skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's on the upswing among the youth. I'm seeing a lot more plain black hoodies with BALENCIAGA screen printed across the front. Gucci and versace have seen a resurgence, even their rubber slides which are probably less comfortable than a $15 pair are coveted and featured in music videos. Dressing nicely to some might mean a gaudy branded t shirt under a blazer, percieved by the wearer as passable for nice attire due to the three figure price tag, but really it's the same material as the $5 undershirt I have under my button down.
I don’t understand all the comparisons to the US here. The article is talking about Finland, and the comment poster is from Germany.

Is anyone saying this is appropriate for the US right now?

In my opinion, the US has a long way to go before even beginning to consider such practices. The UBI is something EU nations can experiment with, not the US.
> Second: Ads. Oh, ads. You horrible, horrible little fucking squares of pointless content I wish I could so completely ignore. I wish there was a global browser override to disable ads, powered by Google and Apple. Pay $15/mo to avoid all ads on the web. Payments are made to sites you visit (e.g. Medium style).

Maybe us software engineers with our awesome salaries can afford the $15/month for an ad-free web, but:

1. Many either can't afford this or won't see this as a need, because

2. Many people don't care about ads being there (see also: YouTube Red), so

3. Content generators will continue to post ads, which

4. Are easy to block if you're even mildly technically savvy
Is there a bottom line? I can't find the video and the format of 10 seconds of information wrapped in a 10-minute video doesn't suit me.
Of course in Finland education is free, but yes the point of the UBI is that it is not constrained, and can be used to augment part-time work, etc, etc.
I do development work on it and haven't ran into any issues. That being said, if you need something a little more beefy, and a little less lightweight, the T line is the next place to look. There's also the X1 extreme. However, after the XPS15 I wanted something a bit more mobile.
This one may be more in line with the Hacker News crowd:

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/...
Maybe the problem of transporting the energy produced there to China or the Netherlands or something? The problem with selling energy in Morocco or Egypt is that the people there are, by and large, poor, so they can't pay you very much.
could be probably connected to "spankchain" to drive the toys with blockchain tokens. I see a lot of use cases here :D
Planet of the Humans Shows Why Solving Climate Will Neither Small nor Beautiful
It could have also been expectations.

The people reading a poorly written survey might have thought that the park wanted to SPLIT the fee structure.

* Same $$ Both Parks
* Fraction, One Park

There are so many ways it could have been taken incorrectly, even the context of the other questions matters too.
Probably want -Os (and strip afterwards) if you're interested in startup time. C is also 1ms. C++ has a big cxxrt that zig doesn't. FWIW c++ only takes 2ms on my (quite slow) machine.
If you have a service where the free deal was too good to be true, then it works. I am not salty at the New York Times. I pay for the subscription and it is well worth it.

Also, now I want a coffee and a doughnut, goddamn it. Is Dunkin still open in quarantine?
Solid irony here: Sonos called out Spotify for criticizing Apple's closed system
I have tried to explain much more at my web site, and also in reply to another comment nearby.
Absolutely not, that's why I'm questioning why any of these are being described here as "luxury brands." A t-shirt from a luxury brand could cost several hundred dollars, none of these stores carry anything like that. This is all shopping mall grade.
> Why would a person who legitimately owes a debt win just by showing up?

Debt collectors often don’t play by the rules, or don’t keep good records that are required to legally collect the debt. Even if they do, it’s not like the lawyers are likely to spend time tracking down the info for a single case to prove it.

“Win” means the debt is found invalid due to one of these reasons.
This is really concerning given Zoom’s clear lack of security expertise—there’s no good outcome here.
The most interesting piece of the link isn't the sail application, it's the theoretical implication. More thrust was experienced than expected from photon pressure alone. A lot more.
What online tailor do you use? I have a local guy who charges fairly reasonable prices but it would be interesting to compare...
Why not the dollar van slice then? (Jitney slice doesn’t have the same ring to it)
as long as they don't live from my taxes, they can not work.
Google Contributor is one attempt to pay creators and it's not terrible. The big downside is that even though ads are blocked, Google is still tracking you.

It would be nice if there was somebody other than Google running the program.
That's something that plagued my ThinkPads since forever, made worse when they moved from the rounded trackpoint nub to the flat one. Easy fix, take out the rubber trackpoint nub and put it back (maybe clean the area a bit). Or disable it if you're more productive with the touchpad.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516217
Free for personal and small team use to gain brand and product awareness, then charge for support, additional features, higher usage limits, etc.

Basically the same as Slack, Trello, etc.

Be careful with per-user billing though, as this puts a lot of big enterprises off.
This is an important point. A lot of companies do great revenue by selling seats, but that model is obviously not always applicable. In this case, you're pointing out that the marginal utility of a product like Apollo Engine is not driven by the number of users, but by the usage. In other products, say Box or Dropbox, the marginal utility is in how many people in an org you can get using the product, not in how much you use.
How near is your "near term" here?

