skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pricing puts it outside of what I'd consider a gaming oriented card. Same can be said about Nvidia's RTX by the way.

Nice performance though, it's the highest performance "gaming" card with open drivers today.
more winning if you do shooters competitively.
but yeah if you are playing single player, 50fps is fine for most people.
"For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead".
I really tried to avoid being prescriptive about the solutions. It's a lot easier to talk about the problems :)

> aren't interested in these questions of what-could-have-been at this point

Exactly. If we shipped this or that feature... If we raised more, or less.. If I stayed at Pinterest... If I invested in Bitcoin...

I'm just not sure I gain a lot from thoughts like that!
This is called the moral credential efffect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing
I have been wanting to do something like this and been procrastinating hoping someone will do it for me.
I think your first paragraph is an apt description of our world, starting from the early 20th century and onwards.
It's also an intoxicant. Or at least, I definitely felt drunk after eating it.
> I don't think they actually make any sales there, it's just for marketing purposes.

They do. The sales process is basically the Sales Rep sitting you in front of a PC and letting you order it through the Tesla website while they sit idly by to answer any questions and guide you through the ordering process. It takes less than 15 minutes.

It's stupid simple and zero pressure compared to regular automotive sales.
> This statement doesn't make any sense. If you increase the number of software engineers, the average wage will decrease.

It also assumes that there will be jobs available. Increasing the supply software engineers does not mean the demand will increase. I see this logic error all the time when people discuss solutions to income and wealth inequality. Actually, the solutions are taxation and estate taxes; but those proven solutions are rarely mentioned.
OP alleges that the given rules are used for abusive judcement. You miss the point and opine that it works as intended. In sum, there's the funny argument that abuse is intended :D
True for airliners, but I believe we do currently have planes that can fly themselves autonomously from take-off to landing, that we usually call drones.
Yes, snake_case is the superior naming system imo. Only problem is that each underline required two keysrokes. Maybe using keyboard macro or something would help.
This guy is so into himself, the first thing he does is ask for pull-requests to fix his typos because he can't be bothered to proofread.
Of course pot is basically legal in most of the us now and very much not so in China, so the learning could stand to go the other way.
Transfer payments are presumably excluded because GDP traditionally excludes transfer payments. Including something in the numerator, but not in the denominator, is a good way to get weird ratios. E.g. it would be possible (though it would not presently happen in the US) to have a spending:GDP ratio greater than one.

I do agree that it would be better to use some other denominator that does not have this problem, but it isn't a crazy decision to begin with.
Show HN: CricketGraph in the browser
Statically typed functional programming. I see plenty of Haskell, PureScript, ocaml, Scala (used functionally), and other language engineers who appear to be over 40.

Also, low-level programming.
Yet another reason not to use Spotify. Their IPO was a huge red flag, of course.
A freshman Congressman typically doesn't get this kind of exposure. I smell a RAT!

At least you're tired of the Boomers running everything. They've never done a thing right for me (Xer). They're idiots. The problem is, Marxists like AOC aren't going to do anything but turn the US into another Venezuela.
> Sounds like the utopian culture of the protagonists is surrounded by plenty of non-utopian drama.

Yup. In fact, the Culture is in a way just scene setting; the protagonists in most of the novels either aren't Culture, or are very weird Culture people. The only possible exception would be Excession, where the characters are mostly Culture AIs.
> (and still are?) done at MS

It sounds like the DevOps winds have shifted in the last few years at Microsoft. Even Windows (!) is now in git and properly dogfooding Azure DevOps (Boards, Repos, et al), according to blog posts and BUILD talks.
Thanks for the mention of ProductSchool - we also have a whole bunch of other free resources / communities for PMs at: https://www.productschool.com/free-resources/
This seems very cool! A nice cross between tl;dr-pages and zsh autocompletion. Installed.
MS didn't want to collaborate on OS2 any more. So IBM licensed some things for the GUI from Amiga that became Workplace Shell. Possibly included BOOPSI. A REXX licence was indeed part of the deal from what little I remember.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch03s02.html#os_...
Amazing and poignant story; thank you for sharing.

