skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Competition is competition."

Not if you have a state-backed cultish operation leveraging hyper nationalism and breaking all of the rules.

You can't compete with an entity that has unlimited cash, a massive spy apparatus behind it, access to financing from state owned banks that work with the central bank, where state banks print money to finance your customers, and completely asymmetric trade rules working in it's favour.

"Don't worry, we can make that for 1/5th the cost that you do, thanks to our labour laws back home (!) and the fact our IP appeared magically on our desks. And you don't even need to pay that money now - pay it later - our friendly CCP bank back home will give you unlimited credit! I might disagree with what I am telling you and everything bout it, but I've been trained since youth to store those notions deep inside and to never really speak the truth".
Voting reform - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNCHVwtpeBY4mybPkHEnR...

It strikes a good balance of something that would have profound systemic effects and influence many ongoing issues but at the same time it's also achievable.
Seeed launches BeagleV, a $150 RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
> Don't try to suggest ARM is an option - their pay is really uncompetitive.

Off-topic but: Is that so? For some reason I always thought they were on par with the American high-paying companies.
There's a lot of software which runs on macOS that depends on kernel extensions: think about hardware accelerated operations in Photoshop, or how does Apple plan to support any PCI Express expansion cards in the Mac Pro line - or Thunderbolt accessories for their laptops?
Or because svelte is not mainstream, it is used only by those who like it.

while react, vue and angular being mainstream, they are also being used by folks who may not be fully satisfied, but can't switch away to other tech
I think we can all agree that shouting into an empty field in Nebraska is quite different than grabbing a bullhorn in front of a crowd and encouraging them to attack people.

Twitter is no different.

Or if you like the fire analogy, shouting fire while you are by yourself is quite a bit different than doing it in a movie theater.
For a while Steven Greer has been saying the government is prepping for a false flag UFO "attack" to perpetuate war, this time against extra terrestrials.
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Just one portion?

Many portions I expect. And which portion depends on which bits of reality you look at it. If you think the current canon set of facts of the dominant ideology is 100% correct now when it wasn't any time in the past 2000 years, well... it's just not very likely.
>But nobody was funding Apple. U.S. just created the environment where tech business can thrive and let the competition do the rest. EU market on the contrary is still controlled by century-old companies.

The US tech sector is essentially pegged by the petrodollar. Countries have to use the dollar to sell oil and then invest their excess dollars in the US economy.
Talk to the team lead and ask for feedback. So far you have only your internal impressions and thoughts and they are worth nothing.
(IANAP -- this is not parenting advice ;) I speak mostly as a newly-minted adult who still remembers what it was like to be a child, when my world was small, so small decisions felt very important, especially when they were made without my input)

Children are people too, just with less experience. Your goal really isn't just "ban TikTok", it's "raise my children to develop healthy habits on their own and to recognize when they are being manipulated."

So, even if you ultimately decide to enforce parental controls, I hope you will bring your children into the decision-making process. Have an honest dialogue with your children about your concerns, and develop a space where they are free to share their own thoughts and feelings without fear of judgement. It's important that your mind is not already made up before you sit down at the table, as they'll sense it immediately. Repeat this often, and make it easy for anyone (yourself included) to express that their perspective has changed. Set a good example (by e.g. not using social media yourself) and apologize when you are wrong, so that your children learn that it's safe to do the same.

Encourage them to pursue healthier alternatives. Allow them to experiment and learn from their mistakes.
Again, the point is not to have an real language for any efficient real world usage. The point is to have a simplified language that represents a series of commands operating on a bank of memory. Like this:

SET 1 100 # Set memory[1] = 100
SET 2 500 # Set memory[2] = 500
ADD 3 1 2 # Set memory[3] = memory[1] + memory[2]

It's easy to explain what each individual step is meant to do and you can build up to more complicated instructions. It allows children to see the persistent effects of running the program, mutating the state of the memory, eventually introducing the instruction counter itself as a state variable.
Ah yes, the classic "if you are being abused it's your own fault". Even have the "grow a spine" trope in there.
> Learning to stand up for yourself and ask for what you need is a big part of the university experience.

You're not graded on standing up for yourself.

In this area universities are not different from standing in line or negotiating a job offer.
I think the 'good luck organising that' is the key bit.

The number of people who care enough about privacy to consider joining a union dedicated to protesting Google Ads but not enough to already use ad blockers isn't going to meaningfully affect traffic.
Out of curiosity, where in Europe do you live/work with such high rates?
I've both had my code savagely re-written, and savagely re-wrote a lesser's
code. Every good programmer is something of a control freak, and for good
reason. Nature of the beast I'm afraid. "Don't hate, appreciate" applies here.
But it seems they do, eg. rachelbythebay stopped using Wireguard because of the mess.
Back when AMD was jumping into the Arm server fray, I started fantasizing about an AMD Arm APU that was targeted at low power, embedded and mobile use. I say fantasy because at the time, aside from computer geeks, who would care about an Arm APU? Now Apple is doing just that.

