skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
things are very different in japan, most shops even big ones are usually open till around 9-10pm, kombinis and many Donkis (Don Quixote for those that dont know is a giant discount store which sells almost anything imaginable) are open 24/7/365

as for the number there are indeed a staggering amount, at one point i was stood somewhere in Asakusa at around 3am, not a soul on the streets other than me but a cursory glance around and i could see 4 different kombinis that were open

vending machines too are everywhere but they generally just sell drinks, ive never actually seen the supposed underwear vendors of myth, around sinsekai in osaka i saw many vendors selling beers/sake/whiskey however unlike the cigarette vendors they need no age verification, they just politely ask that those under 21 dont use them. the strangest things ive seen were a vending machine for Tenga masturbators in sapporo, a dashi (fish stock in plastic bottles with a large fish crammed in there) vendor in denden town and in sinsekai i saw a gatcha machine covered in pictures of arnie in his prime which had vibrators in

Arnie gatcha: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Tat22AUq7UaEK8ueA
Dashi Vending machine: https://photos.app.goo.gl/cGJ2Uko1fGMz9zUs8
Beer & sake vendors: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TMHPn2Z7326L8Rxo9
In Star Trek the transition from capitalism to utopia involved a global nuclear war.
I think it’s ok to eat this stuff as long as people don’t believe that this is healthy food. I have been vegetarian for a few years now. I cook mostly Indian food which I love but I still miss stuff like fried chicken or a good burger from time to time. So occasionally I eat some soy stuff or behind burger. Just don’t think that this is healthy...
Yes, and the standard among VCs is to follow social and industry norms. Silicon Valley is an iterated game, and very few players are willing to play in a way that destroys future payoffs.
There are a couple of options:

1. Buy a cheap laptop with a replaceable memory and nvme slots and upgrade them for cheaper than you could buy them for. Dells typically have replaceable memory and nvme drives.

2. Buy a cheap laptop and put a 1TB NVME drive in a Thunderbolt 3 / superspeed 10 enclosure. This would be the way to go for a Macbook Pro.

If you're going to do superspeed 10 (~ 1 Gigabyte/sec)

NVME disk:
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-1TB-NAND-NVMe-PCIe/dp/B07J2Q4...

SuperSpeed 10 enclosure:
https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Tool-free-Enclosure-Thunderb...

If you want to do something faster (3 to 4 Gigabytes/s) than you should look at the Samsung Evo/Evo Plus/Pro nvme sticks and a proper Thunderbolt 3 enclosure for NVME like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/WAVLINK-Certified-Thunderbolt-Enclosu...

FWIW, I have that pluggable superspeed enclosure above and a Samsung Evo NVME stick, and the superspeed 10 enclosure is the bottleneck. I get 1 Gigabyte/sec in read and writes.
If your backup requires the original machine to be fully functioning, it's a bad backup. If it requires complete reliance on a third party holding a key, that they have the right and ability to revoke, it's also a bad backup. You're giving them the ability to cryptolock you at a whim.
It would have to be specific to certain languages, which would, in turn, hinder adoption of new languages to some degree if the git-next took off. So, I'd prefer not to have that be a feature. :)
Would also be interested!
> Google can’t win this fight (if they win) as a defendant

Sure they can (and it's the only way they can), if they win at the Supreme Court, it will be as a Defendant-Appellant. And if, as is often the case, the final formalization of the victory comes on remand back to the trial court from the Supreme Court after the Supreme Court declares the controlling law, that victory will be as a simple Defendant.
Clarifications (this comment perpetuates some common misconceptions):

- A single bitcoin "transaction" can actually have thousands of inputs and thousands of outputs. So energy "per transaction" or "transactions per second" is not analogous to a typical monetary transaction.

- Bitcoin does not compete with literal credit card transactions (although some use it like that today). I'd compare Bitcoin on-chain transactions with how nation-states settle their central-bank ledgers with gold. Gold is the best comparison to Bitcoin because trading in hard gold is "final". Credit card transactions happen on a higher level in the financial stack. As does cash. As do bank transfers. All of these bubble down into interbank transfers that eventually settle on the base layer of central banks. So compared to shipping and securing gold, Bitcoin is quite cheap!

