skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The plain truth of the matter is that commercial app stores are malware distributors, and community repositories are not.

Citation needed.

> The commercial app store model does not work, at least not for the user.

The hundred of millions of Google Play users would like to have a word with you. (rampant ad-tech and freeware model are a function of the "race to the bottom" in app pricing, conditioning users to trade privacy for free apps, and Google's existence as an advertiser, not the fact that the Google Play store is commercial)

> Also: not all software is commercial, and not everyone wants their phones commercialized.

You can, uh, have an app store that distributes both commercial and non-commercial apps. In particular, there's a lot of open-source stuff on Google Play (and probably on the Apple App Store too).

> Your business model is often simply not welcome on the platform.

What platform? Who's not "welcoming"? The Pinephone runs open-source software.

> If we want a platform without commercial software incentives, that's our business, not yours.

Again, what platform? Who's "we"? The users? I'm a user, and I want commercial incentives - what makes your desires more important than mine?

Only a authoritarian, selfish mindset rejects a feature (commercial software) that is desired by some fraction of the user population, is useful, and is compatible with alternative features (open-source software) for a poor, vague reason like "commercialization".

Or does your definition of "software freedom" sound like "you can run anything you want on your computer...except for "proprietary" programs (which we get to define), or those that "enable" proprietary programs"?
It’s your requirement though, not theirs. I’m not part of Mensa and have no chance neither will to join, but this attitude “do some genius work then we’ll talk” really annoys me. It’s unlikely that I will do, but if I did, we wouldn’t talk, cause who cares. Like they need to work hard to prove something to a stranger (I’d make it invalidate membership). Some people can beat that score, some cannot, that’s it. Social people do things to feel accepted and loved (or feared, or hated). Unsocial may do that for themselves, out of curiosity, for an idea, to fight with reality, because they can. But not to impress some guy out there. It doesn’t have to be utilitarian; analyzing sudoku solving methods with 4 digits or playing other hard “games” is as intellectual as creating a cure for cancer. The only difference is how some Joe judges or benefits from it, which is irrelevant.

If this reads harsh, I did not mean it, but you social guys think you understand better, but often you do not.

I never announced my iq because I’ve seen that the answer other people usually get is either “ooh that’s high” or “what are you bragging about, it’s a number” or “mine is N”. Never heard the one that I find actually interesting: “which test it was, and oh, how did you analyze Nth, because it has three patterns with similar fitness, but only two were available as an answer”. Never once.
It's not true. No high-quality study, some of which go much higher than MENSA level, corroborates anything remotely like what they claim from their doubly-selected MENSA respondents self-reports: https://www.gwern.net/SMPY#fn1

For example, http://programme.exordo.com/isir2017/delegates/presentation/... looks at health in SMPY participants, which are a full SD or so above Mensans. If OP were true, they would have odds ratios of scores or hundreds (or higher!) compared to normal people of serious psychopathology, and SMPY surveys would be a staggering wasteland of mental illness; instead, they are very healthy and have rates lower or just slightly above normal people. Or even more recently, "Can You Ever Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Effects of Cognitive Ability on Life Outcomes" https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2021-brown.pdf , Brown et al 2021, finds absolutely no evidence of any quadratic trend remotely like OP claims.
The same reason Thomas Mair killed Jo Cox.
Indeed it is contradictory, but we never expected the social justice crowd to be able to put together coherent logical ideas, most of their ideas are founded in contradictions, and so the entire social justice movement is a mess of contradictions.
This was my thought, but with a central database of serial -> fingerprint. I like yours because of the distributed nature.
I use an HoC to wrap components in an error boundary around key points to avoid total crashes.
Screw it, how'd you fou feel about a younger fellow with an older woman? Or a young woman thirsting over an older man?

I really think you're discounting the fact there are two individuals involved here. As someone still within a stone's throw of that turbid time of hormonally driven adolescence, I assure you, one does no kindness leaving some to be predated upon.

I mean, hell, I've seen the occasional "I prefer the smell of perfume to Liniment oil" couple, and it always raises an eyebrow or two, but if the relationship is healthy, nobody really has any room to judge.

>And I don't need a wall of text to support that opinion

Maybe not, but in a conversation, it is generally in the best interests of everyone involved to lay their cards and reasoning on the table to minimize potential misunderstandings. This is something I've noticed a lot of older folks have trouble with at times. Hell I even struggle with it, but I work hard regardless to bring my years with me to help out the youngers. Without those of us who've been there to help them know how the world got to where it is, how ever are they to learn how to do the same, and avoid making the same screwups we did?
I'm sure Stallman has issues with social judgement, but that would just lead to awkward situations that resolve when the person notices they're out of line. Stallman will sit on his bad calls. I'd guess this is just what happens when your entire career is built on your stubbornness, and you get applauded for it instead of scolded.
Possibly.

