skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The music industry has been fighting against the natural economic theories of capitalism ever since the mp3.

Digital files have infinite supply. Draw a classic supply and demand diagram using that information and look at where the price should be. The supply curve is a vertical line at infinity on the x-axis. The demand curve crosses it at $0. Everyone knows and feels this intrinsically.

The artist is the thing with extremely limited supply. Something like Patreon will end up being the correct model.
Square Acquires “Dessa” – Authors of the Joe Rogan Deepfakes
The "LGBTQ" angle makes this guy a clown and discredits his entire blog post. Puh-lease!
> Do you really want to pay substantially more for heating/cool, gas, and almost every good?

Yes, if everyone else does too. It seems like the only way to drive greater efficiency in transportation, construction, housing, and manufacturing.
The problem with planning obsolescence in this manner is that different people use their devices differently and have different expectations, both of which make their devices go obsolete at different times.

An ancient phone that hasn't had an OS update in years still has a good shot at being able to handle texts and phone-calls. If that's all a user wants from it, it's not obsolete until it becomes so old it can't talk to their carrier's network. This is the sort of user who might not be afraid of replacing batteries.

Another user might want to do a fair bit with his phone and be just barely satisfied with the quickness of the interface when he first gets his device. A couple of updates, with their associated bloat, might reduce the speed of the interface enough that the phone becomes, as far as this user is concerned, ready for the junkpile.

If you're making the phones these two users are buying, how do you choose an expiration date? If you put it somewhere in between the above two extremes, one user will angrily bin their phone long before the expiration date and place no further trust in such dates, or your brand, while the other user, knowing how long his phones typically last, might not even buy a phone with such a short official lifetime.

Expiration dates are for milk and eggs. What users want is for the makers of the products they're using to commit to meeting their needs for a reasonable time period. People understand that hardware goes obsolete, but are less understanding when companies provide software updates that have so much bloat that devices become progressively less capable and effectively lose features. People get mad, and rightfully so, when companies refuse to sell repair parts and actively sue anyone making third-party parts.
Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?
If you have unlimited time and/or resources, what single software engineering problem would you address? I'm not talking about "Peace on Earth"-type problems, but rather real world practical problems facing software engineering that could be actually solved if you could pay an rationally large team of serious hackers a rationally large amount of money for a rationally long period of time. Another way of asking this is: What's the most important piece of technical debt across software engineering, that could practically be solved if we put enough energy into it?
Love the idea, but is this essentially then just a faster version of pg_dump?

pg_dump -C -h remotehost -U remoteuser dbname | psql -h localhost -U localuser dbname
There are two points of relevance here, I think. The first is that yours is one way of consuming recipes, but another is to simply look for news recipe in different cookbooks or, increasingly often, find one at a random food blog. The second is that even collections are very much possible on a wiki, or even outside it, by just compiling links to the wiki articles. For example, I enjoy cookbooks written about a single cuisine (e.g. listing all kinds of Middle Eastern recipes together), because they will then often go well together. One could easily imagine a Wikibooks page compiling related recipes into a recommendation list.
For articles like this, that are just simple text with nothing fancier than some headers and some lists, would something simple like this be a good way to deal with this?

body {
font-size: calc(0.5rem + 2vw);
}

That sets a font size that gets bigger as you make the viewport wider, so that you keep about the same number of characters per line regardless of viewport size.

I'm just a dabbler with CSS. Is there a better way to say "the font size that gives me about N characters per line of random text"?

(It's 0.5rem + 2vw instead of just some multiple of vw so that if you make the viewport narrow the font doesn't get too small. Better would be something like max(0.5rem, 2.5vw) but max() is experimental and not supported well outside of chrome. I found the calc(fixed + variable) hack on Stack Overflow).
Clearly you've not passed through northern New Mexico.
I have a rebuttal on the quote, as it applies to the Romans in particular. Where the author goes into how people in "hard times" still get stomped by the Romans more often than not.

And people use that myth as a way to make political arguments about decadence. I'm not doing it justice, just take a look.

https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
Recently stayed in a hotel in LA that had a direct view onto a light rail station. (Cool!) I glanced out the window from time to time over several days and never saw a single train. That suggests that they're not running often enough to be useful to real people.

Train, bus, whatever--if I have to wait longer than eight minutes on average, it's useless.

(And don't even get me started on the geniuses that decided that light rail shouldn't have an LAX terminal.)
Your default perspective appears to be that U.S. domestic and national security policy is the sole remit of unelected authority figures (e.g. "...just because someone at the Pentagon claims something is the US best interests doesn't mean it is.").

U.S. domestic and national security policy is certainly refined by unelected folks within various departments and agencies, but the overarching direction comes via elected representatives selected by the people.

