skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you throw zaibatsu/chaebols in with criminals...? They are just business conglomerates, their only difference from American-style corporations is that the ownership is organised around families a bit more explicitly on average - something that happens in the States as well, just with less success. The various governments they operate under have the same degree of visibility into them as in any other business. If they didn’t, you wouldn’t know they are zaibatsu in the first place. Are you confusing them with the actual Yakuza...? Why would you class the likes of Samsung as some sort of criminal enterprise outside the law?
Oh, there's a horrifying contrapositive to that statement.

See, what that statement is really trying to do is assert uniqueness of consciousness within a many-worlds quantum interpretation.

Let's set up your standard quantum deathtrap: radioactive decay triggers the release of a deadly poison. And let's make it a really nasty poison, that is incurable but is going to inflict a good solid day or two of suffering as your organs fully liquify, so we have a nice, meaty, juicy thought experiment.

So many worlds, bam, there are now two (sets of) worlds, one where the particle decayed in the specified time period and your organs are now slowly liquifying and one where you are let out of the death trap, footloose and fancy free, to live a long and happy life, or at least, longer than the you slowly stewing in their own juices.

So what happens to your consciousness?

Well, in a boring materialistic interpretation of the world and consciousness, "you" forked at the same time as the worlds divided, being an aggregate property of the atoms involved, and one of you is blissfully unaware that the other is in horrible agony, perhaps philosophically reassured that there is a version of them not suffering in another quantum universe.

Under the proposition "Consciousness experiences the reality in which it lives the longest.", the you that is slowly liquifying doesn't live the longest, so it isn't conscious. It's a p-zombie, it acts like a conscious person without the underlying "experiencing" of it.

Now, let's carry that on through some more steps.

TV shows and movies like to make it seem like the many-worlds of quantum mechanics are caused by human decisions and the ups and downs of human life. The universe where you chose to go left instead of right, the universe where Hitler's painting career took off, etc etc. But they're caused by quantum events, and there are an uncountably large number of quantum events happening every microsecond as different particles of thorium in the Earth's radioactive core "choose" to decay, let alone what's happening in Betelgeuse.

"Many" in "many-worlds" is an unbelievably large number, and you are only going to live the "longest" in one of them, which means you are a p-zombie in every other one, because your consciousness only experiences the one in which you live the longest.

Now, what are the chances anyone else lives the longest in the same quantum world as you?

Zero. Less than zero. Zero followed by so many zeros it's meaningless.

Under this assumption, everyone you have ever known, everyone you have ever talked to -- me, even -- everyone you have ever loved was a p-zombie the entire time you knew them. Your parents? P-zombies. Your mee-maw? P-zombie. Your children? P-zombies.

Which is ultimately a good thing, I suppose, because then you don't have to feel bad if they die before you, because they're just p-zombies, and you don't have to feel bad about all those times they saw you die in other quantum worlds, because it was mostly just p-zombies watching other p-zombies die.
22 bits sounds completely reasonable to me. From the word giant I was afraid they were going to be 64 bits.
sounds like a good way to lose more money :D
The use of ligatures seems counter-productive to me. In the code, I do not want to see any editor shenanigans apart from syntax highlighting.
I still own a MB with OM616 [1] engine. It does not need an alternator when it runs. Even to turn fuel supply on/off it uses mechanical valve which is on the dashboard. It turns 40 this year but it starts in a split second even in cold winter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_OM616_engine
Apple didn't fail to add GC. They successfully added it and then took it out again. Why? Because ARC gets you 99% of the way there while consuming less CPU and being strictly deterministic -- and the biggest Objective-C platform in the world has to run without a hitch or glitch on tiny, battery-powered devices.

Adding GC to the Android platform was a stupid move. The Android UI is still janky compared to iOS, and GC is not the only reason why, but it's a significant reason. Android devices also eat battery like it's going out of style compared to iPhones and iPads. Again, GC is not the only reason for this but it factors in.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1971/demo/p60-78...

