skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our memory is fading. Just 5-6 years ago, Intel fabs had the best process technology and TSMC was behind. No one could have guessed what the state of the world would be in 2021 with any significant certainty. Who knows what would happen in another 5 years? We are so myopic when it comes to the bias towards the status quo. We give more weight to what the current situation is and then extrapolate that the future will be exactly the same. We are bad at projecting the future.

Is it worth a war that can last many years? By the end of the war, what if US doesn’t need TSMC technology and the tides are reversed?

I’m not conjecturing, I’m shedding light on how much we are willing to risk now vs a few years later. It could also be that Intel fabs fall further behind and TSMC becomes 10x more important than now. Who knows!!!

Instead of war, invest in domestic technology. It pays back better.
From the article, Taiwan's estimation of the U.S. talent base is rather low:

'"TSMC chairman and founder Morris Chang warned last month of higher operating costs and a thin talent pool for the U.S. plans in a rare public speech attended by Wei and chairman Mark Liu.

"In the United States, the level of professional dedication is no match to that in Taiwan, at least for engineers," Chang said. He warned that "short-term subsidy can't make up for long-term operational disadvantage."'

The body of the article also casts doubt on the total amount of U.S. investment, unlike the headline.
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160477
The US defence of Taiwan is unfortunately just posturing. Should China commit to taking Taiwan they will do it. US military simulations have confirmed this again and again. Chinese military capability is strong enough to overwhelm the US Taiwan forces.
The idea that California could become an economic wasteland is absolutely preposterous. It does have its problems: costs are high and there's extreme inequality (because of the nation's worst land taxation and land use policies combined, read your Henry George folks).

But these problems are because of its extreme prosperity and economic potential, not because there is any risk of that economic powerhouse stopping.

The news reports are anecdotal, Musk is keeping California business but expanding production throughout the country, just as Tesla was before.

Companies that are leaving are those that are less innovative and have fallen from the top of the value chain. They can no longer benefit from the extremely productive environment, but can scrape by with lower costs, such as Oracle.

There's no need to sacrifice California's environment to continue to be an absolutely massive economic powerhouse. But we may need to sacrifice some of our bad ideas about land.
I find it amusing how companies are pursuing long-shot life extension technology when the vast majority of people haven't even optimized the basics of nutrition, sleep, exercise, sun exposure, and toxin avoidance. But perhaps they'll find enough customers among the "worried well".
Covid vaccine: Period changes could be short term side effect
I kinda see it the exact opposite way, I don’t think China would ever dare risk a full out war which would essentially be them vs the world. Taiwan is extremely valuable but not valuable enough to risk complete devastation of their economy if not by war then by international trade.

The US is routinely running freedom of navigation exercises in the south china sea between taiwan and china and has said as recently as last month that its commitment to defend taiwan is, “rock solid”.

This is all not to mention that taiwan itself would not be all that easy to overthrow, the large majority of people there have unfavorable views of china (and conversely the majority support closer political ties to the US and other free democracies which they have and continue to build).
We do have FB and Instagram accounts and frequently post there. I try to announce updates or changes to the app in other related FB groups too. But normally the posts in other groups are reviewed by their admins and not allowed.
Best: Talking to people and discussing ideas will get you further than an email. Email should almost be a tool to summarise your discussion, spread to a wider audience and make sure everyone is on the same page.

Worst: That pretending you know what you are doing, never asking questions if you don't know what you are doing and having no sense of humility will lead to your demise.
More importantly, if China were to destroy the fabs in the night and withdraw quickly, the US would have no economic incentive to retaliate. We always treat Taiwan as a tug of war for control of the fabs, but such a fait accompli would totally change the dynamics of the situation.

This may not be likely today, but China has been forced to develop its chip industry in parallel for a long time, and they admit as much if you watch their state-sponsored english-language semiconductor media commentary on YouTube. Eventually they will not need Taiwan nearly as much as America does.

The only way to sidestep that problem is for the US to do the same as Taiwan: use government power and resources to establish a competitive semiconductor hub in the Americas.

Funnily enough, South Korea has done the same in all practical senses. Samsung makes up more of South Korea's GDP in percentage terms than TSMC's share of Taiwan’s GDP. Samsung's trade policy interests are essentially South Korea's trade policy interests.
- Management proselytizing Black Lives Matter.

- Official company polls asking if I have been vaccinated. Particulars of my health status are none of their business.

- Mandated diversity, inclusion, and equity training.

