skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not possible to sell on Taobao with an American/European/Japanese/Australian/Singaporean,etc company, also without a physical rental or property in China. Also this conversation is becoming a bit laboured considering how obvious the differences are:

I will reiterate how easy it is to access the profitability of an American consumer vs any other country from any country.

And the impact it has on the dollars accumulated by selling to Americans is still unchallenged (its still at the top of the list). The key to changing the reserve of US dollars is attacking this fundamental truth as that is the source of the US dollars being a majority in the first place.

I understand the dislike of having US dollars so prominent but the reason they exist is simply they aren't spent by the people who sold to the US. That is the fundamental thing to change to get rid of dollar dominance as it is the root.

I would recommend to you a book by Michael Pettis, a professor at the University of Beijing called The Great Rebalancing who makes this all clear. He is also not sycophantic to the US if that is a concern
Isn’t the pressure applied on your eyes a risk though? That’s one of the reasons keeping me away from using sleep masks.
If you don't know the use-case for reactivity and are going to advocate for "vast majority apps" being authored in "HTML/JS/CSS", I don't really understand why you're debating me.

Frontends - that are clearly more complex than the ones you use - are state machines managing asynchronously-accessible state stored in external services. Due to the nature of how many resources an application might use, it quickly becomes cumbersome to map out that state machine manually, and it is more beneficial to just write declarative display logic that will automatically execute when the necessary preconditions are present and a change has occurred within the state management.

Now, mind you, nothing I've said really involves reactivity yet; and, even worse, most solutions - especially your custom SPA - will rerender the entire tree of objects relying on each changed resource in order to accomplish what I listed.

The beauty of reactivity is that you as a developer simply write modular code - whether it's state or view, the more modular the better - and then your system ensures changes to the underlying state tree flush updates to the view modules attached exactly to the parts of the state tree what changed. It's optimal performance by default, you run the least amount of your own code each time a change happens.

Of course, it brings its own challenges and issues, but it really means that your general answer to "how can I scale this UI" is just "write it in smaller chunks", and that scales pretty dang finely across a team.

Unlike a hand-rolled ball of JS. Come on folks, it's 2023, put your tired arguments away.
Yes, looks to be the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palivizumab
Astronauts Going to Mars Should Be Only Women – It's Basic Science
Sure but a court can order you to do a future transaction that effectively reverses the original. (Akin to how almost every single reversed transaction _actually_ works).

And if you refuse, they can order your local (or not so local) PD to jail you until you comply.

Blockchain still exists in the real world with its very real rules.
I haven't watched it yet, but the Practical Deep Learning for Coders course that's available on YouTube is often recommended

https://course.fast.ai/
Explain it to me like I’m your mom.
The masks that are cloth all the way around and have velco work for restless sleepers and side sleepers, or at least that has been my experience. I was on a medication ages ago that made me restless. Look online for the masks that are 100% cotton cloth and have a thin padding inside. Avoid the masks with the eye-shaped face and avoid the masks with the stretch band as they do exactly as you describe.
I think that message is relevant for the kind of services that IBM provides. Most of IBM’s recent come from Consulting. IBM’s consulting charges start at around $250 /hr. Most of IBM’s customers are Fortune 500 and old school companies that have already mandated a return to office .

So if the client is in the office but the consultant charging the big bucks is remote, how will the client be happy.
The Costs of Brexit Are Undeniable Now
And I would like to repeat my words:

"[Shame and conformation aren't] the only variable, and it's clearly not the determining factor."
I've had this happen. Then I told them I don't have a smartphone. In some cases the restaurant will then provide a tablet and in others suddenly paper menus are available. It hasn't happened yet that a restaurant decided to forego a bunch of income on account of my not having a smartphone, so maybe just say you don't have one and see what happens next?
...the first rule of Fight Club / Usenet is you do not talk about Fight Club / Usenet?
I am arguing that subjective experience is not what we perceive it to be. The qualities that we perceive of it are deceptive, and not necessarily reflective of anything real.
> they turned it into an insidious and opaque tool that lets them increase their insight, influence, and control

Sounds like most of the laws passed in my lifetime
> The bid, which includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, SES, and Thales Alenia Space

> The partnership announced Tuesday, which also includes Deutsche Telekom, Hispasat, OHB, Orange, Hisdesat, and Telespazio,

> Europe estimates the cost of this constellation at about 6 billion euro

here are some nice new names that relate to the start up nation promised by politicians !

And then they say small companies make up the economic fabric of Europe.

We will never get the start ups, if they keep giving away billions to the same companies and shareholders all the time.

Why would you invent a new idea, fund a new company, try to develop something,... when you can just lands in a large company, that will never sink because they get government contracts to copy American start ups.