Gives the median salary in 1970 as $9,870 accounting for inflation the median salary should be $67,662.84 but currently its $56,516. So median wages have not tracked inflation since 1970.

But thats only half the battle the other side of the problem is runaway inflation.

https://www.census.gov/const/uspriceann.pdf
https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/uspricemon.pdf

In 1970 the median for a house is $23,400 accounting for inflation that should be $160,416.45 today, but the median price is $300,000. So the inflation reported by banks is not real.

It's important to separate value from $$$ as inflation generates $$$ but does not generate value.

A house is a good metric for real inflation, as it is a good store of value, every one needs a house or they will die from exposure so every one values a house, once the house is built the value does not increase.

In other words a house built in 1970 has the same value today as it did in 1970, but the price has increased a lot more than the reported inflation or the inflation of wages. Like I said this is fairly simple maths but it adds up for most other stores of value like gold.
Do you have a source for this "_ridiculous_ amount of banking fraud"? I have seen stats around credit cards that show higher fraud now compared to Europe, but that's because we were late to the chipped credit card game. To be fair, until France switched to chipped credit cards, they had higher levels of fraud. Source: https://youtu.be/2IksSNiEo2g
That is not true. There are certain APIs only applicable to commercial users, but the same Graph API calls (for example against OneDrive or Excel) can be used across both.
Doctors' wages aren't the biggest cause of higher spending. Admin costs and pharmaceutical spending are the largest (unnecessary) cost centers.
Making a DIY computer controlled loom (2019)
> My most recent update of IntelliJ turned this font on by default and I had to spend an hour trying to figure out what the font used to be.

For anyone who wants that info: it's Menlo on on my rather old Mac OS IntelliJ installation. Pretty sure that's the default, since if I'd made any changes I'd have switched it to Courier.
My site https://Ahhlife.com is one of them
You can tell you are in pretty bad shape when China demonstrates it is more progressive than you are.
For the Big Mac, I'm guessing it went

Big McDonald -> Big Mc -> Big Mac
Think outside the computer space: the Macintosh blade has been my blade of choice for laryngoscopy since the first day of my anesthesiology residency in 1977.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laryngoscopy#Laryngoscope_blad...
Ask HN: Gartner and Forrester alternatives in use
In my day-to-day work across major enterprise software majors (oo), I see extremely heavy affinity to Gartner & Forrester (G&F).

They:
* follow G&F cues for building annual strategy
* spend serious amount of effort in managing "waves" & "quadrants"
* use G&F reports/"waves"/"quadrants" as indicator of their success
* use G&F as credibility enhancer (look Gartner improved us from laggard to leader!)

I tend to marvel at the dilbert-y idiocy of this, and am awestruck at G&F business model.
But, the question I have is this.

How are "non enterprise software" technology businesses handling this?
What external entities/metrics they use to assess and build their strategies and north stars?

(oo) enterprise software majors like IBM, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce..
"But how is it their fault that app developers don’t shun them for Android-only, or Windows (do they still make a phone OS?)"

Antitrust enforcement isn't really about "fault". It's not there to punish, it is there to force markets to be more competitive.

Saying that people can develop for Android, so this isn't monopsony/monopoly is sort of like saying Standard Oil wasn't a monopoly because people still could use coal and steam power rather than Standard Oil's petroleum.

While many things about iPhone and Android phones are similar, there are also a huge amount of differences that put huge barriers to going from one to the other.

Network monopolies are complex things, and they aren't about people being able to charge "whatever they like." They are about significantly reduced competition and significant barriers to competitors. Not everything has to be so black and white.

"Apple is like Tesla."

Not really, particularly not in the respects that this article is about. For a consumer, going from a Tesla to another EV is not a big deal. Also, EV's are in their infancy, and antitrust enforcement tends to cut some slack when that is true. Tesla could (very reasonably) end up being forced to separate their car business from their charging network when they get big enough.

"They aren’t Facebook. Nobody has to buy an iPhone to keep in touch with all their friends who have iPhones."

