skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People will get back to working and shopping later.

Yes, but...

We all have a small finite number of years on this earth, and even fewer when we're young. I'll never get 2020 back, and who knows how much of how many people's lives will be lived in poverty and other forms of misery because of the economic destruction we've opted into to slow the spread of the virus.

Would you tell someone condemned to a prison term that it's not a big deal because they will eventually get out and go back to living normally?
Bitcoin itself is real. The price of Bitcoin is a reflection of the bubbles on the other side. The other side is a simulation.
Meteor is alive and well! Since 2015, I have been relying on it to implement a number of SaaS solutions involving real-time location tracking.

In 2016, Meteor 1.3 implemented full support for the NPM ecosystem. As a result, people switched to using NPM packages directly (where possible) instead of older Atmosphere packages.

This common misconception of outdated dependencies may be the result of non-Meteor users browsing the atmosphere website and seeing many old packages.
I see nothing substantial here, since there were many peaks and crashes before.
Is this from someone i should know?

Meanwhile there is a good summary on the influence Tether issuance has on BTC on the front page, which has some sources. Not that it is the definite truth, but having some sources instead of just "Well, there was another peak so i guess Bitcoin is alright after all" is more valuable to me.
SmartScreen existed prior to Microsoft's app store though.

I am not sure what you mean regarding your point about sidestepping Apple's app store. Code signing can obviously be done on either platform without any app stores.
I can definitely empathize with your first point, late 2021 is a rediculous time tax on the youth, who have yet again paid far more for this crisis in terms of missed opportunities and asset inflation. Closed state borders would be untenable over here in the US.

For the second point, this article has shaken me a bit, and I've limited my exposure(stoped going to the store, eating out(outside), etc. I love my heart and my ability to do strenuous excersizes(skier, climber, and raver) and have decide to wait out these next few months for the vaccine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/well/move/is-coronavirus-...

Obviously its not a full study, but in light of lacking information, ill play a risk adverse hand.
At least in the UK, the loss to the company could easily have been covered by insurance and so would probably fail the test of negligence.
http://gph.is/2cpbE6Y
One option is to emigrate to the United States, driving up pressure on the engineers who remain. My near-term ancestors all left Germany due to poor wages and a tendency for Bismarck to sacrifice draft-age men in wars, and while moving to the US helped their own status it also did a bit to increase pressure at home.
There is a middle path -- use lxd. This way, the mysqld/postgres process can always be running, while the dev machine remains clean.

(But of course the battery will drain a little faster if it is a laptop)
Political choice is a bedrock principle of our system. And forcing anyone to support a political viewpoint they do not wish to support violates both settled constitutional law and the ideals of a free society.
Ask HN: Any chances that evolution changed us in the past 2000 years?
2000 is an arbitrary number here. I just wonder if we still evolve as a species. Is there any modern research regarding this? At what point scientists will say that Homo Sapiens is a thing of a past and will call us something else.
I've heard of the McDonald's theory many years ago and I do somewhat agree that it works. But I'm not so sure that Seinfield for conversation-starting works in a similar way. I was an immigrant in the US from Asia. Even though that was almost 25 years ago and I've lived in the US for far longer than in Asia now, I'm still not familiar with Seinfield; and that's the case for many other immigrants friends I know as well.

But take that idea further, I'm not even talking about Seinfield in particular. Let's say we use any subject-X for this purpose of conversation-starting. I'm not a natural conversationist, and most conversations with acquaintances or strangers often end in awkward silences after a sentence or two. I've had great conversations sure, but usually it's because they happen to touch on very specific topics that I really am interested in. In other words, I don't really buy this whole idea that all you need to do is to start with a topic common enough, and the conversation flows. It just hasn't been my experience.
That's fair, thanks for answering, cheers :)
I had a similar problem with a rented bike. Once I reached the destination station I tried to hook it into the parking thingy, but it didn’t lock. Luckily I noticed.

However, the bike computer didn’t think it was rented anymore, so it didn’t let me attempt to lock it again.

I had to spend half an hour on the phone with their support, until they redirected me to somebody who could login to the parking thingy remotely and manually control it.

Cherry on top: I found out later that their tech support phone number is taxed. The call cost me something like 5x the ride cost.

That’s when I decided to buy a bike and be done with these crappy services.
As an Indian acquaintance explained to me bluntly: if you were going to die of Covid, in that part of the world you've probably already died of something else.
Can you elaborate?

I can share about SoloKeys (https://github.com/solokeys/solo), an open security key.

We set up a company and therefore have employees/founders working on the project. It's for profit and we make money selling the hardware product. We grew the community on github, kickstarter, crowdsupply and by collaborating with similar projects in the space (e.g., NitroKey, Tomu/Fomu, Signet, OnlyKey).
Reader mode appears to only show the first half of the article.

