skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All life on earth comes from the same competitive biology though. The motivations of all species and organisms follow some predictable trends and patterns.

The ROI of preemptively attacking a predator while the dolphins are busy/tired from hunting while also taking food away from them in the process isn't a giant mystery.

The chances of it being Occam's Razor competition being species is just as likely as it crossing some higher abstract threshold for actually caring about some other 3rd party specie's individual survival because they're 'nice' or disgusted by the site (as others in this thread have implied).

Ultimately they don't seem to face much personal risk while doing this as the Killer Whales aren't big enough to take them on.
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I work on drag & drop a lot, especially right now. It's interesting how complicated overall, and how many different (code) solutions there are to the general drag & drop UX problem. I was consolidating ideas/notes from older notebooks a few mornings ago, I couldn't help thinking how it feels like reimplementing human evolution in a different/abstract medium.
Hello dirtyid.

A meta-comment from me. I enjoy reading what you are writing.

And it is a sad tale that one have to scroll down in the bottom of hn to see it as your comments are obviously more informed (ignoring the politics) than most other here. It just goes to show than hn is not really designed to discuss things which are very divisive.

And that is too bad. Because the rise of China and the comparable decline of the US is the single biggest change of our time. And it has big implictions for all things including technology.
It seems like drag-and-drop is out of fashion. I think big reason is that it really cannot be done well on touch-screen devices and touchpads. I don't really complain, because I have always found d&d rather impractical (and it's also terrible for accessibility); unfortunately, there are some applications that still rely on it a lot.

(As an aside, what bothers me more that the right-click menu goes out of fashion. That I feel is a bigger usability problem.)
> Amazon pays all U.S.-based employees at least fifteen dollars an hour—more than the minimum wage in many places—and full-time warehouse workers have access to the same health and retirement plans as executives.

FWIW, all U.S. employers are required by law to provide the same health and retirement benefits to full-time workers as they do executives.
Provided that you know where the string boundary is, so you don't scan off the front into differently encoded data. So it can't be backward scanned for some miscellaneous encoded number.
I too was thrown off by all the “company-wide email reporting”. Check AppleWeb.
I think in an era where almost all communication happens over a small number of platforms that are controlled by companies, we might have think about that one really hard.
The best example (counter-example?) of this that I can think of is one of the realtime raytracing demos that came out circa 2000 when it was all the rage. I can't remember the name but basically after doing well in a compo the authors revealed that it was just a rasterizer running at low rez with some hacked reflections, which everyone had believed was super impressive because they thought it was raytracing and the deliberately low resolution made it look the part.
do you have an established routine for embarking on major efforts like that? how much value is there in writing out the plan, and at what resolution? I'm figuring out how to "sketch" large problems as I move towards being a more senior developer.
> That's like twice as much in CA... for what I guess is not environment-friendly by a long shot?

You'd be wrong. CA has one of the cleanest energy mixes in the country, arguably among the cleanest in the world for it's size:

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=CA#tabs-4
50-60h is my limit, and luckily haven't been near that in a long time. Shit gets weird.

Not having met anyone that claimed 72h+ probably mostly just means you've never known any speed freaks - what happens after that mostly depends on whether or not you're on meth.
They certainly don't, but then you have to be ready to face the consequences of silencing people based on your internal politics (i.e. those people not being your customers anymore, or, in this case, wanting you to delete all the personal data they have on you).
ActiBlizz can certainly decide that appeasing the chinese market is worth more to them than the western one, but I don't understand why then their western customers can't complain/decide to not do business with them anymore
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> cannot be done well on touch-screen devices

I literally just drag-and-dropped that text on a phone.
> Personal docs don’t sync page progress

I think it is a liability issue. Amazon probably decided that someone might sue them if their servers were involved in helping the user read possibly pirated books.

Which is stupid, and I think no one should ever be sued for this, but the Amazon legal department probably had the final say in this.
France has a massive amount of nuclear power with subsidized capital costs.
I'm not sure we can say it is out moded yet, the recent paradigm of fiat currency backed by nothing has only existed since 1971 when the US got off the gold standard. For all of human history before that time money was tied to something solid and therefore a direct measure of a persons time/production/deferred future value.
I don't think anyone was arguing that it wasn't. USB-C is and was obviously the future and a far superior standard. But not having even one USB-A port is still ocasionally a pain today, and definitely would have been four years ago.
Meanwhile in Germany the average duration of blackouts in 2017 was around 20 minutes per customer, in quest where it was pretty high because of storms. The frequency was 0.28 in 2017, which means you can expect every three years an outage.