I do wonder if there was a path for Gumroad to become a Shopify killer, instead of focusing on sellers too small and unsophisticated for Shopify, which limited the addressable market.
> It seems to me that there has been a lot of success in recommendation engines

Not as much as you might think:

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201

"Mainstream movies are specially designed to be inoffensive to just about everyone. My Netflix recommendations screen is no longer "Recommended for you," it's "New Releases," and then "Trending Now," and "Watch it again." "

"As promised, Netflix paid out their $1 million prize to buy the winning recommendation algorithm, which was even better than their old one. But they didn't use it, they threw it away."
Especially the 21st century and onwards.
Looks nice! By command pallet, I understood as color pallet, as in color scheme. But this looks pretty handy!
That's a great idea. Though I wonder if I would have a cross-origin problem accessing another site (I'm a bit new to JavaScript).
That's more trouble than it's worth. davebowman@corp.net and dave.bowman@corp.net will receive many emails not intended to them.
Ask HN: What would encourage you to contribute?
Some time ago I got involved with a project because I thought it would be a good thing, and I had knowledge that I was happy to contribute. It was niche, it was never going to make money, but it was a thing I thought should exist.

I'm interested to know - what makes people contribute? If I stared a project of collective knowledge, intending to make it free and open, what would encourage you to offer a small amount of time and effort to contribute what you know?

All thoughts welcome.
I would imagine the parent comment is in regards to how people listen to podcasts. According to Anchor, Apple Podcasts boasts a 52% market share of how people listen to podcasts - https://medium.com/anchor/how-people-listen-to-podcasts-ba0c....

The power and reach of the default install of Apple Podcasts is hard to ignore. (which I don't believe most Android phones have).
A Quest for Clarity
I've had jellyfish in Taiwan and Japan, and it had a similar numbing effect. It didn't taste like much, but the numbing was novel enough for me to want to eat more.
This bit is interesting...

"I am following up our conversation a few months ago. KP would like to sell our ownership back to Gumroad for $1. Can we discuss this week?"

...do founders discuss a Plan-B exit strategy/costs with the VCs ? Do VCs (or their lawyers) give this option or offer to discuss.

For Gumroad, it sounds as if this was a lottery or a happy coincidence. But I am interested in finding out if VCs actually only are interested in outright discussion of the up side (similarly for the founders... but that's kind of apparent from observation, and ... well also reading your article :-) )
In case of Nvidia it also means game will force certain feature known to not work as well on AMD, like for example tesselation in Crysis 2 going down to many triangles per pixel just to make sure AMD cards struggle https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to... , or invisible tesselated water under main geometry https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to...
Other times Nvidia will "help" developer drop DirectX feature it doesnt like, like Assasin Creeds removal of DX10.1 after joining Nvidia "meant to be played" program.

Optimizing drivers is one thing. Sabotaging libraries, and then forcing said libraries on developers under the guise of "support"/cross promotion (read Nvidia is paying developer in advance) is another.
CTRL-K for bookmarking seems like a possible mistake. That is a very common key combination for killing text forward from a cursor, and one which I use often every day.

It would also be wonderful to see this work with shells beyond Bash and Zsh, such as Fish or Csh for example.
Exactly; Streisand Effect. If Waze removes the functionality, I'll have a new side project.
If spotify gets a few exclusives from e.g. gimlet, that might drive listeners there, which might make such exclusives cheaper to get.

I really hope this fails though. One of the great things about podcasts is the open RSS based ecosystem. I think current listeners might be reluctant to move away from that. What scares me is that new listeners could come to spotify and not realize it is weird for podcasts.

