skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels pedantic and totally besides the point.

The author was describing "gets all users" as in, gets all users that Apple can get. What's next, would you point out how people in the 3rd world wouldn't be buying Apple/Google phones either?

The point was, when Apple has all of the market share they can expect to get, will they turn around and flip tracking on and etc.

Please don't deviate topics for solely pedantic reasons. I generally love pedantic distinctions, but this i think added little to no value.
It is a variant of Chinese though. Chinese is a language family, not a language -- which includes Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, et. al.
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"negative pricing" sounds like they'll pay me to use it, if only I would just use it. I can see that's not your intent, but I suspect that's the first reading of many.
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> Harrumph. Wikipedia says that only three-and-a-bit volumes have yet been published. Seven volumes was the original plan. Smacks a little of George R. R. Martin?

My favourite poke at this is Charlie Stross' book the Atrocity Archives (a kind of Lovecraftian, CS nerd horror / humour novel where advanced mathematics is dangerous), wherein Knuth did in fact finish the 4th edition, but it contained secrets that immediately got it shut down by various governments.
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I too was looking at the My Passport drive and although it does seem to be hackable I decided to go a DIY route. Primarily I just didn’t want to have to keep tinkering with software and likely compiling from source constantly. I also wanted the ability to encrypt the volume and there was no clear path to doing that on the My Passport.

My use case is slightly different than yours though. My goal is to make a travel portable NAS. I can connect SD cards, any wireless device, or any USB device. I have access to my media on my server but public/hotel WiFi can make accessing video a pain. I’m editing on an older iPad that is storage limited as well. I just wanted to be able to have local copies of media accessible over WiFi for use on phones/tablets.

My solution was a NanoPC-T4 with a 1 TB m.2 SSD. Using hostapd it acts as a hotspot and using samba it shares files. My todo list includes adding encryption and a web interface for configuration as well as some kind of battery power.

Anyway, from what I’ve gathered playing with all of this, a single board computer with storage might cover your needs. The battery aspect doesn’t seem to be a requirement in your case so just setting up a board would be easy.
>> it’s more likely to be Flow batteries or Hydrogen production.

From an engineering point of view, this statement probably should be correct. Hydrogen in particular has such wonderful potential.

But, we have to consider future economies of scale in production. We don't know how long it's cost-performance may continue to improve, but of the three technologies mentioned, unfortunately only LiIon is currently on an improvement curve that makes it feasible for large scale storage in the short-to-medium term.
There is always something curious about an opinion so strongly held and communicated that is at the same time so wilfully ignorant.

Brave is clearly a privacy-focused browser: it takes very little time for a technically-minded, veteran HNer to kick the tyres on that project's focus and codebase to understand that privacy is their USP.

It's obvious the whole team believes in the idea of a user agent being an Agent of the User.

A little more time reviewing key figures, from Yan Zhu through to Johnny Ryan, reveals the calibre and integrity of people working on this project.

They are attempting to build a model that upsets the current surveillance capitalism status quo, so it's no surprise that there are attempts to spike perceptions around the project.
Looking around me right now, plastic doesn't really see much use as a bulk material. It's more for specialized small objects, coatings, etc.

Food containers. Small formed inexpensive objects like straws and cutlery. PVC pipes.

Cars have a decent amount of plastic in the interior but still not as a structural element.

Windows, maybe? Though the quality would seem to matter a lot there unless you want partially opaque windows....
From the politician's point of view there is a very important difference. If you raise taxes and then use that money to pay for something then you are responsible for a tax increase. Opposition politicians can point to your tax increase and complain that this is costing the average taxpayer $N per year.

However if you make a regulation which does the same thing then the cost does not cross the government's books, so nobody can say that you are costing anybody anything in particular. Its much better politics, regardless of the economics.
I've never seen frozen vegetables in anything other than plastic bags. I read it that the OP was buying ready meals and other cardboard-packaged stuff only in the frozen aisle.
Efficiencies might seem bad, but thermodynamics limits the efficiency of any heat engine (of which an ICE is one) according to the absolute temperature of the hot and cold side of an engine. This is called the "Carnot efficiency" and it's comparable to a no-friction mechanical system, or a no-resistance electrical circuit.

