skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AMD was originally licensed access to Intel's 8086 and later designs because customers demanded a 'second source' manufacturer in case Intel had manufacturing problems (sounds familiar!)

Intel tried to ditch second sourcing with the 386 but AMD was able to continue manufacturing compatible CPUs.

Much later Intel was accused of anti-competitive behaviour by AMD in various markets - which resulted in a fine in Europe and a $1.25bn dollar payment to AMD and patent cross licensing.

But - AMD licenses some important technology to Intel eg x86-64.
Not defending Amazon, but that's far from the default experience in my experience. Maybe I just search for a lot of specific thing Amazon doesn't sell themselves.
Disney doesn't pass laws. Congress does.
Creating a CAD Application in Java (JavaFX)
https://app.diagrams.net/ is the modern version of ascii diagrams
Am I the only one that's like "wtf is a time-series database compared to a normal one?"
He has also reduced legal immigration options. Refugee caps much lower and the White House wants to get rid of the visa lottery. https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=603

They worked Cotton on this bill which would reduce legal immigration.
Decent. Reminds me of the timed I designed a decent part of our house in Excel.
I appreciate the honest breakdown on strategy here. It's interesting that this is the economically correct solution to this problem. We all know that evictions happen, and it's frustrating that 99% of the time they happen to people who really, really need them not to happen; but this is how the US is structured.
Any vote your side loses is "democracy hijacked"!
you must live in odd country, here in Czechia is felony stealing of subject with "more than insignificant value" (read more than 200EUR although last year they wanted to raise it to 400EUR, not sure if they succeeded) regardless what is the subject, so while stealing old used car valued at 199EUR is misdemeanor (contravention), stealing bike worth 300EUR is crime

I don't think they would really treat cars differently, if they are in same value as some bike worth 10000 EUR, the thing is car is much bigger so it's more difficult to hide it and easier to notice/discover than bike and statistically most of the used bikes are worth few euros, so it would be really waste of resources, of course it's different now with ebikes, but it is same as motorbikes, much easier to hide and difficult to discover
Actually digital watches have been on the downswing lately, with hardly any new designs/models coming into the market. The only standout one I remember from the recent years is the Casio Waveceptors WV 59 with their distinctive large screens.
I don't understand how this follows.

The OP's comment was:

> This is a great article, but it’d be much better as five much smaller articles

I can't understand how one could read this as an implication of fact. The phrase "great article" is a qualitative assessment. So is "better".

It wasn't necessary for the parent to "correct" the poster for not qualifying that their comment as opinion. It's clear the comment is opinion on its face.

"Correcting" the poster for not couching their comment in some kind of explicit language that qualifies it as an opinion seems needless at best, and pedantic, rude, and patronizing at worst.

I absolutely hate that I'm so fixated on this, but I can't let it go.
Throwaway idea: Has anyone trained some auditing AI by feeding known fraud data sets into the machine?
There are no inconsistencies here.

We have an algebraic indentity, a + b = x + y. (Let's not even think about what those might represent; it doesn't matter.)

The two sides must always be equal. Any transaction must maintain that equality. Therefore, any transaction must increase both sides by the same amount, decrease both sides by the same amount, or leave both sides unchanged.

One way to ensure this is respected is to add up everything which increases the left side or decreases the right side, then add up everything which decreases the left side or increases the right side, and ensure these two subtotals match. If they do, the transaction balances, and is legal.

By convention, we call things of the first type (which increase the left side or decrease the right side) "debits", and things of the second type (which increase the right side or decrease the left side) "credits". This lets us say "debits must equal credits" as a shorthand, although again what we really mean is that the two sides must continue to balance.

