skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will be interesting. I don't quite know what to expect. On the one hand, Samsung and Google actually might have the combined power to take on Qualcomm, on the other hand Samsung might not want to give Google too much of an advantage as to make the Pixel devices stand out too much in comparison to their Galaxy line.

Then there's the question of commitment: It's quite clear that just relying on Qualcomm won't change the abysmal Android update problem but mass producing custom SoCs for a brand that doesn't even show up in the top 10 doesn't really inspire confidence considering Google's track record of shelving projects.

Not to forget performance: When Google releases the Pixel 6 line, Qualcomm's high end SoC will have been shipping to customers for around 5-6 months with the annkuncem of the successor being quite close again. The Galaxy S21 Ultra with the Exynos 2100 SoC seems to still lag behind the S21 with the Snapdragon 888. I guess as long as GS010 isn't noticeably slower than Exynos, Google will be fine. Then there's the potential for shipping a new Pixel Core on the SoC for on-device AI/ML/Image Processing tasks where Google could really shine and take some benchmark wins.

Samsung also have partnered up with AMD to improve GPU performance for their Exynos line. Might Radeon show up as the GPU in GS010?

I really hope this isn't being shelved after 1-2 years since I'd love to use a high performance ARM-equipped Pixelbook at some point.
> Basically, the info has a certain amount of value, that doesn't really go down.

I was thinking of the value of the news to Bloomberg, which was mentioned in the article:

At Bloomberg, scoops about deals are highly valued, because beating competitors like Reuters or Dow Jones helps to justify the high price of a terminal, which carries rich veins of data along with news, at a reported cost of around $24,000 a year. The terminals constitute the company’s core business.

If the information is deemed important, then, as soon as Bloomberg is confident in the information's accuracy, it will publish. Once Peltz had a record of giving reliable tips, that would likely happen quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_%28news%29
Why would they get rich if they give money to pay people for research in exchanges for worthless tokens?

The research, even if it leads to something good for humans, does not add any value to the token. The token only has a value because gamblers speculate on a higher price in the future.
The higher price can only be reached if more new gambler speculates on an even higher price and so on. We have a finite amount of gamblers so this can not go on forever and make everyone rich. Instead each wave of new gamblers makes the previous rich. But each wave has to be larger which untimely means the last and largest wave will be screwed over.
Which Im totally fine with as long as people know the risk of being that last wave.

The problem is on the side line there are people who never risked to be in that last wave because they simply printed the tokens and sold it.
Like for example the devs that paid themself with these tokens thus inflating the supply which basically steals value form everyone who holds the token.
The lock screen has been annoying me forever and I still forgot to write about it. I've updated the post to mention this. You are absolutely right!

As for the back of the album, I agree as well! But I would consider that an extra. Not to mention that I would want to update my album collection to include that back cover, and finding a good front cover is already hard enough
Personal way to prevent infection instead social restrictions?
That's a big part of the problem. Someone with the ambition to write up their MacOS to Linux experience lost to the tarpit of Gnome.
That... actually is true now.

Anything with its own blockchain and also not popular is basically worthless

The mining rewards over a few months would still be just a fraction of a few million dollar marketcap network

But there are quite a few valuable ones you could get a decent take on, Tellor comes to mind.
> Some Linux distro should explicitly support some line of laptops. Literally “buy these models because we will 100% support them”.

Like PopOS from System 76?
You work piles off while people take time off, then it suggests that management is sabotaging peoples vacancies. For most people and situations, whether or piles up or is organizational choice.
Javascript and PHP is correct.
> I think this is a good thing provided it doesn’t take from people’s annual leave allowance.

They switched to discretionary time off (no formal accounting of paid time off) a few years ago. They also have a one week company shutdown in July and another one week shutdown in December.
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Quite. And anyone of German nationality doesn't have a leg to stand on! Let's not even start with the Turks.
I used Ubuntu Dell 18.?? then 20.04, the official ISOs from Dell, since the laptop is a 2018 XPS "Developer Edition"
I was mostly ambivalent about crypto - it seemed like a lot of speculation but I liked some scenarios it enabled (mostly scenarios where traditional payment was not practical for w/e reason).

But seeing the HW situation, energy burn, scammers, infra hijacking, etc. there are so many negatives I'm more and more in favour of making it illegal.
Animals do get lost.
Speaking personally:

* No ability to show thumbnails in folder icons

* No ability to use single click + hover to highlight

* Relative sizing feels way off - everything in Finder always seems to be simultaneously way too spaced out while also being way too small.

* Never seems to remember view preferences properly, and often defaults to confusing arrangements.

* Doesn't like to stay connected to network drives, despite any number of tricks I've tried.

