skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What is so special about the browser that this one place you don't want apps to function? "

This is where the disconnect is. I am not saying "I don't want apps to function". I am saying "app developers request way too much data, and could absolutely live without most of it". I don't care if your and my jobs are made harder. Boo-hoo. The world does not revolve around software developers. We don't do ethical things only when it's convenient.

"Or are you under some illusion that native apps are not tracking you?"

This sentiment clearly also applies to native applications. Clearly, system calls weren't designed with invasive data collection in mind. This is why I support what Apple is doing in its latest updates. Give an inch, and a greedy dev will take a mile.

"It wouldn't stop my app being made, it would just cost more."

If a system is not perfect, we're not allowed to adopt it? Good, let it cost 5x as much.
In case anyone else is wondering, it looks like this piece was originally published in 2014 (or earlier): https://web.archive.org/web/20140205003105/https://training....
Building an economy on unskilled labour is a pretty bad idea. Anything that can be automated or outsourced WILL- capitalism demands it.
He had SABRJET as a vanity auto license plate for many years.

You're right, my dad had a great life. When people would ask him "how are you?" he'd reply "shot at and missed!"
There's often a large disconnect between teacher's union leadership and membership. Probably not unlike most union compositions in the US.
and so does everyone else...
Invasive apps: which apps are sharing your personal data?
I think I misread the tone of your reply. Yes, the situations are nothing like the same and the idea that the US could have been just like NZ if only is silly.
Sperm Whales Clicking You Inside Out — James Nestor at The Interval - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsDwFGz0Okg
Asia has been the primary axis for semiconductors since the mid-1990s when Silicon Valley ceased to be about any silicon. That's when the entire industrial ebbed out of the USA.

Were you not paying attention as all the jobs were lost?? Did you not notice the changes?

It used to be that 90% of all semiconductor companies were based in Silicon Valley, hence the same. Driving around the Valley was a near-religious experience as you saw EVERY company name you ever heard of and there was their building.

That no longer exists. And even social media companies are remotely as plentiful today. There's no comparison.

The only hope now is:

* TSMC is building a fab in Phoenix
* Samsung is building a fab in one of three areas: Phoenix, Austin or Malta - they haven't decided yet
* GF is building another fab in Malta

NONE of this will EVER be in California ever again let alone Silicon Valley, however. It's no longer economically viable there.
LibreCAD does the same thing.
We do have real world results, and they’re mostly very good. For example, analysis of the real world effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in Israel:

> The latest analysis from the MoH proves that two weeks after the second vaccine dose protection is even stronger – vaccine effectiveness was at least 97% in preventing symptomatic disease, severe/critical disease and death.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

The AstraZeneca vaccine looks not so good, especially against the South African variant, but the early real world results for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines look outstanding, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine looks solid.
That's what the diagram copied from Lawrence Livermore National Labs says about rejected heat. What the article author is trying to say is something else entirely.
>it gives China a strong incentive to attack

That can be mitigated by planting bombs at the TMSC factory. If china attacks, they'll get end up with a rubble.
Well the decision is to either send them to school and risk them all getting infected with and becoming superspreaders of a novel, fast-spreading virus that we don't fully understand yet, or keep them home and risk mental health issues from social isolation.

We chose the less harmful option, it's not that complicated. There's no conspiracy here.
We have lots and lots of chip factories in the West. A very important one just lost thousands and thousands of wafers because the Texas power grid went tits up, and it set the companies using it back by months. There's foundries being built all over the world. TSMC just happens to be the first to have an extremely expensive, extremely difficult process down to a reliable production setup, so all the orders that absolutely have to be on that process are going to them. They also happen to employ most of the world's expertise in leading-edge lithography tech. But if you look beyond the absolute pinnacle of production processes, and into the >100nm range, there are literally hundreds of foundries around the world, many of them in the US and Germany for example, churning out what was top-of-the-line a decade ago.
What's fascinating to me is about all of this is that techniques like the ones you implemented and others are all that is needed to eliminate cheating. It's the kind of stuff that is analogous to the protocols developed by the air industry in the mid 20th century that has almost eliminated entire classes of error that could result in loss of life from flying.

It is especially troubling because post-secondary education is a sort of cornerstone of all other human endeavours so the cascading effects of people cheating and not learning the material that they need to be better at their jobs influences lives just as much as a plane crashing.

The silly part is that post-secondary education is something that is far older than the flight industry yet no such standardization of controls over testing / grading have been implemented.

It seems like it's almost a choice.

> Faculty weren’t as charmed with the cratered grades, though.

Yeah. it's a choice.
Given what they've done with it in just a year, I hope they nail this C in the A.
We understand and can certify how bridges are constructed. Someone from the government can come in and check your work reasonably quickly and make sure it’s up to code. There’s a “trust” step and a “verify” step. And it often takes a lot of time to do iteration.

