skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack if strategic thinking, and subjugation by the US, of Germany has been made painfully clear with the Covid vaccine. While the UK made sure that the Oxford vaccine went to British pharma, the German let Pfizer take over BioNTech's vaccine.
Wow I didn’t know this. Is this why when you go to find out things e.g. sports game preview, the top hits are very generic and of absolutely no value?
Censorship is not limited to “oppression due to opinion”, it can be done for any reason.
> The Walkman came out when I was in 6th grade, and even though it seems lame now, I can tell you it was every bit as mind-blowing as the iPhone when it was first released.

I respectfully disagree; I was there too when it came out, and the walkman was a lot more mind-blowing and had a larger impact on the world than the iPhone.

The walkman was literally the first consumer device in its class (portable music players). It created the market.

The iPhone, even under the most generous interpretation, could never be considered the first consumer device in its class. IIRC, much of what the iPhone offered was already available in the consumer market, bearing in mind that the first iPhone did not even allow App development.
> In Switzerland a prominent argument (maybe the most prominent) of people willing to ban weapons is the amount of suicides by firearms. However suicide rates in heavily-armed Switzerland are at worst equal to those of not-heavily-armed nations such as the UK, Germany and France ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r... )

A note of gentle caution: you can't compare suicide rates across countries because there are big differences in methods of counting deaths.
I named a new Mac malware Made in China: OS X.ZuRu
Telecommunications industry is made up of companies that enable global communication, whether by telephone or the Internet, by air or by cable, by cable or wireless. These companies have created the infrastructure that allows sending verbal, voice, audio, or video data to any part of the world. The largest companies in the industry are telephone companies (wire and wireless), satellite companies, cable companies, and Internet service providers.
https://www.digitalknowledgetoday.com/
That's also exactly why Discord was successful, though: because it's a centralized, owned thing. Open source doesn't always win.
> The 2% of the young adults who are genuinely interested in science and tech and DIY maker culture will find him regardless where he is.

Oh, maybe you're right if you mean 2% of 2% for those who will manage to find his videos elsewhere
> promise of composability and interoperability in the early web. I miss it.

Then avoiding embeds altogether and choosing hyperlinks is the way to go. Came to this realization after having to remove embeds from what was a cool platform to begin with and later turning out to be soul sucking privacy nightmare.
You can see the ad for his software on the top left of page 35: https://sinclairql.speccy.org/archivo/docs/mags/QLWorld_1986...
Tailwind is just a method in which to style components on a page. Replace "Tailwind CSS" with "StyledComponents" or "SASS" or "BEM".
You're right but I don't think that this implies that they have no choice but to be an American 'protectorate'. It obviously used to be a British colony (and obviously is still formally part of the British Realm) and IMHO effectively switched to being an American 'protectorate' during WWII.
I don’t understand why people don’t see the outrage here for what it is: pure greed.

If you aren’t offered equity, the company’s decision on whether to sell or remain private is completely irrelevant to you. Whatever happens, you’re not going to benefit anyway. Why even give a shit? Do your job and collect your paycheck, don’t catch feelings thinking you’re part owner. You knew the deal going in, now you want to alter it after the fact for your own benefit? Just another case of people seeing a pile of money and wanting to grab a piece.

If you wanted equity and chose to work there anyway hoping that someday the founders might throw you a bone in case they changed their minds and decided to sell, you’re a fool.
You are comparing ”apples” to oranges. App store apps are built by third parties whereas CSAM is Apple’s own code and design on OS level, applying on global level.
App store apps have been under removal threat in every country for many years if they can be considered as illegal.
Private entities supply nuclear fuel all over the world

https://nuclear.gepower.com/fuel-a-plant

my main point, though, is that nuclear energy is a fairly strange, highly-regulated-at-all-levels beast with its own long complicated history so it's not a particularly straightforward parallel to a hypothetical weapon-of-mass-destruction-enabling genetic engineering
I am pretty sure Windows 10 will provide API, which is then implemented using existing kernel facilities with no perf gains, whilst Windows 11 kernel will have new subsystems for performance boost. Pure speculation, something like multi queue block layer (similar to blk-mq in Linux) or new IO subsystem (similar to io_uring , to replace dated IOCP) might be an option.
Thank you for clarification, as other commenter pointed out, Atari computers (like 800 XE/XL) were quite popular in central europe and I haven't seen a game system (like 2600) around, even didn't know until much later that something like that existed.
Couldn't miss the chance to take a dig at them :P
Previously, Google usually ignored such requests, but seems to have finally gave in. If they are willing to remove the app, what's next, disclosing personal information to help the regime with repressions, preventing access from Russia to other Google resources, removing YouTube videos? The "we comply with local laws" clause effectively puts citizens of opperssive regime at a disadvantage. It's not like I had an impression somebody else besides citizens of the country in question can help to fight the power, but sad news like this disillusion even more.
The USPS will likely not do anything to disrupt one of its largest sources of revenue
Beaming broadband across the Congo River
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> Sadly nowadays they are filled with very un-nuanced, self-lying fundamentalist people ("My freedom to not wear a mask is more important than your freedom not to die") that are quite frankly right now the reason why this pandemic is still rolling.

