skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does search survive on its own?
> I have a SAAS that uses video chat for medical professionals and the #1 creator of support tickets for video problems are those with Lenovo. In fact, when someone has an audio of video problem, “Is this a Lenovo” is among the first questions we ask. The people who have the fewest technical issues? Mac users.

That says nothing without knowing what percentage of people were using each brand.

Also, Lenovo's consumer hardware is of a much lower quality than Lenovo Thinkpads, which still maintain the standards of IBM.

> A single anecdote, of course, but advice to switch to Linux is naïve. Most people aren’t software developers.

I have switched all of my non-technical family members from Windows to Ubuntu over 5 years ago, and haven't received a single complaint from them yet. A single anecdote, of course.

> Many people use their computers for things like graphic design or media editing.

That's a minority of computer users. Most people use computers for web browsing, media consumption, and editing of Office documents.

> How do you run Final Cut or Logic on Lenovo with Linux? Photoshop?

Bitwig Studio[1] runs on all platforms and is in many ways superior to Logic Pro.

Adobe Photoshop can be installed on Linux[2], but for professional graphical and video editing I would still choose MacOS.

In other words, the only market where iMacs and Macbooks are clearly above competition is creative industry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwig_Studio

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7ql4kl/the_screensho...
The slides are very bad quality work, the guy clearly never worked in the automotive world.
Example: the automotive safety norms is called ASIL (iso26262), and it is perfectly ok to have a single ADC chip sampling the accelerator pedal input. SIL safety levels requires much more rendundancy than ASIL which is aimed at enabling carmaker to build affordable yet safe systems.

Another is the race conditions. Unless toyota/denso is very stupid, I really doubt than more than one thread is running on the CPU, because automotive OSEK typically run in locked step mode, meaning everything is run in one sequential thread, even if there are several cpu core.

Thirdly, global variables, as there is just one thread, are a perfectly ok thing to use, provided you add a special thing in the OS which guarantees that all inputs are frozen when a block of functions are called.

It is a very orientated slideshow with unproven claims, he discredit himself.
In my nearby family I think it is 50-50% if somebody has a compact car vs something large.

I remember a childless couple that went to a car dealer and got talked into a Chrysler Pacifica (monster minivan) at the steal price of $22,000.

I rode in it and it was the worst hunk of junk, the only car I've gotten seasick in. That car contributed to the implosion of their marriage.

American car makers have a huge incentive to sell 'trucks' because of this old protectionist law:

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

They make a bigger profit on 'trucks', so they can pay you discounts out of the premium they get.
Or if you bought a MacBook and they wiped all of the software you bought from Apple on it and sell the hardware as is?

That’s what happens, no?

The problem here is the lack of disclosure that the car didn’t have FSD. If Tesla buys a car they can resell it with whatever features they’d like.
I haven't even heard about the dustup, and one of the reasons that I pick the Laser is that the world of Laser sailing is so large that the Olympics are a tiny, tiny fraction of it. There are very few Olympic classes for which that is the case.

Much of the attraction of the class is the lack of innovation. Innovation in racing sailboats tends to sacrifice other qualities like seakindliness, survivability, and versatility. Look at the Americas Cup boats for extreme examples. They're amazingly fast, but useless for anything but that one task. Having a boat that has persisted as a first choice for Olympic racing and taking your kids out for daysail means that it is happens to have been an incredibly good design, and allowing innovation in the class is more likely to end up with reducing that versatility, rather the way the American Kennel Club's focus on conformation has destroyed dog breeds.
Really? I mean, either a few drug dealers slip through the cracks, you fill the nice fun stadium with creepy surveillance cameras to cover your own ass, or the stadium simply doesn't exist. I'm all for options (a) and (c), but option (b) is the worst.
The subtle art of giving great code reviews
LinkedIn CEO Steps Down to Focus on Increasing Network Diversity
Precisely. "Company could avoid regulation by cutting off its revenue stream, ceasing to be relevant."

It's an option but not one I expect them to go with.
Agreed, it's thrown around way too frequently.
This falls down a bit in the GPs example though, doesn't it? Those in the stadium committing the "crimes" of roulette, drugs, or the rally would say that whatever they may be doing is "breaking a law nobody cares about."
Yep. still using my Galaxy S3 here. Battery still lasts through the day.
Good luck finding any software engineers who are proficient in Ada, much less a variant of it.