Senator Warren and Senator Sanders - if elected president - would likely make the contracts in question (related to oil/gas and AI in the military) obsolete. If the American people feel aligned with their views on these issues - among others - and elect them and folks like them to the house and senate then you'll see a fundamentally different set of domestic and foreign policy objectives.

> However, your position that since they're the authority figures, anybody who questions them is not an "adult", strikes me as extremely asinine and highly dangerous.

Thanks very much.
If you keep adding technology to shoes eventually the high tech shoes will become something different entirely.

For example, imagine the bottom of your shoes had something like tank treads or rectilinear (snake-like) sections on the bottom propelling you forward using stored energy while you run. Are you still competing in the same sport as someone without this tech?

My point is there is definitely a line somewhere. "Springy" shoes like these Nikes might not be enough, but eventually we will need to define clearly where that line is.
It largely depends on how you count emissions. Norway has very low emissions per capita, as they have the right geography for hydroelectric power (with which they generate >95% of their electricity). On the other hand, they have a large industry of exporting oil to other countries.
But at least with Rust it won't have out of bounds and use after free bugs even if being crap otherwise.
Yeah I see that kinda stuff at least a few times a year in the Bay Area. There's so much detritus on the roads I imagine they're just trying to remove the biggest of the hazards.
Eh, by that logic "murder" is simply who the government says you're not allowed to kill. In the absence of all other criteria, that would be true, but theories of rights still exist in the absence of laws.
The only way to combat a Tragedy of the Commons problem is through collective action.

Unilateral changes actually have a net negative impact because other parties simply consume more (CO2 in this case).
This is the author's failure, not the commenters'.

In the article he's saying that a lot of people fail to improve because they're practicing wrong. Now that's probably a valid point, and it should have been his thesis. In fact, he probably considers it to be his thesis, but he muddied the waters by providing it with a debatable introduction and title.
I guess – if you don't mind halving your memory bandwidth.

Most laptops have two memory channels, so if both are not populated with same size memory module, at least part of the memory range will provide only 50% bandwidth.

For memory bandwidth sensitive tasks it can halve performance, although I guess for most workloads the effect is way less, perhaps just 15-20% slowdown.
Pulse – kinetic art piece in NYC
The 2010s oil glut is a considerable surplus of crude oil that started in 2014–2015 and accelerated in 2016, with multiple causes. U.S. oil production nearly doubled from 2008 levels, due to substantial improvements in shale "fracking" technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_oil_glut

There are economic reasons as to why drilling for oil isn't a good idea right now.
>FWIW, suspend/resume is probably the worst, fiddliest thing about free OSs on a laptop.

Sadly I agree.

My requirements for a laptop are:

1. Working suspend resume

2. Good touch pad with working palm rejection

3. Good battery life

Sadly the only laptop that meets these requirements to my satisfaction is my macbook.
What is most fascinating about your first choice is that you received an offer after telling them you don't want to do the work. Do you know why they want to hire you despite this?

EDIT: Depending on their reasoning to extend you an offer, option 1 could be an excellent opportunity.
I agree. Especially when the nation that would use the drone technology has demonstrated a willingness to use said technology for reckless assassination of other country's citizens without declaration of war.
where are you going? lol
Apple officially acquired NeXT 23 years ago, changing everything
Jobs did great things but the halo effect on this website gets too much. Theres nothing profound or even really interesting in that quote. It's the stuff you'd hear in a primer marketing class.
I think a more useful metric is per unit of GDP. ...because then it becomes an efficiency metric. "How much wealth can we create with X amount of CO2".
Tell HN: All Tweeting stopped 20 minutes ago
> If it takes a slight misunderstanding about weather relating to climate change to get immediate action, isn’t that a good thing?

Probably not, since people will point out that this call to action is based in falsehood and the credibility of the movement will be compromised.
That is the unfortunate reality of a lot of activism today. I wonder if this behavior only serves to cause general resentment in the community against LGBTQ folks because the biggest loudmouths drag down the discourse.
Would you though? Appears at least once a week: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
This is an example of people trying to use technology to fix a social problem.

I don't know who is editing or curating these recipes. Taste is subjective. At least with Wikipedia, I can point X sources and back my claims up. On here, I could just add random family ad-hoc recipes and no one can really debate them. Which leads to: Mac n' Cheese 1. Mac n' Cheese 2.

Traditional cookbooks solve a problem: people may not know any recipes (or want to learn new ones) and want a curated collection from a chef that knows what they're talking about. Not random people online. Sure, books aren't guaranteed to be quality, but they're far less likely to be junk than random websites. They're even better if you only go by word of mouth- ask your parents/grandparents what they used!

This wikicookbook idea doesn't solve any problems because it's no better than randomly searching "how to make tres leches cake" and picking some web page that had good enough SEO to get to the first page of duckduckgo.

