skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware of this "Ministry of Freedom" before today (despite knowing about Libreboot). But "Ministry of Freedom" works because these older laptops have been reverse engineered to the point where we can be confident in how their firmware works... and replace it with something open-source.

There are companies who continue to strive to build open-source hardware: such as the Talos II workstation, the System76 laptops, and Pinephone.

Of these: the Talos II stuff with POWER9 CPUs seems the "most open source" out of all solutions. Its a bit of a subjective measure for sure. However, Talos II is rather expensive.

I think these older Thinkpad Txxx laptops with libreboot definitely work as a more entry-level introduction to fully free software from the boot-process up. Its clearly a cheaper methodology than Talos II (or System76). So that's probably a good thing that they serve different market niches.
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That’s not what the cultural revolution was.

The cultural revolution took place well after the CCP took over.
Agree completely! He's a great guy! Excellent work Dom!
Given how classically horrible the low-latency Android audio API is--to the point where Google was running panels at I/O that would start with "before we begin, I just want to be clear: we have not fixed it", and everyone I know who did audio tended to be stuck with iOS-only--I can see it having been a short time, but that was many years ago and I don't even think they wrote the audio parts (I think they might have used not just Agora as a service, but the Agora SDK?) so I could see it being a long time... ;P.
I will also target iPads and Android tablets as native apps, yes. But most professional users use a powerful desktop computer with a Wacom Intuos or Cintiq. Some professional work requires hundreds of layers, and in the context of animation, you're not going to make the next Studio Ghibli animation on an iPad. You need your 64GBs or RAM.
Thanks for the links, that is helpful.

I wonder why every tech company uses longboarders in their ads? Is it a trope and done intentionally as a joke? Or more banal -- they are lazy and just copying each other?
Actual title:

Groundbreaking Technique Yields Important New Details on Silicon, Subatomic Particles and Possible ‘Fifth Force’
I've worked with both too (only really on the web, fwiw) and I have the opposite feelings. It feels like a huge waste of my mental energy to manually keep state in sync across different parts of the app when that's pretty well a solved problem at this point.
Didn’t Ford have a deal with Tata and Land Rover? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Land_Rover

As far as American cars being uncompetitive, I’m not so sure. They tend to be comfortable and powerful compared to many other vehicles and have (so far) spent a lot less time lying to the authorities about their emissions.
It DOESN'T credit any BTC address, that's why it's an OFF-CHAIN transaction.
Don't do this. People live in Taiwan. It's not fair to use them as pawns. Keep the status quo rather than provoke war and chaos.
> I'm converting everything to triangles on the CPU and send to OpenGL

Thanks, that’s what I thought. The library I have linked does the same thing. Only it’s either D3D12, or GLES 3.1 underneath.
Why vaccinate people who already have much more robust immunity from prior exposure?

Will endless booster shots also be mandatory, given that antibody titers decline by about 40% monthly?
Mainland China did mostly. Everything is +8[0] (besides Xinjiang Time[1])

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Time
She applied for entry and was rejected. That's enough standing.
I've thought about building a similar service before and I'm really impressed with all the features you offer, including many that I haven't even thought about before. Many companies use services like Pingdom for uptime monitoring but they don't have nearly as many features. I think you will do really well!
There is absolutely zero incentive for any of those people in power to do anything about it. They work in one of the best paying industries on earth, they financially stand to benefit from the very things that ought to be regulated.

How do you think anyone reigned in the tobacco industry? Everyone in the industry just went, "well I hate coffers full of money, let's stop working here" ?

That's what governmental authority exists for. The idea that the foxes polices themselves while they have all the keys to the henhouse is comical.
Thanks for keeping the peace, dang
Wew. Apparently this app still exists?
I suspect if this happened, it’d trigger an invasion by the CCP just to save face.
Ah, shrewd move! For others reading this: your project using Scarf will bear responsibility for GDPR compliance regarding processing purposes as the controller and Scarf is just a processor like AWS (not that I buy it completely but I am sure smart folks at noyb.eu will look at this when time comes).
It seems to completely ignore punctuation for the corpus of English text I tried on it; punctuation came through either not at all (e.g. "Id" for "I'd") or as letters (e.g. "P" for "?").
Given how cryptocurrencies are rapidly growing (again), we should expect their deeper integration into payment systems. Eventually, all sites related to sex toys, sex services, or any kind of sex pleasures will shift to independent payment systems based on cryptocurrency. As for me, I'm not pleased too with this monopoly while hiring babes on https://aurumgirls.co.uk. You said that "the US is enforcing their moral believes on us". I think it's their state policy. You need to follow their rules and believes, otherwise you are "wrong".
“A vastly improved understanding of the crystal structure of silicon, the ‘universal’ substrate or foundation material on which everything is built, will be crucial in understanding the nature of components operating near the point at which the accuracy of measurements is limited by quantum effects,” said NIST senior project scientist Michael Huber.
I've shipped stuff written in Haskell almost 2 times... but actually one time.

