because a lot of things will have irreversible consequences before we have certainty about the situation.

(And interestingly, we have seen exactly the same pattern on the topic of climate change.)
> I also find it disappointing that people still think that blindly applying measures that may work in one case, will work in any other case. ... And people still think that taking one set of rules that work in one context we can just apply them anywhere and have the same result.

Where was that suggested?
these people are crooks why would FSF endorse them?
Did they really pose it to you that way of take the 3% or they'll torch the company? Was it just a bluff because they'll own nothing too? I would talk to a lawyer and possibly the seed investor, but the lawyer first.
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I agree that // is the way to go but this only landed in C99, so almost 3 decades after the fact (~5 if you care about msvc support).
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that's a great example

we currently ban steroids and most performance-enhancing substances in elite sports

Trans is the same thing, but on a genetic level. It alters the state of competition to give advantage to the new entrant. It follows that it would be banned on the same grounds under current rules.

Either we accept all modification in sports, or we dont
The real reason is buried in the article:

You can’t buy a good webcam because the number of people willing to pay a lot of money for a high end webcam is very small.

At the lower end, people are satisfied with their built in laptop parts or a cheap webcam that sits on top of their monitor.

At the high end, people go down the rabbit hole of buying a do-everything mirrorless camera that they can use for so much more than just a webcam.

A high end webcam would have to be cheap enough that the first group doesn’t mind spending a bit more, but not so expensive that the enthusiast target audience just decides to buy a full-featured mirror less camera instead.

Granted, there is a lot of room for improvement in that budgetary middle ground, but how many people actually care? Common webcams actually perform decently when given proper lighting conditions. We’re not streaming high-bitrate 1080p H.265 on our 5-person Zoom calls. After compression and denoising the extra sharpness and low noise of a high end camera doesn’t add much benefit.

Enthusiasts are a difficult group to market to because they have extremely high expectations. They’d also rather spend weeks scouring the Internet for the perfect deal on a used mirrorless camera than to spend a dollar more than necessary to buy a high-end webcam.
You call 283kb optimized?

In the late 90s (when websites looked exactly like that) 100kb would be considered excessive.
One thing I know from conversations with people working in FSB, is that working in a field is considered to be a low, starting position. Also many people start to work there only after some rudimentary training. Yeah, seemed weird to me too. Also this guy was only from a cleanup crew, whose job was only to transfer contaminated clothes to chemical institute. Seems plausible to me that he fell for some social engineering
> Google is an advertising company

I read this on HN a while ago and it's something more people should read. I think the term "tech company" is very subjective so I won't touch that, but Google is absolutely an advertising company with a bunch of side projects (hence why they always end up getting killed after a few years). It doesn't change my feeling towards google, but it helps understand them and know what to expect from them. Your kooky phone anecdote is a great example.
Is there a geological property that makes tunnel less expansive to build in Faroe Islands ? More than 50km of tunnels for 50000 inhabitants seems huge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tunnels_of_the_Faroe_I...)
FSF is not FSFE
It is possible to run containers directly on top of type 1 hypervisors.
And the vast majority of people "investing" in it have no concept of the underlying tech/utility/scalability/whatever, they only care "token go up!" and essentially treat it as a penny stock.

It'll eventually tank, but not until the insane FOMO ends. For example, the completely useless Dogecoin still has a $600M "market cap", and at one point popped over $2B.
So, speech about fat or trans people must be limited to "caring about their rights"? If you can't say something nice then you're not allowed to say anything at all?
Just to add my own experience, I have a friend who had the Elgato Link and it died. He decided to give a $15 amazon one a try and he said it works "just as good" as the Elgato one. So I then bought my own $15 one (having never used Elgato before) and I can also say that it does the job.

I don't know how to further qualify it, you expect it to convert HDMI into USB and it does it. The resulting quality is amazing. So it performs its function.
I'm not basing the prediction on the past 5 years.

Intel themselves have said that they'll do 7nm around 2022-2023 - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7...

5nm is probably going to be 2024-2025 at this cadence.

And true, Intel's 7nm process might be somewhat equivalent to TSMC's 5nm process as far as performance goes, but at that point in 2022 TSMC will be doing 3nm, according to them.

https://www.imore.com/tsmc-lands-first-3nm-contract-apple-co...