I mean, they're out there: according to the SPARK Wikipedia page, it's been used in things like some Rolls-Royce jet engines, some military planes, some air traffic control applications, a cubesat project, etc. But there's orders of magnitude more engineers out there proficient in C and/or C++, plus even if you're willing to train, it's not that easy to find engineers willing to move into something that doesn't have broad industry support and might therefore limit their future career moves.

C and C++ are already both used for safety-critical systems. MISRA C is the standard in automotive, and there's civilian (DO-178C) and military standards for C++.
> Water Fasting instead of caloric restriction...

Water fasting, by definition, is a type of caloric restriction.
I always thought a lot of the biggest hacks were done by insiders, or with insider information. I know there's a lot you can hunt for out there. But being part of the team that built something of interest, knowing what is exploitable, could be a big temptation.
Panpsychism to the rescue! :p

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
https://tuple.app is supposed to be the best for this. It's literally build for remote pair programming.
Though in this specific case, my sense has been that your complainers are often your most dedicated and invested users of a version of the language that was officially retired 38 days ago.

Python is just bizarrely political. I suspect that it's now cursed for all time to have every future PEP become a battle in a proxy war over PEP 3000.
> Are you a poser if you wear Northface or Patagonia gear in the city

Yes?
The dust up is actually about one of the manufacturers continually refusing to play the game nicely and abusing the de-facto monopoly they're granted in the regions they supply by the class governing body and generally trying to push everyone around.

It all came to a head because someone made a complaint to the EU that the way that Olympic sailing equipment is supplied is anti-competitive. World Sailing chooses equipment for some of the events which has a single or limited number of suppliers because the rules for that class require trademarks owned by those suppliers to appear on the equipment (true for the Laser, RS-X Windsurfer, Nacra 17).

All Olympic classes are having to change their model to allow anyone to become a builder/supplier of that equipment. The Laser builder who holds the trademark in the EU, Americas and most of Asia didn't play ball so the class rules were changed to remove the requirement for the trademark that they hold to appear on the boats and sails. At the same time they were in breach of a contract that they have with the class association to do with factory inspections and other governance matters relating to the supply of equipment and they have now been kicked out.

Not exactly the free and easy relaxing image that you might associate with sailing!

Interesting fact: Although lasers all look like they're all the same, the manufacturing tolerances are such that they're definitely not when it comes to the top level of competition, and the top sailors have to expend large amounts of effort to avoid duff boats and other equipment.

Source: I'm someone who sails a Laser competitively and has skin in this game.
Those are the parts where you put a senior in charge. Hell I can't even do that in React, and have in the past literally hired a contractor to set that up for me.
They will sell cars older. We are looking at some as old as 2010 for our son now.
Is there a "very bottom"? I expect not. (But, I don't know.)
I agree. Recipes and food are about culture which obviously varies. What it would be good for is seeing a general look at what a recipe is. How do I make this sauce? What are the basic ingredients for chocolate cake? It probably won't ever capture the rich detail of using one technique/ingredient from a particular part of the world, but it's a starting point which someone can then look further into.
We've been using Slack, GSuite for years, but I've never used Zoom. Is that worth it over just using video calls inside Slack?
That sounds a lot more like yuppies than hipsters
These are not about abstractions but compile time optimizations. These are also not implemented in the Rust compiler but LLVM. So any any language frontend in front of LLVM would yield the same optimizations. According to Wikipedia the list is:

> [...] variety of front ends: languages with compilers that use LLVM include ActionScript, Ada, C#, Common Lisp, Crystal, CUDA, D, Delphi, Dylan, Fortran, Graphical G Programming Language,Halide, Haskell, Java bytecode, Julia, Kotlin, Lua, Objective-C, OpenGL Shading Language, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, Xojo, and Zig.

Sometimes I think mention of Rust in the title just gets upvotes without even reading the article, here.
Tannhäuser is also a opera by Richard Wagner (which refers to some older folk tale): This is probably what Philip K. Dick inspired to use that name.
Corporate headhunters are more powerful than ever
You can replace all of those with a single Avg bar.
Please don't have your friends upvote or post booster comments in the thread. Especially not the latter. It means we can't salvage the thread even if we want to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think there's a bit of confusion here in the way the author frames these 100 people. At this level they are not fans. They're not supporting you out of some sort of emotional attachment. They are giving you $1000 a year because they believe that the service or product you provide is worth that much. They're customers and that's all.

The "whale" archetype is just a modern version of what has always existed with MLM and self-help gurus where they pray on rich and emotionally vulnerable people. It's an absolutely tiny group of people that will never translate to a widespread economy.

