skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually when I go to tourist attractions, I'm disappointed because the pictures look better, when I visited Macchu Picchu and other Inca ruins and remnants I was astounded by how little justice pictures do them.

You can't understand the sheer magnitude of what they did until you stand there and see it for your own eyes. They built an entire town on top of an 8000 ft mountain. Parts of Peru and Bolivia (especially around Lake Titicaca) are littered with ruins that are still in relatively good condition, there are terraces dug into the hills that have existed for over 500 years now.

All this was achieved by a "stone-age" civilisation.
Prior to the rise of synthetics, wool was in fact among your best outdoor-wear options. Military uniforms and mountain climbers would wear it. Even swimsuits and cycling shorts were made of wool, the latter through the 1970s (though spandex Lycra nylon was being introduced).

The transition point came in the 1950s and 1960s with the mass-marketing of synthetic fabrics and outdoor-wear, principally rip-stop nylon. Even then, a natural product, goose down, remained the preferred insulating material in parkas.

Until the 1880s, the only clothing materials that existed were cotton, linen, a few other plant fibres (jute, woven grass), wool, leather, silk, furs, and (generally for military use) metal.

In the 1880s, the first synthetics appeared: viscose rayon and cellulose (generally only used in collars and cuffs). In the decade of the 1930s, virtually all modern synthetic plastics were introduced, virtually all at Du Pont. Some of those saw introduction during WWII, though most didn't make widespread appearance until afterward.

The seismic shift in fashions from the 1940s-1950s to the 1960s wasn't just due to the everyday adoption of what had been working-man's clothing (denim blue jeans and cotton tee-shirts), but synthetic fabrics and dyes.

During the industrial revolution, it was thread-handling characteristics as well as cost which drove the adoption of cotton. Wool was too elastic, and tangled in machines (and was expensive). Silk was prohibitively expensive. Flax threads are insufficiently elastic, and would break.

Cotton threads were just right, and could be spun, spindled, and woven on early mechanical equipment. Cost was relatively low, and England / Britain has ample supplies from its colonies in Egypt and the Americas.
Sure, mistakes happen, which is why the process is typically automated. You have to go out of your way to merge faulty code. It's rare.

Not saying mistakes can't happen, but the person I was replying to didn't seem to be aware of this tooling.
Tesla Model 3 Invaded My Neighborhood – But It’s Bigger Than That (GM Take Note)
Not sure what they are gonna research, but my understanding that the problem is not a tech one, but a NIMBY one.
Thanks, appreciate your response, though I must say it sounds like a post-factum rationalization to an existing practice, and not the real reason it got this way.
The claim by the Comcast’s of the world has been that to get everything you previously had with cable you would need to pay a lot more, but what’s happening is that there is consolidation within the content provider side like Hulu now being part of Disney. So the total list of streaming services we might end up with is probably around 4-6, so if each one costs around $10 then that’s still way cheaper than most cable services that are still charging extra for “HD” service and stuff like that..

So next play is for somebody like Disney to buy an internet service provider or something? Otherwise comcast will start throttling all of their competitors more than they already are..
Ah lizard people. Paradoxically you fell for that, it's a confirmation bias hack. Note the reflexive grasp for the conspiracy blanky.

Try holding the idea that some people are for open borders, and that there are power centers behind nation breaking in your head at the same time.

CF hacks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21057230
Right. The core problem with Oxycontin wasn't that it was an opiate: it was that Purdue sold it as an opiate that resisted addiction. This meant doctors prescribed it more readily and were less concerned about monitoring patients afterwards.
Gee, I wonder why it is set up that way.
Yeah, comparing beer prices, it looks like the exchange rate is around 1 farthing = $5 USD (assuming buying direct from producer, not at a bar that is adding overhead after distribution. US booze distribution laws are insane and add tons of cost)

So that makes

1 penny = $40
1 crown = $200
1 shilling = $480
1 pound = $9600
> So next play is for somebody like Disney to buy an internet service provider or something?

