skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The details don't support that assessment.

Chain of events:

1) The CLA library requested by the foundation was reported broken by an admin one of the member project repos. That member project repo had refused to turn over control of said repo to the foundation specifically because of the perceived overreach in authority stemming from the code of conduct policy of said foundation.

2) The exec director, or someone on the foundation's staff, told the person reporting the issue with the CLA library that the solution was to make the foundation account an admin on their repo.

3) When the foundation is made an admin on said repo, the repo is silently transferred to the foundation's account in the middle of the night with no warnings.

4) Then, exec director force-merges a pull in another repo, of the same CLA library.

This is all a very useful glimpse into how corporations will use their diversity hires to get rid of people who refuse to give the corporation what it wants without any compensation or resistance.
The difference is that one system is consistent with repeated observation, so the "faith" in "atheism" (or agnosticism) is a little more grounded in reality. You also don't have to deal with the contradictions within and among faiths which detracts from their credibility.
I've thought about this too. Here's how my (admittedly half-baked) idea might work:

1. All apps are reviewed and hosted by Apple.

2. Third party app stores act as a layer on top. They pay a commission to Apple on sales (lets say 5-8%) to cover their review and hosting costs plus provide some profit.

3. The app stores set (and compete with) their own prices and services on top of that.

4. Apple maintains its own App store as well.

Here are the key bits:

A. Apple must review Apps for security and privacy issues. They can choose not to sell it in their store if they find it morally objectionable but they cannot restrict other App stores in what they sell (assuming its legal, and passes security/privacy checks).

B. Third party stores can sell whatever they want from the list of apps having been security reviewed by Apple. You'd end up with some cool niche app stores (imagine one with impartial game reviews, or one that only lists non-subscription apps, or one that serves [insert your favorite niche here]).

Benefits:

1. For users who like Apple's current model, nothing changes. However, they benefit from increased competition and (likely) better pricing.

2. Apple cannot block apps from being available in third party stores just because it doesn't like them, but it doesn't have to sell apps on its own store that it doesn't want to. Win/win.

Unanswered questions:

1. Who will handle refunds/complaints/etc? A: I'm not sure, I'd have to give that more thought.

2. How would the fees work exactly? A: Again, I'm not sure... it might require a fee per app review instead of the current model. (Otherwise Apple would be flooded with Apps to review that have no intention of appearing on Apple's store).

In summary: The security threat model is unchanged, users enjoy better selection of Apps and better pricing (and other innovative features) from stores.

Yes, it's a half baked idea but there could be the basis for a really good compromise in this sort of arrangement. One that ultimately benefits consumers first.
I subscribe to a bunch of newsletters that have distribution lists of much, much more than 30K.

What definition of "spammer" are you using?
How to combat radio-frequency cyberattacks
The main argument for the decision against sideloading (which they allow on macOS) is on p.6, where the idea is that your iPhone contains more sensitive and personal informations than your computer.

The "fate of the PC" thing is funny because one might think that they're just throwing a jab at themselves, but they've campaigned very effectively for their customers to think that the Mac is not in the same category.
Ask HN: Simple Terraform like tool for customer configs?
I work for a company that has a few large accounts say 20 and each of these have settings that are kept in a db.

These settings are only updated a few times a year or when we add a new account. We currently use a script to update the settings but feels like this is the wrong approach. I'd much prefer a declarative model. We use terraform to manage our infrastructure and something like that would be ideal but it looks like writing a custom provider is a fair amount of work, or at least more than I was hoping for.

Anyone have any suggestions on a better approach?
I really appreciate this.

I just started an 8 week sabbatical after 16ish years in startups. Also self-taught I’ve had a copy of SICP on my shelf that I’ve been meaning to get to.

With a parent who has a PhD in RF engineering I’ve always wondered how it would have turned out if I’d gone the academic route instead of dropping out of high school to chase being a founder.
This is absolutely false. Trump spoke about experimental covid therapeutics that involve shining UV lights inside patients' bodies, and these therapeutics are still purportedly under development and showing promising results to this very day.

"The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Therapy, were based on five days of 20-minute treatments with ultraviolet A (UVA) light using a catheter inserted into the patients' tracheas."

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/reduced-viral-loads-se...

You have been proven totally wrong. Now, does your media-driven hatred of Trump trump your ability to admit you were wrong, and you've updated your beliefs, and you're ready to move on more educated than you were before you read this comment? If not, you lack the basics to make you able to engage with scientific thought.
AmazonBasics is the predominant brand they use. But they definitely have some sneaky ones as well

https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17728530011
Crony capitalism. Capitalism is in the name, but that's not what it is at all.
Meanwhile I can't even upgrade from Windows 10 20H2, which I dual boot with Arch Linux, to 21H1. I get a useless and unhelpful error message and then the update rolls itself back.

