skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt this gets downvoted to oblivion lol. The simple question is... why does a country like China get to stay homogenous and barely educate foreigners, and yet they send all their best to get educated in the west and then most go back and implement the fruits of their knowledge in China. Then this empowers a CCP security/warfare apparatus that will eventually destroy the west.

The kumbaya people are so naive.
Philosophically:
I've seen some "bespoke" systems like this that live long enough for a nice off-the-shelf solution to come around that solves the problem much more elegantly and efficiently than the "bespoke" one does. This seems like a normal and dare I say organic path for these kind of systems to take.

I don't even mind senior devs putting together things like this at the cornerstone of the company provided there are always at any given point in time 2 people that know how it works and can work on it, and sufficient time was spent looking at existing solutions to make that call. It should be made with full expectations that the first paragraph is inevitable.

Specifically, in this case:
Without any actual data (# of reads, # of writes, size of writes, size of data, read patterns, consistency requirements) it is not possible to judge whether going custom on such a system was merited or not. I would find it VERY difficult to come to the conclusion that this use case couldn't be solved with very common tooling such as spark and/or nats-streaming. "provided the entire dataset fits in memory" is a very large design liberty when designing such a solution and doesn't scream "scalability" or n+1 node write-consistency to me. I say this acknowledging full well that etcd is an unbelievably well written piece of software with durability and speed beyond it's years.

Keeping my eyes open for that post-series-a-post-mortem post.
In a move that shouldn't (but will) surprise, Telegram has started removing groups right wing groups.
Wait, the WSJ is 'liberal' media now? I thought they were as bejowled-old-conservative as you could get.
http://www.miniware.com.cn/product/ts100-soldering-iron-pack...

An open source soldering iron, original by a Chinese company Miniware. I don't know how good their sales are, but the iron is so good it got that Louis Rossmann praised it (for the price, ofc). And it seems to be very popular (probably not nearly as much as Weller, but hey).
> It’s absurd to think that anyone was trying to murder anyone

I'm certain the family of the cop that was beat to death[1] or the aides hiding in their offices, some of which may have had their panic buttons removed prior sometime prior to the rioting[2] or Nancy Pelosi, who had an opposition senator live-tweeting her location[3] during the insurrection, or the guy who drove up from Alabama with a list of names, 3 handguns, an AR15 and a cooler full of molotov cocktails [4] would all beg to differ.

https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/loss-uscp-c...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/01/13/democratic-...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/12/nation/colorado-repub...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/alabama-man-charged-posse...
It's very true. I bought an M1 laptop a few weeks ago, and I'm near Seattle right now in the middle of a long power outage with no end in site, and suddenly the amazing battery life of this laptop is even more valuable.
"The Fidelius Charm (incantation unknown) is an extremely difficult, multifaceted and potent charm that can be used to conceal a secret inside an individual's soul; the witch or wizard who houses the secret is known as the Secret Keeper.[1] A dwelling whose location has been protected by this spell is then invisible, intangible, unplottable and soundproof. This is an extremely old spell, one of the most ancient of all."[0]

it's sort of like an in-world deus ex machina device, much like many of the spells and artifacts in the HP franchise.

[0] : https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Fidelius_Charm
From Amazon's response to the lawsuit... 'The email also notes Parler “remove[s] some violent content when contacted by us or others, but not always with urgency,'
That is until they die from a simple infection.
Supermicro Reveals AMD Threadripper Pro Workstation: 64 Cores, 4 GPUs, 2TB RAM
Background noise or high cycles will likely disturb the specificity it is seeking. Thus meaning a common cold individual being tested may in fact just have a common cold virus of sorts.
I think Gab has a fair point here. They are under more scrutiny and thus claim to have developed more sophisticated moderation systems to detect and rapidly refer potentially illegal content to law enforcement (I was listening to the linked podcast interview with their CEO).
I genuinely believe that this is a case of incompetence willful or not. Who knows, maybe someone at parler knew and never raised the issue because they were disgruntled and actively shot down security measures....kind of like what I did before

Basically a startup I worked for 12 years ago were fucking me big time on compensation so I purposefully argued against encrypting the database knowing how shoddy their security was. I didn't allow ANYONE to secure the backend. 4 years later, their database gets leaked and they get "acquired" for an "undisclosed amount" which usually means they sold themselves at a huge discount pending lawsuits.

No regrets. They were the single most worst offenders of labor exploitation. Serious human rights violations were going on and I did what I had to do. Take them down with the same incomptence they have shown towards me and others they exploited.
Sure! In fairness espionage may be too harsh a charge, but theft under the circumstances isn’t a much better one.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-11-18%20PSI%...
Could you give an example (or a link) that demonstrates this higher-dimensional syntax? Are there things you can express with it that couldn't be expressed in S-expressions?
As a mid-30s engineer, one evening I went to my VP of Engineering and suggested that we could be a lot more profitable if we cut back to half our staffing levels and concentrated on excelling at just our core product. She smiled politely and told me we had much brighter future than that.

