skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does seem to be a sticking point.

Perhaps a new trade agreement could be made amongst key trading partners? China would probably get mad, but if China is able to keep foreign firms out or put them at a disadvantage, then we should be able to provide benefits to our own domestic firms.

There need to be motivations for companies to do more on our own soil.
The Last Poets of Absolute Freedom
> Intel shareholders can now vote to ensure Intel takes a stand against China, if they choose. But it seems those individuals do not want that.

Too early to conclude this. These tensions present not only a reputational risk for Intel, but financial ones as well, particularly if tensions escalate. Managers might not care, but there is precedence for shareholders taking a longer view [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/business/exxon-mobil-engi...
No. From https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-The-Protoco...:

> Finally, we have the Git protocol. This is a special daemon that comes packaged with Git; it listens on a dedicated port (9418) that provides a service similar to the SSH protocol, but with absolutely no authentication. In order for a repository to be served over the Git protocol, you must create a git-daemon-export-ok file — the daemon won’t serve a repository without that file in it — but, other than that, there is no security. Either the Git repository is available for everyone to clone, or it isn’t. This means that there is generally no pushing over this protocol. You can enable push access but, given the lack of authentication, anyone on the internet who finds your project’s URL could push to that project. Suffice it to say that this is rare.
Please comment with your recent failed searches in this thread.

Any new search engine is going to need a niche with lots of users.

I haven't seen a comprehensive list of actual failed queries that new search engines could focus on solving.
> Expecting moral courage from a big corporation is probably an exercise in inevitable disappointment though.

I agree about the fact that it is. But why do we accept that? Corporations are made up of people. We certainly do expect people – even groups of people – to exhibit moral courage. Of course, they do sometimes disappoint us, but the expectations remain reasonable in a good society.
The best quotes are usually non-attributable. lol.
Going on a tangent, one advantage of the analog TV was that often one could watch a channel even in the presence of interference or a weak signal, whereas with the digital this is no longer possible.
The synchronization of multiple zones is definitely non-trivial. Many years ago I had a few Apple Airport Expresses which had audio out. In theory you could use Airplay with these to do much the same thing as Sonos for a lot cheaper. In a one-bedroom apartment, we have 3 zones (bedroom, living room, kitchen) which are all close enough that there's a lot of opportunities to hear sound from 2 or 3 systems at the same time. With Apple it was never in sync. Small delays make the sound miserable. I finally bit the bullet and bought 3 Sonos units. They just work when it comes to the sync.

There are other aspects which made Sonos far superior to just using Apple's Airplay and iTunes, but those are not covered in the patents in question.

My assumption is that if getting 3 devices to stay in sync - with what I assume is UDP streams and WiFi latency hiccups - was easy or even somewhat difficult, Apple would have been able to solve it. But they couldn't. There must be some special sauce here that Sonos developed and patented.
It is amazing what a technological backwater aviation is.

Leaded gas was phased out for cars 40 years ago. They still use leaded gas for piston aircraft and there is no realistic plan to end it.

Boeing is still flying the 737 aircraft family from 1968. They still haven't upgraded the control systems to the modern electronic control systems that Airbus and other manufacturers have used since 1988.

Any car from 1968 would be illegal to sell in the developed world because it hasn't kept up with emissions, fuel economy, safety and other standards. Incremental changes wouldn't cut it, any nameplate that has lasted that long has had multiple "clean sheet" designs.

The same is true for computers, electronics, and most other products.

In the case of aviation there is complete regulatory capture. If Boeing doesn't want to upgrade, the FAA doesn't make them. If American Airlines doesn't want to upgrade, the FAA doesn't make them.

There is talk of making artificial jet fuel using this failed technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...

Any serious work on green fuels for ground transportation today centers around alcohols, dimethyl ether and other chemicals that are practical to manufacture. The aviation industry can't be bothered to qualify new fuels so we are going to see endless excuses rather than progress in controlling carbon emissions.
> presumably the last clicked link was the result they were looking for.

This is a risky assumption. I tend to click all the links first, and only then check if they're the results I'm looking for.
You right they are supporting it since 8.1.0.
Sum types, too, since the enums are C enums.
On safety - one of the places I had the opportunity to visit had a car park where you were only allowed to reverse in. I'm not sure if it was a holdover from a previous establishment, but I think they kept something on site that was volatile enough (like a lot of gas) that if a swift evacuation was required, they didn't want people futzing around getting out of spaces.
>Absolute bullshit. Member states cannot be forced out of the EU.

So what happens if EU enacts some sort of legislation, and a member state refuses to implement it?

>both of which are representative of the EU member states.

