skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a professor in the field of cryptography and there are export restrictions here as well. Under no circumstances would I allow the US government to block publication of my papers or talks based on the theory that my speech is “a technology export.” It’s not even clear that this would be allowed under the First Amendment. The government could obviously try to advance that theory, but I strongly suspect they would run into a hailstorm of First Amendment litigation and public blowback.

To me it feels like these prosecutions are an attempt to do exactly that — place restrictions on academic speech and collaboration — but to do it through the “backdoor” of funding agencies and fraud accusations. In other words, if the US said “we are prosecuting you for sharing your open research publications with Chinese scientists,” this would be politically and maybe constitutionally infeasible. So instead they’re trying to achieve effectively the same chilling effect by accusing these scientists of criminal fraud in their funding applications. It is also noteworthy that these cases keep falling apart, which makes me think that they’re exactly as weak as I'm making them out to be.

At the end of the day we need to be very careful about this. We are a country that values free speech, has a constitution that guarantees it, and also needs open speech to make science work. “The government passed some laws restricting technology export” does not actually mean the government can and should be able to restrict scientific speech, and it definitely shouldn’t let them do it through weird indirect means like this.

ETA: It is important to draw a distinction between proprietary or classified IP (and physical equipment) where espionage or theft of trade secret accusations might make sense vs. open scientific research where it sure doesn’t. These cases keep trying to blur the distinction. I suspect if they were clear examples of the former then the cases wouldn’t keep collapsing.

ETA2: I have NSF funding and I just want to add that NSF regulation is byzantine. There are too many regulations surrounding NSF applications and reporting for a human (with an actual job) to be 100% certain that they haven't misstated something or omitted a critical detail. I would guess every US scientist is vulnerable to this sort of (selective, politically-motivated) prosecution.
>Getting arrested over bureaucratic nonsense like failing to disclose some affiliation? That's some 1984 stuff.

People routinely cheer when the bureaucratic gotcha is being applied to someone they don't like. People gleefully cite the Al Capone prosecution for example.
> ackshually we call it "growth hacking". sounds better to investors ;)

Which is strange, because the term “hacking” used to set jimmies a’rustlin’ and underwear a’bunchin’ whenever it came up.
God actually forbade me to care after 5pm.
It gets worse. If you make a twitter account, then sign out, it will refuse to show you anything until you either sign back in or clear your cookies. I made a quick account to test out the API, then found that I'd need to give them a phone number actually generate an API key. Suddenly, every publicly-visible URL started stating that I must be logged in to view the content.
I've done that to myself. That took a bit of figuring out :)
Obesity increases the risk of illness which contributes to spread.
> There is absolutely nothing noble about it.

The cause, not the execution. I never said that the execution was noble. The phrase “noble cause” is used to describe this exact kind of situation, where the ends don’t justify the means.

That they botched the execution was my entire point. Rounding up homos was easy and made themselves look good in the eyes of the public. Much easier than identifying and rounding up actual spies. I’m talking about the perverse incentives here.
In 80s and 90s engineers knew how to write developer documentation - a lost skill http://www.atariunix.com/docs/developers_guide.pdf
If I could only read one parenting book I would probably choose this one. Actually I listened to it on Audible.

The author only looks at one hunter gatherer group. The rest are really just rural communities that have maintained a community and cultural wisdom that supports raising children. In either case the focus is on learning from these other cultures about parenting.
Fascinating argument, but unfortunately, we are doomed. That is, unless we go nuclear. Apart from that, there is nowhere near enough energy or resources to maintain our current lifestyle (and that's ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the world's population don't enjoy this lifestyle and very much wish to) in a "renewable" fashion.
Incorrect. It is a MORAL issue. Technology stolen from the US companies is advancing the national security agendas of countries with no regard for human rights and the rule of law. It is immoral to turn a blind eye to this very real threat.
My set of tools is make, docker/nix, and a README
No, it really couldn't. If you look at the history of statements by medical professional, the claims made were reasonable advice based on the best facts available. There were improvements as information clarified — for example, people stopped worrying about spread on surfaces after it became clear that this was not happening on an noticeable scale — but the advice was generally reasonable and had plenty of scientific support (e.g. it's not controversial to say masks and ventilation help control a respiratory disease).

The Hydroxychloroquine / Ivermectin sales people picked random pharmaceuticals and started recommending them without any serious theory or evidence supporting that they worked and, far more tellingly, they were clearly uninterested in testing their faith: it was all based on anecdotes and flawed studies and, unlike real scientists, when gaps or contradictory evidence were observed they tried to confabulate explanations which supported the conclusion they already had rather than question it.
Those economics are the result of the system set up by politics and laws, which mandate car dependency and outlaw walkable neighborhoods.

