skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they call this "getting high on your own supply."

The purpose of the internet is to move data, it consumes electricity as a side effect. The purpose of the power grid is to supply electricity and moving data is secondary. The ratio of power-to-data will always be different.

(Unless the power company does something really smart (not "Smart TM") and decides that since it maintains heavy steel and copper wires to every home it might as well wrap an optic fiber about it and get high bandwidth to everyone.)

A "smart grid" can find some efficiencies, but if the power available < demand, the best the smart grid can do is cut some neighborhoods off. People attack smart meters for the same reason they attack 5G -- it's a nonsensical enterprise that smolders on for years with breathless press releases, yet if you try to put bounds on the economic benefits these are hard to distinguish for zero.

How is it, for instance, that Samsung is talking about holographic XR in some beehive like Dongdaemun but pick a random spot in New York State by area, call 911, and you shouldn't expect to get through.
Remember how Steve Jobs only ate fruit? It's that.
Nothing stops you from putting ads in RSS.

I personally think RSS was killed when social networks shifted to social media...
Indie Hackers has a pretty big database of products: https://www.indiehackers.com/products
It’s easier to just tweak some system registers than to do that (and indeed this is how Apple implements their proprietary “in-silicon” features).
In reference to the A.I. behind YouTube, have you ever found a video about Cuba in the suggested videos, even if you often look for this type of turism reportage?
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Millenia ago, even.
Dude... what? Both of those are false analogies.
Does this mean if there's a developer I don't like, I can buy their stuff and refund it to arbitrarily cost them money at no cost to myself and there's nothing they can do about it?

That seems ... not great, especially these days. What happens when mobs of internet morons decide review bombing isn't sufficient and realize Apple will help them cause direct financial harm instead?
Seems like that category is a mixture of vegan and no-cook meals.
A type of vegan.
App stores need heavy regulations. It's not only Apple but Google and even steam to a small extent. Apple is of course the biggest offender as they heavily guard their monopoly with code signing enforcement. This shouldn't have been legal. They are the very definitions of predatory competition squashing monopolies.
We're talking about physical perception, that's why people go out of their way to get plastic surgery, braces, wear makeup, etc, to impress other people. You can say how things should be, and what the ideal world should be. But the fact remains, physical appearance helps immensely, whether that person is qualified or not. Why do people put on a suit for a silly interview? Why can't I just come in with flip flops and shorts? Yeh the world sucks, you play the game in a way that gives yourself the best chance to win.
In my past, I've purchased some high quality CD-Rs used by studios. Not sure if they made a difference though. I didn't see any definitive information with a quick search.

I've long since abandoned using optical as a form of stroage...
> It's kind of a mark of white privilege to believe that the police will arrive in time to protect you, and that when they arrive they won't harm you.

This is a gross overstated political narrative.

A) Most police response times are well after most conflicts.

B) Poor and targeted neighborhoods often have better response times because of the larger constant police presence.

C) Socioeconomic signals predict treatment better than the color of your skin.
In the deep learning world every major framework works on top of Cudnn which works on top of CUDA Pytorch, Tensorflow you name it.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/10657

That is the state of Pytorch support for AMD GPUs.
You know the target is less than half that right.[0] Plus massive underemployment deflates the numbers.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14424.htm
I think it depends on what you're going to use it for. If you're using it for serious heavy professional coding, you might find Atheos lacking, but I'm a hobby coder and I really like it's simplicity and compact form.

I know it goes against best practices, but I code almost exclusively 'in production' since it's easiest for me to do so. Coder, GitPod, and VSCode I believe all have somewhat virtual file managers but Atheos actually directly acts on the files of your server so when I notice a small typo/bugs on one of my sites, I can login and change it without any extra steps.

Atheos also doesn't really have a strong method of code compiling. It does support syntax highlighting of most languages thanks to the Ace Editor (Same as the one from Cloud9), and it does have a terminal plugin allowing you to issue commands to the server directly.

I did take a lot of keyboard shortcuts from VSCode in hopes of making it easier for someone to switch between without too much of a hassle. Having the built in Git Integration that is 99% complete has really helped my workflow as well.

One of the things I really enjoy about Atheos is that it's such a simple codebase that if there is a feature I want or someone asks for, I can add it pretty easily, either as a standalone plugin or built in. At this point, I'm only really limited by my ability to make something.
It’s still well below the IPO price in 2017, with net loss growing to $326 million, up from $255 million last year and EBITDA of almost -$1 billion.

Perhaps our definitions of doing well are different.

