skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have what I'm saying backwards. I'm not talking about a small dev team. My whole point is that when you have a large dev team, that you don't need that platform abstraction because you have the manpower to handle multiple platforms natively. Especially if you are a software company and not just a widget company that also has an app.

> It turns out being able to get additional employees that don't need extensive mobile experience and can just crank out features is a huge pressure release.

The idea that because you're using React Native you can throw developers with no mobile experience at problems seems naive to me.

I also don't believe feature velocity scales with the number of developers. This is the whole 9 women making a baby in a month thing. This especially true on a mobile app which is constrained by the interface and user expectations. You're not going to have hundreds of developers working on a far flung features away from everything else because the apps are small and tight even if complex. There are exceptions but most mobile apps are focused on a small critical path.

It seems to me that all these companies with hundreds of mobile developers aren't producing better results than those with dozens. In fact, it usually seems the opposite. There are exceptions but when was the last time a giant company made such extensive changes to their app that justified that number of developers?

A justified use of developers is native versions for each platform.
Bram Moolenaar has decided that Vimscript is due for some modernization
Fb seems like a company that’s past it’s peak. Their brand and public image is garbage and they’re just going to extract as much profits from their dwindling user base as they can on the way down.
Yes, but not in isolation.
Pandas 1.0
404 error.
> Hard links mostly work as you tell them to. You may need to set things up properly, but it's essentially the same thing being done.

That's bullshit. hard links are the same exact inode, with all that entails. reflinking is at the data block level. Totally different.
Apple changes their mind fairly often, so I wouldn't say never. And in general, predictions based on incentives are often good bets but they are less reliable than many people pretend.
I'll tell all those people using thin clients that they are doing it wrong
The real difference is that coffee and banknotes are property, whereas cryptocurrency is an entry in a distributed database. One can "steal" (or at least gain unauthorized access to) a private key, but one cannot "steal" bitcoins. There is no inherent right to have the rest of the Bitcoin network agree that these bitcoins belong to you. Especially not after the authorized owner of the coins (meaning anyone in possession of the private key) has announced to the network that the coins belong to someone else.
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It's non-GAAP profit, which is not very useful metrics. GAAP they lost over $800M last year.
Autism-Misregulated EIF4G Microexons Control Higher Order Cognitive Functions
Some real data on Comcast and Net neutrailty
Pidgin can be very hit-and-miss with which parts of the protocol it implements. It is also a multi protocol client so a lot of the functionality is presented in a protocol agnostic way, which may not be what you're looking for if you're using it for XMPP alone.

For a desktop XMPP client, check out Gajim. It's stable and implements all that a user would expect (server side history, omemo).
Ready for Meat Grown from Animal Cells? A Startup Plans a Pilot Facility
Asymptomatic infection: Doctors treat 10-year-old boy without symptoms
There was some talk about improving ZFS deduplication considerably by not trying to be perfect. That is, try to deduplicate against a subset of the data, not against all the data.

This allows the dedup table (which stores the hashes of existing data to find identical blocks) to be limited in size to whatever you want, and especially prevent it from eating all the RAM. The tradeoff is that the smaller it is, the deduplication hit rate drops.

Here's a talk by Matt Ahrens about it, which also includes some other tricks to improve dedup performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxFDBgxFS8

http://open-zfs.org/w/images/8/8d/ZFS_dedup.pdf
Carbon dating isn't considered to be accurate for objects older than 50,000 years. These objects weren't dated that way.
I was responding to the hypothetical example of betting it all on flipping a coin 12 times to get from X to Y.

i'm not sure what your point is. this is a just a large 35x bet. turning $500 into $1M is 2000x. what casino game can you play that would get you there?

again, outside of essentially winning at a slot machine I don't know a game where you can turn $500 to $1M.

the insight here is that options buying is asymmetric. max loss for essentially unlimited gain if you bet in the right direction. there isn't a casino table gain that has the same quality.

i'm also not suggesting this is not speculative or not akin to gambling, but the risk/reward for options buying is better than a casino. it's also not an "all or nothing" bet. You can sell for partial losses without losing everything if it goes in the wrong direction, whereas table games are generally "all or nothing".
Depends on the definition of highway speeds a bit. At 60mph I hit the rated range pretty much dead on (500km/310mi). At 75mph it’s probably between 350 and 400km.

Generally agree about the charging infrastructure. Personally I have fun trying to find where I can connect to the grid but I don’t think everyone would call that fun...

Round numbers: I think when there are ~2-3x the number of supercharger locations (not chargers but locations), it will basically be at parity with the convenience of gas. I believe range (500km @ 60mph) is already acceptable and if the number of locations is increased it will be even less of an issue. Just my $.02
> Thanks. I believe I can improve my diet with more veggies, fruits and grains. My diet has a lot of animal protein .