Those stores arose because smaller more convenient commercial space is banned. And once going to the store means a drive, hunting for a parking spot, and walking, you start to minimize your trips to the store, and buy a lot more at once to minimize the basic hassle of doing it by car.

And once each trip becomes more infrequent and larger scale, then the bigger stores start to make sense, because you are never going to be walking by their store front and quickly grab something, they try to get every last dollar from you on your trip by providing a huge array of products, requiring more space.
Async Rust: Panics vs. Cancellation
They still know. They're just not told/incentivized to do so.
Are we really trying to claim that sales people should have the same level of knowledge as power-users / developers / engineers who build such things?

Perhaps I'm too young, but I've literally never know any such a salesperson. They're there to be charismatic and friendly, and show the features for which they've been handed a script.

Their job is to drive interest, and address very, VERY high level concerns. They're not experts, else they'd (by and large) be doing something other than sales, yes?

(To be fair, it's possible that we've just eliminated reasonable expectations of salespeople, but that's not clear to me yet)
> I always give side eye to the accounting that considers lost sales opportunities to be losses.

That's a perfectly valid but also somewhat trivial point. Some number has to be assigned as human nature requires it.

Maybe the best representation of the situation is to present it as a question. When fabs cost $xx billion and take almost a decade to reach fruition from R&D to the point where they start shipping a viable product, if you were able to shave two to four years off that process, what does that number look like to you?
Honestly, this seems like the most entitled thing ever. You want to use someone else's stuff for free but you get annoyed that they want you to have an account.
I forget where I first saw it, but there's a joke of "ten lines, ten issues; 1,000 lines, looks good". There's a human limit to how much you can hold in your head when reviewing code.
This sounds like a good idea. Do you usually have to look through the email headers to find the email service provider?
Israeli Police: From Warrantless Cellphone Searches to Misuse of Spyware
Sales isn't the only part of it. Hynix could have reverse engineered the chip and made a functional copy that wouldn't violate any copyright or patent laws (this last is a maybe, depending on if the interface is patented or just the implementation), but that would have cost millions in engineering hours. They also could have hired engineers to build the fabs, again at the cost of a lot of engineering hours.
And was also trying to get off of it before they stopped making hardware altogether. Motorola fumbled the ball by declaring 68k pretty much over, pushing their doomed 88k arch then killing that and moving to PowerPC just a couple years later.
I'd call Twitter many things, but never a necessity. And the contrived person for who it is, has an account and won't be bothered by a login prompt.
Make works just fine across everything I've ever tried
> If we're teaching people in driving school a habit, the "Dutch reach" doesn't actually focus on looking to see if the way is clear. It might incidentally improve how many people look, but why be so passive about it? Just teach people to get in the habit of looking.

AFAIK this is what's actually taught in the Netherlands -- look in the side mirror, over your shoulder through the window, and only then open the door.
Of these points, I think that (almost) free cross-compile to the web is the only one that really holds up to inspection.

Cross-platform desktop software has been a thing for decades prior to Electron showing up on the scene, there are frameworks designed explicitly to support that, and there is a truly massive ecosystem of native libraries and tools.
Indeed. A former colleague married a Chinese lady whose parents had suffered badly through the Cultural Revolution. He told the story, how she went off to the US for her PhD and how her parents drove her to the airport and told her never to return to China.

How things have changed within just a generation!
According to the link you shared it's a bug in Xft and not st:
> Please don't bother reporting this bug to st, but notify the upstream Xft developers about fixing this bug.
I'm an American driver who (obviously) wasn't taught this, either. However, I read about it around the same time a bicycle gutter was painted in front of my house, and it stuck with me. As a result, every time I open my car door I think "Dutch Reach!" and I check my mirror for cyclists (I don't actually open the door with my opposite hand). So even if it's apocryphal, it's a catchy idea and you should take the credit.

My full technique also involves popping the door only a few inches and allowing it to sit that way for a couple seconds, then opening it slowly, just to be doubly cautious.
To expand on this: Even if your custom license is concise and theoretically great, there are legal departments in companies that will disallow using your software because they aren't fully certain about the implications of the terms.

While one of the standard licenses may not cover the exact terms you would like, I would still recommend to consider using one because it makes adoption so much easier.
> As they say "measure twice, cut once".

and also the reuse of the term architecture.. don't put beams at random and see if it works, plan in advance and calculate. They probably had these realizations thousands of years ago, it's a generic economy principle.

I forgot what the saying is but solution unfold themselves when you thought about the problem long enough.

