skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s comical. I’ve got 2 gbps fiber on a 10 gbps internal network hooked up to a Linux machine with a 5 GHz Core i7 10700k. Web browsing is just okay. It’s not instant like my 256k SDSL was on a 300 MHz PII running NT4 or BeOS. Really, there isn’t much point having over 100 mbps for browsing. Typical web pages make so many small requests that don’t even keep a TCP connection open long enough to use the full bandwidth (due to TCP’s automatic window sizing it takes some time for the packet rate to ramp up).
Don’t buy a desktop computer with non-user replaceable/upgradeable disks. In an air form factor I can buy the argument that it saves 50 grams or one mm of thickness. In a desktop it’s just ridiculous. Having any other standard than 2.5” or nvme is silly, and ideally a desktop even in the iMac form factor should have at least one empty 2.5” slot.
There was a long post/thread yesterday on how Autodesk kills everything it touches.
A small collection of free Gophers
Rivian Electric Truck Driven Across South America [video]
As I get older and wrinkled, I appreciate the lack of pixels and soft focus of a crappy camera. I'd be much happier with low noise in dark settings than more pixels. Kind of the same way I appreciated the Dell XPS "nostrilcam" that fools people about the hair on the top of my head in ways my Macbook doesn't.
I wish there was a consumer level standard for NVME drives caddies like the ones that are emerging for servers.

Like this but for consumers.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11702/intel-introduces-new-ru...
Even that page doesn’t tell you the license. It just has a link to “license”, and given that VS Code is marketed as open source software, and there’s often even a GitHub link (for issues), it’d be pretty easy that the “license” linked to was GPL or MIT or something.
It’s a really straightforward decision.

- Do you want/need a Mac?
- Can you afford the one you want?

People agonize over this way too much.

I did a few months ago. My trusty 2013 MBP finally was wearing out. I needed a new MBP and the new 16in has rolled back some of the previously objectionable changes (keyboard, restored escape key). I could afford it (but whew I’ll admit that was a big number).

I only work on MacOS. I have a Windows desktop for games but despite the hardware being high quality, I can’t ever be productive on a Windows environment.

You just have to decide if you need it and buy it.
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Yup. That was the issue. I tried a MacBook pro with an external before my imac pro. It did not like it.

I also do audio/video recording, and driving that + my external display really made the fans spin.
It ended up costing ~$50k (not counting labor) and took a year to build, and they sold it for $115k. The cabin looks phenomenal. I wonder how a tinyhome would compare in cost and features?
It used to be software would get written, and then iterated over to optimize and refine it to make it smaller/faster. That got too expensive, so the devs just depended on CPU speeds increasing and drives getting larger.
>upper and lower explosive limits

concentration of the fuel in otherwise normal atmospheric air required to go whoosh (or bang, which is basically just a really fast woosh or one that's constrained by something).

Too much fuel, too rich, no woosh.

Too little fuel, too lean, no woosh.

Lower and upper explosive limits are generally used to refer to gas mixtures though you can use them for solids but the units will be different. Solids we think of as explosive when not fishing around for virtue points on the internet generally contain their own oxygen supply so lower and upper explosive limit doesn't apply.

>sudden oxidation of large (that is, low surface area to volume), non-dry particles seems unlikely. Flour etc. may be another matter, but a blast like this... flour?

Yeah, no way that secondary explosion is flour or grain. I'd put my money on some sort of industrial chemical that contains its own oxidizer. Explosions that use atmospheric oxygen look different and rarely manage to be able to build up that kind of shock-wave if not constrained by something (like a building). There should be videos of natural gas explosions on YouTube that illustrate the difference.
I have an ARM DTK, and 3 weeks after, bought a 16" MBP.

Everything works, I can virtualize any OS I want.

No regrets.

That said, if you don't need to buy now, then don't -- especially when it comes to Apple gear.
I have a difficult time buying the "necessarily" part.

Yes. That's borrowed from an old theological argument.

Especially since much of the progress in machine learning is just putting more hardware and data on the same algorithms.
Most attractive people I've met put no work at all into diet or exercise or makeup. I will admit that makeup can have some effect though. It can turn a 6.0 into a 6.3, but it's really only good for a few tenths of a point at best. Diet and exercise won't give you giant doll eyes or a smaller or rounder or flatter face. It won't change the shape of your head. A taste for fashion? hahahahahahahhaha ha
> Which is why I find it absurd for someone to say they don’t understand why someone would need to use Windows.