Software engineering isn’t like that. Not only are the tools changing every year, but 95% of the work in a project isn’t actually design or construction, it’s figuring out what the client wants or the product should be! Requirements are discovered as construction happens because most of the time software is solving a business problem not a physics problem.

There’s no certification because there isn’t something to standardize. Every company has different problems, technical solutions are always changing. Interview processes are trying to look at generic problem solving + communication + ability to translate some easy algorithmic idea into code. They don’t do a great job of assessing that, but the point is that two CS degrees can look identical on paper but there’s so much fuzzy interpersonal/business/requirement-assessment work that basically isnt captured at all by a degree, and is really hard to demonstrate on a resume.
I suggest we start by not trivializing ‘depression, eating disorders, neglect and emotional, physical or sexual abuse’ as simply ‘a sacrifice that had to happen in order to save lives’.
"Rest of their lives" is a pretty bold and, frankly, made-up thing to say about an illness that has barely existed for a year.
Not technically scams, obvious ones aside (ie, hundred bucks for a wooden knob or "directional" cables); audiophile gear is indeed top quality, but the excellence they aim to would never be recognizable by any human ear on the planet because the incredibly small improvements, if any, would be measurable only by lab instruments.

One can spend ten times less and still not hear any difference, but as any psychologist could confirm, once someone spends a fortune in something he believes it will sound better, he will surely hear that difference. Too bad nobody else will, unless they also fall in that trap.
Will you adjust your priors after seeing death rates between California and Florida are roughly the same?
Exactly. There’s little I’d like less than bragging about having spent my life savings on a JPEG that everyone has but that I “own”...
I suppose the downvotes speak for themselves...
The point is that the token only guarantees the ownership of a token from a limited edition of tokens.
Analog systems and Analog Integrated Circuits, Analog Systems deals with using Analog chips, analog integrated circuits chips deals with designing such chips, a robotics engineers needs the first one not the latter. And the first one requires EE101 knowledge and signals and systems knowledge for filters etc which the OP is already covering in other courses
Not entirely. A few months ago I was reading about a controversy where the Emacs dev team was concerned about the ethics of conducting an online survey. Can you believe that? That's why I like using their software. You just know people who are that extreme philosophically will never in a million years betray you.

Don't you think tools like Bochs, QEMU, gVisor, etc. are reasonably satisfying? Security is a hard problem since there's an endless push and shove around its tradeoffs hence why sometimes the best one can afford is monitoring.
Sounds like they copied XLN Audio XO -
https://assets.xlnaudio.com/pages/xo/1.2/gui-screens/main_2x...

They should at least mention what was the "inspiration".
Not cool Google.

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/xo
You can buy highend Hifi speakers from the 80s for very cheap (often under 100 bucks a pair), and they don't really degrade if they have elastic cones made out of rubber.

Speaker development didn't really evolve since then, what sounded transparent and lifelike back then still does today.

If you're in Europe, check online marketplaces for Canton GLE 60, 70 and 100 or Canton Quinto. They also have a high impedance, so low powered amps do fine.
I suppose one can “brag” about most anything. Seems to me, though, that a brag about “owning” an arbitrary sequence of bytes is pretty damn empty.

Overcome a challenge that presses your personal limitations? Worthy of a brag: you took up the task, persevered, and conquered.

Open your wallet to purchase something? I just don’t see that there’s any legitimate boasting to be had there: any damn fool with the same money could do it. There is no challenge, there is no accomplishment, there is nothing to be proud of at all. It’s such empty bragging.

IMO people who brag about owning things have deep personal insecurities and would be better off putting the money spent towards therapy.
This is a scary video of FSD beta 8.2 driving around the streets of Oakland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs
Try ProgeCAD, a bit cheaper alternative, but not free. AutoCAD is holy grail of 2D CAD. Many cheap alternatives like ProgeCAD etc are usable but no match to the AutoCAD. AutoLISP is of added value.
Uncompressed digital audio hit the limits of human perception around the turn of the century. The big things affecting people’s perceived quality were bad compression, noise due to things like poor shielding on low-end computers, or using something like Bluetooth where bandwidth constraints forced heavy compression. If you get a decent DAC (which isn’t a ton of money - USB devices are quite mature) a 20-30 year old system is going to sound great. Newer ones might be smaller or use less power but sound reproduction has been mature for many decades.
We can and do make chip fabs in the US. Intel choose a different process for its 10nm than TSMC 7nm. It hasn’t worked and instead of switching to a similar process the other foundries use they doubled down repeatedly. It’s the perfect example of sunk cost fallacy.
Not sure what that has to do with anything, but if April’s not it, when was that double digit death rate?
Oh wow - do you have a reference to the original?
I initially read it as “FSD will always be Level 2” but they’re just talking about the beta:

> "[A] final release of City Streets will continue to be an SAE Level 2, advanced driver-assistance feature," continued Williams. "Please note that Tesla’s development of true autonomous features (SAE Levels 3+) will follow our iterative process (development, validation, early release, etc.) and any such features will not be released to the general public until we have fully validated them and received any required regulatory permits or approvals."
Freecad does this when editing sketches at least. Kicad also does it. It's great, but very confusing for beginners.
> there are a set of code "costs" (like cyclomatic complexity) which can be measured with mathematical precision.

