skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one cares about portability on the backend. This is a service - github dictates where it runs. I don't see this as being any more complex or involving any more "subtle semantics" than bringing an entire VM and new compiler target along.

Nothing I mentioned requires knowledge of OS security mechanisms beyond what I've described in my short comment.
Every single 18-wheeler you see, is paying at least $25k/year in taxes just for excise and fuel taxes - just to license a truck is $1800/year in Federal excise tax. Taxes on the driver, on profits etc., are on top of that.
"But we should keep in mind that the virologists publishing papers downplaying the possibility of a lab leak are not disinterested parties in this. The political context is a debate about regulating virus labs, and it’s hardly shocking that a large segment of the virus lab community doesn’t like that idea."

This, I think, is the crux of our problem. Almost anyone who knows enough about the field to have an informed opinion, is involved enough to have an incentive to convince the world that it was not their profession, that unleashed this. Scientists are human, not demons but also not angels. It would be hard to convince yourself, that your profession was responsible for this. We should listen to what they have to say, but not expect them to be dispassionate and unbiased investigators of the question.
"the" GUI? There are at least 10 desktop environments in (relatively) common usage.

The behaviour you describe is implemented in KDE / Dolphin.

(I'm not familiar with Gnome's file browsing application.)
I know we're not supposed to ask why people are downvoted but I'd be fascinated to know why you were downvoted.

I like Matt Yglesias, I think his Very Serious work is usually at least interesting, and I find some of his trollish witticisms very appealing. But I think you've hit the nail on the head; he creates a sort of Poe's Law situation around his own work because of them.

In this case I think he's overreaching a little.

But then I also think the lab leak theory was discredited and avoided partly from well-meaning applications of the wrong reasons, because even if you make a serious review of it as a professional accident, the Wrong People will definitely like and share your work for their own awful/vile/violent reasons. And nobody wants to be part of that.
The math hasn't changed - the competition has. All the insanely obvious stuff is gone. You need real insight now.

I didn't make a point about IPOs. I made a point about companies where real insight was required, both to see good investments and not make bad ones. Simple rules like "IPOs are bad", "dont pay x times earnings" etc, they haven't worked in years.
Intel's profit is $20 billion. They can afford to shave margins for a few years in order to block AMD and regain relevance.
Why? Companies are owned, run and used by humans, and humans have feelings and conscience, and they sometimes use them to make decisions.
Again, this is just like saying that a camera existing enables the government to hack it, so rear view cameras are part of forming a surveillance state.

There is literally no reason for automakers to do this, and yes I know now the FUD comes in "well they will cuz reasons! cuz gubbmint!"

But just like the rear view camera... you're imagining that they'll spend significant time and money to do something with no use other than incriminating themselves...

So sure maybe your rear view camera can be rigged to stream to their servers 24/7, some already record and upload incidents anyways right?

But it's a massive jump from the happy path.

This is 100000x easier to do on the car without looping in a remote server and opens them up to 100000000000x more liability if the interface is hacked.

They wouldn't do it.
Meanwhile, raw potatoties without skins are definitely poisonous. Back in Bulgaria, if kids wanted to skip school, they would eat some raw potato, get fever, and legimitately get excused.

Potatoes can also disable a car by stuffing its exhaust with one [1] - it's another fun with potatoes kids had back then.

[1]: https://carfromjapan.com/article/car-maintenance/a-potato-is...
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It's phrased very carefully "cards issued by Russian banks will no longer be supported by the Mastercard network", which sounds like they still might work in Russia even if they are not supported by the network. Next sentence is "any Mastercard issued outside of the country will not work at Russian merchants". Why make this clear distinction? Why not just say that all Mastercard won't work in Russia?
Somewhat undermined by restricting to an approved list (only those she follows in addition to Yglesias) who can reply to the rebuttal.
Hasn't really been a problem for other countries to avoid this problem, so I'm not sure how worried I ought to be. Like so many things, I'll worry about trends when there is a trend.
Translate to other language then back and fix errors.
D does have lifetime annotations so it might be interesting to tell the Analyzer that certain things can't escape
I think seeking to know the truth as best we can is the best path to peace.
People don't even choose to be born at all. That isn't an argument.

There is no place one even could choose to live that doesn't have some sort of communal shared structure and resources, which everyone benefits from, and everyone must contribute to, and so "didn't choose" is yet again, not an argument.
Again, I see sites like reddit and Youtube as megaphones. Not being on them doesn't stop your freedom to speech. Information was is also asymmetric, it takes a fraction the effort and time to spread lies and propaganda, than it takes to fact check and correct it. So especially when the people spreading lies have a lot to gain (many are making a ton of money spreading lies that get clicks), I absolutely don't believe such voice should be given a "platform". They are perfectly free to spread their own speech by themselves, but they are not entitled to free amplification and spread from Youtube or Twitter.
>This page contains material that is kept because it is considered humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.
> The images were shot using Apple's ProRAW format and then edited using the mobile version of Lightroom on the iPhone itself

In other words, they were shot on an iPhone. And processed there too, incidentally. What's to "c'mon" about?
Why would those be mutually exclusive? Ie it could have originated in the lab, somehow got out into the local environment, and then started spreading in the market through an infected animal.
Historical regimes have managed to implement similarly restrictive controls on the population with absolutely primitive technology compared to today.