European neoliberalism only exists for the outsiders, when "the market" pushes wages down and shoots retail prices through the roof.
But then, where you're an insider in these companies, you've got public money for life.

And btw, they say they will give 6 billion of public money to make the satellite constellation.

How much will it be by the time it's done ?

How much money will have evaporated before these companies are bailed out to save the project ?

-> who will do like Areva , another successful European company ?

Who will get the money ?

-> Will they do like European airports, highways and railways that are built with taxes, then operated by private companies ?
> I think once we get to the point where the design is so fixed for a set of standardised tasks like that, that we know how long it will take, the design is also so fixed that we can run a script that generates the code for it, so the time to make it is close to zero.

For all of the boilerplate stuff, I fully welcome and embrace it. For example, we already have codegen for various stacks, even Ruby on Rails: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html

Sadly, model driven development never really took off, because seemingly everyone was interested in being able to iterate and ship new features in frameworks quickly, as opposed to slowing down and working on different ways to interact with what's already there.

SOAP had WSDL, but REST needed a whole bunch of time until we got OpenAPI and levels of codegen that SoapUI had years ago: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator

MySQL Workbench also has great bi-directional ER diagram support, with forward/backward engineering and schema sync: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-design-engineering...

But maybe I'm asking for too much, generating templates for views with model fields, or even model bindings for the ORM is already good, as is generating DB migrations as well.
I think you're probably right. For example, we're no longer recommending that Windows users to download chrome since Window's default browser (Edge) is fine now... so I'm sure edge popularity is taking away a lot of marketshare from Chrome. Not to mention the news this week of Safari surpassing Edge in popularity. Either way it's clear there is competition and Google is a little afraid.
Micro Focus Adds New Data Centre for SaaS Solutions in the United Kingdom
They tend to lock issues frequently.

Presumably it is to prevent people discussing problems at length. I don't know any other reason they would do that.

It seems to go against how most other organizations use GitHub.
Is the "TikTok ban" draft (RESTRICT Act) for consumers/regular people or only government personnel?

Aka, are they really going to ban TikTok for regular people or just make it so govenment personnel can't install TikTok on their device? aka, only ban TikTok for government people and not regular people
It's just a flesh wound...
> Passkeys are accessible permanently on some devices unencrypted or decryptable in the filesystem, if part of e.g. a backup. Whereas passwords are usually only accessible temporarily.

I think you're mixing up server-side and client/sync-backend-side compromises here.

For the former (i.e. a compromise of hashed passwords and their corresponding salts), you'll need to rotate all passwords since the hashes can be brute-forced. For passkeys, all an attacker gets when compromising a service's database are public keys that can't be brute-forced and key handles that don't give an attacker anything without the corresponding authenticators.

For the latter, the situation is exactly the same for passkeys and passwords in a password manager, i.e. both are as secure as their on-device storage and encryption in transit and rest at a synchronization provider (if any).
Not that it's for sure, but M3 is probably coming out late this year/early next year and will be on 3nm, so once again having a huge node advantage. Just seems like Apple will have the latest node before everyone else for the foreseeable future.
"Your career does suffer, because we choose to penalize you for it."
I like to explain it like this:

If you use a password manager today, then you're already essentially using something you have, because you need to be in possession of your login database to retrieve passwords, and nobody can remember that in their head.

Passkeys is a formalization of the idea that you should be using a password manager where all the passwords are random uncrackable 32 character strings, and if we add this constraint then we can crazy secure things like employ asymmetric crypto to prevent phishing and MITM attacks, so woO!.

You are right to be concerned about the whole device thing though. Apple addresses this by requiring that you use/enable iCloud keychain in order to use passkeys. The generalized solution to this is allowing 3rd parties to be your passkey provider, so that you can choose how your passkeys are stored (cloud synced vs device bound) and e.g. whether you want an implementation where you can unlock them with one strong something you know, something you are, something your have, or any combination thereof, the only limit being the features/options the different 3rd party products will offer, depending on their target market, etc.
if those are the reasons they should send only sterile dwarfs or whatever would be the preferred nomenclature
40-50 people is tiny indeed, but Haskell is supposed to help quite a bit here. 6 million lines of c++ and 50 people could be very hard. I’ve seen 4 million sloc of c++ and 80 eng, and it is hard.

Investment banks are extremely complex systems - 6 millions sloc, even in a very expressive language, make sense to me.

What’s harder to grasp is the real complexity of an IB - it took me years to get that. 30 years of random, non homogeneous software evolution, coupled with 30 years of funky human made rules in 200 countries. It’s going to be big and messy! And I really wish it were easier.

