skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much would it cost to start a design semiconductor business? On the low end of the budget.
> Young's voice suffers terribly from age

Not everyone would agree with that estimation.

May 19, 2019 CONCERT REVIEW: Neil Young's entrancing night at The Fox

https://www.inlander.com/spokane/concert-review-neil-youngs-...
It feels like AGI will be based on many small specialized AI modules, like our brain. So progress in specialized AI should indicate in a progress in AGI, even in nature the neural network different parts has predefined specialized tasks.
LOL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
M3O – An API first development platform for the cloud
I'm not saying video conferencing needs 4K 60fps video. I'm saying that 5Mbps might suffice for the shit quality video most laptops will generate, it's insufficient for the much better quality video even modest 1080p cameras will generate.

Most laptops have terrible cameras. Their best output can be encoded at a few hundred Kbps and would be neigh indistinguishable from video captured by the same camera directly to disk. A good 720p or 1080p camera needs quite a bit more bandwidth to maintain good visual quality. If upstream bandwidth is constrained the software will dial back the visual quality to potato levels. For anyone that needs non-potato quality this is problematic.

Cable Internet companies patting themselves on the back for handling a dozen potato streams is just sad. Not everyone is ok with such quality. In an online classroom setting, the students don't necessarily need great quality upstream video but the instructor trying to capture a white board or switch between live video and a detailed presentation does want that high quality upstream video.

Video quality from streaming services is immaterial here. There's a lot of quality/bitrate tweaks that can be done with offline encoding that are not workable for real-time encoding.
Sure it's not great and the incident needs to be investigated but mistakes happen. We shouldn't expect perfection as a baseline. If nobody is willing to take risks, we wouldn't have any vaccines right now.
I don’t think the shortage will be over in the next 2-3 years at the least. This is a huge problem that the media only briefly covers. Biden just announced 25b to semiconductors bc homeland security knows we have major flaws in the supply chain.
There’s no “the shell,” assuming you’re asking about the Unix/Linux shell. Besides the common sh and bash you can use any number of shells. Lots of people have reinvented the shell and done things differently. It’s just a program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell
I think those two were newsworthy because of the location of the fabs (US) rather than the cost.
Not really, the objection would have been it was completely impractical, and it was (and borderline still is).

When the facts change, opinions can change.

The objection to the EmDrive is that is that it makes no sense, which is much less likely to change.
I love how much he puts commitment to make it look all genuine. And the time he just let it unveil. First there is a little talk. Then a look inside. When he turns the power on all things start to go snafu.
Like going to a concert is meaningless because it's just a bit louder and all you do is look at the musicians? Damn that's cold.
As far as I was aware, many private US universities explicitly didn’t collect this data in an effort to maintain deniability when dealing with immigrants (especially “illegal immigrants”).

Of course, many many students in undergraduate life are also employees of the school part time, so presumably they need to provide this information.
Talk to your coworkers outside work--organize. Be united and push back. You can bend management in any direction you want. You truly own the means of production, not them--never forget that.

The cynic in me thinks that this back to office push is out of fear that it's far, far easier for remote workers to organize outside the view of the company. They are terrified and want to nip that in the bud as soon as possible.
Four Freedoms
I am not sure I am quit as annoyed with electron as the the author, but it is certainly nice to see people working on improving it!
> What about this is AI?

The PR Title - "Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI". And the PR last line - "All of these updates are possible thanks to AI advancements"

And that might be it.

> "classical" algorithms

They probably just need to change a constant on the time to tell the user to change lanes and they'd make a difference on screw ups.

The fact Apple now says "sorry" when it makes a mistake is quite clever, it's a quick word to stop confusion for repeated instructions.

I do think the voice on maps needs work, and it matters. Text to Voice might be 'AI'
The difference is quantitative, but multiple magnitudes big: The ratio of impulse to mass is given by the exhaust velocity, and velocities for massive propellants barely reach 0.01% of the speed of light. Thus the thrust can be more than 10 000 times higher for the same propellant mass.

On the flip side, the exhaust velocity also determines the ratio of (kinetic) energy to impulse, so energy beam propulsion needs over 10 000 times more stored energy.

Energy beam propulsion is only viable if you have compact high-capacity energy storage available (antimatter?).
> Today, we remedy these by offering you a privacy-aware resource sparing solution: elect1

Such an announcement about Electron can only happen on April fools day (aka international fake news day).
Such a close minded harsh thing to say.
University professors are almost never the ones making the big money from a new discovery, so it wouldn't make sense for this guy to put his reputation on the line for a few bucks.
"cost of these voluntary risks is just negligible"

I was hospitalised for a few days because my cat bit me - is keeping a cat reckless behaviour?

