skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about monitors quite a bit over the years:

1. Don't be cheap. You look at the damn thing 1/3 of your waking time. Monitor is like a mattress - buy the best for what you want to do on it (be it text, or gaming, or colors, etc). No compromises.

2. Refresh rate is just as important as resolution. I can feel my eyes physically hurting as I'm looking at text while I'm scrolling it up or down on a 60Hz monitor.

3. Go with dual monitors instead of a single ultrawide. For me it's just easier to organize files on two smaller screens than on one large one. And I can have steeper "curvature".

4. 27" is the ideal size for me. Tried 32" it was too large vertically to look up and down. Tried 25" it's a bit too small to fit multiple windows.

5. The ideal setup would be two 27" 5k @ 120Hz, unfortunately they don't exists yet.
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Out of that entire list, the one thing that exists now is the Ethereum blockchain fix, and that basically required global agreement to respond to a single theft. That's not particularly scalable.

The rest of the things on the list aren't in significant use at the moment, and might never be. Measures that are not ready for prime-time are as good as nonexistent. We're talking about money here!
Single manipulator caused Bitcoin to top $20k in 2017
And Microsoft is only seeing a resurgence by basically marginalizing Windows. I didn’t argue that MS isn’t successful but that Windows has lost importance in the modern tech industry.
There were plenty of things that could be considered “gross misconduct” that I won’t go into. And as I said - same part of the org had people gone much quicker when just not performing.
I wonder if inability to do mental math explains the enormous debt people have these days...
Because they were told over and over again that buying a house was a good investment, and that the value was going to increase so much they could sell it and make money later.

Why do you hold the people who took the loans responsible but not the people who have them? How can they not have at least as much responsibility? Can't you say "just because you can doesn't mean you should" to people pushing predatory loans?
Yes, lest your questions lead you to become powerful in turn.
• 1440p (typical for ultrawide) for is a sweet spot for gaming. It's the highest resolution that works well with current generation of GPUs. In 4K gaming is hard, because most 4K monitors don't support high or variable refresh rates, so if the GPU isn't strong enough to consistently hit 60fps at 4K, it'll have to drop all the way to choppy 30hz.

• 4K for text. It really makes a huge difference. If you work with code, and don't care about color reproduction and black levels, then there are very cheap 4K monitors.
>> on the same day automobile giant Volkswagen began production of a new all-electric vehicle.

> The way that company fucks Germany over and over is truly remarkable.

Their political reach certainly is remarkable. I quipped that there will be legal roadblocks for autonomous cars in Germany that "magically" disappear each time a German car maker solves the technical issues that prevents them from going to market with it now.

> Paid no penalties for the whole Dieselgate in Germany

Some of that is blatant protectionism (which applies even when banks defraud the federal government by scheming to recoup taxes they never paid: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/14/cum-ex-german-tax-case-could...), but the other part of no-to-low penalties in Germany compared to certain other countries is due to differences in the legal systems.

Germany first had to establish a process for something akin to class action lawsuits, because that didn't exist here. That was done in response to the Dieselgate thing.

Even with that in place, you won't see the huge sums in Germany that you see in the US as punitive damages (doubling or tripling the value "because") don't exist, either (with no intent to change that): There's potentially a legal penalty and there's damages - for which actual damage needs to be proven.
You should try to upgrade a Linux machine. Not only keeps working before the upgrade. It allows you to WORK meanwhile the whole OS is upgrading!

Shit! I was playing Stellaris meanwhile I was updating to Kubuntu 18.10
Actually, not inherently serial. If you think about, an Apple consists of a lot of chips, which could be nicely modeled in say, Verilog, which is good for modelling parallel stuff. But it does not lend itself well to shader language.
To each their own. Too many folks out there with pickup trucks who don't need them is my point.
You may be right, but I don't foresee the pilot being allowed to control the vehicle. I imagine governments creating laws before long that would require all drone type cars to use GPS, take off and land from designated areas and would not permit manual control unless you meet some criteria.
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The chip in the phone is an approved module for Verizon, so theoretically, it can, and the bands needed are supported. Whether or not your Verizon customer service rep will activate the phone is an entirely different question that we'll only find out once we have them in hands and give it a shot.

https://opendevelopment.verizonwireless.com/design-and-build...
Yes, but that could have been done in this form earlier, and not suspiciously close to VW's EVs' release date.
That was plenty clear from the context.
Why do you believe public schooling improves critical thinking?
> the core benefit of blockchain is reduced transaction costs.

