skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should I remind of the fact that Taiwan was very glad to sell any amount of semiconductors to mainland China.

And US companies moved production to China. Apple, TSLA, etc. etc. Yeah, we're in peacetime. These things happen. We're not planning to go to war with China, but we need to be realistic about potential threats in the future.

There's something to be said about the ability for trade to reduce tensions. I don't think trade with China is necessarily bad.
You can do a trick on Windows 10 too (if the disk isn't encrypted and secure boot enabled).

Boot a Linux usb live boot of choice, mount the Windows C: parition. Rename the Command Prompt exe to be the accessibility or sticky keys exe (something roughly along those lines). Save and reboot into Windows. Hit the on screen keyboard button on the login screen and an administrator level command prompt opens allowing you to reset the local admin password to be able to log in or do anything else that you would like to do.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar like this. We ban such accounts, because we're trying for something significantly different on this site. Fortunately your account doesn't seem to have a history of this; please go back to avoiding it here.

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no, overloading functions is called "ad hoc polymorphism", whereas generics is called "parametric polymorphism"
Once they start commingling inventory like Amazon does, that filter will cease to be useful.
One of the moments I'll always remember growing up in Texas was seeing the newscaster ask the very well dressed and always presentable local weatherman "what's the weather look like tomorrow?" and when the camera turned to him we saw a disheveled weatherman, tie not done, hair messed up turn to the camera and deadpan "I have no idea"

Many areas have the joke "if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes". That was less a joke and more a warning in large areas of Texas.
Wow, this is amazing tech. Unfortunately the announced browser app is not yet released.
Development.

The population of China is projected to drop by hundreds of millions over the course of this century, for instance.
I was cleaning stuff out recently and found a bunch of papers my mom saved from like 1st grade. What I learned about myself is I really, really wanted to be a car mechanic. Also made me realize that I don't really give a hoot about what 6 year old me thought, these days I don't even want to change my own oil!
25k starts a month is not a megafab
The link you posted to refute my points very clearly and eloquently repeated my point.
Very cool tool, and much needed!

I'm curious how you've built your owned database of respondents, and also how tightly a surveyor could define a niche of respondents.

For context, my company creates software to help computer vision engineers with sensor integration and management, which is a somewhat uncommon profile.

Thanks!
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As an Operations Analyst at a tech startup, SQL can be very useful if I'm trying to quickly understand patterns in user behavior or product data to do followup actions (usually reaching out to customers). However, it is a non-trivial investment to learn SQL and might take many years to get good at it.

Are there low-code/no-code solutions I can use that don't require me to learn SQL? Or should I just suck it up and view it as a career investment?
Yes a choice is being made. Yes it’s killing scummy tracking behaviour. It’s the users making the choice though, not Apple.
I created this tool because I often needed to diff log files, source files, or yaml files, and ignore certain differences.
Nearly every added feature came directly from a personal need.

For example:

* different versions of code may differ only in comments or whitespace

* log files are often many MB of unbroken text, with some "don't care" information such as timestamps or temporary filenames

* json or yaml files may have ordering differences

What it does:

'dif' preprocesses input text files with a wide variety of options.

Afterwards, it runs the Linux tools meld, gvimdiff, kdiff3, tkdiff, or kompare on the preprocessed intermediate files.
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Did anything ever come of that bloomberg article? Supermicro denied all allegations, but also began moving production out of China from what I can find online. Outside of a tech blog or two I haven't heard anything of it again
There are plenty of prominent people in software security that have IC backgrounds.
There are a number of so-called “residential VPN” services with clients that also serve as the firm’s p2p VPN / proxy edge. Some can be subscribed to commercially to resolve precisely the above issue.

Preferably, only give money to one that tells their users this is how it works.
One old scheme is a simple 2-of-3 multisig, where the keys are buyer, seller, and arbitrator

Who is the arbiter? Who pays for the arbiter? Do I have to negotiate for an arbiter for every purchase I make? There's a candy store down the street that takes Bitcoin. Am I really supposed to figure out an arbitration scheme just to buy a tub of popcorn?
Mixes real world celebrity into "literature as a product." Interesting to think who would be like Fitzgerald today, and fun to think authors can do that to people, draw crowds and headlines.

Creates a world that likely wouldn't exist without the book.

Memento for a group of people who feel sympathy for a lost friend, and remember an era where free expression was something brand new. Paris in the 1920s was probably really nice, not decadent, more like a wonderland, seeing things for the first time.