- Statements from the C-Suite about the Derek Chauvin trial.
I definitely like the idea, although I feel that cloud is a better option for web services. So maybe a guide to setting up aws ec2 instances for web services using nix os would be more popular.
Your approach seems okay provided you can find enough interested supporters.
EU is loosely coupled peace union with a lot of sovereignty left to the individual states. If I remember correctly, ones Rupert Murdoch famously said that it’s impossible to find a phone number to call.

So, It’s probably not up to the EU to care about automotive, that must be Germany. France and Spain likely cares about other things and no one cares about cutting edge chips. EU can push from the top by easing state aid rules, I guess, however it must be a particular country to strike a deal.
Don't think it has that much water to support what's essentially a chemical plant.
> In the real world, it gets more complicated since bits are intimately linked to one another.

Thus the analogy is completely invalid. I couldn't read further.
> "I do not want to get into the particulars of the range of complaints over the years, but I will note that a number of members of the executive committee and others have voiced concerns publicly on the listserv in an attempt to make you aware of how readers of the list might view some of the posts,"

Vague accusations are so much easier to make and defend than specific ones.
When I say "urban area" I mean the continuous built up urban area into the suburbs. American sprawl means that metropolitan areas are much further spread out than their European or Asian counterparts, to the point where most of Boston-Washington is sprawl and very little of it is farmlands.

In any case when you start building HSR it becomes progressively harder to eke out savings and the highest come from urban area speedups. Going from 50 to 100MPH cuts a lot more time than going from 150MPH to 200MPH. And the former simply doesn't work in the median of a highway.
Just the other day I used variational techniques to show the bound on a Mott transition in terms of electron density to an undergrad who had been complaining to me that they "hadn't learned any of this stuff in class just Dirac notation"
Perhaps Apple engineers should form a labor union to avoid being cancelled.
Yup. This falls under the idea of “optics”. Often HN tends to dismiss it in favor of logics “well, the problem is actually quite small”. What matters is the perception of the problem.

Just like with The Silk Road. Once it became large enough and Ross started to taunt the authorities to find him, the police had no choice. It’s continuing existence chipped away the legitimacy of the authorities, they had to shut it down just to maintain appearances.

Just like this ransom ware. Keep it small, it’s not worth going after. Start screwing with the economy and the govt goes from 0 to 10 very quickly.
Dear OJ Ford,

Over the years, many have mistook my account for that of Sam Altman (sama), or presumed it to be a parody thereof.

In my defense, I have been using this handle, and variants of it, for longer than he's been alive.

Best,
(Maha) Sam Atman
"you can choose your friends but not your namesake"
Jira still for the complex stuff, with many teams in enterprises. But maybe less than it was in simple projects, with one-to-one relationships between issues tracking and repository?
Reflections on Legacy Code
If the thousand talents program means this achievement doesn't belong to them, then landing on the moon belongs to the Germans.
Ahhh vi. I was reading the article hoping to see mention of vi…

Emacs was cool too, but I never got hooked - was very comfortable in vi land as it was the first editor I used on the old time terminals (green/amber CRT and a keyboard you could kill with). Oh the power of vi/EMACs and regular expressions without ever lifting a finger from the keyboard!
I don’t think the Uigyurs would agree with that statement. Particularly the ones that are being raped and re-educated in camps.
> Then the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Then they put a dog in space.

Our german rocket scientists are better than your german rocket scientists! Operation paperclip, and all that.
Under California law, because he moved for this job.
Do you support the All Lives Matter movement?

Frankly, so much is thrown into the "white supremacy" tent these days, the fact that you mention that outs you as an intolerant leftist.
I'm still surprised it takes > 1 minute to perform 5000 inserts, even after the optimization was put in place. Is there something else wrong?
> as long as you were fine with WindowsOS as a display manager

That's the big "if". Especially with the Magnet app (the one for snapping/maximizing windows) in place, macOS is so superior in every way.
That's exactly the narrative that plays into the Chinese government's hands.

That being said the Zhurong rover is funded by the China National Space Administration so it is actually the Chinese government. No one claims NASA employees act as private citizens.
Data need to be normally-distributed, and other myths of linear regression
> China runs the largest IP theft program in the world. To the point U.S. companies factor it in when doing business there.

This sounds pretty voluntary.
It is probably the most heavily moderated social network. It is I think also something that must have been created by someone not from the US. Americans belief in free speech also means you get a lot of bad with the good. TikTok surgically removes the bad.
I love how xcode's object -> function mapping seems inspired by visual basic / delphi, but actually makes no fucking sense when compared to those tools.
Thanks David. I'll let you know if I need help.
Other submission with over 237 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27151732
Ok, I hear you and believe that you're asking in good faith. Let's break it down:

> TikTok is the greatest creativity tools I've seen in years and I am fascinated

Good, interesting, curious. A great start!