So at the start of 2023, Intel might be at 7nm where TSMC will be at 3nm.
Im seconding that Logitech has a pretty darn good lineup. I have a c910 and it is quite good, even in fairly low light. I would complain more that webcams don’t generally give you fine grain control over exposure, sharpness and resolution. Logitech did, until they decided to update their software to be more “friendly”. The camera is still solid, but it’s frustrating to see companies do this to themselves.
Living on the dividends from a 400k investment? That’s below poverty!
> Oracle used to offer an installation mode like this

Oracle, and BEA before them, used to offer a JVM which ran on top of a thin custom OS designed only to host the JVM, you could call it a "unikernel". Product was called JRockit Virtual Edition (JRVE), WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (WLS-VE, when used to run WebLogic), earlier BEA called it LiquidVM. The internal name for that thin custom OS was in fact "Bare Metal". Similar in concept to https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv but completely different implementation

I think one thing which caused a problem for it, is a lot of customers want to deploy various management tools to their VMs (security auditing software, performance monitoring software, etc) and when your VM runs a custom OS that becomes very difficult or impossible. So adopting this product could lead to the pain of having to ask for exceptions to policies requiring those tools and then defending the decision to adopt it against those who use those policies to argue against it. I think this is part of why the product was discontinued.

Nowadays, Oracle offers "bare metal servers" [1] – which are just hypervisor-less servers, same as other cloud vendors do. Or similarly, "Oracle Database Appliance Bare Metal System" [2] – which just means not installing a hypervisor on your Oracle Database Appliance.

So Oracle seems to have a history of using the phrase "bare metal" in both the senses being discussed here.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/bare-metal.html

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/en/engineered-systems/oracle-databas...
1) Sure, that may be an example of a good microservice, but I'm not sure that is a requirement to follow a broad microservices architecture. This can also be handled via proxies/load balancers and rolling deployments of monoliths.

2) Agreed, for individual services. Maybe/maybe not for the entire system.

3) I think this is generally true, but if you have a service that others are dependent on, you can still have these problems. Auth services for example (that was a fun day at work).

4) Sure, but now you have two binaries.
Having everyone submit their genome for examination is absolutely where professional sports is ending up.
"All life is about 'power forces'."

If you accept that 100%, you understand a looot more things that if you believe in equality.

People who earn less earn less because they have less power or did not know how to use it, for example during negociations. I think 50% workers around do not negociate..

(Even equality comes from power struggles: it's a concept invented by poor / not powerful people to unite behind a concept and creat a "group power".)

It's the cold harsh reality to me.

I come from a left wing family where class awareness was present so it's a concept I think would be nice at a society level to have more equlity.

But where I don't have any sympathy to people who earn less, is that in the engineering world, when you try to explain this, most people get angry or tell me that I'm an asshole. Also they don't want to make unions and refuse to engage in any power struggle. I am not an asshole, I'm trying to be realistic. However in that caae they are the literal cliché of the "nice guys". Well let's say I tried. Now I don't care being called an asshole, it's even a compliment to me. You want more ? Fight for it, don't be just "offended" or "sad".
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The US is a culture that has been repeating things like 'winning isn't everything, it is the only thing' from TVs, books, role models and T-shirts since before you could read. We have a president (for a bit longer) that celebrates not paying taxes. Many forms of white-collar crime are profitable after penalties.

Culturally, you're being told you're a sucker if you don't cheat.

Is it any surprise that an unmotivated person, (or a motivated one feeling pressure) will then turn around and cheat?
I read an article recently basically decrying how junior devs (and some not so) are holding tech leaders to ransom unless they adopt the architecture of their choice - microservices being the current hot paradigm, and so they are capitulating in order to keep them, despite the fact that probably 99% of these devs are demanding something they will have zero experience with.

I definitely saw the same thing playing out at my previous company, and not being in the mood for a conflict over that have moved on.
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This is always my favorite:
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming [1]

[1] : https://github.com/MostlyAdequate/mostly-adequate-guide
Exactly. There exists a really good example for that, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.
A second layer of encryption actually seems better since the key, unlike the horcrux, won't be leaked to all services.
I never thought I'd want a 16:10 monitor until I had to deal with all of my apps getting resized every time I unplug my MBP
> trying to coerce sexual consent on a cultural level.

Nobody is doing this, that's where the allegations of bad faith come from.