skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 5000 series was different from the 500 series, it was a new generation of computers and the 570 wasn't a 5000 in hiding.

But it's basically correct that you could field-upgrade some of the models to a faster model, not exactly by just snipping a wire, but you could e.g. change the cycle time, and enable caching. But to go from the 5200 to the 5400 you would need to change some boards too. Here's an overview:
http://www.ndwiki.org/wiki/ND-5000_family#System_performance
Seems like there are some money left on the table.

Should someone build a small company to defend all those people solely based on some contingency fee (well a tiny percentage of what they owe or would pay if they lose).

If I owe $5,000, a lawyer takes the case, and prevent me to pay the $5,000 for a $500 fee, and I never hear again about the debt collector, that seems a win-win.

Those debt collector would start to think twice before going to court, and if really working, debt collector would start to think twice before buying debts at the first place.

It could be automated, with a single website, where I enter few details about my case (or the website contacts me based on scrawling the dockets), give me free advices to fight it myself (e.g. ask debt collector for all communication to only be done by mail, as allow by law, ask them for proof of debt, etc.). And if it escalate to court, then a lawyer would be assigned to represent me.

Looks like some software could fight this court scaling issue, by fighting before it goes to court, and then making it less predictable for debt collector to go the court route.
> Universities are a place where you should be much of the learning yourself.

The professors in the first three years of my schooling definitely did everything wrong, then. Passing and failing classes had next to nothing to do with independent learning.
This is a case where journalists are, for once, not confusing units. A square meter of solar panels produces about 200 watts peak, 50 watts round-the-clock average†. A gigawatt is a billion watts, so that's about 5 million square meters or 20 million square meters of solar panels, depending on whether they're talking about peak or average power.

A journalist confusing units might have said something like "Its 6 million panels produce 3600 gigawatt hours," without bothering to tell you whether that's per day, per month, or per year. But it's perfectly correct to say that a panel or a solar plant produces some number of gigawatts.

† Yes, this depends on the type of panel and the location. Some panels are a little higher efficiency, some are a little lower efficiency, and the ones we use on satellites are a lot higher efficiency. And different places have more or less sun. Typical numbers are 1000 W/m² of "solar constant" nominal maximum insolation, 16%–21% efficiency (ratio of insolation to energy produced), and 15%–30% capacity factor (ratio of average power to peak power).
Tile teams up with Intel to make all laptops findable
In bleak times for banks, India's digital-payments system wins praise
Sadly no Apollo House from Peep Show.
"Worked" depends on the goal. Effectiveness of each dollar depends on the goal.

The questions you pose, though completely valid - and should be asked - are done in different levels.

If you set a marketing budget, it's because there was a decision to achieve some goal that is bound to marketing. The same goes for R&D, Acquisitions, Human Resources, etc.

That's why, in a classical corporate sense, at the beginning of the fiscal year, each department fights for a cut of the big budget to be invested.

Within a marketing budget you then have to split it again, and again, and by this time you should be at the advertising level. Within this level you have Advertising (the creative part, copy and art) & Media Buying. Etc.

But getting back to your question: being ROI positive can be quite deceiving, because you can have negative ROI yet get positive long term results. Example:

You, as a manager, decided that Amazon is a viable channel for sales and distribution. You evaluate the competition and you realize that for you to have some relevance on organic results, you need to improve your ranking through Amazon PPC and external traffic. You factor in Price Promotion, to present a competitive offer and to help your product being established.

You run that campaign at loss (negative ROI), for 2 months, but you manage to get yourself to the Top 10 listings for organic results.

Question - assuming it's a healthy market: is this a bad campaign?

(The obvious answer is: it depends. But assuming the short term, ROI negative, campaign can set you up to generate more sales in the future, it's a good campaign. Then arguably you could present other solutions, at lower cost, to produce the same outcomes.)
Even if we assume that saving that much is possible, the math only works if you're up for living a lifestyle costing 33% of your current earnings for the rest of your life.
Thanks for that. But why is the company now worse off than before? A company can be funded with equity or debt (different terms and obligations, I understand) but if a company converts 100% of its outstanding shares to debt, why does anything change? I assume this is what happens when a company takes itself private to escape the grind of quarterly earning, short-term growth, tyranny of Wall Street analysts, etc. If I could run a company better/extract more value from it, say, by decreasing expense, increasing revenue, and therefore profits, I'd write myself a big check quarterly and continue running the company. Something else extractive and zero-sum (I gain but the company loses) is going on and I don't know what that is.
Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways
On Macs you have to have at least a quadcore CPU or it doesn't show the option, Zoom may do the same thing on Linux.
It's true. The incentive problem remains unanswered! Among others.
That is a cool concept. I wish more web platforms would offer similar options.
Shortcutting a Standard Library
I cannot strongly stress how amused and annoyed I am by you completely ignoring that this money has to come from somewhere. Goddamn kids.