This isn't what the article is about. This is about the developer side of things, not the consumer side. Developers spend huge amounts of resources writing code that runs on only Apple devices. A very large number of users have iOS devices, not Android devices, and they only way to make apps for them is via the Apple store. Yes you can choose to develop for Android, but aside from the cost of switching, you are now selling to a completely different set of people.

For another analogy, imagine you're a clothing manufacturer, but if you want to sell clothing to women, you have to sell it through a single retail store chain. Saying "you can always make clothing for men" isn't particularly helpful.
There are tokens that support this. OnlyKey has a secure backup feature where you can have an encrypted backup file. If you lose your physical key you would just load the backup file onto a new key and all of your accounts are ready.

https://onlykey.io/

https://docs.crp.to/usersguide.html#secure-encrypted-backup-...

Allowing backups is as you mentioned a tradeoff of security vs usability. The greatest risk to your accounts is not always account compromise, it can be losing access to your own accounts. With OnlyKey you can choose to enable this feature or not. Backup requires user physical presence and restore requires the backup file and correct key/passphrase.
Sceptre has dumb 4k TVs.

You can also find other brands on Amazon.

https://www.walmart.com/browse/electronics/sceptre-tvs/3944_...
I picked "Monospaced" - I couldn't find any clear documentation of what it was, and that looked OK.
The list a bit outdated. Will upload correct one soon.
Google now lets iPhones act as FIDO hardware keys
I was in a similar situation and ended up with a 2011 Mazda3 hatchback. The plan is to limp this sucker along until hopefully our public transit infrastructure improves enough that I don't have to drive ever again.
handful of people have POC now https://twitter.com/layle_ctf/status/1217390040441147393
Thanks for sharing. Congratulations!
Financing options for e-commerce brands and how to use their capital
Thank you for this! Could not find it in a search anywhere.
Catalytic converters reduce local pollution significantly. Smog reduction in major cities is in part due to their near-universality.
ESP32-S2 Datasheet [pdf]
It's not quite true that Walmart purchases products. Walmart's arrangements keep a lot of the risk on the supplier. They charge for warehousing and distribution, and they don't pay for what doesn't get sold.

It is, in a lot of ways, like the market model you suggest. Not precisely; it is its own thing (and is popular precisely because it's so innovative in its business model, which lowers prices for its customers). So analogies with Walmart are always going to be problematic, but it's worth noting that their model is very different from the simple retail-reseller model.

https://spendmatters.com/2015/09/16/what-the-new-wal-mart-st...
Might I suggest being the change you wish to see in the world? If you would like to see more positive stories and comments on Google you should go ahead and post some.
How do you work with text files on a mobile device? What do you use to synchronize the files?
And we're left to speculate on the repeatability of doing something like this and the underlying reasons that it worked.

Personally, I think it's an interesting idea for small developers because it's free publicity. Many people only pirate games, many never pirate games, and both talk to each other about games they like. Making a game available to pirstes before it's popular enough for someone else to do that means they get more eyes on the game that probably wouldn't buy the game anyway, but will recommend it to people that may buy the game if they hear about it.

This probably wouldn't work very well for popular game studios because they already have the marketing done, but it may work for smaller studios. I may consider this if I ever get around to finishing a game, largely because the potential negative is very small (this is a hobby, not my living) and the potential upside is large. And you can always add more content to the game that isn't in the torrent if it gets popular enough to try to capture the business of those on the fence.
The 80's tractor market is heating up because farmers are tired of the problems of modern technology and how companies are using it [1].

I wonder if anyone will jump at the market for cars that don't track you. I wonder who would fund that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21971545
>While this is certainly true, computers and especially mobile ones need to allow consumers to run whatever software they want period.

GOOD LORD NO.

Apple's curation of the iOS environment is a FEATURE for me, not a bug. It leads to drastically increased stability and security, and means I don't have to sysadmin my telephone.

