skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does Puerto Rico have to do with chip in NYC ? Americans have one of the most antiquated banking systems in the world.
Should I leave Twitter for this? Looks so good.
Please use [YouTube] not video in titles where the content is not hosted independently thanks.
It is, if your security deposit is below the limit. It's usually 1-1.5x rent.
Beside some softwares only exists on macOS, Dell and Lenovo (if not concerned about its Chinese background) makes good ultrabooks which is on-par with Macbook Pro these days.

Plus, repairability & without keyboard which would break on particle ingress.
Interesting converse idea would be a map of everywhere on earth essentially untouched by humans. Places with virtually no buildings, farms, roads, human-made trails, or any other modern human development.

Obviously humanity has left its mark on just about every corner of the world, but a map of the shrinking relatively untouched areas would be neat.
Oh it definitely is like a a sort of blindness.

I love music, and the best I can do pitchwise is remember a few references. So, it is like one or two perfect pitches. I worked at recall on those... hard. It takes an immersive memory to do, and it is like a little movie of that time and place. When I do that, I can get a note from a song I know well.

And I know what that note is on the scale. Good as it gets. Strange, I can often tell same or different too, even whem some time has passed, but mapping notes to pitches heard is hard.

The other one, btw, is 1khz. The Apple 2 beep. Similar memory. And both are fond ones.

Otherwise, I have great discrimination. Can pluck parts out a total mess, usually no problem. And I hear technical details well. Production, essentially, or signals in the noise.

I knew a girl with perfect pitch. Her recall of things and a conversation encouraged me to try, and it worked, but so much effort! And only for a couple, and those are shaky at best!

But, I have just a taste, and that is enough to validate what you put here. No way can I just pluck chords out of something without first getting some references. It's a sort of build up. Do a listen, tag some notes, do it again, tag some more, and over some iterations note values, chords become clear. And that sticks while I have the head space. Let it slip, and a lot slips. In that space, I could play, improvise then.

She could often just listen and write down whole phrases! Of course it was pretty great having her around. I could just ask for one, and she would nail it. Thanks!

A lot of how people manage is by feel and other cues. Or, they just do not improvise to the degree possible. Or, they do not care, instead just working from where things are at. Say, a fifth up would be good... doing that only needs a sense of the scale in play.

In any case, I do not agree relative pitch is intrinsically more useful. I would not value it that way.

What is generally more useful is being able to really listen. I do that and it comes in very handy for testing, various electromechanical tasks. Over time, I have gotten really good at being able to play sound back in my head that I have heard in the past.

On odd artifact is playing that radio snippet game. If I have heard the tune, I can often get it in very short, sometimes sub second bits of audio. All comes down to what is in that snip. Vocals are easiest. Even a bit, and the map to the person lights right up.

Or, a mechanism. If it is doing anything odd, I hear that and know what normal is to good precision.

Discrimination is broadly useful, maybe most useful in the broadest sense, I would argue. At least there is a strong case for it.

YMMV
some of that team helped build the Google Photos app, but Google Photos was a product in its own right even before Bump joined the company and they were part of a (much) larger effort, of course.
The problem is not that Apple overcharges for repairs or misdiagnose issues. It's that they are trying to reduce the traditionally available alternative options a customer can take instead.
I upvoted this, but I regret it.

> Can we pay you to set this up for us?

> We recommend you follow our free instructions yourself. You can email us any questions and can donate if you'd like. However, if you really want us to set up everything for you it would be $250/event.

> Can you summarize how it all works?

> You’ll be creating your own Facebook Page. You can send your page’s '.com' web address to anyone you choose. During your event, you can record and post live video using your Facebook App. Anyone visiting your Facebook Page, even those without Facebook accounts, will be able to watch your videos.

So basically, "use facebook". You could replace "facebook" with "youtube" or "instagram" or other sites/social networks which support video and get the same thing. This site doesn't even have a button to click that will make it easier or pictures on how to do it -- just a bunch of text and pictures that boil down to "use facebook".

I'm starting to think it's personally ethically imperative to stop promoting sites that encourage people to use services with an active disregard for the well-being of their users/bad track records.

I really expected this was a service that made it dead simple to run OBS/video recording through an easy to use app and maybe upload that to whatever outlets.

