jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> It's cheaper to not make it work for anything else.

If I understand correctly, seeing the rest of the comment, your point is that it's cheaper to not have it adhere to some fixed standard.

While I fully understand this position, and think that it's actually something that can help a vertically integrated company such as Apple, I think that the situation isn't an either or.

Rather, things could be shades of grey. The way I see it, Apple could keep on doing their specific things because it's better for them. But once a given system (which can be as restrictive as a given combination of laptop size, generation and spec-level) is out to mass manufacturing, it becomes its own standard of sorts. As in each and every "late 2020 MBA 13" 8 GB RAM 256 GB SSD rev 1" or whatever are exactly the same. I suppose this has to be, since macOS has to know how to handle them.

If I'm not mistaken this is what DSDT patching was/is about in the Hackintosh community: make the hardware present a "known" interface, such as MBP 15 13,1 so that macOS knows what quirks to load.

So instead of Apple adhering to some "fixed" standard for all of their models for several years, they could just publish the "quirks" of each model.

You want to run Linux on your MBA? This is how it works. You're on your own adapting Linux to this, mind, but this is how it works. And of course, you want next year's model? Better get busy adapting again.

I think that would still be immensely better than the current situation and would help prevent the waste GP was talking about. I always concur with the claim that this would probably not lose Apple money. They don't make money any more through selling macOS itself and people looking to run Linux are probably not the biggest spenders on the mac app store either. But they could probably sell more macs.
Something is wrong with your setup methinks. Gradle daemon starts in a second or so for me on the two Java projects on this machine (around 20koc each) and like one second build times...
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Better not have an wars till 2019 then.
Can anyone comment on how this compares to postgres-BDR?

I'm in the market for an asynchronous multi-master RDBMS to cope with a dozen masters and huge (~800ms) latencies - i think my best bets are either BDR or maybe the Cassandra storage engine for MariaDB.
To be fair, isn't that for the users of the platform to decide? What becomes the defacto method or medium is largely based on who and how many use it.
Reminds me of My Cousin Vinny.
You always have to be one step ahead. No competitive edge lasts forever.

But there's a big difference between being cloned in a month, and being cloned in a year.

Within a year, maybe you could build a brand, create v2, have some economies of scale in dealing with your suppliers(harder to bribe), create some internal expertise.

The last situation is somewhat similar to the fabless companies.
Why is the NY Times anti-tech? They run their own digital ad department that does pretty well.

Part of journalism is to document not just events as they happen but also the Zeitgeist of various communities.
Race-IQ stuff as you call it is still a debated issue. The recent blowback over Nathan Cofnas’s work [1], for example, show there’s a culture where anyone not in line with the view there’s no connection is a target for cancellation. I don’t agree with the science from my layman reading of it, but I have much bigger issues with this attempt at silencing people by associating them with white supremacy.

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I don't see what's wrong with continuing to use shitfloor. It's worked well for me for years. I know some people complain about breaking their things or sharp pain in their feet (aka Plantar Harming Poop) when they step on them, but I've learned to be careful about that. And I don't have any friends anyway, so I never have to worry about someone coming over who hasn't learned to live with shitfloor.
My checklist would be (I'm eager to know other people correct me) suitable (does it some my needs) , stable, available (including documentation, live q&a resources like stackoverflow, blog posts explaining how- not new ones but existing and up to date regarding the version available), and simple.
Woah! I love this retro-inspired type of design. It feels so fun and appealing, as if geocities was reincarnated. I wouldn't even bat an eye at the $50 lifetime hosting option. I've been watching this new trend away from "clean" UI for a while, and see so much potential for a new wave of quirky services and digital gardens on the internet away from FAANG walled gardens.

To that end, here's some cool libraries and resources to get you started. What's awesome is that since we are in 2021 this design language can be married with the power of modern web frameworks to make something extraordinary.

https://thesephist.github.io/blocks.css/

https://jdan.github.io/98.css/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalGardens/
See also the Feynman's Integral Trick thread from 8 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26040353
This certainly works for me and lots of people, but the fix only lasts a few minutes.
I'm not sure who is kidding... you or the parent comment.
This is hilarious because Google is probably the largest user of C++ and has the most people on the C++ standards committees .
not a supporter, but i like that the author has taken the time to distinguish what they consider "verified" and the rest they consider "unverified". quite a few of the 80 "illegal votes" accusations here bear very big numbers - would be nice to crowdsource an effort to provide the other side to each of them.

unfortunately, like i suspect many here, i'm not particularly inclined to spend time going thru them, particular the ~30% of those that link to youtube and twitter accounts.

