skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It looks like this news article goes into more depth: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/facing-hostile-chine...

>> Interviews and internal Apple documents provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the company made concessions to Beijing and won key legal exemptions. CEO Tim Cook personally lobbied officials over threats that would have hobbled its devices and services. His interventions paved the way for Apple’s unparalleled success in the country.

Is this related to the similar stuff the NY Times reported on in May?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...:

> Internal Apple documents reviewed by The New York Times, interviews with 17 current and former Apple employees and four security experts, and new filings made in a court case in the United States last week provide rare insight into the compromises Mr. Cook has made to do business in China. They offer an extensive inside look — many aspects of which have never been reported before — at how Apple has given in to escalating demands from the Chinese authorities.

Putting two and two together, it I'm guessing this is a story is about Tim Cook pledging Apple will spend billions to develop the Chinese economy, probably while simultaneously claiming it couldn't spend similar money to develop the US economy or manufacturing capacity.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article and rush to the thread to complain about it. Find something interesting to comment about instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
M1: A design flaw slowed down Apple’s VNC
I think the reason email is now more "centralized" (in the sense that most people use a few big providers like Gmail) is because most people just don't care about decentralization (at least for email). Not because the protocol wouldn't have scaled otherwise. Gmail works well and people aren't going to drop it just on principle.

Systems that started decentralized and remained so... BitTorrent I guess? I can't think of many, honestly. Most decentralized systems don't have a monetary incentive layer to keep people running it the way a blockchain does.
Is some of this inherent to tech jobs in general? 90% of my work is reactive, so once I finish my 10% proactive work all I do is wait for people to give me tasks. Some weeks I work 15 hours, sometimes I work 45. But I don’t think there is anything useful to the company I could be doing in the off time, as I’d need to be able to drop it instantly for other work. I can’t build new things/etc.. the company is 1000 people, does mostly deep learning, and the product is insanely complicated. Of course there are little things I can do, but nothing that impacts the bottom line.

But just like in the article, my friends and I are all gainfully employed and play video games together most days.

(To be honest I only got through 30% of the article, it’s pretty dam long)
Okay cool.

Correct and nudge me in the right direction if you can, am I asking the right questions in my survey?
Yes, and I personally have worked in environments that do just that. They said they didn't, but with management "personalities" plus stack ranking, you know damn well that they did.
I'd recommend starting "from scratch" for the simple reason that the official PostgreSQL manual is excellent:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/index.html

You'll quickly find which parts of the manual are interesting to you and which ones just repeat what you already know (or could have guessed on your own). Since the manual is very well structured, skipping those parts is very easy.
"entity"
He clearly says:

To stave off the inevitable haters: I know this is over-engineered. That’s kind of the point! By trying out “flashy” software in a low-stakes environment...
Bitcoin no, but Monero or ZCash, yes
I am not sure being salty that you suck at the internet qualifies as grounds for a lawsuit
Rethinking Teamwork with Range
I'm in a similar situation but a decade removed. I'm not sure I even remember what I learned previously - how have you retained anything after 2 decades?
Django v4.0 Released
You made me curious and some quick duckduckgo-ing led me to a biologists involved-if-not-comprehensive investigation of the origins of the term [0].

Long story short, it probably dates to late 1950s Cambridge and may have originated with Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Of relevance is that it preceded the discovery of mRNA, dating to a time when all RNA was thought to be ribosomal DNA. At that time the prevailing theory was that DNA codes for RNA that is incorporated into the ribosome (which then makes proteins). Because the amount of RNA code in the ribosome was clearly much less than the amount of DNA code in the genome, the implication was that much of the genome did not code anything, simply as a matter of mathematical difference. The term was controversial early on, and it might even have been coined to be so, though that's less clear.

[0] https://judgestarling.tumblr.com/post/667709690372849664/the...
I wondered, too, so I went digging and discovered [0] that he took an opportunity to work at CERN and thereafter refers to "we" and the page ends with the birth of their son.

Happy ending :)

[0] https://aarongiles.com/about/
You might like this website then: http://radio.garden/
Heroku Is Having an Outage
Can somebody explain the government's defense in that case?

"The court said DE-CIX could not cite article 10 of Germany’s Basic Law, which guarantees the privacy of communications, because the company was not directly affected by the BND operations."

I honestly don't understand how an argument like that holds water.
If you are pasting in a browser try Ctrl+Shift+V to remove formatting.
Well you know, like when a rocket explode, it's a sudden and "unexpected rapid disassembly" or something...

And a cleaner is called a "floor technician".

