skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can get a 256 GB USB-C stick for about $70 here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XC1WGQR/ref=twister_B01IKC9ZW8?...

That is a heck of a lot less than purchasing for storage space when buying this laptop.
I used to love multiple monitors. But I discovered I got work done better on a single, big monitor. A big screen real estate is really what I need.
Trello.

I organize literally my entire life between Trello, Google Docs and Google Calendar.

Trello handles strategic planning and todos i.e. "Learn Spanish , Get new job" and a separate board handles smaller more operations stuff like "buy an electric toothbrush" or "finish reading system design books"

I even designed a system with trello custom fields, webhooks and an aws lambda that will automatically sort the task buy some weights I can assign. (Just numbers for urgency, impact, and effort)

I use Google Calendar for time sensitive todos. Stuff that is or needs to happen on a specific day.

And if the calendar event description gets too long i make a trello card for it.

Google Docs I use for long form content like keeping track of my own understanding and research of modern software architecture, techincal interviewing, or competitive fighting gaming.
Imperative control flow, for one. Think about how you would implement "break" that can break out of multiple nested loops in do-notation…
Pascal GPUs h265 encoding is 50% or higher than h264 encoding speeds. A single GTX 1080 can nvenc h265 8k@30 10bpp. A 150 dollar GPU will outperform a 3,000 dollar CPU only server in encoding (regardless if it's h264 or 265).

The REAL blockers are licensing and, more importantly, legacy consumer hardware. Whether you want to call the latter a speed or power problem isn't the real issue, it's that not all consumers have the dedicated hardware and the older CPU then has the speed and power problems.
Except.... there's no particular technical reason that each of the modulation techniques can't be good if you have the right filters for the desired bandwidth. I can adjust my Ten-Tec Orion II to transmit 3900 Hz bandwidth SSB - and it sounds glorious. Also, I find it interesting that aircraft still use AM. BSG? They tended to be fracked audio-wise by being slightly off-frequency in addition to various amounts of AM distortion that varied with the situation's distress. So say we all.
Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17537878
That's even more funny, because the MBP's touch-bar is essentially the same type of device as the YubiKey—an isolated offboard CPU with its own TPM that can be unlocked with a fingerprint and then asked to encrypt secrets for the host/parent PC. The touch-bar just has more screen.

I'm surprised nobody's hacked the YubiKey app into making use of the touch-bar as the YubiKey "device."
In case anyone else was curious, the relevant paragraph in the guidelines appears to be the following:

> Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data.
http://quip.com/ -- It works everywhere except, unfortunately, the terminal. What I like about quip's way is that it doesn't differentiate checklists from notes -- which is exactly my style. And you can even embed a spreadsheet if you suddenly need more power.

P.S.: They also don't like Firefox for some reason (it works ok, but it works better in Chrome). Now that Salesforce bought them, I don't have my hopes too high that it is going to change...
At work: Org mode (Emacs)

Personal stuff: I just send emails to myself.

Something like: '[TODO] Do something ...'
Then you can elaborate in the message body.

Pros:

- free

- simple

- no apps required (or: you can use any app/web client you want)

- easily done and accessible from anywhere

- auto sync out of the box

- search/filtering out of the box

- timestamps out of the box

- tags out of the box (via email tags/labels)

- groups/projects out of the box (via mail folders/inboxes)

- rules out of the box (via email rules)

- supports files, links, code snippets, formatted text etc.

- I can flag/unflag them, delete/restore, mark as read/unread and so on

- most clients allow you to add a reminder/follow up for an email (hence, reminders and notifications out of the box)
The thing is, 99 times out of 100 it really is an XY problem. If you're the 1 out of 100 then it sucks to be you; I guess the free advice is worth exactly what you paid for it.

