skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the time when the 1st amendment was written (which is not a holy document that decides all morality. Nor is the U.S. the center of the universe) corporations as we understand them did not really exist. The people that were concerned about free speech could only conceive a hostile government of King George could really suppress them and the people willing to hear their dissident ideas. They were rich local gentlemen that had public squares and private meeting rooms. It did not occur to them that they could be silenced by the local placard maker forming a cabal that would deny any attempt to express themselves.

Times have changed and the public square is dead.
> Turns out there were a few hiccups: everyone involved in that project we wanted to use had left the company, we had no idea how to build the source code, it had something like 500,000 lines of code, and the one person we found that knew anything about the project was 13 hours ahead and stopped replying to our emails.

When you don't talk to users this is what you end up with.
Below, there's an email from Sergey Brin to google's exec team about another call from Steve Jobs on the same kind of topic. But there's a kind of funny line at the end:

> on another note, it seems silly to have both firefox and safari. perhaps there is some unification stretegy that we can get these two to pursue.

Which of course brings to mind the ol' "Standards" xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/927/
And that’s okay. Fewer “higher quality” recruits are easier to go after individually.
Most devices never “wake up” after being stolen. Apple’s activation lock means that most stolen iPhone are only good for parts.

If your threat model includes nation state actors, then you should probably be putting electronics in faraday bags if you don’t want to be tracked. For everyone else, the design of the Find My network provides significant protection against misuse.
I don't even have a bookmark to the youtube homepage. It's to my empty videos section. So as not to get shown the dumbest clickbait of content I don't need to see.
Drew's stance here is warranted, in my opinion. I don't think it was rude, just stern. His fear of Gemini growing into the next web is the same reason why I've stayed away from it for a while - I don't want to waste time on a second, Not-Invented-Here web.
Unfortunately, I took the bait and clicked. This is just another reminder that there will always be a person or group that has to make an argument against even the most benign things. I should have ignored the article just like I ignore “Little Free Libraries.”
Amazon sent us a 13-page PDF to prove Elon Musk is as litigious as Jeff Bezos
Sorry, what do you mean by "those"? Add comment threads to ampie, or integrate comments from other services into ampie?
If we're going to restraint to personal opinions, my strong personal opinion is that startups have to operate in the context of truth, rule of law and business ethics. That would be my hope. I think it's totally possible to succeed and still work through that lens. I think thinking otherwise, is actually a fallacy perpetuated by certain groups here in the Valley.

I strongly believe that you can challenge the status quo and abide by honesty and rule of law.
Where do you currently draw the line? I'm sure you're pro-censorship for at least some stuff. Direct imminent threats? Child porn? Anything?
Electron apps running at the same time: VSCode, Slack, Discord, Signal, Bitwarden, Teams... Most of the apps are made with Electron now. It's an exception when something isn't made in web technologies, nowadays.
I think having laypeople who don't understand what they are actually debating on engage in these unhelpful debates, rather than seek information from people who have put in the time required to be a domain expert, does a lot more net harm to society than good.

Imagine if people were so passionate about aircraft designs as they are vaccine delivery platforms. It's ridiculous when you lay it bare like this and replace vaccine with some other piece of uncontroversial technology. "I'm not flying in an airbus. I don't trust those engineers, and my cousin says there is weird radio signals that manipulate your mind and I trust that man with my life. Those engineers voted for Clinton" Nothing about the modern world would get done if we extended this unhelpful debateism to every piece of everything that requires a lot of hours of study to fully understand. We would be stuck in our tracks citing the same talking points everyone else in our cult of ignorance chants while bridges fail and crops go barren.
Recall that the NSA was given an unconstitutional[0] general warrant in secret by the FISA court to spy on all Verizon customers.[1]

> Do you honestly not see the difference?

The difference I see is that there has been extensive, proven, unconstitutional surveillance of Americans by US intelligence agencies, but there is, to date, no evidence that Huawei has spied on Americans.

0. Read about "writs of assistance," a type of general warrant used by the British in colonial America, and which inspired the 4th Amendment's ban on general warrants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_assistance.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-reco...
i have no idea why you are downvoted, and surely it's not this, but figured I'd mention, it's "Rochambeau", a name.
Take the vaccine (Moderna if you can pick), significantly reduce the health risk of covid on you. Also, helps to dampen the overall rate in the county and reduces the risk new mutations that may create more breakthroughs.

If you're complaining about the withdraw of mitigations, that's because people and states have refused to participate in the mitigations as a whole.