Nothing really out of the ordinary for a service to be called degraded while "hey, the cache might still be working right?" ... or "Well you know, it works every other day except today, so it's just degradation" :-)
Yeah tell that to the mob when they block roads out of your town and come knocking to raid your house
I used to be anti-Apple for all their walled garden policies but I decided I can't win that fight. Instead I just bought their stock with significant % of my money and now I read all Apple related news with pleasure. This means they are not getting kicked out of China and are sure to make even bigger pile of money in coming years as China becomes richer and more Chinese people can afford luxury electronics.

One thing about Apple news is that it's almost always great for Apple's bottom line.
Also a way to raise untraceable funds, like the cocaine smuggling thing.
You're correct, I should've used F there, my bad. Too late to edit, unfortunately!
Why is a blockchain useful here though? For example, here is how it could work without a blockchain:

I could create "Distributed Render Service" application - you register your machine with my service. My service runs on a pretty standard set up on AWS. I keep the details in a sql database. There is a client you download to your machine which basically figures when the GPU isn't in use and makes a call to my service for a "job". The client pulls down the relevant data, completes the job on your GPU and sends the data back. My service credits your account. On the flip side I have a place for people who need said rendering done. They upload "jobs". My central service figures which jobs to send where.

Where does a blockchain make it cheaper, more compatible or improve service? I understand that you state that a blockchain isn't the only possible means - but the key difference in question is central, trusted control v not. My service has a central, trusted control. Blockchains are created to avoid a central, trusted control. So even if we avoid blockchain - what would be the scenario where you can concretely avoid central, trusted control and it would be beneficial on the dimensions stated?

Fwiw, I believe you are making these statements in good faith, and they aren't argumentative for their own sake. Like the original poster, I just struggle to see the value in 99% of the situations people propose involving blockchains (or avoiding central/trusted control).
> I mean no. If there is an error you should figure out what the problem is first.

First thing you want to do (after confirming the issue and communicating) is to "fly the plane" and try to contain/mitigate the issue before debugging for a RC.
> you could view reports on which obscure apps hooked into this or that internal code of cmd.exe or Notepad and would break

Wait what, external software calls into notepad?
We held the majority in 2016, but are nearly extinct now.
You might want to consider a more confidence inspiring GitHub organization name than "newbeelearn" if you want heavy adoption of this project
Night Slim Pro Reviews
Ad and analytics money, https://www.thestockdork.com/how-does-imgur-make-money/
> I'm talking about how housing density affects local businesses and minimum parking requirements for businesses

Seriously? You're seriously asserting that small businesses would rather be in SF than in SJ, because of minimum parking?

We can do some research on that. I don't think it's going to come out the way you like, though. The research would have to do with cost-of-doing-business, profitability, etc. etc.

As for schools & population density: I think you're shifting the goal posts after the game's turned against you. First it was :

> In short, in the US, school quality is not a function of density; it's a function of funding.

So, just so we're clear: you're giving up on that one?
Is there an alternative to Heroku these days?

Heroku has not innovated in anything after being acquired by Salesforce and it seems to be going down almost every week.
I imagine then at least 80% of Excel's bug tracker must have WONTFIX as a designation, cause I tell you, the same fucking bugs seem to come with every release.
After following the course, you should be able to grok the solver code in /src/system.cpp. That looks fairly standard.

The interesting part (to me, as that is not my specialty) lies in the translation of the 3D constraints (including rotation, etc.) into a single objective function for solving Newton-style.
I strongly encourage you to occasionally view the world through more than one lens.

No matter what the OS, the default editor is important. Changes to the default editor that address long standing demands by the community are important. Communicating those changes to a wide audience is important as well. (And the Linux side of the fence could stand to learn a bit about communicating with the wider community)

And that's why that article exists - because a tool used by a large user population just got significantly better. And that user population is mostly happy about the improvement. If you're not the audience, skipping it is an option.
That is an astute connection. The "recursive" part is that you do not need to keep all the history of observations and actions (often denoted y and u. in control theory). You can summarize the past with sufficient statistics (the mean and the variance for linear quadratic gaussian (LQG) problems).

You could imagine keeping all of the data and fitting a model to that. For LQG problems, you can use dynamic programming [1] to solve the problem faster.

You could alternatively imagine keeping a finite window of data and fitting a model to that. That filter would have a finite impulse response.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming btw that term kind of means two things, and this is a situation in which the two meanings overlap.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29460669
It's pretty easy to have the computer log and/or notify about failures. Presumably if a person is double checking and notices repeated failures, they would be expected to notify superiors that there's a problem somewhere. I'm not sure why we would assume the computer would do any less.
Thanks, that's a solid reply.