The end. There's really no inconsistency here.
If nothing else that sounds like it would be a fun side-project.
Which is why they would never do that. They would instead start with high prices then bring them down, ie you "saved" money.
Revel Suspends New York City Service After 2nd Rider Dies in Queens Crash
How can someone be personally responsible for an economy with tens of millions of Americans out of work? How can they personally create a job to work at? How can they be personally responsible for generational poverty that meant they couldn't afford to eat - have you tried making good grades when you're hungry and you're forced to work after school to help support your family? Have you tried making good money when you've never had the opportunity to do anything other than barely scrape by to feed your younger siblings and disabled mother?

Society has failed these people, and there are a lot of them. A lot of them are products of severe systemic racism. They don't deserve to die from their illnesses because they can't afford healthcare. They don't deserve a lifetime of poverty because they struggle to feed their family and can't afford an education.
hi, co-founder of QuestDB here.

QuestDB is open source and therefore free for everybody to use. Another product using QuestDB as a library with features that are typically required for massive enterprise deployment will be distributed and sold to companies through a fully managed solution.

Our idea is to empower developers to solve their problems with QuestDB open source, and for those developers to then push the product within the organisation bottom up.
Vance Thompson is absolutely incredible. One of the best aspects of living in Sioux Falls is the world-class health care.

Glad you enjoyed it here, come back soon, there are some awesome reasons to visit :)
I'm not associated with QuestDB, but if it's anything like the other open-source startups I work with then the business model is probably selling a managed or hosted version of the DB with enterprise benefits like security compliance, SLAs, and engineering support. In that case the open-source DB will act as a driver of awareness and of demand for the commercial option.
You're always welcome to do your own napkin math and share it!
You can develop lucid dreaming abilities.

I don't think it goes with age.

Basically the problem is with dream recall after you wake up. And establishing a routine so frequent you could witness that routine even in dream, so that you can spot anomaly in the routine in the dream.

Basically there are certain things you can't do properly in a dream. Things like adding numbers, counting, reading a watch correctly twice in a row etc. For some reasons our brains seem to have a hard time maintaining state in dreams. So you establish a stateful routine in wakefulness which would not be possible in dream, making you realize you are now in a dream.

As you can see there are a range of things that need to happen. Routines in wakefullness(like counting, repeating clock check), well rested body, low stress, ability to remember a dream etc.

I think with age a lot of parameters are hard to keep up with.
Yeah yeah. Pawn all of your reasoning off on a "they" and infer slippery slopes while breaking out the false equivalencies - as if people are equating anti-trust violations with child pornography.

Do you think the anti-trust investigators should instead focus their efforts on Boko Haram? They are a suitable group for the job? Do you think facebook just... shouldn't be investigated?

This has to be one of the weakest arguments I've yet to see on HN.
> Rite-Aid employees can already recognize your face.

You mean the two front store barely-above-minimum wager workers in a 15,000 sq.ft store given 10 tasks to complete in the time available for 6 while still maintaining performance metrics to avoid demerits and who are specifically instructed not to accuse anyone of shoplifting even if they directly observe it happening?
Commercial plumbing prepared me for a career switch to tech
Yeah, if anything, we're training people to aspire to be living advertisements, since the reward for success on Instagram is luxury brands subsidizing your lifestyle in-kind and perhaps even in money.
The thought experiment did not originate with Einstein. The name gedankenexperiment predates him and Maxwell's use of the concept. So the article also misreports the origination with Maxwell. Maybe they should have skipped the couching in history if they didn't know the history or even want to look it up.

And now that I'm reading the article's comments, other readers have also made those points.

This article is useful as a tackle dummy for skeptics but not much else.
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>he Googled Google to do a Google search.

The HN circle is complete

"Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise, It’s Google"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975001
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/07/28/google-sea...
Do baseball players have a biological need to spit?
I highly doubt your Samsung phone contains many Chinese parts. The camera, screen, chip come from Japan, SK, and Taiwan. Maybe the speakers were made in China.
> You'll actually appreciate the difference then and be happier, and also know that you'll actually make good use of it.