Source: https://www.vde.com/de/fnn/arbeitsgebiete/versorgungsqualita...
How did I not know about this before now? Excited to dig deeper and make time to give it a try!
I agree, but once the US was in Iraq, it was kinda committed. Except it wasn't.
> I noticed in grad school that your sub-conscious is passively working on the problems you encountered even if you are not actively thinking about them

As other comments already mentioned, this works amazing for problem solving related jobs as well. As an engineer I use this actively on almost a weekly basis.

To make this work you just gotta really think about that problem and understand the actual parameters very well. Like almost every detail. And you really need to want it solved. Like make it really bother you. This usually comes
by itself if you are engaged enough with the problem anyway. You can't solve something subconsciously when you just glanced at it and think "meh" about it. Then go to sleep and hope for the best if you didn't already solve it by using the above steps. Worst case is you wake up with the urge to understand the problem better and either get the solution or the next hints within the day ... or next session of sleep. The brain is really an amazing tool if utilized right.
Chrome Canary is currently 79.0. The mainline version is 77.

Edit: I wasn't able to reproduce in either, didn't dig into why
fwiw, I've had several work meetings before 9am. they weren't my favorite thing in the world, but i didn't have a choice
It specifically alerts you to police presence a few hundred yards or more before the location. It also flags speed cameras and more.
The GDPR has provisions for companies suddenly being flooded with requests, extending the deadlines for responses in those cases.
Think about what bswap does: https://c9x.me/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_21.html

After Multiply / BSwap / Multiply, all 64-bits will be "high quality". The XOR "shifts the zero" (I don't like the fact that Hash(0) == 0 personally), but honestly I haven't been able to figure out a statistical change in my testing. So I guess the XOR is optional.
Orcas have also been know to cooperate with humans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_Sou...
what makes you think society can’t organize itself?

The state only exists for protection of its members: military protection from other states and the monopoly on violence with a system of law internally

Overtime a lot of stuff just gets tacked on
Any dime a dozen facility with any sort of need of continuous electricity has a backup generator. The point is not that they should have bought a new generator for this planned blackout. The point is they should have had it for decades already.
what is more democratic than letting people choose we’re their money goes to directly?
> Insecure direct: rsync <-- clear text

rsync lately, and depending how it is compiled, defaults to using ssh, so it shouldn't be clear text in that case.
IANAL, but this is what I've been told:

Both. Copyright applies to some aspects, patents to others, and then you also get into trademark rights. With the US having embraced effectively permanent copyright, ISAs will not be freely able to be implemented unless their owner expressly allows it (my understanding is that the Oracle vs. Google case solidified this thinking).

Fundamentally, that means you get to pick from RISC-V, POWER, or SPARC when selecting a well known ISA for your new device, or start signing licensing agreements (which always come with restrictions and oftentimes significant royalties).
Good for you! I personally find it difficult to do it without a mouse.

And even with mouse it's error prone, you might accidentally move your mouse during clicking on something, and d&d something somewhere that you don't really want to (classic example is moving folder into another folder in the file open dialog).
No disrespect to Steve Jobs but my guess is that he would do the same thing.
Imagine a future where we have engineered this effect to perfection, and even in your dreams you are expected to work. The effect would be an increase in the supply of labor, without an increase in the population. Wages would be depressed. There would be at least some people who have no reprieve, no moment to themselves, just so they can make it to the next paycheck and survive. 24 hour wage slaves. A human shaped cog in a capitalists machine.

What a remarkable hell we engineer for ourselves.
Last time I checked meson still doesn't have great Qt support e.g. it can't track rcc dependencies [0]. Funnily enough that issue is about rcc not making dependencies available to the build system, but I believe it actually started doing so somewhere down the track. I did a little work on it a couple of years back but regrettably never followed up [1].

[0] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/27c01dff01832fa9d0c...
[1] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/97#issuecomment-3...
You are Chinese and assumed your data would be encrypted with Apple?
Agreed, it's a much harder problem to get right than it looks on the surface "sure I can add drag & drop easily!". Like a lot of things in software...
At some point in the distant past, in the Miasma nobody knew you were actually a dog.
I have an incomplete system modeled after a few ideas of zettelkasten.

150 words per card(I wrote it out on the index card and determined its approximate size), all organized into a single directory, with citations in another. All have randomly generated IDs, with title as filenames. To date, I have created about 35K words of notes across 550 cards. Only recently, did I work on linking stuff up(using the randomly generated IDs).

I even wrote a way to display ten random cards in an electron app before switching away to GTK and ruby(still working to get back to previous level of functionality). I mostly used the random display of cards to re-read and expand the cards, since I usually get more on the second read-around.