I don't often make that accusation, but the last time I did that's exactly what it turned out to be. They were trying to dive deep into the internals of C++ to find out why their debugger was hanging, and what they were asking for just didn't have an answer. They finally found that they were doing something that led to undefined behavior, and if they had asked about that instead the question would have been answered immediately.
Or using log charts, if you're required to use given units.
Power plants right now have to optimize for working around varying wind/solar supply, but if we tried to run civilization on wind/solar alone, we'd rediscover the need for good baseload supply when the wind stops blowing at night.
Things 3 is excellent. Any fan of well-designed and well-constructed software will appreciate it.

I also like the philosophy behind Things: make it really easy to add items and make the core workflows fast. Additional complexity (tags, dates, projects) is incremental and optional. It's one of the few GUI apps that can be operated solely from the keyboard with no loss of functionality.

As far as I'm concerned, the only feature that Things lacks is shared lists.
> USB dongles are absolutely standard in pro audio.

That is like saying everyone is using floppy disks, why did Apple remove floppy disk drive. You will need to use dongle for a while but everyone moving to USB C/wireless is a good thing.
Touchbar can be mostly turned off in macOS settings - I left only Esc button on left, and moved sound and brightness all the way to the right, with nothing in between left and right areas. And function keys only show up when I press fn button.

It’s really not too bad (although kind of stupid expensive gimmicky waste if you ask me).
I think you're eating into quality loss if you're getting 33%-25% size, most every benchmark puts it at about 50%-60% size for equal quality to h264.

Pirating scene hasn't been using av1 at all because the bitstream hadn't been stabilized (an encode you made last month probably won't work on versions from this month) and, as a result of work still being done on the bitstream, no encoding hardware or software optimizations are available making it on the order of 3 magnitudes slower than existing options. Towards the start of 2019 you should start to see more hardware support pop up though.
author got a bit backward, nix came first, I wonder if he would still have desire to try guixsd ..
Brilliant ! Means vs End.
Getting fixated and not taking a step back only adds more debt to the solution, if the problem is partially solved.
At my last job they replaced the POTS telephone system that had been around for 30 years with a new POE touchscreen phone. The backlight never dimmed and it occasionally showed an animation.

I wrote an angry ticket about it after about 2 days of having it, and 3 people from the IT department and 2 people from the company that sold us the phones showed up at my desk the next day, trying to figure out if there was something wrong with my phone, because "it shouldn't be that distracting."

The only person who understood why I was pissed was the mid-level tech support guy from the phone company.

I hated that phone so much I covered it in a sheet and only uncovered it if it was ringing.

Similarly, the ringtones were all super obnoxious. When everyone had the same ring you could just tune out the ones that weren't coming from right beside you. The new phones had a huge speaker on the back and the ringtones demanded attention like a klaxon. It was maddening because the phone of someone 3 cubes behind you could get a call and it would be louder for you than it would be for them.

Also, the touchscreen took 3 times longer to use than the old design did just because buttons are faster, you can use them without looking, and the UI was slow to begin with.

I love using new technology, and I wanted a new phone because the old one was huge and took up a ton of my desk, but that phone had the worst UX. I just wanted a phone that did the same thing my old phone could do, maybe with better audio quality. I didn't want a phone that demanded my attention to do things.
It's like the #1 rule of fight club.
You emphasize that stackfull coroutines could get down to a single allocation, but I'm not sure exactly what you mean. I could trivially get a stackfull coroutine down to a single allocation, the same way that systems thread do it: by allocating a defined stack size and raising a seg fault when you go over it.

The trick that "stackless coroutines" can achieve, and do achieve in Rust, is not just getting a single allocation, but getting a single perfectly sized alloc every time. It is exactly big enough to hold all the data it could ever need to hold, no more no less. You mention we have a lot of annotations, but the annotations that I know of that can achieve that are annotating every yield point so we can compute the stack space we need to store at that point, which is exactly what async/await notation is for.
Do you have a source that says the governor/rescue chief was not the person who made the executive decisions? This was a large operation, it’s not as if the divers just went in on their own to fetch the boys.