How is this relevant? Does having representation mean you don't have a monopoly on violence? That's like saying the US government doesn't have a monopoly on violence, because congress votes on laws and is representative of its citizens.
I’m the author, and I think you’re partially right.

This article wasn’t done (and I’m still going to finish it, a “looking forward” section is missing)

I published it to get some feedback from the occasional reader, which I do more often. You can see I haven’t tweeted or posted it anywhere, I wanted to wait a couple of days still; so it’s a little unfortunate it got picked up here so soon. Of course I’m happy with the positive reception overall, but I agree that it’s not done yet.

On the part of self promotion within my own content: that’s just the way I’ve been doing it for years. I don’t feel guilty about mentioning other things I’ve made that I’m proud of and what I believe are high value as well. So on that part I don’t agree.

I do appreciate the overall feedback though, thanks for taking the time to share it
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida Third to Resign After Trading Scandal
And in consequence although many people will experience it no longer working, it might still "work" for you (or it might never have "worked") since anybody who is between you and GitHub can decide what happens instead.

If you've insisted on building something that insists on using git:// this way, you can proxy it to the safer supported system seamlessly, since you had no way to know before it was correct and you'll have no way to know if the proxy worked either. Somebody might already make a tool to do that, if not you could roll your own.
> who are Intel shareholders?

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/intc/instituti...
Acton didn't "take leadership" of Signal, he funded its development.
Some photos https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Torness&tbm=isch&chips=q:t...
It's not about the concept, it's about the specific UI they used to do it. However, there are not many ways to represent the concept in a UI, which is where Google is running into a problem.
WhatsApp Co-Founder Is the New Acting CEO of Signal
Unfortunately it seems they will use the facial recognition excuse to jail and imprison the wrong people just like they did before the advent of facial recognition. It is simply an imperfect tool, and in the wrong hands a blunt instrument of punishment of the innocent. The recent example from New Jersey of a clearly innocent person being "framed" by the facial recognition excuse:

Parks claimed that as he sat in jail for 10 days, police and prosecutors didn't bother to check fingerprints and DNA at the scene that could have cleared him.

"Defendant police department was relying solely on the faulty and illegal [facial recognition software] or some analogous program while all evidence and forensics confirmed plaintiff had no relationship to the suspect for the crimes," according to Sexton.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-man-new-jersey-mi...
I found this article a while ago

> Every web request starts from a completely blank slate. Its namespace and globals are uninitialized, except for the standard globals, functions and classes that provide primitive functionality and life support. By starting each request from a known state, we get a kind of organic fault isolation; if request t encounters a software defect and fails, this bug does not directly interfere with the execution of subsequent request t+1.

> An individual web request runs in a single PHP thread. This seems at first like a silly limitation. But since your program executes in the context of a web server, we have a natural source of concurrency available: web requests. Asynchronously curl’ing to localhost (or even another web server) provides a shared-nothing, copy-in/copy-out way of exploiting parallelism. In practice, this is safer and more resilient to error than the locks-and-shared-state approach that most other general-purpose languages provide.

https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/
I run https://extensionpay.com off a single server with a SQLite database. That feels kind of low-tech these days :) But SQLite has a lot going for it in production! https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

The more high-tech part is that it's a SvelteKit app — so it has server-side rendering (for performance/SEO) with client-side hydration and other nice things. In fact, I like this stack so much that I'm going to spin it out into its own starter template so other people don't have to code all the tedious features that most apps have (like user auth, admin dashboards, etc): https://sveltesaas.com
No desktop app? That's a dealbreaker.
A 1% browser (and Firefox is solidly above that) means approximately 6-7 bits of entropy. If Firefox's fingerprinting protection removes at least these many bits, then it's worth using Firefox.
Yes. My point is that the person running experiments and mapreduce jobs is still called a data scientist. But so is the product analytics person (btw product data scientists run experiments too). And there are some other data scientist job profiles too (more focus on research, more focus on engineering etc). So it's not really a complete redefinition of the term, it's more of an expansion of the types of jobs it covers.
I’ve just started searching for completely local voice assistants, and had only found Mycroft.

Thanks for mentioning Rhasspy, that looks like exactly what I want (my search skills failed me yesterday).

And I completely agree about HW costs. Just getting a decent mike and speaker peripheral gets you close to the price point of the echo dot.