Hardly ideal, but there is a pdf version of the full thing: https://www.researchaffiliates.com/content/dam/ra/documents/...
Are there any companies or organizations working to protect Internet freedom?
Same in Germany during the quarantine when some big chain gyms kept collecting membership fees even though the government said it's not legal to, they did it anyway.

Your only way to get justice was to take them to court, which would cost you more than the fees and since Germany doesn't have a class action lawsuits framework, each member would have to sue the gym separately.
Does anyone have informed opinion about the usability / value / relevance / quality of the Neural network support on this chip ?

Their page mentions spec with :

• SiFive U74 RISC-V Dual core with 2MB L2 cache @ 1.5GHz
• Vision DSP Tensilica-VP6 for computing vision
• NVDLA Engine (configuration 2048 MACs@800MHz )
• Neural Network Engine (1024MACs@500MHz)

So this board seems to have some great support for neural net / robotics processing ?

I have just noticed the recent trend of neural hardware support on mainstream chips... Apples M1, this chip.

Wondering what the implications are for software and user-space .. what kind of devices / apps will this enable ?

One area Im interested in is turning lidar scanner point data into 3D geometry on the device, thus solving a big data management issue.
Well, only the west coast of Europe. And only if the Gulf Stream stops.
I would expect an AC3200 router to be more expensive than a WRT54GL (which is $40 today). More capable hardware with a more expensive BOM will come at a higher price.
The top 2 economic problems of 2021: "I can't afford rent or food" and "I don't know what to do with all my extra money".
To add to this: if the religiosity of modern Christian denominations is off-putting - I recommend taking a look at Unitarian Universalism. If I _had_ to pick a church to try and attend today that didn't grate with my morals, I'd probably start my search here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
Sure, debt doesn't just go away. But there's no loan, so why are you talking about debt? The grandparent comment is talking about online subscriptions. If you stop paying your your subscription, then they'll terminate service. Likewise if you stop paying your insurance premium you won't be able to file any claims. But unpaid subscriptions don't magically become debt.

If you don't pay your electricity or water bill then that's a different story because utilities are not allowed to just stop service for things people's lives depend on. But utilities are more heavily regulated than normal subscriptions. For the most part, if a company tries to keep you from terminating a subscription and you say, "well, I'm not paying anymore. Do you still want to keep providing the service for free?" it's an effective way to get them to terminate service.
>Bitcoin has a brand recognition advantage over the others

It's a little more than brand recognition: there's also a network effect involved (à la Facebook / WhatsApp) that makes it hard for the other cryptos to compete even though they may have better tech.

There's also the hashing power, which - if you leave the tree-hugging arguments aside for a second - secures the network integrity quite effectively and is hard to match by contenders.
Likely your dad did it for himself, you, your mother, and your siblings , rather than a corporation.
> Maybe it's just me but whenever I read Elixir, Phoenix or Ecto's docs I can't really relate to them. It feels like they are written for a completely different type of person and very rarely do they focus on practical applications of something.

My only experience before Phoenix was Django, and I have to say, even though it took a little while to wrap my head around Phoenix, it was about the same time it took to get my head around Django. Once I did, I found Pheonix to be more expressive and exceedingly productive.
I think Trump has become radioactive, even within the republican party. They may not want to impeach (and I am not sure what is the point of impeaching a president after he left office) but I doubt a come back is on anyone’s mind at this stage. But Trump’s electorate will remain however.
I’ve seen people speak about applications of LBM-based models in medical contexts like modeling blood in arteries with complex geometries. You can see applications on the pages for OpenLB and Palabos, which I believe are some of the more mature implementations of Lattice Boltzmann. Unfortunately it’s a bit hard to find references to industrial users since in my experience most industrial users don’t advertise the methods that they are using. I usually would find out about them by meeting people from industry at conferences where these tools would be talked about like the SIAM conferences and HPC conferences like SuperComputing. At one of my old jobs where some folks were implementing parallel LBM tools one of our major industrial partners came from the petroleum industry, and they were interested in flow through complex geometries to model fluids + porous rocks.
As long as you're guaranteeing correctness[0], it's hard to disagree with the "simple" approach. As long as you don't over-promise or under-deliver, there's no problem, AFAICS.

[0] Via mutex in your case. Have you thought about durability, though. That one's actually weirdly difficult to guarantee...
Well, people didn’t use to have a lot of things, it’s still a big problem if you ban certain people from a platform but not others. Those that are allowed gain a huge advantage.

It’s especially problematic if these de facto monopolies take sides in elections.
Can I install those drivers and do they run even if I don't own the pertinent hardware?
Assuming you know it exists and where.
The older HiFive Unleashed (1.5 GHz single-issue) builds things considerably faster on a per-core basis than qemu-system on current amd64 (or at least did in the Skylake generation). The dual-issue cores in the HiFive Unmatched should be around 50% faster.

amd64 machines do have the advantage that you can get them with 32 or 64 cores and hundreds of GB of RAM -- at a price, especially in power consumption.

