skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's not arbitrary; It is a direct enforcer of their gatekeeping. Instead of bullshitting, they can just sell two kinds of devices, one with this restriction and one without. The market will show you how many people really want this. Heck, they could do annual voting for each year's new versions, if they can't bother to create two types of phones (which they obviously can). We have seen all the bullshit before in governments, and big tech is not that different. Big anything needs some kinds of democratic checks and balances to keep it from exploiting its users to the very end.
> At the end of the day moving profits around isn't illegal and I dont see how banning it solves that problem. As long as it is taxed somewhere, which is what all country cares.

Well, that's the crux of the matter, isn't it?

Because they actually are taxed "somewhere", it's just that this usually tends to be a place with very low taxes. We're not talking tax evasion here, but actually legal ways of paying the least tax possible.

The issue with this approach is that some countries can attempt to undercut others with taxes. Of course, this could be seen as "capitalism at work", why should a country charge (tax) more if they can get by with less by being more effective?

The issue is that this doesn't happen in a vacuum. And if BigCorp makes a ton of profit in HiTaxCountry it's likely because the good conditions there are afforded by the taxes (which pay for education, infrastructure, etc). Whereas LoTaxCountry is usually some small island nation with next to no one actually living there, which means little cost for infrastructure, etc, so of course they can get by with next to no taxes. Even though "next to no taxes" on billions and billions of dollars can actually make up quite a hefty amount for a minuscule country.
simple, VAT is paid by the customer not by the corporation
> There was time when Linux distributions were thought of as walled gardens. Cobble together just the right collection of source for you! Don’t let Red Hat control your mind!

No, that's just a garden. A garden is where a single trusted entity cultivates the plants it wants in the way it wants. It has boundaries, but not necessarily walls.

Walled gardens are a strict subset of gardens. A walled garden doesn't let you go out and forage from the wilds to augment the produce of the garden.
The backlash of foreign countries taxing both their companies and US investors would also make such a change a net loss for American citizens. By far the best option is to just raise taxes on US companies and thus lower taxes on American citizens.
I suspect insuring planes flying to/from/through Belarus just got a lot more expensive.
I think auditing is an unsolved problem for now, I haven't heard of any implementation that works.

I would assume special companies will arise that do the auditing for you - and that work with AWS and GCP for you.
I've written parsers in C, you get used to it. It would probably take you as long to write an integer parser in C as it would take me in Haskell.
Correcting mistake in the Numberphile video about Martingale betting strategy
The ability to search in the context of a collection of documents that is built up through repeated searches.
Marketing is more important than the product because without good marketing, you'll have no customers.

Logistics and supply chain is more important than marketing because without product to ship, you'll go broke before you can bill your customers.

Server ops is more important than logistics and supply chain because if your servers are always down, no one can buy your product.

It's like saying that the engine of your car is more important than the transmission. You need both.

Apple in the late 90s had the same marketing they always had, and they were dying. Google in the late 90s had no marketing, and a product so good it made all other search engines obsolete overnight.
Not sure what the short-sighted comment is regarding - My MacBookAir M1 is by far the greatest laptop upgrade I've ever made. Both of my last two upgrades prior to that (MacBook Air 2013 -> MacBook Air 2015), Dell XPS 9560 -> Dell XPS 7590) - we're so "meh" that (with the exception of video conferencing on the Dell, where it moved out of the Nose Cam) - I didn't really have any preference.

I can't imagine going back from the MacBook Air M1 to the 2015 MacBook Air, and, I'm pretty confident that it will be my daily driver for the next 5-6 years. Six months in, I'm still delighted every day that I use it.

I 100% understand the "Wait a few generations so you aren't a beta tester" - I didn't pick up an Apple Watch until the 3rd generation came out. But the MacBook Air M1 really feels, to me, like a 3rd generation product. So much so that it feels like Apple kind of of messed up in their product roll-out. This should have been the 2021/2022 refresh, not the initial product - but I'll take it!
I do a similar thing, except that the email is actually hosted at my domain rather than being forwarded, and that I have a list of email addresses that I accept and reject all others; if I receive too much spam at one address, I disable receiving at that address.

I have found this to work; I hardly receive any spam at all, and do not need any separate spam filter.
We've had cases at work where the issue is that a void function (procedure) is converted to a "proper" function, and some return paths are missed.

For our compiler, for certain types it fails to warn that the return variable is unassigned, hence bugs occur.

This is a statically typed language, it's just an unfortunate interaction between compiler magic and the code that checks for unassigned return variables.
> 1. There exist politicians who believe that forcing you to fill out the paperwork reminds you that taxes are evil. They're doing it for your own good, see?