I'll fight whoever suggests this is a good model for the desktop, but on the phone it's EXACTLY what I want.

>While consumers with money have the choice to leave iPhone and go with Android

Uh, no. Android phones are generally CHEAPER, so why does it take "money" to leave iOS?
Linear versus Logarithmic Thinking about Numbers
That's pretty cool! Do you have a link to any sort of pictures, etc?
They should mix ok there are no fossil sources messing up the market in your 80/20 scenario:

If people are willing to pay enough for the 20% of time that nuclear stays in business. If not, we make do with just renewables.

The practical issue how how the nuclear plant sells electricity can be handled either with contracts (they could sell electricity to resellers in "one month of continuous production" types of units) or by running them in load-following mode, french/german style, whichever is more profitable.

In practice it seems fairly likely that there are many electricity applications where is pretty inelastic up to at least 10x current cost, so there will be demand for some amount nuclear power.
Yet it doesn't answer the question "May I resell JetBrains Mono?"

I guess it's more clear from the Apache 2.0 summary: "JetBrains Mono typeface is available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be used free of charge, for both commercial and non-commercial purposes."
And my ISP is still handing me only /64's that keep changing ever so often...

Anyone know of a good firewall that handles this? Got pfSense currently but it really doesn't handle this well (especially when prefix changes).
Probably along the lines of "This position is for a front end developer with 5 years of React, but my resume clearly indicates that I do .NET backend work. What made you think I was a good fit?"
But when you add a Powerwall and Solar Roof, the numbers swing the other way over time.

Besides, I'm sure the maintenance on a Camry costs much more than the maintenance on a Tesla.
I don't think that's true.

You can get a new car for $15k in the US. "completely rebuilding" a used car of any quality, by any definition, is likely to surpass 15k in labor alone, unless you're doing the work entirely by yourself, at which point it's likely to cost 15k in tools.
Property taxes, car registration, school lunch. Those are the most common for me. The first two can be paid with a card, but they tack on a fee.
Researchers find inverse correlation between advertising and life satisfaction
Please don't share seekingalpha articles. The site is known for poor-quality articles and highly biased authors.
They do advise using namespaces, and one of their main use cases is indeed docker container migration.
Specifically job requirements are incorrect. Which big companies have figured out and are hiring for cheap in China and India.
This. Makes it hard for me to use it for VIM as my terminal needs Powerline.

It's otherwise a very nice font.
I won at auction and helped renovate a 90-year-old former sorority house. We started with an estimate of $300k and ended up at over a million dollars.

Every time I hear "we should estimate software like we estimate construction", I tell this story.
There are a couple of interesting looking Freemason facilities in the Washington, DC, area. I keep meaning to take the tours. My great-grandfather was a 33rd degree Mason. He was the whole classic stereotype: a civil engineer of Scottish descent!
A Mathematician's Apology
Good Luck team Glia! Keep fighting the good fight. Most people look at insurance, hospitals, pharmaceuticals as too profit hungry. Medical devices are equally to blame. All the big OEMs have doctors (sales person) selling to doctors in the surgery room so that their products, which haven't been materially updated in 60 years can be sold at a 1000% margin. Its another industry where the price should, in theory, be getting lower, but here we are. Good Luck Guys!
I feel like professionals should have completed this job. The picture of the bathroom is really disheartening. All the pipes are industrial looking and the "taps" are ball valves. The sink is a bucket and the tub is a cattle/agricultural wash basin.

I suspect the local historical preservation society has limits on the exterior of old buildings but can't do anything about the interior work.
> For fuel prices, I'm using today’s nationwide average gasoline price of $2.59 per gallon and $0.28 per kWh that Tesla charges at its Supercharger stations.

OK, but you could use a more accurate number, the price people pay at their homes (Most rarely supercharge). A quick google shows thats 12c per hour in the US (I pay 8 cents.)

