skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nice editor, can see changes live and there's theme selection too

see also another discussion here on HN [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20162918
They've been repeating the same message of doom now for 30 years and it always fails to materialise. Eg 1989 "The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown"

https://apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

Actual temperature anomaly is 0.8 degrees.
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
So we're doing better than the best models predicted and we've massively increased co2 output beyond what those early modelers anticipated; Apparently those early climate modelers had not heard of China.
i played an action game on a streaming service like 5 years ago and input lag wasn’t bad. it isn’t magic people just make too much of this. many many people play on tvs that have as much input lag as stadia has and are happy. the competitive fps gamer wont like it, or that kind of tv, but many people are fine with it.
You are describing a traditional online retailer.

I agree there is probably nothing inherently 'wasteful' about drop-shipping, but it is just another middleman and so it 'wastes' money for the buyer/seller, but that's probably a thin argument.

But of course the main wastefulness of the process is the whole system of constantly pushing people to consume tons of disposable useless crap.
Pre-prepared streaming video will compress much better: amongst other things, modern codecs will send frames out-of-sequence in order to better compress, have motion prediction, stuff like that. Even if this system is willing to spend the compute to do high-level compression, they don't have the data from future frames yet that will allow them to get down as low as you can go.

Equally, because you know so much about the scene, there are many more opportunities to do smart video compression - however, those would be extremely difficult to take advantage of.
But is this something you would’ve known when they were released? Looking back it’s quite easy to know which upgrade was worth waiting for. What if intel can’t deliver next year?

For me it’s also less about what next upgrade might bring but also what next upgrade does to the resale price. I’m sure those offloading a 15” 2018 will feel the price drop now.

I have a 13” 2018 and I am seriously considering replacing with the maxed out 16” with 2tb.

But the struggle is real, this is essentially a first gen device despite the somewhat small design changes. What if they release a new version in half a year? Definitely not an easy decision for a laptop that costs 5k€
Corporate networks don’t add latency because they’re corporate.

Corporate networks vary.

It’s such a generalisation that it’s easy to argue both for and against.

I can say that the majority of corporate networks will have a higher latency to internet resources than an equivalent home network.

Why?

Well, NAT adds latency, the more there is in the lookup table the longer it will take, even with a beefy cpu on the firewall/NAT device. More complex firewall rules too, will impede. If there is any IPS (intrusion prevention service) on the line then that may add some latency. Then there’s simply the hops that your network traffic would have to take to even hit the border.

Not counting things like QoS rules that need to be evaluated to de-prioritise things like VOIP (which stadia, if it’s streaming using UDP, might even look like to a dumb router).

Most corps also do not just let traffic outbound, if there’s any R&D or risk of leaking then there’s a lot of filtration rules on the line and often that is centralised. I work for a global company and our internet traffic exits the corp network more than 200km from where I’m sitting.
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Nice APIs = bitcoin
You are totally right about competitive shooters - in TF2 I can tell the difference between 10ms and 30ms ping, even with hitscan weapons.

Nevertheless something like Stadia could probably catch on easily for things like mobas and mmos that don't rely as much on every single frame getting to the screen asap. Assuming the economics work out, that is
How about “vanity extras?” Say someone wants to appear as a background extra whose face is visible but is a background actor and they only want to be seen in the Omaha market... $50,000 split between the network and affiliate?
Cgroups and Namespaces also by Julia Evans:
https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/10/10/what-even-is-a-container/

Solaris Zones by Price and Tucker:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa04/tech/full_papers/...

Jails: Confining the omnipotent root by Kamp and Watson:
http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/sane2000-jail.pdf

chroot(2)
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/chroot.2.html
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No, other games perform fine. TV correctly set up (I know what you mean, some TVs have frame interpolation to fake 60 fps which adds lag) and gamepad connected via cable.
> The problem with Stadia is Google. Google hates hardware and they pretty much half-ass everything that is even an inch outside of their core competency.

You make it sound like their core products are good.

Search is worse than in 2009.

Ads has been useless for me for years, even when I tried to help..!

Anyone here who buys Google ads, expect to be fleeced for nothing:

There exist ads I want (events, local) , but I never see them.

On the contrary: for years I've seen irrelevant but probably very expensive ads that aren't even remotely interesting but rather insulting.
because FLOPS do not grow on trees.
The warping/stablization only happens on a misprediction, which would be much less than half the time.

Ignoring that, I see what you mean that it's ongoing. But it resets every time a new frame is received, whereas a stablized video never resets from the start.