For an ICE, assuming combustion temperatures of 550K and assuming the radiator can cool the system to 50C, the Carnot efficiency is (1 - Tc/Th) = (1 - 333K/550K) = about 40%.

That's a hard theoretical limit that assumes all processes are reversible. Real engines have irreversible thermodynamic processes so the Carnot limit can never really be attained.

In other words, your complaint isn't with the engineers, it's with thermodynamics.

(note: ICE engines are modelled using the Otto cycle rather than the Carnot cycle, but that's a bit more complicated and leads to efficiencies that are even worse. The Carnot efficiency is an upper limit for all heat engines, including steam engines, Stirling engines, turbines, etc.)
No, the data is from official government sources. OSM data is good, but mostly not that good in comparison with official sources.
Flash Player contains a host of third party, commercially licensed software inside of it. Its source will never be released and it has nothing to do with security.
While an impressive feat on SQLite’s end, I sincerely hope no engineers see this and take it at face value. The filesystem is slower because it is more flexible, and I would imagine that once you have concurrent reads and writes to your thumbnails, a filesystem is to prefer.
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That reminds me of a scene in Clarke’s novel “The City and the Stars”, where there is a map that lets one view the entire billion year history of the city of Diaspora. I thought that was a cool idea when I read the book decades ago and now we can actually do it!
Living in Australia, I've been exposed to both Hong Kong and mainlander Chinese people and I've developed an opinion. Australia really needs to start working harder to understand them than they do to understand us. In light of the recent disturbances in HK I read things like this paper with renewed interest.

The views of the mainlanders on HK are fascinating in how alien they are in contrast to how the Australian press sees the situation. I don't think the media is demonstrating an understanding of the relationship the Chinese middle class have with their government.
Displacement doesn’t work like that at all.
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One of the greatest misunderstandings of acting to clean our air, land, and water is that it's a burden or chore. In my experience, it's the opposite. I recommend taking on similar challenges. I bet you'll enjoy them and incorporate them into your life as improvements.

I challenged myself to buy no packaged food for a week. I made it 2.5 weeks at zero and the experience improved my life so much I decided to keep going using as little packaging as I comfortably could. As my cooking skills improved I bought more fresh fruits and vegetables and, from bulk bins grains, dried beans, nuts, and dried fruit. I shopped increasingly at farmers markets. I came to see Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and other markets as wastelands with more garbage than food in them.

I was throwing my trash out once every other week, then once a month. Now the last time I emptied my garbage was September 2018 and the time before that July 2017. Here's a video showing my garbage the first time I went one year without filling a load: http://joshuaspodek.com/year-emptied-garbage.

My food tastes better, costs less, is more convenient, and connects me with my community more, as more people come over and I've visited the farm where most of my vegetables come from.

If you also believe that we need institutional changes from corporations, government, etc, the fastest, most effective way is to start with personal behavior, building on it, and leading others.
This is talking about using wind in conjunction with gas.
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Yet you'd trust Chrome which send everything to Google...? Or Brave, which is a for profit in search of a revenue stream? Why? Wasn't AdBlock a good enough lesson?
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I've seen this interpretation before in HN comments and I think it is an unnecessary distortion of Moore's Law:

Note the historical context the observation was originally made in (1965) when doubling was achieved through process size reduction, the effect this had on speed was twofold: operating frequency would increase roughly in proportion (increasing about 40%); secondly and more uniquely to the time, since predecessors transistor count were so limited there was significant room for improvements in instruction implementation and specialization as available transistors increased.

Although it's implied, Moore also explicitly stated this in his 1965 paper:

> [...] In fact, shrinking dimensions on an integrated structure makes it possible to operate the structure at higher speed for the same power per unit area. [1]

Later this effect was more explicitly defined as Dennard Scaling in 1974 [2]

Transistor count increases in recent years has very little to do with dennard scaling or improving individual instruction performance and everything to do with improving some form of parallel compute by figuring out how to fit, route and schedule more transistors at the same process size, which does not have the same effect Moore was originally alluding to.