I can't find anyone in the thread saying that. I see people suggesting, perhaps disingenuously or based on anecdata, that it's no big deal not to use Windows, but I don't see anyone questioning why someone would use it.
When you are trying to capture a new market, it's best to be open.

After you have the market, you want to close the gates so no one else can have it.

The hypocrisy is real and why I no longer buy apple products.
> How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps

Part of the explanation is that they weren't in Shanghai. The founders both worked full time at US tech companies in California when musical.ly was founded. musical.ly may have been founded while they were temporarily in Shanghai, but the founders were not some random people who didn't understand US culture.

This is important to the article's thesis. At least part of the early insight into the US market comes from the founders living and working in the US.
> I suspect the vast majority of people who pay for the upgrades are businesses or consultants where the Apple upgrade price is fairly negligible compared to cost of their professional time.

Yes exactly. The premium on my time has been gradually edging out in my priorities. I'd rather pay a little extra to have something already there than spend the same amount in my own time instead. It's a fair tradeoff. "But there's not much time involved, it's a ripoff," say many. But there is time involved for people who don't regularly upgrade computers. Figuring out what to buy, the best place to buy it, then the process of doing the upgrade yourself (if it's possible) is not a trivial amount of time unless you do this often enough.

Let's say you can upgrade a hard drive in 2 hours total, which is conservative -- the total time of researching what to buy, reading how to install it, ordering it, opening the package, putting in the drive, configuring the stuff you need to do, if necessary. Even at two hours, for my wage, that's about $200 of my time. I'd rather just spend the $200 or even a little more to not deal with it. And in reality, for me at least, it would take more than 2 hours of my time all-in anyway.
Senator Chris Murphy – “We tried to organize a kind of coup [in Venezuela]”
Django has full Jinja support these days which is vastly preferable.
But interestingly, you can make rotations out of mirrors.
Every day there are at most around a hundred articles that generate any meaningful discussion at all (see past). Let’s say each article takes up <=200 bytes (URL + title + some stats, a very generous limit actually), then one year worth of data is at most ~7 MB. That might be a bit too much but not by far. If you gate submissions by votes/comments threshold as a function of time, it’s conceivable to store metadata of all the good discussions on HN within 20 MB or even 10 MB.

Chrome and Firefox extensions can request the unlimitedStorage permission, btw. (Chrome has a 5MB default limit, Firefox doesn’t seem to have one.)
I highly recommend http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/ as a learning resource.

I also enjoyed this talk: https://youtu.be/oo-7mN9WXTw though it’s not so much about syntax as the logic of it.
Forced heap allocation and GC of course that would be unacceptable in C++.

IIRC Rust uses capture modifiers similar to C++.
>..new nano-texture glass option for an even more stunning Retina 5K display

I hope next iPad also gets this textured glass, it would be so much better as a drawing writing pad.
The barrier to entry is much lower on the edge side. The end result you predict is certainly possible, but only if elect to sleep through this phase like we did in the past 20 years and trust in Googles of the world.

Even if a whole slew of crap products lead the gen 1, the societal mindshift on its own is worth the effort, imo.
Believe me, that middle-state would be even more frustrating.

The challenge is finding time to work on the code.
Maybe I misread the comment but it was a response to someone noting how expensive they were... so I read it as saying that they're supposed to be that expensive so schools would buy that. That seemed odd.
Could this type of service be extended to helping musicians? To give music lessons, 1x1 or 1:many?
Right, but there's a social/business reason why this is true. There are various things that could be done technically to fix this, for example, you could have three decoders running simultaneously so you always had the adjacent channels buffered, you could send keyframes more often, or you could even use a totally different compression scheme that didn't use keyframes.

