skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reuters is an outlet completely captured by its owners, for whatever purposes that benefit its owners, exactly like whatever this is. UPI is owned by the Moonies. The Falun Gong have multiple OTA television stations in the US that give no indication that they are owned by the Falun Gong.

edit: I forgot that the Epoch Times is also owned by the Falun Gong, an outlet that plays a significant part in US politics. If you are familiar with the Epoch Times, did you know it was owned by the Falun Gong?

Did you know that the Washington Times, another important newspaper, is also Moonie-owned?

Or that the "International Business Times" and Newsweek are likely controlled by the Korean Christian sect The Community?
No need to be sorry. Not a native speaker either.

I get your point. I'm just to used to the fact that Homebrew updates packages on the machine and services are build during CI\CD pipelines inside of a container.
Random Google says:

> the average cost of a new car in 2023 was 42.790 euros
“The point of a University is to give a civilization what it needs; not what businessmen want.”

Dijkstra never missed.
These are great lessons from an engineering perspective. From a product perspective, I've learned 3 hard lessons:

1. Fraudsters will find your product and abuse it before real users do. If you see a sudden spike in usage, it's probably fraud.

2. Real users are very emotional when it comes to their money, even if it's a "low volume transaction" like $20. Anything you build that introduces friction between them and their money will get your support team yelled at.

3. Regulators and banks are suspicious of you, for lessons they have learned from 100+ years of balancing lessons 1 & 2 above.

Balancing 1, 2 & 3 is an art and the difference between building a successful product and failure.

All the cute UI and funnel analysis you do breaks when it hits fraud, user emotions and regulation.
Which is simply a hidden tax hike, and a wild market distortion.
There's a difference between the results of a test and microanalysing the subject WHILE they're being tested.
My gut feeling with how far they've come in so little time says it's definitely in the double digit percentage points.
Even if the candidate doesn't have a horrific childhood, the question is totally inappropriate and irrelevant. Like "get up and walk out of the interview" inappropriate.

This, and the general level of mysticism throughout (really? "Spike potential" WTF), causes me to dismiss the whole article.
Many wrong things with comments. Your pro-china KMT bias is showing

> Taiwan will never compete on the global market for most of its products.

the aggregate brand value of Taiwan's 25 largest brands totaled US$13.84 billion in 2023, a 5 percent rise from 2022 and marking the fourth consecutive year of the value surpassing the US$10 billion mark. https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202312020012

> The current result is that Taiwanese wages have stagnated for decades

The average annual salary for full-time employees in Taiwan reached an eight-year high of NT$694,000 (US$22,242) this year (2023). https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202311290017

Taiwan to surpass Japan in GDP per capita this year (2023): JCER
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Taiwan-to-surpass-Japan-in-G...
Recently purchased a Subaru from a friend and called Subaru to finish registration of the vehicle in their system. I almost immediately got spam from Sirius XM. Who the heck told Subaru it was ok to give my (fortunately throwaway) email to Sirius?? Certainly not me. Considering the only thing I know about Sirius is they got called out by the NY Attorney General for a difficult cancellation process, that's enough to never bother subscribing.
Kraken: Privacy Is Not a Crime
nothing to do with ADHD. meditation takes practice, whether you have ADHD or not.
> Or worse wasted a ton of time & money of local govs + small town employees. The Obama admin had a few really bad examples of this.

Indeed. China had even more examples, but overall they found the winners and boosted them. The US instead defunded and now China produces 80% of all solar panels in the world. It's similar for VC firm, for example, they'll invest in 10 companies and expect only a couple to be profitable.

> If you look at growth charts in US factory capital it started spiking just before the signing of CHIPS act which was pitched to congress in 2019, which was a bipartisan effort seeded from the Trump admin.

