skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, and it's wonderful that we have important fabs that haven't moved production out of the US. However, other parts of the chip supply chain have been moved out of the US, such as iPhone chip manufacturing and stuff related to data centers & servers. While this can help lower prices, it also increases the risk of the US losing control of IP and having its technology compromised.

Remember when in 2018 SuperMicro servers sold to Apple were compromised by a small chip inserted by a Chinese sub-manufacturer? [1] Or how iPhone designs sometimes get leaked by employees of Foxconn in Taiwan? [2] We've got fabs in the US, but I believe domestic chip manufacture should become central policy to prevent incidents like this.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...

[2] https://bgr.com/2019/08/14/iphone-11-release-date-soon-foxco...
Yes. But note that Signal doesn't know your number. Usernames are being promised this year too.
All those bricked Oculus Quest would make a larger collection...
Even if they make it to the onsite?
Is there a population control policy that isn't just, terrifying or deeply harmful to lower income / poor people?
>Stop wasting time debating and just use .NET, don't overthink things.

Funny, people said the same about Microsoft -- yet you say don't even STOP to think about using their products.

Turns out trust can be repaired.
This does not only affect traditional media outlets like The Guardian, but also social media giants. Recently, Facebook is being pressured by the Israeli government to adopt the IHRA's (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of anti-semitism to include the term “Zionism”, and therefore ban it as hate speech. Which caused a backlash. See [1], [2] and [3].

[1] https://facebookweneedtotalk.org/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/31/22256949/facebook-zionist...

[3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/facebooks-latest-propo...
Corporate Welfare: Give Tesla 3B in Subsidies
> I cringe every time someone send me an email that says "I can meet at 10 PST" no matter what time of the year it is.

Why? An average person (read: non-developer) rarely needs to think about their timezone, save for when it changes. As a human, it seems relatively straightforward to intuitively determine whether that person is in DST or not.

If you were a UNIX machine (or a developer providing input to one such machine, I guess), it might be more appropriate to ask for a response in the Americas/Chicago format or something like UTC-0600, but it seems rather coarse to require that everyone adhere to your personal timezone standards when interacting with you.

Personally, I frequently schedule meetings with clients all over the US where their timezone isn't necessarily clear to me, so I usually just say something along the lines of "1045am CT," omitting the S/D in its entirety.
The title of the post is that these are stronger than concrete. The title isn't "these bricks could be used for many things". OP is directly responding to a dubious claim. Where as you would seem to prefer they ignore the dubious claim and just be endlessly positive.

I'd sure as hell rather know if my home is going to collapse if I build them out of plastic bricks than someone telling me all of the things I could have used them for instead.
Microplastics is a huge problem, BUT I can't imagine this being worse than things like tiers and shoe soles.
Not what you're asking for, but specifically for cryptoart: http://cryptoart.wtf/
That's great, I can't seem to find a dutch dictionary that includes that word, but I do find it in french with presumably a very similar meaning.

Habit is close, but with a different application. Habits likewise can be done without thinking but with more of a insinuation that the behavior is a sort of regular repeating part of your life. Like a smoking habit or your morning routine.
Someone tracked this down to a piece of software called Live! Cam Avatar: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56010156
I won't pretend I know, fabrication seems very technical and I get the vague idea but I'm also an idiot.

I was referring to ASML Holdings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
> New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023

Impossible.

Leads times on fab hardware are on all time high.

Not to say that construction, and setup itself would be extremely challenging in such timeframe.

And not saying that US has no supply chain locally for modern fabs. Intel famously flies a lot of its consumables from abroad.

Samsung will have similarly to transport its consumables by air if they go with this plan.
> Whom does the armed forces pledge allegiance to?

Why does the armed forces need to pledge allegiance to a person?

> In the UK, it's the monarch, not the government. That balance of power (military v political/legislative) gives you national stability.

I don't think there's much evidence of that.

> You don't want one person having both

Why not?

> Its the main reason royals serve in the armed forces.

The main reason the royals serve in the armed forces is that the royalty (and even the broader nobility) is a remnant of what is notionally a warrior elite that is traditionally barred from servile labor but has position of authority ultimately grounded in military function. The substance of both the authority and the distinct warrior class is almost entirely extinct, but traditions remain, including the tradition that it's pretty much the only thing that looks like work that senior royals are permitted to do, as anything else in government would be seen to violate their distance from that function and anything else would be seen as demeaning the monarchy.
Sincere question: Why FreeBSD?