As a late 40s VP at that same company, we’re about 25x the revenue and a greater ratio than that of free cash flow, employ far more people, and serve far more customers. That’s not in any way sad.
And that's okay.
Well, people have stopped using it literally, so I don't see what it can be except a pejorative for subjectively "old" people, usually. If you actually argue that people younger than about 55 aren't boomers, you'll just be told that's not what the word means any more.

If you are a boomer, then I agree, why should you feel insulted?
This happened so quickly I suspect there was never a decision for or against. Pretty likely a boneheaded engineer did what us boneheaded engineers do and cut corners, likely with all of the fun boneheaded management and deadlines that come along for the ride.

Why, you might ask, would this be a matter of cutting corners? Well, fault tolerance is hard. What happens when the OS can’t reach external services it depends on for security features? Well, Apple found out recently in quite an embarrassing way. Given the almost immutable yearly release cycle, I would be astonished if they didn’t just duct tape some whitelist in because a more resilient solution wasn’t ready.
> Remember the whole drive to push all the Techies out of SF? Remember rocks getting thrown at the Google busses? It's both.

This is primarily attributable to two causes:

1. distorted views that result directly from inequality and the extreme poverty some communities have: to the (stereo)typical Tenderloin resident, as person who is able to afford a modest 3/2 townhome appears to be vastly wealthy

2. the mistaken view of techies, themselves, as being in the same class as those who actually are wealthy, and presenting as such (including the disaffected/indifferent attitude towards those in even lower socioeconomic brackets), which reinforces (1)

> At the end of the day Bezos makes headlines but his personal largesse has very little effect on most people in the country. It has very little impact on the lives of folks getting "pushed out" of SF. That's the folks he employs.

That's so out of line with actual reality it's best classified as "not even wrong." I don't even know where to begin with it. The people pushing others out in SF are not Bezos' employees; they're a tiny, tiny fraction of tech workers, most of whom won a VC/IPO lottery.

Bezos and his social class benefit immensely from the lower socioeconomic classes in-fighting. For example, by some thinking paying a laborer more will lead to more inequality.
That's absolutely a fair position to take. But you have to realize that it's moving the goalposts from your original one, which was that anything short of free speech absolutism is "censorship".

Discussions like this are frustrating, because one side frames it as though they're defending free speech from the insidious censors — except it's painfully obvious that if you push them enough, they'll admit that yes, there is some speech they're fine getting rid of. It takes a ton of effort to get back to that baseline, and the actual conversation about acceptable speech never happens.

Because if you don't support literal free speech absolutism — with child porn, spam, et al. — then you have to draw a line somewhere. By definition. And we can debate where that line should be drawn, but the debate is still between people who agree on the principle that some speech is unacceptable. Not between Team Freedom and Team Censorship.
Sadly Apple hasn't said anything about their plans for PWA notifications/web push. If I was to guess, I'd say we may see them introduce some type of web notification support late this year. But it could easily take longer or not happen at all.
Feels like Microsoft during the Balmer years. Instead of Linux and Mac ascendant, you have AMD and ARM... it doesn’t seem impossible to think a Satya Nadella could turn things around.
Supporting opt-in nested mutations in GraphQL
Given how they have been always marketing on the privacy aspect, and this exception they made for themselves has been found out and shown to be bad for privacy, I'm not surprised.
> So in a world where processor design becomes a commodity, what does that mean for Intel and AMD? And what does that mean for the overall datacenter, consumer markets?

Processor design is already a commodity, and has been for many years. Any company with the cash can buy a license to the ARM64 instruction set and the reference core design, and have someone like TSMC or Samsung manufacture it.

These designs haven't taken over desktop market from x86 yet because those designs simply weren't performance-competitive with what AMD and Intel are pumping out, and it's not clear that that'll change anytime in the foreseeable future.

Apple knocked it out of the park with the M1, but they've been kicking ass for years, including their competition in the ARM processor space. Just because Apple's processors happened to use an ARM instruction set, doesn't imply that an ARM revolution is upon us.
You did not answer the question, you just repeated the initial claim.
> Does your definition of the West include Latin America?

No
WSJ, amongst other news sites, has provided coverage: https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-backed-by-mercer-family-...

You can read about the Mercers winding up Cambridge Analytica, which they funded: https://apnews.com/article/64280ae1f30c44eb8b82049f6875dddd

Likewise their involvement with Brietbart: https://www.dw.com/en/who-are-the-mercers-the-wealthy-backer...

As far as the "millions" figure, that's come out of claims that their AWS bill was in the region of $300k per month.
They're easy to miss. The one near me is part of a Shell station and the only clue that it's there is a 2 x 3 foot drive-thru sign.