This also reflected my journey into watercolor painting. One day I bought a bunch of cheap watercolor paper and paints. I was able to just blow through those materials by lots of experimentation as I didn't have any fear of "wasting" the good paper and good paints. Only afterwards did I get a better understanding of why the more expensive paper and paints are worth the cost (e.g. better absorption of water by the paper, more vibrant pigments that mix together better).

There's value in learning about the range of tool quality through the journey, as it will help create your own criterion for judging the quality of tools rather than assuming, say, that the cost of a tool is proportional to its quality.
My started short, a few minutes, but I practiced to not wake myself until they would last presumably a whole REM cycle.

Of all the things from my youth, I probably miss lucid dreams the most :'(
Trump Jr suspended by Twitter: 'misleading and potentially harmful information'
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Well I said 1/2 of those jobs would be gone. Or that's what I implied.

Most of them would be relocated. And Americans will definitely work in restaurants, they do everywhere else. Somehow all of Europe and Canada manage to have crops as well - granted - there may need to be migrant worker program for harvest, but that would be reasonable actually, if it were done legally.

Consumer prices would rise no doubt.
It's pretty childish, but it was quite satisfying to hear George Bush confess to being a war criminal too!
> with racism being the most obvious and likely explanation

Is it though? Even after all this time, I've yet to hear how racism had anything to do with the incident, other than rampant speculation. Tragic? Yes. Brutal? Yes. Murder? Yes. Racism? How?
Modding the F91W was a nice Corona project that I did with my kids. Inverting the display, changing the led and inserting an nfc chip. Not too difficult, but it gives you something unique(ish) that is actually useful.
>I think about how much I'm going to use something and try my best to over-invest in what is typically cheap and could last years and under-invest (or avoid all together) in what is expensive or could last less than a year. [...]

>Housing: Far cheaper than I could afford.

Why? Isn't a house something that can last decades and is something you use every day?
> The barriers are (1) tech stack, (2) use case, and (3) ethics, in that order.

This sounds like a line that some good writer trying to make fun of silicon valley would come up with. If that's the case, good job!
I've seen the idea of cross-reactivity and T-cell immunity being passed around.

I think the idea is that younger, healthier people with better immune systems are able to prevent the virus from replicating as much, whereas sluggish immune systems and bodies that are highly inflamed like overweight ppl, diabetics, etc. (high leptin, also related to il-6) get overwhelmed.

T-cell immunity/cross-reactivity meaning that most people have the ability to fight the virus from exposure to other coronaviruses.

I think a major component of the death toll from the pandemic is basically a consequence of obesity. I'm suspicious that govt interventions, planning, etc make that much difference when the US is an order of magnitude more obese than Japan, for example.
It pre-supposes that what was best for the USA and world was Intel being maximally successful, rather than there being a market for x86 chips. That's not clear at all. If American capitalism is defined by anything it's competition, something Intel has sometimes unfortunately tried to squash.

The real answer here is not to come up with artificial Intel-specific legal kludges like forcing them to cross-license to AMD, but rather to adjust copyright and patent law to define APIs and ISAs as non-protectable.
Does This Glitch Mean That the App Library Is Coming to iPadOS 14?
Original title was too long. It was:

Trump Jr suspended by Twitter for posting 'misleading and potentially harmful information' about coronavirus
Neat. Thank you. I get what you're saying now.

And that makes sense. You can see the balance. Because it will balance. Or you'd know which of the things were debit accounts and which went credit accounts.

Yep.

But I definitely bet it's not raw unsigned/untyped numbers behind that document! I suspect we've just been mismatching on different levels: I began this discussion about developers understanding double entry bookkeeping. I would be surprised if you could get very far if you didn't understand the difference between debit and credit. But your pushback makes sense. Thank you.
>>I'm not sure how universal this is, but in my lucid dreams exercising too much control from the concious part of my brain would eventually wake me.