No, this is not true. It might incidentally currently be the case with, say, Bitcoin vs. $US, but there's nothing technical that inherently makes it so. In fact, as this article and countless others reiterate, from a technical perspective blockchain is almost always more costly.
That's an enormous burden. If we require lawsuits to enforce even minor cases of consumer protection, I argue that there is effectively no actual consumer protection.
I think there's a point to them, but honestly CTOL electric "thin haul" is more important. There are all these regional/rural airports that are under-utilized. It will be hard for electric aircraft to break into the jumbo jet market for the next couple decades. But conventional take-off, extremely high aspect ratio wing electric vehicles could efficiently and cheaply transport a dozen or more passengers at hundreds of miles per hour at distances of between 50 and 500 miles (a range usually serviced by turboprop planes, which are less efficient and no faster than electric planes) without requiring new chemistries or extreme architectural approaches.

I hope someone takes up the challenge. We've got Eviation's Alice, but most of the other players are focused on these eVTOL aircraft or hybridized jets (the hybrid part is a big challenge in itself and offers only modest efficiency advantages).
It's interesting, and I hope worth spreading in Germany where the laws on this exist, that a company can lay claim to a color and enforce that against other companies who are not competing in the same industry.
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In which case unfortunately, again, I can only imagine it would be 100x easier to just automate a helicopter rather than make a "flying car"(whatever that means) and then automate it.
Yes, those tell you what the end product is, not the actual recipe to get that. And they tell you limited information, since they tend to decompose complex compounds that are unstable when vaporized.
> We consequently plan on a fully automatic electronic storage facility of about 4,000 numbers of 40 binary digits each... We believe that this memory capacity exceeds the capacity required for most problems that one deals with at present by a factor of about 10.

"160kb should be enough for anyone" but with a refreshing dollop of humility
There is a difference between "getting woke" for a razor and a literal climate crisis.
I think you're just saying the exact same thing but with a lower opinion of Google employees.
There's also Academic Earth.
I love reader view in Firefox, but is it possible to set it default in Android? Otherwise I still have to load most of the assets.
Reminder, for context: the German VAT (effectively, sales tax) rate is 19%.
> The purpose here is simply to evade and arbitrage different regulatory regimes. The plan is to build a ledger that no single party (or coalition of parties in a single legal jurisdiction) has the capacity to edit or alter, and to make such alterations so technically challenging that it's beyond the capacity of any single court or legislature to do so.

If they respond to a legal demand saying “Our software won't let us comply”, do you really think that the answer will be “oh well, guess the law doesn't apply to you” and not “halt operations until you are in compliance with the law”?
Title is misleading, they're not bringing the speech engine to everyone, you still have to pay for Google cloud API requests. They're merely open sourcing the Android app that calls out to the API. See the GitHub link in the article: https://github.com/google/live-transcribe-speech-engine/blob...
Same, I had never heard of “a facebook” until the site existed. It’s... something fraternities at rich-ass colleges like the one Zuck went to do/did? Where they collect photographs of their fellow students and accumulate their contact info, vital data, and hotness ratings? I went to college in the eighties and never heard the term.
Title of the blog post is "How I Created the Fastest Startup Content Curator and Made it to #4 Position On Product Hunt". Submitting it as "Fastest Way to Discover Everything Happening in Global Startup World " is misleading.
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Yup, I'm switching exclusively to Moosejaw until Backcountry is a little more reasonable here. Obviously they have to enforce their trademark to avoid losing it, but some of these lawsuits are egregious imo.
That is precisely what Libra is banking on. We'll see if they're right.
> People want to reduce CO2, they want a greener Germany, a greener world and more importantly reach the climate agreement. Subsidizing electric cars is one step towards it.

They could have done that for years, but it happens the day Volkswagen decides to finally build them.
I'd argue that the usefulness of something is defined by what it can do, not the technologies used to implement it.
Not OP. It's more like they're willfully choosing to suffer. So in that case, enjoy your misery!
I can’t speak for the world. Here’s India with what I see are reasonable exclusions like colour and even customary terms like Escalator.

https://blog.ipleaders.in/cannot-trademarked-india/
That's a stupid argument, when comparing to windows examples, were that simply doesn't matter, you develop for current and 20years later it's supported.
TWM, from 80's, keep working fine on any modern GNU/Linux
I have a full XP machine because some games simply will not work under a VM with newer hardware. Example, the original Metal Gear Solid on the PC uses 8-bit acceleration. Pretty much every GPU dropped that support in the mid-00s.
Yes, I remember when people suddenly started writing win32 programs in assembly, as a backlash against the bloat of MFC etc. (and maybe because there was a bunch of non-PC assembly programmers switching?)

One interestin aspect of this is that we're going a bit back to Lisp/Smalltalk images in the mainstream, bundling runtime and code. (With few of the former's benefits, of course.)
Has been done with scriptings apps, of course (Python, Perl, Tcl's Starkits), but with Java and Electron it's bound to have a wider audience.