It's not that bad. Honestly the only reason we shipped it was because the prototype I did in it worked too well.

I had a backup almost ready in time written in C++ in case it got too tricky for others to maintain, and it was a simple component in a larger software stack.
> CDC says vaccines are only 66 percent effective at preventing Delta infection

WITH A 95% CONFIDENCE INTERVAL OF 26% TO 84%

They only statistically modeled how much their unvaccinated population was already recovered from coronavirus based on estimates of community spread, among other issues with that number.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e4.htm

And when you have a CI of something like that size, of course you wind up in the middle of it -- the actual value could very well be closer to 80% due to systematic uncertainties in the modeling.
> The charitable interpretation is that their original intent of using the well-known recycling symbol around the resin code was to provide consumers with information to help them recycle more effectively.

This isn't the "charitable interpretation" - this was the stated and official purpose of the symbols with the numbers.
I've worked in logistics and supply chain for a while, and that type of quota is pretty much the norm (honestly, it kind of is in any job that is easy to quantify, like call centers, sales, and some segments of retail).

The way the quotas get set is kind of as a bell curve. You set quotas, including threshold for promotions, as some where you'll get let go. They hire people, and those folks thrive to meet the quota/make more money. If everyone is doing so well that the tip of the bell curve is too much to the right, they increase the quota. If they have trouble hiring and everyone's leaving, or if they end up needing to let go too many people, they lower it.

Of course, a company could push it way too far if they have enough power and a big enough employee pool. They can then put super high quotas and only keep people who can push it that far (probably where the whole "peeing in bottles" come from).

The concept itself isn't that weird. Maybe weird to people who mostly worked in salaried jobs that are hard to quantify.

Where it becomes a problem is when too many people are desperate enough for money that they're willing to literally harm themselves to meet their quotas or get promoted. That's probably where regulators came from with this type of law. I didn't read it, but that sounds really tough to implement.
It's an interesting idea, but it would amount to calling China's bluff. China has stated that they would definitely commit to a ground invasion of Taiwan if the US recognized it. The question is -- how serious are they about that?

Personally, I think they'd go for it. They've been itching to take over Taiwan by force anyway.
>Thank you for proving me right fellow HNer.

Well, who do you think does the censoring in the West? Companies that employ people browsing this very forum.
An interesting use of energy is in "The Thing" which is powered remotely and acts as a listener-transmitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

"The existence of the bug was discovered accidentally in 1951 by a British radio operator at the British embassy who overheard American conversations on an open radio Soviet air force radio traffic channel as the Soviets were beaming radio waves at the ambassador's office.[9] An American State Department employee was then able to reproduce the results using an untuned wideband receiver with a simple diode detector/demodulator..."
Good on them for building things the right way for each platform. I'd love to hear more about how they architect things on the iOS side!
The known forces, other than gravity, are mediated by specific particles that have characteristic masses and other properties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_boson

(there might be a graviton, too)

With a Grand Unification Theory, they might turn out to be one force with several aspects (eg electroweak force), but that's not really a continuum.
You should read the article, because it seems you're the one with the misconception.

how it works -> "if a bank has $1 million in deposits (of actual cash that people gave to the bank to put in their checking accounts) the bank can make $10 million in loans"

not how it works -> "if a bank has $1 million in deposits it can make only $900k in loans"
I would be careful making such generalizations lest you give this vocal minority of haskellers more reason to believe that non-haskellers are luddites (edit: can you use the word "luddite" to refer to people who don't like theory? Probably not but pretend that's what it means).
Of course USA does not have hate speech laws. But there is considerable extralegal hate speech regulation. Your face will be plastered all over social media and you will get "cancelled" and lose your career, and no "free speech" laws will protect you from that.
If China is claiming that Hong Kong citizens are foreign agents, aren't they implicitly admitting that Hong Kong isn't part of China?
This is an example of "aspirational recycling" where you guess what they will do.

Unfortunately we never get any feedback about whether we were right or wrong. It could all be sent to the landfill and we will never know.
Note: there's English subtitles available if you enable close captioning.
Even less actually. The CCP has existed for 100yrs (since 1921), but didn't control China till 1949. Communist China has only existed for 72yrs.
>The idea that "Sparta" was close to "80% enslaved people" is confused and I hold the author of the linked article responsible for not clarifying the confusion.

...

>The people inhabiting the greater area of the Lacedeamonian city-state, the inhabitants of the settlements in Laconia and Messinia, were never referred to in any ancient text as "Spartans" or "Lacedaemones" and they were only referred to, to the extent they were ever mentioned, as "helots" ("είλωται") or, simply, as the Spartans' slaves.