To illustrate, consider a video with the camera spinning on an axis into the image (like a barrel roll; so the image rotates in 2D). To prevent the subject of the video from rotating, each image must be rotated in the opposite direction. You'd see the frame of the image rotating.

Whereas, with warping, the orientation of the image would reset to level with each actual frame recieved. So the amount of rotation would be limited to a few frames worth - not spinning around 2pi like the stablized video.
As one anecdotal point: I waited months for mine to go away, and eventually got really frustrated with it and brought it to the store. They took it to the back and somehow their air can removed what my air can at home could not.

About a year since I did that and the key funkiness is slowly coming back for the last two weeks. Hopefully I only need another Apple Store trip and their compressed air to fix it.
There have been debates for at least 40 years. People like e.g. Jean Ziegler were highly critical of banking practices when otherwise they were still being seen as business as usual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ziegler

35 years ago, there was a referendum that would have prevented banking privacy from being used to cover up crime. It failed decisively, but showed that at least 25% of the voters were in favor.

A few years later, after the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos, Swiss banks for the first time in my memory blocked some of his funds, and subsequently the banks were much more circumspect in dealing with dictators.

The next step was the debate about dormant Holocaust era accounts, which led to an official historical commission. That certainly led to domestic debate, which was complicated somewhat by the international pressure under which Switzerland found itself.

And finally, in recent years, after more scandals and stricter banking rules imposed especially by the US, the banks finally seem to be getting out of the organized crime business.
>You claim that FedEx added some square footage to a warehouse,

They didn't 'add some square footage to a warehouse" they are building multiple brand new buildings, with brand new equipment, drastically increasing their sort operation at IND by 800,000 square feet and are also expanding at MEM as well as building a brand new facility just south of Indianapolis.

Buying a building /= building a new state of the art sort facility full of conveyors, scanners, etc.
I only recently discovered the band Steam Powered Giraffe, a group of people pretending to be 19th century robots, and particularly in some of their older videos, they sometimes appear to enter the Uncanny Valley from the other side, by moving in a robotic way that's simultaneously fluid, but also appears slightly non-human.

I guess this might also be the original attraction of robotic dancing, but for the most part we're used to it. But SPG seems to demonstrate that you can still get that uncanny eerie feeling if you do it in just the right way.
> For example, how do Lenovo, Samsung or Dell handle this stuff

Here you go:

https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability?sort=score

HP, Dell, LG, Acer and even Samsung manages to do a lot better. Lenovo is also very simple to at least change battery, ram and disk. I know this since I own one and have added memory and disk.

On the Thinkpad versions the battery is located outside and can be switched without even having to open the machine at all.

> can you explain why their approaches produce less waste?

Yes, by letting me as a consumer change parts myself for the only cost of purchasing the actual part that needs changing or upgrading, the increase the service life of the machine I purchased.

Also, by not participating in this anti-consumer behavior, I can take said machine into a third party service shop and get it repaired there. I don't have to wait weeks for the proper parts to arrive and so on and I can get it fixed the same day.

I am not hating, I am stating a fact. By indirectly forcing people to buy new machines instead of repairing their old ones that often work perfectly well, except for maybe 1 thing that is broken or needs an update, they increase their environmental impact for no other reason than profit on their part.

Apple can do better and Apple have done better in the past.
Since I quit smoking, I noticed how many tv-series and movies are loaded with cigarettes, alcohol and pharmacy pill consumption. Almost every social event good and bad on screen is dealt with by drinking a shot of liquor. Is this my personal paradigm or are we constantly fed with what we should view as our western culture?

I wonder if it is possible to make an estimation per actor / producer / studio how many alcoholic, drug, cigarette they consume on average. Would be awesome to see if there is a correlation with project budget. And maybe even more important is there an increasing trend of average number of drug consumptions per hour.
Is it only a matter of time until we privatise the police? I can't see anything at all going wrong with this...
To each their own I guess. I freaking love the stability and can't go back.

Everything else seems like a toy keyboard in comparison.
Hello everyone, my name is Evgeny and I made the site. Here is the meaning of it: Every website has at least one button on it and most websites around the world have buttons with simple and neutral style without, so to speak, bells and whistles. For a web developer who creates websites for clients time is important and on this site a web developer can quickly make a decent button for a site just by picking up an appropriate background color and the font color adjusts automatically. That's it. Comments are welcome!
Reminds me of this recent article I found on RealClearPolitics:

https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/11/14/the-ongoing-decline-of...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, maybe? (Saying hi to dormant Iron Maiden fans in HN)
Moreover, XPSs have a screwed-in battery and replaceable keyboard, which would make restoring and reusing the laptop much more viable. With macbook, if you keyboard is broken, you trash half of the laptop, including the battery.
Is it possible to remove the glossy screen cover to get that extra space? My 2010 mac was the last with a matt screen and had "plenty" of space available.
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Thanks for sharing the link.