The three year old HiFive Unleashed uses around 5W to 6W at the wall when building flat out, considerably less than the maybe 25W a quad core i7 or Ryzen will use, with lower performance running qemu-system.

The new HiFive Unmatched probably has the same or lower power consumption, at 50% higher performance.

Running qemu on a Pi 4 would use about the same power as the RISC-V chip but be waaaaaaay slower.
Its tough making these decisions for the USA.

However there are over 100 countries with democracies or at least elections and in other languages and different cultures, how can social media platforms police content globally? Its a mess.
> have multiple ethernet ports

Could you say more about the use case you have in mind?
Anyone tried these build tools? What do you guys think? I only have used Webpack so far (used it since Webpack 1, and I still hate it today)
That want to allow inciting of violence on platforms? Serious question.

Edit to add: anyone going to answer or just downvote and ignore the question?
Canada has out of control immigration quotas, that will push wages down, and quite a large brain drain to the US.
I believe the argument is: AWS has the right (under current law), but that exercising this right is not always in the public's best interest.

How do we (the people) ensure good behavior?
"Easy" is a moveable feast.

Your phone is running an APK, which is a bunch of signed code. You don't have the keys to sign such an APK yourself, but you can get tools that will tell you exactly what's inside the one you have.

I believe the Java source in GitHub is designed to be capable of a reproducible build, where you get the exact same Java binaries out as Signal's own builders did and thus you can compare that to confirm the Java code in your APK matches a specific Git checkout.

The media files (e.g. images, labels) are just straight binary copies so that's easy enough.

However there is native code to make stuff like video calls work, and when I last paid attention there was no reproducible build for that component. So you could imagine that somehow the native video call code is actually a secret backdoor or something.
Attacking bitcoin would involve the energy supply of an entire nation and a suspiciously large purchase of mining rigs.
On a related note, they changed their name from "Drive By" last year. Apparently its still in the DNA though.
> Here's a tale of how you don't run a mobility startup

You forgot the very first lesson: pick a usable, recognisable name. "Miles" for a business like this is a terrible choice.
EU engineers should vote with their feet. That's the only way.
Considering same here. 300k valley salary ready to leave the valley and make maybe 100k in a country that isn’t fucked.
Is it possible that this is just because it's a beta and the flag will be back for the release? There doesn't seem to be anything indicating one way or the other.
Technically they could get the signature key, but they can't force Signal to publish it via the store. Users would have to download an .apk file and install it directly. At that point there is no reason to have the signing key at all as the phone will recognize a sideload as a third party install. As far as I know, the government cannot compel a company to do something like update an app.
Interesting, I didn't know that. What's the catch?
And if they go through with the lawsuit, win or lose, the man will be out thousands of euros in attorney fees, plus months of stress.
I'm trying to build https://teemops.com/ Also see app working at https://app.teemops.com and is open source on github https://github.com/teemops/teemops-ui... The goal of the project is to simplify AWS completely at the UI, but also API for multiple account, region and deployment scenarios... The problem with the AWS console itself is that I imagine it would also be tied so heavily into their control plane and several of their services that have different UIS (Take Cognito, Workdocs for example) that it would be a mission to maintain...
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I love how American "liberals" and leftists have found themselves arguing in favour of corporate control over people's lives to this extent. Truly amazing.
He said that today. One week later. It's great that he has said it but it doesn't undo what has happened.
Their first name was worse: "Drive By".
I got my higher education for free. I expect to save nothing for my children or their education. I expect to have to put aside very little for retirement.

The thing is, I just can’t find an argument why I should be able to get very rich doing my job. It’s a comfortable job. It pays a good salary. I got here by taking no risk at all. I wouldn’t want to switch jobs just to drive up my pay even if I could. I have other things to think about. I have worked 20 years in the same job and so have my colleagues. This is a cultural difference I feel.
Tell that to the institutions that are starting to pour 100s of millions of dollars into it.
> Most engineers don't add that much more value than other people in the company to justify earning 2x or more.

At an engineering firm? Seriously?
seconded. that's insane.
This sums up my thoughts quite well.