Man I could get a lot of flying, and fast running, and at times even leveling a sky scraper without waking up. But at times, you wake up for something as trivial as meeting your dream woman.
thank you, life is an interesting experience :) I used to work with Fabio, Vortexa CEO and had to turn down an offer of being first employee there to focus on QuestDB. They are an absolute awesome bunch of guys and deserve every bit of their success!

What makes QuestDB different from other tools is the performance we aim to offer. We are completely open on how we achieve this performance and we serve community first and foremost.
Question for those who disliked the comment above: do you disagree that the US Navy largely runs on combustion engines; or do you think that Texas and Louisiana have enough seaborne export bandwidth to support a hot war, on their own, without KSA et. al.; or have I missed a possibility?

(I haven't looked at USN tankers, in an asian context an important question would be: are they even Panamax?

As far as the crude network is concerned, Alberta is more closely connected to Texas than California is.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elisabeth_Krausmann/pub... )
We really don't. Naval invasions are hard, particularly when the US is the world's dominant sea power. Theoretically China could invade South Korea through North Korea but North Korea wouldn't like that and they have nukes. But conquest of them is what happens when WWIII cooks off - we were talking about geopolitical rivalry.
> These costs increase to the maximum amount the individual is willing to sacrifice to obtain these services.

Individuals do not pay for healthcare services, many do not know the actual true costs.

Individuals in most cases do not pay - insurance companies do. This explains the high costs moreso than your example,.
not where I live, people here park bikes either in their apartment or in their cellar, which is usually very small, parking it in some common area on building would be quite rude towards other residents blocking the space and nobody will dare to park bike on street overnight
Yandex Image Search is better than Google with “fuzzy” images
It seems that some people easily assume that Google products are the best in their categories. Here is a counter-example:

Yandex Image Search is much better at finding matches for an image that has been modified (by Photoshop or by adding extra stuff on top). It has helped me find the source of many memes.

Give it a try:
https://yandex.com/images/

Here are some images that you can try:
https://img.youtube.com/vi/7g-EFLEkRpQ/maxresdefault.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/v4U2JrmVfdI/maxresdefault.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/VZngU4a23ik/maxresdefault.jpg

Often, only Yandex enables you to find the original images that were use to create these thumbnails. While Google just gives you the links to the thumbnails.
Disagree. I gave up on so many sports cause of faulty uncomfortable equipment.

As child we had such shitty swim goggles that they would leak badly. For 10 years I swam without them and kept my eyes hurting eventually couldn’t take it and quit cause of eye pain. As adult with money bought a nice pair for $20 and realized not all goggles leak.
How to Teach a Child to Ride a Bike
>> The monobloc chair is another[1].

I hate this chair with a passion. Didn't even know it had a name.
I think by definition, if one person collects the majority of the profit from the effort of 100, it is undeserved.

If those 100 people can’t afford things like health care and housing, they have been crushed.

I’m not arguing socialism v. capitalism. I’m simply pointing out that a trend of widening inequality leads to deep systemic problems, and is not sustainable. We can correct it without gasp socialism. Laws, regulation, and political finance reform are likely sufficient.
Does postgres wire support mean QuestDB can be a drop-in replacement for a postgres database?

Is this common?
>Whether it's true today, or in the near future, we can all agree: those jobs are better done by robots.

It's already been done, except replace the "robot" meme with "industrial engineering" reality. instead of iRobot it's the machine that welds cars or makes pringles. It was done 30+ years ago. This world is distinct from the robot replacement headline clickbait we've been reading our whole lives.

>Even Walmart is looking at replacing all their cashiers with robots.

The technology for this has existed for 20+ years but it's always being "explored", that should tell you something. That's a distraction though. We're talking about chip fab, then you started talking about assembly line workers (which has zero meaning - can you think of a single assembly function that hasn't been automated 20 years ago?). Factory work today is skilled work, industrial engineering hasn't stood still.