“X number of people will die” is an equally un-nuanced argument, and in the comment I was replying to above, it was the entirety of the argument they put forward.

It is possible to have a nuanced and properly considered discussion or debate about the intricacies of this topic. But on Facebook, you’re only allowed to do this if your perspective is on the list of approved perspectives. It’s the same for a lot of other social media outlets. Even if you don’t necessarily get banned, the idiots who are only capable of seeing black and white tend to do their best to drown out any opinions they don’t like.
That's exactly my point. Drink driving is not uncommon, to the point where it's acceptable to some parts of society. But no part of society believes intent to kill with a gun is acceptable, yet despite the heavy scrutiny it receives, firearm homicides are still way higher than drunk driving deaths.

I know that these numbers are not directly comparable, but given the deadly nature of automobiles in general, I expected drunk-driving deaths to be somewhere around 50000 per year.
Not really, in my opinion. I was happily surprised to see that this "component library" doesn't actually offer anything to download; it's not a library you can `npm i` to your website. It is basically a set of examples for how to recreate different design elements using Tailwind. It leaves it to you to decide what parts to use and what part to change or remove. Pretty neat.
100% this - Atari was quite popular in central europe.
>>The people for whom the shot is least effective are the ones that get it the most.

It's not that the vaccine is less effective for them. It's that they're starting with much poorer immunity, so even with the significant immunity boost provided by the vaccine, they still have significant susceptibility to the virus.

Without the vaccine, their numbers would look much worse than the unvaccinated.
This looks like to be generated mostly by a CRM. This makes lot of sense.
Google obeys Russian laws. Of course they'll disclose any information they have given proper police request. They did that many times in the past. With Russia and with other countries.

Do you expect Google to go partisan war against Russian government?
I'm all for nostalgia but IMO the information should be the most important thing. Presentation is a close second though, and I can kind of get behind this project when I see what the web is like without an ad-blocker.
>If you’re not interested in the UI overhaul don’t install.

That won't be an option for the majority, it will install automatically as long as your hardware supports it.
On the other hand that was how COVID deaths were counted too.
I managed to get MicroPython versions of these working on a micro:bit with the speaker directly plugged into the IO pins. Lots of fun, and MicroPython was definitely quick enough. :-)
Well ethically they should have just given more leave and money and he would have been happy.

When the company offers unlimited PTO and unlimited sick leave and the dude gets only a little bit of leave 6 weeks severance, that's not very fair.

But sounds like his manager is a douche and the source of most of the problems. The manager should probably get in trouble or be audited for his actions.
I have been playing with it yesterday night and noticed that I can achieve a throughput of 17.8 Gbit/s on iperf3 with the standard FreeBSD 13.0 stack (in a VM with virtio-net) and only 13-14 Gbit/s on the Rack Stack. Is there something I'm missing?
TSLAQ are pretty active on HN.

I was interested to see if you'd be downvoted.

A better theory is they push the 'consumer reports' that are negative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSLAQ
> well we know Google isn't for search anymore,

If you're talking about the ads, I would bear in mind Google's whole business model is basically online advertising. Search is just the vehicle to deliver those ads; I'd say Google is pretty good at throwing things back.
The vast majority of electoral votes is going to be cast in Russia either way.
Roughly a third of the population believes in astrology and doesn't believe in global warming or evolution. A good proportion also believes that Democrats drink the blood of children.

Do any of these facts support your point?
Obligatory raining on the parade: small enough smart sand might be a cancer risk, the way asbestos is (suspected to be)[0] - apparently our bodies really don't like having small, stiff objects poking at it from inside, causing mechanical damage.

That said, I'm all for "smart sand" and programmable matter. IIRC, the tricky bits are in making the individual smart particles to stick to each other, and then making them behave in a coordinated fashion.

It's an interesting challenge to think about: you have a thousand, or a million, small little robots - how to get them to do something useful as a group? If the robots can barely sense their environment, can barely move on their own, can't communicate with each other except maybe their nearest neighbors - how to make them work together in a controlled fashion? Say, I have this bag of "smart sand", I pour it on a table and want it to form into a cube when I press "Enter" on my laptop - how do I translate a bulk concept like "cube shape" into instructions for a random pile of tiny robots?

Does anyone know of good papers dealing with this problem?

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_impact_of_asbestos#Mech...
I've had this discussion a few times. I don't think we live in the same world any more, where physical invasion of country is advantageous. What exactly are we defending against?

