skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the details. I've now added a new entry to my list of places never to go. I do hope those little guys were able to resettle somewhere less prone to anthropogenic climate change ;)

Places to Avoid, list written + maintained by Arthur Collé:

[] Deep space [added: after seeing Gravity]

[] Mariana Trench [added: after seeing Underwater]

[] Amazon rainforest [NEW, added: 2021-01-20]
This was always going to be the outcome of attempting to subvert governments, central banks, and other interconnected institutions with technology.

Laws versus tech, the law almost always wins (one of the few scenarios I'm familiar with where tech "won" was the reversal of PGP being treated as an export restricted munition [1] [2]). Tech is just a tool, and the arguments for crypto currencies compared to traditional fiat digitally represented (Central Bank Digital Currencies aka CBDCs [3]) just aren't that compelling (especially with countries, 54 so far more on the way, continuing to roll out instant payment networks [4]). This emboldens the very real observation Ms Yellen makes that crypto exists to obfuscate the transfer and storage of value against the intent of government financial regulation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

[2] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/55023/what-was-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank_digital_currency

[4] https://empower1.fisglobal.com/rs/650-KGE-239/images/Report_...
Enormous vim fan here. I’ve been toying with the idea of 1:1 “tutoring” of beginner vim and other Unix tools. If anyone might be interested in a free 1st lesson, send a DM!
Is this the future of decentralized communication?
I enjoy to see my kid breaking software, POS terminals and causing ATMs to throw error windows. Nothing critical, just funny how random screen touching and keyboard mashing drives “serious” software crazy.

Fool-proof and child-proof software is yet to come.

Hire QA kids.
Making censorship resistant, open source, self host able, and privacy respecting infrastructure is critical. This is the best technical iteration so far.
I actually didn't want to make this too much of an FP-bashing comment, as I find great use of many FP concepts, daily.

I have yet to see an FP concept for composition though, that is as simple and generic in its implementation, as the FBP principles.

I have sometimes thought FBP networks provide roughly the same function (pun not intended) as a monad, although I never seem to fully grasp what a monad is, so I can't tell for sure :o)
That's barely even a difference, the ultimate sovereignty of Parliament was established in the Civil War. We didn't need that mechanism because we had another end-run on the principle that the Sovereign cannot withhold consent against the advise of the Cabinet an d no sovereign ever did so since 1708.

As I said there are differences but the overall system is basically the same shape. Specifically the Presidential Veto wasn't conjured up out of thin air as a cunning plan to implement a system of checks and balances, it was just carried along with the general cut-and-paste.

The details do differ and have diverged over the centuries, for sure, but the basic executive role of the President in the US system today is that of George III in the 1770s. I also think there's a case to be made that the political relationships between your branches of government would be much more familiar to a 18th Century British politician than their contemporary counterparts.
Then someone else will come along and not understand it, and wonder why we don't have content, styling, and logic all in one place. He will write some script on a napkin in a coffee shop, but spill some java on it. An implementation will be made, but the spilling won't stop, not even after it reaches RAM.
Or Safari, apparently.
Yes, I was talking about native Matrix specifically.
I removed that last sentence from the post as I didn't want anyone to misunderstand and think they actually asked if he votes Republican. My point was that asking the interviewee if he supports social justice movements is a very simple proxy for asking his political affiliation in the two party circus we have here in the US.
Having done a census of all of them – which do you think is the best?
The thing I love about modern art is that initial instinctive reaction of "Anyone could do this!". I have absolutely zero training in art so this might be a infantile opinion, but I am delighted by the pieces that makes me realize "Anyone could do this, but no-one did until now."

