skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that Apple in April rolled out privacy prompts[1] that Facebook complained about (and tried to persuade public opinion with a full-page ad in December 2020) ... and yet it didn't seem to slow down Facebook's numbers by much:

2021-09 $28.2b revenue, $9.1b income +17%
2020-09 $21.2b revenue, $7.8b income

Possibilities:

- ads shown to iPhone FB users smaller piece of revenue pie than Android FB users

- advertisers keep spending the same amount (or more) even though they have less info because of less tracking of Apple users to correlate with dollars spent

People keep saying FB is in trouble but it doesn't matter if it's the leaked research about emotional manipulation, or the Cambridge Analytica scandal, or extra Apple privacy features. The revenue keeps coming in and growing. Who thinks all of today's press about the recent whistleblowers will have any effect on next year's numbers?

[1] 96% of iOS users opt out of app tracking: https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+apple+opt-in+privac...
If they figure out self driving, they'll displace car rental companies anyway by being the next Uber.
Growing and transporting tomatoes in Africa is a whole diff ball game than in other parts of the world. Farming is just a tiny slice of Ag. Supply chain is the biggest team player.

Also: processing tomatoes and tomatoes eaten out of the hand are two diff markets. Everything from genetics to harvest to inputs is different.
So no made in USA products either ? The US regularly uses prisoners as a cheap labor force and it’s not like they have much choice in the matter.
They are explicitly picking and choosing which speech they believe should be free - and it's not just selecting cases, but actively militating against some speech.

EDIT: Not just speech, but also other basic rights they have stood for, such as legal representation and rights of the accused.
Yes, I am oversimplifying. It is not a model. Even if the two courses of action are not independent it is highly unlikely that success in one requires not investing in the other.

The premise of the argument that we must focus on the earth instead of space exploration is fundamentally flawed because it assumes that the two are mutually exclusive.
The metric that matters. All is well there.
The short description of PCILeech: [1]

> PCILeech is capable of inserting a wide range of kernel
> implants into the targeted kernels - allowing for easy
> access to live ram and the file system via a "mounted
> drive". It is also possible to remove the logon password
> requirement, loading unsigned drivers, executing code and
> spawn system shells. PCIleech runs on Windows and Linux

[1] https://github.com/ufrisk/pcileech

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You Want Tor Browser – – – Not a VPN
Betting that the next incremental update will be named macOS Carmel.
He's an old-school internet freedom activist.

Judging from what's happened with many similar activists, I'm guessing a hard-line anti-censorship mindset isn't compatible with today's social/political landscape in which rampant misinformation on the internet has direct effects on meatspace.

Of course, this is purely conjecture. It could be completely unrelated.
Completely agree. Just saying that there are people out there who are pricing in some huge factor based on assumed blockbuster successful rollout of FSD and/or Robotaxi.
Several other board members are high profile people with regular social media usage. It'll be interesting to see what they have to say about this.
Something is not an opinion just because you don't believe it.
Further discussion (on Facebook's official press release)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992500
Sharing an unpopular opinion on certain topics often leads to immediate downvoting of completely unrelated posts made earlier.

"You said something I don't like. Let me just click on your profile and downvote everything I can". Happens surprisingly often
this has been true of USB basically since its 1.0 release. I have micro and mini usb cables, some can charge phones and some cannot. Some can charge my ps3 controllers and some cannot. I bought a usb-a male to usb-a male at some point. Never got it working with anything.

Sounds like you have a problem with USB and are just noticing it now with usb-c.
That text in parenthesis is completely irrelevant to the rest of the sentence and feels cheap. It's clearly trying to convey "they advocate for transparency but aren't even transparent themselves", which is missing the point. I read it as a form of manipulation to instill particular feeling towards EFF in the reader.
You have your dates transposed.
You make it seem that the share price of Tesla is determined by rational decisions. If this is the case, it can't be shaken by "stock price is too high imo" tweets by the boss. He launched a rocket on June 1st 2020, and Tesla stock price went up.