I am not quite sure how useful it is. When I was programming, I looked stuff up in my notes and mostly added to the cards that I didn't know about programming.
Does anyone make a multiple USB-C charger? My Pixel, my MiFi, and MBA are all USB-C. I can get USB-C to Lightning Cables for my iPhone and Airpods but I can't find a power block that has more than a single USB-C socket. All of Anker's are 4 USB-A and 1 USB-C

https://www.anker.com/ca/products/108/216/desktop-chargers

Checking on Amazon I see at most 2 USB-C (with nothing else so not useful)
Here is the important line for you to chew on in wikipedia article of SVP..

<wikipedia>

SVP receives generation produced outside Santa Clara via transmission facilities owned and operated by PG&E under the direction of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO).

</wikipedia>

About 2/3rd of SVP power comes from outside. If PG&E cuts certain transmission lines the good folks of Santa Clara will feel the bite, a bit lesser perhaps, but a brown-out can be willfully imposed by PG&E
A counter example would be Quebec's grid which was nationalized in the 40s. Hydro Quebec owns generation, transmission and distribution for the province and provides the lowest residential rates in North America while operating at a profit. Admittedly we have access to stupid amounts of hydro power and a population that's a lot smaller than California.
The whole thing puzzles me in terms of the amount of time to get nowhere. I understand that marketing, arranging manufacturing and distribution logistics takes some time, but having a deliverable (pre-release) product should have been pretty darn quick, even if the BOM financials and final spec needed some work; heck, a weekend with an FPGA would have yielded something - it was done in 2010: https://hackaday.com/2010/09/15/atari-2600-recreated-in-an-f...
DMCA is the other one that can be abused easily. I've seen people weild DMCA on Reddit like a weapon, attacking entire forums with copyright requests and Reddit automatically taking stuff down and even suspending accounts for "repeat copyright infringement".

Always the sign of a poor law, but sometimes useful to expose it. I hope it gets documented well.
The aztecs did fairly well actually until their population was heavily atrophied due to newly introduced diseases.

edit Specifically La Noche Triste. It was only after small pox killed about 40% of the population leaving most of the remainder to deal with disease caused sever disfigurement, disability, senility and starvation that the spanish really began to gain the upper hand.
I don't think that was said or implied.
In addition, adapters were available for all those steps: 12V to 5V charging, and the 30 pin to Lightning adapter. And on the software side, even the ancient iAP accessories are still working. I’ve seen 2007 car kits hooked up to an iPhone 6 through those 2 adapters and behaving just as you’d expect.
Apple does have new manufacturing capacity in the US (state of Texas). I am not sure how long it took it took put together their present supply chain but I bet it took longer than 4 years.
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No one gets promoted for maintaining things. It's all about delivering new stuff.
A private monopoly on its absolute worst day would still operate more efficiently than a federal or state power agency. One still has a bottom line, the other just has meetings to look busy.
I'd argue it's not naturally self-replicating. It just seems that way because of how platforms promote content with algorithms that have been optimized for user engagement. Go read the book Zucked, if you haven't already.
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That must be a super awkward meeting for the H1B employees.
https://www.anker.com/products/variant/powerport-atom-pd-2/A...

This one has 2 USB-C

https://www.anker.com/products/variant/powerport-atom-pd-4/A...

This has 2 USB-C and 2 USB-A. Apparently it’s out of stock on amazon right now though...
> It had been much warmer and drier earlier in the summer.

Warmer yes, but dryer definitely not. Earlier in the summer there is still moisture left over from the previous rainy season. By mid fall it is much dryer, and the risk is increased by offshore winds coming from inland.
Sounds more like an adaption to a longer than 24h circadian rhythm than bipolar disorder, which shouldn't cycle that fast or regularly.
Next to my bed I have a 5 port USB-A charger w/ 3x high power throughout USB-A->USB-C cables + 1x USB-A->Lightning + 1x USB-A->Micro. More than sufficient for all my devices. Doesn't need to be USB-C->USB-C and way cheaper.

One of the USB-C cords powers the fan beside my bed!
Meanwhile the entirity of AI and ML run on Foss stacks. Those engineers seem to do just fine.
In New Zealand I pay ~29c US/kWh for 80% renewable generation during the day. 11pm-7am it runs about US10c/kWh. Handy for charging the car. I live ~500km from the main generation source as well, until a larger local geothermal plant comes online.
Thank you. There were tabloids and conspiracy theories and alternative facts long before Facebook's newsfeed.

But: there is the question of whether the tech somehow amplifies it, makes it worse in a way that we are somehow less equipped to handle.
Nonsense. Customers in a California are already paying higher rates for previous PG&E screwups.
This still uses ipynb files. What did you convert them to?
The ancient AGESA open sourced well over a decade ago, then closed down a few years later right about when the PSP started to appear on AMD platforms?