AMD has an interesting portfolio of processors, gpus and now fpgas. So here's another fantasy: Amd Risc-V APU. AMD hasn't had a totally unique architecture since the am29000 (29k). So it would be interesting to see them build their own CPU arch using an open instruction set with their GPU. Start with a nice quad core that can handle a laptop or mini desktop a la NUC. Another fantasy would be an AMD Zynq.
Video editors, designers, and sound mixer are a few example professions where users mostly use Apple products. Most companies have designers.

Additionally, companies don't choose their whole software stack based on their VPN solution. They would just change a VPN solution if it's incompatible with what's there.
The Parler Bans Open a New Front in the 'Free Speech' Wars
I have speculated here that these moves were prompted by disclosures from law enforcement
Yeah, as much as parent complains about users not believing their time is valuable, my time is valuable too. I might not get back to you for a day or more because I have other shit to do.

Generally speaking, I don't even bother to file bug reports anymore. 70% of the time my issue is already in your issue tracker, sometimes has been for years, and nothing has been done about it despite multiple users giving you the logs and whatnot you've asked for anyway. I could be all "me too" in a vein attempt to convince you you really should fix this thing, but you're just as likely to be annoyed by the complaint and further deprioritize it in your mind.
By way of the Freedom of Information Act, thousands of the CIA documents on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), as the government calls them — are now accessible via download at the Black Vault, a website operated by author and podcaster John Greenwald Jr.

The CIA claims they have now provided all the information on UAP they have, though there is no way to know that’s true.

“Research by The Black Vault will continue to see if there are additional documents still uncovered within the CIA’s holdings,” Greenwald promised in a statement on his website.

The release comes months before the Pentagon was due to brief Congress on all they know about UAP — a date dictated in the most recent COVID-19 relief bill, of all places, which passed in late December.

The demands for alien intel became so many that the CIA eventually compiled it onto a CD-ROM, obtained by Greenwald and uploaded to the Black Vault, divvied into dozens of downloadable .PDFs.

Dr. Greer's assessment is that this is a continuation of the slow but steady narrative that UFOs and ETI are real but that they are a threat. The ETs are NOT the threat as Dr. Greer has continually stated. The threat is the military industrial complex juggernaut towards interplanetary war.

Please see his article : When Disclosure serves Secrecy.

From Dr. Greer's paper:

"Do not be deceived. You need to be awake to the darker scenarios which some would like to thrust upon the world. And you need to know that there are alternatives. If a ‘disclosure’ is unleashed on the world which is xenophobic, militaristic and terrifying, know that it comes from the spinmeisters of secrecy- regardless of how respectable the person or group may appear to be.

And remember: Part of this disclosure plan involves the use of UFO look-alike devices made by humans in an attack on Earth or military assets of Earth. This would be a well-orchestrated use of advanced human technologies to hoax an ET attack- all for the purpose of disclosing the truth with the desired military-oriented spin. In such a scenario, most of humanity will be deceived into believing the threat from space has arrived – and that we must fight it at all costs. This is nothing more than long-term social security for the military-industrial complex. There must be people who can expose this fraud.
..........

Here is another idea: Why don’t ‘we the people’ unite and launch a disclosure ......... An honest one. One which leads to peace, not war. To a sustainable and beautiful world, free of pollution and brimming with abundance, of all types. One which reaches out into the unknown, instead of firing particle beam weapons into the darkness of space."
That's pretty much it. There was talk of an EU-wide and -funded cloud provider or social network or something like that to gain more independence from US based companies, but right away there was squabbling with various countries arguing about what slice of the cake they should get and what part of the work they should be doing. That's just not going to work.

For innovation in Europe, we need a ton of independent money.
There is, but it's the main consideration to be honest...
I have changed the API a bit not be forced to have the S3 SDK if you are not using it.
Ask HN: Who is paying for servers/bandwidth used to build Docker images
Just wondering with containers being on the rise as well as continuous testing/integration apps such as CircleCi, Jenkins, GitHub Actions,...

When someone uses apt install curl to build a Docker image, curl package must be hosted somewhere by an organization which is paying for the storage and bandwidth.
Do these organizations rely only on donations?

Many new developers won't take advantage of Docker cached layers and reinstall over and over again linux dependencies, composer packages, ruby gems etc...