Do you have those charts available? I was initially going to give a commendation for pointing out the Trump's administration's role in the Chips act, but... the Chips act was passed in late 2022! "The bill was signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9, 2022." [1]

What's more, while the CHIPS act was initially bi-partisan, it passed in a relatively partisan vote: "Every senator in the Senate Democratic Caucus except for Bernie Sanders voted in favor of passing the CHIPS Act, and they were joined by seventeen Republican senators" [1]

Bottom line, seems like this bill was presented to Senators* in 2019 and then took time to work its way through Congress. It does not seem the Trump admin had much to do with this (I would more says the CHIPS act was seeded from an initial bipartisan effort that originated in the Senate; there's no mention I see that the executive branch had anything to do with it in 2019; if anything, it seems that congress of 2019 and whatever role the executive had at the time both _failed_ to get the CHIPS act through; it was the next congress that got it done in 2022)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act

* I'm not entirely sure if 'presented' to senators means there was an executive branch role. My reading of the wiki article is that it sounds like the original 2019 bill originated in the Senate. I just don't see anything that mentions the executive's role in 2019 or 2020.
Exactly, people think you need a genius to work in a fab when, in reality, there are more than enough people you could train, most American students come out of university ready for it;

It's just that they end up working in a startup creating yet another project management tool because of the way capital is allocated in the US and how high salaries are in certain areas.

No country will ever be competent at everything; the US doesn't need fabs. The best for the US in this situation is to figure out how they can outsource this to cheaper countries that are democratic and not possibly the victims of an invasion soon.

In Asia itself (for the distance factor to Taiwan or TSMC headquarters), there are plenty of booming countries economies that, despite having a slightly higher cost (due to supply chain dynamics) than Taiwan, have a more stable foreign policy and good legal framework.
A Somewhat Belated Annual Unsolicited Endorsement of WordPress
We need more optimism in technology, more looking forward and inspiring the next generation to leave their mark; not pining for a past that’s already been here.

Nobody younger than an older millennial who grew up learning computers via Windows 95 has any interest in “retvrning” to this ethos of computing. Hell, I just described myself and even I could care less about this project other than a passing “huh that’s kinda neat” which is a rather tepid response proportional to the work that has been invested here.

There are far more interesting projects rethinking the OS right now that are actually trying their hand at unique architectures. This is just an homage to nostalgia (a technically impressive one, but still nothing inspiring here). The saddest part to me is I’m not sure the graybeards on HN will ever really get that.
I feel you.

I felt for the hype on Reddit around this author and read two books. Snow Crash felt like he wanted to jump on Gibson's train and save the world building altogether because people are supposed to know Gibsons Cyberpunk already.

Anathem felt like, outside of buildings, he just isn't able to provide a proper world at all. The rest seems to consist of a Wikipedia article without losing too much thought on an ending.

Stephenson is not for me I guess.
Flathub does allow the 'build' to download and unpack a pre-built tarball. This is obviously not as convenient as directly uploading it, but some of those enthusiastic users might be happy to get the manifest set up for you, and then updating for new versions should be simple.

(And sorry about the pushy ones. I hope they're few and far between.)
Advertising is a blight. Why? Because it's mostly lying. Once you've signed up to lie, it's a small step into sleazy stuff, a small step into selling info, and after that a small step into distributing malware via your ad network.

Along the way, you end up thinking nothing of corrupting the medium your ads support.

It's a blight all the way down.
L3 chargers are expensive because they draw huge amounts of power in a short period, plus they have major hardware costs. L2 chargers are just connections to 240VAC wiring. They're going to be a little more expensive than, say, street lighting.
I was born in Kiev and spoke Russian at home. Can barely understand Ukrainian unless it's spoken slowly by a native Russian speaker. I can get the gist of what Zelensky is saying in an interview but can pretty much never understand native Ukrainian speakers. I think there's also a gradient of dialects and accents West to East, so I'm sure you can find some Ukrainian villager I would understand better but in general they're not mutually intelligible (to me).
Seems like even 60 PPD in the central region would already be "good enough" for most.
> The language itself is poor

The language is a joy and one of the main reasons it became popular. How do you think it got its ecosystem?
Unfortunately still no FreeBSD port for pi-hole.

