skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made an Ask HN post about this a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22738931

Nobody chimed in there to say they'd experienced this, so it's good to finally get confirmation that it isn't just my imagination. Considering how much time I spend on MBPs and the fact that I just invested in a new 16" as my personal laptop, I'm desperately hoping Apple recognizes that this was a mistake and fixes it. It completely destroys the user experience in my opinion.
Yes, this is my experience. I rarely if ever read anything good about the US on HN.
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In other news, if you are a founder who looks like Mark Zuckerburg, you are more likely to get VC funding.
It's pretty easy to see the difference in taxation by just looking at taxes versus GDP.

The US floats around the mid 20% range, while Europe is mid-30% up to 50% (Sweden).[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
There's higher demand for consumer-grade TP because of a couple of reasons:

1. First-order hoarders, who hoarded when the panic started. I saw this when I went to my Costco on Feb 28th, which is when 99% of the country, and 95% of Washington State thought that this COVID thing is going to be no big deal. Any toilet paper brought out from the backrooms into the store would get snatched up in <10 minutes by shoppers. The Safeways, the QFCs, the corner stores, the gas stations around town, of course, had no toilet paper shortages at the time.

2. Second-order hoarders, who started hoarding when they heard that the first-order hoarders are doing it, and that Costco was out, so that they personally don't run low.

3. Weeks later, when the shutdown orders came in, people no longer go to work, so they don't poop on company time. The thing is, the toilet paper you use at work comes in giant rolls of half-ply, that are sold by the pallet. Demand for them has plummeted, while demand for 12-packs of double-ply has soared - and it takes some time for the toilet paper factories + logistic chains to retool.
Open plan kitchen: You have a range hood. It's the standard way of exhausting cooking smells, smoke, and oil droplets. You should probably have one even if you don't have an open plan kitchen.

I like my open plan kitchen because I can be cooking, and supervising my young kid playing in the living room at the same time. Or, if guests are over, I can be cooking dinner and still be part of the conversation.
Is soy included in your nut allergy? I'm vegan and don't eat many nuts, although most of my protein comes from soy products. I was vegetarian for a while and used whole milk, eggs, and cheese for protein. Although I believe in the rights of living creatures so I couldn't do the dairy/eggs route any more.

There are plenty of foods that will give you enough protein, leafy greens like kale, beans, and rice are a staple of any stir fry/curry and are complete meals nutritionally.

fwiw, one of the things i love about my diet that was really hard to get used to was the difference of caloric density of vegetables vs animal products. I am constantly full and sometimes just have a hard time stuffing my face with enough food. I also am an amateur athlete so my caloric needs are probably really different than most people on this site.

>Also, would you listen to my argument about how individual red meat consumption is a drop in the bucket of climate change and isn't really worth focusing on?

I don't believe we're going to be able to change big business if we don't have the gumption to change our day to day lives. We need to live it in order to make real change, and factory farming, specifically of red meat, is the highest on the list for personal consumption. I also believe we've advanced as a society to not have to rely on killing living beings or manipulating their reproductives cycles for our benefit.

edit: I don't understand the downvotes here. I am literally informing someone about MY diet. Can you please add a response if you choose to downvote this post.
Can you send a link to a list of the mentioned load balancing algorithms?
natural selection applies to any self-replicating things... viruses are considered non-living, but they are still self-replicating.

(technically, the self-replication need also admit mutations into the replication process for natural selection to apply. viruses do mutate so, they qualify)
PostGIS would be worth it if there was a lot more to do on that project and full respect to that project. I remember looking at it and it felt like it was a sledgehammer for that particular job. You still had to write up a lot of code to import the dataset you had and then extract it again. Not to mention maintenance since you now have a whole dependency chain installed on your server. This was a single engineer project.

The above solution is a copy paste-able set of classes with zero dependencies that will output the nearest place. Sometimes a single purpose solution is perfect and i'm really not kidding when i say i haven't maintained or even looked at it in over 5 years yet it's still running fine as part of a larger application.
You can preview .md content using a plugin! I use this in VS Code, https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner....
Features I find useful in this context

- ace-link is great for opening visible links in a couple of keystrokes

- org-store-link for linking arbitrary places in various (possibly remote) files inside emacs

- org-agenda to generate various hierarchical/tags/other criteria views

- counsel-grep-or-swiper (with ripgrep) works well even for several years worth of notes without the need for explicit indexing

- org-attach manages attachements such as pdf files (copy/open/sync/etc)
pdf-tools with a hydra enables convient reading, search of the files in emacs

- Org Babel for cleaning, querying data (among other things). Inline images work e.g., generated by emacs-jupyter

- OrgMobile for agenda views, pushing notes from mobile
rough translation (it's kinda tricky to preserve the tone. Question marks are words I'm not sure the translation works):

> Riemann-Roch theorem: the last trend(?): the diagram(?) <formula> is commutative!