The only real issue RSS has is that ads have to be baked in. Sadly I don't know if we could have an open system with personalized ads.
So something is dangerous and people are going to do it anyway so they legalize it and try to make it safer instead of criminalizing it. The US could learn from China on this one.

Pufferfish has been legal in the US for decades at least, there is a classic Simpons episode in which Homer consumes one.

If you meant to comment on drug policy: many drugs are illegal not because of the harm they cause to the user but because of the harm the user causes to others, and it's not feasible to make a "safer" dose because the nature of these drugs encourages addicts to use larger or stronger doses over time. This is in contrast to alcohol [edit: and marijuana], which is legal because (a) it's potency has remained unchanged for centuries, (b) it's easy to control consumption, and (c) the amount of liquid necessary to be ingested to reach debilitating or unsafe levels of intoxication are generally large enough that this level of consumption is the exception, not the norm, among the alcohol-consuming population.
This is an absolutely incredible article. Possibly the best I've seen on HN in 6mo to a year.

Normally I wouldn't post a comment just to say that but the amount of true insight ORiley provides is impressive.

Understating of the web, of SV of business, of growth of IPOs and well reasoned analysis and predictions of what's coming next in funding.

It is long and absolutely worth the read.
Another thing the pricing test favored by the Chicago School doesn't consider is the effect of consolidation on entrepreneurship. Huge consolidated companies become de-facto standards that are hard to compete with for many many reasons and that have the resources to simply buy or clone any competitor in its crib. In the computing world they also tend to become platform monopolies with strong lock-in from APIs and network effects. You also get a huge problem with regulatory capture due to the massive budgets these companies have for lobbying and revolving door deals. If the mega-corps get big enough and exist long enough they start to effectively merge with the state.

The price to the consumer might not change a lot, but a lot of innovation doesn't happen when the market gets dominated by players like that.

Back to inequality -- this effect also leads to consolidation of more and more wealth at the top by these companies and to geographic consolidation of wealth in the cities where these monster companies are headquartered or have major operations. Today that's San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and New York. Due to the "law of rent" this forces up real estate costs in these cities, further making it hard for middle class people to build wealth regardless of where they live. Geographic wealth concentration means you face a choice between poor career prospects and living in a city where the real estate market takes all your surplus due to the natural spatial supply limits (land, commute times) that exist for housing.

Entrepreneurship is a major vehicle for geographic wealth dispersal and for class mobility from the middle class upward. Without entrepreneurship the ranks of the very wealthy become incredibly stagnant and almost like a generational nobility. (Europe has this problem too, though for very different reasons. In Europe the problem is too much cumbersome regulation making it too hard to start new businesses. So Europe has too much government and America has unstoppable mega-corps that crush everything new.)
I used Enthought before switching to Anaconda. I don't remember exactly what got me to try it, but I found the experience a lot better.

Maybe the Windows support? I'm not sure. It's been a couple of years.

I hadn't even thought about Enthought until I saw your comment.
Are you sure that's not a problem with the client? It seems Cloudflare supports leaving the connection open just fine (at least using the cloudflared client).
Adiantum: Encryption for the Next Billion Users
Not sure why they went for that one, really; even as a novel it's kind of messy and confusing, and I struggle to imagine how an adaptation will work. Player of Games would have been a much more obvious choice.
How quickly do you anticipate being able to sell data and make your consumers money?

How do you envision paying customers/individuals?
Strip clubs and Big Tech find common cause in California labor fight
This brings me back to a few lessons I’ve learned from other friends:

+One of the CEOs main roles is to raise money

+Rich or King? Know which one you wanna be.

+How much is your friendship really worth? Think carefully about this before you get in business with them.
Dhall – Year in review (2018-2019)
A Lifelong Diet of Games Influenced the Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Haha, it was crazy reading the discussion (in 2011) around whether Gumroad should take Bitcoin or not :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407053
My god..what is this shit
Thanks for sharing your story.

I am a huge fan of gumroad, I remember your interviews on podcasts when you launched.