AT&T owns cell-phones, ISPs, HBO+, WB, DC-universe, and more.
There is a level of pain where it becomes totally debilitating and all consuming. I can meditate over light headaches or other pain but from time to time I get migraines where I either want to die or take anything that will make it go away.
I hope AMD doesn't slow down on the performance side with their 3rd generation of Zen.

I want to get a new laptop next year and I hope it comes with a good mobile Ryzen processor with Thunderbolt support.
Maybe day dreaming has a similar memory consolidation effect to dreaming?
I picked up a Ryzen 7 2700X for $159 on Black Friday. Unbelievable cost:power ratio
Seconding this recommendation. This was the first book in maybe a decade that my first instinct after finishing was to start again.
We can price out foodstuffs based on macro and micro-nutrients. This is in fact what many measures of inflation and consumer prices were doing especially from the early 20th century through the 1950s or 1960s.

Subsequently the CPI "market basket" approach dominated.

The fact that meat, especially beef, was a rarity in most diets, makes the Big Mac example not particularly germane.

I believe it's Adam Smith who noted that whilst the price of corn ("grain") is highly variable year-to-year, owing to fluctuations in crop yields, it was remarkably constant century to century.

The Green Revolution changed this, of course, though by some arguments, that relies strongly on unaccounted costs.
I'm running a Ryzen 5 2600X in my new pc. 12 threads running at 4 GHz for 150 tax included is just too good to pass up.
Have you ever been on call?

Imagine that you are on call, and you get paged for something, and there is no way to stop the page from going off even though you're aware of the issue and trying to resolve it.

You could also, if you'd like, imagine that your alarms were misconfigured and they were going off for literally no good reason, but there was no way to silence the mechanism that's paging you.

It's kind of like that.
Intel stock is all time high, short? Or the market doesn’t think amd will cut into their profits....
Yeah exactly, I think a small percentage of people do and they lead the innovation. The overwhelming majority don’t understand even the most basic reasoning behind almost anything since they never rest and reflect on what they’re doing, but follow the buzz as a career path — which works to a degree better than if they were coming up with their own ideas at least.

I have a client that I tell folks frequently they need to rest and reflect in order to improve their leverage and understanding how to better manage their growth, since they’re just exhausted and do stupid stuff all the time as a result. So the simplest observations I offer they think I’m a genius for.
Small-scale CI is trivial to set up. A build script and integration VM is all you need. If it's difficult, there's most likely hygiene factors in your codebase that are worth resolving.

https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Continuous-Integration-on-a-...
The costs to built the plants dominates the price. Once built the actual operation and fueling costs are best in class https://www.expressnews.com/business/eagle-ford-energy/artic...

The majority of the cost to build the plants are due to the crazy uncertainty about the design/build timeline every-time one is built. Given that conceptually they aren't any more complex than your average coal plant those costs are massively over inflated by a number of factors. Frankly if there was a COTS design pre-certified, then it might be possible to wipe out a huge fraction of the built cost.
See https://adventofcode.com/2019/leaderboard
I had to create the plain text input file in iCloud with my Mac then insert it (Big +, third option) in the iPad’s Swift Playground. Need a text app that will save to Files for a complete iPad solution. Also, a Swift Playground bug reverted my final solution to the code from my first few minutes, losing my code. That was frustrating...

Anyway, a complete Swift Playground on iPad solution:

import UIKit

let path = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "input01", withExtension: "txt")
var text = try String(contentsOf: path!, encoding: .utf8)

let massList:[Int] = text.components(separatedBy: .whitespacesAndNewlines).compactMap({Int($0)})

let z1 = massList.map({$0 / 3 - 2}).reduce(0, +)
print("\(z1)")
I don't know why they put the pictures of the lines in the article, because these lines are ridiculous in Akihabara. There are lines every day there for the most mundane products as long as it's new, and this looks far from the lines you get from a new iPhone release, for example.

This is what it looks like for an iPhone release: https://www.youtube.com/embed/DYpSKo5f-sc
They are so cheap that I am just subscribed to everything. I know I’m fortunate to be able to afford that but compared to what Americans are spending on everything else it’s surely not a lot for the value you get. Still cheaper than I used to pay for cable ($100)
Seems like everything is at an all time high
The exact phrase "Some SMR designs are small enough to fit in a gymnasium" appears in www.canada.ca, a Canadian government web page that explains the project. Is not what a random journalist just said. Is the idea that the Canadian government is carefully trying to introduce.