* The usual cut/paste/delete operations being needlessly complicated to perform

I do prefer macOS overall, partly because I'm tired of having to constantly tweak and fix Linux whenever I try to use it as a desktop system, and because of things like iTerm2 and BetterTouchTool.

But I really hate trying to do any kind of real file management with Finder, and most third-party apps I've tried just seem to replicate everything I dislike about Finder.
This is one of those great ideas that sadly one needs experience to realize are really bad ideas. Every new generation of programmers has to relearn it.

It's a bad idea because ASCII already includes dedicated characters for field separator, record separator and so on. These could easily be made displayable in a text editor if you wanted just as you can display newlines as ↲. Anyone who invents a format that involves using normal printable characters as delimiters and escaping them when you need them, is, I feel very confident in saying, grotesquely and malevolently incompetent and should be barred from writing software for life. CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, all guilty.
...gradually replaced by fatty tissue. Nevertheless, some T cell development continues throughout adult life. (wikipedia)
The vulnerability: https://www.fcvl.net/vulnerabilities/macosx-gatekeeper-bypas...
Just after the intro:

I feel like I need to clarify that this is an article aimed at Mac users who are considering a migration to Linux in hope of a more polished system. As usual, personal experiences and requirements are subjective. I know that Ubuntu ≠ Gnome ≠ Linux. I also know that I'm not entitled to anything, everybody is welcome to send patches. Just let me say that if you try to cherry-pick any single issue, you're missing the forest for the trees.
Thank you!

I completely forgot that Steam is not for games only.
I think there was some bug in a big service (Twitter? very unsure) a few years ago related to this conflict of ISO and 'real' year
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> If your family was barely surviving in a restricted country I'm sure you would send funds to them as well.

I don't really understand why people don't read other people comments

I've literally said "as an Italian with roots in Africa" my African family was dirty poor and my Italian family isn't reach either.

I guess you are not from a poor country, so why are you imposing your rich country world view on me?

trustless systems are THE problem in a "restricted country" you'd know if you'd ever visited one.

They can and will take waway from you everything at will, imagine what would happen to a family that suddenly has money to spend but nobody can say where the money is coming from...

if there's no proof that the money is yours, you can't claim the ownership, taking it away from you it's easier.

"but... but... there's an entry in a global immutable ledger that says that the money was transfered from this anonymous wallet to my anonymous wallet and..."

"so you have no document proving that the money is yours! they are legally of the government now. we're also taking the keys of the wallet."

living the life of warlords or mobsters or arms dealer, hiding the sources of your income like criminals, is not what people in developing countries want!

they want banks and laws like everybody else

they don't want to try to be rich by investing in a pump and dump speculative asset so that Musk can make more money.

They absolutely want trusted systems, as small as possible, so they can trust them, not the global financial tools of the richest 1% elité
On the contrary. Anyone of German nationality HAS to speak up about these things.
"This will encourage Github to place its data centres near unused hydroelectric dams!"

~ Cryptokiddies, when you try to talk to them about waste.
> I feel like I need to clarify that this is an article aimed at Mac users who are considering a migration to Linux in hope of a more polished system

I... don't really know what to say here. Seems like a fundamental misunderstanding. On a mac, polished is pre-polished - polished from the box to a nice one shape fits all sphere.

For linux, you machine it out of stock to your personal dimensions, and hand polish to the finish of your choice.

Comparing the two misses the point of both.
The alternative is doing what the iPod does.
This is an example of an analogy that is superficially fitting but doesn't actually map to the reality of what's being discussed.

The reason why our subjective probability of a building collapse goes up with the passage of time is because we know already that structural engineers are reliable. The passage of time tells us more about the structural integrity of the building than about the reliability of the engineering advice.

Macro-economists and geopolitical pundits on the other hand have little credibility when it comes to forecasting. The passage of time should only increase scepticism, especially when the reasons for the forecasted collapse keep changing.

If a psychic keeps giving you either incorrect predictions or predictions that remain unrealized, does your belief in them go up or down?
Used it for a while, but it really annoys with random “let’s get updates in chinese” popup from time to time. This is that last mile that non-macs always get wrong, gosh.

Edit: to add some value to the rant, there is also MiniBin, which sits in a tray area and allows you to open/purge your recycle bin without reaching a desktop icon.
> Vietnam? Algeria? Suez?

Vietnam and Algeria were asynchronous battlefields, and nobody seems to be able to win those. ( Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam)

Suez failed politically and internationally, and the French were forced to pull back because the British got forced by the US. Militarily it had a decent start before that.

And all of those were more than 60 years ago, so hardly applicable today.
“Continuous integration and testing practices" are useless when you are going to rewrite the software from ground up every year or two years. You just patch the software until it's time to throw it away.