I have a couple Gumroad T-Shirts that are still my favs.

I have bought info products using Gumroad and it's a great experience.

Will definitely use you guys to sell my own in the future.

Thanks again.
I'm personally achieving something like this with a combination of binding Ctrl-R to fzf's history search and using zsh's vim command edit mode: https://asciinema.org/a/fELHDWUytNGMBEFBGEjo5jJO7
Right.

It's not as ambiguous as people think it is, and that is what will likely disappoint a lot of people who think we can use it to reign in tech companies. It's actually been decided over the decades that some pretty specific things need to happen for an entity to warrant a breakup. For instance, Microsoft, was not broken up. AT&T was. There were actually some very specific reasons that this was the case. Contrary to popular belief at the time, it was not because Microsoft paid off the government.

By way of illustration using cases from anotheer era, I think Standard Oil and American Tobacco were broken up on the same day. The reasons behind Standard Oil are obvious so we don't need to go into that case, but American Tobacco is the interesting one. They thought they would get away with what they were doing because, in their minds, they were no different than the American Sugar Refining trust. They didn't control growing the tobacco, and they didn't control retail of the tobacco. Here's the thing though, they did control manufacturing of the products. ALL tobacco products. So you could grow tobacco, but there really was only one entity to which you could sell your crops. Ditto for retail of tobacco. You could only get products from one source. The court laughed off the United States v. E. C. Knight Company case because American Sugar did not control growing of sugar, or retailing of sugar, and they didn't even control all the making of sugar. So in reality, American Tobacco was something entirely different than American Sugar. The principals at American Tobacco had definitely miscalculated in this regard.

(Incidentally, by around 1920 (I think?), American Sugar could be shown to control Cuba's plantations, all refining of sugar, etc etc, and I believe? they were broken up too? Or maybe not broken up, but there were some sanctions for them? I don't remember it all it's been a while since law school. Anyway, you can google it if you want more info.)

Point is, you can't just have a successful company like Microsoft and claim that they have a monopoly. There's actually a lot more moving parts. It's why Microsoft walked out of court with a slap on the wrist. It's why American Sugar didn't even get a slap on the wrist in 1895, but the court had a good belly laugh. And it's why AT&T and American Tobacco got broken up as a result of their indictments.
I take the "unfolding" principle to be that DSLs do not permit abstractions of their own language. This one is true for most DSLs, but not all.
The compute performance was quite low for 3.5TFlops, in F@H even beaten by 2070... I am wondering if it's again drivers/SW holding AMD back, like with Deep Learning (in theory 15TFlops, in practice 7.5 etc.)
for what it's worth I think you've created more value at Gumroad then you would have at Pintrest :)
The incumbent manufacturers have begun approaching Tesla ranges using traditional pouch-cell batteries, while Tesla range hasn't significantly improved over that time, so the jury's out on which was the better long-term choice.

Also, Panasonic manufactures most of these battery cells anyway (including Tesla's). Tesla uses those cells to construct the battery pack. The incumbents generally farm battery pack construction out to Panasonic or other specialized battery makers.
If there are any glaring areas of ignorance you can shed light on, I’d be very grateful.

In terms of growing balls and taking charge: I know this needs to happen but I’m worried about acting out emotionally against my interest.
DoC doesn't actually address 2 or 3.

I trust Sonic to not data mine or game my DNS queries much more than I trust Google or Cloudflare. I actually run my own recursive resolver locally, but if Firefox or Chrome default to DoC then the effect will be to lessen the privacy of Sonic Internet users, and users of similarly trustworthy ISPs. Worse, the techniques employed by browsers to select between a DoC resolver and a local resolver will inevitably on occasion break anonymizing VPN setups. When the browser becomes the OS, you lose interoperability with third-party software as browsers aren't built as platforms for local interfacing.