Ten years after Fitzgerald died, when America had to compete against fascism, communism and imperialism, we took everything cultural, loaded it into a cannon, and shot it at the world to see what would stick. How could it be disillusionment when we took over the world?
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments, or take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here.

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A good look at their (public) bug tracker might change your mind about how surprising this is.
I try to keep my eye out for mysterious gaps, as I know what the defense sector tends to do to job histories. Plus, age-ism seriously pisses me off.
One can play True Scotsman all day with certain definitions.
I have the theory that if parents push an interest too hard, the kid will actually dislike that interest. So hopefully you can strike that balance / get lucky.
While I'm also optimistic on Samsung's ability to execute some version of this plan, those things can't be parallelized. You can't set up a complex water delivery mechanism until after the building is completed and the cleanroom has been built to spec and tested, and you can't calibrate the gigantic ASML machines until after that.
What I don’t get from the article is the reasoning behind the design that the central repository “wins” over the local/override repository.

How was that design chosen, not just once but in all 3 of those large package ecosystems. Did pypi/gems/node borrow their design from each other given their similarity in other aspects?

Are there any situations where this behavior is desired?

Does any of the other ecosystems have flaws like this (nuget, cargo..)?
> Just let it be null everywhere, and if it's null somewhere it shouldn't be, the program throws an error--like it should, because there's an error.

Optionals everywhere makes that explicit, vs. something implicit that you can forget.
That was super interesting thanks for posting!
Why Do Electric Plugs Have Holes?
Emissions compliant diesel engines are available as off-the-shelf parts. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt an existing tractor design to fit a truck engine.
Sorry, the English language is distributed consensus based, and so you don't get to torture it into redefining money as "digital tulip bulbs" or condescendingly dismiss people using the term correctly until you have the numbers to mount a 51% attack. :)

Side note: what people don't get is that pretending tokens have more exchange value because more energy was expended than the printing of other tokens is just sunk cost fallacy.
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The Apple Watch is mentioned 27 times in the paper.

No other HRV instrument is mentioned.

Also, I recommend looking into how the scientific method works.

Generally if you don’t have a standardized instrument, you must say what instrument you used.

If they said “HRV sensors can in general detect covid”, they would be making a claim not supported by their results.

You seem desperate to not have Apple’s name associated with this paper, but it would be unscientific not to name it.

Good scientists are careful not to make generalizations they can’t support with evidence or references.
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Then why are you complaining about them implementing privacy controls?
There’s nothing to be done about winter, that is the “regular” time and you live in the north. You only get the sun above the horizon for 9 hours a day in late December.

The summer 9pm is the advantage of daylight savings. You get the sun up for 15 hours a day! Norther summer is great. Without daylight savings time, you’d get dark at 8pm in the summer and have an hour of “wasted” daylight before you got up. The “savings” part is to take the wasted light while you are sleeping and move it to the evening when you can enjoy it.

It does cause confusion though, and having implemented daylight savings code there are a bewildering number of rules around the world, there are even places that have double daylight savings. They shift once, then shift again for a two hour offset.
This is why they created the ACME protocol. There are actually other providers of this protocol now. So there is a possible future that is much more like DNS.
I don't think anything would, however Zuckerberg resigning would be a good start. I absolutely do not trust him, and I don't think I ever will. I'd don't believe any public attempt at 'turning over a new leaf' would be genuine coming from him, and it would just be a not so thinly veiled attempt to appease his irredeemable image. I just think he is a self centered, horrible person and I don't trust Facebook's motives as long as he's the CEO.
When they asked them to prepare the presentation, they likely had full intention to consider them for hiring. Then, another candidate filled the role, meaning the company no longer would be able to hire the author.

Informing them of this and cancelling the interview is the most respectful thing they could have done. It's certainly better than wasting the author's time by making them give the presentation even though the company then knew there was no longer a position they could offer.
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True, but when you own a part of Apple you also have to have faith that your shares won't be diluted to nothing via new stock offerings (which numerous companies have done in the past). So while there is intrinsic value in the shares, some of that is still based on faith (if Apple doubled their outstanding shares overnight, the value of yours would go down).
I wonder if a large fab is a "if you build it, they will come" type situation? When I worked at Micron in Boise, the surrounding area had many fab suppliers.
In that case, I regret that I'm unable to offer you praise for your comment.
> I still don't understand the arguments about a future date requiring a timezone.

