skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like McCarthyism it’s a noble cause

I'm unsure if this is sarcasm or not.
The worst part is he spirit has been crushed; he can no longer work for fear of irrational and frankly random political views and actions detrimental to his health, his research, and his family. If he is to continue and regain an amount of his former life, I wager it can only occur after leaving the USA permanently.
"The dismissal is a setback to the China Initiative, an effort started in 2018 to crack down on economic and scientific espionage by China."

No, it is not. Why would it be a setback if somebody who is innocent has their case dismissed. I mean who writes such lines? Doesnt this line imply that this dismissal was a bad thing (since nobody endorses espionage).
> But a level of abstraction that tries to hide the fact that lower levels actually exist creates confusion

Do you think about microcode when you program? Because I enjoy programming 'without microcode'.
According to the article the State discovered, way late, that the kind of ties he had with China were not of the kind they assumed guilt of and heavily publicized when they went to destroy his professional life, but instead of the kind people have when they are born elsewhere.

When they did find out about this, they instead tried to make him admit to some other non criminal kind of ties to justify their ruining of his life, and when that failed they simply bailed out.

It's heartbreaking.
No disagreement about ethics, but:

> This is a basic truth of economics.

Is this basic truth backed up by anything tangible? Ethnic Chinese already face unfair hurdles by the current push against standardized testing. But one more obstacle would suddenly make the US unable to compete? With whom, anyway - the only worthy competitor I can think of is hardly egalitarian.

It seems like dangerously wishful thinking to me that liberal ethics, or just basic fairness, automatically translates into economic strength.
UAX #29 is insufficient: at the very least, you must depend on collation too.

In Norwegian, “æ” is a letter, so I believe (as a non-speaker) that they would reverse “blåbærene” to “eneræbålb”; but in English, it’s a ligature representing the diphthong “ae”, and if asked to reverse “æsthetic” I would certainly write “citehtsea” and consider “citehtsæ” to be wrong. (And I enjoy writing the ligature; I fairly consistently write and type æsthetic rather than aesthetic, though I only write encyclopædia instead of encyclopaedia when I’m in a particular sort of mood.)

In Dutch, the digraph “ij” is sometimes considered a ligature and sometimes a letter; as a non-speaker, I don’t know whether natives would say that it should be treated as an atom in reversing or not.

And not all languages will have the concept of reversing even letters, let alone other things. Face it: in English we have the concept of reversing things, but it just doesn’t work the same way in other languages. Sure, UAX #29 defines something that happens to be a good heuristic for reversing, but it doesn’t define reversing, and in the grand scheme of things reversing grapheme-wise is still Wrong. “Reversing a string” is just not a globally meaningful concept.

Another person here has cited Cherokee transliteration, where one extended grapheme cluster turns into multiple English letters. You can apply this to translation in general, but also even keep it inside English and ask: what are we reversing? Letters? Phonemes? Syllables? Words? There are plenty of possibilities which are used in different contexts (and it’s mostly in puzzles, frankly, not general day-to-day life).

The concept of grapheme clusters is acknowledged as approximate. Collations are acknowledged as approximate. Reversing would be even more approximate.
Java was a direct reaction to C++, not Objective C.

James Gosling's earlier object oriented PostScript based NeWS interpreter was a lot more like Objective C and Smalltalk than his later Java language was. (But I'm not going to mention the earlier abomination that was Gosling Emacs MockLisp. Oops!)

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mil...

>Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second

>The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing)

>Introduction: These are some highlights from a prescient talk by Bill Joy in February of 1991.

>“It’s vintage wnj. When assessing wnj-speak, remember Eric Schmidt’s comment that Bill is almost always qualitatively right, but the time scale is sometimes wrong.”
-David Hough

>C++++-=: “C++++-= is the new language that is a little more than C++ and a lot less.”
-Bill Joy

>In this talk from 1991, Bill Joy predicts a new hypothetical language that he calls “C++++-=”, which adds some things to C++, and takes away some other things.

>Oak:
It’s no co-incidence that in 1991, James Gosling started developing a programming language called Oak, which later evolved into Java.

>“Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.”
-James Gosling

>Fortunately James had the sense to name his language after the tree growing outside his office window, instead of calling it “C++++-=”. (Bill and James also have very different tastes in text editors, too!)

>[...]
I participate in town government.

There is more incompetence than malice. There are well intentioned people trying to navigate conflicting laws, statues, bylaws, and codes of conduct.

You ask three different people the same question and get four answers.

When I read this situation it sounds almost normal.
It's still not released :(

I really want to spend money on this book (which I've read most of twice) but alas, Cosma doesn't appear to prioritise finishing it (I'm sure he's doing more important things, to be fair).
Why? It seems like they can easily get a proprietary license. Or do you mean that no larger corp will use it for free?
Sir, that is hilariously enlightening.