The real reason problems like this aren't solved is that the organization does not allocate resources to fix them. The status quo has been deemed to be good enough and not leading to the loss of too many customers to the competition, so that's where it stands. This pervades all engineering -- everything just barely works, because once it barely works, for most things, it's good enough, and no more resources are deployed to make it better.
no snide remark intended, but please do enlighten me.

i understand where you're coming from when you say "denying business with them"... but i believe that approach is taken because it is such a bottoms-down regime. because any business invariably gets approved by the regime and simply benefits the regime. it's not like a dissident is allowed to live there disconnected with the government and do business independently and start a voice/party to challenge the status quo -- that business man is there because the government allowed him to exist and he knows it.
If there was a large enough explosions to blast the grain silos into the air and disperse the grain, it could find that "perfect" balance at some point and then flash over.
Interesting idea, I don’t have a course yet but i’m working on it. what kind of support do you have for “income share agreements”? is that US based only?
I smell FUD.
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No, actually. Most CRTs took a long time to come on. Early LCDs, maybe?
I think I'd wait for Apple to transition to their new CPU.

My first Mac was a Mac Plus. It was old when I bought it. My first new Mac was PowerPC 6100. Then a G4 Mac. Both of those were pretty much obsoleted by Apple so fast I had no choice but to purchase a new one, and then all the software I used that wouldn't run on them, and some of it was never updated for use on the new hardware.

I've been using a Mac Mini I bought new for $500 for the past 10 years. I was kinda hoping Apple would release another in that price range but the last update on those didn't have an option in that range. Perhaps the new ones will, but considering their current plans I don't want to be put in the same position I was when I bought that 6100 or the G4.

So I purchased a new Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of ram a couple weeks ago just in case my old Mini bites the dust. Performance wise it's pretty close the Mini I have now. The hardest part of moving to it is not being able to run BBEdit. I've been using that for around 20 years and it's almost worth buying a new Mac just for that. But the idea that a new Mac will likely be obsoleted in just a couple years and I'll have purchase another new Mac again to keep using it is a deal breaker for me right now.
Late, over budget, and surrounded by other half-done projects made me think that it could be a builders' equivalent of Microserfs.
Well, here's my reasoning why I'd happily pay Apple the price for the upgrades: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24052506
> The article's title is misleading and clickbait. Windows is not flagging telemetry. It's flagging remapping of Microsoft domains, which is a very big no-no for every vendor.

The title is:

> Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

That seems clear to me about what is being flagged. I don't see any implication that telemetry is being flagged, and I'm not quite sure why anyone would think it would be—although I'd love it if Windows were to start reporting that its own telemetry was a risk, I don't see that in the cards.
China is also one of the largest markets, if not their largest market. Buying tiktok or going into social media, especially now, would be a huge headache for them for no obvious benefit.
Not really. There's a list or two, but this issue isn't on them because it's big enough that no one's going to forget it.

We don't do PRs but if people want to request something they can always email hn@ycombinator.com.
The latter. MongoDB Charts comes the closest to what I need.
So they're admitting that QAnon is to be taken seriously? That it's not fake?
QAnon is as much of a treat as Emmanuel Goldstein was to the Ministry of Truth.
Would you characterize Australia as a disciplined, conformist society? I'm in Melbourne, where masks are currently mandatory, and most are complying. In practice, you see people sipping from coffees while walking down the street, then putting the mask on as they pass people.
Many advisors don't push their students to do this, and they should. Or they haven't had enough practice to know to do this. Or they're not taking their responsibility seriously enough.

An effective PhD advisor/thesis isn't wandering the woods to find something. It's a guided coaching exercise, with an outcome in mind. If your advisor doesn't know this, maybe time to find a new advisor...
Out of curiosity, what are you buying? I want to have a better home computer that can run Ableton & software, but I do love the paradigm of OSX + terminal Bash.
Huh that really sucks.
For a while in Texas you could become a Professional Engineer in Software Engineering. I don't know anyone who has one it.

I just checked and the exam was discontinued in 2019 due to low interest.
Is there any insight to gain than the already known fact that people will sacrifice long term interests for short term gratification?
Indeed. This is a very curious and - IMO - unconvincing argument.

If AGI ever exists, it will evolve in a Lamarckian way, not a Darwinian way.

An AGI's ability to self-improve will be limited by hardware (computational throughput) and the stability and sophistication of the software.

The software will - presumably - be able to experiment with new configurations without the evolutionary expense of an entirely new body.

It will also be able to roll back failures without having to die, and potentially it might be able to search through a space of possible upgrades without having to instantiate them first.

Sexual or asexual reproduction are irrelevant because an A(G)I will not be defined by the usual animal limits. So it makes no sense to apply a model of life that's two centuries old to a new form of life that's very unlikely to play by the same rules.