But it's not like the attacks on TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are trivial. To successfully break a single encrypted connection requires massive server farms.

The people actually attempting to maliciously break TLS handshakes are working on much bigger targets.
Auth0. I use it on all side projects and in production at work.

We actually started with Firebase Auth (branded as Google Identity) and moved to Auth0 later for some small differences.

Also though, Auth0 was just acquired by Okta, if that matters to you.
Yup, we make it known. Plenty of companies in the world that you can coast at, it can’t be a company with <5 developers fighting well funded competitors.
Cost of living is 20% lower in San Jose, Costa Rica (location of Intel manufacturing plant) compared to TSMC in Taiwan.
Asia, in addition to being a continent, is an interlocked geopolitical sphere, with concerns like local wars, which can be amortized over by having factories in several countries too far apart to fight each other practically.
I'm curious - if the same thing, with the same approach to encryption would be written in non-English language (Russian, for example, or Hungarian) - would it be ever be cracked?

Seems like many tools/approaches used were english-specific, and unless some lucky guess/hit, they wouldn't be applicable to other languates.
I wouldn’t be surprised if TSM has self-destruct features built into their operations as a deterrent, or at least a plan to let the USAF bomb the hell out of the foundries if China invaded. The former might be a bit too risky :)
Your phone number is not getting leaked by an WebRTC app. Definitely not. Your IP address might, in case a true P2P connection is established.
Sound reactions for Zoom and other video calls (claps, applause, drum roll, ..)
If that were there case, it seems a bit dangerous/wrong for a reporter to be trying to pinpoint a complainer like this, if the reporter/target is not comfortable enough to put the name in directly. The only outcomes are nothing, or trouble occurring with the reporter having a very thin claim to non-responsibility.
Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation
Amazon Echo tear down: does the mute button disconnect the mics?
While I was still in school I joined an event for people that were really good at math, like 1-2 students per school could attend. I think it went for almost a week and then there were subsequent monthly lectures, unfortunately about discrete mathematics which I didn't enjoy that much.

In retrospect, you could definitely see that some people came from bad social backgrounds (and thus didn't wear the best clothes for instance) that were just there because they were so smart. But for instance there was also a guy from a very privileged background who went to private school (yes, clean clothes, confident and good at sports) who was actually a jerk. Anyways, there were also fairly average appearing people.

What I want to say is, I think the whole observation is very skewed. People from not so privileged backgrounds are usually not that visible, but just because of a high IQ might enter opportunities (university, job, social circles) that might be otherwise inaccessible und thus they get into the spotlight.
2. Determine whether a string has permutations which are palindromes.

If I understand this correctly, it's the sort of problem that's simple if you see the trick and hard if you don't. I'd expect many candidates to think that you actually want them to generate all the permutations and then get bogged down in recursion.

#1 is good, and #3 sounds interesting.
Niche, but very important to participants in the market. There is a growing industry of cargo and vessel tracking SaaS solutions (including https://Vortexa.com)
I think Intel are more focused upon not surfing the bleeding edge, more the bulk of other silicon production that is usually on many generations behind. So offering those the opportunity to step up in nodes for them but also using proven nodes which , whilst not bleeding edge - will do ok. That with any bleeding edge needs, being open to outsourcing on a case by case bases for their own parts.

I think for many, they view Intel based upon how well they do running computer games and think the stock resolves around that when we have learned that their income streams are more widely spread.

As for alternative to TSMC, that gets down to getting ahead on nodes or when nodes get to a stage that they won't get any smaller. Also the work with IBM is interesting and whilst IBM left the FAB industry, they still do research and that combination may help Intel catchup or surpase the current cutting edge TSMC offer.

I do feel what Intel is going for is opening up their 14nm(insert plus signs to taste) as they shift their core onto the 10nm. They had a lot of investment in 14nm and milked it well, but now they have the opportunity to open that up and gain value from that instead of the usual retooling one node into a new node and some node changes will be more impacting and might well be the case. Let alone the downtime and then to get the plant particle free after all the work - very costly. So to cash in on that as is more and just build new plants from scratch can for the accountants become very much the right direction to go and that is how it seems to be. More so when politically getting subsidies to build new plants over retooling an existing one can make that option even cheaper.

However it is being driven, it's good for Intel and the industry as a whole as more choice. Equally I'm very interested in how Intel and IBM will collaborate and have a good feeling about all this.
That is interesting, I've never heard of anyone becoming addicted to it. It is hands-down the most effective headache pill for me (even though I have been completely off caffeine for years now). I would hate it if they outlawed it; though reconstructing an equivalent would be pretty straightforward.
Sort of what he has to say to sell his fabs, no?

I mean, he’s not saying Intel have a better product, because they don’t.

