skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally find this a particularly cruel take. It implies that nobody is poor, nobody has accidents ever, like a spilled bottle of pills, and that there should be no capitalism at all. It's very confusing - if people are willing or want to start a business that is open at night, with a goal of supplying medicine, food, and other necessities during hours that other stores do not offer such services at all, it seems like they should be allowed to do that.

Calling medicine that is potentially life-saving purchases at 3am "trivial" is unnecessarily cruel even for HN. Yes, 7-Eleven sells a lot of medicine that can save someone's life that they might not "stock up on" because they have insufficient money to stock up on every possible medicine and plan for every possible event.
> Because it's simple to fix and it didn't need a official licensed laptop to be serviced.

This is exactly my point.

Imagine that you are selling cars. If you sell a reliable, easy to fix car, you don't get any recurring revenue. But you need to make as much money as the competition who sells less reliable cars, and more because you can't cut corners. So your upfront cost is higher.

The competition, which sells less reliable cars, can ask much less upfront, and offset this by some recurring revenue from fixing it periodically at licensed mechanic shops that pass a cut to the manufacturer.

This is very much like inkjet printers are sold at a loss, and the money is made on selling the ink which is regularly needed. But with cars (tractors, etc) the manufacturer sells maintenance / spare parts.

In this way, the manufacturers of service-intensive machines credit the buyer initially, but then more than make it up in the "interest" payments.

This is sad dynamics, but I don't see an easy way out of it.

I hope there exists a large enough segment of consumers who distinctly prefer the more expensive, more reliable; from your words, you seem to belong to it. But I'm not sure such consumers are a majority.
Currently no, but very often yes for the last 5 years or so.

It's a lot of work, sometimes OK and sometimes very stressful.
Yet another list of shrouded Amazon affiliate links (tag=danhacks-20)
Something like https://github.com/google/git-appraise ?
Happy to see that I'm not the only one in this camp. I don't see the need for such Pixel density on the Mac 13inch laptops. What a waste of resources. In fact, am happy with a 1080p matte display.
The median US individual income ($31,099) is a better metric to use since the average is more weighted by extremes that don't represent the "typical" experience of people.

[1] According to google from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
Autonomous Vehicles Meet the Physical World: Edge Case Research [pdf]
Did John Locke come back from the grave to include a relevant clause in the Constitution?
15 years ago I had a Dell laptop with a 15.4 1920x1200 (16:10) screen. Nowadays you can't find something like that except on esoteric "Toughbooks" by Panasonic...
If people continue to pay Apple's (sometimes) outrageous prices, why should they lower them?

(I'm just as guilty, having spent over two grand on MBPs multiple times!)
As someone who eats too much meat I think the appeal for me would be to replace part of my consumption. Making tacos or a quick spaghetti? Why not use impossible meat. For me it's not going to replace local grass fed ground chuck or a wagu steak I'd occasionally treat myself with, but it might make it so I only eat meat 1-2 times a week.

And imagine the impact if these just displaced 50% of beef patties at fast food joints.

I'd love to see a world where the bottom shelf of meat isle is completely plant based.
Funny that you say that.

I have absolutely nothing to do with Holochain. I attended one Holochain meetup. Since you thought that, I should say my own project is called Intercoin.org ... I linked to a page that lets you discover a lot more.

Why don’t you say this is a way to shill MaidSAFE?

I guess my shilling was too subtle for you to even notice. And that’s fine.

You know what really bothers me about HN lately... I have written tons of helpful information on all these topics at our domain BUT I AM AFRAID TO LINK TO IT in a comment because it will be heavily downvoted (-3 for now) and called a shill.

You can literally devote YEARS of hard work and bugfixing, open source the code base as I did with https://qbix.com/platform and describe exactly what the problems are and how this solves them and you can take the code and use it...

But the comment is instantly downvoted and You’re called out for shilling. Shilling what, a free and open source project? Why even bother to link to solutions anymore. May as well just stop at a few helpful but vague suggestions. I have started doing that.

In this case I thought it would be good form to mention some competing projects to illustrate a major new generation solving sharding. Turns out that’s even worse. Apparently I’m shilling our competitors now!
You may have some good points, but when you quote someone word for word, substituting your own words for some of theirs, you are twisting their words and putting words in their mouth, in essence ridiculing them. That rarely leads to a civil discussion that other people can learn from.

I realize that this kind of misquoting is a traditional "hacker" style of debate. But speaking only for myself, it really rubs me the wrong way.

If you disagree with someone, don't resort to cheap shots like that. Make your point in your own words and with your own logic. You will have a stronger argument and a better chance of informing and educating the rest of us.
It has to have a computer, the way your ICE car has a computer, or maybe the way your washing machine or a microwave has a computer (they all do).

