skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying it's censoring China to not operate there is both a matter of semantic spin and also misses the point:

1) Operating there helps support a repressive regime that often uses the tools and services of foreign companies to facilitate that repression. I don't think a refusal to operate there is censorship, and if you do, that is a broad enough definition of censorship that the Montgomery Bus Boycott would also fall into that category.

2) It is also a bad long-term business decision. Between forced IP transfer, IP theft, piracy, and enormous subsidies for home-grown competitors, most companies are not truly growing in an emerging market, they are filling a short term gap until China can replace them with their own alternatives, bootstrapped by those short term interactions with foreign companies. At that point, it is happy to expand those homegrown options out to the rest of the world, bootstrapped by not having to make the same R&D investments, complete with its repressive values embedded in the products & services.

China is not truly interested being a partner country on the world stage. It's implicit and explicit goals are self sufficiency in service of not needing to even pretend it respects anything but its own power. This is revealed every time there's a Bing "accident" or another actor is made to embarrass themselves in kowtowing to China, or a movie changes a Tibetan character to anything but Tibetan, or a Hotel corporation like Marriot is forced offline in China until it similarly embarrasses itself.

China's goal is to have enough power to forced anyone that interacts with it to adopt its own repressive values.

Now at this point in the conversation someone will say "What about the things the US does"?

To which I respond:

1) That's irrelevant to the issue of China. Whatever the US does isn't an excuse to allow China to get away with things, and other countries and corporations are free to avoid dealing with the US in the same way I advocate they avoid China.

2) That's a false equivalence. The US may do objectionable things. But when it comes to repression of it's population, at it's worst levels of privacy intrusion it still gives it's citizens more freedom by an order if magnitude than does China.
From another article:

As alleged in the supporting affidavit, by reviewing the Bitcoin public ledger, law enforcement was able to track multiple transfers of bitcoin and identify that approximately 63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI has the “private key,” or the rough equivalent of a password needed to access assets accessible from the specific Bitcoin address.

How did the FBI happen to have the private key?
Do you know a good source of info on how to test these cells?
You are reading that wrong, the agreement you describe would not be enforceable in California

The only part of a non compete that is valid to my knowledge is that if an employee leaves for a competitor the company can have them sign an agreement not to poach employees, but even that is very limited. If Bob leaves company A for company B and signs such an agreement, his former coworker Alice is free to say "Hi Bob I'm really excited by company B can I have a referral?" Bob didn't make first contact so he's free to help bring Alice over.
A short term supply shock in one unrelated item seems unlikely to change the trend in battery prices.
Napolean and the Roman emporers of which you speak had some actual military victories to counterbalance their other atrocities. Hitler brought nothing but ruin and dishonor to his beloved German people, and lost the war to boot. No. History will remember Hitler forever as a blustering fool who invented industrial scale genocide. He'll be sitting alongside Nero and Caligula in the collective memory, not Napolean and Julius Caesar.
This announcement puts the expiry date for software updates on the 2014 iMac in late 2023, which is 9 years of support on a potentially 3000 dollar machine at the time. I'm aware of patching projects that will likely give it a longer lease on life, and you can run Windows or Linux on it at that point, but should that really be necessary for a machine of that calibre?

Usually Apple cut off machines along the lines of "doesn't support these CPU instructions" or "doesn't support GPU features for Metal". This list isn't that. On the face of it, this list is random. If there is some weird thing like wifi chips that's still on Apple to make work, that's not even on the spec sheet (certainly not theirs).

Apple may be intending to support Big Sur for three years instead of two though, so I'll hold my breath for a sec. That doesn't take away that Apple seems to be axing things randomly now.
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Some high-priority roles that we’re hiring for in particular:

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To echo our mission, physical constraints should not dictate the ways we work, socialize, interact, and function as society. To that point, we’re a remote company and hiring around the world with team members distributed across the globe (fun fact: 3 of our co-founders have never met in person).

We have a few more roles posted on our job board. Feel free to apply there or if you have any questions, you can reach out to jobs@gather.town. If you’re simply curious about our platform, give it a try on gather.town.

Best of luck with the search!
You know better then me. But i hope that since what you are saying is easily provable there shouldn't be any problem at all. Nice article, by the way.
> I'd put my money that they included 'online scoreboard' as the first phrase in the `<meta name="description" content="Online scoreboard"> tag per Google's recommendations for SEO which put them ahead.[0] Also, to this one point of many when searching for `online leaderboard` you get the top spot because leaderboard is not included in the other website's description.