Of course giving people money makes them happy. Problem is that money represents resources, there's a limited amount of those going around, and printing money doesn't do anything except devalue the value of a dollar.

It's a functional problem, not a distribution problem.
How and Why You Should Avoid CORS in Single Page Apps
This sort of comment is all over this thread, and it really doesn't help me make a decision
Soundtrack to my life. Probably listened hundreds of times!
Sorry, it's not you, it's a pet peeve of mine. I used to collect ideas and there are so many things out there that no one seems to know about.

Whenever I tried to talk about them there's always someone who asks that question. It's a BS question though, because it presupposes that humans somehow always instantly adopt the great new thing, but history shows that we just don't.

(E.g. Marconi was called before US Congress to testify because they thought radio might be a scam.)

We have all kinds of awesome stuff that gets ignored. Or even simple obvious things that no one notices (Why do refrigerators have doors instead of drawers?)

Sorry for picking on you. Nothing personal. :-)
Coincidentally, I was thinking of Kia as a great counter example. Admittedly I don't know much, but haven't they started offering much nicer cars over time, as the brand as grown?
The purpose of TTI isn’t necessarily to eradicate the virus altogether, which does seem unlikely. It’s the alternative to lockdowns. Like lockdown, it reduces the new infection rate. Unlike lockdown, society is more able to carry on with something resembling regular economic activity and mobility liberties. In the US we have squandered our lockdown time in a way that will make TTI more difficult, more expensive, and less effective because, the outbreak is more widespread. But even with those marks against it, it would be better (in terms of economics, health outcomes, and personal liberty) than extending lockdown indefinitely or “opening up” the economy to what will quickly result in resuming exponential growth of infections and, consequently, deaths.
You don't generally buy cars frequently enough to know the price offhand.

The price also gets bundled in with all sorts of options, 50 different configurations, different financing rates and terms, etc.
> That would be expected behavior.

That's exactly my point. "Surreptitious" is being used to mean "I think it's bad, and I think it's not expected." The "bad" part is obviously subjective, but even if we agree on that, the latter is where you really need standards bodies to agree on what is acceptable technology practices. To me, ad tracking is definitely expected (regardless of whether I think it's bad). I suspect it's also expected by nearly all HN participants, and ubiquitous ad tracking is even in the mainstream public consciousness outside of tech circles.
What, you don't want teenagers hacking into your messages with p0rn?
“ Are they extracting my documents and misuing them? Are they performing MITM on my connections and doing something harmful? While the capability is there, I don't see the software being used in a way that will inconvenience me.”

Please explain this further.

Not snark, genuinely curious.
The very first thing I do after buying any laptop is completely wiping everything and installing Linux or re-installing Windows.

I think it's best to always start from clean slate because even 'good' manufacturers put a tonne of shit in there. So in that sense, it doesn't really matter what the manufacturer does, apart from the terrible decision making that they should learn from.
Manage and find data with Blob Index for Azure Storage – now in preview
My current generation T495 works perfectly with the latest Fedora and Ubuntu. The last revisions of Fedora and Ubuntu work perfectly except for the fingerprint sensor.
Flippa is an option if it's a smaller project [1].

If the project is moderate sized to larger, it would be advisable to speak with an Investment Banker.

[1] https://www.flippa.com/
> Unfortunately, a lot of tech companies have (perhaps unintentionally) conditioned consumers to expect software to be free

I think Apple started this movement with the App Store and the .99 cent app. I think it coincided with the shift from on-prem software to cloud, but that really shifted what people can charge for software. We've seen a bit of a shift back the last ~5 years maybe? But I still think it the App store started the current epoch.
> this arrangement may make Zoom responsive to pressure from Chinese authorities

"May" is a weasel word that doesn't offend the sensibilities of CCP.

In reality, every single company which is incorporated in China must be majority-owned by the Chinese government. This is what makes their economic system "state capitalism" and not "communism". But that also means they have a controlling share and get last word on any executive and administrative decision within the company.
It's true that "HN is turning into Reddit" is classed as an Eternal September-style complaint in my mind, and I think also in the minds of most people who make those comments. You're the first person I've heard suggest that it might be a cyclical ebb and flow. The comments we're talking about never have anything that subtle to say.

I think you're underestimating how common this trope is, and how mechanical and vacuous it is. It has been that way for well over 10 years—since before HN was even called "Hacker News" in fact. It got so tedious that pg added that site guideline a decade ago.
Pricing things can be strange.