Conflating the 1000 true fans concept with this is a mistake in my opinion.
We've been running FROM python:3.7 in production for months. Works just fine. ;)
Amadeus is a movie that really resonated for the reasons you mention. However, another movie that really resonated, and offers a counterpoint to you’re-either-born-with-it-or-not fatalism is Gattaca.

(Of course, one could argue that Amadeus is a “true story”, whereas Gattaca is science fiction.)
Google's doubling down on Cloud precisely because they want an additional revenue stream as big as ads; they know their income model is extremely monocultural and any number of things (either regulation or a titanic shift in the ad market, such as mass-adoption of ad-blockers) could hamstring the growth models they're accustom to.

I wouldn't predict they'll shutdown cloud until and unless they're convinced it won't blow up like they hope for them.
You could add an ordered dict by a different name and also have dict be the more efficient ordered version so that people get the efficiency gain for free but don't have to worry and forward compatibility.
From what I gather, Tesla did have possession of the car when they removed the feature.

The Monroney sticker shows the original sales price and options of the car, right? The sticker is not a certification that all those features are still present on the vehicle.

What’s missing from this story is if there was a sales receipt which listed FSD between Tesla and the used car dealer.
I'm going to ignore your crazy theory that California might be subject to biblical catastrophe.

> You probably believe in curtailing certain personal freedoms for other reasons and you are morally justified to do so. Again, nothing personal.

The key difference is that I don't want to limit personal freedoms for a specific class of people. That's when it does get personal.
LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic
My iPhone 6 that I bought at launch was useable for all five years it was supported by iOS, on the original battery. Only upgraded for iOS 13. I still switch it on as a Netflix terminal sometimes, no issues.

Crucially, I never once left it plugged in all night - I believe not constantly fully charging the battery massively extends the useful life.
Funny. I always regularly update Chrome in hope it's going to become faster as they improve the code in newer versions. What a waste. I'm going to stop updating it now.
Dynamic Route53 records for AWS auto scaling groups with Terraform
Meh, I prefer that over a gated patch of dirt
Arguably you are consciously observing by viewing the output of the RNG
Measure the Performance of Website Interactions from Locations Around the World
The C# compiler uses LLVM? Is that for something like Xamarin or something? I was under the impression that it was self-contained. Anyone knows the details of this?
Similar situation, in that my family line is essentially 100% German, although I grew up elsewhere. When we visited my grandparents' home city, it was kind of a shock how much I looked like everyone else. It didn't make me feel particularly comfortable or uncomfortable either way, but it did surprise me how, well, related we all looked in a way that had never happened to me before.

My favorite part of the trip, though, was getting complimented on my English by other friendly but clueless tourists who asked me for directions and the like. I told them thank you, my parents were very insistent that I practice my English from a young age. Technically the truth! :D
He's not usually right, but he's usually right enough AND he's simple enough that listening to him for most people is a net benefit.

His anti-debt/anti-borrowing views work really well for his audience of those that are struggling to live within their means, but are not optimal strategies for those who can use debt/credit without getting themselves in trouble.
We seem to be talking about safety-critical systems here. You don't need a GUI library for a safety-critical application, nor is any GUI system ever safety-critical (though it could interface to safety-critical systems).
0% is the wrong number. You should take the loan if the rate is less than your expected rate of return on parking the cash in an investment vehicle that matches your expected rate of return. That is certainly higher than 0%.
Nobody has built a maglev system that doesn't have very high operating costs yet. To be fair all of the extant systems are short haul or prototypes but there's still the question of if they will be able to reduce the costs with scale or if they're fundamental to the technology.
Thanks that looks nice, we'll give it a try
James Carville Unloads on the Democratic Party
> Many immigrant families bring very little with them and have to start from scratch.

However, what they usually bring is intact community and family support structures. Trust is one of the most valuable and scarce resources there is. It can even make up for a lack of money, because valuable services are often provided reciprocally to members of the community at low or no cost, and people tolerate sharing resources more easily with people they trust.

But if there's neither trust nor money, it's a much harder struggle.
Real-Time, collaborative Markdown editor with end-to-end encryption
I thought it was programming "recipes" for working with Wikimedia at first.

The FAQ should probably mention the year it began, which is 2004 going by homepage history.
As time passes the more I think that Stallman was right:

Today there is no way I'm buying a device that a company can turn into a paperweight by flipping a switch.

Tomorrow I won't probably buy anything where I'm not controlling the software.
But, you’re forgetting that the output of the random number generator doesn’t exist until you observe it.
The Persian Ice House
Parent noted you can buy all the fancy Tesla features on a used car. That doesn’t change the fact they were disabled when Tesla dealership took back possession of the car then later you paid to unlock them upon purchase.