"Responsibility" is IMHO about intent and meaning, which as a human concept is not reducible to measurements of this kind. Cyclomatic complexity is all fine and well, but it cannot tell you if an intent is being met or not. It is silent as to meaning. It's relevant only if you can compare two pieces of code that do the same thing; it's not talking about what that thing should be.
What do you mean "they believe is real"? NFTs are "real", not sure what you're on about. Or is it all fake, no one is actually trading NFTs?

Yes, people are stupid. Does that mean they are being scammed? No, they're just idiots.
Some. Not that much as in the 1980s. Notice that most of the floorspace is Arizona, Oregon or overseas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

Back in the day I worked at Fab 2 but that's ancient history.
There was no major change in the speaker itself for a long while - a top of the line speaker from the 80 is probably still good... if the material aged well. The elasticity of the membrane probably suffered more than anything else for example.
That’s why modern speaker still cost a lot.
Yeah. They say they are doing a 10B release soon[1].

I suspect they have run into training issues since they are moving to a new repo[2]

[1] https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/13737326468119674...

[2] https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox/
KiCad copied this feature, and I was frustrated by the "inconsistent behavior" of the selection tool for years until someone finally explained it to me.

Now it's great, but if you're going to copy features like this, please make sure to document them so that people trying to learn how to use your tool without the requisite historical perspective don't get frustrated.

Eventually computing is going to get to the point where it's no longer possible to learn all of the historical baggage around why things are done a certain way. For a lot of people, we're already there.
If the takeaway is, "never work on internal tools," I've worked at companies where the internal tools were more valuable than anything customer-facing.

If you're great at optimizing SQL, probably just doing that in any place you can get your hands on will make a pretty big impact.

Overall impact is more helpful than resume points, IME, especially when references are involved.
KiCAD's UI isn't that bad. I was productive almost immediately using it, and it was my first exposure to PCB design. I can't say the same for FreeCAD though. :-)
Are people more productive working like this?
Fixed title to reflect that, thanks
Don’t give them ideas!
The weird thing is, these kinds of videos actually stress me out, because they remind me of the fact that I'm sitting in my tiny apartment watching someone else getting out and seeing the world. The more I watch, the more I ask myself: is this ever going to end? Am I going to break out of this preexisting bubble of just being content with what's on my screen, a mentality that I'd already lived out for years before the pandemic?

The places I walk around lose their charm after a while, since I don't drive or live in a large city. It feels like a wasteland at times. A pretty wasteland. But it's pretty empty and alone at tim

And especially when it comes to Japan, I just can't get over the fact that I can't get enough time to see the country. No company is going to hire you on the basis that you'd prefer to live overseas, and of course the pandemic has set back the process by a couple of years. But each time I went to Japan, I wondered why I wasn't living there yet, personally. It's a stupid feeling that refuses to exit my mind, no matter how much I debate myself over it. They don't prefer to hire people above age 30, and they cancelled last year's JLPT, so every time I'm reminded of the fact that I'm quickly running out of time to accomplish one of my goals, it stresses me out, big time. I believe I possess a lot of the things that specifically make it hard to gain entry, like a college degree and reasonable proficiency in the language, but not... connections.
You can't just say it's "lucrative." You have to say how. Are you saying that a controlling number of powerful politicians or their backers are heavily invested in mask manufacture, but not in any of the parts of the economy that are affected negatively by the lockdowns?

And "hundreds of thousands of Euros?" That's a pittance. There has to be more to be made (than maybe enough to buy a studio apartment in Berlin) in order to justify the shutdown of a large part of world industry.
This mitigates only half of the problem - yes, China won't be able to use the factory for themselves, but if you take a closer look at the list of the largest TSMC customers from the article those are mostly American companies. Destroying TSMC factory would hurt the US disproportionately more than it would China. Which might matter in the current China-US trade war.

Also "planting bombs at the factory" scenario is one of the reasons why all armies in the world have spies and special forces - you send your special ops soldiers before your main attack to take control of the facility and prevent initiating the self-destruction protocol. I'm not saying it always works, but China can take a calculated risk here, since they win either way.
Does anyone still put soundblaster cards in their rigs these days?
> a year later and people are still trying to twist studies into support of their favored medical treatments without actual supporting research...

