skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of relative purchase power, in 1987 you could build a "newest processor" 80386 with a then-huge 80Mb drive in a tower case with you basic setup and pay about $3,000 when building it yourself. According to my inflation calculator, that's $6,182.61 in today's dollars.

In 1987, PC's Limited (later renamed Dell) 386-16 included a 16MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1MB RAM, a 1.2MB floppy drive, a 40MB hard drive, and a monochrome video card for $4,799.

We just tend forget how powerful and cheap Moore's law made things. In terms of relative inflation-adjusted dollars, many of us old-timers back in the day have already spent as much or more than Apple is asking multiple times on 'prosumer' machines when you factor in inflation.

(That said I don’t need that much machine right now and am running on a Dell laptop at the moment...)
Valencia St is closed to cars one Sunday a month (I forget which one). It’s always a pleasure to walk through.

Then there are also the streets that get blocked off for markets (eg 22nd between Mission and Valencia every Thursday afternoon/evening), also very pleasant.

The more of these the better for our cities.
Can you share the tips here for everyone to see?
I’ve gotten some entertainment out of browsing r/askcarsales on reddit, and if the folks there are to be believed it’s definitely not an act (at car dealerships, at least). While there are definitely times where the salesman goes into the office and pretends to talk while they check fantasy football scores, it’s also true that the manager needs to approve every deal and he often has very different incentives than the salesman.
If you don't keep the scale, it would never get cheaper. Airlines struggle with profitability as-is, no point imposing additional undue burden.
Yea, but for Premium it is different. At least, back when it was called YouTube red, they just promised a majority.
Rationals are computationally nasty. Even if you have hardware acceleration, they are going to be slow. Here's why:

An integer addition (or subtraction) can be done in 1 clock cycle; multiplies will take 3; and division takes far longer, think 20 cycles or more. Fixed point additions are the same as integer additions, while multiplies and divisions both take a multiply and a division (although you can convert one of them to a shift if it's binary fixed point).

Floating point additions are more expensive than integers (due to the need of normalization), taking about 3 cycles. But multiplies also take about that amount of time, and you can do a fused multiply and add in the same amount of time, 3-4 cycles. Divisions, like integers, are more painful, but they're actually faster than integer division: a floating point division is going to be closer to 10 cycles, since you have less precision to worry about.

For rational arithmetic, you essentially have to run a GCD algorithm to do the normalization steps. Even if this were implemented with special hardware, it would be on the same order as an integer division operation in terms of latency. An addition or subtraction would cost a GCD, 4 multiplies, and an addition, while multiplication and division are cheaper at a GCD and two multiplications each.

In summary, if you're looking at the cost of doing a dot product, it's 4 cycles per element if integer or floating-point; 5-25-ish if fixed; and 50+ for rational (assuming hardware acceleration; pure software is an order of magnitude slower). It's telling that the recommendation for solving rational equations is to either convert to integers and do integer linear programming, or to do a floating-point approximation first and then refine in the rational domain.

A final note is that integer division is much more rarely vectorized than floating-point division, so fixed and rational arithmetic are not going to see benefits from vectorization on current hardware.
Family says hackers accessed a Ring camera in their 8-year-old daughter’s room
“Technology to get an individual from anyplace on Earth to any other place in less than an hour” ... so, a mobile-platform-launched ICBM that you can climb into. I’d believe that the military would have developed that for that sake of some capability or other. It’s not relevant to any plausible civilian application, however.

(The speculative SpaceX suborbital rocket thing, IMHO, is not credible evidence against my point. :) )
You can disable the assistant on the echo too...
Going over your boss’s head won’t end well because of misaligned incentives.

Your boss’s boss is responsible for the boss. Responsible for any failures and any successes. Acting on a failure you reported would be a black mark on their report card. That’s not gonna happen.

Few managers care about doing the right thing — that’s why they’re in politics... ahem....management.
Great work by the Wine team. Ironic now that Windows 32-bit binaries are better supported than macOS 32-bit binaries.
I think it’s fantastic that almost 4000 years later, people still learn that Ea-nasir was a cheating bastard.
Eh, I dunno, I've been an on-and-off Java person since ~2000 (with consistent JVM development over the last 8 years or so), and I only learned about this URL gotcha within the last couple years.

I think https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand_2x.png applies here, just in a more restricted programmer-y sense..
But my echo can make music play on my home stereo.
>> I came home and suddenly I have google adsense adds for siriusxm.