It does seem like a wash however, not “paying twice” for the same features. The resale price is lower for Tesla without those features. And on a lemon law return nobody actually paid money for those features in the end anyway.
But I can record that screen on another camera and look at that recording the next month :)

Are we now also assuming causality can go both ways in time :) ? Or am I changing the recording the moment I look at it :) ?

It's such a stupid theory :)
Greedies gonna greed
We do have public parks in New York and other cities that are privately owned, and people walk through them.. homeless people sleep in them.. and, yes, people sometimes do drugs or other illicit activities. The police patrol them like any other park.

Here's an example: Zuccotti Park in NYC where the Occupy Wall Street protests were held:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuccotti_Park
They're called POPS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privately_owned_public_space
And here's a list of them in NYC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_privately_owned_public...

Are you now saying that the owners of these parks are legally liable for the actions people take in them? What about city parks: is the city government liable?

What do you base this legal theory on? Why haven't these park owners been arrested if this were true?

Do you have any legal training?
But is that your biggest weakness? Or is that a smaller weakness that, while still being a definite weakness, is socially acceptable and something you can show improvement on?

If they asked what is one of your weaknesses and how are you working to overcome it, then that is a perfectly legitimate answer. Perhaps too many interviewers ask for the biggest weakness when they actually mean to ask a question more like that.
Yes, but that’s different kind of order. Python dicts order is insertion order, while std::map is key order.
Likewise. If you want the "advanced" version, put each item on a tiny sticky and arrange the stickies in a file folder.
I am the most worried I've ever been, there's not a lot I can do personally, since it's such a big collective action problem and it's not a good feeling.
I understand that - I did mean CPU core and not an entire CPU. Still a ridiculous amount of power when the previous versions of Mac OS didn't have that kind of usage in Activity Monitor.
1) I am personally annoyed as someone who has had to unwind knotty dict soup python codebases.

2) This will make life easier for thousands of programmers and prevent a massive number of extremely difficult bugs from hurting users.
> It would be a global good to counteract the local incentives for producing perishable software.

What are we talking about here? Asking people to not write bugs?
The new dict does not come with a performance hit, let alone a significant one. It’s much more memory efficient and generally slightly faster.
Ok, but please don't post angry low-information rants to HN. I'm not saying you owe major media sites or Google better, but you owe this community better if you're commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd add the old adage that it is expensive to be poor.

What does that mean? The price for consumer goods generally cluster around low, mid and high prices. This includes cars, phones, computers, shoes, appliance, tools and virtually anything you buy. The low priced items are usually the worst value because they are shoddily built and don't last and have no warranty. The mid-priced items are the best value because they are well-built and will last a long time and usually are backed by a good company. The high priced items are well-built and will last but you pay for fancy extras or the name brand/prestige or service, etc.

So the trap is that if you are poor you end up having to buy at the low end of the market and you are on a treadmill of replacement. I once had a pair of good quality hiking boots that lasted +20 years that had finally worn out. I don't really hike that much and was in a rush to replace and didn't want to spend time researching all the choices (another thing lacking when you are poor, your time). So I bought a cheap pair and they lasted a little over a year. I was shocked at the difference and realized that I should have stuck to the rule to buy the mid-priced products to get the best value for my dollar.

Unfortunately if you need work boots and don't have the money you are just going to get the cheap ones and have to replace them in a year or two versus getting years of use out of the more expensive ones. The same idea applies to cars, phone, computers, tools, appliances, etc. and is a real problem for people trapped in this cycle.
Maybe they're making the assumption that people doing super heavy load stuff like that would more more likely be using a dedicated desktop workstation rather than a laptop.
that's a 2 year old CPU
Everything causes quantum collapse. The major engineering challenge of quantum computing is getting a computer to not cause collapse for long enough to do your computations.
Top 5% deadlifting normalized by body weight is not hard at all. It just requires consistency.
But saying a system is at room temperature is actually just a way of expressing your ignorance about a system's microstate. It's taking off your glasses and saying "I don't have any idea what this system is doing in detail, all I personally know is how much energy it has per degree of freedom in the system".
Sites that are directly taking your money should care. Or, at least, I would expect them to, but they don't seem to care at all.
Disagree. The answer is somewhere in the middle.

Every time some failing startup does a large layoff round, there's always questions of "why does X need Y many engineers?". Too many cogs in a broken organization is just burning dollars and electricity.
Looking for founders for three startup ideas
I periodically submit this to HN, but it never seems to get traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22268810