>I'm offering a part of my pay so that the folks doing the mundane, back-breaking work inefficiently, today, could be paid to stay home and look after their families or pursue self-actualization.

you're getting ripped off. Modern factory jobs are pretty good. Self Actualization is a meme.
This is good news. I've only ever used workers once, to do exactly this, and I found the documentation to be a little lacking.
From the top of another head:
Banning DDT,
Removing Freon from AC systems,
mandatory seat-belts and airbags in cars,
Residential ground fault detection outlets,
Electricity system codes,
Gas line codes,
Building safety codes ...
Bray is Canadian. I doubt most Americans know Law Day exists.
Vietnam and Iraq are two that are very easy to bring to mind and widely known. Hundreds of thousands of people killed in and near their homes thousands of miles away from the U.S. for no real discernible reason.

There are, of course, hundreds of other examples.
$80 guitar and spending money on lessons—this goes against every piece of advice I’ve ever heard from a guitar teacher about buying your first guitar.

That is, buy something good enough that it doesn’t make you miserable when you’re just starting out. A lot of $80 guitars are absolutely miserable, or will be miserable shortly after you take them home.

> It's better to be a virtuoso with a Yamaha than to have a high-end Martin you can't play collecting dust in your attic.

Yamaha guitars start around $160, and they’re fantastic beginner instruments. They’re also not the cheapest guitars you can get. The cheapest guitars you can get are around $80, have high action, don’t stay in tune, and my experience is that you have good odds of getting cut by the fret wire or seeing the neck warp at some point after you take the guitar home.

That’s all I’m talking about—between “made as cheaply as possible” and “no expenses spared” there is this vast middle ground of “decent price/quality tradeoff”.

I’m by no means an expert on guitars—but I do have a small guitar maintenance kit, and I help out friends or colleagues set up their guitars to make them a bit more comfortable and playable. I’ve seen too many “cheap as possible” guitars where my conclusion is that the guitar is unplayable and it’s just beyond my ability to make it playable.
This is awesome. As I watched the video I was thinking how great it’d be to have an NFC chip for payments and transit in my watch. Of course, I remembered shortly after that my Apple Watch does this already but I never use it for NFC because it’s easier to hold your phone up to a reader than to twist your wrist and arm.
The longest dreams I've had were layered ones. Like dreams within dreams.

They were not lucid though. But I've woken up mentally exhausted after such dreams. They seemed to go on forever.
The answer to this question is somewhat complex and depends on the country whose copyright laws you are talking about. Most copyright-abiding countries have adopted a copyright length of Life + 70 years, but several (most notably Canada) use Life + 50 years. However, there are a lot of exceptions in many of these countries regarding works created in the mid-20th century. The US, incredibly, has a copyright of 95 years for works published between 1924-1977, but a term of Life + 70 years for works published after that.

Since the beginning of this year, the original German edition of the book that was published in 1924 is in the public domain in the US (and most likely only the US). Unfortunately this applies only to this edition and not to any translated versions.

I looked around the front matter of the book and did not see any mention of a translator; presumably this means that Courant translated this himself. This means as soon as 50 years has elapsed from Courant's death (in 1972), all editions will be in the public domain in Canada and a few other countries (in 2023). In most other countries, this book will be in the public domain 20 years later than that (in 2043). The US is once again exceptional, where each edition will enter the public domain separately, 95 years after their publication. The English version of Volume 1 of this text in the Amazon preview appears to have been published in 1953, which would mean it would be in the public domain in 2049, well after it would be available in virtually every other country in the world.

Of course, all of this discussion above assumes that copyrights don't get extended again before these works enter the public domain. The US Supreme Court has ruled that arbitrarily extending copyrights before they expire is sufficient to satisfy the "limited Times" mentioned in the Constitution; what matters is apparently that the copyrights are set to expire at some point, not that they ever actually do.
poor guy worked for Bing, it probably felt like decades.