Eh.
Lots of hating on Mensa here (which sadly smacks of 'sour grapes'). But its a club like many others (e.g. Methodist Mens' Club) that is arranged around a commonality, not a specific activity. Its not perfect, but what club is?

Sure some folks have anecdotes about a poor local branch. You get out what you put in I think. If you want more interesting local meetings, then perhaps volunteer to find a speaker or event? Or even speak yourself?

Mensa members are smart, sure. But what does that mean? I once bought a book of 'Mensa puzzles' published by the organization (by Dr. Salny anyway, their national head). I went through it from end to end, and figured out most of the puzzles. They ranged from wordplay to story problems to logical reasoning and on and on. In the back were the solutions, and the percentage of Mensa members tested that got them right.

This was the most interesting part. For the math and arithmetic problems, from 10% to 25% of Mensa members got them wrong. How could that be right? Well, because (tested) intelligence isn't just about math. It ranges all over the map.

And so do Mensa members. They have curiosity about the whole range of the human condition. And (good) member meetings are all about that - discussing and enlightening and disputing things, to a deeper level perhaps than folks normally get at a family dinner or meetup at a bar.

Anyway for what it's worth the discussion here is more interesting for folks' reaction to Mensa, than for any real insight into what Mensa is about.
Oh, I didn't know that! I thought the expression simply meant double understanding/meaning.
Incomplete evaluation.

* Death is only a small part of the risk. COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disease, it is more of a blood disease, and can permanently damage many organs.

* Lung damage can be severe and permanent, as in worse Smokers' Lung than heavy long-term smokers, even for large numbers of asymptomatic cases. [1], [2]

* Extended long-COVID can occur even after very mild cases. Initial data shows that these are significantly reduced by the vaccine [6]

* it is not just about you, but about you not becoming a vector. Public health matters to a society, you enjoy the benefits of the society, and share it's duty to contribute. Don't shirk.

* mRNA vaccines are not new, having been first published in 1989 [3][4] and in numerous human trials since 2011. Any substantial risks with this technology would have already shown up [5]. mRNA vaccines do not alter your DNA and are very specific, and I'd say likely more safe than standard weakened- or dead-virus vaccines.

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

[2] https://www.ibtimes.com/some-covid-19-survivors-lungs-worse-...

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

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC297778/

[5] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-12-mrna-vaccine-safety.h...

[6] https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021031...
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> The idea of free software, for example, has led to a software economy where you, the user, are no longer the customer, but the product.

No it hasn't, unless the author is conflating free software with free beer. Free software, if anything, leads to the opposite: empowering users to take stronger ownership over the programs they use.
All of them have enough competent lawyers to tell them where's the danger, and how to stay away from it. Elon just enjoys wandering closer to it.
Pointing out that there is a concentration of chip manufacturing in one region (or even country) is not xenophobic. It is globalist, and it is capitalist, but it's not xenophobic any more than it is to say that the concentration of social networks coming out of silicon valley is a problem (it is!).
As he says here, the decision not to take risk and jump to EUV with TSMC and Samsung was the mistake that started this downfall and it snowballed. The decision happened somewhere in the pathfinding stage into 10nm.

When Gerald Marcyk was running Intel components research back in the
2001 Intel was already considering using EUV lithography for the 45nm technology node that would come out 2007. It turned out that the switch to EUV could be delayed and delayed again. Intel thought they could get away with it this last time and it was a wrong decision.

EUV is super hard. There is only one company that can make EUV lithography machines, Dutch company called ASML. TWINSCAN NXE:3400B costs ~$120 million
https://www.asml.com/en/products/euv-lithography-systems/twi...

Intel, Samsung and TSMC invested billions into ASML in 2012. In exchange Intel got 15% ownership, Samsung 10% and TSML 5% if I remember correctly.
They don't have any significant ownership anymore.
How soon we forget the present?
This already exists/existed at GlobalFoundaries and they’ve been closing fabs.

The fab business isn’t great, tbh, because most of the money is in the value add.
Is there a term for "company starts advocating a valid social concern when it aligns with their interests"?
Companies that require employees to work from home, should pay them extra compensation for use of their property as their office. Probably they should be paying a comparable market rate to what would be the cost of renting an office space for that employee on the market.
I get that many employees find it very cool that they can WFH and just that fact makes them happy, but they forgetting that this way companies exploit them.
You are essentially sacrificing part of your home for the company you work for and you don't ask to be compensated for that?
Pay will be cut. It’s definitely the norm for any companies that are allowing WFH for new hires.

I have yet to interview with a company that offers a truly competitive SV TC while allowing the employee to be remote forever. Most every says, “you need to choose where you will be based as your pay is dictated on that, remote pays less than in-person in our SV office”. If you think you’re gonna get $400k+ tc in BFE, you’re mistaken. There are much cheaper people in Romania available to do that.