I'm not against the choice, and I can imagine some valid reasons to choose it, but in the helloSystem docs I read so far I only found some common criticisms of desktop Linux UI (bloated, unfriendly, disorganized etc). Whether true or not, I really don't see how the kernel choice impacts the graphical experience they are imitating. This seems more of a criticism of distros, poorly followed or non-existent HIG for DEs, or even just the general ad-hoc nature of FOSS projects. That's why I don't see how basing a new free software project on FreeBSD would solve any of that -- it seems completely orthogonal.

I mean, either way it seems they are basing it on KDE, which they could have also built on top of a Linux kernel: https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/developer/architecture.ht...

Also, I get a lot of their criticisms of existing DEs, but it seems they are tossing a lot of work out without a viable replacement with buy-in, e.g. "XDG specifications are considered overly complex but insufficient and should be avoided, but may be acceptable as legacy technology for compatibility reasons". There's plenty of valid criticism of XDG, but until there is any support behind helloSystem, it reminds me a bit of this classic xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/

All in all I'm actually excited about the project, since regardless of the kernel, I'm sure the DE they are developing will get ports elsewhere (e.g. to mature desktop Linuxes and BSDs), and any effort that helps macOS users jump to FOSS-world is also super appreciated!
It is a strength of the dollar as a fiat currency, but that doesn't mean it would be a good thing for every asset class to behave that way.
Please provide meaningful evidences for these claims?

I might be in a bubble, but it seems my intake of bitcoin information is balanced enough that most things are not this polarized.
"Admin bot" that sounds interesting. Any experience with 3rd party solutions or written something yourself?
>Why couldn't a baseband attack facilitate this?

Because this is about the iPhone, where the baseband is just a USB peripheral. There simply is no DMA. iPads and Macs have DMA controls in place as well. There are other iPhone attacks for sure, but they have been fairly conscious about keeping the baseband isolated for a good long while. So it's less likely to be the vector. Apple didn't spend a ton of money on a custom security processor and OS stack just to let a 3rd party vendor firmware walk all over it. From page 41 of their old iOS Security Guide:

>"To protect the device from vulnerabilities in network processor firmware, network interfaces including Wi-Fi and baseband have limited access to application processor memory. When USB or SDIO is used to interface with the network processor, the network processor can’t initiate Direct Memory Access (DMA) transactions to the application processor. When PCIe is used, each network processor is on its own isolated PCIe bus. An IOMMU on each PCIe bus limits the network processor’s DMA access to pages of memory containing its network packets or control structures."

You'll notice in those papers you link, that "iPhone" and "Apple" do not appear as subjects of the paper. Cellebrite and the like are probably doing other things.
> > BTC is a pump and dump play.

> > ..."bitcoin evangelists" and are recruiting more people into the network to get the price to go up. Classic Ponzi scheme.

> > ...this doesn't perfectly fit with existing definitions of other scams.

> I said that the enthusiasts are activity looking to expand the number of people investing.

I wonder. Are you aware of how far your characterization of the situation has shifted within the same thread?

evangelist -> enthusiast

recruiting -> expanding

Ponzi scheme/scam -> investment

Have you changed your position, or simply softened your language as a result of finding your position indefensible? If the former, congrats; if the latter, maybe think on that a little more.

> ...always end in people believing that decentralization or cryptography are magical words...

Well, you claimed earlier that off chain transactions were functionally equivalent, from the perspective of the money transfer service, to credit cards. When challenged, you adjusted that to debit cards - which is also not even close to being true. Even if you were talking about it from the perspective of the end user, or merchant, you'd still be very wrong. So you clearly don't know much about the stuff you've expressed strong opinions on, and that means your estimates of others' opinions on the same carry no weight.

> ...the price doesn't matter to me.

You might want that to be true, but it rarely works out that way. Opportunity cost can do funny things to people, like compel them to construct elaborate coping mechanisms in defense of their ego. Sometimes that looks like a confidently stated, but ill-informed, opinion that crumbles in the face of any pushback. Like I said, I've been here a long time and I've seen it all. There is one guy I worked with years ago who asked me about bitcoin but took no action. I only pay attention to the price toward the end of the year, when working on taxes. But without fail if I get a call from him then I know that bitcoin has just had a major selloff. The funny thing is that he is totally unaware of the behavior, it isn't as if he aggressively gloats - but he always brings up bitcoin, and then I don't hear from him again until the next selloff.
If you’re wondering like me why they would bother building in an expensive country with fewer qualified workers:

“To build a leading-edge manufacturing facility, Samsung needs rather huge incentives from authorities. In particular, Samsung is requesting combined tax abatements of $805.5 million over 20 years”
Lint Your Documentation
> It is NOT privacy focused.

It’s not anonymity focused.

If I want to have private conversations with friends, family or colleagues signal is fine.
or meetup? or podcast? or snapchat?
There is? Page 31 of the document I'm seeing shows the percentage of businesses in each MRR category.