Which ones? I don't agree or disagree, but I think it's a good practice to call out politicians when we make claims they do something. That way it gives a more clear line of sight to your claim.
Yeah basically Apple funnels you into their vision and WWDC is a great predictor of the future changes in the apps on the platform.

Its part of the appeal of Apple’s ecosystem - the very high level of standardisation, although it obviously has its drawbacks as you have mentioned
> Depends what you mean by government officials.

I guess it refers to the Deep State. Which also officially doesn't exist, and is also just a conspiracy theory.
Hey, don't hold back, tell us what you really think!
I think avoiding the console, getting a solid understanding of IAM and cloudformation are a good basis to build on.

AWS can definitely be poorly documented and buggy at times.
>There are at least one million people in the US who have more than enough experience for an entry-level cybersecurity position

What's the base requirement for these people?
I would consider intervention in Yugoslavia pretty successful actually, instead of genocidal nationalist dictatorship we have a couple of democracies - not without their problems, but still no comparison to Milosevic regime.

Interventions in Iraq, Lybia and Syria can be seen as failures if we consider the bold goal to bring democracy to the Middle East. But at least these countries don't attack other countries any more - ISIS as evil as it is can't cause as much harm as these could.

In any case I guess with Eastern Europe it's more likely to work like it did in Yugoslavia than in Middle East. Belarus has really strong civil society, all they are missing is really some guns.
In the past few years Apple has dropped the ball on HIG and MacOS.

Here's AppStore mini-review: https://grumpy.website/post/0RsaxCu3P

"Get 15 people, put them in 15 different offices with no communication between them, set them to work on one feature at a time. You will get something very similar to the App Store."

Here's Apple Music review (spoiler: swearing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU
Facebook has in the past asked users to deploy their Onavo app using this mechanism for their privacy invading VPN (2015-ish).
For me maximize to full screen and multiple desktops is most useless feature of Mac. For me cmd+tab never works even for 1st party apps like Terminal if it is maximized. Cmd+tab always shows all apps so you can't use multiple Desktops for mental separation. and being Mac you can't change default behaviour of button to maximize
Stammy, discovered your site through this comment. Sending you bags of kudos for the time you put into your site & craft. It's a marvel in this world of cookie cutter sites & clickbait content.
If I'm in a GUI app, I'm navigating with the mouse. Having to take my hand off the mouse to type Cmd+Up is not good UX for such a common command as "cd ..".
The iPhone 4 gave birth to front facing camera as we know it. That was practically nonexistent on any other phone at the time.
Considering how contagious COVID is and how serious it was when it was new and we hadn't yet figured out effective treatments, wouldn't only 3 being admitted to hospitals be way too low statistically if what they had was COVID and they worked at the source of the outbreak?
I've run across at least one banking site which accepted a password on the sign-up page which was later rejected by the login page. The validation scripts on the login page used a more limited set of permissible special characters which didn't include parentheses. Fortunately it was only a client-side check, so it was relatively simple to bypass it once using developer tools and change the password.
How is that different from any other identifier? Passport, driver’s license or even just someone’s name?
I believe you that it wasn’t intended to be insulting.

But let’s think about it.

I feel pretty confident that most people on this website are capable of learning the core 2400 Chinese characters in a year if they spent a few hours a day and that’s literally a foreign notation. A lot of people learn new languages all the time.

Kids who don’t want to learn calculus, learn calculus every day. The notation isn’t just awkward, the concepts are too. Yet they learn it.

What we’re talking about is a small notation. It’s a handful of symbols. They work predictably and consistently and the people learning it are usually familiar with the subject on some level.

It’s off-putting because it appears foreign, but the concepts and actual mechanics are already familiar with most of these readers. They just need a Rosetta Stone to help get past the initial awkwardness.

When you look at it from that perspective, it is kind of insulting use a hyperbolic word like insurmountable to a group of programmers.

Many chose not to learn it because they don’t want to be bother or don’t see the value investing their time.

Throwing words like insurmountable around seems like it breeds learned helplessness.
Probabky I should have re-quoted what OP posted to make my point clearer

From anandtech:
«Should users be interested, in our testing at 4C/4T and 3.0 GHz, the Core i9-9900K only hit 23W power. Doubling the cores and adding another 50%+ to the frequency causes an almost 7x increase in power consumption»

The i9 4C/4T 3Ghz consumes 23 watt

how many FPS can that produce?

the one benchmarked consumes more than 7 times that (it's a 5 GHz 8C/16T), and it's sure it's not 7 times faster (not even close)

They are actually not doing the same job, they ate trying to go as fast as they can.