This post did make me setup a void-zones-tools BSD jail on the LAN and testing it now. Seems to be very similar just without web admin.
VeraCrypt works on Windows Home
It's a shame the solo knit band seems to be form-over-function, it looks cool and a ton of work clearly went into developing it, but nearly everyone seems to find the much simpler dual loop band to be more practical.

e: I stand corrected, the reviewers I've watched mostly preferred the dual loop but there's plenty of solo knit fans here. I guess that YMMV factor is why they include both.
I also don't like renaming well-known things based on a theme or analogies that are carried way too far and gets in the way of simple communication.
Researchers discover new kind of magnetism
I've wondered how it looks with a very large spreadsheet filled with figures?

That big span of numbers should be fairly revealing of its display capabilities, with all the lines and columns.

How is the fringing and aliasing as you look at different angles?

Is a large pdf filled with math and tables comfortable to spend a few hours with taking notes?
Oh no, only 60%? Surely that's plenty for a conversation, no?

Now I wonder if this number, provided it is a real one, went up or down during the last 30 years. I would bet on lower but it's only a gut feeling.
That's a bit cynical. They may or may not be a newbie, but there is always something for everyone to learn, and saying they did this for engagement is something you don't know.
"All their BZX cars" = less than 5,500 cars total. It wasn't just a completely new car model, it was the first one built on Toyota's e-TNGA modular EV platform. The factory line had just barely gotten off the ground.

Toyta sold ten million cars that year so scale wise that doesn't even qualify as a rounding error. The Teslas suspension problems that caused some wheels to fly off effected tens of thousands.
Who's writing sci-fi today that we will look back on as predictive?
This is exactly right. Onshoring fabs back to the US is part of a long term political and economic strategic plan to counter China called The Clean Network / The "5G trifecta" — TSMC's new fab in Arizona will be the largest onshoring in American history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clean_Network#The_%225G_tr...

https://keithkrach.com/article/tsmc-12b-chip-plant-in-arizon...
We are flexible, so if someone has any inquiry about the licensing we can adapt to different needs.
>Why assume they are outliers?

Because when the government hands tax money over to profitable companies to "create jobs", you are inherently distorting the market.

>It seems like there are more successes than failures

Maybe, but I'm skeptical.
The system I built would auto tune the GPUs. The failure case for a single GPU is to crash the entire system and there are 12 in a box. The machines would reboot hundreds of times until they were tuned to stability. Through 4 seasons (including snow). Again, we had the majority of these cards with zero failures, across multiple years.

The things that were more likely to fail were things like PSU's. One time we had a bad batch of those and had to replace nearly every one of them. We cracked a few open and they were clearly hand soldered by someone in China and shorting out internally due to failed connections. We would see a lot more thermal cycling failure from that than we would from a GPU card that was pick&place assembled by a machine with solder paste.
I didn't understand what the downsides were in using the TrustZone preset data. From my reading it sounds like it provides extra security until the secure signing key is compromised.
Since 3.10 python has a „semi proper sum type tool belt“ with PEP 634s pattern matching, typing.Union and the | operator. It requires a different approach and it’s still not as seamless or enforce type safety as strictly at compile time compared to languages like Rust or F# but it’s doable and usable.
Just a nitpick - The main character in Snow Crash is named Hiro, not Hero.
>The 996 working hour system (Chinese: 996工作制) is a work schedule practiced by some companies in China. It derives its name from its requirement that employees work from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week; i.e. 72 hours per week, 12 hours per day. A number of Mainland Chinese internet companies have adopted this system as their official work schedule. Critics argue that the 996 working hour system is a violation of Chinese Labour Law and have called it "modern slavery".

Oh good Lord. I wonder if anyone has insight into how this is actually done. Are people really working the 72 hours or is it like here, people goofing off most of the day and hurrying up to get done when they need to?