To give this statement over f:x->y an approximative sense I had try the patience of the listeners for almost 2 hours. Black-on-white (in Springer's Lecture Notes) its about 400, 500 pages. A fitting example how our drive to knowledge and discovery more and more realizes itself in a far-from-life logical delirium, while the life itself is ruined in a thousand ways - and is threatened by total destruction. High time to change our path!
>> “Making some of the SPR’s storage capacity available to industry, without purchasing the oil, provides this immediate benefit to the industry and its hard-working employees”

The government is not buying any oil. The SPR is being opened up for storage so expensive producers can hold onto supply until prices recover.
Thankfully Bitcoin isn't the only solution to answer this problem. By the way, the world economy isn't centralized and thankfully doesn't rely on a single database with a shitty and super slow consensus algorithm that destroy the environment, by design.
Other than all the upkeep, legal risk, risk of loss in value, having to deal with harassment from know-nothing internet commenters...
I believe he was asking whether an understanding of "under-the-hood" of postgres transfers to Aurora -- that is, does your tuning knowledge transfer as well, or is it just you can migrate your codebase transparently

Though now that I think about it, I think Aurora gives relatively little in tuning accees, so it's more of whether the hueristics transfer (eg the ol' avoid all joins, which I've always been suspicious of, but still don't know if it's a useful saying)
We had a paid chat app for social media celebrities/models to earn money chatting with their fans years back. Apple argued that despite a human being doing the work it 'took place in the app' so that makes it a 'digital service'. That means we had to accept IAP and of course pay them 30%. Made it impossible to to pay our influencers fairly.

Or you could have forced users to subscribe outside of the App Store on your own website.....
was that word "cheap" necessary?
There are some fairly standard vdom benchmarks you could implement instead.

https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark
https://localvoid.github.io/uibench/

Or even just something following mithril’s own benchmark suite:
https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/blob/next/performanc...
I use https://pinboard.in for bookmarks. Tag the URL with the search terms I would have used if I were to find it again using google.

Having one of the mobile apps that support pinboard is also an essential part of my workflow.

I use Google Keep for more general life stuff, general notes I need to remember when people tell me and even shopping lists.

For development and work notes, I rely on the desktop version of https://boostnote.io/.
We are really failing at this right now.
Note that the reserve is currently at 87.4% capacity, with 635 million barrels in inventory (250.3m sweet, 384.7m sour).[0]

Plans to expand capacity to a billion barrels with the addition of a new site in Richton, MS were cancelled in 2010.[1]

[0] https://www.spr.doe.gov/dir/dir.html

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140710034505/http://energy.gov...
You make a lot of good points, but I believe they are somewhat overstated for the community case as opposed to say an Intensivist intubating someone. The amount of virus exposure is quite different. If the average person reduces exposure 90%, this is a huge win. If an ICU doc reduces exposure 90%, he gets infected the first day.

Duffing protocol is very important if your PPE is massively contaminated. I’m not as convinced if you may have been breathed on by a carrier at the supermarket.
Thanks for link. However, the link is one person in Colorado complaining that the state is not getting enough machines. (There are not enough machines period, even thought he US, per-virus had the largest stockpile in the world).

The problem here is not one of having the mechanism, it's underestimating how many would be needed in a massive outbreak.
And I transfer my wealth to everyone else I pay money to! Welcome to economics.
Yup. This is ultimately the problem with Bitcoin it requires the consumption of energy to produce currency.

The only intrinsic value is the amount of energy wasted to mine the bitcoins.
Apple accidentally confirms the existence of an unreleased product: AirTags
Its 2020 and we still have farmers destroying crops rather than having some sensible state backed cost floor price guarantee to just buy excess and distribute it freely. You can definitely guard against exploitation by doing the math on what the maxima is between the volatility of pegging it to market prices vs the delay in using historical means.

I'd much rather get a quart of state milk once or twice a year for free while paying .2% more sales tax than having usable food destroyed.
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> In the city, you get attacked by "youths". So it gets cancelled out.

You're showing your true face with this projection and it is a very bad look.

Meanwhile, as somebody outside that land of that weird projection: I've lived in some of the "worst neighborhoods" of my city, as an ethnic group that very much did not fit into that area, and have never felt anything but safe walking down the street. To the best of my recollection my SO never felt worried even as she walked a mile-plus to the train every day, either.