I think it would be supremely silly, and more importantly hugely expensive, to try and monitor behaviour and track down what people were doing that caused an injury in order to decide whether their health care costs should be covered.
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/PackageSync
Now I want to build a floppy drive into my car, and each 3.5" disk would be an "album" - of course it would just be a cartridge that the system would recognize to play a particular set of files which are stored internally.

It would amuse my friends on car trips, not that I have any of those...
We used this before the pivot, when it was just a data unblocker tool. The product was flawless and high quality, although too expensive for our needs in the end. Good luck Airbyte!
Maybe they have. Maybe it's even good data, and analyzed correctly[0]. "We have data" has been the go-to excuse of companies in the past decades - a way to whitewash doing whatever it is they want to do anyway. Maybe Google is better than this[1].

But that still assumes the executives making these decisions prioritize employee well-being and work productivity. No amount of correctly collected, analyzed and understood data on WFH productivity will help if the change isn't driven by concerns about productivity. In that case, this data is just irrelevant. I believe this is the concern GP is expressing - that the goals of the management are not well aligned with the goals of the employee (which is obvious), and the well-being of the company (which is plausible).

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[0] - I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt here to Google, at least in areas where it matters. I'm not usually giving it to a typical company, Internet or otherwise: just because you have data, doesn't mean you have the right data, have analyzed it correctly, or even employ anyone who could analyze it correctly (or employ decision makers who could understand and vet the conclusion of the people doing the analysis). In my experience, these failures are very common.

[1] - I have my doubts where it comes to their product decisions.
Just in terms of reduced CO2 emissions due to fewer people commuting because they can work from home, and the impact this has on climate change, he is correctly speaking for all of us, if by all of us you mean life on Earth.
Time for Apple to hire John Hodgeman? (The I'm a PC guy)
i set up each of my terminals with a specific purpose. they all live in a different directory and stay there (or switch to subdirectories and back). say for example a terminal for each project i am simultaneously tracking, or each long-term task.

as a result i have dozens of terminals.

but, i never work on more than one project or task at a time. so there is really no need for more than one terminal-window to be on my screen at any one time.

on other words, using tmux locally helps me avoid clutter on my desktop.
Yes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/TODO
Not open source nor self-hosted AFAIK, but it sounds like you're looking for something like Retool (https://retool.com)
Autopista it's just the translation of "highway" in Spanish.

Source: I'm a Spaniard.
> Universities' legal departments are clueless whether this only applies to RDP, or alternative 3rd party tools as well (or rather whether this would hold up in court).

How about IP KVMs? How about non-IP KVMs? How about a long usb cable?
There is this solidarity part that I like but in my case I find it really outweighed by the bad parts that force individuals to conform and to do no waves to be part of the community.

In our case it culminated with a PE teacher of the local school who was hitting the students members of his kendo club and sent one to the hospital. And the discovery that all the parents of the club members knew about that.

Yes, if there is one thing I would like to take from the Japanese school system it is the cleaning of the classroom and serving of lunch, but if that meant also importing the sempai-kohai system and the bullying culture it enables, forget about it.
They send all sort of weird stuff (lots of odd phising test emails similar to this one) so this was not completely unexpected.

But the wording the link was a bit off and I really didn't think much of it and moved on
I would say that the best way to start understanding the different programming languages is not by leaning a generic course about programming languages features, but to pick one read about it and try to write a short project and then switch to another different language.

I would start with a low level language like C, then move to a more higher level like Java and finally end with a more "modern" language like Rust or Go.
I think you’re mixing up the shell program (sh, bash, csh, zsh, etc.) with the Unix/Linux environment. The names of commands (adduser, newgrp) have nothing to do with the shell. Undeleting would get implemented in the file system (multiple solutions to that exist already). grep is a separate executable (with many variants and alternatives), not part of the shell. Man pages are not part of the shell either.
I don't bring those arguments because they are irrelevant and outside the topic, there's no clause "unless people like them" in anti trust laws, and there's never going to be one.

> For your own sake, please find a better argument rather than repeating yourself.

The arguments are there and can't be refuted, every single market analysis (even superficial) shows antitrust issues and you haven't been able to refute a single point yourself either.