Sure DAU is up, but we all know those metrics are inflated BS and monetization is all that really matters. It’s been 3 years since IPO and they’re still making a heavy loss.
A stricter form of veganism, where you only eat raw fruit. Steve Jobs and Gandhi was fruitarian too; usually such people practice indian spiritualism in some form too (e.g. yoga)
> ... results are not statistically conclusive and for 4 or more days after exposure there is no statistical evidence that hydroxychloroquine is effective in reducing the appearance of symptoms.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09477
> Anyway, I don't understand what the author is trying to get at.

It's about paradigms in technology deployment.
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I guess economists assume that economics is really a social discipline. When arguments about hard limits are made, they IME come from physicists. I particularly like a decade-old (time flies!) Do The Math series. The post which makes a prediction about the oceans in 400-ish years assuming 2.3% yoy growth in particular is here: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
Even if you do that, whatever YouTube recommends to you will still be selected by an algorithm.
No, that is just wrong.

SARS-COV-2 is a virus. It is not an autoimmune disease. Your immune system is not reacting to your own tissues. It is reacting to the virus, just like an immune system is supposed to. Immunology is very clear about this, though I admit that the details can be confusing at first. The lines get 'blurry' at the molecular level, Ship of Theseus, all that jazz.

Look, we all want hydroxychloroquine to work with covid-19. It would save a lot of lives, potentially. That's a great thing. If it works.

But we cannot administer it without good proof. Currently, the evidence seems to say that it does not work. It may change over time and with more research, but we can only go off of what we know today.
That whole thread is just speculation, same as what we are doing here.

See this post: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=187087&curpost...
You can also use DFTube which can hide the news feed, comments, playlists and so on. You can choose which to hide or show.
I always like the general DIY stuff, the problem ends up being that if I watch one or two fun "how to can goods for the end of the world" videos or whatever YouTube inevitably starts recommending people talking about how they're going to start a race war and live in their bunker and kill all the immigrants and black people or something horrible along those lines. I used to live in an area with a lot of prepers and this was their prevailing thought. I'm not sure if it's a minority of the community or not, but it's what YouTube likes to recommend anyways.
I have a 1986 Playboy and in the "Tech Section" there is a image of a "video phone" which was basically a landline phone setup with a tiny 5" B&W screen with an image of the person you were talking to and it was hailed as the future of communications.

Behold, the Luma Telecom Video Telephone:

Looks like a press release from 1986:
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/22/Luma-Telecom-Inc-has...

If you wanted some pics:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-mitsubishi-lu...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fujipc/4578540563
This is an interesting one.

Early in my career I thought it would be a good career move to become knowledgeable in the business domain I was working in (finance/trading). I started investing some time and resources to learn.

But before I got too deep, I came to the realization that it wasn't really much help. I could become knowledgeable enough to talk and understand the business like a half-assed rookie trader, and let my technical skills suffer. Or I could spend that time to invest in my technical skills and become a better SWE. This was also around the time that I started to think I didn't want to stay in the finance industry much longer, and obviously the business knowledge would not be portable.

That said, I'm still stuck working at a bank, and I completely understand where you're coming from, where the traders come to technology asking us to understand and solve their business problems.
Where this analogy fails is that shipping is not a fixed percent of a product cost.

And the cost of refund is the same to Apple for a product that cost $1 just as it is for products that cost $100.
Why would they refund 30%?

Because they can afford it, and it's the right thing to do both ethically and morally.
Henry Kissinger,

It's actually closer to 20%. There's over 30 million Americans on state or federal unemployment insurance. https://wolfstreet.com/2020/07/23/media-continues-to-misrepo...
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Why do app stores need separate regulations?

> They are the very definitions of predatory competition squashing monopolies.

But they aren’t, this is a rather competitive space.
Apple couldn’t care less; they are supposed to support 4K pages in hardware but they do not on recent chips.
What about we simply stop importing cheap things from China? Surely all Americans can't just "learn to code", so would it hurt with some factories building things in America? Is a bit of protectionism that bad?
The S&L crisis was 1986-1995. The demise in popular opinion is not new.
>>When they finally release the algorithm how will we know that's the whole story?

Bingo. Unless you have a NSA squad checking every code change they make. Don't use them and be done.
> Well that's why the investors are trying to take it over.

As long as China has anything meaningful to say, that won't be enough.

> but the type of content that is rewarded on TikTok makes it less exploitable by people who build followings by posting low-effort content that looks good aesthetically.