We still pay hefty amounts of money to oil rig workers and underwater welders, even here on Earth. Robot telepresence has a long way to go before we can build an entire refinery in zero-G.
Has an acquisition ever worked like that in practice? I’ve heard that github might qualify but... Keybase ain’t no github.
Well-paid? I don't think that's a general truth. Many Finns would disagree.
Indeed, competition is fierce, even with the educational requirements.

I had a rough plan of working in a daycare (päiväkoti) as a native English speaker. Sadly there are few private daycare places that hire English-speaking people, and for those that are in existance demand is so high that I had no chance.
Unclear what the benefit is, given the cost.

EVs already provide enough range for commuting. The vast majority of the population commutes tens of miles, and EVs can regularly do hundreds of miles. So there’s really no need to modify roads for the sake of commuters.

For longer distance travel we really should be talking less roads and more high speed rail. They’re faster, safer, and more efficient than cars. It’s also a less uncertain technology; there are several countries with highly successful high speed rail systems that we could copy.

For freight we should use regular rail for similar reasons, plus the fact that using semi trucks, diesel or EV, creates a large financial burden on the public to undo the damage that heavy trucks do to our roads.
Condominium in Ontario (Toronto is in Ontario) is a form of ownership, it had nothing to do with the physical form of the home.

You can own a condominimum townhouse (a row of single family homes with front yard, driveways, garage attached by common walls) or a condominium apartment (in say a 30 storey building with 10 parents per floor)

And yes, you can rent out a condominium apartment. Approx 60 % of the rental units in the Greater Toronto Area are condominium apartments.
Shouldn't it be the "Tatars", not the "Tartars"?
It depends on how many projects you have. A place like Slack has only one client/product really when it comes down to it, so they can get pedantic about it and look down on smart reuse across projects with robust tested libs on top of standard libs that are necessary to increase production and stability/security etc.

If you work at an agency, or game company shipping many games, there will always be a "core" library or "base" library that has Helpers and Utility. Good consistent projects wanted tested and solid parts. Every game has a common lib of core tools like maths, vector tools, prediction, data structures and many more.

There is such a broad difference in coding on one platform for one company for one product compared to shipping many companies (or many internal projects) on many platforms for many products.

Even standard libraries for platforms are essentially a Helper/Utility really when it comes down to it: .NET Core, Python standard lib, standard node, C++ distributable etc. There will be common core tasks across a project, product, company or platform for most teams with many projects to manage.

If you don't have common libs with common helpers/utilities in large sets of products, technical debt and maintenance become a nightmare. In projects we work on these are core/base libs that are submodules in git and are essentially the 'tech' across projects where the project/product itself is the unique implementation for that product. Anything common or generic gets put in the core 'tech'. Every single game studio will have these as well as agencies if they are organized and produce quality relatively fast and consistent.

If "Happiness is a freshly organized codebase" they must have common tested parts that are ship tested.

This is really just Slack talking specifically about mature products at a company that only has one product. It isn't reality at places that have many projects, products, companies, clients etc. Pretending they are the same is a bit elitist.
> Nobody outside a minority of devs refers to Ctrl+c as C-c.

First, C-c is not Ctrl + c; second, it really helps to use compact notation when you read a lot of keybindings; and third, this is approximately the most minor complication in the learning curve of Emacs (otherwise nobody would learn vim, with its insane key mappings and invisible mode transitions).
Yeah, that's pretty much the canonical model. Huge in the 80s for a variety of reasons, still extremely common today.

There are other models for PE and going private- sometimes companies don't use nearly so much leverage and are effecitvely bought as part of portfolio, sometimes you see very rich individuals take their companies that they used to own private again, sometimes they do use tons of leverage but buy and run the companies mostly as is, just growing the company in place and paying down debt from cashflow.

PE's and LBOs aren't necessarily bad things at all and the economy as a whole is better for having them exist. The problem is that the risk/reward profile tends to exaberate inequality. The PE/LBO firm is already rich individuals who may make our lose millions on a bet on the company. The control their own risk and decide. The workers and communities who also have a stake in the company? They have very limited upside and the downside is that they lose their jobs and anchor institutions in their communities, and they have very little control over whether or not to accept the risk.
CSS spec editor: “If that confuses you, congrats, it confuses me too, which is why I wrote that note…”

https://twitter.com/tabatkins/status/1254149169905725440

You can pat yourself on the back for finding it intuitive, but many people aren’t. If it were just me, I would not have written about it.