All that to say, I really like this series of works.
Well, I agree on that. But I do get sad sometimes about how easily influenced the people at large are.
They have a herd at the Yukon Wildlife Sanctuary, they're kept in by a steel re-enforced fence. As long as you keep them fed, they have no interest in wandering away.
Thanks so much! Claire McHugh of Axonista was the first person who mentioned you to us. You've got a strong reputation! We'll reach out :)
The fight to make Netflix and Hulu pay cable fees
> though many countries lean more on the power of the courts to overturn convictions

What if someone _did_ commit the crime, and it's proven, but the sentence is wrong (way too extreme) or the crime is now seen as archaic?

Think old homosexuality laws or blasphemy laws.
Hmm... I’m not sure the article is correct. It seems like the Standard Serialized Container Code (emphasis mine) is meant to track an individual box or palette, not a “type” of box. [1]

It seems to be useful for processes that require an item to be FedEx’d from place to place in the same box.

[1] https://www.morovia.com/kb/Serial-Shipping-Container-Code-SS...

(Edit: I’m not sure about my statement of reusing the container. The specifications are at https://www.gs1.org/standards/id-keys/sscc if you want to take a crack at answering that one.)
The nazis did some things during world war 2 that perhaps lost them the label “human.” I don’t have the emotional vigour this morning to make a list of the atrocities but one that doesn’t get mentioned often was a literal war of extermination against the “sub-human” Slavic peoples. Dan Carlin did a disturbing series on the war in the east.

The question is what sort of nazis these people are or wish to be. Are they passive but ignorant supporters, or do they want to make an army to kill tens of millions based on their race? The term is too broad
I think this makes sense in the format that Intel may make 5nm i3 CPUs branded as something else, the timeline for these chips is way far off though, 2022 at least. The M1X ravaging will have already happened to the high-spec SKU industry. Intel needs a response framed as 'we are there at that level'.
That should be an i3-like (in design, not name) ultra low power but clocked to the moon CPU. Possibly breaking 5Ghz by a LOT.
Beats also add weighty components to feel more premium. I think that is as bad of a trend as making vacuum cleaners louder to seem like they are working better.
ANR... in my experience, it’s better to go for straight attenuation. My personal recommendation is IEMs, which can be quite comfortable for long-time wear. They’ll give you a greater reduction in sound than the best ANR technology, and they’ll do so without the weaknesses of ANR (has some weird edge cases where frequencies are not equally lowered).

Being fair, ANR technology is fatiguing to my ear; it makes them hurt as if I’ve been listening to loud noises for too long. I’ve heard this from a few others as well, but it definitely drives me towards passive attenuation.
Would strongly recommend the Qudelix 5K instead which is the same price.

Has a parametric equalizer built-in, balanced input, great app, Bluetooth range is significantly better and better sound quality.
Percent-wise I don't think there is any other company that contributes as much to open source software, I do think it was a dick move from them but let's not conflate the things.
> The glib answer would be people with more money than sense. But it’s more complicated than that. AirPods Max are aimed squarely at Apple devotees – of which there are millions – who simply could not bear to be seen with a pair of Beats headphones, even though Beats are superb.

It kind of makes the whole review irrelevant to me, and I would say the review is mostly aimed at people who would never want to buy Apple products in the first place.
Clifford Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg has an interesting and nuanced take on TIA advocate Adm. John Poindexter's ideas. Late in the book Stoll comes to agree at least partly with what he describes as Poindexter's idea that any particular piece of data the hackers acquired was not critical, but when enough information was gathered and organized the new insights available to an adversary were critical. On the other side, Stoll takes extraordinary steps to coordinate government response to the hackers, much of which was ensuring information flow.

Is any sufficiently information sensitive government different from the Stasi? I think the difference may be what is done with the information. Is the information used arbitrarily, unequally or as blackmail, or are laws and rules enforced without favor? Do people have incentives to report the transgressions of others? Does the system increase or decrease trust within a society?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poindexter
I earned over $257 just by writing on Vocal.media
I've seen bison up close in an enclosure in an animal sanctuary. It was pretty obvious that there was nothing actually keeping them in there apart from their own apathy.