But what if they measured how much energy each one uses to produce the same score?
Wasn't trying to trivialise your work! Just offering some ideas of the basic ways this could be tackled. Sorry if you thought I was trivialising it, the intent was more to support the idea that modern DL can still provide solutions with relatively simple methods.
While criticism is legal, it does significantly increase your chances of falling out a window, if you're in a prominent position. Very careless, these Kremlin critics.

Interestingly, critics of repressive regimes exhibit _themed_ carelessness; those who were a bit too open in Apartheid South Africa fell down _stairs_, instead.
I'm curious to hear about people's impressions of Swift the language. I haven't used it, but I'm keeping my eye on it, especially if it ever properly makes the leap out of the Apple ecosystem and into general purpose computing (yes, I'm aware that there are efforts, but to my knowledge none have resulted in many commercially successful applications--i.e., it isn't "mainstream" yet).
>My understanding is that the current process in vogue for the mega cap companies is the "double irish dutch sandwich"

You're understanding is outdated this mechanism is finished as of 2018.

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

However this article is a little biased -- it's main contributor is a user called "Britishfinance" -- who appears to be a London based corporate shill to take the heat off the City of London being a tax haven.
Thanks, I'm sorry too!

"basic respect for human life" and "unions" can have a lot in common, especially in such a country.
> benefits to people who pay very little tax.

By which you mean Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? Those programs have broad public support.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324
Because if the US did this by itself, all of our crown jewel companies might leave. So the agreement is an attempt to prevent that from happening.

It could still happen. Maybe Amazon would move to the Bahamas, or any other country that doesn't sign the agreement. But the hope is that if most industrialized countries sign on, then that risk would be minimized.
No idea why you're being downvoted
Yeah, not sure how this would work with any workflow that caLLs out to another service and uses the result of that to determine the next step, if that intermediate call changes state somewhere.
Yes and all these issues should be dealt with.
If 5% of ecommerce shops refuse to accept it, it's likely you being clever.

My email is refused by 0% of ecommerce shops... because I just have a normal email.

Don't be clever, pick a better email.
> It's called "Clean Up By". Available in right click menu and in the top menu probably.

And you cannot apply it to all folders across the entire system. Why they still haven't fixed tis, is beyond me.
BetterTouchTool can help a little with the Touch Bar but overall I hope they kill it off. They haven't iterated on it at all since release and it's more in my way than useful. On top of that my MBP is in clamshell mode 99.9% of the time so it's completely worthless for me. I'd even be happy with just the option to not have the Touch Bar on the new 16".
If you have an Amazon return warehouse or people that buy pallets, they often have gamer chairs, office chairs and some nice ergonomic ones. Some places have the already assembled. Deep discounts, nice and it doesn't require waiting on Prime. If you don't have that option try a foam wedge, also cheap and will work with many existing chairs.
I agree about the mental separation.
However, there's only 1 app instance.

tbh, my ideal desktop situation is 2 or 3 computers with synergy in between. separation of applications / tabs.
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I don't disagree with your opinion, there's nothing wrong with liking command-o for nav.

But what I mean is that Finder navigating uses an unintuitive key chord you have to learn, while renaming uses a single key, and a large and very common/obvious/intuitive one. This does in fact mean the UX is declaring which one they expect to be more common. I'm not saying renaming is uncommon, but for me it's nowhere near the usage of navigating into a folder. Are you saying you're renaming folders more often than browsing into them? (How do you get to the folder you want to rename?)

Both Windows and Linux GUI folder browsers use the Enter key to navigate, and so do many other tree browser UIs including our web browsers. It's very common and very reasonable to expect Enter to navigate to the thing you've selected. This expectation and ecosystem of navigating this way means that Mac's Finder stands out as different and unintuitive, even within a Mac-only set of applications. I love my Mac, and I've also used both Windows and Mac since they first existed ... both for 35 years. But today's Finder is definitely weird and anachronistic compared nearly all other modern file browsers.
Ask HN: What web development stack offers the best long-term support?
Hi HN! I'm a very occasional web developer, who usually work solo on projects. The problem I've run into is that I'll set up a piece of software, using a framework such as Laravel, and then not need to update it for a couple of years. However, when I go back to updating is, usually much of the tooling is broken, and the framework is out of dates, not getting any security updates, etc. I don't usually have time to update to the latest "version" of the framework that is being actively developed, in addition to the usually day-long process of figuring out why something like grunt or webpack isn't working properly.

Hence my question: What tools, frameworks, etc, move slowly, in terms of development, and are easy to work with? What web development stack is the least likely to break after not touching it for a few years, or even a decade?

Any insights are appreciated. Thank you!
Malicious apps can already do that. There is nothing (technically) that stops you from e.g. receiving a JSON file and enabling secret features.