While I like the thought progression you're going through, this is a "not really." Google has confirmed a number of times over the past 15+ years (going back to the Matt Cutts era) and even in the document you linked that the meta description does nothing to influence ranking in the SERPs. However, the meta title does influence ranking.

I'm on mobile, so unable to dig in right now - but my guess is either this has something to do with the meta title, or the specific anchor text of the backlinks that are getting inserted via the app in question.

Aside from that, agree 100% with your other assessments.
That's not inflation. Inflation doesn't just affect a single commodity, it affects all commodities.
Fewer Samples per Pixel per Frame
> we’re also excited to announce one of the first (of many!) projects that Amjad has worked on with us: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to play with JavaScript, Ruby, and Python online

I'll just leave this here so we can all bask in the insane hypocrisy of this entire episode.

https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/amjad-joins-codeca...

Edit: See Amjad's response below – seems Repl.it may have pre-dated this hiring in which case it makes the irony slightly less delicious. Did no learnings from scaling the concept at Codeacademy make it into the current product?
"Smoking" meaning running high CPU, presumably, not literally smoldering
...nicotine? =)
LOL... I simply don't believe any of these press releases. For all we know, the government negotiated a deal with the cyber-attackers to create this press release as a way to try to thwart future attacks. Seriously wouldn't put it past them one bit.
> Although this iPadOS update did not shift the bar much on that missing 20% and overall was in line with my expectations, Apple definitely has heard the complaints by now and might try to push some updates into a 15.X release sooner than iPadOS 16.

Sorry, but your comment reads like the textbook definition of sunk cost fallacy. There is no proof whatsoever Apple has heard any complaint and will make your iPad closer to the iMac in a 15.x release, nor ever at all.

I'd expect one to be extremely disappointed if their device did 80% of what it could theoretically do, and Apple didn't show any single improvement on that in their yearly conference.
The support structure is different if you go with the FSF - someone can takeover the project and big corps that use the code must contribute back. My take is, choose MIT if u want to give developers convenience (and u don't care if you r flooded with request and lack of attribution). Or choose GPL and the FSF if you care about legacy, organized support structure and end-user value. I even think dual license GPL version / paid version is a better choice than just releasing under MIT...I feel sorry but this story keeps repeating itself, we've been at it for decades and people are just realizing that open source is pointless without organized support groups or monetisation plan that respects developers and users freedoms
All arguments of just war and the morality of self defense aside: this a disastrously foolish way to go about being a sentient species on a single planet.
They state that they don't manually pick results, but improve their algorythms to solve these problems. They prefer to share the least amount of details though, since it would better inform SEO spammers.
It made me laugh because he was trying to hire him earlier in the conversation. Pretty pathetic to turn like that.
Wars and debt happened before fiat money. In fact, all of the biggest wars were without fiat money.
>I don't know about what the CEO of repl.it did. It shouldn't matter.

Calling out hypocrisy absolutely matters. It matters a lot.

In this case, it also provides a very important precedent.
This is a really good point, I work in an area that requires careful written communication. So sometimes my thought output is only five words per minute, and that includes multiple revisions which would look crazy using a brain interface. :)
I have Big Sur running flawlessly on my MacBook Pro 2012, although it’s not officially supported. The same story thee, with regards to support, since it’s a Haswell computer with a metal GPU everything works. Should be similar story for you. Check out bigsurpatcher on Reddit.
Any idea on the speed of dictation?

Edit: Found a reference that average dictation speed is around 150wpm, but also mentions some tests going up to almost 300. So it would seem the average person could be almost 4 times faster speaking rather than typing.
https://www.reference.com/business-finance/average-dictation...
I too was asked to provide my user (admin) password when getting my MacBook's screen replaced at an Apple Store. I had the same concerns as OP, but I asked if I could set up a new, separate user account with standard permissions (just for them) so that they could verify their work that way.

That was a fine compromise for them, but it did make me wonder how many other, less-savvy customers were providing their main admin passwords in this manner...
> wonder how I can avoid that and brain plasticity excuses

I've worked on this question personally. I decided that the obvious first step to gaining the mental flexibility of youth, is to mimic youth:

* Explore: When we're young, we constantly try new things, even when there isn't an apparent ROI. We try new arts, new experiences, new ideas, new hobbies, etc. We are not afraid to ignore the established way and invest in something new - often for the novelty (or rebellion) of it. We give the new things time; we play. We are curious, not critical - we wonder why and explore the idea instead of criticizing it and shutting it down. When we are old, we often stick to what we know well and criticize the rest.

* Push yourself: In school or as a junior employee, you can't say 'I've always done it this way' or 'I'm not interested in learning something new'. You have to learn and adapt. When we're old, power corrupts - most people make those excuses and they are generally accepted. Nobody else will push you, as a rule.