Also note that in your examples you’re using two literal values that share the same unit (something that wouldn’t happen in real code). I think it’s fairly clear what the functions do in that case, but it’s less clear if the units are different:

max(80%, 200px)

Can you describe what the above value means?
I trusted Keybase. They sold me. I deleted my account. For the same reason I deleted my account when LinkedIn sold my data and trust to Microsoft.
Does it respect the user schema search path?
I left Microsoft around 2013 when the transition to Git was announced.

At the time, most teams (that I encountered) used something called Source Depot. I was told that back in the day, MS licensed the source code from Perforce, forked it, and that became Source Depot. I do know there were some teams using TFS and I'm sure there were some smaller teams using Git too.

I'm not sure how the transition went, since I left before it started, but I would bet it's still at least somewhat ongoing. Some of the people on my team that had been at MS for awhile were EXTREMELY skeptical of change.
Usually I'd agree with you, but this is a case of DoD wanting to preserve infrastructure for targeting drones vs corporations seeing $$$ in robotic deployment and automation so they can eliminate jobs. Who knows who will win.

The drones thing is hyperbole because (so far) they drop the bombs overseas, but my point is that they have an interest in preserving GPS domestically.
I tend to agree, too. It is really no worse than any other complex application, and far better documented than most.

An an occasional user of both Excel and Emacs (mainly a vi guy), I waste at least as much time figuring out where "that tool" in Excel went or how to get in to one of the weird graph editing modes as I do with the more obscure Emacs features I use sometimes.
Most small ISPs in the mid-late 1990s didn't have ASNs, which you only needed once you scaled to the point where you were peering with your upstreams.
An individual action is not a solution for a systemic problem. His personal donation will do nothing to solve the problem.
I second this. (Source - I am one)
Exactly what I mean. It is insane. I can't get it straight. I really tried years ago. But it is plain and simple stupid.

Words once written don't need to be abbreviated. Abbrevation is only useful when writting for speed. When writting for being read don't use them.
> And this comment on hacker news that was doing astroturfing for Google

Except that the mod reply also links to other astroturfers doing the exact same thing. Astroturfing is everywhere it seems.
Posted on Medium...

Brave (or at least the idea of it) seems to satisfy the author's requirements around ads. Then again, so does an ad blocker.
The hubris of Google is just incredible. Half-baked commitments and then to tell someone who is actually dedicated to the mission that they will run them into the ground. It's really nasty. I've seen the same behavior from the first CEO of 'Spotlife', exactly the same tone of voice, exactly the same ending.
You're probably mistaken [edit: no, I was wrong] about whether they're good investments for home usage and whether government subsidies would be needed, but maybe you live in a country where import tariffs make the panels cost a lot more than they cost on the open market.

By "large" do you mean something more like 0.01 m², 0.1 m², 1 m², 10 m², or 100 m²? Any of those is a "large panel" in some frame of reference.
Imo the threat here isn't just the government - that's a concern, but if you've been tested positive, the NHS already know you.

The bigger issue is potential leaks or poor access controls resulting in a malicious third party gaining access. With the decentralised approach where Apple/Google control access to their APIs, the threat surface is significantly reduced (e.g. contact tracing apps cannot also use geolocation)

Disclosure: Also a Google employee.
Smart home platform Wink will require a monthly subscription starting next week
I‘m not defending massive tech companies. But in this case it might be a bit different. Back when Larry Page still did interviews he mentioned a couple of times that the concept of cities needs to be rethought. Talking out of my ass I‘m pretty sure that he more or less told Doctoroff to go wild and handed him 100 million.

Alphabet can kind of do this stuff because so far their still growing steadily and a majority of voting shares are with the founders.

So if there is any company I kind of buy, that they didn‘t necessarily have profit as the first priority, it would be Sidewalk Labs. They can always figure that out later.

Worst case they spend a couple hundred millions and nothing came of it. Except many theoretical ideas about city building would have been known to work or not.

Maybe I‘m naive. But imagine you had a gazillion dollars and owned one of the most powerful entities ever. Wouldn‘t you want to try crazy shit that you thought of as a kid. Well Page/Brin can I guess.
I already use Airtable as a backend for some small internal tools. It definitely does the job but there are some moments where I feel it might be easier and more flexible just to create something on Firebase. From an API perspective storing and retrieving objects in both is equally as easy.

The only reason I went with Airtable is because I needed a GUI to add data manually.
There has been also complaints that if you have 4K display in Lenovo you are loosing quite much battery life. I haven't seen any definite tests about this though.
Yes! I certainly do. It's not my main device but for a quick bugfix when I'm not close to a PC it's really useful.

Currently Github regularly completely freezes Chrome on my phone when viewing moderately large files. And I have a decently specced phone.
The kindest thing we could do for future programmers is let Emacs and all tty-oriented editors die. There are much better options now. UI has improved a lot since the 1970s, let's embrace it.
> What if, just as the medical-care crisis started to spiral in New York City, in Detroit, in New Orleans, the internet in those places had stopped working—an hour at a time, a couple of hours in the late afternoon? What if the internet had slowed to half its normal speed?