Lol most of the stuff that goes viral on Tiktok is essentially that. People scaring cows ffs (look up "kulikitaka challenge"). Can't get much more "crap" than this.
This is unfortunate. I recently searched the App Store for “ssh tunnel” and Prompt 2 came up. I bought it without much thought as I heard about.

Now I should have done my research but it doesn’t support tunneling or I couldn’t figure out. Some research told me that no iOS ssh client will. So I requested a refund and got it.

In this case I think the blame was on Apple. Not the author of the app.
Something I genuinely do not understand is the relation between conspiracy themed content and left/right politics.

Is there a correlation between YT's recommendation algorithm clearly seems to think there is as there are videos that I would describe as more tangentially political than topical on both the Climate Denier and Conspiracist pages.
There is an obvious short term cause, which is that the US is stuck with pandemic conditions for quite a long time, and pregnancy and delivery is quite a medical thing. The idea of going through that when the local hospital is overwhelmed with coronavirus patients is not appealing. And you don’t know if it will be because you have to forecast 9 to 12 months ahead.

Meanwhile we have a housing crisis where even very high income people are having a difficult time finding family sized housing in the places that they work.

Having lived in San Francisco for years with children, I would very much like to get a three bedroom two bathroom home, but the cheapest places that are reasonably safe are in the $1.3 million range and up. I don’t want to move to a low cost of living area, I like living in the city. And besides, most of the so-called lower cost of living places aren’t actually that much cheaper. One example: living anywhere near downtown Austin, similar houses have a wider range from as low as 600k (most seem around 800k), but with much higher property taxes the payments are comparable to $1M+ properties in SF. And that’s living in car town without the beauty, walkability, or convenience of an older city.

(Once you adjust for the huge pay cut that leaving the Bay Area brings, there aren’t any great options. The “winning” strategy instead is to horde as much savings as you can in the Bay Area then move to a true LCOL location (rural America / rust belt) as a form of early retirement, living mostly off those accumulated savings for the long haul.)

But the problems I’m describing, frustrating as they are, are nothing compared to the struggle that a family living with median income is facing.

If we don’t get serious about fixing housing, then it won’t surprise me at all if we have a permanent dramatic decrease in birth rates as many adults are not willing to try and raise a family without feeling economically secure, and a lot of people do not feel economically secure until they own their own home.
predicting problems + planning prevention = preparedness

Preppers seem paranoid because mental health is a normative social function and they're on an edge of the spectrum.
I did the same thing, even got rid of the "Up Next" section. It helps reduce distraction and keeps me on YouTube less.
Moments, Poke, Camera are a few. Local could be huge if they had the right strategy.
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Andy - your experience doesn't matter for several reasons.

1st - It doesn't fit with what the majority here believe.

2nd - It dangerous to spread the idea that people aren't victims and they're just experiencing the effects of their own choice to live in an expensive city.
Immigration is the one and only formula the United States has used to grow into the largest economy and among the highest standards of living in the world.

I'm not sure why you imagine this strategy is suddenly problematic.

"At which point we also haven’t solved the demographic problem that immigration is supposed to solve."

I also don't follow the logic of this line at all. Why would new immigrants working and paying taxes and having children not help the demographic situation?
You're deriving way too much from an uninformative article. "Given the drugs by her parents" doesn't mean they were prescribed by her parents. Did the article say whether there was no doctor involved?

Also. The girl had an autoimmune disorder, for which the same drugs are commonly used. Did the article happen to say whether or not she was already on the drugs?

The article also says nothing about whether the drugs had anything to do with her demise. It sure does imply that, though.

This is a cherry picked article.
I never learned Java until late in my career (when I learned up on Android). I started as an EE, and my programming has been primarily self-taught.

PHP is a kind of crappy OO language, but it is sufficient. I think Java is a better language, for OO. PHP 7+ is lot better than it was, before 5.

A lot of Java programmers came out of school, and started to create PHP chimeras. I feel as if that results in unnecessarily complex code. Things are complex enough, without applying UI-style MVC to server backend systems.

I wrote PHP for around twenty years, starting off procedural and mixed into HTML pages, to OO-based pure PHP systems.

I stopped a couple of years ago. This was my final PHP project[0][1]. It was sort of a "dissertation." No one is actually interested in using it, but it was developed in order to practice my architectural skills. It's a pretty intense system.

[0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...

[1] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/basalt/tree/master
Because if someone refunds the app, the visibility was ineffective and the frameworks are not going to be used.
But why should they?
With all our media resources and technology, it's crazy that there is no easy way to answer questions like "what happened politically in France in the last month?", "what were the economic developments in Africa in the last quarter?" or "what were the biggest battery technology advances in the last year?".