Yeah, you can probably write it off as co-incidence unless this keeps repeating again and again. Check out your google or youtube search history, you may have searched about this term recently?
Was a joke comment. I just wanted an electric El Camino
Yet here we all are, using a browser, the most bog-standard piece of kit on a given computer.
(BF Heroes and BFPF4) Looking for Delevopers and Staff
'm looking for people interested in working on a project to create a BFHeroes and BfPF4 private server.
both games already have ways to create a private server
but it's not close to complete
the limitations at the moment is the old server available (2010)
preventing complete server functionality
would need to create an emulator for the latest version server (2015)

At the moment we have Launcher and website for BFH (not one of the best but a good base)

for BFP4F we have the backend and launcher made by Warranty voider (you can easy find this in youtube)
At the moment we have Launcher and website for BFH (not one of the best but a good base)

for BFP4F we have the backend and launcher made by Warranty voider (you can easy find this in youtube)

we need good people in:
C # (launcher and backend of BFP4F)
WebDev (for Website and Menu of BFP4F)
Golang (to work in the BFH backend)
cracker/reverse enginner(To reverse functions and packages of both games to create a server emulator)

You can talk to me directly By my Discord(Peach#6997)
Salaries aren't in that range generally in South East Asia, where I gather the author is from.
> was that businesses were not allowed to give huge wage hikes during World War II

Interestingly war industry wages far as I saw were specified by the government contracts. They were good wages compared to pre WWII. My uncle busted out in WWII because all of his employees left for the shipyards.
I've noticed that some companies implicitly do this. Instead of hiring from the pool of people with the skill they need, they hire someone else with potential and whom they like better.

Then when it comes to the job, they don't tell you to learn specifically, but subconsciously they do know this and as a consequence rather judge on the quality of your work than "looking over your shoulder".

Of course, it's also cheaper to hire younger people.
Yes, Virginia, China Is Exporting Its Model
Retirees cashing out?
For three minutes. Hydrogen fuel cells are likely the right answer using current technology
Better than kerosene how? You're not going to get higher energy density without increasing safety risks.
One thing I find interesting is that it doesn't canonicalize the path portion at all. E.g.:

scala> new URL("http://localhost/foo/bar/baz").equals(new URL("http://localhost/foo/../foo/bar/baz"))
res0: Boolean = false

It's just funny to me that they went to the effort to do a full network request to see if the hostnames resolve to the same IP, but didn't bother to normalize paths.
I entirely agree with you: the default numeric type in computing should be the numeric tower, with floats chosen on an opt-in basis where their properties are useful.

Also, zero shouldn't test as false in conditional statements, that's what we have booleans for (sorry, lisp friends nodding along until this moment, the empty list shouldn't be falsy either: just false, and None/nil).
The API that was dragged out of my company's software team ticks oh so many of these boxes...

It's eerie, almost as if the author tried to use our system and then decided to write this...
Wait, really? But then what's the point of it?
I guess having done AI and security for 20 years means none of this fazes me.

Of course they record what you say, and of course a human is listening to it. How else would they train their models?

I also believe Amazon when they say that it isn't recording unless the blue light is on, and that only comes on when it thinks you said "Alexa".

I mute the device when I'm having a private conversation. If it activates otherwise, I'm pretty aware of that.

I guess it just doesn't really bother me. I have a pretty good idea of what it's recording.
Oh boy I thought the same. I had a sinking feeling until I realized it's a story.
"You come at the king, you best not miss."
Any evidence for that or are you going on gut feel?
> 2000 years ago people were on the right track that the Earth is round but couldn't "test it" but going around it.

Fun fact: Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth and the tilt of its axis around ~200 BC, by comparing the angles of shadows at two locations. Perhaps not definite proof, but certainly a test of an assumption.

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

This is not to disagree with the thrust of your argument, however :)
>I'm saying a 100 passenger all-electric will never fly without a revolution in battery tech.

I don't think you're right from an engineering point of view. Just multiply the aircraft size and battery number by some amount. For example:

>In September 2017, U.K. budget carrier EasyJet announced it was developing with Wright Electric an electric 180-seater aircraft to be developed by 2027. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/09/easyjet-and-wright-ele...

Though all battery aircraft whether micro drones or A380 size will have a limited time they can stay up. Electrics currently seem limited to an hour or so whereas jets can do 16 hours now.

There seems quite a lot of potential on short routes <300 miles though using present batteries. (eg. London Paris or LA San Diego).
Might wanna check out Google colab, if you haven't. I switch between repl.it and colab, depending on what I'm working on.
look again at e.g. the Dell 7920:

Up to 3 TB RAM, 4 GPUs with 4 DP ports each if you want, dual processor if you want (so 56 cores), ...

Costs more or less the same as the Mac though, or more if you go higher-spec. MPX might be interesting, although I notice the Apple marketing comparing it to previous Macs and not competing PC-workstation cards, and of course application-dependent.
Yes! I certainly am trying! And it's true, I have a number of project ideas floating in the back of my head, but I rarely realize them, which is a problem.