If they were compliant, we'd be in a situation like Australia or Taiwan. Masks optional, nearly normal (they have restrictive borders), open concerts, and lockdowns only when a couple of cases pop up.
Or maybe he knows Eric Schmidt doesn't take orders from him and therefore it's politically inaccurate to make a demand? Many leaders with people skills will say "i prefer if you did x" or similar when appropriate because they know they can't control everyone, it gives the person they are talking to an out and preserves everyone's ego, etc.
I'd be curious if the definition has changed in the past year (word redefinition seems to a thing lately and it is Literally not for the better!).

Immunity obviously means being immune. Immune has a specific definition and that is not "helps sometimes".

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/immu...

Resistance or, decreased susceptibility, or whatever other term you wish to use, is not the same as immunity.

Otherwise what word do we use for "immunity" now?
Or use a larger stick. Every doubling of the stick length gives another bit of information. A stick of one light-year length would add about 53 bits.
Not all speech is protected.
It might help if you posted a link to where the FDA approval was announced: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

"Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine"
This comment could not be anymore hyperbolic.
This one is easy though, just don't buy one.

I wish all invasions of privacy were so easily mitigated.
Notice how the USA is the top country in the world for getting ahead. If you want to work hard and become rich, that's your spot. Places with "robust workers rights"? Not-so-much.
If I recall correctly, it was thought early on that if the virus was transmissible via the air, that it was truly airborne, and thus masks that can't filter out virus-sized particles would be ineffective.

It turned out that the virus was transmissible via the air, but it was not airborne, it traveled via much larger respiratory droplets. Ordinary surgical masks were effective at stopping the spread of those droplets.
I think the precise definition of what exactly is physically meaningful is more interesting a bit, because pi is just as 'real' as 1 in some sense. You can't any more precisely measure 1m than pi meters. A perfect square doesn't exist any more or less precisely than a perfect circle.

Basically, the universe can just as well be approximated in two different ways. One, it's all straight lines, and anything that looks like a circle/curve is actually a piece of a veeery many sided polygon if you look closely enough at it. Two, it's all curves of some curvature, and anything that looks like a straight line is actually a segment of a veeery large circle. The first perspective corresponds to taking the rational numbers as physical. The second one corresponds to taking pi as physical (and then it's unclear whether e is also physical, or which other transcendental numbers are, but 1 is definitely un-physical then).

Probably the constructive framework is the best way to express this concept, just starting from whatever constant we chose to define as the unit.
I find the ":) Steve" just disgusting. Someone got terminated and everybody gets a pat on their back. Well done everybody.
So is measles, polio, & chickenpox, but those vaccines have still made a huge difference in general quality of life.
According to AWS, CFN rollout is happening right now.
So good AWS listens to customers:

https://twitter.com/braincode/status/1382940634093219840

Now, the SAM-CLI local developer experience is broken in Rust, those would be my next asks for AWS:

https://github.com/umccr/s3-rust-noodles-bam/blob/s3-server/...
> CDC has been driven by the available science and by the reality of the pandemic

The Trump-appointed CDC directer Redfield exerted a ton of pressure in CDC to hide or manipulate data, overrode career civil servants’ decisions, fired or marginalized CDC scientists for doing their jobs, publicly spouted nonsense on Trump’s behalf including promoting conspiracy theories about China, etc.

People inside CDC were (for better or worse) not willing to stick their necks out to resist. CDC screwed up a ton in the first 6–12 months of the pandemic; 2020 was pretty much the worst year ever for the CDC. Federal agencies are sadly not fully functional without effective good-faith leadership and support from the top.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cd...
https://archive.is/NRH6x
A Title
2.5k price point, ouch.

On a side note... are you on Kickstarter?
Forgot to mention `#hnmain .subtext` is for hiding HN comments.
> In case of Webex, all sessions created in the US appear to be relayed via its infrastructure in US-east. This causes the sessions among users in US-west to be subject to artificial detour, inflating their streaming lag.

Former webexer here. That depends on many criteria, sessions can go through multiple locations depending on where the customer is located, the features being used, the type of customer, etc. Since Webex also does transcoding (useful when a 4k wall system and a cell phone are on a same meeting), that can influence where the traffic flows.

Webex, Zoom and Google also all have their own backbones to reduce the number of hops over the public internet.

In this case the researchers appear to be based in New Jersey so they would be more likely to enter the internal network via the eastern POPs.
Before the launch of the XBOX 360, the company I worked for was one of their suppliers, and without going into enough detail to make me identifiable, the management of our two companies had arrived at sort of a stalemate: We didn't want to tell them exactly how our algorithms worked, and they didn't want to tell us exactly what they were doing with them-- think of it like a data compressor where, we don't want them to know the exact compression algo, and they don't want us to have their data.

So, somehow, It is arrived at that a website will be created that encodes MS's proprietary data, but doesn't store it, but also our algorithm is implemented server side, so there's no leakage of proprietary stuff.