Microsoft have been seriously failing on the Windows Update front for decades.
I expect inflation to remain high for a while, and I think concerns about it (if not for self-fulfilling psychological, which are very real and significant) are overblown. I think this stimulus, and the resulting inflation, DID help the economy, relative to the alternatives. The critical thing was to avoid structural damage:

- Businesses going under

- People losing jobs

- Mortgages going under

... and so on. All of this DOES directly impact the productive output of the economy.

Inflation does distort the economy a little bit. It makes some of us poorer (those with cash), some of us richer (those with debt), and leaves some neutral (this with hard assets). But I think this distortion pales relative to the alternative.
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." - Oppenheimer
The media is never completely silent about anything, but for many, many, many months it was very difficult to get any information at all about natural immunity from the media. I recall Googling around about it because everyone was talking about vaccination numbers and progress, but for the better part of a year, no one was talking about how many people had natural immunity much less how effective it is. Even if you're inclined to argue, "but what if no one knew the answers to those questions?"--first of all, it's unlikely that epidemiologists and virologists had no estimates at all, and even if they did, that itself would be newsworthy. Moreover, it's the media's job to dig up these answers.
When it comes to OSes, I want them to stop screwing with it.

No one uses a computer to stare at OS UI design. No one cares about your new taskbar.

I want to start Windows up, launch my applications and not crash.

Give me security and performance fixes without messes with what works
Thanks for the link, I'll definitely check it out! What actually piqued my interest was the surface impression of something like a Lispier Perl/Python.
Don't know about the value of the product but they regularly sponsor the excellent (though increasingly poorly named) 'Two Minute Papers' YouTube channel.
You aren't a dog person, understandable.

The bond can get very strong, and pairing that effect with a dog's unique ability to read human intent and emotion can lead to a very strong relationship.

You're generalizing very strongly here. Many large dog breeds are LGDs, which are generally non-aggressive, to say the least. The most common dog injuries are from Pitbulls and Rottweilers, which have unique temperaments and aren't particularly large.

I live in a poor suburban area. My large dog is an active deterrent to would-be criminals, and she's very gentle and lazy. Based on your verbiage, I'd assume you'd prefer I have a special license to own her?
A very good book “Learned Optimism” talked about this phenomenon.

Pessimists would guess the score they got on a test and be pretty spot on, optimists would guess they did better than they did, yet the scores of the optimist on average were higher than that of the pessimist.
> You and I must have a significantly divergent of what a positive relationship looks like.

I guess. I've never had reason not to be open about these issues and it's never disrupted trust in the relationship. I've discussed these ideas with every partner I've ever had. They weren't offended, they understood. Many even had their own stories of unplanned pregnancies to share.

My girlfriend lets me give her the trimestral birth control injections.
When diamond semiconductors get to sufficient transistor counts, I wish for an 80GHz 6502 demonstration device.
Thanks for the reply! For me, it's a preference, like tucked vs untucked. Intel has things outside of the realm of performance that turned me off, so my last few builds have been AMD and I'm generally satisfied.

To your credit, I am typing this from an Intel device that is not my own, and it is performant as you mentioned.
Thank you. :)

If you do try it out, I'd be happy for any feedback on Freja! :)

I should mention that Windows support is currently a bit behind, so if you're on Windows I could fix that then comment here again when it's done. :)
Thanks for data! I was lazy and throwing out guesses. Looks like working age groups (18 up to 65) were ~165k people which might have had an impact on job opportunities.
They already replicated the S3 API as an alternative to the Google Cloud Storage API: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/migrating#migration-si...
Yea I have heard that argument, and I kind of buy it, but to a certain degree it still surprises me that different kinds of inflations can stay compartmentalized for so long.

For example I benefited handsomely from the asset inflation in the stock market, and used some of my proceeds for consumer spending. My relatives benefited from inflated housing prices, sold their house and are now living it up in their retirement.

Why doesn't more 'leakage' like this take place over a decade?
I just went back and watched the clip on YouTube again, so, no. No.
Hmm. Interesting.

I always assumed that these sorts of machines wouldn't be cost efficient and that it would be more economical to produce suicide bomber rc cars and flying bomber drones (both already in use IIRC)

I'm also unsure of why they gave this actual legs instead of tank treads (cost efficiency again and also less points of failure and less complex machinery)
Personally I stopped this because I became obsessed with performance, depressed, isolated and massively rotting because most of the population couldn't care less about your performance (they'll get jealous, or maybe over idolize you.. it's never what I want anyway).