Here's what I want to make: recipe-based website/app, in which user can choose one of four seasons, with perhaps a slider for {Vegetarian} or {Instant Pot} (or something), and it spits out some recipes. The ingredients <div> will default to serving for 1, but user can choose servings for 2, or 4, and the app re-calculates (1 cup -> 4 cups, etc.)

I personally want to learn (and am more interested in) the backend stuff to make it work. And I am worried that even if I get it work, I will get lost in the CSS mess of trying to prettify and arrange things. But I should just focus on learning to and making a working skeleton app first, I suppose.

Thanks for your comment.
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Ask HN: Google having access to Signal messages?
A troubling thing happened to my wife today. She got an ad based on a very rare word that only appeared on her phone in an inbound Signal message. She did not type it, did not say it out loud, and did not search for it. The chances of her getting a random ad on that specific word are low (the word is enneagram). How did Google get access to her inbound Signal messages?
This is someone advertising their ebook they are selling on Amazon. You probably didn't know that from the title, because it doesn't tell you anything.
It's not great when a modal update notification pops up some X milliseconds after opening a productivity tool, after the required network request has completed. By that time you might be half way through typing something, or just about to click something in the interface.
It is a smear because climate change denialism simply ignores that the best available science points to humans as the cause of global warming, that global warming is a huge threat, and that we need to start doing more now. Moreover, the best available science has been heavily attacked by all manner of extremely well-funded skeptics and held up. This funding to comes from 100B+ multinational corporations as well as state actors. Yes, the climate models could be wrong, but denialism in the face of the facts on the ground has reached the level that it is more likely that tiny underground monkeys on mars are beaming thoughts into our heads than that the deniers are right. Thus, those who continue to pose as "I'm just asking questions man" are either disingenous or gullible. Yes it's a smear, and deservedly so.
> A third-party Twitter client might be prettier and more functional than Twitter’s own client — shout out to Tweetbot! — but it certainly would not be more profitable.

I never understood this, why can't the API/firehose serve ads that would be presented in the 3rd-party apps?

Additionally 90% of users would naturally gravitate to the default app regardless, leaving 3rd-parties for cool/interesting/advanced/innovative use-cases. I still feel this was a mistake - not as some hippy idealogue - but from a ruthless capitalist perspective. This was their like button.
At the same time a bird in the hand is worth more than 2 in the bush.
My dad's first profession was in real estate sales. His boss on day one handed him a phone book, told him to start on page one, call each number, and try to sell that person a burial plot at a fictional cemetery.
But why? What's the problem with buybacks? Everybody still pay the taxes. They just don't pay the taxes when reinvesting profits into the same company shares until they actually sell the shares.
Why would you like to tax those people then? They aren't running away with any cash, they will pay taxes when selling the shares. They just avoid unfair side of the income tax (you pay when you profit but you don't get back or get back very in unfavorable way when you lose money).
> I had to work with an API where the company decided everything should return http code 200 (well, at least all 4XX errors), and give the error code in the JSON response, mixing existing 4XX errors and their own errors.

If all of your errors line up perfectly with HTTP, I guess this could work. But if you've got something that doesn't fit, or two things that would map to the same one, it gets weird.

And then you have http client libraries that do great things like only return response bodies if status 200, or only return http statuses they were aware of. It's not very RESTful to just return http 200 with an embedded application status, but it's easy and consistent, and I would not write an HTTP api otherwise, unless I was had a good reason to follow some existing spec that used statuses.
I've found that Undo isn't something you can bolt on after the fact, you need to design with it in mind from the start. I've had very good outcomes with that approach.
On the contrary :) They are converting me into a quasi permanent staff (until Nov 2020) with full benefits, so not too bad. Things will pick up in January. I should clarify that this is a healthy state bureaucracy I'm a part of, so I'm not worried about losing my job. I'm just worried about losing my time; waking up 5 years later in the same position terrifies the shit out of me.
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This piece was extremely tech-centric and completely ignores all other job sectors, which is strange because tech people are already attuned to thinking of LinkedIn as a plague upon society.

Finance people aren't going to have a Github. Healthcare professionals have no idea what Dribbble is. Girlboss is a niche network and its job listings are a drop in the bucket compared to what LinkedIn has.

> If the new American Dream is defined by “creative expression, online influence and extreme optionality” over linear moves up the corporate ladder, then LinkedIn is enough to make any Millennial or Gen Z jobseeker cringe.

The author must live in a pretty sheltered world if she thinks millennials are cringing at LinkedIn as opposed to applying to a million job listings across all networks for the slim chance of even getting an interview.

