skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I’m doing Christmas shopping I have no tolerance for malfunctioning websites, I just jump over to some similar service with similar pricing

I suppose the difference with Costco is the sunk cost (membership fee) that means you're probably more likely to want to get your money's worth.
this might be true for products where costco was offering a much better price, but I'm sure there were also plenty of annoyed customers who just bought the item somewhere else for a slightly lower discount. presumably there is some way of approximating this ratio and using it to adjust these kinds of loss estimates. I guess lovethesales.com might choose not to adjust the figures in order to report a juicier story.
I just clicked his blog and searched "dog" to see if he had a dog.

> by and large meat production is actually one of the largest causes of GHG emissions.

Your link puts it at 14.5% for the entire life-cycle, which makes it one of the... smallest causes for GHG emissions. It's the smallest versus any other sector in the graphs I can find[1] (vs Commercial and residential, Transportation, Industry, Electricity are all larger slices of pie). Why say its one of the largest?

It really depends on the land and the crops. Lots of land cannot support anything but pasture, and lots of places would be ecologically improved with more pasture. Killing (say) a cow is worse than the killing all animals + ecosystem of the field that row crops require (obviously complete habitat destruction for any field critters at harvest time, but also pesticides and herbicides and such side effects).

If you are worried about GHG issues, why not talk about food footprint or animal deaths per calories? Should you really be trucking in lettuce from Mexico and California if you live in New Hampshire, where I live? Should you be buying avocados if what grows here are animals? Should lettuce be grown at all?

It seems very... speculative that so many are confident that the calculus tips in favor of "not the cow" here. If you eat pastured cow, you are supporting the ecosystem of cow (for its life or partial life if it EOLs in a feedlot) but also possums, raccoons, ducks, field mice, butterflies, snakes, birds, bees, and thousands of other insects that populate the fields of pasture. Ideally, for your entire meat consumption for the entire year, you eat a grand total of 1/2 cow. If you eat only row crops you support the destruction of these creatures, necessarily, unless at the same time you are carving out land for them elsewhere. But if there is reduced insect biomass in the world, or colony collapse disorder among pollinators, then I say this is blood on the hands of the vegetarians. Row crops (corn/soy/etc) have other destructive effects in the nature of their planting and harvesting, and good pasturing (which isn't all of it) builds soil and restores land. (If you want better pasturing everywhere, you're making an economic argument for something else, just like people who wish row crops didn't require mass pesticide/herbicide dousing.)

It gets even more nuanced and weird if you look into the ecological destruction required to keep other crops going. And it gets further nuanced still if you get into what GHG emissions for livestock are. In the 1800's Americans destroyed an absolutely massive biomass of bison, to near extinction[2], and replaced them with an almost equivalent biomass of cows, unintentionally making the methane impact... pretty neutral, on the lifetime scale of things. But maybe if the bison still roamed free today, environmentalists would advocate for destroying them, I don't know.

[1] for example: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#/media/File:Biso...
Texas and the oil industry are one and the same, fully intertwined. God help the poor soul that owns land where a private oil company wants to build a pipeline or plant. Said land will be instantly seized by the company under eminent domain laws and the owner will get a pittance in return.

If you're cool with that, then Texas is a great place for you to live.

While this article is about Louisiana, the same laws (and practices) exist in Texas: https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_75b4ff32-0d87-...
A harmful trait that appears in adolescence would disappear because it would kill you before reproductive age.
They're working on a new research UI. So you plugin a symbol like SPY and you get a bunch of information on the stock. There is a banner for a beta redesign
You could split up the definition of the pointer and the dereferencing+assignment:

volatile uint32_t* p = (volatile uint32_t *)0x40021018;
*p = 0x00000004;
What is going on in the ICANN landscape (outside of the .Org profitization)?
> They almost "just work", except for circular references

Well, and they're often slower since they require mutating the reference count on every single time a field is stored. You can optimize that using lazy reference counting, or not updating refcounts for references on the stack and instead scanning the stack before a collection. But at that point... you're halfway to implementing a tracing collector.

Every refcounting implementation eventually gets "optimized" to the point that it has most of a tracing collector hiding inside of it. I think it's simpler, cleaner, and faster to just start with tracing in the first place.

There's a reason almost no widely used language implementation relies on ref-counting. CPython is the only real exception and they would switch to tracing if they could. They can't because they exposed deterministic finalization to the user which means now their GC strategy is a language "feature" that they're stuck with.

That being said, ref-counting is fine for other kinds of resource management where resources are pretty coarse-grained and don't have cyclic references. For example, I think Delphi uses ref-counting to manage strings, which makes a lot of sense. Many games use ref-counting for tracking resources loaded from disc, and that also works well. In both of those cases, there's nothing to trace through, and the overhead of updating refcounts is fairly low.
Does anyone?
Verifying My Blockstack ID
I don't think you need to add a disclaimer if you use qualifiers such as "our".
What is the difference between Clang's ARC implementation and Rust's std::rc::Rc implementation? Rust's ownership system provides the scaffolding for the Drop implementation that manages reference counting instead of Clang doing it as part of the Swift/ObjC frontend but otherwise, they seem to be very similar.