To some extent, it’s a bit like Unicode, or font rendering, or the tax code : on paper it’s just a bunch of rules, but for real, it’s big and complex.
> So a time crystal is a phase of matter that spontaneously breaks this translation symmetry in time, to show you some kind of periodic, pulsing forever.

Isn't this Maxwell's Demon?
... or about needing a Microsoft (GitHub) account to publish Rust packages (on crates.io).
This is a fair point, thank you for your perspective.
Abuse is subjective. Outside of Google, the general sentiment is that Chrome treating doubleclick.com as a first party to anything other than doubleclick.com is abusive.
>As I understand it, the WGA is very open to _writers_ using AI to help them in their work

I can't actually find a direct quotation of them actually saying they're open to this. Whereas I can find a direct quote of them saying "AI can’t be used as source material, to create MBA-covered writing or rewrite MBA-covered work, and AI-generated text cannot be considered in determining writing credits."

I also fail to see how a random studio executive who writes up a draft using an AI and hands it off to a professional writer to cleanup, isn't themselves a writer.

It's also already possible to just hire some random person off the street, have them draft up a screenplay based on what an executive says, have them give up their copyright, and send it off to a writer for "Adaption". The only truly novel thing about AI is that it's cheaper and it's possible to produce creative works which are not copyrightable in the first place using AI, and if the contractual implications of this are the specific concern, the WGA should be far more narrow with their proclamations.

Also what they say on twitter:

"[AIs] output is not eligible for copyright protection, nor can an AI software program sign a certificate of authorship."
Is literally wrong."

Is not literally true, it's possible to produce both uncopyrightable or copyrightable work with an AI: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...
I feel like a VPN ban might be difficult to enforce due to corporate usage of the same technology
Can anyone explain what Pulsar is to someone who understands RabbitMQ, Kafka, traditional RDBMS, etc?
Being that you didn't back up your claim about alchemy with anything, I don't believe you have any idea what you're talking about. Turn off the Ancient Aliens, or whatever YouTube series has given you these ideas about lost ancient knowledge. Work on your epistemology. People will tell you literally anything sensational if it's supported by advertising and makes them a buck. All the content I've seen about ancient lost knowledge is chock full of easy to debunk claims and willful misrepresentation of what we know about ancient history. It's content that preys on the curious but uneducated.
There's unfortunately a large subset of HNers that find rags like DailyMail, New York Post, and ZeroHedge reputable. Makes it really important to check the source before engaging.
Federal Trade Commission tries to bar Meta from monetizing teens' data
> A forgiving text-based format that was trivial to author, serve, and display. And evolve with forward/backwards compatibility.

I'm not disagreeing, but that's certainly a less often heard characterization of SGML ;) and also, not sure evolution of the HTML vocabulary past 4.x, or lack thereof, supports this point considering there are entire universes of additional syntax such as CSS and philosophical schools of thoughts only there to avoid having to write plain markup attributes. The metaphor also is apt, since, like the universe, CSS syntax seems to expand faster than the speed of light.
The longer we use the "Artificial Intelligence" label, the more we will be misguided in addressing the current issues. Having "black box" algorithms has been an issue for years, and I believe transparency in code, much like the IRS can audit your books, should be considered. Third party non-profit orgs should be able to audit highly influencial code as is done to some degree in getting patents. My guess is most of the time the societal issues that arise are a biproduct of production moreso than by design. Ex: I doubt facial recognition software engineers intend for the tech to have difficulty with darker complexions.
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear; my suggestions are for when you already have scope and specifications. When you think you know what to do and how to do it, you can then add all the extra time to come to the "actual estimate".
I guess I shouldn’t have been shocked but this week looking at some display ads, in Googles audience builder there’s literally an “upload email of who you want to target” feature. Made my skin crawl. Can’t tell me that’s not abused to the ends of the earth and back - some marketing interns will just go nuts, GDPR be damned
I think that too. They are a lot more interesting than the brute force of a modern supercomputer.

But, then, imagine an HPC parallel sysplex of a thousand five-drawer z16's filled to the gills with Nvidia GPUs for the number crunching.
Yeah, except it really isn't a pantheon. "Pandemonium" might work better.
> Walk 4 miles every day

That will eat your lifetime faster than obesity unless you also do something else.
I miss the Seymour Cray designs as well.
That’s the bee’s knees!
> but those explanations are as concerning (if not more concerning) than actual aliens

did you not read the article? what is "concerning" about "relatively high object doing 50 knots in one direction like a bird or a balloon"?
And to add, government funded does not insinuate government controlled.

The government funds lots of things through grants, like NOAA, NWS, Internet providers, even private television stations. NPR is funded through several government levels: federal, state, and local. So even the term "government funded" is very vague, and ignores several other major funding sources.