It should serve the driver, and be low-profile and unobtrusive.
But why? Every other streaming service for kids does this for me. YouTube definitely doesn't have anything special enough to warrant any special effort.

Also, they still don't make it easy to lock down to just that content on every platform.

I don't have to worry about this with the PBS Kids app. I know that no matter where it runs it will be safe. My house, grandma's house, whatever.

Same with Netflix Kids. I don't have to worry about it having bad content anywhere my kid figures out how to use it.
I don't think you are correct.

Uber drivers make only slightly more than what is considered a living wage in most cities. For example, an Uber driver makes around $20 per hour in NYC. So maybe $40,000 per year.

Source: https://gridwise.io/how-much-do-rideshare-drivers-make-in-20...

However, that is NOT a lot of money.

Is $15 an hour enough to live on? Not in New York
City. MIT researchers’ estimates of a true living
wage in New York City range from $16.14 an hour
for a single adult, to $21.55 for two working parents
with two children, to $39.93 for a single parent with
two children.

Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-fix-nycs-broken-...

Keep in mind that a one-bedroom apartment in NYC costs about $3,000 a month!!! An Uber driver would work 150 hours a month just to pay for that! He would still need to buy food, clothing, healthcare, etc. This person cannot remotely think of raising children as an Uber driver. Somebody making $40,000 per year in NYC would probably need to share housing with roommates or family.

Source: https://ny.curbed.com/2019/6/3/18650949/nyc-rent-prices-zump...

Are developers in other countries able to afford their own apartments? It looks like senior developers in Athens, Greece make about €36,500/yr.

Source: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/athens-senior-software-en...

However, cost of living in Athens is so much lower, it is not even funny. It looks like a 1BR apartment costs more like €500-800. This seems easy to afford for a senior developer. At least, it is much easier than our poor Uber driver in NYC.

Of course, I just picked Athens as one example. But are you telling me there are places in Europe where senior developers can't even afford their own apartments?!
> This case isn't about Google making or loosing some money, Google being open or not. None of the amici care about that, the supreme court doesn't care about that. Only Google and Oracle care about that.

... I don't think there's much support here for Oracle winning on its claims.

But this particular subthread was pointing out the hypocrisy of Google trumpeting "Openness in all cases!"

These are two separate and unrelated topics. We can simultaneously support Google winning the case (for the outcome on case law) while also believing Google could be a better corporate steward of open source (mostly looking at you, Android).
I've been experimenting with some ideas for new ML approaches (not neural networks). I was thinking about playing around with FPGAs, which the high end ones are really expensive. 64 cores is making me think it probably is not worthwhile to focus on FPGAs or even necessarily GPU programming like I was thinking before.
Git's UI is unbelievably bad. However, it's practically impossible to avoid learning how to use it these days, so "much better UI than git" will never be a compelling selling point for an alternative VCS: almost its entire target market has already paid the cost of learning git.

That problem could be gotten around if there was some enormous pool of potential VCS users who aren't using VCS currently but would if there was a better one. I don't think there is.
Ask HN: Does Google Cloud really route India - Europe traffic through US?
I was checking GCPing.com [1] to check latency to GCP regions from my place. I noticed that latency to European regions is around 400ms. When GCP launched Network Service Tiers, they were showing this map [2] where they didn't have any cable between europe/middle east and India. Now they are showing this map [3] which does, but latency to european regions is still the same. Why is that?

PS. I'm using Reliance Jio and Hathway Broadband (which are major ISPs in India). Maybe they are doing this?

[1] https://i.imgur.com/dxfLV6Z.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/ozpoFQ2.png

[3] https://i.imgur.com/8tYrdub.png
Why should they? The market dictates the price.

If people are buying Apple products at those prices then why should Apple lower their prices? The answer is they shouldn't.
Interesting project, but why are there Pepsi and PlayStation logo images in the Readme?
Today I learnt that turkey is a vegetable.
Yeah we need to have massively parallel systems, but that doesn’t necessarily mean what they have for banking and centralized databases... there are a lot of innovations that have happened since the introduction of Bitcoin. I could show you the actual whitepaper and link you to the pages describing the major design breakthroughs in simple terms but I won’t because that would apparently be shilling my project (Intercoin, not Holochain). Just take my word for it ... there is a lot that is far beyond blockchain.
WeChat's economic impact more than double that of Facebook
Depending on where you live and which circles you run in, your friends of friends can be a potentially huge dating pool
It might be competitive in the other direction: too many engineers, not enough opportunities. Then it becomes a bidding war to see who will accept the least pay.
Ask HN: What do you really want to achieve in life as a software developer
It exists. RetroArch has it in some cores, for example. It was originally conceived of and made by emulator developers.

Of course, it gets really hairy really quickly. Technically, a perfect runahead/negative latency requires ([all possible input states] to the power of [amount of frames of lookahead]) frames to be rendered.