Back in the old Zortech days, we included full library source for free with the compiler. Library source wasn't even available for other compilers. Nobody particularly cared that we did that, and it was never mentioned in compiler reviews in the press. One day, Borland decided to package partial (not including floating point) library source for their compiler as a separate product. The press went ape over it with headline articles about how great this was. (Philippe Kahn was a marketing genius.) Naturally, we at Zortech found this annoying.

What we did was separate out the free library source into a separate package, and put a price on it. When people called up to buy the compiler, we'd ask "do you want the library source package, too, for an additional $XX?" They almost always said yes. So we made an extra $XX on each sale, leveraging the expectations Borland had set in the market.

Of course, these days expectations have changed again. We give D all away for free.
Yep, and even now, the Fission (site isolation) work is still causing a ton of architectural churn everywhere.
Total aesthetic digression: Having the topbar offset inversely based off ~1.5x the scroll position is one of the coolest effects I've seen for hiding top bars.

I like this a lot more than the sticky style that most things use.
> Go to Vegas and there are whole shopping malls where, to indulge in just a degree of hyperbole, I'd have to look hard to find something I could afford. Or at least would even consider affording.

IIRC, Americans don't really shop at those stores. Their costumers are mainly foreign nouveau rich people.
Even fully loaded it should cover at least 8-9 engineers.
Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA
Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3% of Women Agree
A few days ago Conversations also learned how to make audio and video calls :-)
The definition of luxury has changed. It's now more about value, utility, and stability. Luxury means owning property in a high-end location, a MacBook Pro, fast optical networks, clean drinking water, and a reliable car.
I literally highlighted every paragraph of this post. So many things to agree with.

I'm really looking forward to the breakdown of much of what has been teased here.

Top of mind: Is Postal the self-hosted transactional mail server (https://github.com/postalhq/postal)? Been looking at using this for an idea, and wanted to know if there are any obvious gotchas to look out for.
> I haven't heard of this one

Here is the specification: https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Lola/index.html

I don't yet have representative experimental data; the language is designed for the synthesis of synchronous FPGA designs and thus avoids some of the issues Verilog and other HDL suffer from. But it's too early for me to give a recommendation.

> The thing that remains to be seen though is performance benchmarking

Agree. I often use Verilator and I also experiment with LuaJIT (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/LjTools) which is one of the fastest VM available; it intend to use it for HW simulation and debugging too.
I used deep learning to predict DotA 2 win outcomes based on 3.5M matches
Perhaps the ones from the late 1990s were (depends on what you think qualifies as "esoteric", since Medusa, for example, was serving high volume websites in the late 1990s), but I wasn't claiming they weren't; I was only pointing out that they did in fact support asynchronous request handling as a first class feature, even before Nginx did.

Nginx, OTOH, was popular before NodeJS even existed, let alone before NodeJS became mainstream.
It sounds like you're talking about network resolved state. I like to share this sort of state using a subscription model, where components subscribe to a property of a state root (which anchors/owns the state and how to fetch it), resolving that property's state when mounted. Where that root is in the tree determines the lifecycle of the state (e.g. it's gone when unmounted), and multiple subscribers to the same property can mount, unmount, etc. at any point during that lifecycle without duplication.

I believe this model has similarities to both Apollo and Angular services, though I don't have direct experience with either.
I think a key to a strong and secure economy is to reduce and discourage debt of all kinds. Instead lowering interest rates is used to encourage spending. Debt has its place, but it always comes due.
>Metric for what?

Metric for capability. Even though imperfect, IQ appears to reasonable good predictor of how capable a person is in learning a new task. The better way is of course to actually tech the person to find out how well he can learn it, which is time consuming. High IQ people can easily learn and do most jobs, low IQ people cannot.

>How many people parrot Charles Murray to justify their racism with "science"?

Charles Murray just says that races have statistically different IQ. This is different from my understood definition of racism which manifest as: "I will not hire you because you belong to race X"
One full meeting duration after the meeting ends.
Ok, a potential positive sum is definitely better than zero but once again, how exactly are creditors making money off this? The grandparent's post is implying that somehow no one is losing money in this situation. I'd like to hear how it works.
> I’d take this article with a grain of salt until

Until you M$ shills have more time to cover this up. Fuck you shill.
I think they mean a situation with these hypothetical state actors using furry avatars for propaganda in general, not just within the furry fandom.
I honestly don't think most people care about this and have already forgotten about it.
Reduce the quality/quantity of the existing product to keep the same price over time. Release another similar 'product', possibly under a different product name and/or brand with the original quality/quantity but at a higher price.
I'm not saying everyone is the same as Elon, except for the money. I'm saying his inherited wealth, and being at the right place at the right time, and so on, has probably more to do with Elons success than anything else, so let's stop worshipping the guy, and everyone else like him. Our society favours the few, and that's not something we should celebrate.