The world needs more programming comics, they make life a little better.
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"Moderately wasteful middlemen exist" is pretty mild as far as dystopian activity goes.

You can probably find equal or greater waste in the bureaucracies of any economic system you care to name.
How is the voice actors fault that you willingly work for scraps? It is not like the voice actors salary would otherwise have gone to you.
Also, the entire site seems to be dedicated to this single article. Very strange format.
The system is still broken, regardless of what you think of GP's actions. "You shouldn't steal our customers' passwords" isn't a clever response to being told that your customers' passwords have been stolen and sold for $50K.
Thanks asicsp

And actually, there is a more related discussion here[1]. Someone has built a md2resume tool 3 years ago but it is not maintained anymore. It inspired me a lot

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11026096
I use Makefiles when I'm learning the ropes of a new system build tool. E.g. "I want to do <foo>, so I run `make <foo>`", and the make target named <foo> has all the commands to build what I want. I did this when I was learning how Docker worked. I put the incantation to build a new image into a Makefile, as well as how to run the container and exec into it. Not the best system, but works for me as a kind of living notebook.

I run Makefiles in other places too. <3 Couldn't live without it.

I found this video helpful in learning how to (ab?)use Makefiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkEz_oVh0B4
Nanoracks booked a SpaceX launch to turn used spacecraft into orbital habitats
Our WTL Studio builder is also bootstrapped with Gatsby https://wtlstudio.com/
Although now that I see Gatsby Cloud pricing, we may want to bump our rookie numbers, too... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Exactly. I love FO3's side quests, and that was my first contact with Fallout series, and I'm far from being the exception on this.

Republic of Dave, finding Quantum Colas, Tenpenny tower, the humor on texts, all those Vaults with mysteries... it's amazing. I totally bought the dark Americana design. It's one of my favorite games of all time.
Tao Te Ching talks about good and evil and says that the Tao is older then god. Chinese mysticism doesn’t mix with western science or logic. For example western logic exposes the mysteries of the universe in a concrete way by telling us about atoms, fusion, relativity and more, while Tao te Ching talks about some vague mumbo jumbo while claiming only greater people understand the Tao while absolutely providing no concrete definition and no evidence.

Tao te ching is more comparable to works of fiction like lord of the rings or the Bible. I wouldn’t compare it to GEB which builds its foundations starting from axiomatic logic. One is concrete, the other is mythical. Do note that the Tao te Ching was written way back during a time when people were unclear about the reality of things and probability and the scientific method were not known. If anything Tao te Ching is a “fun” fictional work while GEB is genuinely trying to express something about the nature of consciousness.

Don’t be fooled by Chinese mysticism. It’s a bullshit industry where they sell false religions, bullshit herbal medicines, martial arts and bullshit philosophies in a genuine attempt to scam you. Some of it is practiced under a genuine belief but most are scams.

I would know I’m Chinese myself.
Because in capitalism there are really only two things that make money: real estate and finance. Everything else is just combining real estate and finance in interesting ways.

McDonalds is a real estate company that happens to make burgers.

The traditional car manufacturers are banks that happen to build cars.
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Boxing it is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/nyregion/boxing-vhs-archi...
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Artcoins, the Next Token Model?
Surely there's a short list of usual suspects.

Process of elimination. List of all known ships (tankers). Rule out ships accounted for (alibis). Investigate the handful of rouges.
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I also have a GeForce Now account, but somehow, it doesn't feel as smooth as Gaikai back then. An FPS like CS GO is unplayable for me - because of input lag.
This is how the government buys computers. The order goes to a Small Disadvantaged Business, who takes a 10% cut, with the computers being drop shipped from the manufacturer.
I don't think so. Extremists will use the censorship to legitimate their beliefs.

And so what - do you believe that extremist have so good arguments that if they tell them everybody will become an extremist?
> It uses exact rational arithmetic for values that it can represent that way, preferring correctness to efficiency.

This is exactly the same situation as with floating point numbers. In both cases you have a predetermined finite set of rational numbers, with exact rational arithmetic when you stay within those numbers, and deterministic rules when your operation exits this finite set.

> Using imprecise but efficient-to-calculate-with-numbers for exact literals by default is probably the most pervasive premature optimization in all of computing.

