skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cases are less than 100$ for a good one. The iPad itself is only 300 for schools, so even if youre spending 100$ on a case, you're still only 400$ all in, and this is assuming you didnt get a grant from Apple that provides a significant discount beyond that.

Chromebooks have seen some impressive growth, but I dont think its going to sustain itself. The quality of the 300-500$ chromebooks is atrocious. They have to be replaced at least yearly, and the usability of this is very poor.
Yes considering all the news we see about Hong Kong. It is surprising that Kashmir isn't covered despite being in worse situation for more than a year, over a similar issue.
It was the primary key index in a database using MVCC. It stored various flags and a version (transaction timestamp) and data pointer. It also stored something else that I don't recall, maybe a previous version record pointer. All packed into 128 bits. Adding a new record version required cmpxchg16b, but reading it or just updating a flag was tricky because the 64bit words only had meaning together so I had to detect torn writes and retry the read with appropriate memory barriers.
I was talking about the document that's the subject of the post.
SPAC acquisitions raise significantly less money for the target acquired company, so generally a target only goes the SPAC route if their financials aren't in good enough shape to go the traditional IPO route (offering, dutch auction, or otherwise).

Most SPAC acquisitions involve high-risk companies, for recent examples: Lucid (10 years on and still no actual product for sale), Nikola (fraud), 23andMe (its financials are reportedly not in great shape), Opendoor (huge portfolio of risky real properties), EVgo (history of massive losses), Clover Health (accusations of fraud, under DOJ investigation).

SoFi is the only company I can think of that is going the SPAC route that was potentially in the shape to IPO (their potential IPO was tenatively valued at $17 billion at the start of 2020, but the SPAC acquired them for around 8.65 billion). They apparently chose not to IPO because they wanted "deal certainty." However, leaving that much money on the table is a huge red flag for a financial company; it suggests that 2020 was a bad year for them and that they wanted to avoid disclosure, or that their financials are not in great shape.
Mac Authentication
What is the best way to secure your LAN?

In my opinion, the answer is to have the certainty of people accessing their LAN. How?

Via a compiled whitelist or blacklist.

But that's okay if it's less than a hundred users.

When are they more than 10.000? I wrote this tool:

https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/vmam

(command line but also scriptable) which is used to manage access to your network, authenticating them in LDAP (so they are also tracked).
Yes, I answered the question from a very different angle (Pascal or Lua) but my motivation was also avoiding the learner from drowning in syntactic details. Scheme would be even better than that.
> Uhh so the author is saying that missiles designed to go faster will actually be slower because of drag?

He isn't. He's saying the drag creates a large heat signature which makes them vulnerable to existing detection techniques.
You can avoid getting bogged down by learning a limited subset of a language, though. e.g. in Python you could teach most algorithms with just conditionals and functions, and keep things pure functional using only tuples for storage. Introduce assignment, lists and loops whenever it suits you.
I'm looking forward to the first Twitter controversies about who does or doesn't qualify as black, when someone judged too white (or Indian or Syrian or South-American) manages to get the "black-identifying" label and gets caught.
I thought you could search by store category already!
Thanks for the good work. I’ll give it a try.
Pytorch CPU Performance Improvements
Yeah I've had some disappointments with Mozilla over the years, but as this point I use it as my main browser in part because I don't want there to be a monopoly with Blink (and Webkit) rendering engines.

And Firefox is honestly still quite good. I have to open up another browser once in a while, but I use Firefox for 99% of my browsing on macOS, Linux, and Windows (mainly Linux these days), including a lot of web apps.
In manual labor you get physically tired, your joints grow steadily more achy, your run the risk of injury - obviously it's unpleasant.

In mental labor you get fat and achy sitting at a desk all day, your sleep schedule gets messed up looking at artificial light constantly, your mental health degrades and your risk of suicide increases - obviously it's also unpleasant.