These posts seem to imply the latter?

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/boq5qe/what_the_996_...
>You think a throw back Win 95 clones with UNIX-like internals is what modern users want?

They aren't building it for "modern users", they're building it for fun.

To build a usable operating system you need manpower. To get manpower you need money or you need to build a community around an interesting project that people will work on for free. Andreas has managed to do both of these things.

Serenity is not just another UNIX clone, it's a unique project with the idea of doing everything from scratch. The project uses modern tools like GitHub and Discord so there's a larger pool of people willing to join the project. Had it been all on mailing lists it would be nowhere near what it is today.
One bad apple poisons the whole team. It's totally morale destroying.
Microsoft "Streets and Trips"…didn't support GPS tracking, as I remember it.

It did, actually. You could even buy a version that had an included GPS unit that supported a USB connection to your laptop, or (IIRC) Bluetooth.
I remember being pissed off when I found that NextBase had sold my beloved AutoRoute Express to Microsoft !
How do we get people to do anything? Violence.

Unfortunately in our flesh and blood world as much as we have a dalliance with forming a society it still all comes down to violence at the end of the day. We hate it, but it's true.

Keep in mind my definition of violence is expansive, not only drawing blood but I would count imprisoning someone (who has broken laws) against their will as (a necessary) violence.
Old people aged out of reading music blogs? Is that a known phenomenon?
One codon is three bases in sequence. Each base has four possible values. So there are 64 codons.
It is both amazing and horrifying that we live in a world where we look first at the benefits (oh look, these preservatives allow us to keep food for longer!), but don't look or even consider the side effects (oh, maybe these preservatives are killing our microbiome) - granted, I'm sure when the preservatives were created and start to be used, we didn't really know much, if anything about gut microbiomes.

History repeats itself, I guess - we didn't know mercury, lead, asbestos, etc. were poisonous tens/hundreds/thousands of years ago but were using it for their supposed medical and practical properties.
> expensive to build

A heat pump is basically just an air conditioner with a handful of extra parts to allow it to work in reverse. In the US they currently are significantly more expensive to install than AC, but I don't think it will stay that way for ever.

I think part of cost issue is that heat pumps tend to put an extreme focus on energy efficiency, leading to higher up-front costs, whereas AC units tend to balance a little more towards lower initial costs.

Any home that has both gas heating and air conditioning could replace the AC with a heat pump and get more efficient heating for most of the time, while still keeping their existing heating for situations that call for it.

I'm hopeful that AC manufacturers start shifting towards bi-directional units for their lower-cost "regular" segments instead of reserving that for only the fancy super-high-efficiency (expensive) units.
Thank you - I was surprised by the down votes, although I could have added more detail to make my objection even more clear, e.g:

Using the Stefan Boltzmann law, 1 extra degree corresponds to about an extra 3 W/m2 of greenhouse radiation (using an emissivity of 0.6 for the atmosphere.) To raise 1 m2, 1 cm thick water (10 kg) by 1 C would require (4 J/g/K)*(10,000 g) ~ 40,000 J, or about 4 hours. So 100 m would take 4 years, 3 km (the average depth of the ocean) ~100 years, assuming perfect mixing. So the ocean temperature would lag by decades, possibly centuries, even if the atmosphere ramped up by 1 degree from 1850-1900, which it didn't.
Have known about LFS for a long time but never messed with it. Would it be suitable for someone who’s not quite up to the task of writing an OS from scratch, but has higher level ideas (e.g. filesystem arrangement/structure) they want to play with?
Building a HIP Environment from Scratch
I often think this to myself. Why is it when I start on something "new and shiny" I get this burst of enthusiasm and motivation, but when it loses its novelty it becomes hard work?