With the barrage of news it is very easy to miss a lot, especially if you want to keep up with multiple domains and geographical regions.

I would love some hierarchical listing that shows the most important news items for different time periods (week, month, quarter, year), and filterable by domain (eg business, economy, politics, science, technology, ...).

One should be able to continuously drill down. Eg start with all news world wide. Then show only Europe, then only eg Sweden, then the economy of Sweden. Same thing with topics. With each entry linking multiple articles from quality sources, across the political spectrum.

I would happily pay 25+/month for such an aggregator with the appropriate quality. Which probably would mean hand-curated lists (opening up all sorts of of bias problems, but still).

Edit: I wonder if this could be crowd-sourced via a dedicated platform.
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Must-know twitter bot. Can be quite handy to take notes from long podcasts.

Tried it on various videos on Twitter. Works like a charm!
It depends how big the effect is. Human perception is abysmal at judging performance. Particularly with web browsing, if you've got snappy compositing and the UI is otherwise slick, a slow browser performance will get blamed on the site, not the CPU.
Marginal cost is often not a good way to evaluate things.

A person who focuses only on marginal cost will say "It only took you an hour to make that" while discounting the decades of training it took to be able to.

A person who focuses only on marginal cost will say "I could have made this at home" while discounting the reasons why they didn't.

Prices relate to provided value, not just cost.
Perhaps the refund is caused by the store itself? Is it inconceivable that the distribution, visibility and framework caused the customer to misjudge the product?
I don't usually have to pay shipping with Amazon, so that doesn't make sense.
I would have thought that no one would use the word paranoid to describe a prepper after that many deaths, but here we are.
Yes, but you don't do that over and over again every day. Unless you like practicing bumping your head against a wall, but it's not a sport I've ever heard of.
It is possible that both things are true.

People want to see their children more.

People don't want to have to see their children more. And I don't think people want to have to coordinate educating their children on top of everything else they need to do.

It's the unavoidable part of it, I think. If it was a vacation with a clear end date it'd be different.

As long as people don't start blaming millenials and zoomers for not having kids when you see quotes like "60% of renters in West Virginia are at risk of eviction". This is happening because of economics, it isn't being done to economics.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/27/how-the-eviction-crisis-will...

Data link:

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNzRhYjg2NzAtMGE1MC00N...
people are only rational if they stop and think real hard and also are able to invalidate their assumptions. this is difficult if your assumptions are your identity, see flat earthers.
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This is key. It’s not like people can’t afford kids, they can. It’s that they can’t afford kids and live in a high cost urban center and have all the other luxuries of life at the same time.
In case you missed a few months back, looks like it is becoming a reality :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451530
Haha! Hacker News is a notoriety contest. Obscure doesn't make it to the front page.
But you share your opinions here. Your comment history has opinions in it, however niche. And your profile links to your personal website.

What am I missing?
I don't believe you Re: the extremist YouTube recommendations. They remove videos and ban channels for far less.
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Thanks for the insight. Are there some distros which have better support for ARM as a whole is really more a question of what distro has the best support for my specific ARM device?

Also how far along is UEFI bootloaders for ARM64?
> Often the answer is just a click or an app away.

It used to be "a click away". Now that it's "an app away", what does that say about App Store antitrust?

Also, "We face competition from... the other gigacorps in this hearing" is not a great look.
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Savings and loans were not high finance outfits, they were mostly local, small banks that made bad bets.
Weird, the "Jargon Français" website ( http://jargonf.org ) has been available for... 25 years, or more? What's this one adding, exactly, out of the funny name?
Seems fair to me. Apple provided with you a service and charged your for it. It is a cost associated with distributing / developing your product. Why should Apple be responsible for refunding you? It was not their fault that the customer decided their money back.
As I look back on my career, there have been things that I learned early on that I still am able to leverage today (i.e. bash, linux, vim, java). There are a slew of other technologies that didn't last (i.e. DCOM, Corba, J++, J2EE). If I'm going to invest my time in learning, I'd like to realize some return on time. Granted there are cool experimental technologies that I learn with the realization that they may not be around in a couple years, but I can plan/architect around that.
Psion in particular had a huge business following. Mind you, so did Blackberry.
You need to make more than two to break the trend. Everyone person needs to have three or more for our growth metrics! Has it been three months since birth? Why haven’t you started on the next one yet?