I can keep adding even more and more evidence if you want. Here's another one:

There's been some group preparation for an antitrust lawsuit and in order to do that, those groups have been gathering testimony of people affected by those unfair practices. Developers were so afraid of retaliation by Apple and Google by speaking out what they experience that they had to accept anonymous testimonials. That's as bad as that.
In a hybrid model the people who choose to be remote are damaging their own impact and career development. That's a tradeoff they're free to make if they want but it's the reason why I think hybrid models won't last for too long.
The main invest from Spain in Cuba it's Tourism related.
Sounds like a standard security through compartmentalization. Works on a laptop, too, with Qubes OS.
i would not make sweeping statements like that...

here is my non scientific benchmark, latest macos:

new wezterm window: `find /`: 70% CPU

new kitty window: `find /`: 30% CPU

the kitty window is visually faster as well...
The school can't do it but in plenty of communities there are community organizations where parents and kids help clean up their local neighborhood and beautify things. I grew up in such a place, in what was often a troubled neighborhood in Chicago. It doesn't have to be the school that does it.
The stock market currently thinks Gamestop is the most revolutionary company in the world.
isn't it easier just to move jobs? having google on your resume means you can get hired anywhere.
> Why? Breast cancer is cancer of the breast tissue. It’s a different disease to prostate cancer, which is again a different disease to colon cancer and leukaemia.

Yet most cancer treatment at the moment is not so specific. The exact same drugs are used to treat many different forms of cancer[1]; lukæmia is indeed treated with the same drugs as breast cancer is.

> Breast or prostate cancer are the most common cancers in women and men respectively.

The most common form of cancer is lung cancer[2], and while breast cancer takes a second place, prostate cancer is fairly low down the list at 5. Furthermore, in terms of lethality, both take a rather strong backseat to many other forms[3]

> I don’t think it has anything to do with identity politics and everything to do with the medicine.

I see no evidence for your claim that breast cancer is so fundamentally different and the link I posted indicates that the same treatments are very much used for different locations of cancer.

- [1] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000910.htm
- [2] https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-trends/worldwide-c...
- [3] https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
This would go away if government's had safe, secure and unique identifiers for all individuals that would have all the necessary data attached to it and stored safely by the government. That way, the only thing a business needs to collect is your unique ID and some secure token controlled by the individual that allows the third party to confirm your data with the government. This whole "privacy" thing is probably a solvable problem if we think outside our comfortable box, but instead we're trying to optimize in the local maxima we've already inherited.
Page 4 of the IBM white paper says:

In 2005 the FCC ruled that CALEA applies to broadband Internet providers

So yes, it was mandated. You may disagree with the ruling, but ISPs were required to do something, and Cisco enabled this on products for ISPs. Did they have it beforehand? Yes. However, this product only existed on certain products, and other countries required this before the 2005 FCC ruling (again, from IBM white paper).

But of course, this still isn't "Cisco put in back doors for the NSA". This is "Cisco putting in back doors for law enforcement, including even local police".

Further to that, everyone was aware of this. You can't have a 2010 white paper by IBM, before the Snowden leaks even(2013), if it was secret. And realistically, a "back door" isn't quite that, if it is well known. It's just another access point in a product.

Secondly the 'Snowden' leaks, which had everyone quite pissed, including Google (whom I hate, but...) starting the big push for SSL everywhere, were not caused by these specific back doors.

Heck, this white paper is from 2010, and this 'law enforcement' "back door" was well known, AND!, not in all Cisco products! How, then, could Google be surprised by this revelation. That this back door existed?

How could anyone?

It was not a secret. It was not in all products.

No, Cisco routers were infiltrated in two ways. Undisclosed vulnerabilities, which the NSA was aware of, and used against all router vendors to install NSA malware. And again, by intercepting shipments to end-users, installing NSA backdoors and malware, then resealing and shipping the product onward.

This is what the Guardian Snowden leaks talk about!

The big differences between China(and your whataboutism), and the US, is that if you don't let the Chinese government into your company, do precisely what it says, and install all the backdoor software it wants?

You don't have a company any more, your freedom, and maybe even your life.

Meanwhile, the NSA, has been acting illegally, and does NOT have the support of US tech vendors. In fact, US tech vendors are hostile to NSA's attempts to subvert their products, including lobbying US politicians to stop this sort of behaviour.

There is a vast difference between these two things, and in all of the above, Cisco did not willingly put "back doors" in anything for the NSA.

So in reasons to your question? Yes, I know something you don't.

History. Factual, actual, history. Not revisionist.

I'm happy to re-examine any of this, if you can provide links to data showing Cisco allowing NSA agents into its midst, and installing NSA spyware for its products at the factory. On purpose. Which aren't open, and were hidden from everyone.

Or something similar to this.

Because otherwise, your statement is absolutely, positively, not factual. How can I say otherwise?

And yes my original response was firm, because I've seen others say this sort of thing. We must be factual in our claims, not hyperbolic!
Probably won't affect rest of the world given the US export ban is going to be around until second half of the year.
fight for freedom
I've never worked with it myself, but Appsmith (appsmith.com) seems like a promising alternative to Retool.
In west birth rate declines because people have more options and want to enjoy life. That was not my experience in Japan. They have rigid culture of corporations, education, hard labor and over achievement. Some people just do not like that. There is no communication, because society does not like conflict!