Bison go where bison want. If they want to stay where you've put them, then you're in luck.
As SSCC is managed by GS1 and their standard for SSCC does not include sizes the quote probably is at least inaccurate.

You can buy prefix for your own SSCC codes and then you can form your own serial numbers - based on size or whatever parameter you want.
it's incorrect to say that molecular simulation codes have a real impact on drug design. That's a narrative that is stated, but it's not representative. Molecular simulation codes are either too inaccurate, or undersample the space (we can't tell because of how much CPU is required to answer). I think most people have come to realize that modelling like this is mainly useful as a visualization technique to obtain intuition for how proteins behave, not a quantitative way of probing a system computationally.
I don't know whether Intel will ever need government bailout. If however it does need it, it will probably be game over for them to ever become a leader again. There will simply be no incentive for them to innovate.
> Is this even legal?

Legal or not, it's a huge red flag.
Yeah but this will probably change too.
Fermilab discontinued work on Scientific Linux in 2019 in favor of using CentOS: https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX...

It’s possible they could choose to restart work on Scientific Linux, but nothing has been announced yet.
It's childish to accuse them of being a military shill for posting something you disagree with.
I’ve started dabbling in Vim and Unix tools. Would love to try out a first lesson, what’s the best way to reach you? No dm feature on HN unfortunately
Expect Apple to come down on this like a tonne of bricks and render the whole thing impossible very quickly.
I was assuming the US/EU governments did not care much about money laundering through cryptos, cause it was mostly Chinese money leaving China and getting funneled into the West.
So has the flow of Chinese money stopped?
Another option might be to just move the company, so you only pay the higher income tax in the money you draw from the company.
But i know it's easy to talk about ethics if it's not your own money.
OP is taking scraps and extrapolating completely out of proportion. I am simply pointing out his extrapolation is out of proportion. Just because there is a lack of info doesn't mean you should make up random things and give them credence.
But you are brainwashed, thinking you need metal on your head instead of plastic which is far superior and lighter. You literally convinced yourself that an inferior product is great. Not that beats are the top of the line, they never were, but using AirPods Max vs Sony 1000MX4 is night and day.
> If you try to open a series of stores with Kellog in the name, you'll get slapped down right away.

Fair enough. I still don't think Amazon is violating trademark here, but my analogy was unnecessarily dismissive.
I get what you're saying, but there is an upper bound of roughly 1M in the US, depending on what the true case fatality rate is.
To me these are absolutely worth the premium over the closest competitors due to the ANC modes, spatial audio, wireless protocol & device switching, and build quality. If you think a 300 pair is a better value, I’ve got news for you: there are some $60 pairs on amazon that you might find to be an even better value. These are not for cheapskates. They will sell well.
Flip the perception: In China, US govt doesn't have MS levels of access to info, potentially including protected user data & non-public hosting /admin data.

Even if that's not the case, being in China avoids (most?) NSA choke points.
> BTW, the text aliasing in the screenshots didn't look that sharp on a CRT. :)

Wow, now that is what I call a blast from the past - the last time I sat in front of a CRT was ... roughly 15 years ago. (-:
> If you know of a strictly better way to get the same feature, what is it?

Let them serve for a limited period of time, say 16 years max. Can't be removed before then. It's not that complicated and would prevent justices who literally sit on the bench until the day they die.
> It also tricks the sender into thinking that their secure iMessage conversations are what they look like.

If you send a message to someone, you are assuming that anything can happen to it unless you have a legal agreement to the contrary. They could have a keylogger (malware or device-management), someone looking over their shoulder, take a screenshot, forget to sign out of the library computer, etc.

The end-to-end-encryption on iMessage gets defeated for most people anyway if they have iCloud Backup on.
Oh WOW thanks a lot!! We love it when we get multiple offers from the same company - extremely excited about our Repl.it placements :))
They’re clipped to your body, and your phone (or computer) doesn’t have to be. It’s also the size of a pack of gum - tiny.