This isn't something he has made up on the spot. It's been repeated countless times in the British media and presumably has some scientific basis. Either that or the whole field is keeping quiet on the basis that the UK has a large supply of the AZ vaccine and it's better to stop deaths from the current dominant strain than to wait for a better vaccine. Since the second option requires the cooperation of vast number of people I tend to believe the former.
If that bothers you, replace it with "Having one or both parents spend the rest of their children's lives in graves isn't exactly great for kids either."

> frankly, made-up thing

The CDC disagrees with your opinion. From the CDC's "Long-Term Effects of COVID-19" article[1]:

> The most commonly reported long-term symptoms include:

> Fatigue, Shortness of breath, Cough, Joint pain, Chest pain

> Other reported long-term symptoms include:

> Difficulty with thinking and concentration (sometimes referred to as “brain fog”), Depression, Muscle pain, Headache, Intermittent fever, Fast-beating or pounding heart (also known as heart palpitations)

> More serious long-term complications appear to be less common but have been reported. These have been noted to affect different organ systems in the body. These include:

> Cardiovascular: inflammation of the heart muscle

> Respiratory: lung function abnormalities

> Renal: acute kidney injury

> Dermatologic: rash, hair loss

> Neurological: smell and taste problems, sleep issues, difficulty with concentration, memory problems

> Psychiatric: depression, anxiety, changes in mood

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/long-term-effects....
That would freeze the car and smartphone production worldwide. No country would like to see this.
I'm pretty sure they were pissed off because they are a "critical infrastructure" company whose employee exfiltrated their entire source code. Not to mention, if they were doing any government work, they may have inadvertently let in foreign actors- not great for "critical infrastructure" since management aren't likely to have been the worst hurt had anything gone more wrong.

Bear in mind he was getting a 6 figure salary- he was hardly the little guy making under $15 an hour.
> some kids might be having a hard time not meeting and playing with their friends

Probably most kids. Socializing is one of the most important things you learn in school.
I felt the same way. I live in San Francisco which has overwhelmingly supported liberal policies for many years. The young progressives, who have the most free time and money to “fight” for their fellow human beings, were the ones buying up all the meat, eggs and toilet paper when this thing started.

I work on vaccine scheduling for a large health system. We are now dealing with a large influx of young people lying about having a chronic illness to jump the vaccine line (the requirement for verification was recently lifted).

I’ve grown pretty disillusioned and can now see there is major hypocrisy on both sides.
I've been using harman/kardon Onyx Mini for 4 years, same ones. they're amazing. Before that I was using only headphones.
How will they make a drum machine spy on us?
Since C&C has been remastered, could someone please compare them? I've used to play C&C, mostly play OpenRA now but saw the NoClip documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MUDQYWk6qY) about the remaster and almost bought it. But I'm still unsure.
End of March. Which is what led to the extremely heavy lockdowns in April.
Update: we received an email from someone claiming to be the author. I've copied it below with their permission.

Of course we can't tell anything for sure, but in my experience, this kind of thing is usually authentic. For me it changes the balance of probability enough to justify guessing differently again, so I'm going to take [flagged] off the thread now.

------

Hey,

I recently wrote an article which was posted on HN and is now flagged for the use of a link to a website called Daily Stormer (article title is, “GitHub, f*ck your name change”). Obvs this is you guys community and I didn’t mean for a post I wrote to seem trolly. I just wanted to clarify the situation.

I had genuinely never heard of Daily Stormer or ever been on the website until the time I was writing the post. I use DuckDuckGo, which evidently doesn’t ban gnarly websites the way that Google does. I was looking for articles written about the misidentification of black people as gorillas in facial recognition systems. The DS article came up as one of the top results, I read the first paragraph and it seemed on topic so I used it. I have since removed the link from the post.

I’m not trying to justify the use of the website, it 100% my fault for not doing better due diligence. I just wanted to say I’m sorry as I didn’t mean for the post to come across as trolling.

For what its worth, I am black, I live (born and raised) in London and work as a SWE. Nothing in the post was a lie.

Thanks for reading,

Moosey
There are hundreds of thousands of people to point to. You're just trying to ignore them.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-tragedy-of-the-post-...

How many more cites do you want? There are plenty out there.
It's interesting that the sites that you'd expect to use notifications tend to not be the ones actually offering them. Webmail? Reddit? HN? Obvious notification cases. Legitimate ecommerce? I could see prompting for "let us send order update notifications after purchase." Don't see it there though.

Instead, I see a lot of "enable notifications to prove you're not a robot" scam fake-CAPTCHAs and a lot of newspaper/TV/media sites asking for it. Just because I want to read one article doesn't mean I'm naturally after an update every time you post anything else.
GloFo has more or less given up on cutting edge node design, if I recall.
That's just what their lawyer is claiming to try to keep the DMV off their back until it performs better.