It's just another tool in Rust's box (no pun intended) but I wouldn't say it hasn't caught on. It's used quite often, along with its multithreaded cousin std::sync::Arc.
TD Ameritrade is a subsidiary of TD Bank. Subsidiaries have separate HQs from their owners. See BRKA for other examples.
Doesn't really affect the point you are making but you don't have to be a Costco member to purchase most items at their website. You will pay 5% more than non-members which can sometimes still be worth it.
I think the original (down-voted) poster meant that DNS should be decentralized to something more than 13 servers, from which any government can decide to seize a domain. A decentralized DNS system would improve free speech, and it would help with due process when it comes to the involvement of law enforcement.
Sell side sales will probably stay in SF for west coast clients. I doubt Schwab has much in the way of Asia customers, but I bet there's a lot of west coast whales.
You can’t really say “it’s not true” since you need facts to make that kind of statement, and I doubt you have access to the data one would need to come to that conclusion.

It’s very easy to postulate that people would go to another site (e.g. Amazon) immediately instead of waiting around to see if the Costco site would recover, especially since most BF deals are limited by both time and quantity. That alone makes the loss estimates feasible.
Which is better than 90+% of the places people work. Most big companies I've worked for or experienced can't find the forms and wouldn't know what a hoop is if you shoved it up their ass.

This is based on experience in the 1990's, so may not hold anymore.

IBM normally at least had a procedure. Do you want to start a new project? Okay, fill in this form and give a presentation to that group next month. You've got about a 1 in 3 chance of 12-18 months of funding. We'll review your progress at that point as to whether to kill your project.

That's better than almost anywhere I worked ever since other than startups at which I was a principal.

IBM in the 1990's (remember--this is still mostly pre-internet) was still an amazing place if you were motivated. You could pick up the phone and call a world expert on just about any technical subject and just talk to them. There were lots of interesting projects still going on and someone who wasn't lazy could quite easily maneuver into them--even if you were just an intern or co-op. (As a co-op, I sat in an X-ray lithography class and lab! You couldn't buy that course at the time, for any amount of money let alone do stuff in the lab.)

In the 1990's, IBM still also had lots of little enclaves of hypercompetency--generally composed of old greybeards who were within 10 years of retirement. And, if you were motivated, you could attach yourself to one of those and do amazing things.

Or, you could go get an MBA and stab your way up the management chain. That was also a choice and option at IBM for those so inclined and motivated.

The point was that in the 1990's, IBM would let you wallow in laziness if you wanted--the company wasn't going to give you motivation. But if you found your own motivation, it was really quite an amazing opportunity.

(Story time: we were at a bar celebrating the fact that a friend's project shipped and he said: "I've been at IBM almost 12 years and I finally had a project ship." I stared at him in horror: "Dude, I've been here about 6 years and I've had all four of my projects ship. Perhaps you should pick projects that have customers instead of political connections.")
Windows NT was originally going to be OS/2 NT. Due to the architecture of NT, it could support many different APIs.

Due to the success of Windows 3.0 and the lack of OS/2 success, Microsoft wisely decided to expand the Windows API to the Win32 API and have it be the default API.

The book Show Stopper, has a good account of the early days of NT.

https://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Mic...

It is interesting read.
So technically it sounds like he was getting 2k screenshots, which apparently was fine for what he was going for.

There have been in the past devices that have removed HDCP on 1080p content, that could be picked up off Amazon/Aliexpress for like US$20-$30. Sure the bitrate for raw HDMI content isn't something you'd want to store raw, but if you're willing to recompress it, you can have something manageable, while still getting 99% of the quality of the original.

I haven't seen anything yet that will strip 4k HDCP yet. (Maybe the HDFury? But that seems like a lot of money when you could just have a netflix subscription)
Direct link with downloadable mp3 (otherwise hard to find):

https://podbay.fm/podcast/1382983397/e/1569308400

Audio: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.f...
Capital One refused my fraud claim because a chip was used
8th Wall’s new Cloud Editor helps customers quickly build mobile AR experiences
Of course, looking forward to following along your journey!
Ugh. I dislike the author s permanent negativity, but he s right about a lot. I think it’s worth asking why people feel the need to lie about the future of AI? If they are confident about its future (and I don’t know of a fundamental reason why they would not be) then there is no reason to rush half assed results out the door and overcompensate (like gpt2). There is plenty of theoretical questions and answers to debate publicly instead. I don’t know if its the fear of some impending tech recession or fear of their own incompetence
YouTube is a Google property and thus this should be no surprise from a company that makes it’s money from tracking.