US politics is other extreme, there is no communication, because society loves conflict! It will get started whenever and wherever possible.
Now I'm curious about what I was asking!
There is an existing legal framework for multiple owners sharing a lot, condominiums. That isn’t the barrier. Zoning excluding mobile homes is the barrier.
> Only if you completely ignore all the things I've been writing. The appstore has restrictions. Those are useful. They are a layer of defense in depth, user protection.

That's outside of the point of antitrust issues we were talking about but I personally think they're not as effective as the marketing claims.

> Then Apple should close those gaps. "It has flaws" is not a reason to turn it into a wide-open free-for-all, that would be worse, not better.

The most technically secure platform is currently the web (yes, far above iOS sandboxing), there's no relation between openness and security.

> That's like saying you don't own a TV because the TV station can stop broadcasting and then the device is useless. You can throw it in the trash without telling anyone, and nobody will care

Except the TV station doesn't manufacture the TV, and the TV manufacturer does not control TV stations... It's like every single example you pick reinforce the fact that there's anti trust issues.
I completely agree. I have to talk to these people all day, now I'm supposed to talk to them while I eat? Never mind the fact it isn't socially acceptable to actually talk while eating.

I just want to walk, read something interesting and eat.
> For houses - if anyone has been involved in a real estate transaction I would say you are probably familiar with the notion that there are 15 days to attempt getting your loan.

For land transactions in the US (not houses yet), check out Fabrica (disclaimer: former co-founder). We/they have built something incredibly hard to plug into the existing legal structure in the US, but essentially you can transact on land properties in minutes, as opposed to days.

[0] https://www.fabrica.land/
This is way more nuanced than introverts-extroverts. I'm not a massively social person and I prefer working in an office over working from home by a very large margin.
And what of it?

I did not attack identity politics on frequency of occurrence, but on medical inaccuracy. — absent any attack on the accuracy of my arguments, yours is essentially an argument of. “These days, I'm seeing attacks on inaccuracy brought up more than inaccuracy.”.

I may certainly hope that you see such.
Advanced Ecto.Multi Usage
IMO Ecto.Multi is an anti-pattern.

It's just an internal DSL using builder pattern to create a pipeline running inside a client-side Ecto transaction.

Transactions should be avoided (especially the client-side ones), and in cases when they're absolutely needed - their run time should be reduced to a minimum, i.e. avoid long-running code inside a transaction in order not to block other processes using the same DB connection.

Some examples of non-DB related code usually called from inside client-side transaction:

- input validations / preconditions checks

- side-effects: sending emails / push notifications / etc.

- communicating with 3rd party services

The solution for this isn't easy, usually involves application-specific knowledge, or using Saga pattern.

Ecto.Multi can be easily replaced by using "with" statement inside an Ecto transaction, as described in [1].

Unlike Ecto.Multi where each step has a label, when using "with" statement you don't know on which step the transaction failed. The solution is to use "tagged with statement" pattern like shown in [2].

The only advantages of Ecto.Multi are:

- dynamically-built transactions

- testability (but these tests are questionable anyway, after all you're not testing regular Elixir pipelines)

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[1] https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elix...

[2] https://dev.to/aloukissas/elixir-s-with-statement-is-fantast...
There is a difference here: cars are built by car mechanics; they know cars inside out --- cars are never designed to drive in reverse. Physicists, on the other hand, didn't invent physics, so they know their current understanding of physics could be wrong.
yeah this really gave my brain a shiver of pleasure
Enterprise Blockchain Doesn’t Work Because It’s About the Real World
Why is SSN considered secure information? It's the equivalent of a username (or indeed just a name), or a phone number.
Solves what physical property ? Requires trusting a third party. Worse.
Though a delivery company not turning a profit in a time when an unprecedented number of people are having items delivered to their homes must be somewhat exceptional.

Added to that the ongoing campaigns to regularise staff contracts and working conditions means that the cost of labour is likely to rise in the short to medium term.

If Deliveroo can't make hay while the sun shines do they have much of a future?
same for my clients. the drop in productivity was huge and forced some of them to start letting people go.

and all of these companies are now asking their employees back to the office full time in a week or so.

i am sure that if productivity hadn't dropped during WFH then there wouldn't be such a big issue. but when the whole company stops producing, then it's pretty clear what needs to be done...
Fear of retaliation probably yes.
> Exactly the same goes for painting

the casual videos of John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" / "Art of Looking" have taught me (an ignorant pleb) more about how to "get" art than any opinions from art critics. There is so much pretentiousness and gate-keeping in this field it's insane. Just enjoy and see what it brings to the surface is all there is to it IMO.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk&list=PLn6KyJ4PmZ...