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By83v5TWkGjvQkpBcXJKT1I1TTA...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
Disposable income is not wealth
Hate to say it but at least AdBuddy doesnt follow you around. They just share random ads.
Can someone here talk about what desktop CPU's might look like for the consumer in 2029?

Like, I'm a gamer in 2029 and I'm looking for the equivalent of todays Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen. How much faster will it be? How different will it be from today? Etc.
> The performance difference arises (we believe) because when working from an SQLite database, the open() and close() system calls are invoked only once, whereas open() and close() are invoked once for each blob when using blobs stored in individual files. It appears that the overhead of calling open() and close() is greater than the overhead of using the database. The size reduction arises from the fact that individual files are padded out to the next multiple of the filesystem block size, whereas the blobs are packed more tightly into an SQLite database.

open() and close() are significantly slower[1] on non-Linux OSes so this would be even more drastic on say Windows or macOS.

[1] I once had to debug a library that was lot slower on Mac and Windows and it mostly turned out to be because of doing open/close of files instead of caching the handles - on Linux it was barely showing up on the perf traces and I had no easy way to debug on the other OSes. On a hunch I cached the file
handles and the performance difference was mostly gone.
I think the issue is that production of plastic seems to be problematic in and of itself because it's so difficult to get rid of. Especially at the enormous scale we're doing it (a single use fork made of metal would be ludicrous).

Contrast to say, very small bits of sawdust or rocks or metal filings or whatever making their way into wastewater. I'd be interested to know the behaviour of other 'pollutants' i.e. materials that aren't especially toxic but modify the environment regardless.

You can't rely on it all being recycled by virtue of it simply existing - we seemingly don't have a solution for microplastics in clothes for example, but also, every item of plastic litter is in the environment "forever" - imagine 200 years of people chucking the odd thing out of the window, car tires, carpets, etc.

So whilst this seems to be a good solution for recycling, it may not be a good idea to allow plastic use to continue ballooning, and if you look at it through that lens we don't actually want to make disposal too cheap.
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Wealth is useless. I bet Spaniards have more wealth because they own houses instead of renting. But that's some wealth they can't touch. What are they going to do, live under a bridge?

"poor" is simply a generic term, personally I think it's income what defines if you live a poor's life or a rich's life.
Feel free to download and unzip, this is source code of a very famous app of the biggest company in Japan.
> have been re-written

There’s a plan in place to do so, but as of now, the current editions of the first three books are still written using MIX (the 60’s-style assembler language that he invented for the original editions). The later volumes do use the more modern MMIX.
Maybe I stand alone in feeling this, but I don't see those questions are absurd during an interview. Especially at smaller startups, where early hires are going to be interfacing heavily with the majority of other employees. Maybe this should be filed under things that comprise "culture fit", but I also think it's different than that.
”However, the free and open source philosophy remained largely unpopularized in the world of microcomputers”

I thought it was fairly popular in the early times, at the Homebrew computer club.

I think it was more that, traditionally, universities did research using computers and personnel paid for by society. Software is a secondary outcome, so it need not bring in money.

At some time, companies entered the market that had to pay for their computer time and personnel, and wanted to make money.

Hobbyists followed suit, some of them only because buying computer hardware was extremely expensive.

If paying for software always was the norm for hobbyists, Bill Gates wouldn’t have needed to write his open letter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists)

Also, I think the merging started way earlier than Linux. For example, Jim Warren, in 1976, wrote:

”There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning "ripping off" software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it's easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won't be "stolen"”

(That was in an article about TinyBasic, the project that invented the word copyleft; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#History)
Jezus, the amount of hoops people are willing to jump to work at a certain company. And it baffles me that I might want to jump these hoops as well ..
The idea that a government with control over its own currency can print money to pay debt without significant inflation is a part of Modern Monetary Theory. Here's a blog post explaining it: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=31715
I'm 100% on board for projects like Ruffle to exist for reasons of archiving history.

My objection is only to people who in any way lament the death of Flash. Consider that nobody is scrambling to build a clone of the Netscape Navigator 4 parser and renderer. The fact that this project exists is testament to its importance for a brief period—but also to the awfulness of the canonical implementation.
That's true, but power grids have managed to track demand with production that reacts over dozens of minutes.
In that case you might get advisors. Many/most of the startups get advisors, people that get some small % of the shares (usually under 2%) to bounce the ideas with.