Oh and lastly, Grothendieck said he wasn't in the business of solving problems, but expressing them.
I killed my accounts when they gave me the GDPR consent to tracking or close account ultimatum so nowadays I have the privacy redirect browser extension send me to nitter instead when I need to read tweets.
We have the "don't call me register" - https://www.dncm.be/nl/

If businesses call you and you're on it. You can file a complaint.
Literally nobody does this. But the Netherlands is the best country in the world when it comes to cycling. The infrastructure is sublime, you are protected physically from most traffic. Some cities have hardly any stoplights and of course all the roads are perfectly flat.

Sometimes I fail to realize how good our infra actually is, and what it does to society.
Ask HN: How to Get Good Sleep
The time to bring technology to market is also worth lots of money.

Do you not think Intel is at a loss financially due to how they fell behind TSMC in fabrication technology?

If Intel instead had had the better process, how much more revenue would they have, what market cap would they have?

It has material impact. If someone unscrupulous could steal TSMCs tech, do you not think TSMC would suffer? Or how much better off the thief would be?
> I want to know if they’re using Rosetta on their M1 test machine or running it natively

Natively.

There's an open PR[0], #5155, to get OBS native on Apple Silicon. That's also what your weird fork uses.

Apple's PR is on top of that work: you'll see that there are 10 or so initial commits. Thus #5155 will need to be merged first, before Apple's.

#5155 is a huge PR and has been open for 5 months. Its release will also necessitate OBS get an M1 testing solution figured out. Here's a quote[2] from an OBS team member two days ago:

> [This PR is] top of our priority list once we release 27.2. We're keenly aware of how badly people want a native Apple Silicon build, and I can assure you that we will definitely be publishing official test builds of OBS with M1 support as soon as we are able.

I would nevertheless expect for all of this to take quite a while.

[0] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155

[1] https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155#issuecomm...
True. As much as we like to gripe about administrative proceduralism (and it can be very irritating), it does address this problem quite well.
Words should have meaningful usages though, yes?

I mean, we let "literally" become a contranym, and broke an awful lot of conversations and literatary comprehension, yea?
This hits close to home… I’ve run under and over that bridge many, many times. I really hope no one was on their morning run under it, but it looks like everyone who was on it got away with minor injuries.

It is a main artery for connecting two neighborhoods… there are many bridges like this all over Pittsburgh, but it’s not the “big” ones over one of the three rivers.

Odd timing, but Biden is also in town today. Talk about crumbling critical infrastructure…
The country I'm living in has both lower level retail and higher level residential housing (mixed use) ... And big box stores. Sometimes in the same building. It's not a one or the other choice. And the stand alone malls are connected by mini busses to residential areas.
Its stuff like this that scares me. Pittsburgh claims to have more bridges than any other city in the world.[0] You're driving around here, and you cross little ones without noticing. I hope I'm not ever near (or using) a collapsing one. The rivers are big here.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-30187252

Edit: not bridge related, but a sinkhole opened downtown over 2 years ago, also swallowing a bus: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2019/10/28/...
I believe that one of the responsibilities of the board of auditors is hearing complaints against officeholders for waste of public funds.
This is such a heartless response.

This response puts both property and a narrow understanding of the law in front of lives.

First let’s just acknowledge that the article is describing a small change in driver habit to save lives. Not the lives of drivers, but the bicyclists.

Second, while bicyclist are often treated like other vehicles by default there are many exceptions made for bicycles, this is a reasonable one.

Finally this comment seems to demonstrate a deeply fundamental misunderstanding of the design flaw of putting a bunch of parked cars directly next to a bike lane with no safety gap.

There is almost no safe speed to bike next to a car where you can practically avoid a door that could open any second. This is why lanes are given a wide berth of parked cars. This same affordance has not been given to most bike lanes as cities have attempt to squeeze bike lanes into existing roads. It leaves bicyclists a sophie’s choice: ride in the road with the cars, or in the bike lane with the doors.
Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?
Particularly interested in how people use feature flags on the frontend.

Does your team use them? If not, why not?
Some raw feedback: It’s impossible to read on my iPhone. All content ends up in the far left quarter-column of my screen. I can’t zoom to see the content in that column (a default behavior for most sites). Switching to “reader” mode (to remove all the stying tricks) seems to show content that is not related to the article I was trying to read. I’ve rarely seen a site wreck an iPhone safari browser that badly :) - I’m interested in the topic though, so will try to remember to look when at a full-size browser.
Not only great for a dev shell, but also has a killer feature in nix-shell shebangs. So I can fully encapsulate requirements of a helper script in the file itself, and not dirty the local system with, for example, `jq` just because I want to parse JSON.
Only a tiny exaggeration by the submitter there! Makes it sound like a bridge over the Monongahela collapsed, which it didn't.
This is false. I can confirm there are thousands of “not-closed” lakes in America.
If you're comparing "faux" town centers to century old walkable town centers, then they do seem lacking. But in most of North America, the alternative to "faux" town centers isn't original town centers. The alternative is miles of stroads flanked by strip malls, or islands of big box shopping malls surrounded by an ocean of parking lots. In this context, the open-air shopping mall as town center is a net positive. Especially when combined with apartment buildings or townhouses as is also happening in some new developments.
> Xcode alone almost justifies the 30% cut on apps