Crime happens, certainly. It is not some terrifying scourge and it also happens to not be isolated to the racial groups you fear or hate or both--and I'd appreciate if you don't dissemble about this one 'cause let's be honest, you're not exactly showing enough subtlety to not scarequote "youths" and we all know what that means in America in 2020.
Customers say Getaround has been slow to pay repair bills
Perhaps Apple Arcade for apps?
Hi Mike,
I like the YouTube search queries.
I did something similar with flour yesterday. I was in a grocery store getting mostly dairy and some other perishables I was starting to run a bit low on. But I saw a solitary 5# bag of King Arthur flour and grabbed it. I wasn't out at home but I was down to a few pounds of all-purpose flour so it seemed sensible to grab some more while I had the opportunity. I'm sure a lot of people are acting that way.
>> if you change the state, it runs the function again, this returns a new virtual DOM

What do you mean by "change the state"? How do you do that? By calling some function, or perhaps by assigning a value to some property of a state-object? OR by calling the function again with a different state-object?

Thanks
> A much more successful model has been writing code, co-developing it with other operators and vendors if possible, [...]

Indeed. This provides the barrier the IETF lacks, and does so in a pretty nice way. It may not work all the time, but even if it helps in 90% of cases that's a great improvement.
And likewise, make an APK on your choice of device (Windows, Mac, Linux), with no recurring or one time costs (minus hardware).

I've got half a dozen personal apps on my old phone and a couple more on my new one.
Are there any cryptographic and/or network designs which allow end-to-end encryption of a group video chat without full meshing?
even the "full" sized images are filled with compression artifacts and lose lots of quality after upload, not as badly as in facebook but still surprising and disappointing for a photo-centric app. i've tried a number of things to improve final quality but nothing worked well. if anyone has tips please share them!
The ability to start pumping the oil in American soil is not dependent on market conditions.

The shale oil in the ground is a perfectly good stockpile as is.

Or so it seems to this perhaps overconfident computer guy with little relevant expertise...
> By all means, expand on this and enlighten me, I am curious to hear both sides.

Sure. My concern with Bitcoin mining is that (#1) it absorbs efficiency improvements by design, and that (#2) it is structurally an environmental race to the bottom.

By #1, I mean that even if you could magically halve the energy use of mining overnight, you wouldn't meaningfully reduce Bitcoin's footprint: mining would use less energy, so it would be (temporarily) more profitable, so miners would scale up until it was back at equilibrium. It's back in equilibrium when the cost of mining is the market value of a coin, and since energy costs dominate the cost of mining, this is (roughly) when energy use is on par with what it was before the efficiency improvement.

By #2, I mean that mining naturally gravitates to places where the externalities are not priced in. If Country A has a carbon tax and Country B does not, mining will just move (pushed by the invisible hand) to Country B, rendering the carbon tax ineffectual with regards to coin mining. Of course this is just part of a bigger problem of enforcing global externalities locally, but the tools that would usually help here (trade policy, etc.) do not really apply to crypto mining.
The people living from Bitcoin are so few that they don't really matter. I'm sure many of them would find another well paid occupation shortly after and I wouldn't be sorry for the ones that would have to reduce the costs of their lifestyle.

I do think social shaming is very powerful, but it must be used correctly. Shaming Bitcoin professionals is fine in my opinion.
Yeah, this will not be effective. Legal remedies would be.
Mark-19 Ventilator (open sourced)
So if Apple is “crushing innovation” where are all of the successful Android only apps?

All the apps I see on the app store are major corporations. There is hardly anything by indie or single devs anymore.

Overcast is the most popular third party podcast player on iOS and it is written by one person. David Smith has made a living on the App Store for years as a solo developer.

But how is the power law that you see in the App Store any different than in music, books, podcasts or on the web?
Absolutely, the theory being the other assets will adjust to their correct value on their own (see: stock market plunge), unless they are propped up by bailouts or whatnot.
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Calling it a disaster.. I find the security community a bit tough against Zoom.

They traded a bit of security in favor of useability? Fair enough.
They failed to recognise AES-EDC can be attacked by very motivated cryptanalysts? Alright.

They gathered a little bit more data than they claim they did? Well, who is not doing that?

I think they proved they can be agile. They fixed a bunch of sec issues in few days, while growing their user base like 30x, in a shutdown period!
How many companies would be able to do that?

I am sure they will work in fixing all of those quickly.
E2EE will take a bit of time. Right. In the meantime, Zoom is working pretty darn well for talking with 10+ family and friends while everybody is contained. Do we need E2EE for that? probably not, but that is my choice.
I really hope they open source their compiler and allow people to program directly to the machine code.

Part of the problem with GPUs (and to a greater extent FPGAs) is that the toolchains are often terrible, buggy and opaque. They also make it really hard for people to write easier abstractions on top of them. I guess CUDA does do better along many of those axes than alternatives at the cost of being vendor-specific, but anything for this would be vendor-specific too.