I keep trying to think if there is some way I can trick my brain into thinking things are always interesting and novel so that I can reliably get into a flow state and feel happier about what I'm doing.
>My understanding is that the author is saying you could build google docs to go from one state to another by submitting a form and doing server side rendering [...] This is obviously much worse user experience and way less efficient,

Your interpretation of "much worse user experience" is the opposite of the "work well!" that the author is claiming:

>Every single core function of these apps could work—and work well!—without a single drop of JavaScript.

https://gomakethings.com/the-web-is-mostly-links-and-forms/#....
Healthcare providers and insurers in the US are bound by HIPAA privacy rules, but data brokers (mentioned in the article) and the ads industry generally are not. For example, if she used an app in the doctor's waiting room that shared/sold location data to a data broker, they can use her location data for retargeting purposes. There have been many cases in the past where advertisers targeted users based on visiting medical or other sensitive locations.

As to how they mailed it to her and got her home address, a data broker who has location data can fairly easily determine a user's home address from that data. Many brokers and networks may also already have an association between a "pseudo-anonymous advertising ID" and real user with name and address. Not saying that location-based retargeting happened this time as the article doesn't give us enough to go off of and other types of retargeting are another possibility.

Overall, I think it's unlikely that the provider or insurer shared her data and other alternatives are more likely.

Disclosure: I work in the ads industry but on contextual targeting only. Some location-based retargeting is terrifying and will probably eventually be criminal. It's a bit of the wild west right now.
oh wow wikipedia, "Cooper supported Republican presidential candidates and appeared at rallies for Herbert Hoover in 1932", the guy was born in 1922!
Apps also sold iPhones. They built an entire marketing campaign around the idea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrsfeyLzyg). And yet they're trying to squeeze app developers for all they're worth.
You're mixing up IBM z (mainframes, z/OS) with IBM i (AS/400).

The latter has a single level storage system where disks and memory are part of single address space, and a variant of DB2 database is part of core OS thus making it common to use SQL for many things people wouldn't expect.
From GP:

> If they ban you then you take everything, including your profile domain, ...

This reads like censorship resistance against moderation/management going insane on its own, to me. And in reality, that rarely happens. It's ongoing on Twitter, kind of, but that's less than once in a decade occurrence, and the crazy element wasn't internal.

What happens more often is some fundamentalist group or something starts harassing companies, often leveraging advertisers, credit card companies, perhaps some backend APIs too, sometimes even foreign laws way outside jurisdictions, to get them swallow their agendas. That leads to bans and insane policies getting introduced.

And, if you look at what happened to Twitter in last few years, I think you can see the latter of above two descriptions is closer to what happened to it; whether it was foreign conspiracy, or purely to that guy's insanity, or politics, it was external force that lead to the situation that necessitated escape. It was sane-ish up to the acquisition.
Does he hate it? The last thing I saw him say about the Big U was that he tends to omit it from his bibliography because it's not what his readers are looking for. Personally, I read him in chronological order and enjoyed both the Big U and Zodiac -- if nothing else, it was fun to watch him grow (and not) as an author.
There are now companies which have the business model of correlating a physical address with an e-mail or IP address and then making use of that for marketing purposes.
I dunno. His books are so long that anyone can find something to infer as predictive or prescient. It's like confirmation bias. Does any sci fi writer who incorporates human-like intelligence robots into their novels predict GPT? I say not
NOAA is years behind in addressing a needed upgrade to their NEXRAD network. They proved out an upgrade using fixed, phased array radar panels instead of the rotating array and got the update interval down from five minutes to 30 seconds or less. The holdup is the FAA: they want to create a network of dual-purpose, dual-use radars that can function both as weather radars and air traffic monitoring radars (a pretty easy feat for software-driven, phased array systems). However, the FAA can't get their act together and come up with a new specification because they keep wanting to cram more functionality and use-cases into the system (eg: support for unmanned aerial vehicles). Meanwhile, NEXRAD keeps limping along and people die because some storms change direction quickly enough that waiting five minutes for an update can be the difference between a tornado missing you if it took it's original track and being right on top of you before the local NWS figures it out.