A month later, the app is done and tested and I'm decoding data from the website on real hardware. I move on to the next project.

Three years later, the Xbox 360 is out, I decide I'm tired of filling out reimbursement forms for Heroku and its got to be a security risk with no updates in 3 years... so I take a look at the apps stats to see if its feasible to shut it down--exactly zero users. Nobody ever attempted to use it, not even once.

Ironically and unknown to me, the source code had been lost in a freak accident and when I deleted the Heroku account that was the only copy of the source left.

Even worse, a year later someone claimed to have a use for the app and where was it please? And I had to explain we no longer had the source. I remember a very long e-mail about how irresponsible we were.
> For transit passes

It’s interesting, here in the U.K. you have a legal obligation to present a valid ticket upon demand for any train you travel on. Failure to do so for any reason (including my phone died, or I dropped the ticket) is a criminal offence (and I mean criminal, not civil) punishable by a prison sentence.

Some ticket conductors at the end of a long shift hearing endless excuses about why someone doesn’t have a valid ticket really aren’t interested in negotiating. They’re quite happy to enforce the law, and make your life a living hell in the process.

Personally I much prefer it if the transit pass on my phone keeps working after it dies. The alternative is very… inconvenient.
Nowadays JS is as fast as C++, if not faster.
America Is Having a Violence Wave, Not a Crime Wave
Home Page is not always the same as Landing Page. A Landing Page can be any page with a specific purpose and is driven by Marketing. For example, you have a landing page about a specific feature and you are driving traffic to it from sources that may be interested in that feature. In some cases, the home page is the landing page.
Yes, it's a very interesting question! This how many language models work. You might be interested in reading about a metric called perplexity. [0]

The major caveat is that it's invalid to evaluate on completed, polished work, and then extrapolate to what's practically a napkin note. Another important note about it is that some next token predictions are harder than others. For example, try predicting the next word (the _____) in each of these:

> I really love this Dr Seuss Book called "The Cat in the _____

versus

> I really love this Dr Seuss book called "The Cat in the Hat." _______

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity
Good point. I'd forgotten memory was the only existing toggle (i.e. no variation of x86 CPUs as on EC2, that 'g' or whatever could just be added to).
I'm guessing this article is from 2011, back when Apple fans were just ending their role as being a niche that believed anything.

At this point it is - I think - a pretty common assumption that Apple just puts things together in a decent ecosystem. If Apple devices offers a new frequency range, its because Qualcomm's radio allowed for it, which was dependent on other things further in the stream.

This is an interesting trip down memory lane. Apple still says magical sometimes in their keynotes, but nobody is really mystified only occasionally glad they decided to offer something in that way, since its more about the Apple implementation than the Apple innovation.
>* The problem is the general population does not critically think enough for the sit back and do nothing approach to work in the real world.*

This shows we have fundamentally different views of the world, so I don’t think there much more to this conversation.

I would just say, be careful what esteem you hold other people in, because on more than a few issues your are almost certainly “the general population” to someone else with the power to censor.
My old MacBook Pro's power brick has perceptible inductor whine. It's not screamingly high, but I can hear it when it's near.

Probably my ears' sensitivity, and that little thing's age (~13 years) are both contributing factors.
Honestly I could see this happening in Europe, mainly when such high profiles are involved.
Even with robust workers rights this still happens a lot. If the company wants you out they'll get their way. Employees can always dispute at the employment court, but it's overwhelming so few do so and companies leverage that.
this idea seems interesting at first glance but it's not hard to see that everything would quickly get shoved into an omnibus "laws we wanna keep" bill that then becomes the site of a cyclical shutdown chicken, like budget bills currently
I stand by "the amount of influence that western elites had over Japanese foreign policy in 1931 was very close to zero".

> Other than the fact we currently occupy japan?

We have bases there. We don't currently occupy Japan. There's a difference. The occupation ended in 1952.

But even if we did currently occupy Japan, that started in 1945, and so has absolutely nothing to do with how much influence we had over their foreign policy in 1931.

You apparently are serious, but your arguments make no sense.

Yes, we limited their naval growth with the Washington Treaty. We pushed them into it against their will, because they considered an arms race against the US to be a worse outcome than the treaty. That still doesn't show any evidence that the US elites were dictating that Japan would invade China in 1931.

> All crashes are a result of the elites creating the environment whether money flows out of the markets. Naturally they'd be the first to pull out which causes others to and so forth. What else could it be?

Overleveraged buying of stocks that aren't going up any longer leading to margin calls? What else could it be?

> Who creates the environment of speculative bubbles?