Just making the attempt suggests that we're going to have a very difficult time understanding what's happening.
Those guys don't have a building problem. They have a drinking problem.
I think this is an astute observation. Any ideas what these sass verticals might be around the corner?
> Very carefully says nothing about retiring - it seems like he was simply demoted and now just advising Tim Cook.

Apple itself has released this news as a promotion, using the headline "Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow". [0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/phil-schiller-advance... (EDIT: Which is now on HN's front page.)
Please, don't get me wrong. I'm not sure if you did, but it appears that you might have.

I do not really have any personal issue with my condition. Everyone who needs to know does, and it's never a show-stopper for anything essential in my life.

I do sincerely thank you for your sympathy/empathy, but it's not something I actually need. I've learned to live with and around dyslexia a long time ago, rather similar to how somebody with a physical handicap since birth no doubt would.

I honestly would not be surprised if it's a complex condition indeed. I would be even less surprised if different conditions ended up being classified under the same moniker, just because they share superficial symptoms (for this is how our healthcare systems function, especially for most mind related topics). I'm not having any issue with that either.

However, what pisses me off, is when people claim to have a solution that just isn't. I don't think it's just me. I know (quite) a few more people with dyslexia, but I don't recall any of them ever having any significant benefit from any of these "special" fonts (beyond comparing them to fonts that probably would confuse most "ordinary" people too).

I would honestly like to hear from other people with dyslexia, if there is even a single one among them that had a real significant benefit from any of these fonts. Because so far, I have never met one.

I again would like to stress that these efforts may nonetheless be pursued with nothing but good intentions. Still, as the saying goes ... the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Only to illustrate the principle, but certainly not to imply that the effects are even remote comparable: the colonial missionaries who came to "spread religion and culture" to the "savages in the new worlds", did often have sincere intentions (yet extremely misguided and wrong on so many levels, as most sane people today will instantly agree with). Even though the example is extreme, I hope it helps to understand why I have an issue with "doing good" for the wrong reasons in general. It has a remarkable habit of ending up more harmful than good.
What Makes a Programming Language Too Complicated?
If you want more than 5 years out of this machine I would not. Just a personal opinion.
That's a really well done spreadsheet. It's not my project, but I believe the creator invites contact via email.

It's a shame I see so many good spreadsheets like yours, almost always on Google Sheets. A social network based on spreadsheets would help surface this content, and if clear licensing were included, instant remixable data would have me beating down that site's door.
There are 26-29M software developers in the world [1], which accounts for less than 0.9% of the global workforce. We can do with making programming more accessible.

[1] https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/number-software...
This is really cool, and I've wanted something like this to hack on for ages. I'm a big fan of being able to present concepts along with code that you can run, and I'm also a huge fan of not having to rely on a server backend. I have a static blog where I try to talk about various math concepts which I illustrate with code. I hacked together a pseudo-literate html sort of presentation, and it works just fine, but it's inflexible.
They got the property for 3,000 and sold for 115,000 (with cabin)

Where can you buy so low for so much land?
> I don't want to separate javascript/html/css view/template. I want a single file

This was always possible.
Thanks! I should also have mentioned that, assuming we've got an m x n matrix acting by multiplying vectors fed to it on the right, dimension squashing is guaranteed only if n is less than m, not whenever they are unequal. (I guess one could argue that, in the case where n is greater than m, dimension squashing happens if you feed in vectors on the left.)
I don(t disagree but really a 1 TB nvme ssd is around 100e now, there is no reason for this kind of storage limits.
People don't want to play whatever is on Linux, they want to play what they want to play.
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Rust is not really the same as C++ here, you get "the compiler infers how to capture things" as the default behavior, and "take everything by value", which happens with the "move" keyword. We've found that these two cases cover the vast, vast, vast majority of usage, and so C++-style specific capture modifiers aren't necessary. You can emulate C++ style stuff by taking references outside of the closure and using move to capture only the reference.
Yeah, building a cabin isn't a fundamentally complicated project. Think. Measure. Measure. Cut. Nail. Repeat.
Domain-Bound Codes
I'd add that crucially, DB ORM operations just work with gevent. It will be a while before async database operations are supported natively by Django. For me that is a complete blocker.
While it's not the most relevant, I don't know a lot about SIMD so I'm grateful to hear it.
It's not a perfect "solution" but I've had so many instances of services requiring phone numbers for 2FA that I've dedicated a voip number for it.