In terms of viability in the business sense what I have said above doesn't really matter -- this might very well be a heavily used website which rakes in tons of cash and makes healthy profit. At this point to me though it just looks like preying on the weak (give your info to Facebook or pay us $250/event to give it to them) instead of empowering them (here's a tool that makes it easy for you to do the thing you want).
And if you use that, you’ll pour all your cocaine down the drain. You need the 100 percent pure anhydrous stuff. They don’t sell that at the hardware store.
For some reason, whenever I read any OpenBSD code, it looks just like code I would probably write. Maybe it's because they've kept it extremely plain and simple enough for someone who hasn't seen the code before to understand it in one sight. No crazy abstractions, quirks, new terminology. It's so refreshing.
The first thing about this video is that the laptop malfunction was at lest shady to me. There is no way in which that pin would bend itself, unless another repair was previously made or it was actually bent on purpose.

The second thing - I think it might even be 'product placement', because the shop image and address are clearly explained in the video.

In my opinion there's nothing wrong here: Apple's employee saw that there is water damage, he concluded that he needed to replace that part. This is just process, that they need to follow. We can't force Apple to change their processes and strategies, especially if this means less profit. It is after all a business, that is built to make money.
> Because more than 500 kilograms of leaves are needed for just one kilogram of cocaine, requiring almost two hectares, vast plantations are essential for production in any serious volume...

How much water does it take to produce a kilo? This seems like a much less environmentally-friendly vice than cannabis or even tobacco.
really, Picasa led to Google Photos as the previous photo product the company had ..
This is terrible if you're trying to make money from your product, but it's great if you just want to make something that you can't find in the market. Although it would be nice to not have spent the time and money on prototypes and getting ready for a Kickstarter.
The analysis looks exactly right to me (they don't explain how they calculated MLP, but the numbers look about as expected for x86 ROB sizes/FB sizes).

One thing they don't mention is that the low MLP isn't inherent in the other algorithms! With the default/obvious implementation of a benchmark loop using each method you hit this issue, but in principle I think you could re-write almost any algorithm which is "instruction count MLP limited" like this into another one that isn't. A simple sketch is to simply do a batch of N loads up front, storing them into a temporary buffer, then do the computation part.

The loading part will have maximum MLP (after all, it's pure loads) and then the computation part will get all L1 hits unless you picked N wrong.

It loses a bit because the loads aren't as effectively overlapped with computation, but if the loads time "dominates" as presented here, it would work well.

A more sophisticated approach would still try to overlap computation and loads, at max MLP. You could do this by inserting additional prefetches or actual loads into the computation stream, enough to get the required MLP. This is actually kind of complicated and more dependent on the actual hardware parameters which is why I mentioned the other way first.
I’ve been told otherwise; Is this full repair policy a “by-country” thinng?
> One of the most addictive substances known, legalization, acceptance and wide use could have drastic effects on society.

Very similar things can be said about alcohol (just look at how many people are addicted to it), yet we have learnt how to live with that drug. The same arguments against alcohol were used in the prohibition era.
I've live in a country that is 99% cash based and I use YNAB with no problems whatsoever. It is not difficult to track or budget in the slightest.
I believe most credit card fraud costs me as the consumer far more than your estimate of one 10 min phone call. I recently had fraudulent google “playtika” charged which google disagreed were fraudulent. Chase is happy to investigate which means send me forms to fill out.

Far more than 10 min.
I'm sure there are scummy ones that do that. The other shoe is that landlords have to deal with the shifty end of people a lot of the time. When I bought my current rental, the previous owner went to great lengths to educate me on what could be done with non-paying tenants and eviction procedures; it seemed that knowledge was hard earned.
How are you going to actually execute that and actually win in a Chinese court and get damages back from a Chinese corp?
Which all by itself seems like a class action just waiting to happen (i.e. the water indicator itself is defective resulting in hundreds of dollars or more in unnecessary repairs in many cases due to Apple repair policies)
It's faster like you said. but probably the main benefit are people who have already developed a large program in C.

C isn't hard to maintain -- it's not some mystical language..
Except that there was no actual water damage. I've bought some of that 3M material for some research experiments and it really shouldn't be used the way it is in electronics. It can turn red in humid environments. They're best used with things that are IPS rated like Pelican boxes, to assure rain isn't getting into them in an outdoor environment.
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It has nothing to do with politics, but it may have something to do with the cost of legal representation.
This is really odd. It's basically a very simple blog post that effectively just explains how to use Facebook Live, with a dedicated domain name, that then asks for donations and offers to charge people to set it up for them.

Then the entire page is setup like a marketing page, and heavily cross-promotes to what I assume is the OP's own wedding livestream.

... why is this on HN and being upvoted?
Last line is a little uncalled for. If the US didn't export arms the Saudis would just buy from China or Russia
"The counterfactual to your argument is just as appalling, "You don't deserve to live here because you aren't from here". You had to be born somewhere, and some of us had the misfortune of being born in a place where they no longer want to stay."