Starting with "incorrect" (biased) assumptions will get you to the wrong place
I misread 'a's as 'o's in the example provided. Probably result of all three points combined...
Friend had a modern 20,000 sqft home in Hillsborough CA; monthly utilities are about $1500.
Can I have only the ligatures that balance whitespace and skip the symbol merging?
I feel like we're around a "golden age" of HN and dread the day when it all starts going downhill.
I was thinking Jumbo Frames.

"1500 bytes of payload"
For "Africans"? Really?

Everyone is aware of Watson's contributions (though there is of course ample evidence that he stole a lot of the work from Rosalind Franklin and gave her no credit for it, then said things like "of course Franklin couldn't envision the structure of DNA because jewish women can't see in 3D - he said this in front of a preeminent female jewish structural biologist too). The discredit isn't against his scientific achievements, it's against his racist-ass opinions. That's why people don't invite him to talks much anymore, because he just goes and says made up racist shit.
What does the difference between "secret organization" vs "organization of secrets" mean?
I've never understood the obsession and bikeshedding over fonts. I can appreciate that there are people who spend a huge amount of time agonizing over the details and tradeoffs making these things, but... Arial, Times New Roman and Consolas are more than good enough for my purposes.
Interview with Producer and Marketing Executive Mr Foster
Texting plans got huge allowances early on in the UK. I don't remember ever seeing unlimited data plans. However, the thing that was really expensive was "multimedia" messages (MMS), and occasionally you'd generate one of these by mistake by including an emoji in an SMS then suddenly be charged a whole pound for it.

International texting is expensive though, while it's free in Whatsapp. Which is why it took off among various diasporas.
Better yet, a WeWork space.
I've written about this in the past, but we do really need at least one user-accessible, general computing environment that protects against these kinds of privacy attacks. It doesn't need to be the web, but I don't know of a better, currently-usable platform.

I often hear proposals that the web should just be for static documents, and I'm fine with that, but very rarely are those proposals followed up with alternative ways for ordinary people to run untrusted code. The assumption seems to be that if the web didn't exist, users would instead be responsibly vetting every binary on their computer, rather than downloading them en-mass from dozens of sources. And just looking at the smartphone app market, I don't think that assumption is true.

Again, not to say that a better alternative platform couldn't exist, but who's working on it? The native desktop platforms I see almost all do a worse job than the web at protecting against fingerprinting. It's almost universally better for privacy to use Facebook in a browser instead of downloading their native phone app.
Can you refute the math?
IANAL - I am pretty certain you can do most of those things with all fonts regardless of license. Copyrights on fonts is almost non-existent. The only thing copyrightable is the actual "code" used in the font. (maybe delivering their files on a website is an issue?)

This is based on research I did years ago when dealing with a copyright legal case where I worked. The summation is that you can't copyright the alphabet, so fonts aren't copyrightable.

The only one I completely disagree with is the last one though. Requiring attribution for something not copyrightable is kinda silly.
I'm not sure who's right but these guys say the Tesla is cheaper to own overall: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/27/tesla-model-3-vs-toyota...
EdDSA can have something close. Long story short, an EdDSA signature has two parts, often called "R" and "s". Verification works by producing a number using the public key and "s", then checking that this number is the same as "R". There are basically 3 steps:

1. h_ram <- HASH(R || public_key || message)
2. R_check <- obscure_computation(public_key, s, h_ram)
3. if R_check == R, accept, else reject

Steps 1 and 3 are straightforward (the hash and the constant time comparison are almost always implemented in dedicated routines, tested separately). Step 2 is the most dangerous (that's where the elliptic curve magic happens).

EdDSA Implementations would be easier to check against one another if they all exposed step 2 as part of the public API. Bonus points if step 2 can handle invalid inputs (low order point, point on the twist...) in a standard manner. I haven't seen such a thing though, probably because end users never need a separate step 2.

Still, I can already envision the benefits. I'll probably use it myself.
Frequent mutations that converge on the NFKBIZ pathway in ulcerative colitis
Ad Mediation Tips for App Developers: How to Generate More Ad Revenue