Tesla has such a high stock price because of an army of Musk fans believing in him. The company nearly went bankrupt multiple times. The cars are garbage quality. But Musk is awesome at selling dreams.
There's a fundamental incompatibility between ownership-based capitalist markets (and their orderly political state association) and free and open source software owned by "the community".

I believe the trend we are now on would lead us to a kind world in which even natural language has a concrete political entity (like a corporation or government) owning it in such a way that they'll pursue unauthorized speakers. For some it might seem far-fetched that natural language could ever be owned like this; hopefully they're right and this end won't ever be possible; just because it's a trend towards that does not mean we'll ever get to such an extreme.
>Knowing that the PRC tends to take the long view,

They do, and that's the problem. The shot clock is ticking down quickly: fertility rate in PRC just hit 1.3 births per woman. Total population is projected to halve by the end of the century. The current cohort of military-age males is shrinking, and there won't be another one to replace it. The PLA will never be stronger than it is today.

If Xi wants to take Taiwan, he has to do it now, because he's not going to get another chance. PRC manufacturing output is cratering due to power shortages and the global shipping and semiconductor convulsion, so the economy is going to get clobbered anyway. They're already doing recon flights through the ADIZ and running freedom of navigation naval patrols. If there's going to be a Taiwan annexation, it'll happen in the next 12 months.

The US Navy is hapless and the Taiwanese army is supine. Evergrande is collapsing and there's already a wide array of tariffs and sanctions against PRC leadership. They accidentally caused a global pandemic and shrugged off any political ramifications. They've already taken half a dozen hits this year and survived. Why not take another?
I am one of the rare people for which tomatoes taste like poison.
While I don't know anything about the board's decision, I think someone who is anti-censorship would be out of favor with a Silicon Valley world that increasingly believes in censoring anything someone (in power) considers "misinformation." This is a big, big change from the early days of the Internet when people believed in free flowing information.

John's attitude is so old school. Shaping the attitude of the populace through selective amplification is now.
It's also worth giving your platform's character map a try if you haven't already. All the major desktop environments have one -- KDE, Gnome, Windows, macOS. Sometimes searching online is still faster, sometimes the character map app is faster.
True, just thought it might give some insight into recent pain points, Gilmore's email at the eff is gnu after all :)
> It's why the police always lobby for regulations or bans instead of fighting tech against tech.

Sure, let's go that route. One issue in suppression of human protests is that humans have rights. Robots do not. If your drone is blocking traffic, it can be impounded, and quite likely destroyed in the process. A few yards of netting and a garbage truck would make quick work of a few million dollars worth of protest-drones.
My favorite experiment in that vain is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment - using loudspeakers to cause Doppler to compensate for redshift. 1959 - 22m, 2021 - 1 mm, a Moore's law for such measurements seems to be "doubling precision about each 4 years".
Didn't know it was gone now, had worked there some 7 years ago or so at this point. Fond memories of being taught how to make aluminum animals and genitals. In its defense though (I'd moved around the country working low-level jobs like this), Portland as a whole seemed to have a very human hospitality culture, much unlike everywhere else I'd worked. When I was there, a lot of places used mandatory gratuity to front healthcare for its workers, which was unheard of in the big cities IME.
Many of them have more resources. Hedge funds have been using satellite photography to estimate Tesla's production numbers for years. The price is expected to move if even a few participants have the new information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20243810

Honestly I'm a little dumbfounded that people are arguing this is definitely a rational move in the price while we've got phenomena like GameStop still happening.
Wouldn't that kind of data be massive? Any idea on what kind of infrastructure they use?
With the Compose Key, which is a feature of all linux distributions:

compose + a + e = æ

compose + o + / = ø

compose + a + o = å

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

Something I find absolutely criminal is that this hasn't taken off in a broader sense, and that most users memorize the unicode terms for characters like ©, rather than just typing a simple, eminently memorable sequence like (compose + o + c)
A fucking a notch!!!
https://www.statista.com/statistics/470829/us-car-rental-ave...