They also don’t use standard bluetooth codecs, they use a different “HiFi” codec (I don’t know the details; but it’s significantly higher quality audio), and the range is pretty good - across the house or further for me.
How do things like this make it to the top of HN? I know it's unrelated, but I'm curious, is it due to the users post history? I mean within 15 minutes of posting it was down, and it already had 50 upvotes?
Playing devil's advocate here; if you take many steps back and try to look at what's best for the country, you might want to look at citizens with great potential who are currently under lock and key.

I don't think anyone is saying Levandowski is innocent (I saw somewhere else in the comments that a pardon is by definition an admission of guilt), but if he's as brilliant of an engineer as some people make him out to be, it would be best for the country if he was back at work instead of in prison.
Same as Thailand, which is what we're talking about.
OK, great:

James Robert Adelman: pardoned after being convicted of embezzling from his company, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, which he served.

Teresa Clark: convicted of "Knowingly disposing of a firearm to a person convicted of a crime punishable by a term of imprisonment exceeding one year (three counts); falsification of firearms purchase forms (two counts)", sentenced to 3 years probation and 1 year of house arrest which she served.

I'm not sure what your point is in these examples. I couldn't find more details on the reasons for their pardons, but letting people clear their record well after they have served their time is a common use of pardons. None of that is true in the Anthony Levandowski case, or for that matter the slew of other pardons and commutations Trump gave to his close associates and cronies.
>BLAST

Not to be confused with BLAS, which is for Linear Algebra and likewise a neat example. BLAS and its co-conspirator LAPACK are the underpinning for many (most?) scientific libraries in use today. Packages like scipy will wrap BLAS and LAPACK to make them more ergonomic and present more uniform interfaces in the style of the host language.
Don't know if this is still true but Oracle only had installs for the RHEL/CentOS family, which of course included Oracle Linux.
Would diffidently reach out :)
I don't mean criticism, we (HN users) all have heard all the criticism a hundred times before. I mean actual actionable feedback that someone is able to work with, e.g. if there are problems with the design then we can bring some concrete data that shows new, reliable information. That means taking honest efforts to establish two-way communication where there is none.
Great article! As a performance dweeb, any information on how best to squeeze out a bit more performance is welcome. I might have to play with using panics in OjG (https://github.com/ohler55/ojg) and see if it gives a boost.
If you use vim inside vscode check Onivim 2 out
I'd love to update my understanding. Could you share the policies that Trump made that centralizes his or his government's power or reduces the rule of law?
To be completely honest, it's the regulatory environment that worries me.

Taxes asides, it might be worth it to move just to have a place with better laws for businesses.

And honestly, above one million, the taxes you save will more than pay for airfare to spend time in your country.
Been eyeing up Resolve, mostly because After Effects has gotten so rusty and janky over the past 10 years of neglect, used to be god-tier software but just doesn't run as nice as it used to or use anywhere near your full machine power.

You had much experience with those parts of Resolve? How does it stack up? Thanks!
Sure, I meant the qualitative feel by the entitled hindsight of somebody living the good life in 2021 which is possible because of it. It's definitely not all bad (certainly not for its age) nor was it an entirely novel creation in some sudden bolt from the blue. It's just showing its age.
The biggest problem we have in software engineering is the lack of support staff. You don't think a civil engineer has to deal with minutiae of paperwork, but software engineers for some strange reason think it is ok to be inundated by clerical work all the time. The industry eventually must evolve to create software assistants capable of running code, triaging bugs, etc.
Your job will only stunt your ability to grow if you allow it. Get your experience, learn as much as you can, and figure out if you want to continue your job or leave.