The real question is how can it be sustainable in the future as we are going to have more and more developers and more and more container images to build?
I am pre-disposed to hate Huawei, but I didn’t find the article compelling. Few of the sources were named with little justification for the anonymity. If they are ex-employee, what is the fear? Even about a court case, Huawei denies they were sued, yet the article doesn’t address whether court records dispute that.

As for the terrible working conditions, the article takes an absurdly long time to make a few tepid points. Chinese expats don’t mingle with the locals. They are rotated if they do develop ties with the local population.

The articles asserts that employees are handcuffed by payment in shares. When leaving the company, they must sell their shares. The articles says this robs them of their retirement. How? Must they be sold at a loss? When my employer matched my retirement contributions in shares, I was pissed that I couldn’t sell until I quit.

Again, I would love to hate Huawei, but this article isn’t doing it for me.
> One drop of water doesn't mean it's raining.

The German Mittelstand is famous for their "hidden champions" - in fact, 48% of small-ish "world market leaders" are German, while only 28 of the big "Top 500" are (per https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40796571).

The problems with our Mittelstand are a) modern IT technologies (the amount of Mittelstand companies operating on fax-ed POs or with extremely shoddy IT setups is... mind blowing) and b) finding new and competent staff, given that many young people move to cities because the rural areas are unliveable.
How do those of us without a 3D printer obtain one?
Would be difficult in the U.S. it seems... we’ve allowed corporations to convince an increasingly impoverished population that holding corporations to account is “un-American”.
Other kids' phones may not.
The content your parent comment refers to was (partly) what I saw when I installed it and scrolled through the default suggestions before it had the chance to learn anything about me. Sure there was a lot of harmless and just silly stuff, but the amount of animal abuse like https://twitter.com/noellesdesigns/status/122443946827220992... that scrolled by made me stop using the app.
Free speech in the constitution applies to the government, it has absolutely nothing to do with tech companies managing their own products. No one is delegating anything.
People who work at Chinese companies such as TikTok speak about how differently they are treated if they are not Chinese, you can even see this all over Blind.

You can judge a culture without looking at their race.
Zero fertility would introduce an aging crisis.
You absolutely have to be conscious of reactivity and how that stuff works in React as well. This is complexity that you as a dev have to deal with in some way.

Svelte and React makes different tradeoffs in how they expect developers to deal with this.

Personally I think maybe Svelte makes a better tradeoff. I've seen so many people make variables instead of using useState, etc… because that's the kind of thinking they're used to.

In Svelte that would simply work for the simple cases, but you'd have to use $: someVar for the more complex cases. I think requiring having to deal with that complexity only when you need it is a more reasonable way to do it compared to React.
I assume because AWS has to run SQL Server on real Windows machines and Amazon couldn't negotiate a good licensing rate from MS.
> At one end of the scale, the work set on monday this week for my kids (elementary school age) was done in 50 minutes for one, and 30 minutes for the other.

> On the other hand other parents are saying there is too much work to do.

High School CS teacher here. I definitely relate to this. Even when we were in person, I had students who could finish a project in 20 minutes, and others who would take two or three class periods.

Working remotely seems to exacerbate this difference. The students finishing in 20 mins still finish in 20 minutes, but the ones who took days before are often the same students who never reach out for help, and in many occasions don't even attend virtual meetings.

Now I definitely have room for improvement as far as keeping on students and parents to get things done, but it's also just a lot harder to hold someone responsible for their work when you aren't looking over their shoulder every day.
Svelte is still quite new. you would have better luck with vue. and much better luck with react if you can make the leap to it from angular
nicely well written and funny article. It captures the spirit of hacking very well
This just shows you haven’t actually tried writing code with it. Variables are reactive without the $ when used in templates. You only need it for derived expressions.

If you think reactivity is the frameworks’ job I see no reason to praise React at all - especially with hooks you will be manually handling dependencies and updates everywhere, feels like a huge step back.
The importance of genes for determining intelligence in humans is also available in Nature, etc. But a large proportion of the population still delusionally believe everyone is the same. Mostly due to filter bubbles.
What if the non-profit is located outside of the US (and is considered a non-profit in its local jurisdiction)? Do they need to apply for a 501(c)(3), that is if they even can?
>Is 18 some magic age where people wisen up?

Yes, to the extent we accept it so much we made it into law. Though the law does seem to pick a few different age groups for other things based on a seemingly arbitrary standard. Lower for driving, even though bad driving could kill innocent bystanders. Higher for smoking, even though smoking only kills yourself. You can even sign up and join the military a year before you are able to vote for the politicians who control it.
Hue is not a multi-billion industry though, there's no ridiculous growth or profit margins, and it's not (read: no longer) a unique product, with companies like ikea jumping on the same bandwagon.
> Some letterforms are not topologically equivalent and cannot be transformed into each other.