Pre-Pandemic Hertz had a fleet of ~500K cars.
So 100K represents ~20% of their fleet.

Tesla cars keep their resale value (https://insideevs.com/news/490348/tesla-model-3-resale-value...) so Hertz should be able to sell them wholesale back to Tesla, Carvana, etc.

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/07/13/surprising...
Do you worry you might get in trouble if a technician sees some strange device attached to your meter? I know you're not actually doing anything wrong, but I feel like it could be awkward trying to explain that to some angry representative of the utility company.
>First time I flew into Amsterdam it was dusk and I was mesmerized by the seemingly endless fields of greenhouses growing weed. Only years later (after telling everyone about it) did I learn they were actually growing produce :D

Lol - yeah the production of cannabis is not yet legalised in The Netherlands.

This is a great article on the Dutch greenhouse industry (unfortunately behind paywall): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...

>Dutch tomatoes have a reputation for being bland ("water bombs"), is making more flavourfull ones just product focus? Like picking the right varietal, picking them at the right time, delivering quickly, etc?

I've heard this before too. Maybe this was a thing at one point in history but it's not true any more. If you go into a supermarket today in Europe then all the tomatoes on offer will have been grown in greenhouses. The low-end stuff will have been grown in Spanish/Moroccan low-tech greenhouses (plastic tunnels). The higher-end stuff will have been grown in Dutch glasshouses.
One especially interesting tidbit, the variable refresh rate displays in the new MacBook Pros use Freesync, and macOS 12 adds support for Freesync to a lot of Macs and compatible monitors.
been using since first public betas months ago. hated this for a couple weeks, but then once I realized it how it unified everything in one place, now I love it. It took a while for me to adjust to though.
Getafe vs. Celta Vigo – Goals and Highlights
When I got the first phone I saw it as the way forward for a phone UI, and I loved the iPod app. But the thing was mostly a tech demo. It was far less useful than every other smart phone on the market at the time. Slow Internet, bare bones maps, no MMS. Way too slow of a CPU for what it was trying to do.

All worked out fairly quickly once the 3GS came around.
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81074012
That's true. But to echo the underlying theme of the original blog post, it is difficult to ensure that a large team of developers (of varying skill levels) maintains a consistent approach to this. Different developers likely have different opinions of where that "simple" threshold is that warrants factoring out the business logic. And, when the push of a deadline comes to shove, it is tempting to just throw all the shit in the component with the promise that we'll refactor it at a later date.

More fundamentally, I feel like putting business logic hooks in a component (even simple ones) sacrifices the cleanliness of components as simple stream transformers: input some scalar props, output some HTML. As soon as you start calling hooks within a function component, it's no longer purely functional. You have side effects. And those side effects result in a component that's trickier to debug and trickier to test.
How Keyboards work explanation in 30 seconds
As a teenager in 2005/ 2006, had an obsession with overclocking AMD Opteron 165's. DFI motherboards allowed you to set the ratios for FSB/HTT, LDT/FSB, CPU/FSB, etc.

I'd hunt like crazy for specific OCZ DDR2 RAM modules from specific batches that had the tolerances I was looking for. At a few points, had the highest perf overclocks (even among liquid cooling - mine was passive with a polished heatsink) on various leaderboards and my 4GB DDR2 system frequently could beat out 8GB DDR3 systems (with full stability via MemTest x86) on GeekBench like tests.

WRT Apple Silicon I think about those days a lot - just thinking about the perf AMD, OCZ, and DFI could have repeatedly squeezed out if they all were one company setting the same tolerances on all silicon and power delivery.

