skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earth is hurtling toward a catastrophe worse than the dinosaur extinction
Why would it make a difference? You can pass an anonymous function with two auto arguments as the comparison to sort.
From TFA:

"Early on, because of low pricing, Amazon lost more than $200 million from diaper products in a single month. It ran its chief competitor, Quidsi, into the ground. (Quidsi owned Diapers.com.) Then Amazon bought the weakened company. This approach, like Facebook’s acquiring of competitors, is how John D. Rockefeller built up Standard Oil in the 1870s. It’s “join us — or face extermination.” Likewise, Amazon has admitted to sometimes selling its smart speaker, Echo, below cost, presumably on the theory that collecting huge amounts of data on users and securing direct access to their homes will present an insurmountable barrier to potential rivals."
I'm not an expert on the subject. I'm very cautious of characterising any real world business, particularly something like a bar, as a sideline source of money, though. It's hard work, and may fail for reasons beyond your control (even bars that were doing well in March are generally not doing well now, say...)
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May I suggest that you write something like that on the webpage? It looks really disappointing with the last activity from 2019 at the moment
All absolutely correct.

Outrage based on the facts is definitely something Apple should face.

However outrage based on lies is simply another evil.

People who are engaging in it are not doing any kind of public service - they are just adding more harm.
It is going to be difficult to beat this comment as the strangest I have ever read on here.
I've noticed that watching literally part of one video will cause youtube to recommend a lot more of that category of content.

For one recent example, there was an article about Elon Musk and his girlfriend who releases music as Grimes. I clicked play on one of the embedded music videos and watched about half of it. Ever since then youtube has recommended tons of Grimes videos to me.

I've also noticed that videos my wife or kids watch get recommended to me sometimes.
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The comment they first replied to said

> I don't understand this "have to reboot to do something windows related"
My overall point is... let's dispense with the libertarian yeoman self-sufficient fantasy: if you want to save money, live in the place where economies of scale have been achieved... towns. People have been doing it this way since the neolithic.

Should you really like nature and having space and big gardens and farming and the like, then be prepared to pay for it.
I can pair down a machine if I migrate some users, however its a competitive market, and hard to sign up (and more so to maintain paying users)
See "Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles'" https://www.engadget.com/mozilla-youtube-bubble-200045382.ht... (and many others, I'm sure)
Agreed. My father is a carpenter and I helped him build our family cabin when I was a pre-teen. We did mostly all of the building except putting up the trusses and finishing the roof. My dad was smart enough to farm out that work.

Now I write software and I work with a lot of people who dream of going off in the woods and building a cabin, as though it's the same as building software. I have to remind them that "there is no undo". "Measure twice, cut once" is a phrase for a reason. You can't refactor your cabin half way through building. Surprisingly many of them never even considered these things, let alone the tricks or techniques needed to do a good job.

I think a lot of white collar workers see what blue collar workers do as perhaps difficult physically, but not mentally. But that couldn't be further from the truth. And this is especially true when you're trying to piece together an entire cabin by yourself.
Wisdom of the crowd in action.

I feel like this wisdom isn't tapped into enough. We're often burdened with individual tasks and challenges while utilizing crowd knowledge is looked down upon or seen as an inferior solution finding mechanism. e.g. Imagine if companies worked together to figure out self-driving cars rather than compete?
And, going for the HN gold, Toshi is a FTS server written in Rust: https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi#readme (backed by the FTS library https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy#readme also in Rust)
Most CRTs made an obvious _noise_ when turned on (actually, one of the curses of good high-frequency hearing was that they made an obvious noise for the whole time they were on, though I think a lot of people couldn't hear them after warmup). That helped, I suppose.
Tools for Keeping Focused
TV and broadcasting in general has always been mostly controlled in a top-down manner by companies and governments, since before computers existed.
I was going to post this, glad I scrolled down. My kids love watching that too.
> "Its thrust exceeds its 26-gram mass by 40 percent, which is where much of the aerobatic capability comes from. ... flapping-wing robots can actually be more efficient than propeller-based aircraft."
I agree, given the fact that lambdas are already here.
What's the long term end goal for society? I think one feature of such a society would be unlimited entertainment available for anyone, which TikTok provides.
Well, Tesla has started some time ago - the most basic model 3(the one you can only order over the phone and in their centres) comes with heated seats disabled by software and you can pay Tesla to unlock it for a fee. But at least once you did they stayed unlocked forever*

*Well, there's been one case where a second hand Tesla lost all the extra features that were paid for by the previous owner and Tesla argued that the new owner had to pay again, but I think after media complained they backed off and reenabled it
The problem of course isn't the internet "speed" but latency. ISPs advertise hundreds of Mbps but conveniently forget to mention latency, average packet loss and other connection quality metrics.
You not "buying" it doesn't make it untrue.