It’s troubling, but hardly without precedent. Imagine if they had social media in the 30s-40s.
They could still block based on SNI.

Tor ought to still work, or some other “full fat” VPN.
VSCode is an Electron app and it works fine. Slack is garbage because its authors just don't give a damn, not because of Electron.
odd that this is downvoted. it’s an unpopular, but necessary, perspective to hear presented (mostly) rationally. i disagree with a few of its foundational premises, but then, it disagrees with some of mine (e.g. Nato intransigence on its “open door policy”) and that’s ok. i appreciate the read and is a good corrective to the putin-as-hitler madman narrative.
So something that has entered the discourse of HN [0] is that there is a large PR industry that powers the corporate press. That is where a lot of the money comes from which decides what & how things get covered.

Something I think is plausible is that they've figures out a technique for controlling the narrative in the internet age where they take the range of opinions in a group with positions they don't like, identify a really wild one, debunk it, then tar the whole group with that opinion. I'm not thinking any particular group, although I'm guessing it is deployed against literally all political protests. The technique really needs a well known name.

I doubt that is happening for lab-leak stuff since nobody is making money off it (and if the Chinese government cares they can just restrict access to info). But it is really interesting to note how difficult it was to restart the conversation once the lab leak theory was "debunked", so I'm sure the technical people who want to control the narrative took note. It was a nice clear example of how the dynamics come together.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I quite like the idea of being able to remote control the oven and maybe have a camera view inside but these smart appliances always do something batshit that scares me off
Your understanding is correct. It's illegal to be opposition inside of the country, so now people who would otherwise be leaving now, are stuck inside
Sure we do. Currently we are giving Putin up to a Billion USD per day to buy his oil and gas.

If we cut off this market it would cripple Putin’s war in Ukraine much more effectively than arming Ukrainians on the ground.

Add in energy subsidies to affected customers in need of economic support to offset the inevitable increase in oil/gas prices in the short-term and we can blunt the worst of the pain on regular Europeans.

Why is this proposal not even worth considering? Broad economic sanctions are most definitely not the only option to pressure Putin.
See reply by assusdan:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30572790

They still work within Russia as the network is not run by MasterCard within Russia.
I was under the impression people are buying Teslas voluntarily, not because it’s mandated by the government.
The population of Marin County is only 258k, and more like 175k when Bart planning began. Building that line would probably serve more people in SF than in Marin, so it never really made sense.
Yes, instead of paying a token fine and continue wrongdoing we ought to mimic the Europeans and stick them with a significant fine in addition to requiring that they pay back wages and any other monies due. The shipping industry will evolve to be profitable while paying people.

On my last cross country trip I saw many dozens of freight trains that were stacked double high and hundreds of cars long. They could have been doing this all along! But before covid they tended to be only single stacked and capped out around sixty cars.

I also noticed a lot more triple-trailer semi trucks - mostly fedex. I’m less excited about those because they sway a lot in the wind and that’s a problem on narrow roads.
Not on the Mac. If you take MS Office and the Adobe stuff aside, the iconic indy Mac apps are still ruling their respective categories.
Which, tbh, was pretty much the stated intention before starting the conflict - cut off the new superpowers and their historic satellite states dependence on [insolvent] western financiers.
Russians still have the freedom to transact in cash, and with domestic transfer companies. They do not have the right to have their transactions fulfilled by third-party facilitators.
> but for them to take it upon themselves

they're not.

they do what they're told.
That means Arc is more successful than most lisps
Esteemed value investor Damodaran disagrees with you:
http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/pdfiles/country/option....

BTW, not only did you respond with smugness and a narcissistic sense of superiority but you ignore my question, which was an opportunity to display your expertise, were you to have any. You are out of your element with financial talk. Stick to programming.
I sure wish more people knew about my product, cause it’s preeeeeeetty sweet
We are certainly reading two different types of literature on the matter.
Not sure if you read it, but in the New York Magazine article by Nicholson Baker [0], that the rest of the press really hammered them for publishing, there is one bit that I still find really persistently interesting.

He's talking about the lab's lead coronavirus researcher, Shi Zhengli:

Could this new virus, she wondered, have come from her own laboratory? She checked her records and found no exact matches. “That really took a load off my mind,” she said. “I had not slept a wink for days.”