* Pasted and modified from an earlier comment I made on HN.
I do get some of that feeling. The differences is that the FAANGs are all public, have been for a while, and have real revenue. The dot-com bubble was mostly fueled by VC, IPOs, and a virtuous cycle (though I guess Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel had been public for a while, and they did survive the bubble burst).

Facebook and Google do ads, and most online advertisers look for immediate, real value. These success stories are as real as e-commerce.

That brings us to Amazon. It's e-commerce is real, but margins are low. AWS looks more like the dot-com bubble in that some of that money is coming from VCs. If funding dries up, AWS gets hit. That said, there's a larger migration to the cloud, and that's also real.

Apple makes high-margin phones that people all over the world buy. Full stop.

Netflix is the least like the others. It's smaller, and while it revolutionized how we consume content, it's current model is heavily funded by debt, and it's facing stiff competition. No one's talking about how Netflix will take over long-form video, they're griping at having to pay for six streaming services.

The alternate story for tech salaries is that PCs and the internet weren't ready for prime time in 2000. After the bubble burst, there were too few CS grads for when the internet was finally ready. The internet wasn't ready until 2006-2010 when most people had broadband at home, smartphones matures, and LTE was ready.
> Because of git's shortcomings polyrepo is a near necessity

I'm intrigued by this claim. I've come to the opposite conclusion - that monorepo is near necessity with git because there's no tools for branching/rebasing multiple repos at once.
Economies of scale will take care of price pretty quickly when there's that huge of a difference in raw material cost.

Beef will never be able to optimize past feed conversion ratio.

Plant-based meat still has a large chunk of the price in processing.
Muilenburg is to blame. He got the stock price up by getting rid of all of the more experienced (older) higher paid engineers who knew to not make the sort of mistakes that were made on the 737-Max. I was a happy 35+ year Boeing employee who would have stayed where I was for maybe another ten years, but Muilenburg made my choice to retire very easy by changing the terms of the (retirement) plan to give me a compelling reason to leave. If I had stayed, I would have effectively taken a pay cut of about 20% because of the reductions to my defined benefit payout. Instead, I found a better job elsewhere for a 20% raise and took the early retirement.
a few years ago i quit my full time job but negotiated a consulting arrangement with the company on an hourly basis.

it was beneficial for them because i was able to offboard and knowledge transfer much more effectively over a few months of part-time work as opposed to the standard 2 weeks notice.

it was beneficial for me because right out of the gate i had a consulting contract with a yc startup at a rate that was slightly higher than my yearly salary which i could use as social proof when reaching out to new clients and negotiating rates.

i ended up consulting for about a year as my only source of income where i took on a couple other clients through my network (ex-coworkers starting companies and needing help faster than they could hire, ex-coworkers referring me to others who were stating companies) and a few lucky connections through upwork (he contacted me on linkedin so upwork never got a cut of the invoices i sent). i've also tried toptal and moonlight but no contracts have come out of those platforms.

a year ago i took on a new full time job and i've been consulting on the side since. i agree with ananonymoususer in that i can have as much extra work as i can handle however i was lucky to have already created relationships with clients before getting a full time job. i'd imagine approaching a new client while maintaining a full time job is a harder sell than simply letting an existing client know that your availability will be reduced moving forward.
Reach outside of your bubble and realise there are likely tens of thousands of people in your city who live a different schedule to you, for work and other needs like care and support.