I believe that if you do that, your problems are going to get worse. Ketogenic diet (with animal protein) has been credited to cure lots of autoimmune diseases, diabetes and to lose useless weight.
Author here. Good you mention this. I could have chosen a more elegant citation, but data on the embodied energy of PV modules is generally outdated and confusing. The number I chose is not especially high for panels produced since the 2000s. For an extensive literature summary from 2011 see 2.3 http://www.seas.columbia.edu/clca/Task12_LCI_LCA_10_21_Final...

Also keep in mind that all the panels we tested are much smaller than the ones oin those studies. This means that things like the frame, wires, connections become more important for embodied energy.
/r/AskHistorians is an amazing resource.

SMEs engaged in oft-vigorous debate, accompanied by authoritarian moderation (to include sourcing requirements) generates some truly excellent content.
I completely disagree.

I've used psychedelics plenty of times as a form of escapism. I tend to stop worrying about reality when I'm 500 µg of LSD deep. I also use it frequently for fun, in fact I can't remember the last time I didn't use it for "fun".
30% of the world is using a Facebook product nearly everyday. What other things do that many people share in their daily routines outside of life's necessities?
I set my Pi4 up with wireguard+pihole recently. I think pihole does nothing 99.99% of the time, so I can’t speak to how performance is in worst case scenarios, but wireguard seems fine. I get about 25 Mbps up/down (speedtest.net with a single client, so assume it’s 25 Mbps aggregate. Not a lot for hefty file transfers but comfy enough for VNC to multiple hosts. The big win is in decreased latency. I don’t have good quantifications of this beyond speedtest.net run from my work. 5 ms with no VPN. 82 ms using my router’s OpenVPN. 24 ms using Pi4 wireguard. These were just single runs so the strong law of small numbers may apply. I know iperf is more scientific, but I wanted a quick, empirical full internet test. My home internet is 550 Mbps down / 36 Mbps up.

Full data (iPhone 11 client at work):

<VPN>: <down Mbps> / <up Mbps> / <RTT ms>

No VPN: 145 / 139 / 5

Router OpenVPN: 25 / 6 / 82

pi4 wireguard: 24 / 27 / 24
People want it both ways[1].

Well, sorry, that's not on offer. Your options are either Nietzsche or God, or ignoring the problem.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheism
2 years in filesystem time isn't so long.
Also got to know SML in this course. It changed a lot the way I code and think, even in Java.

What I would like is a language as simple as SML in the JVM. Kotlin was the closest thing I found with good adoption.
As a musician and software developer I'd disagree. Sure, manufacturers are getting on fine because they can do whatever they want, but it makes the setup for anyone who isn't the manufacturer much more bespoke and challenging, as others have said in thread.

Leaded gasoline was successful for decades too, but there comes a time to take things to the next level.
> dwindling user base

Even if Facebook is shrinking, I don't think WhatsApp and Instagram are, and who knows what other companies Facebook may be able to buy up rather than be overtaken by.
That drop on commission is only for app subscriptions that continue longer than a year.
Yeah, feels like the tip of the iceberg.
This is even more good news for AMD as well since it points to a clear path to 5nm in its chips well ahead of anything Intel has demonstrated.
Couldn't this be handled instead by allowing doctors to prescribe these substances like they do other medication? Why decriminalize non-prescription possession instead?
That's not open source. They make the source available but open source does not restrict what you can do with it other than sometimes requiring that you share the source for your binaries.
The base Model 3 costs $40k in the US, and even without any extra options at all, it’s a great car to drive IMO! (Although it IS a lot more expensive in foreign markets)
> can make functional satellites

By reducing their "function" until they're basically a battery with a radio repeater strapped onto it. Obviously it's a bit more complicated, but there's very little these satellites actually have to _do_.
Way to move the goalpost.
I doubt you can lay all the blame on prop 13. It passed because CA home prices went crazy in the 70s. My parents bought a home in 1973 for $34k and sold it for $95k in 1978 (the year prop 13 was enacted). A 3x increase in 5 years.
An interesting (and sort of related) anecdote:

Some decades ago (unfortunately, so long ago that I can't easily find any references to it - it was probably in the 1980s), there was a robbery of a large number of bank notes in my country. For a while after that, all cashiers at markets had a booklet with the serial numbers of the stolen bank notes, so they would be rejected and/or reported to the police. That was possible because the bank notes were newly issued (so they had blocks of consecutive serial numbers), and had never actually entered circulation (IIRC, they were stolen before arriving at the bank).

While the situation is not identical, there are some similarities: an innocent person (who did not take care of checking the serial number when receiving a bank note) could have their money rejected when trying to buy at a market (and would probably also be questioned by the police).