We can all agree the manual laborer's job is hard because no one can really escape manual labor. Even if your profession doesn't require you to lift a finger, other things in life like taking care of a home expose us to plenty of comparable tasks, and we can easily imagine how much worse it would be to do these tasks all the time. But the manual laborer can forego most of the negatives of office work which require prolonged and continuous exposure to things we would never experience in nature. Thus the manual laborer tends to see greener grass on the other side while the office worker does not.
Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Processor Poses for Camera (Updated)
Documentation: https://sc4devotion.com/namdoc/
Interesting. I see myself using this one, lately get to write the the same message over and over again. will give it a spin. Templates would help
It makes sense semantically to me, and would be fine/preferable if `brew update` only took a few seconds to complete.

Cause otherwise I'm not necessarily going to remember to brew update ever, and am going to be getting old formulae. I think I'm not alone, I suspect this was done because too many users were never updating.

I am not super familair with how apt works, but I think the "workflows" of brew are already different than typical apt uses, with continuous incremental releases, and users expected to stay up to date with them -- things aren't necessarily going to keep working (installing properly) if you never run `brew update`, and I think many users were not.

I do want `brew install` to get me the latest formula for the thing I'm installing.

The problem is when it can add several minutes to a `brew install` invocation, interupting my ability to get on with my business.

But good to know about the env variable so at least I can choose which tradeoff I want!
You may be interested to read this article I saw the other day that claims that slave labor being used to build the pyramids was a myth. [0] I wonder if at some distant point in the future a similar mistake will be made by internet commentators under the impression that Amazon's workers were slaves because there's a few extant references to it, even though the reality is they make over minimum wage.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-...
Fair enough. But can we at least agree that the line between the 2 examples is so fine that the monologue comedian on a satirical TV program had to run his joke by his lawyer's lawyer in order to make sure he was standing on the right side of it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHZl59B6Rc8
> It would simply be inconceivable that the officer who shot Daniel Shaver to death would have been acquitted had Shaver been black instead of white

Why is that inconceivable? The officers in the Breonna Taylor shooting weren't even charged. At least this officer went to trial and was found not guilty by a jury of his peers.
Small things can make the world better too.
Although the article reads as sensational, it is actually based on three recently accepted papers in Physical Review Letters. It also gives some insight into several research groups wanting to claim being the first having seen evidence for new physics, be it from sparse observational data.
It’s like the first large scale game written in Rust.
Aforementionend friend and Cactus Comments dev here.

We don't support any sort of threading yet, although Cerulean-style threading is definitely somewhere down the road. Although stuff like redactions and emoji reactions are a higher priority right now.

We're also keeping our eyes out for the upcoming spaces stuff. That might be useful for grouping comment sections.
> At the end of the day, their options to resist legal demands are limited

They're really not. Google is not based in Pakistan, and they don't have offices or datacenters in Pakistan.

Why should they take _global_ action against developers who are _located in the US_ on the request of someone who does not have jurisdiction over them?

It's interesting how this plays out in reverse to the typical copyright fights - people violating US intellectual property law in Pakistan (or wherever) are often litigated under those US laws; here they're litigating against Americans based on Pakistani laws.
A weapon launched from space is hypersonic by definition, the X-37 itself travels at hypersonic speed all the time and moves faster than these missiles.

The X-37 is very hard to track because it can make dramatic orbit changes using the earth itself as cover and appear from a different direction.

It's all theoretical but a weapon like that launched from space is going to accelerate faster (it's already hypersonic when it comes off the rail) & generate less heat signature until it re-enteres the atmosphere.