I have to imagine a large amount of the perf wins come from having consistent FSB, HTT, and LDT channels that can have the channel relay ratios optimally configured instead of buffering up the "lowest common denominator" silicon manufacturing tolerances.
A bankrupt company Hertz has expressed intent to buy 100,000 Teslas to hype already hyped investors into bringing some fresh money into this venture.
Currently, you need just a "cool" intent, preferably with some buzz words (crypto, "green", space..etc) and you are golden.
This kind of thing happens all the time though. The most salient instances being when states enact abortion restrictions that are known to be unconstitutional and were historically subject to injunctions and ruled against.

There isn't a mechanism to stop unconstitutional laws from being passed or left on the books.
Can you please be specific about what the EFF is doing that you find objectionable? Especially if you can relate it to the article (as opposed to something generic), that would be great.
While they may now be more often on one side of the political divide, they have not completely stopped defending freedom of speech regardless of political message:
https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/aclu-backs-n-j-woman...

Of course, this is just one case. But it at least shows they're not opposed to defending those they may otherwise disagree with.
Elite cyclists can only hit 2.5kW for a few seconds. Sustained output for about 20 minutes will only be in the 0.4kW range, and regular people can't even do half of that.
12 tone equal temperament is all wrong, but never by much, and it is very convenient, so almost everyone uses it.
This is about CSS.
Apple Likely to Face DOJ Antitrust Suit
Insane right? This is behemoth, they would need a near calamity to stop printing money.
'But Sir, It’s an American Ship.' 'Never Mind, Hit Her!'
> antepenultimate

And I thought knowing what penultimate meant was fun. For those that don't know, penultimate means second to last and antepenultimate means third to last.
> I'm not bearish on Tesla or Musk, but this doesn't make sense to me. You can't monopolize these markets.

TSLA does have a significant moat in the Supercharger network. No other system comes close to what they've built there, and while an alternate system can certainly be built, it's going to take years.
I can attest Product Managers were the downfall of one startup I worked at. The company had dozens of millions in funding and managed to piss it all away with ill-founded escapades driven by a handful of Product Managers. If anything, the Product Managers seemed to be managing their careers, not the product. They babied engineers until most of the engineers stopped caring about the product and just gave up working hard at all. All the brilliant ideas were trite insights you could read on two year old Gartner reports -- "release a cloud version".

CEO and CTO beware, do not let Product Managers happen to your company.
Tesla surpasses $1T market value
Hmm, you have to pay to become a member, and additionally pay for each song you listen (if you exceed the "new user" credits).

Can you sign up as a listener and an artist? I tried but it says "This username is already registered" and "This email address is already registered".
FB is the least likely to be hurt by Apple's move since they have their own massive number of users across multiple properties and lots of tracking on the web. If anything they might benefit by smaller players that have less access getting hurt more by Apple.

I'm not personally a fan of FB (mostly due to the ad based business model), but today's negative press will have zero affect on them - mostly because (imo) it's bullshit. A lot of the issues FB deals with are social problems at scale. It's insane that any one company is expected to successfully moderate three billion people, they're doing the best they can with impossible constraints.

If anything unseats them it'll be a technical shift that moves things to protocols 'web3'. Zuckerberg is an extremely good CEO though so I suspect he's already planning for this potential and FB's upcoming name change and structure is probably a way to accommodate this (in addition to having Oculus be a more separate entity for VR/AR and the next platform).
> life for the vaccinated would “be about the maintenance of your vaccination status”

Raison d'être
Take everything we know from plant sciences as a starting point and then generate additional data through actually growing the crop and measuring impulse/response with sensors.
You're missing the point by taking a societal/social stance. The angle of the original mantra is personal, stoic, and frames an internal locus of control. As an individual, I can't always control what you do or the situation I'm in, but I can influence my own reactions, and dig deep to change+grow.
I would argue that the "new contributions to greenhouse emissions" are not substantial, but rather insignificant enough to simply not discuss them. A current SpaceX launch has the fuel consumption and GEG emissions equivalent to a single airliner flying across the Atlantic - but space launches are rare events, but such airliners fly hundreds of times each day.