I will second the recommendation. They're quite good.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.1917316,-98.0886381,3a,75y,2...
That doesn't do much. One can easily switch to another ip within the same host provider. The real problem is censoring the name, which they claim to have resolved.
and here I was thinking that in the near past that's what I used to do (storage appliance, networked, remote accessible).
Sounds like you’re agreeing with Epictetus

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters”

In your case the cockroach didn’t change, you found a different way to frame the cockroach. In turn you react to it differently.
Yes, it's as easy as those two commands, unless you want people to actually receive your emails.
RISC-V grows globally as an alternative to Arm and its license fees
Dropbox makes constant notifications on your desktop about upgrading alongside emails. I'd have considered paying for them if they weren't like this but now I never will. Maybe they'd have an easier time being profitable if they didn't push away all their long term users.
Intel innovates in process. Everything else is ruled by backwards compatibility and frenetic management scared to stay the course. (The vast majority of projects are killed if they don't tape out in ~2 years.)

Intel will shift to a TSMC model. They have the best fabs on the planet, and the best fab engineers. I believe it is something like a 3 millions dollars lost per minute if they are idle. They have already started doing that a few years ago, I suspect this will be their final form.

IMHO: The only thing holding them back from the transition are the hundreds of small boondoggle-groups staffed by old-timers too scared to retire, and too scared to do something daring, yet still somehow hang on to their hidey-holes. They lost a ton of key architects to Apple a few years ago, which I also suspect was the reason why the M1 is so badass.

...and if you really want to get sentimental, here's an AMD poster we had in our cubes back in ~1991:

https://linustechtips.com/uploads/monthly_2016_03/Szg2Ppo.jp...

The Sanders-as-Indiana was both funny and infuriating....

(The Farrah Fawcett looking woman was Sander's bombshell wife, compared to Grove at the time, who drove a beat up old car.)
Sure, but reducing inequality is as much about pulling the bottom up as it is pulling the top down. If you bring people closer together you solve both (1) and (2).
Any analysis that says that Intel's death is being precipitated by AMD and Apple rather than by TSMC is pretty much worth ignoring.

The fact that they're almost equivalent to those two at 5nm when Intel is at 14nm+++++++++ shows how killer the RTL and tape out folk are at Intel.

The real fight has always been at the fab layer.
Given recent AWS activities. One can foresee AWS dropping routing request for sites they don't like.
That does not answer the question. Why should someone's income depend on their output? Why is that the ethically correct outcome?
I assume you're being glib, since it's been mentioned elsewhere that more Europeans move to America than the reverse. In which case...

You're missing the point, which is that the higher baseline QoL means that it's better to be poor / middle class in Germany or UK than it is to be poor / middle class in the United States.

With regard to immigration rates, there are many factors to consider:

Yes, some small percentage of Americans can get lucky and make the jump from middle class to upper-middle- or upper-class, perhaps enticing Europeans who hope to get that high-paying SV job.

However, moving your entire life from one country to another requires a certain amount of social and financial security. The argument might be made (whether or not it's true--I don't know) that more Europeans move because more Europeans have the financial means to move, along with a quality education that enables them to outcompete domestic American talent. It might be that many Americans want to leave, but are trapped into staying for social / political / economic reasons (e.g. "if I leave, my elderly parents will have no one to care for them due to our expensive healthcare system").

So without further investigation, the inflow/outflow rates can't really be used to support either side of the argument, even putting aside that the number of people who leave their home country is peanuts compared to the number of people who remain.
Yes, I would've considered it if they hadn't been so obnoxious to me.
John Carmack Essays
“We may collect, use, and share End User Information in an aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized manner (that does not identify you personally) for any purpose permitted under applicable law.”
Without saying anything at all about what is and is not appropriate censorship policy there is a significant difference between facebook and twitter.

Twitter is all in public. I don't need a twitter account to be able to read posts from any twitter account. [1][2]

Facebook is private. Given I have no account I can't see any posts on facebook at all. Facebook can target the mentally unstable with incendiary, racist, sexist, violent and awful content /in/ /secret/. Whether by ads or through groups or similar. You have no idea what privately broadcasted communication is happening there at all. You probably have no idea of the nature of something as simple as political advertisements targeting those of a different political persuasion. None at all. It's dark to all of us.

These are two quite different ways of broadcasting. You may wish to regulate communication on both or one but not the other or neither. Unless it's neither you favour it seems unlikely that the same regulation and enforcement is appropriate for each of these things.

[1] Locked accounts on twitter don't appear to be a significantly used thing. Will obviously update that opinion in the light of better information, eg if it turns out that violent groups coordinate and recruit using locked twitter accounts. I don't believe much like that to be happening at the moment.