As polote said above, it's very strange to see MRR growth figures given as a fixed dollar amount throughout the presentation. As a founder, you might be quite worried if your business was only growing by the same dollar amount each month over an extended period.
> how does this product not heavily pollute the environment?

They do. Everything pollutes the environment, including breathing. Do you think solar panels don't have toxic chemicals in them?

The sensible way to judge this relative, not absolute. The question you should be asking is not whether plastic bricks are bad, it's whether they're worse than whatever happens to the plastic waste in Kenya that isn't used to make bricks.
"If you want to continue, you have to log in"

lol

I guess I though it would be something like https://www.facebook.com/shadow_profile_activity
Isn't the proposal that any evidence of the toxicity of cadmium be given to the legislators? Presumably with information about the cost of regulating cadmium in drinking water so that they can weigh the tradeoffs?
There is a role for plastics as fibre as a reinforce in cast concrete. It's well known from bricks with straw. Alters the strength under load, strength to weight. Has a role in post earthquake survivability rates. If you can make it resist flexion (remember, concrete is strongest in compression) then there is a better chance to get out of the building alive, and then have a chance to fight the inevitable post-quake fires.

The fires do a lot of damage because they wreak havoc on already weak structure from the quakes too. Anything which makes them more resilient, reduces the immediate event death rate. You have to rebuild, sure. Nothing stops that.

Is it magic? No. There is no magic. But, its possibly useful, depending how its formed and how it's used and incorporated.

Iran does a lot of work in this. There are two reasons. The good reason is that they have a lot of social housing construction, 2-3 story, concrete constructions with low-doc compliance, and earthquakes. The other reason is that they needed to understand if the stuff withstood bunker-buster bombs. Not the houses. Other facilities.
I have yet to dive into Rust beyond "hello, world", but I am looking forward to the book.
Hacking is more a way of thinking than a skill to be learned. For example, When I look at e-ink displays, I think of its potential as a general purpose monitor, even though 99% of eink screens are not general purpose monitors with HDMI/VGA-out. So hacking is the process of determining how this custom built display only works with Acme (any) Corporation, and how it could be reverse- engineered to be used for other purposes.

I recommend this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
I agree with most of it except this:

"Hacking is not using process of elimination to find a solution; it's the process of finding a clever solution to a problem."

Hacking IMO is finding a solution to extend or enhance a feature by ANY legal means, but also ethical and moral ways, whether it is a tediously deductive approach or an innovative approach. Process of elimination, and logical thinking when used for hacking, is still hacking, even though it may be a technique used by more scientific or professional fields.

"Using things in a unique way outside their intended purpose is often perceived as having hack value."

This really is up to the user-If something serves a purpose even for one person, it still has value- it doesn't mean others need to like it.
There's always Denver and RTP.
So 40 million per year? That does not sound like much..
> But note that Signal doesn't know your number

Courts can compel them to keep these records, and require them to not disclose to their customers that they are doing so.
Genius Is Not Innate
Do you have any recommend resources for someome "with at minimal tech know-how" where to get started with running their own email infrastructure?
This is fairly common in the financial services industry.
It protects you as well as them.

In my experience, it covers 'directed' accounts -- ones
where you make the decisions. If your robo advisor (or a mutual fund) buys your company's stock, and you had no input in the decision, you'll be protected.

In my experience, you can hold ETFs so long as the weight of your company is relatively low. I wouldn't look over the financials and try to come up with a series of ETF trades that result in concentrated exposure to your stock though.
Milestones in Genomic Sequencing
I would say that modeling teeth with geometry is very easy. The material, lighting, and rendering is the challenge, especially when you consider all of the occlusion (and hard/soft body dynamics) from your lips that is inevitable with teeth.

Some form of subsurface scattering[1] is a must, and not easily done in games/apps because you can't really "bake" it like you do for most other textures to run performantly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_scattering#:~:text=....
I get shivers just from the standard outlets in USA...
I had this with The Picture of Dorian Gray, but on a re-read later (several years on a bored weekend, that was before I wrote code or read about code most of the time) I came to really appreciate it.
Yeah this feels a little bit like a declarative configuration file for Hasura/Firebase (which is already a good idea). Looking forward to seeing how far you can take the frontend stuff!
> Ketamine is so incredibly generic it isn't funny. For a financial motive it would be pretty bad and not even evergreenable.

That's why you don't sell Ketamine, you sell Ketamine + an antacid or Ketamine in a timed relapse capsule and call it Relaxadol and have your friends in the FDA ensure it's the only approved treatment and not the generic Ketamine.
Right, but that's because people are misinformed as to how timezones work. EST means UTC-5; people who refer to EST as current during the summer are incorrect. Most news outlets avoid the problem by just saying "ET" or "Eastern Time", which I wish more people would do.
For data extraction I highly recommend weboob. Despite the unfortunate name, it does some really cool stuff. Writing modules is quite straightforward and the structure they've chosen makes a lot of sense.