It’s similar to the funding of the ‘anonymous’ network Tor by the US government:

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/claims-tor-funded-by-us-g...

Always apply Occam’s Razor to sift through the purported claims.
yes! it is although it's relatively obscure.
(native English speaker here.)
It is not easier. If you don't host your website behind cloudflare it can be easily ddosed.

The only way to get good ddos protection is to centralize because it requires you to have close personal relationships across the world in order to get good bandwidth at every location.
I'm definitely a newbie at this topic, but I wonder if we can have some type of static GC? I'm not speaking about Radical change to the model of the programming language (like Rust), but about a compile time analyzer that can detect when object will go out of memory (edit: out of scope) and insert a code to deal with it, or make some expectations about the real generation of the object, this will decrease the amount of required work by the GC during runtime, no?
Detect, xplay, Moz, xyz, praise kek, yutru, those were the days
I'll concede that this specific thread isn't super long but some of the ones I've seen posted here are incredibly long and it's just frustrating to read them in that format.

Though when you consider the length of a tweet in general compared to the length of the thread, I think I would call it long form compared to the medium it's posted on.
The website says that, but I've never seen them actually charge the 5% for me.
That first image looks startlingly similar to this modern thing:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30948/potentially-the-...

Disregard the sensational title.
This ^^

Most brokerages make the lion's share of their profits on carried interest in cash accounts, not trading. Robinhood isn't forcing this merger at all. TDA was ripe for the taking considering its nice overlap with Schwab demos (tons of small retail and some active traders with ThinkOrSwim). TDA fits better with Schwab than Fidelity, Vanguard, etc.

I'm honestly surprised that MS or BofA didn't make a play here. The influx just might save those two dying market players.
Who says that I did not. All that really matters was backed up years ago in a few places. But I still have the originals and was just curious. There is something about fishing out old CD and putting it into player.

As for those floppies I was just curious. I could care less if I did not find that old piece of code I mentioned. I was just curious to look at it and see how my way of thinking did change.
Nice seeing this here!

Also: https://starma.sh for the Starmash version :)
Dallas is terribad. At least it was in 1999 when I lived there. I can't believe that there are fewer people on the road and less traffic now than then.

Fun trivia tip: the opening scene of "Office Space" with the old person and walker going faster than traffic was filmed in Las Colinas (where I worked at the time).
I like seeing the name for a different reason. I’m often signed into someone else’s account—could be a family member’s or my girlfriend’s. Most services do a good job of making it clear which account you’re signed into, but seeing the first name associated with the account right away is always nice.
These Horses Are Too Young to Die
As a counterclaim I would say that your comment is misdirection of how moderation works in a big platform.

I have no insider knowledge, but for example last week a big Youtube channel had many of its followers banned because they were spamming (solicited) emojis in chat.

Somewhere deep in the moderation stack that tripped an edge case of spamming/abuse/who-knows-what (not youtube apparently, they had no idea how this happened
Belarus’s Soviet Economy
Hype and exaggeration is just another form of falsification.
Exaggerated Information + Trusting & Uneducated Consumers = Misinformation
Site down, there is a mirror here:
https://github.com/spatiebot/airmash-history/blob/master/REA...
That’s where regulation comes in.

Companies, in particular companies that run infrastructure through public spaces, don’t exist in a vacuum.
"I haven't seen anything yet that will strip 4k HDCP yet."

It sounds like they exist.

https://torrentfreak.com/4k-content-protection-stripper-beat...
http://arcade.hofle.com/
Gnu: Net
Yes, for near terms its branding. In theory it should make you consider the company when you move to buying stuff stage. But the theory also tells you would need to be exposed to the company with multiple channels. Search counts as one. So it does not work solo.
Yes, he is. I'd heard the name, mostly in the context of The Design of Everyday Things. But going through his publications, there's a hell of a lot more there:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ANorman%2C+Donald+A.&q...

I've extended my reading killer asteroid of death somewhat over the past day or so.

(It is most definitely no longer a list, pile, tower, or mountain.)

I was also stunned this particular essay hadn't been previously discussed on HN.
QuestDB has relational data model supporting larger range of data types. We use SQL for all queries, have SQL optimiser and provide useful error reporting. All accessible over both HTTP and PostgreSQL wire.

From our testing we are considerably faster to ingest data than Influx. We are faster for most queries and use much less CPU to achieve that. We have not tested with Prometheus or Graphite yet.

On other hand we do not have high availability yet - this is on roadmap for next year.
I haven't found Scribus intuitive at all either, but if you have to create an image-heavy multi-page publication, I can't see any open source tools that would do nearly as well.