Personally, I don't want the world to go back to "Bearer Bonds", and given they were banned I'm guessing the US government (and I imagine other countries) doesn't either. However, I'm glad to hear a basis for NFTs.
Outage started at 731 PST from our monitoring. They are on fire, but not in a good way.
Does this really align the business with its users? With this model aren’t you incentivized to make users waste as much time as possible so their time spent in the app increases, which is directly convertible to $ for you?

I’m not convinced. Maybe I’ve misunderstood something.

Charging for time spent developing is very different from what AWS does.
TextEdit on macOS is this fast when set to plain text and not reopening previous windows. The entire app is 2.6mb.

Launching with rich text as the default is a bit slower. But hey, rich text.
How about fruits & nuts? Both are quick and easy to eat, I never feel compelled to gorge myself on em (unlike chips), and full of good stuff.

Also, I eat a lot of rice and lentils and veggies, and it is very easy to make. In 30 minutes of work (excluding boil time) I can make enough to feed myself one meal of this a day for a week.

I think people have a mental block around this. I don’t blame em, I encounter it myself, start eating out a bunch, start feeling crummy, then realize I gotta eat something healthy. Then I cook some good veggies filled food and life is good again.

Another aspect is wide ignorance of natural flavorful things. Fresh garlic, fresh ginger. Spices: cardamom, cumin, coriander, pepper powders, etc.

People can do this, it just takes investing a little effort to get started and maintain it.
Kde plasma. Because it is what I have used for 20+ years and I am too lazy to switch.
https://nextmortgagenews.com/news/better-attracts-up-to-1-5-...

Looks like a new B2B / SaaS pivot

“This is exactly the time for us to lean in and accelerate our customer-focused product innovation, and grow our B2B business, which we believe provides us with greater defensibility in a tougher mortgage market,” said Better CEO, Vishal Garg
> Why hasn't the industry come up with an alternative?

The cloud is the solution to self managed data centers. Their value proposition is appealing: Focus on your core business and let us handle infrastructure for you.

This fits the needs of most small and medium sized businesses, there's no reason not to use the cloud and spend time and money on building and operating private data centers when the (perceived) chances of outages are so small.

Then, companies grow to a certain size where the benefits of having a self managed data center begins to outweight not having one. But at this point this becomes more of a strategic/political decision than merely a technical one, so it's not an easy shift.
Surprisingly I actually deal with a fairly hefty integration that does some horrible win32 shit I don’t understand after opening notepad to integrate it into their app. There’s so much of that out there it’s unreal.
Why does that webpage renders like a dog?... I get that it's under load but the rendering itself is chugging something rare.

Edit: wow that webpage is humongous... never heard of paging?
Here's a few features I'd like to see for Notepad which I don't think would compromise its performance or minimalist design:

- multi-cursor support
- tab to indent selection
- encoding selection
- fully controllable with hotkeys
- [optional] line numbers
- [optional] visible whitespace characters
- [optional] column ruler
- [optional] spaces instead of tabs
- [optional] unix-style line breaks
Why does Broadcom subsidize Raspberry Pi?
> In the first reported experiments gauging the effectiveness of Pfizer and BioNTech SE’s vaccine, researchers at the African Health Research Institute found omicron infection results in about a 40-fold reduction in virus-blocking antibodies compared with the strain detected in China almost two years ago. The loss of immune protection is “robust, but not complete,” said Alex Sigal, head of research at the Durban-based laboratory, in an online presentation late Tuesday.

I don't really parse this sentence too well. I think they are indicating it takes 40x concentrate to neutralize omicron at the same level as the original strain? Can anyone correct me?
I think a big problem is that it's typically not given as an alternative. You're either us or them... which makes sense, otherwise the wedge wouldn't work.

However, I also don't think that to the extent that it is true, this theory correctly identifies the biggest problem. For example, for all the abstract faulting of race-blind institutions in New Jim Crow, most of the actual examples it gives (poll tests, housing segregation, where to enforce the law against drugs/deals, sentencing disparity, etc.) follow the same formula - government power + personal discretion. I.e. good ol' racism that is given the power that can be applied selectively. I think that is a much, much bigger problem than the classist institutions that propagate the resulting racial disparities. If the former issue was resolved by (1) not creating opportunities for it (2) creating compensatory policies like affirmative action/etc.; classist institutions would stop being race-correlated over time.
New data: What developers look for in future job opportunities
Microsoft Edge will now warn users about the danger of downloading Google Chrome
Have you tried Notepad++? I just tested it on my system after reading your comment and the difference between Notepad++ and Notepad was barely perceptible (the former being slower by ~0.1 seconds, at a guess). It also has a lot of quality of life features that notepad is missing - my favorite is that it auto-saves a cached copy of unsaved documents during shutdown and presents them to you on next open for saving (this doesn't seem to slow start up by any noticeable amount, for the small files I just tested).
this is why everyone runs piholes and no one sees ads on the internet anymore, which killed the internet ad industry
https://radio.garden is a fun way to discover music around the world. I found one of my favorite songs on the Faroe Islands this way.
Would you have a decent source on that?
Sort of like adverse reactions to vaccines...
How many people use Microsoft windows 10? Latest: 1.3 Billion

https://news.microsoft.com/bythenumbers/en/windowsdevices

That, along with the tendency towards Bikeshedding, or Parkinson's law of triviality, means a lot of people care.