Honestly, I’d prefer full remote and full in person teams. I hate dealing with remote workers when the majority is in office and I hate being remote when the majority are in office. I’ve had to deal with both before and it’s always bad. I’d be cool with remote teams but I pray we don’t have to mix. It’s such a huge drain to accommodate both styles in one team.
In their defense, just because a platform has a large number of users doesn't mean that it's "working" (for some definitions of working). I use Android, but not because I like it, but because I have to. There are apps that I need access to that are only available for iOS and Android - and Android is the slightly less-terrible of the two.

Now, the more general argument about the "commercial app store model not working" is utterly ridiculous - you can't make any useful generalizations with a sample size of 2. (actually, Steam seems to be doing pretty well - I rarely hear people complaining about it, and it's a commercial app store)

> Not only are you wrong. You’re wrong on a scale so large, 100 years ago the average person had never thought of numbers that high.

...is an amazing comeback, that I will be taking.
It was a direct statement he made to a colleague when we both were at VA Research and he berated her for some item related to how we were hosting the FSF at the time. That's where I first saw that he is gracious when it suits him and is otherwise generally a boor. He's done nothing since to change that view.

I also observed him trying to dress people down ad nauseum for a litany of inanities: telling me and several other staff from VA when it changed from VA Research to VA Linus that it should be "VA GNU/Linux" while the rest of us were trying to have a conversation with other people. Or the time he could barely control his irritation at an awards event when Linus Torvalds' toddler daughter upstaged him at an awards presentation. Or when he seemed clueless and/or ambivalent about any number of things that other people felt.

Yes, I have a strong negative opinion about RMS. No, it is not based on tertiary opinions, but direct or near-line observations.
"Indo" in "Indo-European" comes from India, one of the two largest countries on the Asian continent. You might classify some languages spoken in India as.. Indo-European. Shocking. Those Indians who speak those languages.. are Asian! Surprise!

Since you missed third grade geography, the other continents in addition to Asia are Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and recently discovered to be its own continent, Zealandia

Good try though, projecting your own racism onto the topic at hand while simultaneously revealing incredible ignorance
Time to buy some stonks
I will probably work for 50 years (~20 -> ~70).

About 11 months a year (~1 month for holidays). Around 160 hours a month. So 1760 hours a year. And about 88k hours over my entire lifetime.

That works out to <<10 full years>> of my lifetime.

If I'm not socializing at work, albeit a bit constrained by the professional environment, something is super wrong. Restricting socialization strictly to weeknights and weekends seems... super radical to me.
He's also talking out of both side of his mouth. Yesterday we learn this[1] and this "Galsigner says" story unironically fails to point it out.

[1] Intel to Outsource Some Key CPU Production for 2023 Chips to TSMC
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-to-outsource-some-ke...
Having a vast surplus is a very useful form of resiliency. For commodities surplus is equivalent to low prices.
> MBA hate here is ridiculous.
>
> Blaming MBAs for how companies behave is like blaming people with software engineering degree for writing buggy code. Not having people with MBA degree won’t magically make your company better, same as employing developers without a diploma won’t magically make your product more stable.

I think there's a current trend -- perhaps not entirely unjustified -- of skepticism towards academic elitism and a bit of a divide, in the U.S. at least, between those in ivory towers who issue edicts, and boots on the ground. Not taking a side, here, especially being that I'm in management.

I do have to say, when I hear of "ethicists" and I recently spoke to someone who taught "medical ethics" while at Google they fired a controversial "AI Ethicist" I have to raise an eyebrow. Ethics are morals. Somehow someone studied them and can tell us the correct ones. Maybe I've mischaracterized this in my head, but it sounds awfully similar to a priesthood.
So "to wit" ="namely" = "viz" but "ie"(id est) is appropriate when giving a simple example (vs a primary example) or an alternative wording? Albeit= nevertheless=however=on the other hand?

Sorry, these shouldn't be equal signs— no words are truly equal.
The problem is that it's not just learning Perl, it's learning Perl and the monolithic app (or forest of microservices) at the same time; and if that one smart dev doesn't want to keep doing it, you keep repeating that learning curve with all the costs associated with it.
On which hardware?
> the most insulting thing was hearing a twisted version of the consultant's advice used as ammunition against the team, questioning its competence.

That's the advantage of having an expert that is no longer there. You can make him agree with whatever you want.

Once there was an expert invited to solve a problem at a company I worked for. Towards the end of his short visit, we met in a kitchen and talked for a while. I asked him what he thought about the problem we had, and he told me his opinion. After he left, there was a meeting where the managers told us what the expert thought. It was almost the opposite of what he told me. Was he telling different conclusions to different people? Or were the managers just lying? No way to find out, of course.
Eh. There is intentional splitting into subgroups, and there is accidental selection bias. I think that's the difference.
For software developers...