Maybe because we can't complain about size/complexity issues anymore, now that something even more complex is common (code+runtime+wholefrigginoperatingsystem).
Ironically the change described in this article will give the CDN more information as it now receives a request for each site and not just the first.
I had no idea JavaScript shipped without Arrays. Too bad they didn't just let objects take anything as a key, like in Lua. Then you wouldn't have all the edge cases Arrays cause in JS. Oh well!
Bullying is definitely a real thing, but I think limiting your definition of bullying to only physical acts is doing a disservice to the victims.

I've been bullied for a long time, and am glad that that's in the past now. I've never been physically harmed, I have no scars or hospital visits or even bruises.

I've been affected mentally though. Turns out that being told you're ugly or weird or stupid 15 times a day really takes a toll on your mental health. How are you supposed to be a normal kid if no one will even talk to you? How are you supposed to learn to socialize? How are you supposed to have a positive self-image if you get told you're shit at every turn? How are you supposed to focus on learning if people are constantly trying to get your attention just to say mean things? How are you supposed to play if everyone just runs away from you? Sure the adults tell you you're smart and beautiful and worth having around, but how believable is that when they don't lift a finger to stop the name calling? How are you supposed to lead a normal life if you're carrying all that baggage and there's no one who will help?

I've linked the "To this day project" video in the comments of HN often enough when the topic of bullying comes up. For me seeing that video was a real turning point. It was the point where I stopped believing all the things that mean little shits said about me years ago. I still cry when I listen to it every single time. So I'll link it again, in the hopes that it'll help someone else too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY

"I’m not the only kid

who grew up this way

surrounded by people who used to say

that rhyme about sticks and stones

as if broken bones

hurt more than the names we got called

and we got called them all"

-- Shane Koyczan
Red states that vote the most against social programs are the biggest beneficiaries. It's the leech screaming "Leech!" in the mirror
The banks also turned around, repackaged those same predatory loans, and marked tranches of them as AAA-investment quality. Where was the responsibility in that activity?

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should"

Indeed.
Show HN: Prototype – build GraphQL backends without code
Hi HN,

We're Rishabh, Aashish, and Noah, the creators of ProtoType: a platform for building GraphQL backends. You can check it out here:

https://www.useprototype.com

We were fed up with creating the same sort of APIs over and over again when building web applications so we built this tool for ourselves. As we're all in university, we showed it around to our friends and they enjoyed using it to kickstart their projects. After that, we thought we'd host it on a website and allow anybody to use it!

ProtoType is different from similar GraphQL backend builders such as 8base in that it focuses on data modeling. All you need to do is model your data then hit deploy (no dealing with relational tables). Once you hit deploy, ProtoType will automatically generate and deploy a GraphQL server that supports your data models.

On the roadmap is migrations, tutorials, roles/permissions, live server logs, and data metrics (how much your models are created, read, updated, and deleted).

Looking forward to all of your feedback!

The ProtoType team
people opposed to "socialism" always say they don't want to queue for bread. it looks like these folks don't even have a queue
The normal solution to this is hysteresis. In most cases, it doesn't cost any extra to add hysteresis.
Yeah that's part of why I don't use the account imports and do everything manually. Plus it's pretty limited. For example, from YNAB:

"FOR PURPOSES OF THIS AGREEMENT AND SOLELY TO OBTAIN AND PROVIDE THE ACCOUNT INFORMATION TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES, YOU GRANT THE COMPANY A LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY,"
Wow, this is such an unempathetic, arrogant thing to say. A fine example of how much tech is out of touch with humanity.
Ai Weiwei has been happily living in Germany since 2015, FYI! [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Release
Suppose somebody named Mary wants to sell you a vape cartridge which has a serial number, and they also give your a website which accepts the serial number and tells you:

> Joe runs the factory and gave this cartridge to Bob. Bob have it to Mary.

The assumption is that if you buy it then the site will then say:

> And Mary gave it to aiCeivi9

What reason do you have to believe that the website contents are accurate or that people accepting vape cartridges from Joe Bob and Mary are still alive?

In the blockchain case, you can see that Joe Bob and Mary have sold thousands of these and that very few of the transactions are in dispute over authenticity. Also, rather than trusting some faceless 4.6 star rating you can see which of the people that supplied the rating are ones that you know, and which of those are ones that you trust. You can also see if you trust people who trust Joe Bob and Mary. This let's you make a more informed decision about the quality of the thing you're buying.
Pretty sure there are browser extensions. I haven't tried them at all though.
I just started a chat on their website, and got an immediate canned response that "management is looking into it".

What a weak move. Screw them.
You absolutely can. I can't come up with a Linux distro and call it "Windows" for instance.
How does being an orphan make one care less about humanity?