Or do you mean the modern AGESA binary that has zero support whatsoever in coreboot right now?
That is true but they are not alone in having done the risk calculus wrong on that.
I for my part would never want to sleep at a bed in my office. I'd rather go home. I also live in Japan and a lot of places here have beds in the office but all it does is squeeze more time out of people and make them stay longer
Ask HN: Which newsletters are worth reading in the VC industry?
Curious what others read from their emails. I currently subscribe to Strictly VC, Axios Pro Rata, and Fortune Termsheet but these only report massive fundings and unicorn-level startups.

I'm looking for a well-crafted newsletter that curates recent startup news or funding for super early-stage teams (pre-seed, seed, angel, etc.)

Anyone know any?
Goshdarn, I totally forgot about make menuconfig! Good memories.
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gn had the same problem when I looked at it in 2017. I was working with breakpad at the time (a Chromium subproject), and unfortunately they had only partially ported some platforms to gn, and I didn't feel like plumbing in 3 different build systems for the 3 different platforms. Long story short, gn was painful without the internal documentation Googlers presumably had.
You have to decide for yourself if you can.
To be fair, the app you linked hasn't been updated since 2015 and doesn't run on my Mac (10.14).
Considering so many are in favor of deplatforming things they don't like we're a long way from this outcome.

The last few years of de-platforming have laid the groundwork for the CCP, that's what happens when you don't have principles.
It doesn't seem plausible that Xi is worried about the opinions of neckbeards. It may suit his purposes to pretend that to be the case, but they certainly have enough control over the infrastructure to silence any counterproductive "outrage". As in USA, TPTB like to pretend that there are ways for the hoi polloi to determine national priorities.
Do you have a link to this 32-bit-aligned proposal?
That subtitle - "The Creator of Steve Jobs ... and Bill Gates" - doesn't seem to make historical sense.

Unix had very little influence in the early part of Jobs' and Gates' careers, and the article doesn't give any substance to that connection.

The original Apple and Apple2 didn't have anything Unix-like. I think the earliest connection to Unix would have been with the Apple Lisa.

Microsoft's Altair BASIC also had no basis in Unix. It was developed on a PDP-10, and the BASIC language predates Unix.

The MS-DOS heritage through CP/M might include some Unix, but that wasn't part of the creation of Gates, and as Wikipedia notes:

> CP/M's command-line interface was patterned after the operating systems from Digital Equipment, such as RT-11 for the PDP-11 and OS/8 for the PDP-8.

Unix was written first for the PDP-7 then for the PDP-11, so has a shared heritage.
FastText, RocksDB...
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Also Robert Pirsig, known for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, whose second book Lila is concerned extensively with an index card scheme.
> You, and everyone else for that matter, can go and buy a software defined radio (SDR) and play with a radio to your hearts liking.

You almost certainly cant transmit legally, though (unless you have a amateur radio license, which lets you do all sorts of stuff with useful amounts of power).
OR go to android that allows you to sideload apps from other sources. Of course, you run the risk of malware, then but at least if Google were to pull something like this you could just sideload it.
I have also noticed a lot of 1* and HK comments on the Apple store for their products.
In an islanded mode of operation you also need to match load and generation to maintain system frequency, which is tough to do with cogen and non-controlled loads.

Basically, it can work, but the whole system is going to need to be engineered for it from the outset.
You're hung up on a silly semantic argument about the correct term for a state takeover of a utility.

Jerry Brown was Governor of California, for four terms, and not knowing who he is in this context seems rather ignorant.
The article has some good points but I think the primary issue is that of economics, most organizations are too small for the cultural aspect to override economic concerns.

Maintenance doesn't provide immediate economic value, not to customers, not to board meetings, not to developers, not to managers promotions.

Developers like myself like it or not, maintenance is a strategic investment driven by long term policy for which many organization have none or can't afford one.

Joel Splosky once said "I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been frustrated by programmers with crazy ideas that make sense in code but don’t make sense in capitalism". I think it applies to cost of maintenance fairly reasonably.
Actually, to our knowledge, they provided exactly that.
It's a mess because the RPi4 engineers didn't follow the USB-C spec exactly as Benson Leung has been saying for years [0]. They made it harder than it was and messed it up in the process of rolling their own.

https://medium.com/@leung.benson/how-to-design-a-proper-usb-...
Although I use a mac for work, I have a spare thinkpad with openbsd, which I think of as my "forever system." I put stable software on it and generally go with the OS defaults. Over time I patiently refine the configuration files, adding a little polish here and there. The experience keeps improving, and perhaps some day it will be my main system, and work completely smoothly.

IMHO investing time to get too comfortable with the changing mac ecosystem is ultimately wasted work since it will eventually change/break.
That is strange given how fast the Bikini Atoll reefs regenerated themselves, even after being nuked.