I do not see how this is a matter of precision nor efficiency. Floating point arithmetic was deemed more useful for general purpose for good reasons: the representable numbers are mostly scale-free, so that you do not care about the absolute size of your numbers (you can compute in armstrongs or in parsecs and obtain essentially the same results). With rational arithmetic using bounded integers, you cannot represent very large or very small numbers. On the other hand you can represent small fractions like 1/3, which is arguably useful in some cases, but not really a big deal in practice. There's no reason why rational arithmetic with bounded numerator and denominator could not be efficiently implemented in hardware as fast as floating point; I do not understand your point.
I think what Kotlin is doing with co-routines improves a bit on this. The approach there is to make asynchronous code look (almost) like normal code. The only difference is that 1) you are dealing with functions that are marked as suspend and 2) you can only call these from a co-routine scope.

The last bit is the crucial thing. The co-routine scope is how you structure concurrency and is something I have not really seen in other approaches. In a mobile application you have the main thread, IO threads, and maybe some CPU threads. When calling something that is asynchronous, you have to assign it a scope. When that scope ends (because of a timeout, error, etc.) there's a cleanup step that cancels all the dangling tasks.

The nice thing about this is that you get clean separation of how to structure your concurrency and the logic. They also made it very easy to integrate with existing asynchronous code (there are a lot of frameworks for this in Java).
About eight weeks ago I hopped on here and announced 8base to HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256. Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update.

Early on we were really concerned about our business model. Looking at what’s happened to Graph.cool, Parse, and Scaphold, we didn’t want to die from a free-tier that no-one ever leaves. That’s why we started with launching the 30-day free trial over a free-tier.

We’ve worked hard to find a middle ground based on the HN feedback. So the good news is we’ve changed our pricing for developers by making the following updates.

FREE TIER! It allows developers to build using almost all of 8base's features; free-forever but throttling the API. This makes everything on the backend/console usable while not supporting production use.

Our $8 plan was renamed as HOBBYIST and we’ve introduced a new $49/mo plan called DEVELOPER. The new plan has better limits at lower prices per unit and lets developers utilize their own auth provider – which used to be on the $149/mo plan.

We 10X’d storage for the same price in every plan and reduced charges for overages.

To accommodate long-running jobs, we've changed the way we charge for serverless functions to a combination of memory usage and time (Giga-byte minutes).

I hope these updates put a smile on a few faces! Cause the haters gonna hate...

Thanks
Albert
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check the same kind of work out of Lyrebird team

[1] https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai
There will always be a lag. The best they can do is hide the lag by doing some stuff on the client (e.g. mouse cursor or shifting viewport pixel-wise). That ways I suppose they could get this on a level where most people don't notice.
Did you guys read the same blog post I did?

It sounded to me like they weren't able to get enough revenue going for their work, and are basically throwing in the towel.

To me, it sounded as if they're hoping that their audience increases to a degree that the donations will finally be able to make their livelihood sustainable... Or not, which will make this a side gig
Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes (“The War of All Against All”)
> Only briefly, because that ports thing was a mess.

In what way was it a mess?
Those don't fix weakened butterfly assemblies
Marsters did eventually record that book. I listened to the original and definitely missed his reading of the book. I felt the other reader did a decent job (way better than most readers), but Marsters simply does a masterful job.
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Extremism and quackery got plenty of exposure in the 17th to 20th century "media model". Even anti-free-speech attitudes themselves are not new. There's nothing new under the sun.

If anything, the extremism and quackery of today are far milder than those of the past - even the relatively-recent past. The wisdom of crowds is self-correcting, if allowed to self-correct.
Unless it had melted through the floor and made its way to ground water.
Yes, that was an err on my part for that post. We are adding a getting started guide later this week and in the docs it will include takedown requests. We will also check for copyright!
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Twitter has made profit now. But didn’t for a while. I worked there until 2015 and the consensus was that they had enough money to continue operating at the then current loss levels for like 50 years.

It’s hard to visualize how much money these big tech cos are actually taking in investment. If you have a $B you can lose $10mm a year for one hundred years.
The headline got this Nebraskan’s hopes up. The term “Midwest” should be retired.
This is probably a stupid question, but why have they got two different flavours of RAM?

* 16x Micron MT40A1G8SA-075 8 Gb DDR4 SDRAM (16 GB total)

* 4x Samsung K4Z80325BC-HC14 8 Gb GDDR6 RAM (4 GB total)
On average, a sealed no-moving-parts laptop like the MacBook(Pro/Air) line lasts 10 years due to resistance to the elements, excellent thermals/fans, and forward-looking connectivity compatibility. Every day people buy 2011 Macs online for the same $400 price as new non-Macs with similar specs.
Do either of these solve dependencies and partially executed dependency graph rebuild like make does?