There is room for a night time economy based around the people and services that run while you sleep in your standard schedule. Big cities wouldn't be possible without the efforts of people on AM heavy schedules.
I can't see us being designed to eat heavily selected for plants, either.
That bit about Australia sounds like a movie waiting to happen
Thats bullshit. ETH has loads of transaction volume, second only to Bitcoin. Lightning network transaction volume is almost zero right now.
Money well spent IMO.
Designed by whom?
Sony's VISION-S prototype vehicle concept
Yeah, I'm going to fix that. I thought I'd tried `u8 as i8` and it hadn't worked, but I guess not.
I am a person who would eat these (and am a meat eater). I care about reducing my carbon footprint, have concerns about our food supply, and also the treatment of animals to some degree. I still eat meat, but as these products improve (and they are improving very quickly), I will have them more and more often as a change from meat. My wife is also vegetarian so it also means we can share more food together.

There is definitely a use case for this, I've had impossible stuff with a lot of non vegetarians. In fact most vegetarians don't care about this product.
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However, a person can be legally raided for the purposes of recovering said drugs, even if they have no idea that they possess them after picking the package up. Furthermore, even if the police has advance knowledge of the package and could have intercepted it earlier, they can still allow delivery and follow up with the raid, just so that they can take the recipient into custody. One prominent example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor...
I really miss being able to check in chunks instead of full files, and streams are a poor replacement for git branches but it does let you do monorepo. P4V is a buggy mess though.
I recently had to add a 10 second period where the contact form send button is disabled but appears to still work.

There was daily contact form spam coming from tor exit nodes. Only flaw is that it always sends the message within 7 seconds. That is faster than a human could get to the form and type a meaningful message.

So I was able to avoid blocking tor exit nodes by adding this timeout. This has solved the issue, for now.

Requiring JS execution by only accepting JSON stopped the lazier bots.
horrendously slow `svn log`, locking files, bad branching… I only used it when I was a student but I don't miss svn at all.
Git is extremely user-unfriendly from the command line.

It would also be nice to have a repo that isn't language-agnostic. It's too easy to track non-semantic changes, like white space.
Nah, you’re probably not reading the specs wrong. GPU-type devices severely outclass CPUs in raw compute power. This has been true for years, and it’s why deep learning depends on them. But CPUs and GPUs fulfill very different niches computationally; GPUs are incredibly parallel but aren’t well-suited for serial tasks or tasks that require unpredictable branching/looping, which is pretty much exactly what CPUs are good at.
> Natural food is the food we've been designed to eat.

Humans aren't designed.
I bet it runs cooler.
What you want has nothing to do with git (which is a storage model). You can use arbitrary diff and merge resolution algorithms with git's plumbing, which would give you the AST-aware functionality that you want.
Coincidentally enough, Dell's recent upgrade to the XPS 13 includes a 16:10 monitor. Announced only a few days ago, available today.

https://www.arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/dell-updates-xps...
Yep. The split was also a taxable event (income) according to the IRS.
full life cycle development. pretty much anything to get something launched. integrations, front-end, apex back-end. Right now I'm learning about SQL server and DDL stuff to get a feature launched cause the integration doesn't have a REST or SOAP API, so I need to build the API myself.
Hobby farm with printed tractors running on the gig economy.
>The irony I see is that people suddenly care about animals being killed for no purpose.

There's nothing ironic about people being upset about a negligent waste of a massive amount of resources.
This seems promising, though I think the price is a bit too high.

I also hope there is a service that can automate syndicate the voice track while making a Youtube video, any existing services?

Btw, what do you think this service compare with the amazon polly?
We've basically been in a continuous bull market over the past 11 years; it's not a representative sample. Nor is any period of 10-20 years nearly long enough to tell you much about long term stock market returns. Plus, valuations (ie P/E or P/B) are significantly inflated currently compared to the past. Since valuations can't inflate forever, future market gains over the long term are expected to be lower than past.

In addition, we're talking about a real withdrawal rate; a 4% real rate of withdrawal will be approximately a 6% nominal rate assuming inflation sticks around 2%. It's very unlikely you're going to maintain that from a balanced portfolio over the long term without depleting principle at all. Might be possible with an all-stock portfolio if you get lucky, but significant chance of failure if you get a poor sequence of returns.
I think I'm more of the target market, rather than current vegetarians. Meat is my primary source of protein, and the main source of flavor in meals that I cook. I have some ethical issues involving meat, primarily in terms of how energy-inefficient it is to produce meat. Impossible Meats are exactly what I want long-term, because they will let me make the meals that I enjoy at a lower environmental cost.
The EPYC still has double the bandwidth (8x vs 4x DDR4-3200).
Thanks for the clarification. IANAL.