But this has been my experience. I've been working remotely for ~9 years and saw a change soon after the lockdown started. I began having sporadic network trouble, usually in the morning. Some days my connection is might as well have been shut off completely. The other day I was seeing 2743ms of latency on all outside connections. Many days the wifi at the library down the street is better. That said, it has been working a lot more than not.

I've watched our IT guy doing a lot of heavy lifting to make it possible for the rest of the staff to work remotely and I'm sure lots of IT people are overworked right now.
Three things strike me here: audience, proximity, and predicting behavior.

- The audience coming out of the waterpark at the end of the day are different than the people entering the overall park at the beginning of the day. If nothing else, the larger group will include people who have no interest in going to the waterpark and therefore find no value in it at all. The smaller audience is more highly qualified.

- The proximity comes down to when you received/perceived value. Polling people immediately after they had a fun filled day is terrible timing. Think of the last time you went to a movie you LOVED. On the way out, if someone had asked "want to see it again" you would have said "yes!" but a week later, much less so. Now a year later would you buy the same movie on streaming?

- And finally, people are terrible about predicting their own behavior, especially if it requires work or not-immediately visible value. That's why most New Year's resolutions are dead by February. After hitting this lots of times, I stay away from "would" questions: https://caseysoftware.com/blog/the-problem-with-would

But without going through that pain and suffering it first hand, it's hard to predict when/if it will occur. There are lots of other packaging & pricing strategies to address this intersection of economics & psychology.
The bug with the trackpoint is if you rest your finger on the trackpoint. If you lift your finger, it should stop drifting.
80,000 deaths is more than double the current number of deaths in the UK, which is itself very high.

This difference alone is the difference between deploying the army to build field hospitals and emergency seizures of industry to make it happen, or doing nothing. And it comes from floating point differences between AVX and non-AVX hardware. The apologetics for this on HN are absurd.
Thanks! It's fun and definitely useful as long as you're not trying to us it as Redis ;)
For a given distance to the target, there is a minimum required lens size to focus the laser so (most of) it hits the target. The required size is proportional to the target distance.

When the distance to the target is interstellar-scale, the required lens gets pretty big.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23105060, which is currently on the front page.
I am quite curious why business plans themselves are not generally subject to a/b testing....
What sort of debunking are you referring to?

Maybe you're talking about how Taiwan does not like the CCP. Correct. So let me be clear: when I said "Chinese people" I'm referring to mainlanders.
Fingers crossed they open source the server portion at least -> https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24105
I very much doubt the actual value of a typical ad-viewing user is actually $15/month. More like $5 maybe which becomes way more affordable and when you think about it, you're already paying like 10x that (if in the US) for internet access so another $5 for a spam-free experience doesn't seem too bad.
My cheap 2 year old ultraportable Lenovo supports 32 gigs of ram. And it's DDR4. And they're still socketed.
You became the largest broker, next may be you could become an exchange :D
Have a similar, but slightly more horrific, story with a Thinkpad X230T. I was working from home after the birth of our first child (so... clearly not in my right mind...), and I decided it would be a good idea to carry my laptop on top of a way too full basket of laundry up the stairs to save an extra trip. I wasn't paying attention... tilted the basket at the very top of the stairs... and my Thinkpad rolls down the stairs along its edges... full steam ... and slams into the wall at the bottom.

I pick up the Thinkpad expecting the worst... and the only damage was a very slight opening along the seam of the external battery... not a scratch on the actual unit itself... no components jarred free... nothing...

Been buying Thinkpads ever since...
Yes, your idea is more generic. In my case, "the function" is the result of the assessment of the controls' visual 8-points state.
I wore my copy out actually. That book single handily was responsible for my brief infatuated phase for wearing polos and no-sock penny-loafers while sporting a locust valley lockjaw. I'm laughing about it as I write this...
If you don't do it, there's always a willing colleague who will. At least, that's been my experience in FAANG and related companies. Since I became...complacent, I guess... and started only working 9-5 for the most part, I can't keep up with my colleagues who are working seemingly every waking minute. It's a great way to get passed up on promotions, not get handed the "good" projects, and just generally be sidelined from decision making. Ymmv of course.
If there is UBI, you can move to places where rent is cheap, you don't have to be where the jobs are.
Calculator Hacked for Cheating Includes a Secret OLED Screen and WiFi
Infrastructure as Code in 5 Parts
https://archive.md/yOzVk/27be7b61acdd90c7df458546e7e91676df9...
I used to use emacs daily, but nowadays sticking to "mg" and "vscode"...
100%. I love Firebase's speed but digging into the data and modifying it through their console is a total pain.