And if carrier groups can be sunk by these missiles it would make way more sense to have them on a space platform or a submarine platform than on ships.
It’s a private country, they can do whatever they want.
Easy solution is to not have monolithic gatekeepers like Apple or Google that can be pressured into doing stuff like this. A website is way harder to shut down than an appstore app, so normalizing appstores is a huge problem.
Don't think that's the assumption. But it's a start. And since no one is throwing money to end world hunger, no one can even start. Hence Jezz Befos does indeed wake up every day and decide not to do anything about ending world hunger.
Intel Sapphire Rapids 10nm SuperFin Xeon Server CPU and Pinout Spied in Photos
I use RSS because my RSS reader overrides bad styling of the webpages (e.g. BRIGHT WHITE FONT on ABYSS OF BLACK BACKGROUND)
Clever and fair game. A real opposing force would do the same given the chance.
You backup to a disk array and offload the stuff you want to keep to tape for offline storage.
It's indicative of the tradeoffs in any human endeavor and the shades of gray that come into play when evaluating those endeavors in moral terms. It can be both. Also, it's way easier to retire young if you have made a good amount of money and to live with a higher quality of life than a lot of CEOs who just have more property than they can do anything with. Being a quiet multimillionaire is great. Being a hardworking American Stakhanovite-CEO is, indeed, a lot of sacrifice for not a whole lot of real individual or familial gain. 23andme has done a lot of good and has accomplished a laudable mission, but there are also concerns that many people share about its activities or the potentially abusive things that could be done with the customer data.
You (your daughter) overestimate the power of a hundred billion USD. The US Government has invested multiples of that and still hasn’t managed to end “world hunger.”
Hey, looks great.

What is the state of Windows support?

I tried quickloading mccclim under sbcl on windows and it started complaining about fontconfig.
Thanks! I know homebrew doesn't generally do breaking changes, but they also don't generally do major version releases, which can sometimes be a signal for breaking changes, thus my concern!
Facebook’s Misleading Campaign Against Apple’s Privacy Policy
Dollars are claim checks on other people’s resources, very often on their time.

You can’t just give a bunch of dollars away without either incurring an offsetting amount of time/resources to back them, or to devalue them and their siblings.

If you like food with your meals and your garbage hauled away, at the end of the chain, someone has to work to get that food to your table and the garbage away.

(I’m generally pro-UBI, but can’t figure out how to pay even a subsistence level of UBI in a sustainable way, and certainly not enough that would allow a leisurely life for most.)
You can meet many people as a volunteer in a Covid station
in a hospital in many countries right now. Also helping to burn bodies.
> Consider what would have happened had we actively helped developing countries become developed?

Have you looked at what happened in China over the past several decades? Amazon definitely had a hand in that.
Such hyperbolic accusations aren't limited to MTG; see the effort to accuse Lauren Boebert of endangering her colleagues by allegedly carrying weapons onto the House floor (open carry is part of her schtick) or allegedly endangering the life of the Speaker of the House by "tweeting her location" (in reference to a tweet that said that the Speaker was being evacuated).

Reframing controversial political disagreements as uncontroversial issues of personal safety is a cancel culture trope that has worked well elsewhere and now being imported into our political life. Hence the ongoing theater with metal detectors and armed military guards, as well as the baseless accusations that legislators pose some physical risk to their colleagues and must therefore be expelled.
> This shouldn’t be possible, so how did it happen?

Someone guessed her password.

She should change it again.

Call Apple Support.
Sigh

The problem here lies with Pakistan, not Apple and Google.

An alternate App Store operating in Pakistan would be subject to the same unjust laws as them. The most Apple and Google can do is leave the market. There's an argument for that, but that doesn't make those apps available in Pakistan, and, more importantly, doesn't end the oppression of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan.

There are arguments against gatekeeping tech companies, but this isn't one of them.
Ask HN: Anyone seen a reputation attack on their mailing list?
Intermittently we seem to be getting a flood of new subscribers to your email list, followed by many of those subscribers subsequently marking those emails as spam. In particular we noticed a lot of @comcast.com addresses as well as @msn.com. We then get flagged by our email provider.