I just don't see the Chinese trying to invade and control Australia. What would they get from that? All the resources? They already get those - and it's a lot cheaper to just buy them than it would be to keep a hostile invading army in place to dig them up themselves. China even operates some mines on Australian soil already (with all-Chinese staff, flown in direct from China). What on earth could they take from us that we won't sell them freely?

Australia is a US naval/supply/intelligence base, and that's it. The only militarily interesting targets in the country are owned by the US.

I think the Kiwis got the right idea here. The only way to win this game is to not play.
Apple has to comply with local laws, regardless of who authored the code.
How else would she garner support for her 10-person nonprofit funding her $2m/year lifestyle?
>Back in the real world, we saw civil unrest (of varying types) in the past 12 months,

a lot of that civil unrest because cops rolled up on people and killed them?
The CSAM databases are not Apple's own either.
hey.com and icloud email blocks this by default.
May be will not help you prepare for marathons, but I saw a job posting with 2 hours or so of manual work in the morning or/and a few hours before sleep. They even advertise the job as exercise. Pros:
1. doing something useful and paid
2. manual work
3. + to your social status, since you will be worker-programmer
In other words, for companies, the law is a continuous function, where for individuals it's a discrete one. Where you and me have to ask ourselves, "do I break the law or not?", big companies ask themselves, "what is the optimal level of law breakage?".
Chinese astronauts return to Earth from months-long space trip
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Oh this sounds like it could be a really cool idea! This way it could also be subtly teaching users that the engine doesn't do automatic synonyms translation so it's worth experimenting; also kinda like giving the synonyms feature while still keeping user in full control.
#freeAppStores for everybody!
32 bit PCI was only capable of 133 MB/s, but at the time, high speed SCSI peripherals were popular, and 64 bit SCSI cards were capable of 160 MB/s.

If I recall correctly, the PCI bus was shared and not point to point like PCIe, so if you had multiple cards it made sense to buy high end 64 bit cards for that reason.
There's a difference. Your finger can be used against your will. Your brain can't be scanned for password against your will, you have an ultimate choice to provide password or not.
Last thing I would do is to put Tailwind next to BEM. They're not equivalent in any capacity.
Might be relevant too related to elementary OS: https://old.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/pm22kw/whats_...
Although wanting to agree, it just isn't clear that it is a sustainable advantage. America has traditionally crushed opponents by having a small aggressive government on top of a large, free & wealthy population. If someone competes with the US by having a more competent government that is only exceeding the US in the area where it is weakest.

The best nuclear engineer in the Chinese government isn't going up against the US political establishment, they are facing off against people like Bill Gates or the US nuclear industry's Elon Musk equivalent. Although the US population isn't as relatively wealthy as they once were so the traditional strategy might not work out.
EuroBSDCon 2021
I respect that. Atari computers for me and Commodores for some were a first glimpse of the future as well. I didn't expect downvotes for honestly asking how would having Sinclair differ from my experience.
Highly depends on your environment actually. Most people care about privacy a lot and don't want 24h surveillance for their safety. They have no idea about CSAM of course.

Furthermore many are indeed critical of big tech and how they censor and modify information for political convenience. They are also aware about oversharing on social media.
I mean the app isn't removed, maybe just hidden from search for Russian users.
There are "some" others, but Australia is place 2 (2020):

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
Actually, may I say it was the same for most eastern Europeans. Most of the programmers I know in Portugal started with a ZX Spectrum.
Well, since modern non-nuclear sub's are more silent than nuclear ones those would be a better choice, IMHO. And cheaper.
Hold on, you're overstating things here. When Fukushima was built they studied the topology of the surrounding oceans and the best models of tsunami generation at the time put the sea wall at Fukushima high enough to block everything they thought was possible from the strongest typhoons and tsunamis. The theory was wrong, there was a report in 2008 that concluded that a tsunami could possibly be large enough to overtop the sea wall. Furthermore, they didn't need to build some large expensive wall, they excavated the existing cliff in order to bring it down to 10 meters. They could have stopped at 15 meters if they had known that those waves were possible during construction.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Tepco-Rem...
It's just like Old Times.

Edit: To all the downvote. The line which OP used and my reply are reference to Yes Minister.
Right at the top: Study highlights vast churn in computer hardware that the cryptocurrency incentivises
Why didn't they remove Navalny's videos from YouTube then?
Nice, are there any benchmarks?

Would be interesting to see how it compares to Postgres or LevelDB for read/write of exact values

And how it compares to Faiss/Annoy for KNN
Selecting where to put a nuclear plant is mostly restricted by politics. "Not in my back yard" is a political issue, not an engineering one.
Another point to consider, is that today's engineering is much safer than in Fukushima days.
I think you can disable that by disabling "require attention". If "require attention" is enabled FaceID won't work unless you are looking at your phone. I believe it is enabled by default.