I’m curious how much researching you’ve put into HW options, and if you’re currently leaning toward any specific HW
To be fair Bazel can be sketchy on IntelliJ too, especially with Go (although enabling gomodules fixed a lot of those issues for us).
You seem to have misunderstood my comment. I'm not feeling sorry for "the poor billion dollar companies", I'm just arguing they're not acting immorally.
I'm the exact opposite. I enjoy the cushy FTE positions in European companies where I can automate my work away to the point where 1-2 hours of actual effort is all I need to put in. I don't find any satisfaction in doing a good job for a company not my own, and spend my focus and energy doing my hobbies, socialising, living my life in bliss. Most workaholics I knew my life were miserable people who hated their life and didn't sleep enough.
The Chinese gov't adopted capitalism? I'm not sure I can believe that anyone believes that, much less agree with it.

This is a very direct example of a communist government controlling the messaging of a company, which is antithetical to capitalism.

As I understand it, this is happening because Chinese corporations are coerced by the communist regime such that Intel would lose business if they didn't follow the rules coming thru their Chinese partner corporations. Intel is still very much capable of freely choosing to obey those demands or not, which makes them capitalists, but the Chinese corporations being coerced into doing PR for the CCP is not capitalism.
Ask HN: What's the easiest/lowest pressure tech job you know of?
Hi!
I've had a few programming jobs over the last 2/3 years(mostly at startups, and also for one Fortune 500 company as a contractor), and I really struggle mentally, I can't take the pressure of most regular programming jobs, the deadlines, the meetings, the hierarchy, the constant need to stay on top of new tech, it's really burning me out.

I'm looking for something less stressful/demanding, but still in tech.
I'm OK with earning less, do you have any idea of what kind of jobs I could look for?
Thanks
> Through the relation he has with his tools (somewhat antithetical to that of the graphic designer and his Adobe licence), the physical trials and mimicking of the tribe, the infantryman acquires a certain prudence. He may often not be able to articulate it; but, in his mind, the social and the temporary are often clearly distinguished from the transcendent and the universal. And when on leave, he is one of the few who can truly, without guilt, enjoy and appreciate the physical pleasures and comforts of the 21st century.

I think wilderness campers and certain kinds of hunters can relate to this too.
> Yes, Facebook is doing everything it can to get the contents of WhatsApp communications so they can monetize.

Like what?
yea but its optional so does it matter? In PHP its compulsory, right?
I was thinking that if you guess S correctly and it is in 90% of words and not in 10% of words, you’ve only removed 10% of words from the pool.

Whereas if there were a letter closer to occurring in only 50% of the pool, you at least eliminate half.

Does that logic make sense here or no? I’m thinking I’m missing something related to “maximum information gain”.
Google forking WebKit to make Blink has nothing to do with pore stewardship of open source. They have different agendas and Google wanted total control.
You do benefit from eating pig though. :)
Its not (just) that anymore, china is the new market.
The new and huge revenue stream.

You need to play by chinese rules or they close their market to you.

Big corporations are now addicted to this opium and cant simply go back to not selling to chinese markets.
And Amazon paid a number of talking heads and tech luminaries to help them with the blowback they were getting at the time for such a trivial patent. Scumbags, all.
Human receives heart from gene-edited pig
You are also optimize the scheduling for real threads, for example by increasing sched_latency_ns and sched_min_granularity_ns.
So, true story: yesterday at work, trying to catch a web bug, linux musheen. Download different version of firefoxes, run them, check the web to pinpoint the regression between versions. Doing some pinpointing, running again a specific version with the bug. No bug anymore. 30 minutes later. "Ah, I see firefox auto-update itself by default, so when running again it's on 9$.$ something".
If we could only give feedback on search results, things would improve. I am tired of finding the same articles over and over again that just update the year every year and gives you a top list of product "reviews" with a link to amazon.
It might be because it's spelled "Aladdin", it's a lamp, and you don't necessarily rub it with your fingers, you just rub it. Your queries were way off.

If you had just Googled "Aladdin Genie" you would have every single result in the first page be relevant.
Just got bit by that this morning. For anyone updating contributor forks submitted in Pull Requests, use `git@github:<contributor-username>/<fork-repo-name>.git`. I don't know what black magic github had going on prior, but I was always able to just use `git://`
I agree, desktop is critical. We actually have one you can download here! https://cloverapp.com/download
Really? You would give up $800M for a bizarre outside chance of.. getting a second chance at $800M?
In China the government tells companies what to do in the furtherance of state aims. In America and elsewhere companies tell government what to do in furtherance of corporate aims. For instance the overthrow of governments on behalf of banana companies and oil companies. What we see now is China exerting influence and power and we aren’t accustomed to having another country do this toward our companies/interests.
Clarification: While Facebook sponsored a lot of work it was on their competing HHVM system, which spured other contributors that competed with HHVM (Zend mostly) to invest more in PHP and develop the performance improvements in PHP 7 and 8.

The performance improvements where not directly sponsored by Facebook.
> I don't think a business could survive in a market economy while treating their animals humanely. The cost would simply be unimaginable.