Young and inexperiencee jobseekers make up a good chunk of LinkedIn's audience. Not a single recruiter is reaching out to them. LinkedIn is valuable because it gives them one way of finding people at organizations who may be willing to chat with them and give them a plain English breakdown of the skills needed at those jobs. The HR-penned job descriptions are hilariously inaccurate in many jobs and can appear to be designed to actively discourage people from applying due to the absurd requirements they post.
So, then, the convenience outweighs the disk space cost?

And also, I guess, transcoding the least-popular format on-the-fly is still too CPU intensive for large files (zips of hundreds of jp2 images, etc)

Guess I'm looking for a magic bullet where there might not be one, I just want to see Archive.org keep doing what it's doing far into the future.

Who knows, maybe we will stumble on some magic bullet, new compression algos (Zstandard? AVIF? AV1?), user clouds for compression (like boinc; archive already lets users assist via bittorrent for bandwidth costs). Thinking out loud.

Anyway, keep doin' what you're doing. And podcasting. That's good too :)
My first re:Invent: From A to Z
I would honestly much rather overcome my fears. Being a solo founder and running a company is one of my goals.
OS X/macOS isn't much better. If I wrote my own GUI window manager I wonder if I'd even put in modal dialogs and the like. The ones that don't respond to keyboard presses and remain on top are the worst.
Then people stop using Twitter...

The solution to your problem is quite simple. The network will die off.
... and also things they don't want to pay for.
I'm doing the same ruby on rails tutorial! I finished chapter 3 today and it was pretty fun, and satisfying to run the test and fix the simple bugs. I'm curious, did you or did you not use your side project/portfolio to get your job? How did you demonstrate your skill and technical prowess sufficiently to get a job doing it? Thanks.
And has to be "compiled" into an incomprehensible, bloated, inefficient mess of a new actual CSS file, before it can be used, rather than simply served by a web server.
This reads like a list of decent but non critical enhancements to many programs. The funny thing is, myself and most programmers I know love working on things like this but most of the time it is not the programmer who is calling the shots on what his time should be spent on.

It's the customer who doesn't want to spend money or the product owner who needs to be mindful of the budget spend.

So a better title would be: 'things end users would really enjoy but don't actually feel is worth spending money on'. Because if those users would actually think these are valuable things, they would pay for them and you bet that programmers will implement them. They are also users and fairly nitpicky ones.
Wow.... this reads as an amateur trying to clone Buzzfeed, and marry it with the enquirer...while only hiring writers from fiverr.

No organization, jumps all over the place. Very hard to get through, and my god the hype...it's everywhere.
https://poignant.guide/
Don't we all want to be in a position that puts us at the edge of our comfort and abilities, with doing something new? I know that's my goal.
I'm curious if people have insight into the market for this besides "video professionals"?

I can't imagine the economics work for large shops, where I would guess commodity hardware rules 99% of the time.

Scientific computing will be done on large clusters -- and not clusters of $60k office art.

Of course there's the % of the overall market that buys Ferraris and other expensive toys.

Seriously, what does one do with 1.5TB of RAM in a single machine?

[Edit]

I'm not suggesting this doesn't make sense. There's a precedent in e.g., high end loudspeakers of producing a cost-no-object showpiece that people talk about but represents a small % of their overall sales.

Ditto high end cars and small production run 'statement' versions of those cars.

I'm just curious who -- strictly performance-wise -- this computer would serve well.
Yes, what dividends have to do with it? The company has value no matter if it pays the dividends or not. Controlling it has value for example as it may be worth something when bought by another company. You can also always dissolve it and pay the cash back to shareholders or you can buy back the stock which is a form of dividend (one when you're automatically reinvesting into the company stock).
I love the M68K, in fact I almost said it was my favourite, but I think the Z80 taught me more.

Like the 68K, the Z80 had great mnemonics, was really easy to understand. In many ways I think it was at least a spiritual predecessor to the 68K. I mean, Z80 was an 8 bit CPU and 68K was much more capable 16 bit CPU. My guess is that if you liked the 68K you'd probably like the Z80.

Intel mnemonics always sucked :) 8086 and 80286 put me off assembly language too.

I don't know the AVR... don't get to play with CPUs much any more :(
A good way to think of this is as a venn diagram. If an electric plane has 1000km of range then it overlaps with jet aircraft. And probably also cars, buses, and trains. I think of friends that live in the middle of Nebraska. If you want to take a plane first you drive three hours to Omaha. If electric aircraft were cheap enough perhaps they would come out ahead flying to Denver instead.
In this video from Alaska they land at a roadside gas station and refuel in a fuel emergency. In an in-flight emergency you can deviate from any rule... still poor planning by the pilot.

https://youtu.be/oE8edtEa46o?t=251

Many small piston engines are certified to use mogas (standard automobile gasoline) as well as 100LL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#Automotive_gasoline
The alternative is static types.