Personally, I want orphans (as defined as minors with no living parents) to be well-cared for regardless, either by relatives or by an outside agency ("orphanage" or foster home).
Thanks for the feedback. My goal is to bring mindfulness closer to developers using a mix of developer-centric topics and some more general topics as we are still humans and have a life outside of code :-)

Any topic suggestions? Anything you'd like to learn in the next issue?
They’ve made their bed and have to lie in it. You reap what you sow mieseratte.

If you’re against having a local grocery because it’s called a co-op then I don’t feel bad at all. As the article said, farmers invented co-ops but somehow that’s been lost because of political lines.
I've attended seven colleges/universities over 40 years, big and small, public and private, in-person and online.

In all in-person large schools, lecture to passive students runs 90% of classes. The essential problem is, any class with more than about 30 students is too big to enable interaction from students. That means only maybe 10% of senior / grad classes even might break the mold of "shut up and sit there while I talk".

In-person small colleges have it better. Few courses there exceed 50 students. But more and more courses there are taught by journeyman profs, which causes instructional quality to vary from year to year.

However MOOCs aren't necessarily any better. Due to their remote delivery and being recorded, all human contact is lost aside from a few text messages to TAs (if you pay). In many, even grading is often automated.

In short, I agree with the sentiment that post-secondary education MUST change. But as they stand now, MOOCs are not the answer. (Other than significantly reducing tuition, which is no small achievement of course.)
That isn't what profit means. Savings you are holding for a rainy day are not profit.
The ledgers are officially immutable. Revisions are done as separate entries from the errors and both are expected to stay registered there.
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It also mentions greens & beef being agricultural output. They then mention a Florida town with the same issue.
But...They didn't forget. That's why they're protesting. So they don't enable that industry.
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It is rather common for slabs to be made lighter by embedding in the concrete pipes (usually either plastic or metal/tin) or actual "pockets" (think of large - usually plastic - largish and squarish containers).
Here is a photo of a commercial solution:

https://www.geoplastglobal.com/en/products/slabs/new-nautilu...

There is also an as well already available commercial solution using "balls":

https://www.cobiax.com/intl/produkte/cobiax-el/

similar to the "bubbledeck" technology used in Eindhoven:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voided_biaxial_slab

Anyway these are basically an evolution (involution?) of "waffle slabs":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_slab
I kinda felt like this was an article that had a missing Character, like covering the 2016 election but not mentioning Bernie or Comey.

The reality is that Walmart's Chinese-sourced non-food goods (including clothing, auto parts, and general household supplies) were priced 50+% cheaper than many non-food (and higher profit) items one could get from a grocery store, once you're at Walmart then, well you're at Walmart. This, combined with the insane Dollar General growth mentioned likely is why many of the local stores died. I always kinda felt that this kind of marketing positions sometimes actually harm the market, kinda like how Amazon's $50 android tablets trashed the non-iPad market by taking all wind out of their sails.

Also, for those not familiar, dollar General is not a dollar store as its name implies. They sell cheaper, lower quality items at a markup vs department stores but their secret weapon is incredible organization efficiency with cookie cutter free standing stores that are made simply using cinderblock construction and templated layouts. Their turn around after starting construction to store opening is less than two months at a very low cost in strategically placed places that lack close grocery/department stores. If you made a heat map of all the grocers and department stores in a rural area in the northeast with red for 'near grocery store' and green for 'not near', the dollar general onslaught would almost exactly be an inverse map, identifying low income areas. This is even true in suburban areas where driving is required to get to a grocery store, with dollar general's popping up in the projects.
It would be awesome if someone would create an online database not just against blackbird, but against all patent trolls, like every time a patent trollish lawsuit is brought forth, just add the company and all their patents and go to town.

oh wait does someone have a patent about "a database of prior art for patent trolls patents".......
Who has Kuhl been going after? It's a unique spelling so surely people wouldn't be inadvertently infringing on it?
I can only see the first two paragraphs, but it is apparently about Winchester Illinois which is in Scott County. According to Wikipedia, it now has a smaller population than when the county was created just prior to 1840.

Less than 5000 people are supporting the costs of administering an entire county. It should be merged back into Morgan County, which appears to have a stable population at least.

A lot of places in Illinois are heavily burdened by the sheer number of governmental units that they pay taxes to support. Consolidation would dramatically improve the situation and help bring a more vibrant economy that can support things like grocery stores.
You certainly aren't wrong to describe it as potentially horrifying.
> It's more like they're willfully choosing to suffer. So in that case, enjoy your misery!

So, you're going to speculatively stereotype an entire group of people and condemn them based on your own hunch as to their politics and station in life.

While you're certainly entitled to an opinion, nothing about your entitlement precludes that opinion being a bigoted one.

What a bigoted existence.

> Yea I am stereotyping people based on my personal experience and what the author echos in the article. I’m in the Deep South and the article spoke about Illinois. Pretty far away but also the same mindsets.

Ah yes, the classically conservative Illinois which shares so much in common with the Deep South.