Lowering title accuracy increases click; The local channel 7 news does that a lot here too.
> Regardless, on 15 June IE becomes abandon-ware.

People don't care about some technical company doing something. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30112310
Thanks for the details / link

Just a minor point: Did he actually serve jail time? The Wikipedia article you link to says he got probation
This is irrelevant. You are publishing an app to a global market where pricing is the same everywhere.
This seems like the company that will dominate the 2020s. The time is ripe to join NVIDIA
Ah yes, the "Japanese-American relocation centers argument".

It was a criminal state violating human rights back then, and it is a human rights violation today.
Yes, and also all is fine and good until other minds start exercising their will power over "my" well being.
UTF-8 does not represent Unicode code points, but rather Unicode scalar values. The difference between the two is surrogates, the way that UTF-16 ruined Unicode: code points are 0₁₆ to 10FFFF₁₆, scalar values are 0₁₆ to D7FF₁₆ and E000₁₆ to 10FFFF₁₆. Yes, the author quoted Wikipedia, but Wikipedia is wrong on this point; surprisingly comprehensively wrong: the UTF-8 page completely ignores the distinction, and even the page on code points doesn’t mention scalar values! This error propagates to other places, too: for example, “and there are a total of 1,112,064 possible code points”: no, that’s how many scalar values there are; code points also include the 2,048 surrogates, so there are 1,114,112 code points.
What you are describing is mostly related to practice of building organizational units focused purely on implementation, and nothing else. Your personal success in such a unit depends heavily on a number of successful implementations under your belt.

The more organization separates project implementation from the goal-setting and strategic work, the less reasons are there for people responsible for implementation to focus on something different than just getting another green checkmark on that project milestone (and getting recognized as the one who was most impactful in getting there).

Sustainability, recognition of actual business value, meaningful team work — all of these quickly go out the window as people focus on gaming the only metric they’ve been assigned.
Cool product! Easy way to understand cost and impact of changing our infra size.
And LIKWID
look at all the post revskill has made…same scheme on other posts
Oh it's all about Hrkljuš :)
It's not if this then that.

One is a preventative

One is a treatment.

Why is everyone so fucking broken.
It's my current note-taking app of choice, and I sponsor it on GitHub.
I had to use TV professionally for a 1-day gig and they cancelled my connection because of commercial use. Sure, I thought I earn money with it it’s only fair if I paid. The cheapest plan available was for a year long license. I called the support asking if they offer a monthly subscription, which they didn’t. I ended up using RDP instead. If anyone asks me to use TV in the future, I will explain them how to setup an RDP connection instead.
Growth hackers are eating a good software
This. Similarly how cypress does clicking with JavaScript which leads to weird bugs rather than with the debugger - similarly to old versions of selenium
Just as an aside I'd like to mention that if the CTO shopping on the job and not reviewing any of your work is the worst employment experience you've ever had, you should count yourself as lucky still. It's certainly not a great environment, but nothing you've mentioned so far sounds tragically awful, just mildly disappointing. It's a workers market right now, you could easily leave to find an environment with more engaged coworkers if you wanted.
Even as a premium user with all notifications in the settings switched off, I still get popups for albums that I'm assuming artists have paid Spotify extra to push towards me.
I almost exclusively use web apps. I can't remember the last time I installed an actual native app. It's been at least a year.
> Even though I had been a (long time, non-family subscription) premium user of Spotify, they started playing ads during podcasts (music was fine). How is that a "premium" service? Canceled the sub.

In the beginning of time (well, maybe not that far back), there was TV. Soon, TV had ads in them, but fear not, because you can pay extra each month and get access to premium channels that don't show ads, because you are paying extra. Soon after, they started showing ads as well. But then came the streaming services, promising Ad-free lands if you just subscribed to their service. And people did, but soon thereafter, found that the streaming services also added ads when you decided what you wanted to watch. Amazon Prime is a prime example of this.
Yes, it will be the hardcoded ads in the podcast, but I think the point still remains.

Edit: Apparently Spotify also does dynamic ads too! Greedy...

At that point, why not just use another service instead of Spotify for podcasts? E.g. Pocket Casts. If you pay for the Spotify subscription I'd expect _all_ ads to be removed.
I like this dumb idea, how about 3 different books

Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams - what evil really looks like

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan by Ibn Tufail - the "theory" of a good life

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - the "practice" of a good life

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings can be optionally replaced by Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Even caniuse lists those with an UNOFF (that is, unofficial) marker.

Just because Chrome rammed some of its internal API through standards bodies, released it in stable, and called it a standard, does not a) make it a standard, and b) mean that other browsers should rush to implement it. No matter how many HN commentators think otherwise.
Early as in remission/bites or early as in later pre-breakup?
You make so many assumptions about the sales person it's as if they're an NPC for you.