Anyone have any ideas what someone’s motivation for this would be? Could it be a competitor trying to hurt your email list?
The #1 problem in MMORPGs is people exploiting bugs for personal gain at the expense of the game's economy and competitiveness in PvP. Some of those bugs end up being in NPC scripts, but most are the kind Rust helps prevent.
What would be the best way to handle a tape drive like this?

Imagine investing in a 1PB tape, and then accidentally dropping it on the floor. Even just setting it down on a table too hard might brick it, or mean it needs to go back to the manufacturer for a expen$$$$$ive repair.

Gravity seems like an unreasonably large risk for such a valuable object. Maybe the ideal environment for these is a zero-gravity one? Perhaps the future of "big data" is somewhere out in space?
exactly.

The platform used to be the OS, but google effectively commoditized it and the new platform is the 'cloud'. If you're on MS your new platform is going to be OWS, Azure, etc. With google it's going to be google cloud, gmail, and so forth.

What's considered a platform has vastly changed.
Ooo! William Byrd on miniKanren!

"miniKanren: a minimal declarative language for relational programming"

https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/minimalkanren/
I like how everything written in Rust gets upvoted here.

Jokes aside thanks for sharing. It’s always interesting to read game source code and Rust beginners can learn a lot reading this code.
Pakistan has a constitution.

Appstores operate in Pakistan and comply with their government.

There is no free speech analogy to countries with a different constitution.
Yeah, I agree. I also sympathize with your rant and feel our politicians in the West, nearly without exception, let us all down and continue to do so. They failed to demonstrate any kind of preparation or logical science based response and continue to fail at that.
FYI, Pakistan's biggest banks are owned by Ahmadis. Quite a number in India too.
From the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

“A bill with a single sponsor and no cosponsors was introduced on a perennial hot button issue” is (1) about politics and (2) not evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
> The government subsidizing their pay is a good thing

The government is really subsidising the money into Jeff Bezos's accounts.

The skills aren't considered worth $25/h because they are not paid according to the value they are providing, which is evident by the grotesque profits that Amazon is making.

Amazon arguably has monopoly power over this type of job, which means there isn't competition for the workers, and they aren't paid correctly.

That should be corrected, rather than subsidised.
That is the most stretched and laboured metaphor I have ever encountered. Utterly delightful, and props to the labourer.
Is Einstein the best example to use here? He famously derived the theory of relativity while working a "meaningless job". [0] Now, would he have derived it if he had had access to the HN and twitter skinner boxes? That's another question.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/06/opinion/l-einstein-change...
Can I take this comment to mean you are a proponent of No Child Left Behind? Because when an organization isn't doing well, clearly the answer is to give them _less_ money.
Honesty I think you could probably a make a case for any insult falling under that law.
Not to mention an existing robust fleet of nuclear submarines.
I don't think your claims about social attitudes towards breast feeding really map onto this discussion. The report focuses on prepared solid foods, not infant formulas.

Strangely, however, the report does compare EU standards for baby formula to raw ingredients used in the preparation of the solid foods being examined. Yet another strange thing in addition to comparing contaminant levels with drinking water that doesn't pass a smell test.
> So he should drop what he's doing to help the world in the way you want him to?

He can start by not avoiding his taxes. That would be a good help.

> He doesn't owe us anything.

Naive. He owes at least the taxes he avoided. Any business that avoids taxes ends up costing the society more simply because they make use of infrastructure which needs maintenance, it likely pollutes the environment either directly or by proxy, and it ends up exploiting people for their bottom line, people who then need to be financed by the society. He also owes back for the brains he amassed that end up not giving back to the society, brains that were likely educated on the tax payer's pocket.

> He's free to spend his time on what he thinks is important

He is free, but he can also not be pretentious, or put his money where his mouth is.