(I don't recall whether the one(s) who stole the bank notes was/were actually caught; are there other Brazilians here who remember about this case? I think it's not the 2005 robbery, which stole only notes which had already entered circulation.)
By far the majority of renters I know in CA, in SF and Santa Monica, have largely abandoned any hope of homeownership and live incredibly spendy lifestyles while they can afford to be in the area.

Eventually, they will wise up, move out of their expensive rentals and turn frugal - likely outside of these cities with a good possibility of leaving the state.

In their absence, new young folks in their high-earning high-spending phase will move in, and the cycle repeats itself.

None of this is bad for California. The state, in the desirable cities, is a meat grinder drawing in a constant supply fresh, gullible, overpaid talent, working not just to pay high rents but high everything, including state income tax, while saving very little. When they get exhausted, they leave, and make room for more fresh meat.
lol theta will not crush anyone who jokingly bought $420 and $690 options after last fall's earnings where the stock jumped to $320.
As part of my degoogling plan, I opted for Posteo. Upsides are that they are recommended by the FSF [0], and they run on an open source software stack [1], and were in the business for a good number of years.
Changing my old address wasn't as much of a pain as I thought it would be, I personally needed to update around 30 services.

After all this was done, I felt better, and still do after 2 years. Not sure of the other aftereffects regarding privacy and such. But I voted with my wallet, that's for sure.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems
[1] https://posteo.de/en/site/about_posteo
Solar in winter is not as bad as you might think. Up here in Scandinavia, the primary issue is the shortened days, which obviously cut our capacity a bit.

However, if you're using electric heating in your country, maybe we should start by fixing that first. Use something more efficient like ground heat exchange, and possibly remote heating for residential areas. Electric heating is silly.
What exactly is your issue with iMessage? Messages on iOS also automatically adjust to the participants' capabilities. Have you used iMessage recently? It degrades quite well. You can't backfill functionality that doesn't exist on SMS.
There is no bubble in technology

looks at TSLA $650
Something is off with your analysis. At any given time, the vast majority of the people in a given city aren't all using 100 Mbps 24/7/365.

For instance, my typical monthly mobile data consumption is around 4 GB, which is .0015 MB/s -- a far cry from 100!
Putting aside whether this is ok for a second: This should not be a surprise to anyone. Of course they are doing this. I would almost argue that it would be foolish of them not to collect this data. The lifetime expected value of the data is so much higher than the marginal cost of transferring and storing it.

I can't think how many times on the product side of services I've run that we've been grateful to have this kind of data. Sometimes it's for obvious reasons that we always knew, but often it's for suddenly crucial reasons that we never could have anticipated when we first started collecting the data.

Again, that doesn't mean it's OK and I strongly support GDPR-style data privacy legislation in the US. But in the meantime I guarantee you that just about every service you use is gathering data like this and a whole bunch more.
You got it!

For me neglecting food intake means:

If I don't eat enough I get grumpy. This lowers the quality of life of myself and my loved ones. Alternatively if I get hungry it can cause me to over-snack (justified by anti-grumps thoughts); then I get fat and lower my quality of life slightly slower.

So these notifications are perhaps the most important ones.
Great example, I guess I forgot that a few changes were made that otherwise did surprising things.

They also changed to (at least more) deterministic ordering of object keys and I wonder how much code worked
In the distant future after humanity crumbles there will be only one website left, available for 4 hours a day, and the content won't render correctly because they didn't self host their scripts or css.
Unidentified parties mine blocks all the time, so it's doubtful that blacklists sent to the well known pools would be effective. Are they just supposed to orphan mined blocks that contain blacklisted inputs or outputs? How can anyone reasonably be expected to comply with a demand to fork Bitcoin?

Surely any pool that adopted such a policy would lose most of their members pretty quick. Same for any pool that leaves money on the table by deliberately excluding valid, profitable transactions.
Yes, that's the most basic feature of interest rates/discount rates. In fact it's kind of the definition.
In late 1980s Melbourne, Australia my dad and his best friend were accountants and bought their houses for ~$40,000AUD, ~3 times their annual income. According to the best friend, this was considered a lot to pay for a home.

In 2020, those houses are around ~$1.8-2M, so ~22.5-25 times the annual income of someone that has their job today. In Melbourne and Sydney generally, housing is 10 and ~13x annual income. Above 6-8 is already considered _extremely unaffordable_. Sydney is 2nd only to Hong Kong in housing un-affordability.