> "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

– Stephen Jay Gould
I've downloaded Manyverse from F-Droid so many times, hoping to finally use it for real...but I never could. I was particularly excited recently when an iOS app was released.

If you have a really close group of techy friends who don't mind hiccups and tinkering and don't mind a strictly non-private social medium, maybe it could work.

However, if you're trying to use it with normies, you might be disappointed. Private messages don't work at all, in my experience. Syncing with a pub server takes a couple of restarts, and there is no indicator in the GUI that any syncing is happening, so the user is left guessing.

I have nothing but respect for Andre Staltz and all the dedication and work that he and others have put into the app (and ecosystem) but, at least for me, it's just not quite there yet.
I can call out one example of a poorly executed price raise: Apollo Engine (https://www.apollographql.com/pricing)

There was a time when they charged for data points/performance traces ingested into the system. At our scale, we were paying around $100/month. We were prepared to scale that to their, I think it was, $550/month plan when our usage got that high.

They relatively recently changed their structure to charge per registered user. This would have raised our bill to around $1500/month at our current scale, to get all of of the stakeholders in there.

This is a cost incongruent with the value we were getting out of it. Even a ~$500/month price tag does not correlate with the value received, at our scale. It would one day (its a great product), but not today. So, today, we have two employees who have access to that, keeping our spend the same.

Here's the key component of this pricing change though: They will, no longer, be able to grow revenue with us. A pricing change forced us to make organizational changes. Those organizational changes mean that fewer people are seeing any value the product could deliver. When fewer people see the value, then the product has fewer advocates within the organization; its fungible utility will eventually be rolled into a competing product we already pay for, like Datadog, even if the experience is worse, because when we discuss Engine its always prefaced with "Oh, I think Dave in ops uses that, no one else does".
I don't like Lenovo. Their laptops have steadily declined by every metric I care about since the X220. But Thinkpads are still better (by those same metrics) than anything else I've come across.

Would be willing to buy something else. Anything else. But most other laptops out there have even worse keyboards (which I deeply care about), terrible form factors, specs that are stuck in 2010, awful support/warranty, no Linux support, or all of the above!

If someone builds something I'm happy with, I'll buy it. Price is not an issue. My laptop is my toolbox. I want it to work the way I like it. If it breaks, I need to have fixed preferably today, but tomorrow or the day after can be acceptable as well. That basically leaves Lenovo & Dell.
When Johnnie Walker Blue Was King
"Going crypto" is the new 'jumping the shark'.
It was the internet that made software free, starting with the browser, and continuing with the adoption of Linux with its free tools.
Tell ya what, this thread is starting to fall into the ether, so I'll throw you an email.

Anyone else who happens on this and wants to know more, please feel free to DM me on twitter or email me, all the info is in my bio.
The prerequisites for all OSes are documented here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/210707503-Virtual-...

>Linux:

>· Zoom Desktop Client for Linux, version 2.0.91373.0502 or higher

>· Dual Core 2Ghz or Higher (i5/i7 or AMD equivalent) processor

>· A physical green screen
I do believe that's an ASR-33 teletype, which have a built-in paper tape punch and reader. That's the chad bin for all the little bits punched out of the tape.

It's before my time, but I have used one. I can guarantee that it was never that tidy in practice. My experience with punching a tape is that the chads seem to go everywhere except the bin. It's a fire hazard before long.
Did all of the basic income funding come from the population of Dauphin though, or was it subsidized by a larger tax base like that of Manitoba or Canada? For a useful experiment to be conducted, seems that the program should be funded entirely from the population that receives the benefit.
Wait what, you're saying that poor people bring crime right? And what's your solution, to make them even poorer or homeless? Or are you just using class as a proxy for something else?
First define what is retirement to YOU. If you can live with 1000 USD per month vs say 10,000 per month, we are talking different strategies. In general though, why not.
You should read this - https://smartenoughcity.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/8dthlkrx/releas...
Anything that involves interpretation of ambiguous scenarios (most famous: Twitter, YT and Facebook deleting legal content that falls under freedom of speech based upon abusive mass reports but refusing to account for patterns of trolling behavior), and much that requires creative input (i.e. photo/video composition, shooting and editing).
There were local, volunteering missions to help healthcare workers, the homeless, etc all done by some "non-profit" in europe. Those missions had state-sponsored ads, and I volunteered online.

As soon as they required me to use zoom, I told them I would not use zoom. I just go on their whatsapp thing, so of course I get less info, etc.

I really fail to understand how Zoom became so popular, and I was recently wondering the same thing about TikTok, which by the way, was just a clone of Vine.

Essentially, with apps like that, advertising and adoption is critical, the tech doesn't really matter that much. I would really be interested in understanding what are the strategies in place to make people use those things. Of course the virus played a huge role, but I'm certain there are specialists about how to gain users rapidly.