I do wish there was a Go version of it, mostly because I much prefer working with Go, but also because single binary is extremely useful.
The EPA should hire pentesters to go through each utility and expose problems with this. Seems like it would do well in exposing the problem
The bricks contain polyethylene, but a large part, probably most of it, is sand. Also, it is not foam in enclosed spaces, but a full hard material.

A non-flammable coating would perhaps be a layer of plaster or paint?

I think you are seriously overestimating the flammability of the product. Have you seen rooms with vinyl floors, PVC windows, foam / fake leather couches? Each of those will burn more easily a viciously than the bricks.

My concern would be with possible structural failure at high temperatures and some fires may be able to pass through walls of these bricks. However, I don't think they are building apartment buildings from these bricks.
TSMC is also building a fab in the US. [1]

1. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/tech/tsmc-arizona-chip-factor...
doesn't samsung have the capability to create its own fab hardware? if they are the supplier to themselves, wouldn't it be reasonable that they can prioritize delivering to themsleves
I was ok following the dumb blanket restrictions for a while but the more I learn about my country's decisions the more I understand I'm ruled by complete morons who have no idea what they should do.

If we're not rapidly moving toward a smarter handling of the situation I'll be in the streets for the next anti restrictions protests, the very same I was criticizing for the past months.
Buying Bitcoin after an Elon Musk tweet is a perfectly rational move
This is why I keep a "universal hammer" at my desk. If the gov boys walk in all I have to do is use it on my phone / laptop.

Problem solved.

Thinking about upgrading to a small commercial grade shredder or microwave.
> If you include bonuses and stock compensation

I'd personally never consider those in salary calculations - been burned too many times. But yeah, I guess if people are getting bonuses and other compensations, it could well boost them over £100k.
Wood houses can last just as long if they are properly built and maintained. I will grant you that many buildings in the US aren't built or maintained to last that long, but they can and do exist and it is what most builders would prefer to build if there was the demand. Wood is also much easier to repair if there is damage, or easily jacked up if the foundation moves over 100 years.
Unfortunately many of the driver packages Microsoft itself distributes come with the worst bloatware imaginable.

Quality control on Microsofts driver database is really poor.
So developers have more transferable skills.

I had to make a web app with a friend and I used Flutter which was absolutely amazing. Easier to work in than react native, and now if I want to work on some Linux desktop apps I have the skills to do so.
People sometimes have a hard time seeing outside their bubble. For example, how many Mormons do you know?
> So if after an election there are two different coalitions who both claim to be the best chance at a stable government, who makes the choice to go with one of them, or to call fresh elections?

Why do you need to have someone make a choice? Have a set timeline for one of the other to secure the support of a Parliamentary majority or new elections are called by operation of law.
The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health
Ever tried criticising any country where Islam is their state religion, on their home turf?

Or for that matter, any country where there is an official state religion?
ASML is the only supplier for EUV machines. Samsung can’t just create those easily themselves (or they would).
I still use pipenv and it's great. Python version management is a hell hole when sharing a project with other devs, pipenv solves this issue and is easy enough to containerize.
thank you, that was pretty funny.
Show HN: Cotter – Dashboard for No-Coders: Add login into your websites, no code
The article doesn't offer a position on that. It just points out the obvious fact that it's NOT about how cool and fun it is to be rich and throw fancy parties, and that understanding the context of the narrator being a returning soldier and member of the lost generation is important.
Visiting Another World
You can start with the Ethereum whitepaper. https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/
What happens when these erode - wouldn’t plastic particles contaminate water?
How does "ephemeral computing" fit into your notion of distributed systems? Perhaps this is a concern not shared by all distributed systems, but it's a practical reality that we in the cloud space have to deal with pervasively and it drives profound architectural differences.
The iPhone's terrible battery life isn't a bug, it's a privacy feature! I wonder if the FBI's evidence protocol involves immediately plugging in an iPhone to maintain the vulnerable state:

> That latter acronym stands for “after first unlock” and describes an iPhone in a certain state: an iPhone that is locked but that has been unlocked once and not turned off. An iPhone in this state is more susceptible to having data inside extracted because encryption keys are stored in memory.

I do wish Apple would add "restart" as one of the system actions in the Shortcuts app.
Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen
JavaScript ForEach Array Method Explained
Here's an archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210209194250/https://www.borin...

Not much better than the fart sound.
Not to be confused with this CIA university [1].

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