A single player NES game has 8 binary state controller buttons, so 2 to the power of 8 input states. You need to render 256 frames for each frame of runahead.

Now surely you're thinking you'll just prune the set of possible input states through smart prediction of what the player will probably do next, but it doesn't matter. The number very quickly grows to ludicrous amounts of processing for anything that isn't an antiquated console. Let alone for 3D FPSes that use float values for e.g. mouse state.

Edit: and I should add that if they even try to do this, the amount of CO2 they'll waste is going to be horrifying.
I really like Beyond Meat hot Italian sausage, think the Beyond Meat burgers served with all the trimmings are good, and the Impossible Burgers at Burgher King are OK.

I welcome Impossible Pork, looking forward to trying it.

I am one of those weird people who doesn’t like to eat inhumanly raised animal products, but I just don’t care what other people choose to eat.
I now have a new thing I need to send to everyone I know.
There are at least 2 normal increments between 720p and 1080p.
Given that milk consumption has only gone down 1% / year over the last 5 years, which isn't dire, I believe it.
Let me introduce you to the lada 4x4(previously known as the lada niva all over the ex-soviet countries).

https://www.lada.ru/en/cars/4x4/3dv/about.html

it hasn't changed much, it's still serviceable with a hammer and a couple of pulleys and wrenches. Not sure if it's available in Belgium(it is in eastern europe) and it sure as hell isn't as comfy as a BMW or a MB, but it's cheap to buy and maintain.
If you didn't have unlimited PTO, how much would you be happy with? Tell, not ask, your manager your expectation. This is ideally done immediately upon starting. Afterwards, act like you have that amount of a vacation, and then take it.
At 32 inches you're only getting 138 DPI. Much like a 17 inch 1080p screen, it's acceptable but it could be a lot clearer.

The standard from decades ago is 96. Just wanting to double that, to make the pixels not blatant, is not extravagant.

Ignore the raw resolution here. Talk about DPI.
> Simple things that are easy to replace, but you still need the parts.

AFAICT, say, John Deere do nearly the same thing. But they insist on your using their own spare parts (not cheaper third-party parts, or something you fixed yourself), and go to great lengths way to ensure that (with chips, online activation, etc).
Mind the Gap, the secretive Silicon Valley group that funneled $20M to Democrats
what kind of stuff are you doing? is it mostly Apex development?
To my understanding “bepis” is a goofy vaporwave/meme/shitpost-y concept loosely based on Pepsi.
May I point out that it's racist to call them monkeys? The correct term is "ape".

Just kidding, btw, but I recall having heard something along this.
Google Reinstates Reported UAE Surveillance App ToTok
After recently playing Unavowed I kind of hope there'll always be a place for human acting. That said, for games with no voiceover it would be nice to have an accessible TTS option without monotonous tones.
So wouldn't this be like 2.6 TFLOPS? I'm thinking if this can replace NVidia V100s to train something like ImageNet purely on CPU. However, V100 has 100 TFLOPS which seems 50x more than 3990X. Perhaps, I'm reading the specs wrong?

PS: Although FLOPS is not a good way to measure these stuff, it's a good indication of possible upper bound for deep learning related computation.
The average customer doesn’t even notice AMD vs Intel.
I know this is a thought exercise, but those are some very weird numbers there.

If these ever existed as two legitimate offers, we're looking at a 5M cap vs a 50M cap.

Who is offering these numbers? Diligence has to be able to 'back into' the cap with traction or revenue. If the 5M cap feels "real", then the 50M cap is hiding something. Extreme red flags should be going up (outsized voting, extreme terms, weird clawbacks, etc). If the 50M cap is more real for the business, then the 5M cap is a joke and generally should be ignored unless there's a very specific reason to take it (but what could that be?).

Either way, a 10x evaluation difference is so off base something does not make sense.
It's clocked at 2.9/4.3 instead of 2.0/3.4 like the 64 core EPYC part. So it's actually a lot faster than the server model. Kind of strange.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bepis

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bepis
I think it depends a lot on the local market.

It's also a little misleading to compare the numbers that way. It usually takes a lot longer to become a psychiatrist in the first place. Your cumulative earnings in the first ten years after graduating high school might be higher as a plumber; in fact, I suspect most people who become doctors actually lose net worth throughout those ten years due to student loans. They just don't count towards the median income for a psychiatrist because they spend much more time not being a psychiatrist.