There are undoubtedly engineers at SpaceX and Tesla who know much, much more about their respective fields than does Musk. Doesn’t mean that he isn’t the shot-caller for those companies.
> An extra pound of weight makes a huge difference to me walking home.

That's hard to believe. Are you walking 50 miles? How would you notice an extra pound? What about the rest of the stuff you carry, your clothes, your shoes? Is everything else already optimized?

Why does the (likely) most expensive full-size computing device need to lose weight vs everything else, especially when it's infringing on the actual user experience of working with it?
> I use USB sticks semi regularly

What do you use it for, is it something dropbox or others cannot do?
The whole "PR" stuff bugged me, because it honestly doesn't matter if it is. It's perfectly possible, and preferable for PR to be win-win.

And it really doesn't matter if they didn't use it. More options is better than too few options.

But his response to being called a "PR stunt" has been absolutely disgusting. Test it, validate it, prove it, and donate it to whoever it is that keeps big boxes of weird contraptions for when things go wrong. Then move on. Just .. not this. Quite the opposite of this.
I've never tried it, but shouldn't you be able to vmsplice into the pipe, splice from pipe to an actual file and mmap the file? Probably the cost of the additional splice call offsets the saved copy.

It is possible to implement a simple shared memory queue which does not requires syscalls unless empty or full, and the time saved avoiding system calls (and expensive VM manipulation) might be more than the cost of copying data in and out for many applications.
I also remap caps lock to escape; for a button used so regularly, it just makes sense. Heck, who in their right mind is using caps lock more frequently than Escape!
The deeper point here - what the article is actually about but which has now been obscured by Musk's spectacular Twitter meltdown - is one about different kinds of technical culture. Silicon Valley culture has transformed our world, but it brings with it downsides and dangers. One of which is the "Engineer's Disease" - the overconfident assumption that expertise in one field gives us the ability to wade into some other domain and whip up quick technical solutions to complex problems. It's not a sin to suffer from Engineer's Disease. I fall victim to it occasionally myself. But we need to collectively get better at recognizing the symptoms, taking a deep breath and asking "do I really understand this, or do I just believe I understand it."

Musk's submarine was an almost perfect example. Take some "rocket parts" (his words) and a dash of SpaceX magic dust, put some smart engineers together in a room, save the kids and take home the glory. Except it doesn't actually work that way. To a diver who had actually been in the cave, it was so clearly unworkable: it was a rigid metal cylinder and it just wasn't going to fit round tight corners. The expertise that mattered was that of the rescue divers, combined with specific knowledge of the cave - a completely different technical culture that is safety-oriented and in which untested innovation is generally a quick route to an unpleasant death. I'm just glad that the latter culture was the one that prevailed in this case. Otherwise things might have ended rather differently.
One of the reasons why "backseat-gaming" is used a lot in online gaming when someone streams.
We did implement it out of tree at first. [0] Because Rust requires annotations on macros to distinguish them from built in syntax, they are less ergonomic to use. In general, we believe in adopting a path of beginning as an out-of-tree macro, and then deciding to elevate that to first class syntax if its clear that they will be extremely commonly used.

[0]: https://github.com/alexcrichton/futures-await
> The only one I see is someone physically stealing the hard disks out of the servers, which is impossible if you are using a trustworthy cloud datacenter instead of a server in your bedroom.

If you are using a public cloud data center for private data with regulations around authorized access, there is basically 100% chance that people without access authorization have physical access to the servers and their disks in a manner where there is no direct knowledge of the data owner of what occurs, which makes the threat of “unauthorized person gains physical access to the hard drive and steals data” greater, not less, than “a server in your bedroom” (or, more relevantly for corporate use cases, in a corporate data center for which you control physical security.)
We do have Lenovo on site! Sometimes they're there same day, or next business day. It's pretty awesome.
Ah. I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean, then, thanks for attempting to clarify, but I'm still completely confused.