> how people are trying to downplay or outright dismiss it

Veers from curious to indignant. This is the point where things start to go wrong.

> because of their nationalistic or political feelings

Flamebait

> It's like watching fundamentalist trying to preserve their purity

Flamebait escalation

> when their kosher brands are racing to imitate

Double flamebait escalation

> Hearing the "underage girls dancing and lip syncing, no thanks" line

Yet more flamebait

> fills me with a similar rage

Indignation and flamebait

> that I get when I hear some racist stereotype

Flamebait. By the time we reach the end of a comment like this, anyone who was flammable is on fire.
That implies "power."
We also sold a lot to Taiwan. There's really no anti-Taiwan military strategy in France: we sell to whomever buys.

I live in Hong Kong and I was happy to hear the water cannon used to tame the revolutionaries was made in my homeland. I'm sure if Taiwan needs our help to kill or tame people, we'll happily provide. Something has to finance socialism, and it certainly won't be the sweat and blood of my fellow countrymen.
I truly believe that the majority of Chinese civilians are well treated under their current government.

I also think the treatment of the Uyghurs is scary. That the control of media flowing into China is so controlled that the people are not free. The lack of democracy means there are not enough checks and balances to keep the people free. The way the one child policy has been enforced is not humane. The oppression of religion means people are not free.

I am not staying any country is perfect only that I would not like to live under that control. I also fear in my part of the world we could end up under their control in my lifetime.
If you have more money, you will have more power to make the world a better place, multiples times over as opposed to having no money.

Money is a tool to scale your influence whichever direction you please. If all the good doers ignored money, bad doers would have all the influence in the world.
Why do I feel like there is so much more attention paid to every Tesla accident? It's not news when a BMW or Mercedes has a fatal crash when their version of cruise control + lane keeping is active.
Saving a file as /tmp/blah saves it as :tmp:blah the current directory, then you curse and have to press cmd shift g to pick a folder, paste the filename with path, remove the file name bit, then finally get to save your file.
TSMC is also likely saving their best tech for where they can control it the best and shop it around the best. The US has lots of high tech customers (Apple, Qualcomm, AMD even Intel) who are willing to pay top price for supply. Add in the US and their heavy national security needs/desire/politics and of course the energy and money is obvious for good fabs in the US.

England has some semiconductor industry and so does Germany, but less of it is top-spec tech from cash rich companies. Obviously “Europe” still cares about national security but is the money and politics comparable to the US military industrial complex?
I gotta say, to all the people complaining about TikTok being nothing but underaged girls twerking to hiphop music: if that's all you're seeing, it's cuz you went looking for it. My TikTok stream is pretty much nothing but D&D, blacksmithing (that's a new one, not really sure where that came from, but I like it) and some ginger in a bulldozer in Massachussets yelling at his phone.
PostScript has the ability to assign values to variables.
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Way better ROI to invest in more capabilities than engage in a zero-sum conflict which will inevitably trash the fabs in Taiwan anyways.

Those trade restrictions just galvanize the Chinese to develop the capabilities themselves. And their system doesn't create a need for a big splashy foreign conflict to sell to the hogs for votes. They're more capable of making the smart play than we are.
Then don’t join a remote first company? It’s not like that’s going away anytime soon.
Older lithography is what European automakers need, and the same can be said for robotics. The only reason for EU to demand fabrication of leading edge chips in Europe is hubris. How many laptops and mobile phones, in percent terms relative to those respective markets, are assembled in Europe?
> That was never the argument.

Yes it was. It's easy to forget what the actual messaging was in the early days. Originally we were all talking about not using up medical masks or N95 masks, which were meant to "protect the wearer from contact with droplets and sprays that may contain germs."[1] Then we all switched to wearing these homemade masks and the messaging turned to wearing them was important to stop the spread to other people. And it had to be done in every single circumstance.

> Constant debating over which situations were safe or not for going maskless would have harmed our overall responnse to the virus.

That is legitimately up for debate. One could make a good case that a noble lie to the public does more harm because it erodes trust in the institution that fibbed in order to "keep it simple". Part of the reason we were in this mask controversy mess is because the authorities were saying one thing and scientist were saying other things in many cases. Not always, but in some cases.