If one of the first thoughts that goes through the head of a lab director at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is that the new coronavirus could have come from her lab, then we are obliged to entertain the scientific possibility that it could indeed have come from her lab.

It's reminiscent of the idea that the CIA were so jumpy about the JFK and RFK assassinations not because they know they did them, but that their fingers were in so many pies with so many undesirables that they didn't know they weren't involved.

I don't think we'll ever know for sure, and I think it's a vanishingly unlikely idea that there was any malice. But an accidental escape? There are viruses named after accidental escapes. They happen.

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...
As I see it the primary customers for the professional class Macs are employees of ‘tech companies’, where there are rich veins of enterprise funding just waiting to be wasted.
Re: Cellular Connectivity
Apple purchased the 5g chip ip and development teams from Intel in 2019, so I suspect we’ll see those modems in more apple gear this year. To maximise advertising impact and lessen the cash flow, I would guess they’ll be in non iPhone devices first, that feels like an apple move to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they add it directly in the m2 chip, since that would help explain why they didn’t switch over to it last year.
Samsung doesn’t have real optical zoom. Their system works by using a separate 1x, 3x, and 10x zoom camera and software interpolation for in-between levels. The 10x zoom camera has the most interesting optics because its lens stack is too long to fit in the phone, so instead it’s a “periscope” camera in which the lenses are sideways and light hits them through a prism, then goes through another prism to hit the sensor. Here’s a diagram of Apple’s (shorter focal length and hitherto unimplemented) version:

https://www.dpreview.com/files/p/articles/8346943838/iPhone_...
> To counter this claim, I'd ask you to consider which of two similarly sized invasions was easier to achieve: D-Day and the invasion of Western Europe, or Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of Eastern Europe. You may also consider why the Nazis never made it to Great Britain, and why Great Britain has been insulated from the Great Wars of Europe more often than it has taken part in the conflicts.

It seems that this paragraph is meant to suggest that Barbarossa was easier than D-Day, but this might not be the best example, since Barbarossa failed and D-Day succeeded. (Of course, a lot of things could have gone differently that could have made the outcomes very different, but I still find this example a little unconvincing.)
It’s not picking sides it’s a result of economic sanctions. How are financial transactions going to clear when Visa/MC can’t transfer money in/out of Russia.
Could do that, I guess, but it'd still end up the same way. They probably wouldn't give you a credit. And if they did, it would be a pittance. In the end, having the big box store install it, you end up spending the same as just paying the builder their price.

Like I said, it's a really great strategy for the builder. I was quite impressed with how my builder played the game, even though it was infuriating. I couldn't find a way to get around it and be financially ahead.
> Crimea was never actually part of Ukraine

You mean never before 1954. After the collapse of USSR, in 1994 Russia agreed to respect Ukraine's independence with its current (back then) borders, signed in the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.
They worked for years towards becoming a EU member. Putin wants to turn them back into a puppet state for "his sovjet union".
I feel there has to be a huge amount of cronyism and corruption going on in the California government, otherwise how can anyone explain the astronomical costs in every rail project.
tangent: I don't know if you have ever seen Noam Chomsky discuss Kennedy's decisions at that point, but I think it is the only topic I've ever seen him visibly furious over.
The really dumb thing was San Mateo county backed out initially, so that for a long time BART didn't go to SFO.
I meant RAM sticks that would fit on a SE
I don't think you are insane, I do however think you should probably read up on what 'sanctions' means
I would recommend making those points on the article's talk page instead of (or in addition to) on here.
Not really. After all, there are no sanctions, it's a financial special operation in Russia.

The term's already become a meme in some places on the Internet.
Lo: Lodash-style Go library based on Go 1.18 Generics
You're going to need to explain a little more of your idea. What does this QR code do? What happens if I put the Google.com QR code on my web site? What does your TOTP app do with this QR code when it sees one? Stuff like that.
Many of the cost/benefit high medium low values appear to me to be little more than rand consensus amongst a skewed interest group. They think forward placement for bombers is low risk and high advantage and that seems to me to understate risk and overstate benefit of posture change.

They think UAV is moderate benefit high risk despite good evidence turkish UAV are successfully being used.

I normally like rand think-tank consensus polls but I think this one is tainted by beltway force/division, investment and materiel selling pressures.
They picked sides in the past too, ask one Mr. Assange how he knows.
People watch a lot of tv and read places like him for hours. You can probably find the time of you do time tracking for a week.
Electron is like JAVA to me - I simply refuse to use them. Only Chrome type apps I use are Vivaldi and Microsoft Edge on the Mac.
I’m still impressed every time when I’m reminded that VSCode is an Electron app.