Prosperity creates earnings, which makes stocks look undervalued, which makes people buy them, which makes the stocks go up. When that happens for long enough, people buy them because they've been going up. That makes the stock go up more. When that happens for long enough, people buy stocks with borrowed money, because it's been going up for so long that they expect that it's certain to continue to do so. And that makes the price go up even more, which makes even more people buy it on borrowed money. Eventually, the price stops rising because the banks won't lend any more, and then people start selling, and it collapses in a panic.

At what point do you think the elites are making that happen? More, were deliberately making that happen?

I don't agree with your starting point, which is that the elites currently control things to the degree that you think they do. I agree that they set it up; I disagree that they still have the level of control that your ideas imply.
Source on Facebook refusing to participate? It's one of the few bits of info that makes me like Facebook as a company.
I know that their was a (laughable) settlement for the employees whose wages were depressed because of this, but I wonder if the fired recruiters had a case as well.
I'm immediately skeptical of anyone I meet in the tech industry who doesn't think Steve Jobs was an absolute raging asshole. Yes, he accomplished some interesting product shipments. But the number of direct first person anecdotes of him being a complete dick to people is too great to ignore.

I'm writing this from a Macbook Air. One of the reasons why I use MacOS is because it's based on the NeXT heritage. There was some amazing stuff there. But Steve was just not a nice person.
Is there an app that does this? I put for a YouTube subscription and I don’t want to see the recommendations. I just want to watch the videos on the topics I am searching.

The recommendations are there to distract you and I always regret clicking on them.
Don't worry, that problem will solve itself with time. Just let the lowpass in your ears grow a bit. ;)

I will say I have been very impressed with Anker's GaN power bricks of late.
Slightly frustrated to read this, because this is user research 101! It's really impressive when someone independently discovers practices from an outside discipline, just by observation and inference. However, somebody could have saved this poor guy a lot of frustration by not forcing him to develop a product design methodology from first principles.
> I have very acute high-frequency hearing...

Doesn't take "acute," just takes "not destroyed."

I've, at various points in my career, grumbled about various things whining audibly (one particular motion light sensor was defective and right outside my office for a while). The trick to getting other people to believe you ("I can't hear anything... are you sure?") is to wait for a bring-your-kids-to-work day. And ask if they can hear it.

Or, perhaps, if it's bad enough, you don't even have to do that, because the kids will ask what that horrid whining noise is. We did eventually get it fixed after that, but I was quite literally the only one in the hall who could hear it.

On the topic of power supplies, though - Apple has done some impressive work in their small power supplies. The Chinesium clones are similarly sized, they just skip literally every safety feature intended to keep mains voltage out of your USB cord...
iOS Device Aspect Ratio
Yeah... It was rather unimpressive. I think it ended up being about a week or two of pay. So inconsequential that I don't recall.
The difference is there aren't enough of them to bring our healthcare system to it's knees. Hospitals in many states are having to ration care, and triage patients right now. Before the pandemic, this only happened in rare emergencies (terrorist attacks, mass shootings)
For what its worth, companies probably DO look into this, but people who are bidding on the "leather belt" keyword are outpaying those companies in adjacent products.

At the end of the day, advertising space is auction based and if the belt companies want to bid the highest for that space, they win.
This is so off-topic, but no one ever believes me when I'm complaining about a wall adapter across the room driving me mad. Glad to know I'm really not imagining things hah!
Is using Baymax to advertise your product, even if open source and non profit allowed by Disney ?

You might want to remove that picture before they come knocking
China's EMP Missile
> On the topic of power supplies, though - Apple has done some impressive work in their small power supplies.

And a nice teardown is done here, by the same guy: http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr...

> Doesn't take "acute," just takes "not destroyed."

It depends. Played in an orchestra, and I've found out that hearing is very different from person to person. Seen people with hearing lower than 20Hz band, or people who can hear a wrong note in a symphony orchestra recording, or people who can perfectly tune their instruments by ear... The list goes on and on.

Our ears' equalizers are not always flat and equal. We can damage them yes, but not everyone starts from the same point.
I never understood it either. It's usually the wrong, honest, helpful employees that get fired first.

I'm not a loyal employee. I do most jobs just good enough to get by, and alway looking for a angle to extract more money out of an organization. (It was easier before being surveiled with cams). I always like a few coworkers, and we become friends, but despised the corporation, and everyone in charge.

But I'm never fired.

I'm usually shocked over the person they fire.
I think you may be getting downvoted because your response doesn’t relate to the example I gave, where the politician made an explicit statement in contradiction of their own health order.
"We need net zero by 2050" is completely arbitrary.

New gas plants ARE helpful for cutting emissions if you compare it to the most likely alternative (eg coal).

It's only NOT helpful if you compare it to utopia. If you could reliably assume that there will be net zero otherwise, then you wouldn't need to worry about these gas plants would you? They'd be shuttered soon anyway.

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