There are limits in life; I don't have as much free time now as when I was young, but that's not a deal-breaker (and I use time much more efficiently now, including by prioritizing and by knowing myself much better). Also, I don't 'play' like a 6 year old or even a 25 year old; I do it my way.

I also saw it as an interesting experiment: How much of mental changes were due to changes in practice and how much due to biology. I can't provide empirical data but especially Exploration seems to have changed my life, not only mentally but significantly, emotionally: I'm much more optimistic, less jaded, and more emotionally connected than I was. Life is invigorating. A warning though: I'm challenging some norms of age and therefore peers don't grasp and sometimes reject me. I wish I could get through to them.
Update: Upgrading to latest prisma fixes this. I'm fixing our new app template as we speak.
> If anything, to me this reads like viral marketing to get the project off the ground.

That's assuming it is a "project" to "get off the ground" in the first place. What gave you the impression that this was something the author was going to try and take commercial? I never got that impression.

> It's a fair point that several other competitors copy the UI and I'm not suggesting this is illegal or disallowed

But you are suggesting it was that way around. I didn't quite see that either; on the contrary, I got a kind of distinct impression that some of these other projects predate Replit, including its UI design.
CDC COVID-19: mRNA Vaccines Reduce Risk of Infection 91% for Fully Vaccinated
What are you protecting? Your genius-level decorating insights which are so incomprehensibly deep their discovery should be guarded with your life but could inexplicably be copied by a total n00b in 5 minutes?
Not for my grandmother. All those chat programs and conversion stuff would confuse her.
Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and more join campaign for law change on streaming
You didn't address my point at all.

Code execution allows you to pretend to be a flashlight app during the app review process, pass any automated tests and then at runtime download code from the web to execute. And since this allows you to add new functionality on the fly pretty soon every app would move to this approach.

This then opens up an entirely new security vector which is hijacking/MITM servers so that you can inject your code in place of the app developer's code. Thus instantly turning that app into one giant code execution farm for Bitcoin mining, DDOS etc.

You can either have an app review process or code execution. Not both.
It's beyond Apple, "pro" nowadays is used to describe service subscriptions, golf clubs, earphones, etc.
In the Perfect Imperfection by Jacek Dukaj [0] has something called "Remy's curve" [1].

On the curve you can find:

- Ultimate Computer is the computer using the best hardware as allowed by the physical constants of our universe. See also physics of computation.

- Inclusions are in essence 'pocket universes'. They are created for specific entities to run hardware in a dedicated universe with physical constants different from ours, allowing for better performance than those in our universe

- Ultimate Inclusion is the inclusion with the best possible set of physical constants in the entire multiverse

Seth Lloyd wrote a paper "Ultimate physical limits to computation" [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Imperfection

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Imperfection#/media/Fi...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
Actually - I'm quite uncertain how bankruptcy laws interact with renting in the US so maybe that is a possibility.
> I'm still hoping the CEO will come out of the woods with something like: "I'm sorry, I had a shitty day and acted like an ass."

We hope, but this is what we got:

> As a matter of principle, when someone goes into your home and steals from you, even if it's not material, you have to respond.
> Most of us will embrace these changes but it will leave a bunch of point-solution vendors in the dust eventually.

They fired a lot of shots at a lot of people tonight. I, for one, am very excited.
> Can you name a poor philosopher?

Diogenes.
The most interesting and unknown question is how the DOJ/FBI came to be in possession of the private key.
I can see how allowing this could discourage companies from posting in these threads. I think it would be interesting to see how a hiring thread including criticism would play out, but appreciate that it would also likely invite a lot of flame wars, astroturfing and unproductive bickering.

A (different) jobs board where the companies posting the jobs do not have control of the comment discussion would be interesting to see - but would need a monetization strategy that ensures it can survive without turning into pay-to-censor junky platforms like Yelp or Glassdoor.
The podcast addresses what you bring up along with the science. From your response I know you didn't listen to it, so I highly recommend it.

How do we maintain free speech while eliminating false information and how do we do this without implementing censorship? This is the problem with free speech as we enter the information age and false information becomes rampant and easily spread by social platforms.

It's an open question and the podcast concludes by posing that question to the listener.

Again I recommend the podcast to you. Everyone is well aware of the contemporary problem of false information but it is important to be aware of the ideal we are trying to preserve and not lose sight of the ideal when we're in the process of stamping out false information.
Maybe you're not well aware enough. Tank man has been around for as long as I can remember. It's has been the title of a PBS documentary from 2006:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/etc/transcr...
The chrome rendering engine plus node js.