But pro-tip if you are being apprehended by police is to furiously click on the side button as the phone will require pin code after that.
Unlikely. Most American small businesses and individuals can't set up offshore structures willy nilly (it's too expensive and complex), and FACTA makes it a lot harder for them to even if they want to. Lots of financial institutions hate working with Americans and will avoid it if possible in some places because of FACTA.

Keeping money offshore doesn't make sense for the little guy. You're required to report it with significant penalties for non-compliance, and the anti-tax-deferral rules for controlled foreign corporations basically make repatriating just enough money to pay salaries a pointless exercise.
There's no way Apple or any company to act as an extralegal entity in another country. Every time something like that comes up, I'm baffled by the expectation that an American company will impose the American values or American laws in another country.

Back in the day when the internet felt like international thing not bound by any local laws, that was possible to some degrees but legislators caught up with it.

It is obvious that you don't sell your crypto finance stuff to Americans, you don't make anti-Putin stuff for Russians, you don't give Saudis encrypted messaging, you don't give Turks gambling apps, you don't sell Nazi stuff to Germans etc. on the internet, unless you are ready to face repercussions. They can try to find a legal angle if they believe there is one and that it will benefit them more than harm them but often there isn't one because gambling is illegal in Turkey, SEC has strict securities regulations in the USA, Putin has an absolute power in Russia and Saudis simply don't allow it.

There is no way Apple or Google or any company facing the repercussions of not complying to the laws of Russia, therefore they will remove from the Russian AppStore whatever they are told to remove.

Allowing alternative AppStores also wouldn't solve it but only delegate it to the people who run those alternative AppStores. Technological solutions to political problems work up until the politicians catch up. The more effective the technological solution the faster they catch up and take care of it.

StarLink for example, a swarm of satellites that can technically provide unrestricted internet to anyone on the planet, will obey the local laws depending on where the user is connecting from.

I know the technologist don't like it but there's no way around it. If you are in Russia, you are in Russia. Get rid of Putin, form a functioning democracy if you like to live in western-like country. No company is not going to provide you with the environment that people in the west built through struggles for generations.
Firefox Developer Literally Gives Users the Finger, Other Fenix Developers Join
Google had also went back on their word on halting to provide information to the HK/Chinese government after the national security law has been enacted.
A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World's Giant Sequoias, Study Says
I find the idea quite interesting - and it could be valuable just for the read-only aspect of it alone - especially if it is queryable through an ODBC or JDBC connection.

It helps avoid some scripting / token / API overhead - but I'm wondering what the trade off is in terms of initial setup time.

One general concern I have is around Data (state) consistency of the data after DML operations (insert / update). If the data represents the state of a resource - how do you know if there's a pending operation on it as a result of an earlier Update operation? How is idempotency handled? How are conflicting concurrent state changes handled (one user forces a restart, another initiates a shutdown)? What happens if a change applied to multiple records/resources only successfully applies on some of the resources?

This isn't specific to just this approach though - it's going to apply to any kind of cloud / resource management platform. I'm not sure how they tend to handle it - but a basic single record per resource has limitations around it that mean more work is needed. Maybe you end up with change history records?
1. Nobody can promise to never sell. If you believe that you’re a fool. They held out longer than most.

2. Nobody is entitled to equity. You chose to take the job knowing you weren’t getting any. Complaining about it now is idiotic. I see similar stories on HN from time to time about employees not getting equity or anything out of an acquisition. I get the feeling it’s the “we’re a team/family” vibe that causes this. People need to wake up and remember they’re simply being paid to do a job for somebody else. You’re not all best friends. If you want to be rich, take the risk and start your own company.
I thought New Zealand had declared itself a nuclear-free zone, which would mean Australian nuclear subs could not visit New Zealand ports nor pass through New Zealand waters.

This would be one reason why Australia might not want nuclear subs.
Honestly Watergate was a joke compared to stuff more recent administrations did.
Came across this "drama" after finding out about Firefox sponsored links in the new tab.

An archive of the tweet, since deleted:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200731235001/https://twitter.c...
Defense contractors need orders. Not that the US or the UK are ordering new nuclear sub fleets at the moment.
I hope we will be able to wait for Windows 12.

It's possible that MS will just force-update everyone to Windows 11.
Huh? The parent said there were "486 fatal ones", didn't they?
I think it's just timeout of few days. Point is that if your phone got stolen or taken away from you, attackers have a limited time to attempt a fingerprint attack, after which they must use more sophisticated pin bruteforce attack. Not sure if it adds much to security, but it's something.
You can use non-standard finger like little finger. This way they'll probably waste attempts on common fingers (like thumbs).