Android has a comparable number of users, but I think we should compare desktop PC systems here and in this case, Linux users have much lower expectations of Linux Desktop along with not being nearly as many users.
$150B lawsuit seeks to hold Facebook accountable for Rohingya genocide
It's unfortunate that there aren't better solutions for securely exposing a part of your home network to the cloud. Imagine if it were easy to set up a secure solution to access your home lab from anywhere - you could use it as your own private cloud. And perhaps then it would also be easy to expose part of that publicly, like a blog.
Yeah, I was also surprised when I learned this. Another surprising thing is that they own it since 1998.
When you buy a car are you concerned that it came with manufacturer monopoly provided radio, GPS, seats, tires and a jack? I mean you can go out and get third party versions of all of these things with improved functionality so why should they even include basic versions?

Now how many people actually replace the radio in their car? Or the rims? Or the seats? A vast percentage of owners are very happy with the included version as they don't desire / require anything beyond that. It's not a monopoly, it's just including the basic features most users will be content with.

Now if they forced you to keep Notepad associated with TXT files then we'd have an issue. (I'm looking at you Edge)

(adding a note to address in comments likely coming about how media systems aren't easily replacable in cars anymore but I'm a child of the DIN radio era)
Poor man's Dark Mode using CSS filter
Oh please.

So what I'm hearing is, there are changes in software that a lot of people wanted for a long time, but weren't allowed to have for some reason?

If only there were a model of software creation that let you fix that?
But that's not the point you've been making, it's not what I've been arguing against. Your point has been "survival in rural areas is untenable and so people have to move to cities for better prospects, therefore moving to the city is not a choice." My point was always "people go where they need to go based on their needs and priorities and survival outside of cities is not any harder than inside them, therefore moving to them is a choice."

If anything, survival is easier outside of cities, because cost of living is cheaper and the minimum wage rate is the same.

Anyway, we started with you saying you want to move more rural but you can't. But is that true? Could you do it, if you were willing to work a different type of job?
The playground examples are very neat. Great job!
Why is the title "should not be using" when she in fact "does not use" bluetooth headphones already? Feels baity.
> If they can't, then that should encourage employers to look elsewhere and move.

It doesn't. That's why the most prosperous American cities have the longest commutes and least affordable housing.

If a metro area decided they don't want job growth and limited new office construction I'd be fine with that. But when a municipality allows new offices and prohibits new housing it hurts a lot of people.
Yep - read some of the awesome / horrific horror stories from having too large an API surface area from Raymond Chen here: https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplec...

Patching other people's binaries, turning off features if the app making the request is "problematic-app", re-introducing bugs, fixing should-be-impossible-to-happen calls from programs that were written by hand, it's all there!
What they want is a tax. But they don't want to call it a "tax", because that's unpopular.

As Benedict Evans put it, when France fined Google for the same reasons:

> The shakedown continues. It’s hard to see how making tech companies pretend to ‘buy’ something that has little to no economic value to them is a path to a sustainable model for newspapers. If you want a tax and a subsidy, be honest and call it that.

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1414856375348482050
The "This isn't happening" to "Actually, it's happening, and it's A Good Thing™" cycle has been ramping up a lot over the past few years. They can't even keep their own narratives internally consistent anymore.
I personally think it has to do with the belief that improvements in ALL important areas such as agriculture, energy, medicine etc are supported strongly by increased computational power.

This is perhaps a belief, an ideology, an assumption or perhaps a theory. It doesn't matter much what you call it. The important part is to understand that computation today plays a similar role as to what mathematics did before we got computation.

Interestingly enough, Alan Kay performed a talk a couple of years ago about this topic, questioning why despite sustained growth and investment into computing power in medicine, medicine discovery was actually _dropping_ as a result.

I don't recall exactly if it was "medicine discovery", but it was something important related to that idea. So, that's an important topic to discuss if you hold the belief that computation will improve all areas of living in invisible ways by being some sort of mathematical infrastructure or whatever you want to call it.
Historically I think licensing has been the biggest hurdle. Nowadays music is moving towards being commodified and licensing is less of an issue. Still to be determined whether or not it's possible to build a community around a fractured space, I'll report back when we launch :)