I'm not so naive. Is obvious that the politicians had though previously about using that in public spaces.

Mixing unstable radioactive atoms (now in packages "easy to transport", ehem... steal?, none less) with unstable young humans full of hormones, videogames and relationship drama (including typically cases of bullying and romantic disasters) and doing that mix in one of the places that some young dislike the most; is one of the most stupid ideas that I had seen in my entire life. Point. IMHO those three men are a public danger for everybody.
So is Christmas. Do you not call it that?
You're not alone. Sometimes my day continues in bed. I'll even think of things I need to do the next day, turn over to my phone, and write it down so I don't forget.

I, too, need something to distract me in order to really wind down.
AT&T also is a horribly managed, bureaucratic company. They have like 8 branded streaming products besides HBO Go, Max, Plus and snow. IMO, Netflix’s high performance culture and attention to detail could be what sets them apart. If they’re not throttled by one of these providers of course.
Maybe people expect that growth in TAM will outweigh loss from decrease in market share? Intel also has areas other than CPUs which might supplement CPU profits.
- EPYCs market share is around 3%

- Intel makes in a few weeks as much as AMD in the whole year

- AMD doesn't own fabs and can't saturate market (as seen with 39XXx shortages)
I don't know if that statistic is per course of prescription or per person, It's probably even lower if you know your family to have no history of addiction. If it is per person I'm frankly surprised it's that low given how prevalent genetic predisposition to addictive behaviors is.
So a year's rent for a shop in mid London was twice the price of a cow or a pile of silver worth £240 today.

edit: or half a year's wage for a laborer, equivalent to aprox £9,000 today.

Those ratios seem to have changed: apparently the benefits of greater efficiency in mining, cattle raising etc. have not be evenly distributed.
AMDs mobile and APU line is generally about a year behind desktop, so expect to see Zen 2 cores in mobile mid 2020, numbered as Ryzen 4xxx.

Zen 2 combined with much better than intel integrated GPU is likely going to make a very nice dent in marketshare, unless Intel pulls a rabbit out of their hat.
I like with Google cloud how disk throughput scales with size. It's simple compared to dealing with the crazy multitude of options, striping, and provisioned IOPs AWS uses
Not really given the explanation the article gives after the claim.
Yea good point. Intel will be like “we get it, you want to replace us, let us build the chip you want to build. We will give you a sweetheart deal.” And Amazon will be like cool we will but we are still working on our own thing. Which will pressure intel to keep their prices low.
Clear Channel Memorandum
Call me pedantic, but the usage of the term "zero-sum" in this article makes no sense. They use it synonymously with "winner-take-all" which is so far from it's original meaning that you have to question whether the author even knows what zero-sum means, or if they're just using the buzzword to attract clicks.

In fact, increased competition leads to reduced profits (at least in the short term), making this a "negative-sum" game.
Does hobbes have any kind of db or persistence functionality? As a programming language, k/kdb is nice (and I personally prefer it to APL and J), but without the db part I suspect that it wouldn't have been as popular (in the niches that it is popular).

Seems like a mostly eager haskell; am I correct? How does it compare performance-wise to ghc? (It obviously does much better on embedding and interfacing C++)
I actually benchmarked Ampere against AWS Graviton for CPU-intensive workloads. The summary is AWS Graviton is 25% faster: https://github.com/sanxiyn/blog/blob/master/posts/2019-11-12...

This new chip would improve over AWS Graviton.
No NES SNES MD SFC games, no.
By theater I mean people doing things on a stage with stage lighting.
Yep. AMD is a threat, but not a disaster for Intel.