I'm in Dude (of The Big Lebowsky) mode nowadays.
I mean....yes this is despicable behavior, but did anyone really expect otherwise? Why would you sell your product on a website which can be your competitor, granting it access to all of your sales metrics and customers? I most definitely don't want to 'blame the victim' here, but any third-party sellers on Amazon should understand the fundamental irrationality and danger of their decision to do so
I hate to chuckle, but you should start mentally adjusting to the fact that the rule of law is at best a selectively enforced thing at this point. I suspect that these many instances of fraud may even be used as leverage against people whenever it may be needed. I say that because I know that kind of thing is done and I would do exactly that if it ever came up. Anyone who has fraudulently taken any of those "loans" is not totally compromised to run or not to run for office or to hold certain positions or say certain things.
Yes, but it is immature enough that it isn't recommended for low latency audio yet.
In Python you can use tqdm for this:

python -c 'import tqdm; i=[j for j in tqdm.trange(int(1e8))]'
> don't all big supermarkets do this nowadays?

That makes the problem worse, not better.
I see where you're coming from, and I can see that being true, but that has a steep price that I personally am not willing to pay. Objective truth matters to me a lot, and if I'm a bit more of a downer because of it, so be it. Just my 2¢, but I'd be very interested in how many other people here feel the same way.
I think there are a lot of major developments in the last 20 years, although I'm not active in the field. Symbiflow is largely a distribution of yosys, a bunch of other IceStorm projects, and nextpnr (is that part of IceStorm?), in the same sense that Debian is a distribution of Linux. Another one, but I think limited to Lattice FPGAs, is https://github.com/FPGAwars/apio.

I think the biggest development, though, is that there's enormously more off-the-shelf Verilog and VHDL, not just on OpenCores like 20 years ago, but also on GitLab, GitHub, and so on. Easy examples are CPUs like James Beckman's J1A, the VexRiscv design used in Bunnie's Precursor: https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexRiscv (as little as 504 Artix-7 LUTs and 505 flip-flops), and Google's OpenTitan.

But from my POV the more interesting reason for using an FPGA is for things that aren't CPUs. For example, the SUMP logic analyzer and its progeny OLS https://sigrok.org/wiki/Openbench_Logic_Sniffer (32 channels at 200MHz), although I think both of these require the proprietary vendor tools to synthesize. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that reliably buffering up data at 6.4 gigabits per second is not a thing that any CPU can do, even one that isn't a softcore; CPUs that run at speeds high enough to potentially do it invariably depend on cache hierarchies that monkeywrench your timing predictability.

As I said, though, I'm not active in the field, so all I know is hearsay.
When I was using apt based distros, Debian, Ubuntu, apt and dpkg would break all the time as soon as you went a little bit out of the canonical usage. In contrast I have yet to see Arch's pacman fail anywhere, even when used in non-ArchLinux places such as MSYS2
If they made it in Dota that would be bad. All chat is usually to convince the other team to keep pausing when your teammates disconnected. It's not really toxic, it's team chat that's toxic.

In fact, I've had games won by the enemy flaming his teammates in all chat, which made my team realize it's just as bad on the other side. Getting pissed by the enemy is usually more motivating to win than getting pissed by your teammates.
@nuerow cited nytimes[0] on the 95% estimate in another comment[1]. for the purposes of my argument, the precise number isn’t important, just that it equates to “most”.

and incidentally, that’s the shape of most arguments on most things, because we’re embedded in unbounded uncertainty. the most precision we can have about most things is ‘a little’, ‘some’, ‘a bunch’, ‘most’, etc., not something like 54.736%, despite how enticing precision like that can be. it’s mostly engineering where precision like that is practical, available, and useful.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28848408
I agree and your observation is also true. The short memory is a symptom of the system.

The downvotes you're getting are illustrative the glass houses of the management of the tech biz, lol.
>But the mass of street lights now make a straight shot through the intersections about a 5-10 minute process to go maybe a quarter mile.

I'm sure all sorts of wonderful pedestrian friendly moves get pulled by people trying to get ahead in that game.
Microsoft has plenty of problems, but I don't think anyone can seriously suggest they are bad at building things to last. They shoulder backwards compatibility to a degree that almost no other company would even consider.
Seriously. I’m working in a school. We have lots of computers from 2012. Maybe they will finally be replaced by 2025 (I kind of doubt it), but we’ll still have lots of machines from 2014/2015.
I talked about this a little bit yesterday, but I live in an area with a lot of traffic fatalities and it seems to me to be, at least in part, an economic issue.

I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods on the outskirts of my US city. There are a few major roads headed toward the more affluent neighborhoods and downtown. What I see when I run along/across or drive along those roads is mostly through-traffic. There aren't a lot of "shops" in my neighborhood, but one or two strip-malls and a few gas-stations and fast-food "restaurants".

Anecdata: In my experience, the areas with less through-traffic (and thus high-danger traffic) are areas with destinations, whether they're shops for goods and/or services or restaurants (that don't involve cars). The reason I think it's economic is because it's not just about the customers/consumers visiting these areas, but the workers. I'd bet that a not-insignificant number of workers in my neighborhood drive to another neighborhood for work, but the inverse is probably not true (that a lot of folks from other neighborhoods drive here for work).