I've got a dev friend who makes lots of money, more than I ever will, and while I'd be just fine with what he makes for the next 20 years, he will job hop after 2 or 3 years. When he gets bored or he sees another company could use his help to grow, he will opt to go for the newer startup than remain at the established company. Of course, his salary demands do rise as well, but I believe it's just been easier for him to leave for a new company than demand a raise, a raise which only keeps him satisfied for so long before he's just more about the challenge.

I've worked at the same job for nearly the past decade, and my salary growth has pretty much been stagnant after the first 3 years. With the fact that my company keeps being bought out or "our sales are down", there are always poor excuses for not giving raises, but I accepted that a long time ago -- and instead of getting upset about it, I've used it to my own advantage to create my own "bonus" and "raise" system.

What I've been able to do at my company has allowed me to grow personally and professionally. Whereas my friend was always about helping other companies grow, I've started my own business, developed my own web apps, acquired my own customers and client base, written a book, run a popular website, etc.

In addition, there are some benefits that come with seniority, as I know what I'm supposed to do and what the job entails.. it's become part of my lifestyle; I work remotely; and I've got nearly 40 days of PTO. I've also been there so long that when my supervisor threatened to fire me -- and he has done so monthly for the past 6 years, I finally called him out on it, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and told him to do it and to either offer me a severance package with a year salary or allow me to collect unemployment. I waited for the follow-up email, the letter, the phone call... nothing happened.

Will I ever leave? Only when I see the ship is going to sink. My own reasons for not wanting to leave are the fact that I'm comfortable where I am and I've grown used to the people I work with. I'm also older and I suck at interviewing, so I don't want to deal with the risks
of having to look for a job again until I need to do so.

So... make of it what you will. Be like my friend... or be like me. Both of us are quite happy and content in our lives.
I don't know much about Beeper, but I do know more about Matrix in general. And yes, the N is configurable there (as in, you can change it in a client implementation, even if it isn't particularly common to have it exposed as a setting).
There are layers of meaning here - truly a reflection of modern times.
Here ya go. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/razers-n95-voice-boo...
But couldn't an app reverse engineer the frontends for all these communication services and create an aggregation overlay? E.g. what Dropbox did with the Mac osx filesystem.
Why do think it should not make it to the top?

(Edit: parent comment sounded as if it didn't think the article deserves to be on frontpage HN. re-reading, I see that I might have misread it: sorry in that case)
Sorry but no.

IEMs are notoriously unforgiving. You would need to try quite a number of them as well as tips in order to find one that is comfortable for long-term use. Variety of people's ears are that diverse.

And in most cases the only way you get good isolation is by having a strong seal which in turns means a strong vacuum which for most people becomes uncomfortable.

It's one of the reasons why on/over-ear are so popular because they work well with pretty much everyone.
Isn't AMD even bigger client of TSMC 5nm facilities than Apple?
What if my paragraph talks about chains? Will random words become hyperlinks?
Hong Kong was a lost cause to begin with. With China having full sovereignity over Hong Kong and the Sino-British Joint Declaration being useless (not enforceable in practice and not even violated, at least on paper), the West could do little more about Hong Kong than about Xinjiang or Tibet.
The binary distinction between "cost centers" and "profit centers" has always seemed arbitrary to me (especially since, as an engineer, I've been in both without my work being substantially different).

To be frank, it seems like an organizational way to say "we don't find this work to be valuable or interesting, and we'd like to do the bare minimum of it - in fact, we'd like to unleash smart people to explore new frontiers of just how minimal the bare minimum could possibly be."

It seems like this leads to incredibly predictable problems: brain drain, demoralized workers, the bare minimum being aimed for and not actually being achieved, etc.

I feel like a better organization has no "cost centers" - every single role at the company contributes to the mission and to the bottom line. If they didn't, that position wouldn't exist.

What am I missing?
Except in states where political affiliation is a protected class (like California), there would be no basis for such a suit, as it is not federally illegal to discriminate based on political affiliation.
On way HN and Reddit are alike- complaining about downvotes inevitably just brings on more downvotes!