Why is that so different from Java or .NET?

Simply because it's an easy meme.
Really? That seems like something fairly obvious to attempt to prevent from an attacker's viewpoint.
What's next, 2pt font white text on white background "Fuck the SEC" repeating in the footer?
Reduce motion actually retains the animation time - just that the motion is replaced by fading animation. So you still have to wait 200ms to watch the window fade instead of morph.
You'd be far better off matching them based on percent of original capacity and internal resistance. A 3200mAh cell worn to 2600mAh is in far worse shape than a 2800mAh cell worn to 2600mAh, though you'd probably also see a big difference in internal resistance between them. You might also consider checking IR at various states of charge, if you're being comprehensive.

... and at that point, short of massive automation in a fireproof area, you're almost certainly going to come out ahead buying new cells.
The poster you're replying to is pulling your leg. Nathan For You was a reality tv comedy show that would often give unsuspecting business owners overly elaborate business plans to "help them." He basically creates extremely awkward situations for all parties involved.

He is probably most famous for his "Dumb Starbucks" bit, he talked to a lawyer about it and it's pretty hilarious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KrdjAPohc

Since this is HN, here he is hiring a Bill Gates impersonator to help a souvenir shop in Hollywood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzW1xUjwew#t=7m10s

Also HN specific, convincing taxi drivers to infiltrate uber and purposely get bad reviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9gbdv5cXKg

at 4 minutes shows the rides they give.
Very tangential, but I've always looked weird at Replit because my first interaction with the product ever was through this tweet :

"We're the most ambitious software startup in history." [1]

My second interaction is this one ...

[1] https://twitter.com/amasad/status/1342891578394882051
This is largely where the art of "labeling/claims" comes into play regarding how explicitly worded a "diagnosis" can be. There is a lot of room to play on the spectrum from truly diagnosing a patient with a disease (which requires the most evidence and carries the most liability) all the way down to gently prompting a healthcare provider to look at one record earlier than another one while reviewing their reading queue.
My wife 6s+ is still being supported? She complains constantly about the device randomly turning off itself last year. I changed the battery for her and hoped that Apple would stop patching it so she could let it go. Man, comparing to the shitshow that Sample Galaxy devices are: 2-3 year of support max. I'm not sure if it is better now since I have stopped using anything Samsung manufactured after S5.
Thanks.
I think it is.
iCloud+ powered by Cloudflare Warp?
Lenovo does this too. I just wiped my computer and made installing/testing the OS their responsibility.
amasad is a regular HN'er who's very active in all posts related to repl.it.

Until, curiously enough, today...

My guess is, his "top lawyers" and other advisors gave him instructions which amounted to - in layman's terms - "Dude, STFU."

Edit: disregard, he did show up and start commenting here.
Rank and file CCP members don't really get any meaningful choice, either - intraparty governance be nominally democratic, but in practice it's as much of a sham as outside of it. The only way you can have a say is by making a party career to some position that actually matters, which very few members will achieve. The rest are there solely to signal their loyalty and get the associated benefits (or lack of handicaps).
Tor fundamentally doesn’t work unless it’s 3 hops though, or am I mistaken? The anonymity comes from the middle-man node? That’s why I said it seems a bit like a VPN because you have to trust a server to not log your actions
Yes, sorry for not stressing this enough: extra care must be taken when dealing with Lithium cells. They pack a lot of power in a small space, and can be extremely dangerous if mistreated; even physical damage with no heat involved can turn them into fireworks, so always treat them the right way. Never ever short them or apply excessive charge or discharge, use only good quality chargers and never ever let them unsupervised during charge.
If a cell catches fire accidentally, don't attempt to extinguish it with water or sand as they are 100% ineffective, keep a specific safety container for Lithium cells at hand and if you feel you can can fit the cell into it to contain the fire in a bunch of seconds hold your breath and do it, otherwise get the f out of there because the fumes are extremely toxic and would seriously harm you before even getting a burn.
Can't they just make an app like whatsapp or instagram or any other messaging app does? They talk so much about diversity and treating everyone the same but Apple is responsible for one of the biggest class division these days. Kids who don't have iphone are marginalised because the iphone kids use the internal apple products rather than messaging/video that works cross platform. It is not a problem where whatapp is the leading app but in the US it seems like peole just use whatever in the iphone ecosystem. They do it delierately and intentionally to lock more and more people into their products while marginalising people who can't afford it. This is a vicious policy that stand against everything they seem to preach for.
Where did you get the "refused a bunch of offers" bit from; did I miss that, or...?