But this does not seem like a fundamental limitation, just a temporary implementation detail. If you represent shapes implicitly using a condition like "u(x,y)>0", then there's no topology changes involved and you can dance between all the letters just by changing smoothly the values of u.
Doesn't this mostly boil down to "C99 and C++ aren't compatible anymore"?

One of the big gotchas of C++ is that lots of people think it's a superset of C, but that's only (mostly) correct for ANSI C (C89).

In my experience not even C99 is completely compatible with C89. One of the initial pain points when clang was young was that GCC used C89 as default, so lots of old stuff didn't build out of the box due to changes to how `inline` behaves or undefined symbols not being allowed anymore.
https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/15/spotify-gets-hit-with-a-pa...
No. The crisis of confidence is because certain folks claimed for months before the election (without any evidence) that it would be rigged.

And then when those same folks didn't get the result they wanted, they screamed "See! I told you it was rigged!" for another two months, again without presenting any evidence at all.

They those very same folks turn around and say "people are concerned that the election was rigged? How could that be unless there are questions that need to be answered!"

Widespread fraud in US elections is damn near impossible. Each county runs their own elections, all 3,143 of them.

And each of those 3,143 counties have their own election boards, election commissioners (of both major parties), poll workers, polling/canvassing observers (for each candidate from every party on each of 3,143 different ballots).

There are tens of thousands of people involved with interested observers from all sides watching the voting and the counting.

As such, some sort of widespread conspiracy makes no sense. As Ben Franklin is purported to have said, "three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." Thousands? I think not.

What's more, more than 60 lawsuits (heard by judges of all political stripes, many of whom were appointed by Trump himself) in seven states showed no evidence of voting irregularities that could have affected the outcome.

Note that I said "irregularities" and not "fraud" or "cheating." Because except for those whack jobs Powell and Lin, who were laughed out of court for, not lack of evidence, but no evidence at all, none of the other lawsuits even alleged, let alone provided any evidence of fraud.

It was a prime example of The Big Lie[0]. And it worked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
yup https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/15/spotify-gets-hit-with-a-pa...
I know, I just wanted to outline what a possible solution could look like without nationalising companies. It would be to offer 230-like protections only under certain conditions.
You can both complain about how a problem was created in the first place, AND sell solutions to help people navigate the problem at the same time.

I don't see the issue.

What I find ironic, is how much HN despises anybody who tries to make money from their work. There's a bizarre ideal here of the selfless internet "Mother Theresa," who exclusively works on open source projects and only shares things with the world out of passion.

You could spend 3 years compiling research on an extremely valuable topic and publish it for free...but if you put a newsletter sign-up form on the page, somebody here will complain about it.

Strange, considering HN is hosted by an entrepreneurship incubator.
I've still got PTSD from NFS so I would want to see some really abusive testing to know that this was more reliable than a vendored NFS SAN.
It is deceptive and misleading text to try to invite clicks (as no data was stolen). That's pretty much the definition of clickbait.
Is it legal? I thought you can run MacOS only on Mac hardware.
I'm probably exaggerating in my memory, but I think I recall seeing an internship offer from ARM that was the same daily rate as Oracle were offering hourly.
Is there a decent Modern C# tutorial or book? I learned it in early 2000's, which was lacking many the new features and syntax improvements.
Passive aggressive behaviour, which sounds very unprofessional.

If his manager is enabling or ignoring this behaviour, I would wager there is some toxic culture in action here.

Having said that, you should have a manager that you can give and get feedack to and from. Be open to criticism but also note any behaviour you feel is unfair or unbalanced.

If it looks like noone cares to openly discuss this behaviour I would start looking for a new job.
Agreed -- but I also have to say, setting up OBS to use your iPhone as a virtual camera is pretty trivial.
WFH makes it easier for transgender employees to come out
Sure, that is a possibility and I would love this. But for 2020 and the survey in general: satisfaction is a skewed metric. Take it with a grain of salt.
That's all homes empty for any reason, not just "purchased by foreign investors and left empty", which is what i'm talking about. It's still a tiny number compared to the size of the city.

Here's a report, covering England but with some extra detail on London, from 2019:

https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?ID...

Table 5 tells us that in London, there were a grand total of 2126 empty homes in council tax bands G and H, ie the kind of property an investor might buy. The vast majority of empty homes are not offshore investment material.
I suggest we focus on our own problems and lead by example. Sanctions and dropping bombs only hurts the common man. Let's clean up our own incarceration problems before we stick our nose in others' business, at least we won't come off as hypocrites.