It's not that a future date requires a time zone, you are right that can be 100% represented with a fixed timestamp. But there is the extreme case that time zone rules may change from the time you schedule the event to the time it happens, and in that case your event is now at the wrong time.

Consider the case where you have a weekly meeting at 9:00 AM on Tuesdays in an America/Chicago office. You could surely calculate the next N weeks of meetings and save them as UTC timestamps, taking into account that we shift into daylight savings time at some point, so you end up with a nice list of timestamps at 9:00 local time. But if the time zone rules change at any point (say, Chicago decides not to observe daylight savings time any more), now all of your meetings are an hour off.

If you had saved the meetings in a more verbose but true-to-intent format that properly captures "Every Tuesday at 9:00 AM America/Chicago", then at the time those rules changed you would either automatically have updated meeting timestamps, or some consolidation process could go and update the meeting times.

Even without sweeping changes like that, we still have unscheduled leap seconds, minutes, etc. every once in a while, which will also mess up your timestamps. I'm actually excited to see the day my calendar somehow ends up with a meeting at exactly 9:00:01.
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> everyone gets more than this but it depends on where they work

For those interested, here is a link to the base pay with the locality adjustment for each geographic area: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
I used to have to manage mailing list subscriptions based on data in a SQL database. The mailing list software only had a web UI. So I worked out what GET and POST commands and data I needed, and scripted it in bash using curl commands to interact with the list software. Ugly, fragile, but it worked.
Perhaps it's better to link to the FB's post itself: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/reducing-political-content... (Also it's rather telling that CNN doesn't think it necessary to link to the source.)

Personally, as a non-user of FB, I'm hella confused by this announcement. Apparently the feed is not dictated by the user's subscriptions but by FB's will? Such social service, wow.
Sounds reasonable. It was only one lung that had a clot.
Heart was racing for months Afterwards

Walk 30 feet. 170bpm for ten minutes.
I hope this is not laying the groundwork for developed nations to ship their plastic waste to Africa. China won't take the waste anymore so now we ship it to Kenya, to make paving bricks.
Interesting if it is related to the possibility of manufacturing smart phones in Mexico [1].

In that sense if you were to take the output of an Austin based fab to supply a smart phone manufacturing supply chain in Mexico versus China, that would be a significant reduction in the length of a smart phone supply chain.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-china-factories-ex...
When Steve Jobs created the first mac, he tried to replicate the look and feel of the Xerox Alto. He did not pay much attention to other aspects such as Smalltalk-80 and object oriented programming.

NeXT is an attempt to incorporate those concepts that were initially left out from the mac, thus creating an experience that is more faithful to the original Xerox Alto. That's the origin of Objective-C.

It may be possible to create something like macOS based off GNUstep. There is a project going on that direction... Etoile. http://etoileos.com/etoile/
Rubber covered playgrounds are considered safer for falls.[0] However, it's not just for kids, recycled substrates for athletic facilities are very popular. This shoe manufacturer recycles some of its products just for that purpose.[1]

[0]https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Tires/Products/Types/Playgroun...
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Yes obviously any male dominated industries was the point
Amazingly, due to fracking mostly in west Texas, the US is now a net oil producer. We should really change our Mid-East foreign policy to reflect that fact.
What are you doing such that those thoughts even cross your mind?
What does the second part of your sentence have to do with the first part?
I have AT&T 1Gbps fiber both up and down on my street here in the US. I agree it is blazing fast.
How would this enable cross site tracking?
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You can enable it system-wide with a defaults setting. Most devs I know do.

Most end-users don't know what a hidden file with a `.` is, would never create one, and don't particularly care for that level of clutter in a directory.
Reminds me of The Art of Thinking Clearly https://www.amazon.com/Art-Thinking-Clearly-Rolf-Dobelli/dp/... , also a fantastic book. Thanks for sharing!

When I read these, I understand them, but find it hard to recognize instances of when I'm falling prey to these biases in my daily life, and worse correcting for them. How do you do it?
The nice thing about China at its present stage of development is that everything made in China will perpetually get more expensive to make there and that will provide an ongoing advantage gain to every other location around the world that has until recently been at a steep cost disadvantage to China. Five to seven years ago it was already nearing cost-even to begin making things in the US again vs keeping that manufacturing in China, that will continue to tilt in the favor of the US by the year.
It is quite fascinating how electricity is a fundamental part of life. For instance, the respiratory chain is all about pumping electrons. And electric communication is one of the major ways how neurons in the brain and nervous system communicate.