You get the cable box for the new system BEFORE they switch the old system off, or else you wouldn't have service until you got a new box. That's why you saw behavior change with the new box.

It simply isn't possible to send all the channels to customers at all times. There isn't enough bandwidth. So, the cable box at your house negotiates with the central or regional system so only a subset of channels are sent to you. There is no other way to do it in digital cable systems, and the switch to digital was made because it uses significantly less bandwidth than analog.
Earth's motion around the Sun, not as simple as I thought
As Genoa Inaugurates New Bridge, the Feeling Is Bittersweet
I agree but I wouldn't even call it fun per se. I like to camp. The camping trips I remember most are the ones that rained the whole time or had some other disaster happen. All the other trips were fun and great and relaxing but they all blend together eventually. It is the shit shows you still talk about 20 years later. This is so important to the human condition to try, to learn, to expand, to explore, to grow, to empathize, to commiserate, to laugh
I don't even bother getting into death rate discussions any more because it is pointless.

You read the Survivors Groups on FB [0] and the real problem people aren't understanding is that this isn't quick death we need to worry about, it is the long term health effects that will lead to a lifetime of medical issues.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/groups/COVID19survivorcorps/
I can understand GOPATH, but why would GOROOT cause you any problems. I think you needed to set it way back in the go 1.3 days or something, but it's been a more or less hidden thing for a long time now.
His plan was that by threatening people into publishing his manifesto and drawing attention with the bombings he would sway people over to his cause (the fallacy here being that if only people were exposed to his ideas, they would agree with them). Of course he was deluded in that sense but it’s a pretty common theme among extreme ideologues.

I don’t think his ideas are as laughably naive as you think. He was an accomplished mathematician who was disgusted with the societal rat race and thought many aspects of technology were making life worse, and I actually tend to agree with that. But he was also a nut job who killed innocent people
Maybe you just don't understand the particular brands of irony/satire or the current trends going on at the time those videos you've seen were made?
Best you could hope for would be a small college town in an otherwise rural area (Or Vermont, as you say, though I'm not as familiar with the details of their politics). Even in the most liberal US states, once you leave the urbanized areas conservative views dominate. OTOH, even the most conservative states have liberal cities or at least liberal neighborhoods.

Liberal/Conservative in the US is very much an urban/rural divide at this point.
I'm pretty sure that this is a bit of a myth, mostly repeated by engineers who want to feel important and superior to lawyers, who are often hotter, richer, and higher-status.

Trial lawyers present a narrative to the jury, and thus prefer jurors who are more likely to believe the presented narrative. Your typical engineer believes themselves to be capable of discerning truth independent of expert opinion. This could be an advantage or a disadvantage, depending on how the trial lawyer plans to present their narrative.
The project has been "rewritten from scratch" [1] in order to sidestep the legal requirement of preserving the original license (from JSLint, which it was forked from), against both the original authors' wishes [2].

A whole lot of post-rationalization of how the unconventional license caused the project to slow down: http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2020/jshint-watching-the-ship-si.... Certainly not due to ESLint's extensible design, customization options, better error messages, ES6 and JSX support and adoption by multiple mainstream libraries.

Legal implications aside, it's still sad to see that 'do no evil' is so hard to agree with.

[1] https://jshint.com/relicensing-2020/index.html

[2] https://github.com/jshint/jshint/issues/1234#issuecomment-23...
Does anyone know if they made sensible improvements to the onramps/offramps in the new construction, such that there was a silver lining the the rebuild to make significant logistical gains?
Interpreting my comment as "don't encourage anyone" is an extremely uncharitable take. Support their endeavors, celebrate successes, be empathetic of failure. Don't tell them "no excuse for you not to able to do that."
Good cautionary note, thanks. Yes, please, anyone looking to go this route should do their research first - I'm not kidding about the tiny doses required, they sell very dilute solutions for use in very large animals; a little dog potentially needs less than a drop!
> Today if you had such a scene they'd be like, "okay <presses remote, waits five very immersion-breaking seconds>".

But they still have these scenes in movies

The way these scenes work now is "picks up phone - check the news!", they grab the remote, and turn the volume up on one of the many already running and tuned in wall-mounted 24/7 on TVs ... :)
Absolutely. In Alaska time is a resource that widely available but other resources are harder to find. I wonder how far is the next hardware store.
I would say so:

"Mr. Schiller owns over 69,491 units of Apple stock worth over $18,846,432 and over the last 16 years he sold AAPL stock worth over $73,528,915."
Purchased on the credit card of carbon release. We might get lucky and see some technological or social innovation negate or stop the coming disaster, or civilization could snap back to where it was centuries ago.
I believe this article is saying that the coronavirus strain is not going to be contained. It will wend its way through the populace regardless of masks or lockdowns or cures.
I think you may be referring to Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
No disagreement there. Likewise, a "Caution: Falling Rocks" sign typically indicates that rocks have been making an impact, more so than that rocks have uncovered scandalous state secrets :)
I built a desk ~10 years ago. I had fun, learned a lot, and haven't used most of the tools since then.