I think part of the solution is to make communities smaller and more friendly to their inhabitants. There should be opportunities for work in these poorer neighborhoods, and that means the services to support them.

It doesn't matter what number is on the speed limit sign on these major roads, people will drive 50 anyway (I have been passed in the turn lane several times because I drive the speed limit on a 2-lane (one each direction) + turn-lane road).
I actually really don't get why anyone would buy anything from Amazon unless they have no other choice. Their site is really the worst.
This wouldn't work; Apple's entire argument is that their standards for application review are "baseline", so to speak; they're not overbearing, and are minimally necessary for a store to have high security.

(We all know this isn't true, but this is their argument).

So, they allow alternate storefronts. Assumedly, these storefronts are allowed to enforce different rules, right?

Are the storefronts allowed to distribute porn? This literally came up in the Epic v Apple case, when Apple argued that Epic's distribution of the Itch.io game store was tantamount to Epic's implicit approval of everything Itch.io distributed, including some pretty graphic pornography. Epic argued that this wasn't the case, and they only approved of Itch.io's governance process, not all of the content.

In other words, Apple has already argued in court that there's a transitive nature to approved policies of stores-within-stores. I agree with Apple on this one! A situation with Apple approving stores-within-stores would only lead to one of two outcomes: Either these stores have to abide by the same policies the app store enforces, so there's no buff to user/developer freedom but a big debuff to user UX, or, they're allowed to make their own policies, in which case Apple is transitively forced to distribute porn (and violent content, and third party payment processors, and video game streaming services, and everything else in the area between "legal" and "Apple refuses to distribute" today).

This doesn't seem fair either, does it? To some degree, to me, it feels like forcing Disney to produce NC-17 gorey horror movies.

But, the situation is not identical, because Disney is not the only producer of movies for half of the US population. The better solution is not to force this through the App Store, and instead force what Android does; distribution over the internet (of either individual applications or entire stores, both should be allowed).

This is fundamentally less secure, but its also how every other general purpose computing platform works. Apple shouldn't be forced to carry and distribute any and all kinds of applications, but iOS itself should be open to run any and all kinds of applications. Let the open internet handle the distribution.
I think any effort to demonstrate the viability of planned economies based on past non-democratic planned economies is doomed to fail as people won't easily accept a dictatorship.

Any future implementation will need to trade with the non planned world (as trade is the best deterrent from being attacked by other democracies) and it needs to be democratic both in the workplace and in governance of the state.
Leonard Tramiel once told me that the "world's record" for a production 6502 was around 25Mhz before the smoke came out. This was in a lab at Commodore, and beer was probably involved (and may have been used to cool the chip).
On each annual report page, at the bottom of the Temperature section, just before the "Compare X to another city" section there's a paragraph that for NYC reads: "Gedzhukh, Russia (5,672 miles away) and Yatsuomachi-higashikumisaka, Japan (6,752 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to New York City (view comparison)." - it's a little hard to find, but there's a lot of info competing for attention, not to mention the ads :-/

https://weatherspark.com/y/23912/Average-Weather-in-New-York... is the closest to a direct link
A Microsoft employee speaking at a Microsoft event is going to be considered an official Microsoft representative. Seems like false advertising that Microsoft didn’t correct the record before it was convenient for them to do so and after a bunch of people had paid for Windows 10 Pro.
Seriously. Same thing here. I wasn't realistic: I was in a downward spiral of negative feedback and thought errors. WTF are these authors talking about?
The scientific method cannot be separated from the humans that practice it. It doesn't have some separate existence as a platonic ideal.

Ideas like these must be judged based on their actual real world performance, and not on the lofty promises of the ideologues that promote the ideas.

Luckily science doesn't require perfectly rational practitioners. It still works even if practiced human beings.
The article said mildly depressed people could have a more accurate view of reality, not majorly depressed people. Quite different. A mildly depressed person doesn't have a completely warped view of reality like a majorly depressed person does.
PhDs in general may have a very minor elevation in status compared to other social groups. There are many, many PhDs, many of them working shitty jobs outside their fields. Think outside STEM, wherein generations of poor saps were sold on the professorial life when entering their PhD program but now have their Gender Studies or Literature PhD proudly on their shared apartment wall while they drive bus for the city of Columbus.
No reason to see it like this, it's not helpful and I'd argue is probably just wrong.

I get depressed (I take SSRIs, too) because we live in 2021 and I see people taking advantage of each other on a daily basis, killing each other over things that don't matter. I have a front row seat to watching some of the world's greatest minds argue over semantics. That's the real world. That's realistic.

Whether you take that to nihilism is something else. I know the pit of despair depression you are talking about but it is a spectrum.