That is not the counterfactual to my argument. And while I do have sympathy for those who do need to leave, SF's history as a destination for marginalized members of society due to their sexuality, I also have sympathy for those who are already there, and do wish to continue living where they have roots. Repealing rent control when there is not surplus housing does nothing but raise rents, because the housing that people claim will be built if there is no rent control will not appear overnight.

"There is no empirical evidence to support this position."

You have the fact that rents in SV are already insane. Landlords are wanting to raise rents even further, otherwise they would not be wanting the repeal of rent control.

"ut if you look at the net impact you will see that more people will benefit regardless of their income level by the repeal of rent control"

Only if the additional housing is there. Otherwise they will be forced to leave. Rents will rise, which you cannot deny, and it is quite likely that many of those already there will not be able to afford it. Building housing is slow, and you are asking those most vulnerable to bear the brunt of the damage.
Possibly something better discussed with a psychologist, but I’ll throw it out there.

Often I wonder if “memory” is a skill that I never properly learned. It seems for me that simply remembering an arbitrary past event in any significant detail isn’t really possible.

Only if it’s a story I’ve retold on several occasions (and likely by now as much fiction as non) am I able to retain a firm grasp on a particular past event.

Forgetting names or faces? They slip away almost instantly, and holding onto them is like trying to carry water across a room in my hands.

Childhood is more like an abstract notion. If asked to write about it, certainly I remember basic facts but they are as much deduced as they are seen in my minds eye. A few moments here and there—again, probably stories that I retold at some point—but mostly anything firmly in long term memory isn’t really accessible in “true color” like it seems most people can have it.

I presume there’s an anatomical explanation that could become apparent upon autopsy, although nothing so remarkable as to alert on a full body MRI.

Then again, I can remember code that I wrote 15 years ago. Not exactly line for line, but when I’ve had the occasion to revisit old code, it’s as if I never left it.

Again it seems to come down to creation versus observation. Observations which aren’t actively re-encoded just end up in /dev/null to a great extent for me.

My wife says I’m blissfully ignorant, and it certainly seems to have served me quite well as a coping mechanism. Hard to carry a grudge when it just doesn’t occur to you how angry you were about something last month.

I’m not even sure it’s something I’d want to “fix” even if I could, except perhaps the names and faces thing.
I'm just going to quote Linus (Tech Tips) from his experience just trying to purchase parts for an iMac Pro:

> "…So if an authorized service provider fails to return a defective part during the exchange for any reason, they get dinged for the price of the replacement part in what is a clear effort to prevent any spare parts from making their way out into the wild. … This is far from the only punitive measure that Apple appears to be willing to inflict upon its ‘partners’. From talking to them, we were struck by the culture of fear that Apple cultivates among its authorized service providers. They explicitly prevent them from ordering replacement parts for the sake of having them on hand. So what that means is that they require a work order to be placed before the part will even be shipped, which creates massive delays of potentially weeks, for something as simple as a freaking RAM swap. Which makes the AASP look bad in comparison to Apple’s own service centers. But that’s Apple’s policy. To make matters worse, if an AASP attempts to order a part that they don’t yet have the certification for, Apple will send them a fine instead of the parts they ordered. And this is all for the privilege of having access to Apple’s supply chain. Oh and the best part is anyone caught talking about any of this to anybody outside of Apple; for them this is grounds for severe retaliation: Revocation of AASP status or certifications, fines or even potential legal actions … By comparison, Samsung has a web portal that you can log into and order any replacement phone parts that you could want…"

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwEInwvFbwk

(I had original transcribed it here: https://penguindreams.org/blog/i-paid-180-for-headphones-tha...)
ESNext compatibility table
1. Square, for example, does both payment processing and lending.

2. The idea of what you can or can not do varies quite a bit based on jurisdiction. For example, just searching for things related to democracy can lower your credit score in China.
Weirdly enough I’m almost exactly the same way, and you’ve described it much more eloquently than I’ve been able to in the past. Maybe there’s more to it than just your brain being some sort of one-off anomaly.
ActivityPub the protocol is quite promising and there are other implementations besides Mastodon:

https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub

What will really get the ball rolling will be organizations such as governments, educational institutions, public libraries, or news agencies that create federated social infrastructure for their own membership.
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"My motivation for accumulating wealth is largely driven by a desire to provide for my future family members. inheritance tax is theft."

So its bad because it would hurt you.

This is the problem. The way you think. Estate taxes could pay for services that help the poor and inprove our society as a whole. But you're only concerned with making sure your own kids get out ok.