He's referring to the entire Spartan state, which at that time included Messinia. It's accurate to say it was composed of ~80% enslaved people. That's clear if you read the article. The fact that most helots were from other ethnic groups doesn't change the fact that they were living under the rule of the Spartan state.
I’ve worked across consumer goods (clothing/fashion), retail and law mostly and have seen various industries and to be honest most large companies need software engineers.

You may get a lot of legacy in house custom code to manage, or integrations between systems. It won’t probably be at impactful ad working on big tech but it can definitely be fulfilling. It might not be cutting edge tools and languages.

E.g. you could write code that contributes to ensuring stock ships efficiently around the world from factory to retail stores
Ummm...not every other American (no where near 100%). Also those vaccines are tried and tested for decades...not pushed through FDA approval and side effects hidden from public view. I personally know 2 people that had major side effects and one of them is still not recovered (legally blind due to strokes she had 2 months ago, a day after her first vaccine shot). The other had a heart attack 2 days after his vaccine shot. Both could be just a coincidence in timing...but that's a hell of a coincidence..
I think most young FIRE people think that way. I certainly did too, in my early 20s. Then 3 years become 10, 15, 20, and you accumulate an actual life in the meantime (sometimes kids, sometimes pets, sometimes spouses, sometimes hobbies, etc), and the mere thought of living in a studio with a library card becomes a prison. Compounds when you realize you'll no longer have the same energy to "do what you want" when you're 40/50/60, so even maintaining that bare minimum living would be unsustainable.
> private solutions dn't have to be greedy

But they do, over time. This is what competition does. You may start out in a fresh market fully intent on doing a good and honest job, but then competitors arrive. First, they force you to innovate and improve your offering. Then, when improvements start yielding diminishing returns, you're forced to either become exploitative and dishonest, or be outcompeted.
Agreed. But I guess I'm the odd-man out to err on the side of "not-fear".
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Or, consider this alternative hypothesis -- people are downvoting you for whining about being downvoted.
Yup. These type of quotas are often used for promotion opportunities, too, so the carrot on the stick is very tempting. If they can just push themselves a little harder, they could make more money. If you push that to its extreme, you end up with people harming themselves quite a bit. Like you said, prisoner's dilemma.
I'll ask about opensourcing the tool. But just in case, the recipe is to use pipe mode and pre-parse all frames, stream them as messages, sometimes to several targets (pub/sub) with some streaming-zstd, and also splitting the pmu/probes/Intel-PT streams and treating them separately. Stack-traces are analysed (precomputed cfg optimised structure so unwinding is faster) before storing in adhoc in-house format with all other system traces. Only annoying thing is changing perf-record settings (pid changes, need event X, new probe) means restart and I ran out of interns before we had no-loss switchover...
In El Salvador (our TLD is "sv") we sometimes get apps or websites in Swedish because "sv" is used as a language abbreviation for Svenska/Swedish. Spotify was like that for months when it launched here.
It is shocking that this comment is downvoted by the supposedly math-loving pro-science HN crowd.

Click through to the specific graph mentioned - that's precisely what it shows - demographic breakdown of response groups, NOT percent responding per group.

I know this site leans heavily pro-vaccine, but we shouldn't be downvoting correct data analyses and upvoting grossly wrong interpretations because they confirm our biases.
RT-PCR studies of Ct values only detects RNA loads and doesn't discriminate between viable virus and viral debris.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.20.21262158v...

> Results The delta variant (B.1.617.2) was identified in the majority of cases. Despite similar Ct-values, we demonstrate lower probability of infectious virus detection in respiratory samples of vaccinated HCWs with breakthrough infections compared to unvaccinated HCWs with primary SARS-CoV-2 infections. Nevertheless, infectious virus was found in 68.6% of breakthrough infections and Ct-values decreased throughout the first 3 days of illness.
>Bitcoin has a landed wealth aristocracy just like land ownership has.

You're thinking of PoS. If you hold 1 bitcoin now, you'll still only have bitcoin 100 years from now. On the other hand, with land and PoS, you'll have the land/coin and the rent you were able to extract.

>It's not based on merit.

How is it not meritocratic? Literally anyone could mine. This is as opposed to getting land, which typically requires you to be politically connected, or buying it from someone who was politically connected.
There were two military groups involved in TS.

The first refused to fire on the protesters.

The second was brought in to shoot the protesters.