Come on, that’s ridiculous even if I take it as an exaggeration. On what grounds would it have anything to do with the revenue one creates through an app they made? It would be an equivalent of the canvas’s manufacturer Mona Lisa is painted on wanting recognition for their work.
I've taken a course by Dr. Keith Devlin (professor at Standford) through coursera: _Introduction to Mathematical Thinking_, which I found quite interesting. However, I studied medicine, so perhaps it may be too basic for someone who has studied mathematics in university.
From my cursory knowledge of the topic, there are competitors like ROCm, but CUDA was the first that had a useable solution here. Also last time I checked ROCm doesn't have broad support on consumer cards, which makes it harder for people to try it out at home.

But it seems ROCm is getting better and it has tensorflow and pytorch support, so there's reasons to be hopeful to see some competition here.
Radarr, Lidarr, Sonarr and LazyLibrarian got you covered. Get on a few private sites for torrents or usenet and never visit them again.
Having Apple contribute in the area of their expertise makes sense.

Are they supposed to contribute the Windows 11 screen cap?
Why expertise is necessary, but can also at times block significant progress.
#4 isnt about the accuracy of the fine structure constant.

#4 is about limiting the discussion to QM as opposed to dealing the claim that QM is incomplete - that maybe the only reason it gives us probabilities for events is because its incomplete, and maybe theres a deeper theory that would supersede QM; this line of reasoning would not be productive to scott's initial question, which is focused on the nature of QM, given that it is true in a fundamental way.
Vaccines are far less profitable than most of their other drugs. If they were looking to get rich, they'd want something like the HIV inhibitors where each patient is buying from them on a frequent basis.
In that case, no, almost no FAANG employees do that. I would have had to file paperwork and receive legal signoff for each individual patch to any open-source projects that weren't owned by the company.

What does exist is specially "blessed" FAANG teams who are cleared to contribute to specific open-source projects that are critical to the business. Amazon has a team who contributes to the linux kernel for hypervisor support, for example.
Protease inhibitors are amazingly powerful, but also very difficult to make work in practice. Many protease inhibitors have been developed and abandoned.
As one of those very harmful devs you're referring to, I think you have it backwards. From my perspective, anyone who lionizes linting and arbitrary practices as "best" is actively harmful to whatever mission my team may have. Readability matters; maintainability matters; functionality matters more. The longer you talk about proper tab spacing, the less time you're talking about algorithm optimization.

If you care so much about the look of the code, you should have gone into marketing.
Why would you not want an account on a website you rely on? It's one thing to complain that your occasional visits to twitter are more inconvenient now. But if you would go so far as to say that people rely on them, then it seems like a silly hill to die on for those people to resist creating an account.
> As is happening in this thread, for example.

One poster, that is an obvious throwaway, created 3 hours ago. (all posts flagged)

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gofkurself

On the other hand you've complained about this no less than 3 times in different threads. why? How is an obvious troll account relevant to other posters issues with your own behaviour? This feels like what-about-im, but the difference is it's pretty clear that the other guy isn't being tolerated.
> This list seeks to eradicate all of that, in favor of a single, white christian, perspective.

This is a straw man. Teaching history is important but teaching all history through the lens of oppressor/oppressed is problematic. Many parents' rightly object to ideologically-driven teachings where white children are singled-out and taught that they are oppressors of all other children.
Are you suggesting Lærke shouldn't be able to put her name in a filename?

Or that I can't type my address, which contains ø?
> Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.

I agree with this to a degree. However, it's so much easier to find and interact with/around content tailored to your interests on FB/Twitter/Reddit than to use the indie web. Network effects mean the silos are growing and the experience of using the more open internet is increasingly niche. This seems a shame to those of us who really enjoyed the more open internet. (I'm not saying it's dead, just that the people who missed it are so well catered for by the silos that they don't go looking for it, so it stays niche).
I’ve always been weary that we have solely relied on the incredible infrastructure investments of our ancestors. Time to build some of our own.
I have done all of these things.

The last time I did this, I wrote a self documenting bash script project.sh similar to the last Nix example with a list of commands and a help text and menu options.

Another useful object is not just unix history but a tool like Rash in Python, advanced bash shell history stored in SQLite. There are many similar tools nowadays but then you can look for commands you run in this project directory structure in your cli history. Projects are not flat, so there may be specific commands needed in certain directories.