Also, AMD is going to have to keep up the momentum for a while before they can make in-ways in the enterprise market.
Personal anecdata: I tried using ARM based server and didn't find any pain.
I’ve had the slim 45W RavPower one since June and it’s great. It’s almost startling how small it is. I much prefer it in the bag for coffee shop trips, etc. I use it with my 15” MBP and I haven’t seen any power issues with plenty of Chrome tabs and InDesign/Photoshop running. I usually have the extension cord on the 87W one at home—it’s so nice not to have to lug that whole assembly or look for the smaller attachment.
PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
Not surprising given how little supply there seems to have been. Even relatively major outlets like PC Perspective didn't get a review sample.
> Your body will heal itself with rest.

Love too keep my arm permenantly lowered because ibuprofen is evil and rest is good
I bought a 5-pack of T-shirts from ASOS in April, they go through the washing machine weekly (low temp, hang dried) and are still perfectly wearable. Nothing particularly eye-catching, but don't fall apart either.

The price was $6.72 per shirt and the same pack is currently on sale for $4.27 per shirt.

Based on previous experience, I expect them to last around 100-120 washes. Worn every other week, this translates to 4-5 years.
Is AMD having production problems?
Hulu is only available in the US. It has 28 million subscribers compared to 60 million US Netflix subscribers.

Hulu is also not racking up a ton of debt trying to stay relevant like Netflix is.
> The poor optimization of operational costs (except for license fees) is a critical weakness in open source, and it is increasingly being attacked successfully.

This is the developers perspective. In the time it takes to develop something the licence fees are indeed at tiny part of the cost.

However, over the lifetime of the software itself it's usually a different outcome. Software typically lasts decades. Banks are still running cobol software written decades ago. Perhaps it's possible even over those long lifetimes the licensing costs still win. When it breaks down completely is when you deploy that software multiple times, paying those licence fees each time you do it. If you start paying for 1000 CAL's you have a problem.

The other comment here that is a red flag to me is "all the tools that give you visibility into the database save you time". If it is development time then well and good, but if you are needing DBA's once the thing is deployed then just no. No matter how sophisticated those tools are, they still cost far more than needing no attention whatsoever. This is where open source usually wins, because it's lack of sophistication is usually an case of being pared back to the bare minimum to do the job.
> AMD doesn't own fabs and can't saturate market (as seen with 39XXx shortages

Intel owns fabs and has been having shortages for most of the year. AMD spinning out fabs seems to have been a good choice for them, as GlobalFoundry, their spun out fab, ran into problems with process shrinking and AMD was able to move Zen to another fab that got their shrink to work.
I highly doubt the regulations the GP is referencing would have anything to do with preventing an accident like Fukushima.

Regulations are not inherently bad, but they can be used in negative ways by those in power.

The devil is in the details, and we'll written and though out regulations are a great thing and are absolutely necessary for society to function. It's easy for the public to lose track and conflate good regulations with regulations that are poorly written, have intentional loopholes, or are mean to stifle an industry or technology by protecting the entrenched players.
That and the Japanese PC-building scene has become quite tiny nowadays.
> will get the costs down enough to make them viable, wind and solar are power horses.

Except in areas where you don't have much sunlight or much wind exposure, and both of these sources of energies require huge land occupation which is not ideal either. Energy-density wise you can't really beat nuclear.
>> NIMBYism

> The majority of the cost to build the plants are due to the crazy uncertainty about the design/build timeline every-time one is built. Given that conceptually they aren't any more complex than your average coal plant those costs are massively over inflated by a number of factors. Frankly if there was a COTS design pre-certified, then it might be possible to wipe out a huge fraction of the built cost.

NIMBYism is a large reason why the risks are so uncertain and the costs so high. When dozens of judges at several levels have jurisdiction to require expensive and time consuming state/federal EPA, zoning, air quality, shading, etc. reviews and plaintiffs can use delay tactics to block appeals to those rulings, you get lots of uncertainty and expense.
I currently subscribe to all three of these and Amazon Prime, and it's less than 1/6 of what I paid for directTV before cutting the cord 9 years ago, and I don't even always keep my subscriptions active all year.

I like this way better, and there can be lots of winners. No way one streaming service can provide and create everything. Plus that's not good either, choice is better.
TSMC has 6 month lead times on 7nm, and you best believe Apple gets the bulk of their fab capacity. AMD could have the best CPUs on earth. They’re not worth anything if you can’t actually buy them.
I drove 2 hours to get my 3900X. I was worried it would be too much horsepower but it spends a lot of its time >80% utilization.