The general of the second division is celebrated annually by the CCP. You can see that online.
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On the subject, Tom Scott has a great video on the inconsistency that online influencers and youtubers have to declare ads/product-placements while traditional media does not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w
From the title, I thought it’s about mountain photography. Oh boy, those title words sometimes become too unrecognizable.
Spanish Supreme Court rules against Covid passport obligation in Andalusia
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Having your own language has its advantages. Sure, Germans are very active in English-speaking communities where this is impossible to enforce, but many people prefer German-speaking communities, and there these kinds of things are very enforceable because most German speakers actually live in Germany.
America is amazing at passing feel good laws without thinking about the enforcement logistics.
I try to remind people of this all the time, it’s especially interesting since the leadership is trying to destroy artifacts of their history to fit a very recent narrative.

They only occasionally use bits and pieces to talk about how they are in ancient culture, but they are rapidly becoming a very young culture in a historical sense.
Hongkong dollar is pegged to USD and US has a special treaty with HK w.r.t Financial transactions.

US can walk out of the treaty but there are downsides to it. It will happen sooner or later.
> I can honestly say that the two BEST engineering managers I ever had were people that could not have written a line of code to save their lives

This is some truth to this. On the other hand, there are a lot of dumb-ass power wielding managers who think technical chops are low level stuff and look down on the engineers. The second group outweighs the first by a factor of 3 at least
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It's not literally false, but I got an inaccurate impression based on the headline. To me it implied a positive discovery of evidence rather than a ruling-out.

If they'd said "determined new constraints on a hypothetical 5th force" or something I would have gotten a correct impression.
The power balance between the US, UK, and China in 1984 was far more in favor of the US and the UK than it is now and they still caved to Chinese demands vis a vis Hong Kong. Given the state of global power balance now, there is not a chance in hell that any of the West will do anything (except maybe words) to support the Hong Kong.
> China has stated that they would definitely commit to a ground invasion of Taiwan if the US recognized it.

I don't believe this is true. IIRC they've implied they would invade if Taiwan declared itself independent.
Struggling to pick your SaaS stack?
To be fair at least this is the first time where the pricetag on Luxoticca glasses makes sense.
This is a tricky problem, but it’s something all good transactional databases solve.

For example, the way this is handled in foundationdb is that you create a transaction, then within that transaction issue a series of read and write calls. The read calls are executed immediately, and they see the database as if other concurrent changes weren’t happening. The write calls get batched up and at the end of the transaction block they are submitted together - with information about which keys were read. On submission, the transaction block can fail with E_RETRY - which means a conflict happened, the transaction was entirely aborted and the userland program should run the transaction again from the start.

I’d absolutely adore an API like this for filesystem operations. There are all sorts of half baked, dirty workarounds to get around the lack of atomicity in posix filesystems. Eg, that whole “write a file then rename it” thing - which almost nobody implements correctly because it’s error prone and most correct solutions on top of posix have terrible performance.
Interesting. Never heard this before. Can you provide sources to back this up?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cutlery-firm-makes-blunt-...

They’re not particularly popular as far as I can tell, but my point only relies on the concept itself as another example of manufacturers implementing features to attempt to influence how the product can be used.
Almost all the comments on this post seem incredibly negative and snarky comments like “wow they still exist”.

Please consider that they are a small team, have gone under what can only be considered a monumental explosive growth, and given circumstances, shipping an app from scratch in less than 2.5months can be considered pretty good.
So just put a dab of black paint over the light and claim that it must have happened when you were painting your door. Though it's not clear how they'd ever notice, surely they don't have a light sensor inside the camera light that would tip them off if it never seems ambient light.
This is right, but then the house seller now has $0.9mm in cash. When she deposits it in her bank, that bank can make another loan but only for $0.81mm and so on and so on.

The geometric sum to infinity ends up being 1/reserve_ratio; so if that's 10% in this example, the theoretical money creation is 10x.
It's about proportional overhead. When I found uBlock (before it was Origin I think) was available in my language, I was willing to create an account because I knew I wanted to use it long term, and planned to work on as many phrases as I could, so it seemed worth the overhead.

99% of the time though, it's a word or two that I wish to correct in a site I might never visit again (just like I might correct a typo in a Wikipedia article that I'll never see again), and the overhead is many times more work than the actual translation. If I was able to (for eg.) hover on the vertical Feedback button that many sites now have, see a Translation Feedback option, and paste in the offending phrase with some context, and the correct translation, I'd be much more likely to do it. That can perhaps then automatically go into the third party website as from some common guest user, maybe even given lower priority since they likely require more processing - you can even warn me with "Register here to ensure your translation is seen" to manage expectations. But this way, the long tail of users that are put off by the friction can still together contribute - many eyes, shallow mistakes, etc.

> my open source application

My gripe is with the many large (for- and non-profit) organizations that do this though, to be clear. If it's something from a solo developer or a small team, it's understandable that the overhead of processing these might be more than they can bear (though that can be reduced by some categorization on the feedback form).