Nevertheless, the sheer extend or impact of these cable bacteria blows all my imagination about electricity and life. This is really on a different level.
It seems unlikely to be that difficult, given that there are

apt search "font"|grep fonts-|wc -l

roughly 600 font families packaged in the Debian repositories right now.
Golang is google's backup to java if oracle didn't let them have java anymore, with some additional design goals for large companies like fast build times, better memory usage and something jr engineers can pickup without much trouble.

They both have garbage collection, they both perform about 3x slower than static C and they're both mostly used for network services, which is the same as Java at google.
Because the collections agent for that technical debt hadn't called _yet_
Since I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments, Veloren is a FOSS cube world inspired game that's developed entirely in Rust. Looks simply stunning and I have high hopes for it.

https://veloren.net/

https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren
How does it work in practice, though? For example, create-react-app in NPM has a bajillion deps. Do I trust 8,000 keys? Which ones are OK?

I get that you could in principle namespace things (at least for package managers that support this) and insist on a small set of company-internal signing keys for those namespaces. But managing all that isn't easy and what about for package ecosystems that don't really have namespaces (e.g. PyPI, NuGet)?
This is not an issue with Option at all. When you receive data from an external system, you should always parse it before making assumptions. By parsing I don't mean read property x as string, but make it a CustomerId for example, considering your constraints before accepting the value.
Hard to imagine that anything responsible for 25% of revenue (billions of dollars, at FB scale) would not be seen as "high status" if not by the engineers, then by management.
> you have to show the opt in, which of course people will say no to

Oh no, people are allowed to decide what their computers do, instead of being spied on without knowing. The horror!

What's next, people being allowed to uninstall the app?

Seriously, if your business model depends on doing things the user is not aware of and wouldn't agree with, you deserve to fail.
The second part of the sentence describes some of the non-dinosaur content.
It it could be written in rust then it could absolutely be rewritten in C++ as well, especially if it was already written in C. That said I find doing concurrent/async programming much more enjoyable/quicker in rust. Too bad it's not as widespread as c++.
Often they'll like what you like if you talk about it and play with it. But you can't force it.

Just as fun is to like and play with what they like.
See, preferring BSD userland would be a rationale I would at least understand, but I didn't find that motivation in the documentation -- at least what I read of it. Instead I just saw a lot of criticisms of user experience and development experience of unrelated graphical (userland) software that are common to all the free desktop OS's.
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> double click the image to open it in preview and then drag the file icon of the image into the pages view of the PDF

What I never understood as someone with a mac only to blend in at work, is why in the world is it called Preview when it's actually an editor?
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Occam's razor is good in theory but when you have powerful actors that can collude against people's best interest it's very harmful.
Nice! Love the comment: "This will be incomplete without a 699 MB XVID AVI DVD rip of "The Matrix" alongside a subtitles file for a language you don't speak."
The phone camera is perhaps the most powerful anti corruption technology to arise in this century. Beyond that, try DMing journalists at the local newspaper of record.
This is true. Macos's window management is still a dumpster fire (Cmd-tab to go to the last window raises all windows in that application. And switching to the previous application across two monitors will focus on the application windows in the monitor of the most recently focused window - not the last window).
Cute as hell
Humans degrade gracefully, don't they? The BBC story does not say happens next but I'm guessing they proceeded with the case.
The plasticity in their name refers to the plasticity during manufacturing which means they can be easily shaped or molded.

In their usable form plastics have varying modes of failure depending on their material properties, many of them do not deform at all under stress but rather shatter just like glass.
They do. The reality is that there's plenty of non-secret, boring warrants which go nowhere because the police can't decrypt the traffic or read the phone memory (and here in Germany, they have less access to fancy tech).

At the same time, an unprecedented amount of private conversation happens using phones, raising the stakes and the default expectation of privacy.

The pendulum swung from insane dragnet surveillance to widespread availability of tech that is resistant to all but the most sophisticated surveillance efforts.

Interesting times!
I've worked from home for ~8 years now, and i'd work for myself no problem - if not for one thing. Lack of stability. If i could have stability i'd do it no problem - i don't mind the isolation. Granted, i still have a social circle at work - even though it's remote work, i don't think i'd mind finding another social circle.

I just don't want a "work for myself" lifestyle that's client to client. Unpredictable, variable, etc. I want to know (as best i can) what my next 12 months will be.

The possibility of a dry spell of clients would keep me up at night.
Cash also enables ransome.
No, more something like "delete up to next dash" or "delete everything between the quotes"