These cores are great for debugging threading issues. I would trade it for a 3950X if I could find one.
I think you under-estimate the amount of CO2 produced by a NG plant simply because its 2x-4x less than coal.

Put another way, adding 60% renewable to NG only 1/2's the CO2 output. At the rate of consumption growth your still increasing the total C02 footprint year over year. Plus, that solution is literally 2x-3x the CO2 footprint vs the french solution put in place 40 years ago.

Explained another way, going to renewable+NG only buys you about a decade in CO2 emission reduction. If everyone magically fit that formula today, it would be the equivalent of 2009, a far cry from where we need to be. Worse, you still have the problem that you need to convert all the automobile/planes/tractors/etc somehow. Without super cheap electricity that process is going to be much slower than it needs to be. What you need is electricity so cheap that it can compensate for the inefficiencies producing hydro-carbon sources for planes and other applications where the battery technology isn't even possible with infinite economic solutions. The _ONLY_ solution we have today is fission and a reduction in the build price forced in place by COTs and precerification.
> Fukushima was a good reminder that these “regulations” exist for good reason.

As if the Japanese nuclear market was deregulated? Japan is a developed country that loves bureaucracy so don't be afraid, there is plenty of regulation in every sector here.
Anvils represented a large mass of wrought iron, weighing several hundredweight, possibly 300 - 400 pounds (135 - 180 kg).

Iron required not just mining, but smelting and working. Coal wasn't widely used until after 1700, so instead charcoal was used for fuel and coking, I need to check sources, but charcoal and coke have roughly the same energy yield per unit mass, and the ratio of coke to ore was about 1:1 in the 1950s. Charcoal itself is yielded from four to five times its mass in original wood.

So a 250# anvil, one of middling weight, would have required well over a ton of wood fuel alone.

I had fun some time back calculating the firepower of a British Ship of the Line in terms of cords of wood, based on both the cannonballs and the gunpowder (charcoal is an ingredient) involved. I believe it out-massed the ship itself by a considerable margin.

Metals are extraordinarily expensive for a pre-industrial society without abundant energy resources. Which is to say, all of them.
I'd think you'd be better off listening for trucks. :)
One of my minor goals for 2020 is to switch all the gear I carry around to being USB-C PD. I've been doing some research on the subject, so just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in (some of this stuff mentioned in other comments).

There's a pretty good site, https://www.chargerlab.com/ (see also: https://twitter.com/chargerlab ) that's dedicated to reviewing charging peripherals.

I started off the year with an Innergie 60C, which has worked great for everything I've thrown at it and is tiny (55mL volume, 88g, 60W USB-C PD). It was on-sale recently, but even at full price has been worth it for me. (Although the newer RavPower PD Pioneer 61W is a good alternative that's almost as small and 1/3 the price.)

I'm looking forward to adding the upcoming Sanho HyperJuice 100W charger (about twice the size, but a bunch more ports) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershop/hyperjuice-wo...

Instead of the Anker PD1 18W, for a small charger, I use the Anker PIQ 30W - it's very slim, which actually makes it much easier to carry around. Also, the IMO folding plugs (and extra juice) are definitely worth the extra volume.

Recently, for my Mavic Pro 2, I just got a cheap Cablcc USB-C to Plug Receptacle Charger cable and a RCGEEK car charger that seems to work well as a nice 2-in-1 (it only saves a tiny bit of volume and weight over the wall charging but it also provides car charging).

Also, although I'm unsure of how often I'll need it, I got a 100Wh Zendure Super Tank power bank (which provides USB-C PD 100W charging), since it was discounted heavily for Black Friday (it was only $100 on sale vs $200+ for other similar options).

Also, I travel internationally a lot, and the MOGICS Donut has been my go-to combination power strip and adapter - it's the best/most compact device I've found (and has 2 USB-A chargers built in to handly legacy devices). https://www.mogics.com/3824-2