Altruistic people are generally altruistic because they want to be altruistic for their own personal pleasure, not because they expect anyone else to be like them. So how does "grossly over estimate other human beings" come into play? If anything, most altruistic people underestimate other human beings, due to exactly the thing you mention... which are things that everyone has already noticed.
The noise may well have been the bigger complaint among buyers than the key travel.
I don't have particular ideas for the given domains, sorry. But I think one should first come up with an idea, and then a name and domain; not the other way around.

If you're looking for ideas, take a look at https://app.saasible.com/ideas .
Ask HN: Rotate Sales/Support Agent WhatsApp Numbers
Hi,

So my friend had an idea that I'm not sure whether good or not but are there people out there that use WhatsApp as their sales tool (especially to close sale)?

So his idea is to rotate the agent telephone numbers (that has WhatsApp) so that a company can just use one URL in an ad and that system will rotate it for that company.

Oh yeah, maybe this tool can be used to rotate WhatsApp numbers as a support tool as well for any business that use WhatsApp as their support tool.

At least the company that use this tool doesn’t need to create multiple ads with the same numbers (especially in FB ads) and on their website, they can use it to rotate their sales/support agent.

Do you think it's a good idea? I'm thinking of building it as a product and maybe charge a bit. 3-5 dollars maybe?

Thank you for your feedback!
> No doubt the divers also took time to evaluate and partly simulate what it would be like to drag a mostly-inert human through the difficult spaces.

That's the thing: moving a body through those spaces wasn't the unknown - cave rescuers get a lot of practice doing that above the water with live people playing victims, and sadly below the water with actual body recoveries.

The unknown was likely whether or not the kids would survive that route. I know of no examples of that being done successfully before; in that respect I'd say the actual plan used and the sub were prototypes to roughly the same extent.

What bothers me is people treating this like this rescue wasn't a miracle of improvisation backed by experience and huge amounts of skill: it _was_ exactly that and the rescuers deserve every bit of credit for that.

> AFAIK the mini-sub never made the trip.

The sub didn't arrive until after the rescue had started, apparently forced to start earlier than expected by worsening conditions.
Realistically, if you're the one solving the problem, then the answer to "Which way do the doors open?" is "whichever way you want, since it's you who decides on how to build them".
In 2008 the iPhone was a $500 subsidised device (at a time when other phones were "free" or up to $200) which really didn't do anything. It didn't do MMS, third party apps didn't exist, google maps didn't have turn-by-turn. I'm sure the user experience of a reasonable sized capacitive touch screen was great compared to the alternatives - but I never even saw one in real life and on paper it was very expensive and didn't have anything to sell me on it.

Once the iPhone 3G came it out was clear the device was a phenomenon and not a rich people toy, but initially the market was pretty confused, from what I remember.
I recently used a USB stick for something other than reinstalling the OS for the first time in probably a decade.
I am honestly impressed by Chicago cyclists that will be going down their designated bright green lane. and very quickly stop and calmly tell the random tourist they nearly got run over. Drivers in Chicago basically are the worst I've ever seen. Cars should have a device that charges you 50 dollars every time you use the horn.
Taskwarrior. I really wish I could use it on all my mobile devices easily. I especially wish that I could control it using my voice and use it with all my wearables. I think a taskwarrior service with easy setup and UI through modern channels is my dream of how people change the way they get things done. Taskwarrior isn't there yet but I feel like I've got super powers when I plan with it. Unfortunately when I'm doing my plans I don't want to always have a terminal window open.
Getting the keyboard fixed isn't dependant on Apple Care. They have a 4 year program to fix any issues, outside of warranty.
Where did you see the claim that he invented the mercury coherer?
I'm going to guess it's the latter. I'm unable to log into some of my existing gmail pseudonymous aliases because google refuses to let me log in without providing a phone number (ostensibly for my own security, IIRC to enable 2fa, even though it doesn't make any sense).
> I think you're eating into quality loss if you're getting 33%-25% size, most every benchmark puts it at about 50%-60% size for equal quality to h264.