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...
UC settles student lawsuit, agrees not to use SAT, ACT scores in admissions
Rural America Gets Bad Vibrations from Big Wind
Tesla is the only company that promised full self driving in < 1 year.
Same reason people will spend thousands of hours working on libraries like pandas but won't make a better excel. Or something like that.
Setting up your NAS Box, 2021 Edition, Part 1
Yep, for that project I implemented an RC airplane attitude controller. It would keep pitch and roll at 0 degrees with an offset based on the joystick input, toggle-able by a switch. It was fun, you could do really foolish stunts and just flip a switch to level out immediately if you got too disoriented.

The AVR was reading a 6 axis IMU chip and estimating attitude using a floating point quaternion based complementary filter, at 100hz. Sqrt was used when normalizing vectors and quaternions, probably two or three times per cycle.

It was also reading 6 channels from the radio receiver, and producing 6 RC PWM outputs. I believe the output was synchronized to the input, so that the throttle and servos would go limp if the radio went out of reception, rather than have the plane just keep flying level into the sunset.

I vaguely remember it using about half the available CPU cycles doing all that. I even managed to get it talking to an RC simulator, so I could debug it without crashing my real plane. It worked perfectly on the first test flight!
I've been using it for side projects and I'm a big fan. The keyboard shortcuts are convenient and they make it easy to pick them up as you navigate around the app. I also like their approach to the traditional epic with projects that have their own set of work items/timeline. Overall I feel like it's more intuitive than what I use for work
It’s great to occasionally see success stories from companies that break the mold and can be used as examples a-la-Craigslist. Without them we’re forever stuck with “I know that a signup lightbox on first visit is ugly, but it converts!”
I imagine in the denser cities you could get away with banning driving altogether (except transit).
Trust no one.
I have a mac pro and a lenovo carbon, build quality is on par with the lenovo being way more serviceable.
Not to pour water on your statement, I'd say that the rate of change counts more. Nailing your first landing attempt on a powered descent (rocket-crate equivalent) is no mean feat. I'm actually pleasantly surprised given the high failure rate of Mars missions.
Best: Decisions don't get made in meetings. Tailor your communication to your audience. Be diligent and ethically consistent and people will respect you for it.

Worst: Stay in your lane.
> I've ever used beats macOS in terms of stability

laughs in elinks as I read PDFs in fbi

Scoffing aside, MacOS has all kinds of crazy edge cases. Linux is pretty good considering free -- but it also actively encourages you to get to the command line. I view this as a net positive.
I think they make the community more welcoming with heavy moderation that removes downer videos. Something an american run social network would never do.
Which India probe was this? I don't remember any discussion or news about India landing a probe on the moon in the past 10 years.
Arizona has nine superfund sites including one at a former Motorola semiconductor facility.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/motorola-the-story-so-f...
One of the best books about soviet rocketry is "Rockets and People" ([1]). My blood boiled at how badly German engineers were treated on the Soviet side and how inefficient the use of their skills was. They literally landed Germans on an island and gave an important, but a standalone task (multi-channel telemetry). Over time, it became redundant and 7 years later all surviving german engineers were let to go home.

It's one sin to steal; it a bigger sin to not use what you have efficiently.

1. https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol1_deta...
> as is the bizarre insistence on recommending precautions against fomites over aerosols until extremely late

I watched Contagion for the first time last week, and they had the same attitude toward fomites, where it was spread through knobs and cash registers.

I’m convinced that the movie was interpreted as a documentary on what to do rather than science.

Now I question how much hand-washing helps prevent the spread of other respiratory viruses.

Looks like, for flu, in this study, fomites were responsible for 4% of cases:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121424/

… and

> Mask wearing is much more useful than hand washing for control of influenza A in the tested office setting. Regular cleaning of high-touch surfaces, which can reduce the infection risk by 2.14%, is recommended and is much more efficient than hand-washing.

But I’m just a guy that spent 2 minutes searching studies on Google of respiratory viruses, why make decisions so easily based on that when you can base decisions on a movie on Netflix.
Best: It's possible to go from being lowballed as an engineer at $30K/yr at the start of your career to pulling $250K plus bonuses in 10 years.

Worst: If you slather a sub in the hottest sauce available from Firehouse subs, and eat it as a way of proving how tough you are, you can be rendered useless as an employee for the next 36 hours. Very nice guy. But strange in a way not typical to engineers.
I keep skipping and rejecting male model videos and I keep seeing them. Are you saying TikTok is reading my mind deeper than I can access it?
Best: be competent, be kind, collaborate

Worst: be competent, be rude, don't collaborate
I'm sorry, what was the harm of wearing a mask? Like, if the US and CDC said "hey, the flu sucks - face masks are mandatory in any public space during the 3 months of flu season", what's the cost there? Other than the cost of the mask of course.
Except most of it is useless. Silicon Valley at least is good for growing