Brandolini's law, aka the bullshit asymmetry principle comes to mind - "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."
"You can implement e2e tests with network emulation (e.g. using iptables/iptraf)"

or via network isolation through networking namespaces (e.g. with podman and lxc)
M1 cache lines are double of what is commonly used by Intel, AMD and other ARM microarchtectures use. That's significant difference.
Sports scouting and evaluations are also notoriously unreliable. For every Messi or Ronaldo there are literally thousands of players who were scouted as having potential but washed out almost immediately.
Off-topic: perhaps, it should have been a Show HN post, there're some rules [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It’s happening in gaming too. The most recent thing in memory was something Blizzard did, and apparently the word Taiwan is censored in all chats in PubG[1]

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/15/chinese-censorship-affect...
One of my biggest interviewing mistakes was voting "hire" on a guy despite his seeming difficulty with coding during the interview because he was such a great talker and had great sounding experience. He came on board, couldn't deliver on anything, and sapped the team's morale. There are plenty of people out there who have bullshitted their way through a career.
Hi! We asked for a linkedin to get a better idea on who are interested in tools like this. Internal chrome extension seems to not have too many discussion around it so we have a lot of questions as well!

We also get too many waitlist entries that say
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so we use LinkedIn as a way to filter out the serious folks from the spammers
>Your work is based upon the work of others, isn't it? I'm sure your work is filled with citations of other works that were taxpayer funded.

Are you claiming one cannot get paid for their work if it build on the works of anything taxpayer funded?

Are you claiming anything taxpayer funded must be open access to all?

Both of these seem too shortsighted to be reasonable, in which case there is some middle ground. Sci hub taking things because it's popular is not going to be a good model for pretty much any future.
I think my World of Tanks addiction has made me compulsively identify all armoured vehicles when I see them - anyone know what the tiny light tanks are in the picture at the top of the article?

NB The armoured cars look like Steyr ADGZs.
It just has to be a matter of time until it is cracked. I am surprised Intel did this.
You raise good points, and I am not fundamentally against taxes. I believe they are an extremely important part of society.

That said (and this may be unique to me), I am a 1 employee corporation and I still work 15hour+ days. If they keep taking a larger and larger cut, I'm simply going to start working less (and therefore earning less), and I feel like it won't have the impact on tax revenues they are hoping for.

I do however understand that my situation is maybe not "normal".
Can Github ask for US Government help with it, since it's an attack by [presumably] foreign sovereign entity? It's paying taxes in US, right — so it may expect some kind of protection, isn't this what taxes are about?
Anyone running FDB in production, good luck, downloads are removed from https://foundationdb.com/

I don't understand why anyone would run a closed source database, especially with the open source options available.
Hey Justin -- do you have insight into how hard any particular remapping (ie: epoll) is to perform ? I was talking to @bcantrill about their effort at a Docker meetup and mentioned the NetBSD emulation (he said "Oh! Of course!"), but whats interesting (in retrospect) is that they (Joyent) just tried running stuff and played whack-a-mole w/ unimplemented APIs... how tough would it be for "us" (NetBSD) to occasionally implement pieces ?

edit: parens
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Its not all about highways. Most accidents occur on local roads.
A lot of that ‘depreciation’ is a combination of dealer profit and sales tax. I got a good deal on a 'new' car at the end of a model year and my deprecation walking off the lot was around 5% of the car's value. However, I also got a new car with a 5 year warrantee in exactly the options and style I wanted so it's not really that expensive.

Consider it’s 7 years old with 50k miles and in great condition. Assuming I keep it for another 3 years the net cost of getting the exact car I wanted will be around 10$ a month. Plus the added bonus of fewer repairs and less frequent and easier car purchases saves me time in the long run.

Though, considering it's still in great condition I may keep it even longer than that. In the end it's not buying a new car that's an issue, it's buying a car frequently that's the real issue which costs people a lot of money.
Semigroup is a closer match. Monoid includes an identity element. (All monoids are semigroups, and a lot of semigroups are monoids, but not all of them.)
Wow definitely didn’t test the site in firefox or safari and its definitely messed up there. It’s working on chrome for me though…hmm
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Summary: Big companies use their size and power as an advantage, to the detriment of the common man. Proposed solution: more laws.

Meanwhile in the real world: the reasons these companies are able to maintain their monopolies include the fact that compliance with regulations is too prohibitive for small businesses, regulatory capture, and government support (direct and indirect) for monopolies and oligopolies.