The whole Twitter labeling thing is odd.
"Steve was a champion of usable technology – even sexy technology. Intuitive on the outside and extensible and cool engineering on the inside. "

There's still some examples of this in Apple current products and OSes, but I wonder how many more "intuitive" and "extensible and cool engineering" choices we'd see in their products today if he was still alive.

Apple's trajectory over the last decade has been simultaneously impressive and depressing to watch through. I miss Steve.
Has anyone tried building a home cluster out of these motherboards?

For home clusters, quiet and low power are worth a hell of a lot more than they are in a data center.
Its for everyone, not just government personnel.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35369075
There are workloads where newer CPUs are dramatically faster (e.g. AVX-512), but in general the difference isn't huge. Most of what the newer CPUs get you is more cores and higher power efficiency, which you don't care about when you're paying per-vCPU. Which vCPU is faster, a ten year old Xeon E5-2643 v2 at 3.5GHz or a two year old Xeon Platinum 8352V at 2.1GHz? It depends on the workload. Which has more memory bandwidth per core?

But the cloud provider prefers the latter because it has 500% more cores for 50% more power. Which is why the latter still goes for >$2000 and the former is <$15.
Yes, it replaces something you know with something you have and something you are. The hypothetical scenario you describe is a downside.

As to your other concerns. Registering a passkey from each of your devices should be a trivial exercise. If you want to play with this now, GitHub has good integration (you can keep your password, the passkeys you register are just alternative ways to access).

For your family, your concerns are not warranted because the “cloud backup” is part of the integration. With Apple, as an example, the passkeys are tied to your keychain, and changing devices/disaster recovery is relatively trivial. The passkeys are also accessible from all your Apple devices, so you don’t have to create separate ones.
A few years ago, Walmart stopped stocking (some) beer in Utah because it was too difficult for them to bother getting the 3.2% alcohol by weight beer which had been the limit in Utah at the time[0]. Ultimately Utah's legislature decided to change the 3.2% restriction. I suspect this will go that way; more services will just say that they don't need to serve that population and move on. There will be a lot of people saying they like using their VPN totally because it keeps me private online and VPNs will just be normalized.

[0] https://www.fox13now.com/2018/12/11/walmart-joins-the-push-f...
Specifically the Mac Plus (January 1986), which is the all-time longest-supported Mac[1] in terms of operating systems. It is compatible with 7.5.5, not superseded until 7.6 in January 1997 (!).

[1] The all-time champion among all Apple products is the original Apple II (1977), which ProDOS 8 supported until 1993 (!!).
*haswell, in case the Haskell people come after you.
Hopefully the thing is going to fail and they are not going to do anything. But yes, it provides for banning government-choosen foreign sites entirely, with heavy penalties for assisting in circumventing blocks. (Although I guess VPN services could avoid it by filtering their users traffic themselves)
To partially answer my own question, some of the risks are identified here: https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/#malicious-use

The mitigations, however, feel rather light given the exposure.
Yeah and things go bad every 10 years in those countries when they have a currency crisis
I keep hoping something will show up that'd make it possible to do a proper DHT in js.
Hard to draw a line without a good definition of awareness. An entire adult brain loaded with a life of experiences? Certainly yes. A 10-week fetus? Almost certainly no.
The FPS spec as described looks entirely duplicable by others and openly reimplementable by just cloning the FPS repo and following the same spec (which is open). Someone could choose in their browser to use a different set or a different repo or some hierarchical structure.

Because domain owners use /.well-known/first-party-sets.json, others can also scan for that themselves and perhaps build an independent repo from spidering.
I think this is somewhat of a naive way to look at this. Yes, ChatGPT is really good, but they're basically completely closed source. A lot of the power of LLMs can and will come from open sourced models that anyone can dig into the weights and tune it for their use case, as well as train and run on their own platform.
If you calculate and come up with the answer that it's really likely we should be seeing life, is it more likely that life is hiding or that one of your assumptions is wrong? Maybe try adding confidence levels to your estimates or changing them to ranges? It might be that von Neumann probes are harder to make or slower than you're expecting. If you're really confident in all the values then your conclusion still makes sense.

There's other factors that contribute to not seeing life in the universe. We have extremely limited ability to obverse exoplanets, my understanding is an exoplanet we're looking at could have life and we wouldn't know it. I think we're best suited to detecting life that outputs recognizable radio signals in our direction, which should be rare among all life.
Visual Studio Code April 2023
How about: "Passkeys are digital keys that can be securely stored either in a physical device (such as a Yubikey) or in an online account (such as iCloud Keychain or Google Passwords)"?

Thinking about this some more, maybe we should start calling Yubikey etc. keyrings, rather than keys, given that they can store multiple independent passkeys securely?