It'd be quite easy to survive if there were enough people who cared about the well-being of animals and experienced sufficient economic stability to make consumption choices that don't necessarily maximize calories/dollar. Unfortunately those people tend to eschew animal product consumption all together, resulting in your (correct) analysis that the number of animals living in misery on factory farms is dramatically overtaking the number living at harmony on family farms.

I don't buy from factory farms, but any time I go to a local store or farmers market and see a good local cheese, I buy it. I've visited many of the farms personally and have never seen a situation where it didn't look like the animals were living their best life. To shut those farms down, kill off their bloodlines, and replace them with... a way smaller number of slightly different looking ruminants spending their whole existence feeling (rightfully) frightened for their life upon any external stimulus? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. And that's the "ideal" case, in reality it's far more likely that the farm will be bought up by some big commercial entity willing to cut more corners than that the good fertile accessible land will simply be yielded to the wild. [1]

[1] "as average farm size has increased, the number of individual farms in the United States has decreased." https://www.statista.com/statistics/196106/average-size-of-f...
> I don’t know how EU pulled that off

Step 1: Declare yourself the lawful sovereign of your citizens in customary international law and be accepted as that both internally and globally.

Step 2: Define a fundamental (constitutional) human right to data privacy, see charta of fundamental rights of the European Union Article 8

Step 3: Create regulations that define how to lawfully handle the data of european citizens (-> GDPR, Police Directive, ...) and what happens if one disregards the fundamental right.

Honestly the whole thing becomes much easier to understand if one substitutes any other fundamental right, like the right to bodily integrity. A foreign corporation is not allowed to harvests our citizens organs without lawful basis (like written consent), even if it claims the law of its home country allows it to harvest organs as it pleases.
Gave up on FF a month ago because it was just too damn slow, but I didn't want to go back to use Chrome because I don't want to have to install a ton of addons just to have features that should be baked in the browser by now.

I found Vivaldi and besides really minor things that I'd like to have, it looks like the perfect browser. Highly customizable, fast, and with full access to the Chrome addons. Not going back to either of the other two for the time being.
I have had Lasik eye surgery to alter defects in my vision. So that might be an abomination? I also had a colostomy after fighting cancer, so my stoma might be an abomination? That about the knee surgery that repaired a torn meniscus?
For Common Lisp: sure we can. We can run a program from the sources, as a script, just like Python, and we can build a binary, with all dependencies baked in. CL has the feature to save the current image: it's excellent for development (see how Ravenpack ships images with several GBs of data baked in: the image will start instantly, you won't have to wait for your development data to be initialized again).

And we can run the Lisp program and not touch it. But… if we want, we can easily connect to the running Lisp image, introspect it, change a couple parameters… or do a software upgrade, which can involve installing Lisp libraries… and we could connect to the image on the remote server from our editor and develop the app (while still saving the changes in source control locally), but that would be silly and it isn't a standard way.
I don't see where the author said that thinking one has more wisdom necessarily means one loses empathy.

I think the author's definition of righteousness is the loss of empathy. The author wouldn't seem to have a problem with an empathetic wise person being both empathetic and wise.
gunicorn and gevent developer UX is so nice that it prepared me for Go years later.
He's most definitely a lawyer.

"These kinds of cases will get taken on contingency" means that there are lawyers who will take cases like this for no up-front fee, but rather a percentage of the winnings.

Expensive lawyers charge $400+ per hour. There are all kinds of lawyers. The lawyer you e.g. use to sue your ex-landlord over a security deposit does not take a $10k retainer. The lawyer who manages the warrants and reps process for your M&A deal does.
From my reading of the patent, it's not that the concept of speaker groupings was patented. Rather, a specific UI for showing and modifying the groupings and adjusting the volume. Unfortunately, there aren't many different ways to represent groupings in a UI.
You are right. I know there's no way to guarantee victory. But there's still a lot of basic errors, if you pay attention carefully to the contestants (rather than the more-fun trying to solve the puzzle before them). My favorite is actually when you get towards the end and they are calling out letters that couldn't possibly make any words with the 2-5 blanks left over, for instance. Saying a vowel after a spin also happens much more often than it should.

I don't watch WoF a lot but you can also tell they're playing games with the most common letters after RSTLNE too... simply picking the next three consonants and the next vowel is a great way to lose.

And, I mean, yes, very stressful. But you might also be a bit less stressed if you prepared a bit more. Not relaxed, of course, but less stressed.
I think the shareholders who have this power would probably also be included in OPs quote.
yes, 100%

especially in the images and news sections
System Administrator working for a state or federal government or state University.