I can imagine all kinds of scenarios where what you say is just not true or irrelevant and out of the control of the sales person, yet the harm of the prank still falls upon the sales person.

Maybe the sales person replaced someone who got sick at the last minute. Maybe the sales person's incompetent manager put them there without giving them time to prepare. Maybe the person whose job it was to prepare the sales person was bad at _their_ job, or didn't have sufficient time, etc. Maybe their incompetent manager isn't as forgiving as you are and will fire them because of this incident. Maybe power-cycling the device caused the presenters settings they needed for the presentation to be wiped as well. Maybe this is a junior sales person who hoped for a promotion after this presentation.

> But one conclusion I have from this thread is that Hacker News has lost its way

My conclusion is that a lot of people lack empathy or the imagination to think beyond their own experience. But I guess that's not really surprising in this sector which apparently still lacks a lot of self-reflection around the common social problems associated with it. I'm just happy there's enough people here that do have empathy.
It’s not. Why on earth would you want to have a bunch of Soviet or communist Chinese spies running around?
Yeah, this was a known conclusion. Parasitic infection is a comorbidity of Covid and ivermectin is very effective against parasites.
Gave up on Teamviewer subscriptions years ago because of crap like this. I paid for a full license for a software rev that did everything I needed (basic remote desktop). They upped the version number and of course do not have version cross-compatibility for pre-existing features.

I just found that Teamviewer was not worth any price when the future cost and experience were entirely unpredictable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
I don't know, if coding is art, then the reviews need to be more personal. Anonymous art criticism usually isn't useful. You'll have to filter too much noise to get a signal. If you have an art mentor who knows you and your work, their feedback is much more useful.

An anonymous code review might only be to make sure everything technically works (as securely as possible).
Probably Brazillian HNers. This subject became a matter of faith in Brazil.
This video was suggested on my feed a while ago. I tried to make sense of the author and his other content, but it all seems incredibly shady and snake-oily to me. But I'm a layman

Does someone care to clarify the credibility of the author and his content?
Dumb question

Do we all have worms and don’t realize it? I say yes.

Should we take ivermectin for quality of life improvements.. is it a medicine or vitamin?
I usually try to unsubscribe form emails about two/three times. If that doesn’t work I’ll start making them as spam.

I’m aware that a company’s email address falling on the spam list can be an absolute nightmare for the company, but I have no other option to let them know that I no longer need their emails :(
Improving gender balance: a computer scientist’s suggestion of where to start
Data Protection Day: 41 Years of "Compliance on Paper"?!
Can you link a non-observational study that says so? I believe you may be conflating prophylactic and responsive medicine here.

https://ivmmeta.com provides an updated-weekly meta analysis following new publications and retractions showing significantly positive prophylactic efficacy over control in 83% of papers.
I'm in the same boat... I don't get 'tagging' the internet with Web 2 and Web 3. It's constantly moving. I think that is just hype or marketing.

I find NFT's to be a terrible and imaginary thing, but I don't care if you spend money on things that don't exist or are easy to be copied. that's what virtual items are. (I can't buy them though... I mean, they don't exist, and I work for my cash.)

It's like, how many times do we invent the same chat? IRC to User Forms to Discord and beyond.

But then again, my idea is always better and different =D
Open Source Remote Desktop Software
Sounds like a prosecutor was afraid to get sued into oblivion/have his future political ambitions ruined by this affair, and strong-armed the good doctor into signing a document to avoid this going to court, where outcomes are pretty much random.
Yes, "buzzy" or "tinny" is a good way to describe the sound I have in my implant ear. But I don't usually notice it with my other ear which has almost normal hearing up to 1500 Hz.

Definitely agree that the brain is quite malleable. I think it was an unexpected result at just how malleable the brain is in adult implant recipients.

FWIW I participated in a post-op research study and IIRC was told that more electrodes wouldn't necessarily improve the quality of the sound. I think what's much more important is the algorithms in the over-the-ear processor. (I have the Nucleus 7: https://www.cochlear.com/au/en/home/products-and-accessories...)
As someone who is currently over a year into rewriting a massive system with a fundamental design error by the original designer I can assure you that failing to plan your data model up front can have huge costs not just for you but for anyone who picks up your code in the future, and can hamstring a system so that it is impossible to extend or evolve.
This, or we could have dual booting that's relatively as easy to do on mobile as it is on PCs.

Currently, you'd have to do find an unlocked phone, hope there is a downloadable factory image, re-flash, re-lock, re-install to run whatever needs attestation. Potentially using something like Android's DSU feature, this could all be a click or two, and you could be back running Lineage with a restart.
Sometimes, (maybe the majority of times) a five liner is clearer than a one liner. I think line count is a terrible metric to use.