A 1% change in overseas vacation habits has a much larger impact than this hypothetical space program.
May I ask since gravity obeys curvature like light, why do we see gravity from black holes, when it is the curvature that stops us seeing light?

Maybe the gravity emanates from outside the event horizon, but then why would it pull us inside?

Thanks
Banning anonymity by law is bad, but it is a valid choice for platforms. Some people like to go to Disney World, some like to go to New Orleans.
While I think the EFF's mission is a good one, I don't always like their tactics, which often resemble those of politicians or corporations.

Here's a current example [0]. The message is basically "don't scan our phones, respect our privacy". Sounds okay, but it has practically no details. Nothing about what exactly would be scanned, why it would be scanned the, how it would be scanned... nothing.

Judging by most HN'ers conversations on the topic before, most would even support EFF's message on the issue! But look at their methods. They should be doing an information campaign. Instead, that reads as propaganda campaign.

[0] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-activists-lead-protes...
If they installed basic charging points at a reasonable number of parking spaces, it would be reasonable to allow people to return the cars without a full charge, so long as they plug them in.

(I mean a charging point that can charge the car in 5-8 hours, which I assume should be straightforward for a new commercial installation with a 3-phase supply etc.)
> Every manufacturing nation on earth is ramping up on EV production...There won't be a single winner

While true, it seems like Tesla has at least a decade head start and can be the "winner" for at least that long.

Ford are finally going "all in" with their electric F150 and it could finally be the "Tesla Killer".

Ford are planning on these production numbers for the Electric F-150[1]:

2022: 15,000

2023: 55,000

2024: 80,000

I don't see how making 80,000 vehicles in a year 3 years from today is going to have any impact on a company already making a million vehicles this year, and will likely surpass 2 million next year.

[1] https://www.electrive.com/2021/08/24/ford-doubles-f-150-ligh...
Are there precedence of legal requirements for diacritic support? Does it extend to all latin diacritics or popular regional subsets. I remember a Chinese scholar pushing for multiple language email address standard years ago, thinking it would be neat (and profoundly inpractical). Also maybe I'm misremembering, I swear I've seen arabic email addresses before.
Yeah, this is my interpretation as well. I mean, he formulated "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".
I had the same experience. I installed the RC and it has been working surprisingly smoothly on my intel macbook pro (15’’ 2018)
I found it absolutely hilarious when it was done about 15 years ago. That was when we Apple users were pretty much the underdogs and expected the platform to die any day.

But now that Windows users feel threatened by Apple and are sensitive about this, it should probably be changed. Although it's a fun relic of the olden times.
IIRC, ISO 8601 counts weeks by counting thursdays.
Could you elaborate on what VS does better? I haven't used the former in detail for C#.
For a good recap, watch JRE #1595 with Ira Glasser.
This is misleading. Likely, those 50 engineers were standing on the shoulders of the giants, i.e. those open source maintainers who build wonderful value for everyone out there.
Well I found my new favorite word of the week antepenultimate. Thanks FabHK.
No, it isn't relevant. He's used that handle for about 40 years, but you can't use that to conclude much about his position on any current issue. He was a co-founder of Cygnus Support (which eventually merged with Red Hat), and the name was a recursive acronym for Cygnus: Your GNU Support.
More HN bikeshedding.

Sloganeering is actually critical for mass movements for political change.
> which often resemble those of politicians or corporations

They are a corporation aren't they?
I mean there is a lot of value in getting a standardized badge for far less expense and time than a traditional degree.
Depends what you need them for. On a music video set my 2010 MBP survived a drop from a second story balcony (three stories in a normal home), onto a marble floor. Got dented as hell, but only functional damage was to the ethernet port. I'm excited to get one of these new ones. Imagine it'll last at least 5 years.