If you let co-founder in you are not only sharing % of the company but also vision. Getting co-founder is like getting married, if you struggle to find someone you know and trust maybe it's better to stick with advisor for now.
The buildings are shown in 3D, but it seems it is only a 2D representation + height.
Should we recycle if recycling creates more pollution than an alternative?
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in.

Things like zoning, light rail, solar and wind allowance are all very local politics. Your local council is where the change is needed.
Also doesn't make any sense, of course something that use open/close once will be faster than using open/close n time.
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You are rambling and the situation you are describing is nonsensical and not related to anything that is going on in Romania.

Telekom is the former Romtelecom.a quick Google search should clarify that for you.

Coverage in Romania is 98% mandated to all operators by law and regularly checked (http://www.ancom.org.ro/en/ancom-has-verified-the-coverage-o...)

Bribing a city Hall worker for fiber Internet connection is again made up. City halls and all other institutions in Romania are not connected to the regular Internet, the connectivity is provided by STS (Special Telecommunications Services) to a private government network. In remote villages this is provided over satellite or radio link. Regular Internet is purchased by the local authorities from local providers (as needed) and is the same service that would be available to anyone else.

If you would run a local farm, do not host your eCommerce site using the available bandwidth, do it in the cloud, that's what grown ups do.

Please provide sources for your claims and do start a WISP if you want to address the rest of the population 2-10%, spread out over a country the size of UK.
Aligns with my experience.

Which, of course, is only one person's experience amongst many, and different people will have different experiences.

For people like me, however, the problems listed in this article are painfully obvious, especially with regard to false sense of urgency. When everything is urgent, nothing is urgent, except my heart rate.

Slack isn't really the issue here: it's any form of synchronous communication (IRC, someone coming to your desk, getting a phone call). Slack just happens to be the latest flagship for the interruption armada, swooping in with their false urgency and lack of sufficient information.
Exactly same thing can be said about US [1]. It really fascinates me how much focus there is on China when exact same things like suppression of political opinion and mass surveilance are happening in the West. I think it would be far more productive to focus on fixing shit here than to obsess about China as if everything was fine in the West. Meanwhile the West is still fueling the genocide in Yemen by the Saudis making it clear that all the outrage about human rights is just cynical posturing.

[1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Not having to pay rent seems to be far from useless. Substract that rent from the disposable income and recheck the numbers.

Wealth is worth much more than income.
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> Windows, maybe? Though the quality would seem to matter a lot there unless you want partially opaque windows....

Bathroom windows and shower doors? Make it a feature, not a bug.
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Replying to both:

throwaway9281: Which means written english will diverge along with the pronunciation. Well, I can't say it isn't happening already...

"Breetish Prime Meenister Theresa May (picturt), unmer pressur ower her haundlin o Brexit, annoonces her intention tae resign."

"Did ye ken... (Frae a collection o Wikipaedia's airticles): ... that the hairst moose (picturt) is aboot half the weight o the hoose moose?!

"In 1642, while still a teenager, he stairted some pioneerin wark on calculatin machines. Efter three years o effort an 50 prototeeps, he biggit 20 finished machines"

above from current https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

vageli: Well, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7G4z5uEQnE for an example and that was not heavy!

This is heavier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_9FHihGD2Y but certainly not the worst I've met. FYI anyway.
The cost of hiring the wrong person can be huge.

This just isn’t true. Every company has a “probation period” usually 3 months where either party can terminate the agreement. That’s more than sufficient to cover this risk.

You don’t pay the recruiter until probation is passed - everyone knows this.

This meme comes from Spolsky who somehow also convinced the world that the hottest programming talent was beating down his door to work on a bug tracking tool for project managers. Maybe his talent was in blogging, and not actually in hiring?
I recently saw a bumper sticker with the words "Fueled by recycled dinosaurs". Does that count as energy recycling?
IMO the point of this article is pretty clearly to answer the developer question "my application needs to read and write data, should I use the filesystem or should I use a sqlite db?" and not make some kind of sweeping "sqlite > fs" claim. In this context, face value is fine.