But thats your job as a parent. I get it. You see a dog eat dog world out there, and you wanna get your kids out alive. But just why are we so scared? Why is everyone fighting over scraps?
It would have to be the end of the nuclear family, the entire foundation of the traditional perspective in the developed world, replaced by some form of collective inter-gender polyamory whose main benefit is to reemploy the ancient notion of child rearing by "a village", permitting multiple members to rotate between wage earning, child rearing, and personal time, so that the lifestyle is compatible with trending standards in progressive living. If you've seen The Expanse, this would be familiar to you one of the lead characters grow up under these precise conditions in a possible future Earth.

We are already seeing a growing appreciation for practices like ethical polyamory, open marriage, etc today, coupled with the growing depreciation for things like real estate while the divorce rate tells us traditional marriage is becoming untenable.

The polyamorous communes of our progressive descendants may be more robust emotionally and economically, as they assume those functions of the nuclear family without the constraints of "traditional" two-adult family units (cheating, disinterest, work/life balance, max 2 earners, etc). The traditional perspective believes it has a monopoly on social harmony and fertility because it adheres to strict, heteronormative, and patriarchal rules that appear to have "always worked"; the wager our this collective polyamorous future is to recreate those "village" conditions, even more primordial than the nuclear family
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I don't think you can take it for granted that most people who use Facebook spend time thinking about privacy issues. I also don't think it's helpful to dismiss things for being obvious - The theory of gravity comes from the 17th century but people were falling to their deaths for quite some time before that.
You can't, but you might be able to get an injunction barring it's import
Try Lenovo's service on Thinkpad sometime - its surprisingly good.
Netflix is better than cable, but not fundamentally different

I was thinking about this the other day. I take streaming 4K video completely for granted, but I marvel at the system of pipes that delivers natural gas and fresh drinking water to my house.
this is boring. don't bother reading it.
In Apple's defense, the newest keyboards no longer suffer from the particle ingress issue, and they're genuinely more pleasant to type on.
Ever look at Dell XPS 13 ?
That sort of depends on what you use Twitter for. I used both for a while, but eventually found myself checking Twitter less and less and discovered I didn't really care. Basically just Mastodon and Reddit for me now
Apple quoted me nearly $2000 at their Sydney store to fix my 2014 MBP for some water damage when I derped a cup of tea onto the keyboard.

Having discovered Louis Rossman via Reddit, I shipped my laptop to his store in NYC and was able to get my laptop repaired for less than a quarter of that price. Happy to answer any questions about my experience.

I'm a convert for the repair movement for life.
Up until the very latest generation of Macs, Apple was behind every other manufacturer when it came to 8th gen Intel chips.

Dave2D has several videos before the most recent line-up telling people not to buy Apple laptops unless they needed specific Apple software as all the high end Dell, HP, Asus and MSI offerings had better hardware for more reasonable prices.

Even now, you can find a lot of gaming and content creator laptops that are just as good, and sometimes even cheaper than the current Apple laptops. For an i9, it doesn't matter who you pick, they're all throttled.

If you're getting an i9, you should really get a gaming laptop instead. There are several that are built with very good thermals and won't throttle (although you'll have to dig through Linus/Dave2D reviews to find the specific models) and that are great for video editing and rendering as well.
I live in developing country that does quite poorly on the Transparency International Corruption Index.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Cash enables big corruption, too.
The tech giants, the US and the Chinese spy chips that never were; or were they?
If we only had electronic payment methods (credit cards, etc.) and someone invented cash, we'd be very impressed:

No communication with a server, no approval (for either party), no contracts and agreements, no cut taken from the seller (and partly passed on to the buyer), no third party involved at all - just a direct transaction between buyer and seller, no chips, not even electricity is needed. Imagine just handing someone a piece of paper.

Nobody is excluded, no matter their income or background. It's frictionless, anonymous, and it's very simple (for the user); the complexity is all handled by the cash-issuing party. Of course some will complain about government intruding into the payment processing marketplace.
This is a universally bullshit excuse. I'm amazed people still utter it.
The data is up for sale, notably Google buys this data (see link below). If Google can buy it, so can one of the hundreds of credit agencies out there, ditto for potential lenders. It is obviously priced low enough for non-lenders to buy transaction history in bulk, seeing as Google is willing to plunk down for a massive amount of transaction data: https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/google-mastercard-data-...
> Another point is that cash allows you to buy unethical things and illegal things.

Or even perfectly legal, not-unethical things which are not liked by your payment processor. Many will not process payments for firearms or firearm parts, and a whole host of other things which are perfectly legal; MasterCard (whatever your opinion on the validity of their choice) has coerced Patreon into shutting down the accounts of people whose speech they don't like.

A "cashless" system is one which requires a hell of a lot more regulation on payment processors, or a true virtual equivalent of fiat cash which doesn't involve the policy or whims of processors (or maybe a considerable deregulation, which allows individuals and upstarts to afford to process payments).