Do the benchmarks include animation? Perhaps flat surfaces like one sees in anime compress a lot better than average in x265?
How is any of that relevant when the task has never been done before and there is a deadline? They iterated as much as they could given the deadline, past which the kids would die anyway? Fuzzy thinks ng is abound in this topic.
It's not like capitalism was just put here by someone, it's how free humans will interact by default. The idea that it can be "replaced" is one of the most asinine that I've ever heard. Even in places that have tried to practice something different capitalism has still existed in the way of black markets and has always emerged as king.
> the uproar over keyboard problems started far too recently to have affected the design of the 2018 version.

The lawsuits were more recent, but Apple has known about the issue long before designing the 2018 MBP. This keyboard was on the 2015 MacBook and people have been complaining since early 2017 about the MBP.
My post wasn't flagged (afaik), the article was.
Pocket notebook and small mechanical pencil.
I don’t mind if it’s PR either. He put his money where his mouth was. I doubt the rescue officials would be as annoyed with him if he developed his sub in private — and talked about it after the rescue was over.
Think everyone died young in ancient societies? Think again
France and the Triumph of Negative-Capability Football
Doesn't that kind of defeat the point of the Yubikey? I would think you would want to separate the key and the computer when you yourself are separated from your computer.
Your monitor supports usb c and has ports on them?

Do you feel this is a standard setup that more than 10% of the market have?
No, the whole concept of national identity is very recent, starting from early 1800s for some parts of Europe. Longer than that you had tribal factions or regional identities and that is it.
The 17yo and older Pulteney expressions are also aged (some) in (oloroso) sherry butts. The 12yo is not, from what I understand.

I tend to not like heavily sherried Scotches (sherry-bombs), preferring oak, smoke, peat, brine, and nutty flavors. Sounds like you enjoy the wine/sherry though. Luckily there are plety of options out there for both of us.

Sláinte!
Yes it is rather trivially true. The age is getting exponentially further while discoveries are happening faster.

But that reflects improvements in technology, not anything about what’s being measured.
Out of topic. Wow withoutboats you didn't have an account here before? Welcome! That's great to see you coming here and to see you giving many in-depth and very precise answers.
React vs. VueJS. Which to Choose?
When I first started using, I hated it. Now after using the old one, I wouldn't want to go back.

It just takes a little while to get used to it.
Absolutely. I’m somewhat surprised that this wasn’t brought up as the obvious solution. A small fee to Amazon turns dirty money into clean.
Is Huaqiangbei still a good place to go to find products for white label or is it basically tapped out now?
$2,400 for a laptop, unbelievable.

I guess it's the equivalent of women paying $1,200 for Manolo Blahnik shoes, or rednecks buying $60,000 pickup trucks, they sure are purty, but they just aren't worth the money, no matter how much you've bought into the hype.
I just wrote that the Governor was the one making the executive decisions.

The rescue divers discussed their plans and their options with the Governor so he was thoroughly briefed on what was about to happen and the perceived risks.
Profile it.

If the profiler points to some awful thousand-line method and the cause isn't obvious, add logging statements to record elapsed time at several points within the method; use that to narrow down the cause.

Common culprits: nested loops (sometimes hidden by looping over function calls that contain loops of their own); database abuse; calls out to third-party services.
I won't use it but it looks good. The readme is very clear.
I feel that since I started commuting to work by bike about 10yrs ago, I became a much better driver. I'm more patient/tolerant of others on the road, and I pay more attention to what I'm doing and what's happening around me.

I often wonder that if all drivers had to to spend one month per year commuting on a bike, how much the average standard of driving would improve.
Cython, you mean? There's not really a need for type hints to create speed. A tracing JIT can infer type pretty well.
yeah, reminders can also be used as todo lists, literally.

Although the "remind me at location" thing never worked for me.