I think part of what I learned is that it's worth it for me to pay a professional.
Thanks for pointing out the size - didn't quite think about just how much thinner lids are than phones. That is certainly a very real limiter
Our Marcusan Moment
It probably does cache the data, and it just takes ages to draw. Manufacturers really cheap out on settop box CPU and RAM specifications in order to make the pricing attractive to cable companies.
I've seen one report that cites the Lebanese government that it was sodium nitrate seized from a ship that was temporarily stored there and was slated to be moved.
Do you mean _literal_ cash? Why do you want that? It's extra work and cost to deal with, generally.

Though increasingly bars are shifting towards contactless electronic payment, anyway.
You are being downvoted because nobody in their right mind would start the name of such a function by a capital. It would immediately get associated to the Windows API.

;-)
a few months here is at least 11 months, even more if you could the 1.12 release which was an rc for modules.
It’s selection bias. There are probably far more instances where rushing through causes problems than there are where rushing through doesn’t.
The word "permit" is suspiciously absent from this story, and adding a well would most certainly have required permits. Probably a lot of things they did required permits, but if the narrative is accurate it doesn't seem like the permits were actually acquired.
How did you do all that in a studio Appartement? In particular how did you deal with the dust and space requirements while this is a work on progress and you also have to love, cook, sleep there?
A privacy podcast I listen to recently said that, for now anyway, it's possible to use a temporary/burner phone to do the initial SMS-based signup, then switch to app-based 2FA on a different phone, and then delete the phone # associated with the temporary/burner phone (as you said).
I carefully curate my youtube viewing by using lots of incognito windows to view things I don't want showing up in my recommendations. All it takes is one errant click to throw the whole thing off. Oh why did I not incognito that terrible comedian?
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I keep wondering if I should spend the time to level up on modern C++ (C++11,14,17,20)

Yes, absolutely. I (somewhat recently) did that, and I find modern C++ to be almost like a new language. The "modern" features are very useful and powerful.
For anyone who doesn't want/can't click on the link, it's a first person article about someone who believes they passed the Coronavirus on to her mother.
I've always found these things push poor quality results to the top. The merits it ranks upon are redundancy and repetition.

They are the "next thing taught" but they aren't useful
I'm interested to know how login/auth support is working, where are the credentials stored?
A more reliable side hustle than a bar would be to own some residential real estate and rent it out to respectful people. There’s a lot less work involved than running an operating business, and if the property cash flows (rent exceeds costs), you have a little bit of cash every month. There are also tax advantages via mortgage interest and other expense deductibility, and some “forced savings” as the mortgage pays down. The flip side is that real estate has been absurdly overpriced in most markets for the last decade (thanks Fed!) but the still-unfolding economic consequences of Covid19 may lead to an excellent entry point.
If Sun did it they copied it from Bell Labs, who had a technical staff ladder and "Fellows" before Silicon Valley even existed.
I've had a sharp increase in the number of license compliance audits coming from Microsoft in the last couple years. A couple of my Customers have been targeted annually 3 years in a row. The most recent round of audits included probing questions that were clearly looking for SaaS sales opportunities.
I think for that kind of thing to work, they would have had to actually know what they're doing.
The iMac Pro is starting to seem pretty redundant even with this slight spec boost.

If you upgrade the new 27" iMac to the same specs, you can get a faster machine than the base model $4999 iMac pro for $900 less - it's a faster clock speed 10-core processor, better performing GPU with Radeon 5700 XT 16GB (as opposed to Vega 64 8GB), and same 32GB RAM and 10Gb ethernet and 1TB SSD for that price.

The iMac pro has even further upgrade options that the iMac doesn't, but still, I wouldn't expect a $5k non-upgradeable pro machine like that to be underspecced. It'll also be interesting to see some teardowns of the new iMac and compare actual benchmarks between these machines, the iMac Pro might still have better thermals that lets the cpu/gpu perform better in the real world.
How is this different than SD WAN? or is this CF's version of SD WAN?
but SSD is soldered on motherboard though. previous models allowed to change storage..
Alexey from Traffic Team is here. Traffic is definitely a non-negligible part of the budget. We try to reduce it as much as possible for both lower operational expenses and better user experience. Main drivers for that improvement (besides owning our own Edge infrastructure) on the client side are:

1) Brotli (Broccoli) compression.

2) Differential updates through librsync.

3) "LANSync" a P2P sync within a broadcast domain (secured through server issued short lived TLS certs.)