And centralization makes censorship easier. A U.S. court may not be able to block resolution of a domain under co.uk, but it definitely can force Google or Cloudflare to block it. And it's much easier to execute an injunction against a small handful of service providers that reach 90% of users than trying to execute one to hundreds or thousands of smaller providers. Here's a recent injunction ordering Cloudflare to block a DNS name: https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-lists-dns-and-routing-serv...
Some iPhone apps record your actions without permission, report says
the defendant could also have multiple sources of money, what a concept
The computer you're typing on and your Internet connection has everything you need to create incredible value for yourself and humanity. No property, factories, government intervention required.

What's sitting in front of you is so mind bogglingly more powerful than the "airline industry".

btw "..for the government to make sure that.." is asking a lot. Keeping potholes filled gives the government a run for its money.
Only large fires I see so far on local new sources today are an Ocada warehouse and a depot on some college campus. Any hints on location?
Does it make sense to send such vital notifications via a channel that can silently hide them? This is ideal for mobile push notifications, and if you want reliable notifications, you should install the PayPal app.
I thought Lisps called them "dialects" (same as in Rebol / Red).

Couple of other terms i've seen...

* Pidgin - An attempt to get away from DSL ambiguity!

* Slang - This is what Perl6 calls them
It does seem to be a common belief though.

I recall someone hired at Baylor University as a part of dealing with sexual assault investigations (before the big scandal) believed it would be a good job because ... they thought there would fewer such problems at a Christian university.

I was bit shocked that someone tasked with investigations like this would even think that (wondered about qualifications).

In the end, people are people. No job or role really makes them any more or less anything. It's about who they are, and their choices, not the job, title, or etc.
(And if so, why doesn't the smaller process allow more transistors?)

Smaller die sizes mean larger yields, which mean bigger margins. I can't read minds, but maybe they have the design dials set with that goal. It's a 7nm version of the Vega64, but with 4 compute units disabled. They're also pushing the clock more aggressively.

https://www.techpowerup.com/251444/amd-radeon-vii-detailed-s...

Or is there also a difference in the architecture where a better design could get more performance out of the same amount of silicon?

Which Nvidia have and AMD don't? Maybe.
Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data
I think part of many Americans' quality of life definition is the possibility to hit it big and end up in the top 10% and have an even better life than most Swedes/Danes/Germans. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Uh - can you elaborate? I often search for images and sometimes from pinterest - but I don't find pinterest interfering with my searches when not using it.
As milton friedman said about this exact case that this a very hard thing to achieve both privately and via government.

Not having private property rights is more disaster than climate change at leads to authoratarian governments, widespread poverty and more harm to nature.

Sueing companies is fine but every single of those companies is eventually making profit by volunteerly offering some service to the individual.

Are we going to sue a blogger making money via adsense because google is using a data center powered by fossile fuel energy.
The dual-PowerPC BeBox[1] I bought with savings from my campus job in college was the machine that made me "fall in love" with computers.

At the time I was so incredibly jazzed that I didn't need to "telnet" to the campus workstations to complete my Unix-based programming projects, since there was a full standard Unix API and an IDE (CodeWarrior IIRC) came with the machine. And compared to any other computer, the UI was mind-blowingly responsive under multitasking. It was also the platform I used for my first side-project (a graphical IMAP email client).

I thought I was quite the tech rebel at the time, thinking I was onboard the nascent stages of this OS, but it seems that by the time I became a devotee, it had already suffered a major internal setback with the AT&T deprecation of the Hobbit CPU. I had always assumed (mistakenly) that they switched to PowerPC because it was "better".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox
ITunes and Apple Music are also available in Windows and in Android. You could argue about whether those versions are good or bad, but if you want to use them, you can. The discovery features works just fine, as long as you install the apps.
Any chance of finding these images again? They are 404'ing now but I'd love to see.

https://letscrate.com/gumroad/gumroad-progress
you should be scared of her too, she is an incredible moron and nearly everything she wants to do would be a disaster for this country
The Language Design Meta-Problem