Labor unions? Ha! they proved themselves to be just as monopolistic and exploitive as the "big bad capitalists" they claim to oppose.

Might be a better idea to sunset laws which have outlived their usefulness and give the small guys a chance against the top-heavy monopolies.
kardos, that is fair. I do not know which government entity paid for this poster, just that as usual someone is trying to sway online opinion with their workforce.
> A person identifying himself as a Lizard Squad administrator said the group provided a number of Sony employee logins to Guardians of Peace, the organization that allegedly broke into Sony's network and prompted the film studio to initially withdraw "The Interview" from theaters.

This article is saying the Lizard Squad helped the GoP, so no, the DDoS against North Korea, if it was a US retaliation, wasn't a "bad guess", at least not based on any information from this article.
personally I find that domains are severely undervalued for what they are.

I mean think about it...once you own a domain, you have a monopoly on it. You can charge whatever you want...and if someone wants it, they have no choice but to go through you.
I think this whole concept is one reason why people become "doomsday preppers". They choose to view the world in a way that has struggle, meaning, where decisions have consequences. Since they cant live out that frontier existence of 100 years ago, they try to create that world for themselves now.
Compelling reason to avoid SaaS #1.
I explained why this doesn't work well in the part of the OP article entitled "solutions that don't work".
I'm curious what is in the Dropbox TOS that they dislike so much.
Actually, this is what happened with WaMu's financial wizards. They sunk the rest of the firm, including the awesome retail banking part.
Also, SharePoint "surveys" as quick&dirty data entry forms. Kind of a modern-day Microsoft-centric version of the venerable FormMail script.
Did anyone say it's not platform independent?

The article just states a couple of IIS sites got compromised again. It's not blaming IIS for that.

And SQL injection is not completely platform independent: your database must support SQL for it to work.
Indeed. The SCO lawsuits were brought over (wholly invented) claims that Linux contained copyrighted code "stolen" from source code that SCO claimed to own. No genuine incidents of "stolen" code were ever discovered as far as I am aware, and SCO was shown not to own the copyrights to the source code anyway.
The biggest consequence will be creating two tracks of people: those who immediately lost their job, and those who could work remotely.

3+ months of earning is non-trivial, and they'll never get them back.

Hopefully any stimulus will be aimed at recently un- or under-employed folks.

If I, as a working software developer, end up getting a check... the system is seriously unfair.
How are they supposed to charge you for the service without your credit card billing information?

How is it supposed to work at all without your IP address?
It could be a false positive, since he says he's feeling fine. Or it could not be. No way to know without more meaningless tests.
The typical latency between being infected and testing positive is quite long, I’d guess around two weeks. The new cases being reported now are from before the shutdown measures started in earnest.
This reads like someone unleashed GPT2 on a bunch of CNBC interviews with a bunch of hedge fund managers making the case for why their portfolio deserves a "fair share" of the bailout pie.
Billionaires don't give enough! argh
from the article:
> The Governor is also requesting FEMA designate four field hospitals with 250 beds each for the state, intended for use in the Javits Center in addition to the temporary hospital to be constructed by the Army Corps.

I think putting 1000 beds in a conference centre sounds a lot less dramatic than 4 new hospitals.
A severe cold can definitely do that too.
New York votes for Democrats. Making them suffer and look bad is part of Trump's campaign.
They've wanted to concentrate on street circuits in cities. Traditional series (F1, IndyCar, etc.) generally have troubles getting permission to run city street circuits (and yes, I know they exist for both of those, just saying the permits are hard to get, at least initially) in some part due to noise. Since the FE cars are essentially no noise, they have tried to go to cities that may not have other races.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of street circuits, but the FE races tend to be pretty good. I too would prefer to be on "proper" tracks, but that hasn't been the goal of FE, at least for now.
Url changed from https://boingboing.net/2019/10/14/cultural-diplomacy.html, which points to this.

Edit: turns out to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231191.
The tweet links to the police report, how is that not the original source?
My point was that it wouldn’t be collected from “fellow citizens” but, as you say, a few rich entities such as yourself.
As long as you don’t have more than one person picking up produce from a bin at the same time you can just measure the change in weight from the bin it’s taken out of. That has to be super cheap technology at this point.
im sure it's buried in their volume-long bulshit ToS as "business partners"
I just wanted to say that I love pg's essays. Every time one of them is posted here I get excited because I know I'm going to read something very interesting. How can he be so consistently good?
>> it would be better to believe the myth that we have full control over our destiny rather than this ridiculous concept that luck controls ~100% of circumstance.

Why think in black and white ?