What did they get right that everyone else fails to?
I didn't understand your question
TSMC is already planning multiple factories in the US, India,etc... So is Intel. Raw materials are what are most concerning. Either way, it would be bad for the economy but war is profitable and war time powers can bend a lot of rules/companies.
I’d rather die a free man than live 100 years under a dictatorship.
This seems like a PR play. What's the end goal of these sanctions? Haven't seen them able to topple governments in Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, etc. They are even less likely to work with Russia.
Also reminds me of laptops being bundled with tons of crapware no one would ever use. A lot easier to just delete that stuff than to remove an appliance from your home though.
It has been a problem. There is pretty much a duopoly, look at the difficulties you face if they disapprove your business or politics. More competition is long overdue.

But we are testing modern finance by weaponising the financial system. The most problematic move I think has been freezing the central bank's reserve. It might achieve the short term gain of hurting Russia, but what about the long term impact on the trust in holding foreign currencies?
That may be true today but it feels like it's changing, though. And I think it kind of aligns with what the authors are talking about. Apps started today are natively collaborative and they're written with web technology.
Well, it is a chain of trusted components that are responsible for loading the next component in the chain.

UEFI with Secure Boot enabled will only load the stage 1 bootloader if it is signed with the firmware trusted certificate. We don't know if this component is malicious, we just know it is signed by the certificate.

The stage 1 bootloader (shim) will then be responsible for loading the next component (stage 2 bootloader). It will only boot the component if it is signed with a trusted (chosen by the user/distro) certificate.

The bad guys can't insert themselves into this process, as they either have to be trusted by the UEFI firmware (protected by an owner password), signed by Microsoft (to replace the shim) or be signed by the distro's certificate.

As long as the chain is unbroken it is secure.
It amazes me how bad many so called tech companies tech is.

We have a cross platform GUI app at work which is just a library that wraps the native GUI (Win32/X11 calls). The core interface is basically maintained by one person, but these tech companies seem to struggle with teams and teams of people working on their (say) Slack desktop apps.
Even Java is better than electron at this point
Isn't the wider issue that developers follow the money. What's a few million Mac users compared to 100s of millions of iOS users? I can charge a buck and sell a few 100K iOS sales but where is the market for MacOS apps to sell? Is there one?
NATO can only do something if NATO is attacked first. It can't do pre-emptive attacks. It depends a lot on the party in power in the US as well as the sentiment towards China. A lot of working class people might see it as a way to prove why shipping jobs and manufacturing there was a bad idea.
Ah okay. Sounds like we need more „special economic operations“ then
No, its not insane for them to do this -- in fact the opposite. Every person has to make the decision for themselves in the end, this goes all the way to presidents and political leaders. You will either stand by, profit and watch, as a neo-Nazi regime rapes a country -- or you will take a stance. When this is all over people will be asking: Where were you and what did you do when the war was happening?
Ask HN: What's the significance that Senators used Zoom and not an American tech
I've been reading the last 2 years that Zoom is not secure, etc.

Yet the Senators and Zelensky used Zoom (a Chinese technology) to confer.

What's the significance that they didn't use an American tech instead?
Reminds me of this additional BART fubar, thanks to which we have no BART all the way around the bay.

Basically two self interested people on the San Mateo county board of supervisors kept the county residents from even voting on participating in the BART system! One was the head of Caltrain, fending off competition, the other a real estate developer.

NB, the Bohannon's are now mega rich real estate owners [1] in the Bay Area.

Electric trains could have been here long ago. In the late 1950s, San Mateo County was one of five counties in the San Francisco Bay Area Transit District. The district could assess taxes and issue bonds and had a round-the-Bay light-rail system planned, according to a history at the website of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).

The plan derailed, according to the BART account, because San Mateo County supervisors were "cool to the plan." They chose to exit the district in December 1961, citing the proposed system's "high costs" and the "adequate service" from Southern Pacific commuter trains, now Caltrain.

George Mader, who retired in 2010 after 45 years as Portola Valley's town planner, has another angle. The "cool to the plan" characters were two men of influence, he said in a March 11 letter to Portola Valley Mayor Ted Driscoll.

The "major problems," Mr. Mader said, were T. Louis Chess, who chaired the county Board of Supervisors and worked for Southern Pacific Railway, and David D. Bohannon, a "major player" in the county and the developer of the then-new Hillsdale Shopping Center.

BART would take shoppers away from Hillsdale and into San Francisco, "where shopping was rather good at the time," Mr. Mader said. For his part, Mr. Chess was protecting Southern Pacific. And the county voters would have had to decide on whether to join BART.

"These short-sighted and selfish people did not let the residents vote," Mr. Mader said. "A travesty!"

As for high-speed rail today, Mr. Mader suggests "a much better solution" to the route controversy: Stop it at San Jose and extend BART around the Bay using the money that would have been spent on the South Bay and Peninsula sections of a high-speed rail line.

[0]https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2011/03/29/planner-has-alte...

[1]http://www.ddbo.com/mengat-office