Agree about indentation.

Grokking time, and time to make a correct, meaningful change are good metrics.

It’d be interesting to take some of the examples from Clean Code, and rewrite them procedurally, then functionally, etc, and then test which takes the least amount of time for an average developer to understand and modify.
McCarthyism was about class struggle. Persecuting all communists, socialists and trade unionists made it less likely the working class would rise up against the capitalist ruling class. It worked for the Nazis, after all.

You seem to have internalised this logic, since you're assuming all communists are spies for another nation.
At what IC50?
I'm glad to see nix mentioned.

It's maybe a little too weird to be able to practically recommend generally. (It's very difficult to deal with unhappy cases; you really need to know what you're doing to work through those). But, the promise of being able to have a development environment made available with a single command by having declared the programs a package is built with is really neat.
Average margins on Macs are high because they charge huge amounts on updates. But I really doubt that the margin on the 2500€ Macbook Pro is 50% as you claim. Maybe the high end has big margins like that (since they overcharge on RAM/SSD), but I really doubt the low end machines have high margins like that.

I own one of the new Macbook Pros, and the build quality of them is fantastic. It's the sturdiest computer I've ever seen. It's a huge jump from their previous models, it's even better than the 2015 models, which were already very good. I've opened it up to look at the internals, and there's so much material everywhere. No wonder it's heavier. Even the base plate is a lot stiffer than in the previous models.

Now, I must concede that I'm not too familiar with windows laptops, but I've never seen anything remotely comparable to this. If you could point me to a 1300€ windows laptop that's even close to the Macbook Pro in build quality, I'd love to hear about it.

And that's not even mentioning how fantastic the display and the speakers are, because they are unbelievable.

The only thing that's cheap about the new Macbook Pros is the camera, which unfortunately is still a piece of crap, just with some machine learning algorithms applied (they don't help).
Iirc McCarthyism is the suppression of socialist ideas full stop, regardless of sympathy to Soviets or China.
Chen has to declare foreign conflicts of interest if he takes federal grants.
Then I don't think I understood your question. I agree the Copenhagen interpretation doesn't make sense, mostly because I listen to Sean Carroll's podcast.
I wonder where this discrepancy is coming from.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

The St Louis Fed website also shows census.gov as the source. Perhaps one statistic is including people who do not work such as old people and the other is not?
I had no idea either. It’s amazing how little I know about ycombinator after spending hundreds of hours on this site. I know they are somehow involved in venture capital and they employ dang.
That's not the only alternative. If iOS allowed sideloading or third-party app stores, banned apps would be available to iOS users in those countries. Since Apple is not directly offering those apps, iPhones would also remain available in those countries, just as Android device makers aren't banned for retaining Android's sideloading capabilities.
>> why not just use another service instead of Spotify for podcasts?

So... Spotify have been buying popular podcasts outrights and signing exclusivity deals. Those are only on spotify now.
Interesting comment...Other than the statement made about not wanting to speak to his wife in a foreign language, which I took as Gang Chen's perceived fear of racist treatment rather than actual racism. I did not get the opinion that racism had any role in the actions taken by authorities.

I am curious and you obviously do not need to answer, but in an effort for a fair and honest conversation and your seeing racism in this story, do you identify as a visible minority?

I think he was targeted upon returning from China when he refused to turn over device passwords to the DHS agents (Who could have been racist but are definitely authoritarian).

Don't get me wrong this whole situation rings heavily of McCarthyism and worse the offer to confess or take a deal is a disgusting practice that has destroyed many young (Black) men's lives under the guise of justice being served. There is a history of the state making the threat that not confessing's result will be so bad that deals were made and those deals had life long consequences that changed
and continue to change the trajectory of lives that otherwise had great potential if not for a corrupt legal system.
Ask HN: Why is there no Kickstarter for startups yet?
Hey there,

I've been working on https://buymeadomain.com
for over a month now. I've been soft-launching on various forums & subs and gaining a lot of feedback along the way. One such feedback was to turn this into a "Kickstarter for founders who are in napkin-sketch stage".

I searched for Kickstarter for startups but it seems no one has cared to make something like that yet! Why is it so? Are there any complications?

Let me know.
Ever seen the pfizer data with which the fda approved the vaccine? Sample size wise you are in for a good laugh.
I certainly wouldn't trust an app like this, the Android permission list is ludicrous, and the privacy statements in the EULA are equally so, but...

Jonathan Scott has yet to publish anything that concretely backs up this statement at the top of his Twitter:

"I can definitively say all Olympian audio is being collected, analyzed and saved on Chinese servers using tech from USA blacklisted AI firm "

I'm not an expert reverse engineer, but he needs to show more than just some extracted symbol names, string resources and unidentified network traffic before making "definitive" claims.