(It’s been a beautiful saga. I hope they make a movie out of it.)
I liked the writing. Felt a bit short though
Take a look at Leica RTC 360. It's a survey grade terrestrial lidar scanner.

Angular accuracy 18”
Range accuracy 1.0 mm + 10 ppm
3D point accuracy
1.9 mm @ 10 m
2.9 mm @ 20 m
5.3 mm @ 40 m

(disclaimer: I work for Leica)
Because I like the flavor and texture but I don't like the carbon emissions associated with beef production?
Despite their price, there was a time when macbooks were only 5-10% more than the PC equivalent laptop. People that were complaining about its price were inevitably comparing it to bottom of the barrel PC laptops, not higher end business laptops that had comparable specs.

I haven't priced out any recent macbooks to know if that's still true though. Glancing at the new 16" macbook pro, it seems like it might be reasonably priced for what you're getting.
Some possibilities:

- it's against the guidelines to complain about downvotes, and inciting them like you did amounts to the same thing;

- your comment is a low-content swipe at an entire industry, containing little that could lead to a productive discussion.
> And yes, there are external tools for code review. But that all should be a part of version control.

There are many different code-review workflows, and for teams that do full-time pair-programming, code review happens in real-time as the code is written.

Trying to bake support for all of that into something that is also a good VCS sounds like a recipe for one of those clock-birdfeeder-machete-flashlight-massager tools that you used to see on the back pages of outdoor magazines in the 90s.
Waymo today announced that its autonomous cars have driven 20M miles
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Nanotechnologist KEricDrexler invented the concept of greygoo blackgoo AI
I have never had to seek work. It has always been from people I knew or people who knew my coworkers. If one has good skills, the work will speak for itself and lots of repeat business/new customers will come knocking on the door.
China-made UOS gets support from a domestic cloud desktop solution provider
> [...] the demolition of cultural sites (a tactic last used by the Taliban)

Hasn't ISIS been doing that more recently than the Taliban?
In fairness, they are. The entire industry sans Oracle is against Oracle on this one.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-956/89487/20190...
We're almost there. In "perfect" capitalism, there would be a very hot market for employees willing to work the graveyard shift, and since there was clearly a need for those workers, they would be paid quite a lot.

In reality, those who work those shifts are often people who don't have much of a choice where to work, much less which hours they're assigned. Sometimes managers will be nice and keep you on a regular shift so you develop a sane sleep schedule -- not usually.

Just like working on holidays, I don't bemoan anyone who wants to eat fast food, or the workers who want to make a little more money. But let's not ignore that these workers' economic situations are different than ours and usually much more dire, so talking about what they "want" can't really be divorced from the systems that keep them in relative (and actual) poverty.
I will pass your comments along to Mr. Moore.
Check the new dell XPS 13 to be released today [1]:

> Screen resolution on the XPS 13 has jumped accordingly, now up to 1,920 x 1,200 on the FHD model, and 3,840 x 2,400 on the 4K model. Dell calls this FHD+ and 4K+ for the added aspect ratio, but it should be noted that touch is still an optional feature and isn’t standard.

[1] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/dell-xps-13-2020-eve...
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I have a similar Dell Pentium 3, still works, from 2002. 1600x1200 15" 4:3 screen. I still occasionally use the thing for nostalgia's sake.
Can someone clarify what exactly is cut here compared to EPYC 7742 other than PCIe lines? I don't quite see really get how AMD want to avoid competing with their own product.
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Products I wish existed: a cure for neurological disorders like ALS, MS, Parkinson's, huntington's disease, small and large fiber neuropathy. There's nothing. Absolutely nothing out there to help people survive these widespread diseases.
Wow. Who /are/ these people? What is their goal? Are there really people on earth with the exclusive motive to scare a two year old and give her nightmares? That is some next level evil.
From the original-original post: Most languages do a whole lot of other crap other than printing out “hello world”, even if that’s all you asked for.