[2] Without anything more than a browser you can read for example, Glenn Greenwald's latest twitter post at time of writing. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1349514741358669824
Then agree, disagree, decide if he's a russian spy or a principled journalist focused on social justice, brilliant or a moron, or just right or wrong on just this one thing or you may decline to form a view. It's not secret. It's not communication happening behind your back that you don't know exists. (This particular post is also obviously not incitement to violence).
It is if they can sell (their shares) quick enough!
it more so prevents people from retroactively going back in time and scraping data they wouldn't have in the moment. Many of my chats expire all messages after 24 hours because of this.

Most people will not archive all texts they get in the moment, it's only after some fallout or event happens they there's motivation to dig up old messages.
Good observation. The only thing that kept MS going was the massive inertia of Win & Office. It bought them time to pivot to the cloud. And now we have things like VSCode, an ElectronJS app, which is the first microsoft product I've adored in two decades. And TypeScript, which has made the world a better place.
I'd be cautious about the use of "We Can't Save It" in the title of this article. This industry has a history of big players losing steam and then making big comebacks.
Maybe try with zentao.pm for a scrum tool, self-hosted, open source version available.
Twitter Spaces vs. Clubhouse
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With competent federal coordination and incentives, all 50 states could have used their emergency powers or even legislation to implement stricter lockdowns with real enforcement.

State and local police would enforce it, again, with the proper incentives. Fire the few local yokel sheriffs refusing to enforce. They have the ability, need the willingness. If they can catch me going 70 in a 45 or avoiding my income taxes, they can catch me going to Olive Garden.

We have the political ability but not the political will.
*More terms:
Burn rate, API, task force, pulse oximeter, backup, CSR, DAU, viral marketing, risk, VOC, demo day, false pos/neg, LBP, R-CNN, controlled variables, exit, acqhire, barrier-free, ontology, limited partner, elevator pitch, MVP, ghost, scale up
But you're all over the place arguing that pulling some in the bottom (SWEs) up will increase inequality.

Unless you believe--quite wrongly--that SWEs aren't in the bottom....
Great to see a technologist back in charge of Intel. This was a company that was founded and CEO’ed by top-tier engineering elite. AMD’s CEO is an MIT PhD with long track record of technical achievement earlier in her career. Intel needs the same.
Realistically, Intel only have to get one process node right to either be right back in the game or buy themselves years more time to play with. They are currently somewhere between 3-5 times behind TSMC lithographically, but nowhere near that far behind in raw performance, which suggests that they could at very least knock AMD off their perch in single-threaded work.

Obviously process nodes are much harder than pretty much anything in the cloud, but this is a serious test of (pure and simple) whether their leadership has the (gender-neutral) balls to not back down.
You are wrong for doing that and you should feel bad but you can't.
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How many coins?
Is it just the VC thing? There is heaps more money sloshing around in Silicon Valley than anywhere in Europe.

Then market dynamics have come in and you fund 1 company with a gazillion dollars it pays Market + 30% then another company gets a gazillion and it pays Market + 30% + 30% (of course it isn't all cash it's tied up in options, and bonuses etc).

So when someone at google say earns 350k/annum* it's not as insane as that sounds to a european because they actually mean something like: 180k (money) / 100k (shares) / 70k bonus (I mean it's still insane). So having companies and a healthy stock market, and bonuses are usually tied to performance of individual and/or company so It's possible in a bad year they dont get their bonus and their shares reduce heavily in value.

* No idea if this is even ballpark, but just random names and numbers for example sake
If Taiwan ends up getting trampled by China, we'd effectively only have Samsung for cutting edge lithography.
Having worked at Apple and other big companies it's almost always Engineers and PMs making these decisions. It's not like Tim Cook or Craig Federighi is running around demanding people add Apple apps to a firewall exclusion list. They have much bigger things to worry about.

It's just that as an engineer you are often in a bubble and can't foresee every implication of your decision. That's why Apple has the Developer and Public Beta releases for iOS/OSX so that external users can provide feedback. And on this occasion just like on many other they will take action if necessary.
No, as someone who does often criticize Apple for taking away control from their users, this is a good move.

Their original action that triggered this was them wanting to own your Mac.
So if foreign talent recruitment is espionage bordering on theft then choking up the immigration pathway for trained scientists to become residents is arson too.
Curious why you phrased Apple listening to their customers in such a negative way. Maybe from pessimism bias?

I observe a lot of HN commenters don't vibe with how Apple controls & develops their ecosystem. Yet, instead of go elsewhere, complaining and acting like being oh so very special enough to know how things should be done is preferred; while expecting a major company to just cater to their personal whims.

I'm unsure if it's entitlement I'm witnessing or just people that feel like they have no faith in Apple's competition at making anything better than Apple currently has.
IDK the issue OP saw with using ISO over UNIX timestamps, but one reason why you might want accuracy down to the second for dates is with providing accurate relative time/date across timezones.
Anyone know who pars TSMC?