Many startups write something that they can sell, get experience, realize what they should have been doing instead, then do that.
That's actually a good idea. Among English-speaking players of the board game Go (the English name being derived from the Japanese), the Korean name for the game ("baduk") is gaining popularity in large part because it is much easier to Google.
That's my hunch, based on the way the "debunking" of Bloomberg's articles was done (lots of people speaking from authority, poorly supported nitpicking about accuracy of illustration and other details, pointing to statements from the companies as authoritative) and the lack of retractions. I also got the sense that certain people who would normally like to speculate about the deeper story or provide historical context/additional flavor were unusually quiet.
> So according to your research 99% of people who have bought it have lost mone

it's accurate

you don't have to believe me, just think that Satoshi alone owns 1% of the bitcoins in circulation, than there are a major crime organization in Bulgaria that owned $ 1.2 billion worth of btc (currently owned by the Bulgaria government), the FBI that seized many bitcoins around the World (1.5% of the total), including those of silkroad, followed by btc trading companies.

only a quarter million users (4% of the total) own a full bitcoin, while the majority owns less than a half bitcoin.

they bought at X and sold at X minus some, not much, but a loss nonetheless

or bought at Y and sold at Y plus some small amount and.never tried again, for various reasons including "not worth the risk".

technically not a loss, but not a good investment either.

also many thousands wallets are inaccessible because the keys were lost (a friend of mine made almost two bitcoins in payments 8 years ago, he lost the keys soon after...)

while the 1% got extremely rich, the 99% had neither the capital or the will to risk to get there. which is completely understandable.
... and the conclusion should be that we all encourage each other to become better and pressure our governments to make better laws.

A flawed past is the worst excuse against striving for a better future.
I use Roam Research for this purpose (and many others)
From github README:

"Help with other platforms: If you are a Rust developer with experience on Windows or MacOS your help on porting VpnCloud to those platforms is very welcome."
But why tar it in the first place? If you want to share a directory, the system can tar it for you behind the scenes. Also, the system can zip anything behind the scenes, without the user knowing.
Ehh, did you live there let's say in between 1960 - 1990?
Just for the record - no, it wasn't a pile of rust by 1990.
It had free universal healthcare, free higher education, no need for mortgage, abundance of jobs.

And in my family there was a history of persecution during Stalin time, surviving Holodomor, so I know these things first hand. I don't need lecturing on what went wrong from Westerners.

And what about immense suffering after 1991? - Ethic conflicts, absolutely atrocious poverty, would have been much worse if not for some remnants of socialist safety net (de-facto free healthcare). The new capitalist society was not exactly a much of improvement on many areas.

For example in 1993 Boris Eltsin (president of Russia) ordered shelling of Parliament by tanks. And that was fine with the West. Somehow.
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The SEC has always been in place supposedly to protect the average citizen from being able to make bad investments - however I don't understand how they dropped the ball so hard with crypto-"currencies;" regulatory capture by VC-finance industrial complex?

Is it that they are global and decentralized that made them just not take a stance on them, also the same reason it obviously would easily and quickly gain popularity as a global, decentralized MLM-Ponzi structure?
Probably because server usage alone will be $50k/month for just few million users. Customer oriented products (B2C, C2C) rarely makes money in initial days.
Alisa is much better than Siri for Russians.
Indeed. Arch's disadvantages are obvious, but the educational contribution of the Arch community to all its users has been immense. Almost everyone technical that I know personally has really levelled up through it at some stage. I think Arch's detractors often miss its role in getting more people truly on board with Linux and OSS.
> This problem, by the way, is even more important today. Now, most of the services are on the web and in the cloud, and I can guess that all “smart” devices, we are using today, will not be able to start at all 25 years later.

Imho, that's the most important part of the article.
Lock down port-level access to the PostgreSQL database is important though
What you're describing is a light field camera.

It's cool tech, there was a company called Lytro that tried to commercialize them a while back.
It is not smuggling if we are talking about buying a device for personal use.

Buying a full truck of these - sure.
> For the ease of entering time units YAML 1.1 parsed any set of two digits, separated by colons, as a number in sexagesimal (base 60).

This is a mind-boggling level of idiocy. Even leaving aside the MAC address problem, this conversion treats "11:15" (= 675) different from "11:15:00" (= 40500), even though those denote the same time, while treating "00:15:00" (15 minutes past midnight) and "15:00" (3 in the afternoon) the same.
Hey, phase shift is great for radars and radar-like processing. If you can control or calibrate it it somehow, you're gold.
Performance? Not sure TBH, wasn't a primary aim for me. The slowest bit of this experiment is to load the wasm file in the browser.
Interesting idea. I am a firm believer in understanding ourselves through our actions.