This should be of great concern to all the people who write "hello, world" programs for a living, and no concern to anyone else.
I had a Beyond Meat burger recently and visually it was almost identical to a beef patty. The taste was a bit less intense but seemed to be in the right direction. I can't see anyone actually mistaking it for beef but it seemed like a reasonable facsimile thereof.

I also tried a Hungry Planet burger which was chewier and tasted stronger and was probably more beef-like overall. Again I don't think it'll deceive anyone but it was pretty good.

Haven't yet managed to get hold of an Impossible Burger but it's on the list.
Many large CG/VFX firms buy workstations that cost anywhere between 35K - 80K USD. See [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/yiningkarlli/status/1204564015113895936
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I think he's talking about large files there, which is an issue in GIT btw.

I would use it for storing and syncing libraries of large images for my photography, if it were feasible.
A full time staff of 20 would be enough to scan enough content to outpace what any child could ever watch during their entire adolescence.
Have you got a link to the thread?
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What's the easiest way to get started with SF dev? I'm part of a contracting team and having another arrow in our quiver would be pretty useful.
Yep. PE loot on solid business.
Think of it like this:

CPU’s do general computing. They’re super flexible but if you have a specific workload you might be able to use a different piece of silicon to get more performance.

GPU’s do more parallelized computing but they don’t do as many different operations. They’re really good at doing a small not super complex fast but massively parallelized (like updating an array of pixels on a screen, for example).

TPU’s are even more parallelized but the operations they do are even more specific and often simpler than the operations GPUs do.
As I understand it, the forces that keep matter together are strong enough to counteract any expansion.
I noticed something really interesting around the 2:09 mark in the video - the chimp taps a box, and goes on to the next one very quickly, but realizes that the initial tap didn’t register properly and goes back to fix it.

I definitely commit a “mistap” error like that at least once a week on my phone / iPad. I’m not sure I can spot and fix them that quickly!
There is a huge gamer market.
Every hardcore gamer wants to have the fastest cpu avaiable.

Those who can afford it, will buy it.

edit: yes, it is definitely overkill for most if not all avaiable games, but in a certain scene "overkill" is considered awesome
Too late to edit my original comment but after checking the poster above me I can see that they were actually educated on the link between rainfall and climate change just 2 days ago by someone much more qualified and with papers published. It looks like this poster is a troll attempting to spread misinformation.
Anybody know of any companies planning to ship these in a NUC-style form factor?
> We're not talking about the episode of Leave it to Beaver where Wally smokes a joint.

As a big Leave it to Beaver fan I find this hilarious. And would pay anything to watch this episode if it existed.
There has never been such a thing as "bias-free" journalism. We all have biases, and so do journalists and their editors.

If you're willing to pay for journalism, find a newspaper – any newspaper – and buy a subscription. I assume from your posts that you're in America, and politically right-of-centre. What about the Wall Street Journal? It broke the Theranos story and many others, and employs a raft of very good journalists doing important work.
When I was in my early 20's I once came home during a thunderstorm and walked into my house to discover no electricity. I then proceeded to do what I did every single day, which is walk into my bedroom and plug in my phone.

Only it didn't beep like it usually did to indicate it was charging. so I pulled the cord out of my phone and reinserted it. I did this multiple times. I even remember thinking to myself "you know, if the electricity wasn't out I could turn on the lights to see if I'm just not inserting it correctly". Then I reinserted it again.

And then the figurative light went on. I just sat the phone down, walked away, and laughed my ass off.

I was a recent grad with a double major in CS & Math, so by no means stupid. But I'm still a dumbass. We're all dumbasses.
So having a “currency” (its not really; is an asset) being controlled by an unaccountable “Tony cabal of developers” instead of a central bank is better how exactly?

I’ve never understood this argument.