The argument for helping other people instead of creating new ventures to pat your back is quite simple, but goes over most people's heads; the more scientists we have that actually tackle problems, the easier it becomes to deal with issues like cancer that plague everyone, the rich included. By accepting that the probability that many people smarter than us are impoverished, or born in awful circumstances is large, we see that the expectation that comes from dealing with poverty/lack of education has greater impact on our life expectancy and overall QOL over starting new projects and trying to sample people from a limited pool of candidates.
Hey Hana – I love what you're doing with in-app. Congrats on YC!

Courier (https://www.courier.com) is also in this space, but we're focused on other channels like email, Slack, SMS, MS Teams, SMS, etc. as well as handling orchestration capabilities around lists, preferences, and sequences. I'm pretty confident you & I started Magicbell & Courier for the same reason: we were both tired of seeing this have to be built over and over.

Glad to see the space is heating up!
> A lot of the fun is in the hallway conversations etc though, so would still recommend attending if you can at some point in the future

I look forward to it; next year is plausible, now that we're manufacturing vaccines.
It can be easier. One could geohash the location with a certain precision, say 5 = ±2.4 km and only display people in that geohash and the neigbouring geohashes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
The GameStop stock is part of our national pandemic gambling binge
Indeed they can. I don't do much there unfortunately.
There is a theory that TL is the one who cut off VG's ear by accident in a drunkfest.
Governments have mostly failed to stop websites. Moving from websites to appstore apps gives governments more power. It also gives giant corporations more power. So it is a bad development if you fear giant corporations or governments.
TBH I'm not sure which particular snarky site you mean!
I would agree in the case of the United States, especially for Silicon Valley. Most software developers in Europe wouldn't be able to afford it I would say since software developer wages are much more in line with the national averages.

I think it's a great initiative though.
Right now I'm listening to a report on NPR about how India, the world's largest democracy, leads the world in the number of times it has shut down Internet access.

As this will inevitably (sadly) become the norm, I fully expect we'll see the same in the U.S. in relatively short time. Hopefully that's too pessimistic; but, to be prepared -- what is the state of the art of HAM-based networking in the U.S.?
I'm definitely grateful that MacOS has a package manager at all. Mac before the unix-like OS X days was like using Windows: you had to hunt for installers or DMG's. Except Mac didn't have the legacy support that Windows aims for: all your programs would break when a major update like MacOS 8 came out.
A lot of companies offer pretty great benefits in the office that can help you save a lot of money. Free food, gym, etc. depending on where you work you can be saving a pretty sizable amount of money on just that extra bit of money right there.
Not for developers, no. "Normal" Apple consumers have little reason to use brew.
We need to move on from this particular gossips/memes.
It can charge through the smart connector (slowly).

But my assumption is that they will add the same magnetic charging setup to the next iPads that they have on the iPhone 12.
I just think that if there were a wave detector the size of a galaxy I'd have probably seen it by now, right?
Who's to say that those jobs are providing the value though? You'd have to do a much deeper analysis than looking at Amazon's profit margins given the fact that they have all sorts of automation their employees didn't pay for.
Or forgetting to remove from pocket during an MRI scan
He can start with his own workers. He can pay his taxes, so can Amazon.
> How does Congress expect to pass legislation like this when there is a 6-3 conservative judge majority who will almost certainly defend maximalist interpretations of the 2nd amendment?

(1) The Supreme Court has no role in whether legislation passes.

(2) “A member of Congress, as sole sponsor with no cosponsors, introduces a bill” isn't evidence that Congress, as a whole, thinks anything positive about the subject matter, political prospects, or, were it to pass, post-adoption legal prospects of the bill.
But does it still try to update literally every time you use it?
I heard about Veloren from the Rust Game Dev Podcast (Aug 2020). I really enjoyed listening to the team talk about details of the game's development, thank you for talking about it so openly.

https://rustgamedev.com/episodes/interview-with-team-veloren
Auto upgrade sucks but it is possible to turn it off
Should Linux be called GNU/Linux instead?
His track record is for making money, which isn't obviously good for anyone else