Even with the boutique money there we usually see someone's sob story about Apple pulling their app on a whim on HN quite often.
I think it’s exceedingly unlikely they will get back into power in anything like their current form. We will now see a democratic government that is fully aligned, and has deep ties with, silicon valley. The big tech industrial complex has infinitely more control over our thoughts and proclivities than any previous power center.
I wonder how much of the "death reports" are also just that F# is one of Microsoft's original successful invites for open source community contribution. It was so successful that some months the majority of Github contributions to F# come from outside of Microsoft and that can appear "dead" for "Microsoft officially supports this" rather than a sign that the project is healthy and seeing a lot of community love.
Qualcomm once had 7 engineers and zero lawyers. They hire lawyers much faster than they hire engineers
I've actually been using Openbase for the past few weeks -- I didn't realize it was backed by such big names. Before stumbling upon this site, I would spend hours trying to find the right package. Hopefully you guys will add more languages soon
Not OP, but if I could ask further... How much consistency can you tolerate on your reads? From the use case you mention I imagine... quite a lot, but you could risk locking yourself out of networks/systems if you get it wrong?

EDIT: Negation is important
Do these newspapers provide thought provoking articles, or just fuel confirmation bias for their readers? I was a subscriber of NYT for a few years, and the one time there was a dissenting opinion - that of Tom Cotton - it led to editors being fired.
WSJ seems better, maybe because business reporting tends to be somewhat less opinionated.
> My point about "something was there" still stands though. I've heard other debunking comments that simply dismiss it as a video issue, and that is what grinds my gears.

Forgive me if I was a bit defensive in the before comment, but I did not make the claim that nothing was there. I made the claim that there were better explanations. It is important that we try to characterize arguments individually and not group as "them". All that leads to is frustration and fighting. I'll say it takes two to tango but we should all work on not stoking the flames. I think this is a big lesson we as a society need to learn from recent events.
Or maybe other offices in Germany
> or an increase in collective actions taken by tech workers.

I don't see this happening anytime soon, worker-related collective action has been pretty much dead in the West for at least the past 15-20 years, even much so in an industry like ours with deep ideological roots in libertarianism. Even if we were to pass over the ingrained ideological biases, the money is too good for us to risk it.

> the emergence of new business structures for communications and media platforms,

Not sure what the author means by that. Will there be a new Trump-loving Twitter or FB? Probably not, at least not at that scale, and it will be all for the best, because we need to see behemoths like Twitter and FB perish (in Schumpeter's "creative destruction"-sense, before anyone starts flagging this post for inciting violence) and it's time we went back to the forum-like internet communities popular until the late 2000s (of which this website is one of the last active survivors).
Rep Swalwell (member of intelligence and judiciary committees) said on msnbc today that several republicans lawmakers told him they would vote no because they feared for their and their family’s safety. The Republican Party is afraid that Trump’s base will murder republicans who turn against Trump.
Doesn't mean he has to be impeached at this point.
Actually, it's a level playing for all ISPs. So if you want safety, support your smaller ISPs rather than the big names who are often under the surveillance radar and will still be using RPKI.
Platforms are like nuclear weapons. Nobody had them before, now the countries that have them are more powerful than everybody else. I think the analogy admittedly falls apart if you carry it too far.
But in Germany you don’t pay to the lawyers until you settle or lose in court.
Just like anything worthwhile is done: through free market competition. Build a successful startup, make some nice money and attract the best in the business to work for you by making them eye-popping offers. This will make your competitors react by raising their pay and with it the whole market.

It’s how Silicon Valley reached those salaries after all...
George Saunders on Story
Since they are based in Berlin I guess it’s not much of a problem?
are we not living with sars and mers? how is this ncov different?
After WWII when the Soviets took control of nations like Poland, they didn't flat out ban free speech.

But they did make sure only the communist-aligned outlets had unlimited access to paper.

Like so many censorship-happy people today, the USSR could also say that the government wasn't censoring speech. They were only controlling paper.
I disable swap. If I run out of RAM, thrashing may occur but it is not fatal. Some process that needs to write to "disk" might fail, but the system does not. I just delete some file(s) to free up the needed RAM, restart the process and continue working. I don't think NetBSD has anything like "OOM killer".

Note that one drawback with "disk-less" via read-only SD card or USB stick is how to have a good source of entropy at boot time.
Huxley, for one.
Maybe MIT president Rafael Reif could contribute some talent from the Media Lab for this project ... along with some gifts delivered courtesy of Epstein's fellating chick Neri Oxman!

I'm sure the Crown Prince could use a little more "reputation laundering" from his friends and supporters states-side after the CIA announced that it was the Crown Prince himself who ordered the assassination of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Epstein apparently was a good friend of the Saudi Crown Prince and visited him there on the eve of Mr. Trump's election:

https://www.insider.com/epstein-riyadh-saudi-arabia-private-...
He compares gcc with clang. Very stupid. At least he mentions it.
I had no idea thinkpad keyboards exist. Hmmh interesting.
Is anyone seriously more worried about the independent players of big tech than an oligarch who has roused the firepower and hatred of domestic terrorists across the country?

The rhetoric is really overblown.... these companies waited years and until the heads of state were fully under attack before they did much of anything.

This isn’t even about free speech. People can still say what they want.... they just don’t have an absolute right to broadcast it on every major platform.