I wrote a bit about it in
https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/three-actionable-ins...
Opening XMLs in ZIP containers is easy! Just spin up Word. :)
There is a savings glut in the US. Automation, urbanization, pension funds, trade deficits, and dozens of more factors cause an excess of savings. Savings are just deferred spending. If someone doesn't spend, then someone else doesn't work. That's how you get an economy with high unemployment. Alternatively, you invest the savings. Yields go down, price earnings shoots up. Turns out, the market is already saturated and there are no investments left. There is nowhere for the money to go. So institutions buy government bonds even if some of them have negative yields. When you buy us treasury bonds, then you are saying "I want the US government to have my money because it can invest my money better than me". How does the US government tap into that money? They are bonds, the government has to go into debt to access the money.

This was the prologue so you understand that the US government absolutely must invest. So, what is the US government going to invest the money into? The goal is to produce a reasonable return (1% above inflation). The first obvious choice is education because it ensures that the USA will have a highly qualified workforce in the future. USA is the tech center of the world so anything that strengthens it will ensure a bright future for the US. The second obvious investment choice are green investments. It really doesn't matter what you invest here because fighting climate change is like defending your nation against a foreign army. If the nation is destroyed, there are no returns to be had. If nuclear power is effective then that's how it is but renewables look like a much faster way to deploy the savings. One should question why these obvious investments aren't being made if there is a savings glut. It's because they aren't considered investments. Fossil fuels are still too competitive even though it is obvious that they will fade away over the next 20 years.

Of course you can also do generic infrastructure investments. They'll probably net a reasonable return as well. I feel like stimulus checks do help with unemployment because they boost consumption but they aren't sustainable in the long term. It's possible that the savings glut goes away and then the debt becomes unsustainable, which is why the money should be deployed with an intention to net a return.
Not even 3.

I don't remember seeing tearing on my Linux for a heck of a long time.
I am not taking a position here on the proposition that Peltz needed to know when the information would be published in order to profit. I am pointing out that, even without being explicitly told by the journalist, he could be reasonably sure that publication would occur quickly, if at all. He could also be reasonably confident that it would be published, given that it is valuable information, and that Bloomberg had demonstrated its confidence in his leaks by publising earlier ones.

The feds may well, of course, have independent non-circumstantial evidence of the journalist informing Peltz about when the information would be published.
Cool! Does this bring any benefits that WireGuard does not?
You are probably better off with the Mac, but I can recommend one option that many people ignore but that works for well me.

Modern Linux virtualization (KVM/Qemu) is powerful and is getting easier to setup with programs such as Virtual Machine Manager and Boxes. I run several Windows VMs without problems and they have usable performance.

I have used Windows VMs for Word and Skype for Business using KVM.
No surprise!
bitcoins are worthless

their nominal (aka imaginary) value is right now $60,000 dollars each, in real money

if btc could not be traded in fiat currencies, which is the real goal of every btc investor, their value would drop again to zero

because that's their real (aka physical) value
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... What the hell?
I've been using Linux almost exclusively for many years, and I had to google what screen tearing is after all the comments about it in this thread.

I do get people's resistance to switch.
I bought a M1 Mac Mini because I wanted to be able to test and optimize code for it, but found the difference in experience jarring enough that I enabled remote desktop and now mostly run code on it through ssh.
I'm sure I could configure it to behave more like I'm used to, but, why bother?
If things were flipped, and I was that comfortable with the Mac experience while Linux felt alien, I'd probably feel the same way.
I'm CTO at a startup and I've made a 180 on this in the last year. I used to paint a rosey picture. Now I feel it's my duty to give employees full disclosure on what they can expect: cash burn, runway, technical debt, what we likely can and can not spend time on, that potential stock options should not influence the decision making, because the future is impossible to predict and it's very likely to be worth nothing.

I do also tell candidates that it's an investment in themselves and a great learning experience. You'll get more responsibilities than in typical companies and you'll be very out of your comfort zone. If you're the kind of person that thrives in such an environment, and learns best by experience rather than by theory, then this might be for you.
>OS is always second-guessing my authority

Very concise way to put it. I feel the same way. With FOSS I feel that I'm fighting with the software, and with proprietary stuff I feel like I'm fighting against the software.
This is some tired-ass whattaboutism shit[0]. Say what you will about the USA, but it is at least a flawed democracy. The Black Lives Matter movement is having a real impact. Can you imagine the Uighur equivalent in China?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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Probably most easily explained by the boiling frog I imagine.
I constantly had problems with these and more back then. (E.g. making my TV grabbing card work was a nightmare.) I don't experience this since I've been using a ThinkPad.
The main complaint is about lies and misrepresentation as well as lack of empathy and appreciation; certainly that isn't particular to startups (and not all startups are like that) but your dismissal implies startup founders get some sort of pass for lying and generally behaving like shits.