LibreOffice gets sluggish when you add too many images, and sometimes the images start to dance around a bit. Inkscape doesn't do multi-page. With GIMP you'll have to faff too much with image resizing and it's easy to end up with a result in sub-optimal quality (because the editing is destructive), whereas with Scribus you can leave the images in their full-quality, resize/move around and afterwards just export it in the DPI you want when done. Scribus will even warn you if one of your images is in too low resolution, when exporting, which makes it harder to accidentally all the pixels.

Scribus is incredibly light on memory (as it is easy to decrease the preview quality of images) and has good tools for alignments and guides (unlike LibreOffice, but similar to Inkscape).

Scribus may not be exactly what you need, but if you find yourself fuming at one of the other graphic design tools, it might be time to fire up a Scribus tutorial.
>Ugh. I dislike the author s permanent negativity, but he s right about a lot.

Yes, in a way it must suck to always act like the grumpy party-crasher but Gary Marcus is absolutely spot on when it comes to the facts. That interview with the economist had me shaking my head, everyone had to know within five seconds that the chance that this is uncurated is zero.
They could definitely do a better job of explaining what it is, how it works, and why I need it. I am interested though
Easy, see what google/ms is doing, and do the same.
Definitely fair points.. what I was trying to get at is exactly your last point. The only way to know whether people want what you're building is to actually see if they're willing to pay for it. I think the biggest thing we are trying to avoid is building a product without knowing whether customers actually want it
Being closed-source and having a limited free tier does not justify insults ("trashy"). You could have made your point politely, for the person you answer to and the software itself.
Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts around Product Management?
Syniverse swallowed tens of thousands of text messages – then spit them back out
This is the same reasoning against why anyone would ever listen to music or watch a movie on a computer.

Bandwidth will improve, storage will get cheaper, and compression will get better.
Oh my god this is the most insane description of OLPC I’ve ever seen.

Not “neoliberal private-public partnership bull crap” but somehow “communist”? Lololol.
Neither judges or coroners are elected in all states. Prosecutors are almost everywhere.

Sheriff's are elected but in many places are not the chief local law enforcement officer. In many places there is a police force which is led by an appointed police chief. In this situation the sheriff's office is usually limited to courthouse security and serving summons.

The original thought behind electing judges was that they are an equal branch of government which provides a check on the executive and legislative branches so having them appointed by the branches they are suppose to provide a check against makes no sense.

Also this article is about appointed and not elected judges.
The reason they are not used is not the circular reference problem, it's performance. Single-threaded ARC is passable, but thread-safe ARC is really, really slow. It basically hits all the worst performance pitfalls of modern CPUs.
You can do all of this with a Google search.
Healthcare providers have to keep records both to deliver effective care and protect themselves against malpractice liability. It is unreasonable of you to expect them not to do so. Those risks aren't yours to accept.
Benchmarking an 11-qubit quantum computer
It happened to me in Chicago, twice in one weekend. All I did was wear a pink shirt and walk down the street. That was enough to garner homophobic slurs.

I'm not gay and when I mentioned it to one of my Chicago friends, and he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Yeah."

tl;dr jerks are everywhere
React Native WordPress App [eBook]
They don't pay very well. They can't compete for top talent like other companies can.
> Being closed-source and having a limited free tier does not justify insults ("trashy").

Not per se but given which domain the article is hosted I think the response makes sense.
You’re going to have a hard time finding a job without a supervisor or boss that isn’t CEO/entrepreneur/similar.

Nobody should expect another species to share our concept of a capitalistic market, for that matter.
Using different usernames across various sites is a requirement if you don't want to be de-anonymized. It's already trivial to do so, even without tools like this.
Ah that's great, thanks for that link. I had no idea this was available on an emulator online, my dad is going to be a happy man!

(Apologies to all for the terrible formatting in that last post too, didn't realise the app wasn't WYSIWYG)
I've used Inkscape professionally, and found it helpful.

How did you find it inadequate and what bugs got in your way?
The best line (toward the end) is: "Well, that went well! See how easy it is to watch 4K content from Netflix?"
I thought it did work with local media, no? Did it used to?

AirPlay seems like a good local alternative, but I’m hesitant to fully invest in it because it would lock me into Apple products and I fully hate to be locked in, despite having an iPhone at the moment.
If they use the same username on a public site they should expect it. This is common sense. Then again, this is the same world where people voluntarily upload their entire lives to social networks, then complain about "privacy."
Small Projects, Big Companies
Intel turns to Samsung for help keeping up with AMD
Costco members are pretty loyal and known to be so. They offer cash back as an incentive.
Social programs are almost entirely funded through voter approved bond sales. Their funding won't take a hit if there's an exodus of wealth. The bonds are already sold.

Completely agree with you on the overdone clickbait!
Performance is really bad if you use Arc for practically everything, as with Swift. If you can deal with the simplest (tree-like) allocation patterns statically as Rust does, and use refcounting only where it's actually needed, you can outperform tracing GC.