The ban on third party browsers and JIT is so that you cannot make fully-featured or competitive apps that don't go through the store. Microsoft tried something similar in Windows 8 (certain DirectX features only available for Metro apps, strict guidelines what a Metro browser can do, ...). This is the reason Safari on iOS is lacking certain features wrt. PWAs, and the reason Flash was banned outright (instead of saying e.g. it has to be made more reliable).

If web apps were as powerful on iOS as they are on Chrome or ChromeOS, then many iOS apps including games would be written as web apps, and Apple would not get their 30% share. If someone would port a JVM or .NET CLR to iOS, then you could sideload those apps and circumvent the app store, too.
I have a Leap v2 too (refurb, $300). Definitely helped with ergonomics. I was debating between the iconic Herman Miller Aeron and the Leap, but I got the Leap because I tend to sit with folded feet and the hard plastic edges of the Aeron aren't amenable to that style of sitting.
Yes, I like this a lot. You often end up with a main code path that looks like this:

do a bunch of stuff

make a plan

if dryRun {
plan.Print()
exit()
}
plan.Execute()
"Wherever it is made" is simple when it comes to tech.

And, anyway, almost nothing tech is made in the US.

The IRS has a (separate?) issue to deal with this - that countries will pay tax primarily based on the country where the sales take place.
Taking HN threads into nationalistic flamewar or ideological flamewar will get you banned on HN. No more of this, please. What you posted here was particularly lame and shallow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27262618.
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You'd need to know how often that happens, how many people work in the lab, etc to make a good calculation of the probability.

Maybe you're right, let's see how it plays out.
“When all mining activities are banned in China, it will be a turning point for the fate of bitcoin, as a large chunk of its processing power is taken out of the picture.”

Taking out X% of mining power means the network slows down correspondingly until the next difficulty adjustment. Since the difficulty adjustment happens every 2 weeks normally, a 50% drop may mean that the next adjustment is 4 weeks away. There is a limit how much the network can adjust in each round, so a big drop can disrupt the network temporarily, but it seems unlikely that it would be "a turning point for the fate of bitcoin".

Additionally, the mining hardware will likely be exported and used elsewhere, so I'd expect a part of the hash power to re-appear over the next month or so after a ban.
The fact that everyone views it as normal for the US to endorse global tax laws is pretty frightening
Yup! Same thing with the ridiculous verify-my-identify questions. One I encounter all the time is the local community college, which let me use spaces in my answers on creation, but not at entry time. Grrrr.
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I just set up my mail server to use - rather than +, and don’t encounter this problem.
> Every now and then I think about trying skateboarding again, but I wince just thinking about all that force on early-30s knees.

Yeah, I think skateboarding is probably what KILLED my knees, and I cannot imagine how I would pick up anything BUT mini ramps and verts now, and even then, probably very little air, and just grinds, slides, and carves.

I was never a pretty skater, but my signature trick was a double kick indy on flat. It was ugly, it was way to fast, but it was something I could do that no one else around me could. Sure I couldn't nollie inward heel, or 360 flip, or tail slide, but I could double kick to indy. I'm still look back fondly on the sheer number of attempts before I could land it consistently forsaking learning all the other tricks everyone else was learning, just so I could do something stupid that no one else even wanted to.
Yeah it’s a bit of a theme. See also: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED536733.pdf
USA also allows and disallows protests at various places and times. And they have just legislated new additional laws about that.

But I give you that personal guns being framed as anti goverment tyranny is profoundly us thing. I find out odd also because those guns tend to be stockpiled by pretty authoritarian groups and very rarely by civil rights groups.
I was reminded of this thread while reading this Unix Koan:

http://www.catb.org/~esr//writings/unix-koans/prodigy.html
I think that the collaboration workflows in academia could use some improvements for sure! A lot of the challenges I saw were around multi-disciplinary work, where the collaboration was necessary - but pretty limited. Curvenote is aiming to improve that with lower friction tools, as well as trying to influence the "size" of what can be/is shared.

Right now a lot of the sharing is done right at the end, with a large scientific paper - and that is when peer-review comes in. I like the analogy of github here - in the open-source software world, there is a lot more iterative sharing of smaller, in-progress work where the feedback from a colleague/peer has a lot of potential to influence and improve future work.

Curvenote can ideally help in tracking of the version-control/attribution around reusing and referencing work, and helping with collaboration along the way - rather than just at the "end".
From a corporation's point of view, it's fine if your competitors are treated the same as you are (in a competitive market).

But, even if so, CEOs/board members are often those high net worth individuals. So there's a potential conflict of interest that isn't resolvable.

This explains why corporations will lobby against a minimum tax, even if the institution doesn't ultimately care.
> nepotism is the modus operandi

It's pretty clear that a huge chunk of the US doesn't consider nepotism corruption, given the complete lack of repercussions to Trump for hiring his family into the White House.