So much code we write doesn't take advantage of GPU power because it's harder to program for and also you pay a latency cost for transmitting your data to/from the GPU. If this architecture makes GPU-style programming easier in that you just switch to using a different style of programming in the middle of your code and the CPU just uses different instructions without a big latency penalty that would be very cool.
>In other words, you don't listen to the likely majority of scientists?

I'm all ears, what do you mean here? You're talking about people who have devoted their lives to learning and explaining the world around us and not an armchair enthusiast worried about internet points?

>You're confusing rationality with integrity.

I really don't think I am, can you explain what you mean in more detail?
According to[1], "technology" demand (eg. not for jewelry, investment, or central bank reserves) is only 7.5% of total demand. Your response only excuses a small fraction of the pollution being generated from gold extraction.

I should say there's also 48% used for jewelry, but that doesn't really make a good excuse either. The pollution is necessary because ... people need to display their wealth?

[1] https://www.gold.org/goldhub/data/gold-supply-and-demand-sta...
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> I don’t really “surf the Internet” like I did when I was younger.

omg i miss that term so much!

a few days ago, i looked up hamburger buns recipe in google search and got very frustrated by the websites i got back.

one page immediately triggered my laptop fan and pushed my CPU to the max. it was playing a video completely unrelated to the recipe i came for. one page showed so much ads that there was a tiny little space left for the recipe. one another page, scrolling was broken by an ad and i had to turn off javascript and images to make that page function at all.

all that time, i was thinking about the non tech-savvy person who was just looking for a recipe. these shenanigans are extreme against that group of people because we hackers would immediately raise strong voices.

that, made me feel bad.
Very well done website, thanks for hosting this!
The comments in this thread ...

Well for what its worth, i think its a bit weird theyre doing this - and hope we get fusion power soon.
Harmful for some, good for others. Not everyone loves crowds and noise.
Quite appaling. This looks like a Ycombinator company given the board composition.
Some of the issues in the original paper are real (except the hologram where they have transformed marketing hype for stereo images into a real expectation of transmitting holograms). Pretty much all of them are capable of being implemented by tunneling through specialized transports, without needing to replace IPv6. After all, that is the "inter" in internets - you are already free to have specialized subnets. Cray implements low latency transport for IP in their supercomputers. You can use a VPN to anonymize your traffic, including transforming the addressing. And so on. If you step through the original presentation, everything is something you are free to implement and make available via IP ports as a subnet.
What's keeping you from doing that motorcycle trip now, I mean other than the virus?
My mom, who's from a town in the Appalachian mountains in NC, was just telling me about how she and her sisters would can tons of vegetables in the summer because there were times in the winter when they would get snowed in for weeks because the roads weren't safe. That surprised me because she didn't even grow up that long ago, she was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s.

I had always pictured canning as a thing people did in the twenties, not in modern era (unless they were hipsters), or just something that had to be done in a factory. But now I'm sitting here wondering, if it's so easy a bunch of kids could do it without poisoning themselves - why can't farms can the excess food themselves? I get that some stuff (canned powdered milk from the article) is harder to do locally, but we still did it with worse technology for many years.

Is it a regulation problem, are they not allowed to? Is it economics - are human-canned goods worth less than the cost of paying people to pick+can? Is it too hard to get canning supplies / train people to can on short notice? Do the grocery stores have deals with certain brands of canned foods that would prevent them from introducing locally canned items?

It's just interesting because while I've only been out shopping twice in the past month, both times the canned good aisle was hit much harder than the fresh produce section. I know this is a temporary thing, but it just feels like preserving food is something that has been done effectively on a local scale for so many years - it seems weird to let good food rot because large-scale canning factories can't keep up with demand.
Oil comes in many different qualities. The price is probably for WTI ( Texas?), there are others.

For lower quality oil than this standard, lower prices are paid. For higher qualities, higher prices.
So should Amazon not be allowed to host the third party marketplace? Should the console makers not be allowed to have their own store? Should physical retail not be allowed to sell their own in house brands?

As far as things didn’t work like this is in the 90s, Atari had its own digital store in the 80s where you could buy games and have them downloaded over cable to a cartridge.
Except in Model A the products have some utilitarian/recreational value to humanity (coats, iPhones, ect.)

In Model B the product is a transaction network that is horribly inefficient in terms of $$$ transferred per unit of energy input. It probably makes sense to buy Cocaine (even then other cryptos are likely more efficient energy wise/secure) with Bitcoin, it doesn't make any sense to buy a car with it when there's already a banking system
Unless buyers of the coins were charged based on the carbon footprint of the coins they bought, this would just cause mining to move to places where there was no carbon tax.