That said, Desktop Client is only 1/3 of the overall Dropbox traffic -- the rest 2/3 are split between Web and API.
The software is only in our heads. It's mind blowing, but you can't see and feel it. I also love to build physical stuff - last month I built a bed into my car, now I can go anywhere and sleep there - what an awesome thing it is, and my girlfriend loves it too. She appreciates software as well (being a genetic biologist/data analyst/programmer), but the bed, a comparably simpler thing, is what we talk all the time about. The second thing - when was the last time you built a piece of software that helps you do fun stuff? I didn't do that for years, maybe never - all software I build is for "serious work stuff". To be honest, I don't know what program could I make that would bring me joy comparable to the car-bed.
new Playstation console has the fastest ssd in the market to address that issue.
It's written in airplane jargon, of course, but it's plenty clear.

> It's Boeing who insisted that the training for MCAS is not needed.

It's not completely unreasonable to expect the pilots to be able to handle runaway trim, especially given an EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE reiterating how to do it. Runaway trim is a critical problem, which is why the electric trim switches are there as well as the cutoff switches, all in easy reach. Dealing with this is supposed to be a "memory item", meaning something the pilots must know.

But clearly in hindsight, dealing with runaway trim must be specifically and better trained for.

> special training

The thing about runaway trim is it turns on when it's not supposed to. That's why the electric trim overrides are there and the cutoff switches. Those are there for all Boeing jets since electric trim was installed going back to at least 1960 and probably much earlier.

When I worked on the stabilizer trim system on the 757, I worked mostly on the gearbox, but was peripherally involved with the electrical system for it. The cutoff switches were there for "when demons possess the control system and try to drive you into the ground."
Fun little side-note but Cabins are called cabins in Western (BC & Alberta for sure, and I believe Sask as well) Canada. It's only Eastern Canada that calls them cottages.
Users blocking telemetry using .../etc/hosts are presumably power users, and, as such, are informed about this new twist - and this twist may even inform them that Microsoft uses IPs as a fallback in case DNS resolution fails. The outcome of this stunt may thus be worse than before it.

So what is to be gained from this?
Another great series is Advoko:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSUxRUZb0I
Amen ... I've started building a shed (10x10) 1.5 months ago with 0 woodworking experience.

It's the most fun I've had in a decade .. my joints are swollen, I've got bruises and scrapes on my hands and feet, skin on my hand is actually rough.

I work from home nine-to-five, software. I can't wait to finish work to actually go outside and work on the shed.

I've actually considered quitting my job and doing this full time .. but it won't pay nearly enough as I'm making in software and my financial commitments won't let me.
Yup and as a buyer I would be very hesitant to spend $100K on a home that wasn’t built by a licensed and insured builder... much less a home built by two complete amateurs.
If you need compile-time stuff that constexpr can't do, then you have little choice. Of course, in reality, its very rare that you "need" compile-time stuff.
One need only cite Emerson and Thoreau to see this has in fact been going on for quite some time.
> The only thing cell phones have on copper land lines is portability. In all other ways they suck

Isn't that a little like saying "The only thing boats have over cars is that they can go on water. In all other ways they suck"? Portability is the entire point. Even in the "good old days" most people would have accepted nearly any tradeoff for the ability to carry even the simplest global communications device with them.
Many platforms enable you to put a fixed amount in each week or paycheck.

Automated algorithmic trading will bite you in the ass.

Index matching funds tend to outperform "managed" funds in the long run.
Quite contrary for me, at least on the keynotes. Remember his "it's so sad that people are using 5 year old computers" or his "courage" speech about removing the headphone jack?

I've heard him talk casually on interviews and he seemed like a super interesting guy though.
I have a friend who did something similar to this but in his case he did it in his spare time (he works remote/flexible so spare can be during the day), mostly taking inspiration from guys like this that document the process and mistakes that they make or happen along the way.
He was fortunate to have a plot of land in the middle of the woods large enough to allow him to build what the law here defines as "support house" that can be maximum 26 m2 (most people abuse it). Another benefit he had is that his uncle owns a lumber mill just 2 km away and he could get wood beams and planks very cheaply and conveniently. For insulation he used mud and straw he got for nothing from nearby farms. After painting the facade you really couldn't tell.
Order of magnitude estimate of Beirut explosion at 3 kilotons of TNT
Even in Vermont, a lot of the rural area is conservative. Consider that ~1/3 of the population lives in the Burlington Metro area, add in a bunch of other small college towns that are more liberal and you can see why Vermont votes more liberal. Indeed the rural parts are probably more liberal than other parts of the country, but you'll still see quite a few trump signs and places the vote strictly Republican/More Conservative. Even our Governor is Republican (although rather left for a republican). Take a look at how towns voted in the last Presidential Election: https://electionarchive.vermont.gov/elections/view/82048/