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Things people actually want and/or need:

* a website that matches (curated) recipes based on your ingredients. i.e. I can input "chicken bouillon, kale", and have it show me various recipes.

* a standardized schema for recipes, i.e. in json. This way we can programmatically build apps, share recipes with friends, and maybe have browser/site integration.

* a digital, open source collection of recipes only from chefs/etc with credentials. aka a curated collection.

* a website that parses said recipes and can display multiple types of units depending on your preferences.

* a website/app that lets you bookmark recipes and automatically parses them with said schema. and lets you categorize/tag recipes so you can filter by "favorites" or "want to try", etc.

Bonus points if your app can interface with Apple's Homepod / Alexa, etc, so I can confirm a recipe while I'm cooking or washing dishes. This is the biggest let-down by far for the homepod.
> I doubt you could easily get things like rope core memory or just about any of the components.

"Any of the components" is an exaggeration. For example, bipolar transistors are still here, here's the schematics [0] of the switched-mode power supply in the AGC - still perfectly understandable, rebuilding it can a fun weekend project. Also, discrete NOR gates are still around, although the underlying technology is different.

> As with many things, you can't easily replicate complex old artifacts because you don't even have the tools to make the tools to make the tools... No, we couldn't build an Apollo Guidance Computer today.

I think there's a difference between a 1:1 faithful replication and a replication based on the same architecture and/or principle of operation. While it's difficult to build a 1:1 faithful replication, rebuilding a new one based on the same architecture in general is much easier.

So when the original commenter said, "no one understands how the engines on the Saturn V work anymore", I think the point to be made is whether the ideas from the Space Age, e.g. whether the Saturn V architecture has survived, it is not necessarily meant that rebuilding it makes sense - it probably does not.

> The guidance computer would probably be the least of your challenges

+1.

[0] https://www.righto.com/2019/08/reliable-after-50-years-apoll...
> Anecdotal evidence isn't very reliable.

True. Yet, as climate change accelerates it's absolutely reasonable to expect that we will be able to sense its effects in our daily lives.

I also have quite a number of personal observations that point to the idea that the planet is warming up. On the one hand I try to remain rational and say that this is a long-term trend, but on the other I'm thinking: holy crap, things are happening so fast that I now have memories from when the world was noticeably cooler.

I think therefore that over the next decades we should start accepting anecdotal evidence as real evidence, as global warming starts having a real impact on our lives.
Wrongthink gets you doxxed, don't pretend to be surprised please.
except to get back to your original rank you need to win 2 more games.

ranks 3 5 stars and rank 2 0 stars are the same exact rank from different directions.

rank 3, 4 stars + 2 = rank 2, 1 star
rank 2, 1 star - 2 = rank 3, 4 stars

You don't get free stars.

You do, however, get free stars on win streaks below rank 5.
Yeah I was going to say, normally the only people that see the performance of a shoe are spectators of the sport. Now everyone gets to know about Vaporfly and how awesome they are.
Somebody was saying last year that climate alarmists do more damage than climate deniers. I think this is true. All the prognostications sound a bit like a death cult telling us the world will end on July 15, 20xx or the Mayan calendar or the comet will signal the end and people just tune that noise out. They can smell hysteria. Part of the problem is co-opting celebrities or personalities that are louder than their understanding of the science, and make very loud and visible statements that tarnish the science and policy discussion. We'd probably all be better off if the messaging was a little more sober about what the real risk levels are and timeframes, trusting the people in time to come around. The idea of doing massive economic policy change overnight was/is a doomed proposition. It's self-defeating to try and scare people off drugs by overstating the risk, so too with scaring people into climate policy.
I live in Sweden. A few days ago, we got the first snow of the season here, and most of it has already melted away. Several ski slopes has decided to not open this season, since there's no chance of making any snow even if it would get cold, because the ground is too warm. It's been approximately 5-10° C warmer than usual, with the warmest January day ever.
>more cost-effective to use solar panels, batteries, and large scale reverse osmosis systems

I can't imagine why you'd use batteries at all. Storing fresh water efficiently is cheap, storing power efficiently is not.
> 99% of the pre-amp options don't matter as long as you get a strong, clean signal into a decent ADC stage.

It turns out this is actually hard, when you use inexpensive preamps, typical microphones, and you’re recording voice at home. Getting a strong signal means more gain than onboard preamps in inexpensive interfaces typically provide, which is why you might want to get an outboard preamp or use an inline device like the fethead. Getting a clean signal means learning how to do mic placement, doing some room treatment, etc.

From what I understand, there’s a limit to how much clean gain you can get from a single amplifier stage, and it’s often just not enough. I was very skeptical about getting an outboard preamp but it ended up making a much larger difference than I thought it would.
The sudden disappearance of the POTUS is backstopped immediately by the existence of a Vice President.