Once the plumber and psychiatrist are both in a position where they're running their own business or practice, their income is more of a conscious choice than it is for someone who's working for an employer. Self-employed people can and do sometimes choose to earn less money in exchange for more free time, and it's a lot easier to do that when you don't have six figures of debt at the start of your career.
All companies won't do this because they're looking to maximize their profits. One of the key factors that consumers look at is the price of a product, so if 3 competitors raise prices (due to UBI) and one keeps it the same or lowers their prices, in a well functioning market I would expect that competitor to start to take over more marketshare.
The manufacturer of the more reliable car can win by offering a warranty and/or "discounted" repairs. That way, even a naïve customer who doesn't expect the manufacturer to make a reliable car will be incented to buy it anyway. Of course, this will only work if building a more reliable car really is more efficient than doing constant repairs on a less-reliable one. IOW, it actually leads to properly-aligned incentives all around.
Based on what I last heard from merchants that accept it (e.g. Bitrefill), it's about tied with Ethereum for second in payment volume, after Bitcoin.
Zeno Jewels|My loved jewelry and update wearing story
I have bought a Three Stone Emerald Cut Engagement Ring which is 7.95ct, supper big stone, unique cut, and I love it very much, I have wear it for a week since I got it from Zeno Jewels. So far I found the ring is till very shining, and also I use the specific cloth to clean the stone and silver which keeps it in the orginal status. Some friends asked me about the ring, I was very happy to tell them the feelings about it.
I'm curious how custom-tailored the {non-meat brand} meat formulations are.

I assume if you're White Castle or Burger King, you're not buying the same product that lands in grocery stores.

Or maybe you are?
1080p is barely big enough for 2 windows side-by-side. A bit short in general, too. We had 1920x1200 before the 16:9 craze took over (a decade ago?).
Actually a nod to https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Neptr
Nurses get BS degrees, PAs go to med school. EMTs don’t have a high bar to entry, but their scope of work is very limited.
Don't Use Rails Default Scope
My fridge cost $4k and it does less than this CPU.
I think the distinction you're drawing between code history and paperwork history is more arbitrary than you give it credit.

If all we cared about was code history, a super pure "version control" system would have one trunk, no branches, and a sequentially increasing version number with no commit messages or author information.

But if you can annotate an entire commit with a descriptive message, why not annotate a specific hunk of code changes (comments), or the discussion over those changes in a specific version?

Environments and development practices may change, but the code review that led to a particular code decision at some point in history are a valid representation of the context at that time in history.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not lacking these features in Git, and am happy to get them from other platforms like Github, but I think the comment you're responding to is astute that one can imagine a git replacement that incorporates code review functionality as a first-tier feature.
Yes, 100%. Nobody wants to risk their business on empty promises from a VC with a poor track record, even if they're offering inflated valuations.
> Big blocks are probably easier to censor

Only if they get extremely big, and the clients cannot handle them.

> to use for people who only have low-spec equipment/networks.

These people should use light wallets or SPV wallets, which is what we already use on mobile phones.

> Vulnerability to censorship vs limited on-chain scaling -- pick your poison.

Only Siths deal with absolutes. This is a false choice.

Small blocks, and large fees, also have a centralizing effect on the network as small miners gets priced out as the transaction fees removes a larger fraction of their income.

And miner decentralization is the most important type of centralization there is, because that's what provides censorship resistance and network security.
> This coming from the company that files patents like crazy and gives out t-shirts that say “patent heroes wanted”

That's not incompatible with openness if they are largely amassing a defensive patent portfolio. A desire for openness does not mean unilateral disarmament in the face of enemies who are very willing to use every status quo legal tool to.prevent openness.
That is the condition of cosmology. Not everyone envies it.
> Computers are fast - a lot faster than we can possibly perceive. By some estimates human beings perceive two events as instantaneous at around 100ms. To Drew's point, this is an eternity for a computer. In that time a modern CPU could execute 10 billion instructions.

This type of thinking is why we can’t have nice things, and why technology and software seem stuck on an eternal treadmill. A system with lower latency feels amazing - compare a high and low latency terminal or text editor sometime and feel the difference. A touchscreen with 1ms latency (input to output, which requires a 1000Hz display) feels like a real physical object - way different from a touchscreen at 16ms or (god forbid) 100ms. We are never going to get there if people keep assuming that latencies lower than 100ms (or 30ms) are imperceptible.

100ms is the minimum viable performance. If an operation takes longer than that, you’ve failed for interactive purposes. But just because that’s the minimum requirement doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try our dang hardest to improve on that!
Hi there, I can relate to a lot of what you said. I too fell very hard into alcoholism while trying to balance my performance at my fairly high stress job. I won't say my alcoholism was caused by my job, it was bound to happen for me regardless of any job. Anyhow...

Just logged in to say, there's a lot of us out here in the world. You're not alone. I've lost a cushy job due to it, lost more than one actually. I guess all I'll say is that it's possible to get out of that hellhole, you'll get there one day. And as someone else said, the fact that you talked about all this is a big deal. It means a lot. I'm rooting for you. If you ever want someone to talk to, let me know!