We have a lot impact on our lives, but there's also some luck involved, especially if we want to achieve extreme things.
Apple, probably through its partnership with the iPhone carrier SoftBank, has done a great job of marketing their product in Japan. They've managed to get many programs to do infomercial-like specials on the iPhone and iPad.

That being said, having a couple thousand people lining up for a product in Tokyo isn't such a big deal in and of itself. With over 30,000,000 people in the Greater Tokyo Area, its easy to attract crowds like this. The people who lined up represented the die-hard Apple fans, not average consumers.
Useful?
Dan -- thanks for all your hard work! I switched to DataMapper last October and haven't looked back.

For those who aren't aware, DM is like ActiveRecord if it had been designed by a seasoned Ruby programmer who also lives and breathes relational algebra. The method chaining is so powerful you will find yourself amazed that it works, then extremely impressed when you see the SQL that was generated.

I've heard of a few things on the roadmap and they are awesome. Now that DM has gone 1.0 (stable API) I can see no reason why anyone would use AR for a new project.
Or leave it open and have answers that are more relevant to more people
it would be trivial but the iframe (Stripe Checkout) does qualify for SAQ A.
Bingo. Also look at the handling of URIs (absolute or relative), encoding issues, and the mess that is the actual text format.

HTTP's popularity outside of the web is mainly cause it's easy to use as a simple wrapper around TCP with read and read/write semantics. Nearly all the rest of HTTP is unneeded fluff (proof: browsers didn't even do other methods besides GET/POST and applications were just fine).
I think part of what they are shooting for, at least from the video, is the 'elegance' factor. It's two flat panels with very little detail in them. The roll-up is a bunch of slat and looks much more busy.
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/Understanding...

There is a comparison of PCI SAQ A and EP, if all you do is link to a 3rd party site (or load an iFrame) and the CC is loaded in that PCI compliant site, you are OK in SAQ A.

Stripe.js is tricky. Stripe says their QSA has verified that the new version of Stripe.js will let their merchants qualify for SAQ A since the transport of credit card info happens through a iframe (you can see the updated Stripe.js https://js.stripe.com/v2/stripe-dss3-debug.js). I personally disagree with that, but Stripe Checkout definitely falls under SAQ A.

Per the linked doc:
What types of e-commerce implementations are eligible for SAQ A-EP vs. SAQ A?
SAQ A: Merchant website provides an inline frame (iFrame)to a PCI DSS compliant third-party processor facilitating the payment process.

SAQ A-EP: Merchant website loads or delivers script that runs in consumers’ browsers (for example, JavaScript) and provides functionality that supports creation of the payment page and/or how the data is transmitted to the payment processor.
> If you attempt this project, your classmates will think you're a nerd. You'll likely wind up getting your head flushed and/or balls greased.

I'm familiar with the concept of getting a swirlie (head flushed), but what in the world is getting your balls greased?
€ 3850 to € 7400
This is not a good looking vehicle. It reminds me of something from a dystopic sci-fi movie, and not in a good way. Too Bladerunner-ish
> As the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, so too, it seemed, did the dream of socialism.

Did the author actually live in East Germany? Nobody forced anyone to break down the wall. That wall was a symbol of oppression. People died trying to escape that damned “dream of socialism.” Not too many people died trying to get in to East Germany. Dream of socialism? More like a nightmare. I hate to sound like a grandpa, but “kids these days..”

There is the constant refrain of “socialism (or communism) would be great if it worked as designed.” But it never can work as designed because human beings are involved. Orwell and Animal Farm was correct in the depiction of socialism/communism.

“On ne fuit pas d'omelette sans casser des oeufs“

Of course the omelette never gets made, no matter how many eggs are broken.
The point of the Vox article is that just switching from gas to electric isn't going to be enough. The argument is that without large-scale carbon capture we will not hit the 1.5C goal.

Large-scale carbon capture is still untested. Reforestation is the only well established large-scale carbon capture but is very land intensive.
Does he kill the guy who designed the glass or the guy who suggested trying it again on the rear window?
Paint it black and write POLICE on it.
I agree that electric trucks are important to combat climate change, but wow. If their goal is to sell to the market that buys pickup trucks, I think the styling is way off the mark.

Huge, beastly trucks are a status symbol and signalling to others that you are are certain demographic. Same reason some people buy cheap cars and add shiny wheels and lights. Same reason some people buy BMWs and Mercedes. These are all part of socioeconomic norms. I don't see how the normal truck crowd will latch on to this.

The specs are pretty impressive though. 500 mile range got my attention.