The sudden disappearance of Gmail would be significantly more catastrophic to communication online (though it would certainly be sorted out in a short amount of time as people sneaker-netted new communication addresses out and re-established the broken lines of communication).
Two or three years ago he was having a live stream and I asked: if you hadn't studied music in college, what would you have studied. He answered Philosophy. Makes complete sense.
One of the big factors in outdoor sports is how you define participants. Advocacy groups are usually the ones who bother to do this, and they have a vested interest in making it look as big as possible (so as to better advocate for friendly policy). I think at one point the American Canoe Association defined a boater as anyone who had been in a canoe or kayak at least once within the past year.

Obviously if this is your universe of participants, it makes it a lot easier to get to 95%.

If you define it as anyone who spends time in a canoe or kayak at least once per week, in comparison, that 95% level of ability goes way way up.
> remote jobs with Canadian or American companies

These are typically US or NA only remote

And the ones that aren’t pay “local” salaries
>But as far as I understand Tesla Superchargers are so superior to conventional charging in terms of speed that not having them available is a huge drawback to a Tesla owner.

That's highly dependent on your use-case. For the average driver, you install and use a level 2 charger at home every night and wake up to a full battery. Superchargers typically only come into play on long road trips, and you can still pay to use them outside of the complimentary charging they provide for new sales.
If there is no government, only the strong will have any property. We'll go back straight to cavemen times, especially if you have some kind of social disadvantage such as minorities, women, etc.
It is already - in the my opinion deeply silly book/movie series(?) Mortal Engines. I haven't read or watched them but saw a video ad and thought that it was the stupidest thing I had ever seen. Anyway it is effectively landships except they are massive steampunk mobile cities which grind up and harvest other sessile settlements and smaller mobile ones. I get the extended metaphor involved of colonalism and enrichment by exploitation of the weak and pillaging instead of their own production but even for YA Dystopian it is just too dumb logistically for me to suspend disbelief.
To some degree this is a zero sum game. Bus lanes are pretty magical in that they make the buses faster than the cars and reduce road capacity to reduce induced demand. Plus they're cheap because the infrastructure is just paint.
VimMan, a Terminal Game to Learn Vim, Written in Go
Maybe it's just me, but I have doubts that 10x or 100x engineers are leaving google because of the reasons outlined in the post.
Remote worker here. I struggled with the same problem when my commute went from 20 minutes to 20 steps. I've found the best way is to stay in my office, log out of my computer, and read for 20 minutes. I don't have the hassle/expense of a commute, and I get an education every day. It's not bad.
As a sometimes engineering manager (I generally prefer to be a staffy, you know, doing analyst functions for the CEO, etc.), this is interesting to me. Can you give me any ideas on what I should be on the look-out for, in terms of behavior, among the team-mates?

I "get" that it's not visible (sort of), but I don't get how to be on guard for it, prevent it or deal with it if we can't see it. How does a manager see the signs of it, somehow, well enough, to deal with it?
2 story tall art piece using ~500 rotating bricks designed by BREAKFAST.

PS. Breakfast is hiring senior engineer: https://breakfastny.com/jobs
Sure as hell beats the alternative of driving to work everyday and eating meat as usual.
Yeah yeah yeah.

If we're talking about distillation, the civil engineer probably wants to think about rates (liters per minute per $1000), but for a civilian just trying to figure out how this could work in a laboratory situation?

I find quantities easier to comprehend (and relate). Tell me how many AA batteries or days of full sun it would take to convert a big beaker of salt water into a smaller beaker of distilled water.
I did not even know that integer is a good key for an object. Is this being used anywhere outside arrays?
I think this is a deliberate misreading of what Dan wrote. I think it's obvious he's not talking about physical characteristics, or activities where learned skill has little influence on the outcome.(reaction speed, IQ, deadlifting, sprinting speed, endurance)

And it seems like most of the activities we care about rely on learned skills more than physical traits.

Now also his explanation also relies on how dedicated and competitive the average player is.

But the overall point of the piece is that we probably don't try to systematically improve on nearly as many life skills as we should which I think is a valuable and true insight.
That's not about JS Map objects, that's about regular objects which don't keep their properties in insertion order.
Agreed that his math doesn't always work out but you're correct that for an audience that is struggling with behavior more than math, his advice is usually on the right track. If you're responsible with debt, it can be leverage to accelerate wealth in certain situations as long as you are aware of the risk involved.
Yep. I thought it was just me, but it seems down.

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter/

https://outage.report/twitter

https://api.twitterstat.us/

Edit: Scheduled tweets from tweetdeck seem to still work. Weird.