It's a profound change across a generation. Among my college-educated friends, the only one's thinking of buying property are either high income (doctors, investment bankers) or buying in markedly worse (thus cheaper) areas than they lived in as children.
On the intraday scale less the transaction costs and dividend payouts. Trades are trades, if one party buys the other party sells and vice versa; there's always two sides.
The other downside is that even if mobile websites encouraged people to use the “Add to Home Screen” ability to the point it became somewhat popular, Apple and Google could just remove the ability all together in an OS release for “reasons” leaving users SOL.
LCAs are sort of the epitome of "looks a lot easier than it is," combined with no obvious red flags for getting something drastically wrong. Mistakes like these are everywhere. And I'm afraid the average study quality is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

At least we're not making many safety critical design decisions based off of them, yet.
I could be mistaken, but I believe these sorts of funding proposals happen routinely in House committees and very rarely get approved.
A judge is capable of saying the law is improper, you're not guilty, but a judge isn't capable of criminalizing conduct which the law doesn't make criminal, no matter how obvious it is that they did something wrong.

For example, a drug dealer who walked because the state law misspelled the drug. A one character error but it was a perfectly valid chemical name, just not the one they intended to make illegal.
This allows "distribution in personal possession amounts without profit".

Legalization would imply that some entity or entities were legally allowed to sell at commercial scale to the general public at a profit.
Solar Roof Deployments have started a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRPy8UZv9V0
So, yup, we need at least old common high school term paper writing standards, e.g., support every claim with good references to high quality, credible, primary sources. And, of course, as you mention, give the darned dates.

Ah, maybe a lot of media content would be seen right away of no interest if those standards had been followed. Or, about news writing, in some old movies,

"If it's not good, I'll make it good."

and

"A good reporter doesn't get great stories. A good reporter makes them great."

Now from that and not being born recently, I have learned to avoid nearly all news media.
If person x always wants to/is ready to hang out with person y, person y may soon wonder why person x doesn’t have better things to do. They could hang out with other people, cultivate hobbies, do work, etc. The continual choosing of hanging out with person y almost suggests that person x is dull.

People don’t think this way about dogs (maybe they do about cats).

The human-dog relationship is also well-defined. Play, feed, house, take for walks. Your dog is not suddenly going to ask for a romantic relationship or con you into loaning them money. Closeness is just less risky.
Can you share what has led you to believe that you're the average rather than just an outlier?
But the max you could extend them to was much less. So long as you were doing it for the long term blowing it and replacing it was your better approach.
It could also be a probe, to test their defenses
Right now Cloudflare is the main provider, but it's an open standard. Anyone would be able to provide the service.

Chrome for example will only use it against your ISPs DNS servers, otherwise it will use Google's servers. So that would at least help, but if the big ISPs start supporting it, then Chrome would use that.
Slightly off topic but I've never had success with self hosted prosody and the "conversations" app being able to share photos/memes as one would in WhatsApp or telegram. This is the one thing keeping me from being able to sell my non-tech friends on it, has anyone had any luck in this regard?
Didn’t TSLA beat earnings?
Don’t forget about interest only ARM mortgages and other factors making higher ratios possible (at least in the short term).
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Glad you were able to find something like that via Hacker Newsletter... always great to hear things like that. :)
Decades of Hollywood shows has conflated the two classes as part of the same party animal regimen. Timothy Leary didn't help either. All my (cursory) research suggests either there are parallel worlds that makes no sense to logical people in this one or much more likely, they can sometimes induce states of temporary schizophrenia. That's about the only cause for concern I think. If I voted in favor of legalization and then next year we had a lot of new Timothy Leary's walking around spewing nonsense, ruining the lives of everyone in their family because they're taking them every day or week, I'd be extremely regretful of voting in favor of it. What you see now in the community though is a reverence and fear and respect that they didn't have in the 70's, so that's a good sign.
Expenses are rising faster than revenue, and so margins are falling.

Or people were expecting a huge beat, and only got a moderate beat. That's certainly happened before with facebook.
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> Such an accusation would need to untangle the coordination behavior of the money wormhole to make its case, and those inner workings could be made very convoluted indeed, hidden deep inside complementary pseudorandom behavior.

In such a case, it may be (fscking) helpful for the courts of law to go after the people who _didn't clearly break_ the law in the first place. That way, the shady Machiavellians get caught first and the chumps can be mopped up afterwards. Deep as anythink.
It's literally never not amazing to have crypto fans claim not being a crypto fan is a conflict of interest, BUT owning the crypto they're promoting isn't a COI.
I almost don't want to buy property as a protest to the horrible policies we have regarding basic necessities. Why should property owners be entitled to a major portion of my productivity/success? I'll rent the cheapest apartment I can find until the next housing crash or we have some sensible policy put through that negates the investment aspect of housing.
Oh, I only saw this reply now! The link is dead, any chance you can upload it again? Thanks in advance
User growth is up, even on Facebook alone. If what you say is true you might expect weekly users to be up-or-flat while daily is declining, as people are locked in to the platform but less engaged with it. But daily users are also up.
Their costs are mostly fixed and bandwidth is limited by the number of satellites overhead so will be as high in Mali as New York. If they want to maximize their profits they'll price their bandwidth so that they're able to supply most of the resulting demand in both places.