skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SCSI itself came from a single vendor as "Shugart Associates Standard Interface", otherwise know as SASI which went on to become SCSI. It was a simple interface, easy to program and made it possible to hook computers to disk drives with a handful of TTL chips. Good, simple design that did the job so no surprise that it's survived so well.
Rite Aid worker fired after asking raging customer to leave for not wearing mask
In areas absent density restrictions, the US is indeed great at building tons of housing, developers don’t make huge profit margins, and rents are low. Is your argument that society would be better off if there were less construction workers, so housing costs would go up, allowing each remaining worker to be paid more and less total homes to be built? My opinion is that the higher wages for construction workers are nice, but they don’t nearly make up for the undersupply housing (we see both of these phenomenon in the Bay Area - higher wages for construction workers, who still can’t afford a home themselves).

You argued that software isn’t good for the world, so society wouldn’t benefit from more of it. This is a perspective I don’t usually get (especially here on HN) and I’m interested in hearing more. My belief is that software is part of a centuries-long trend of technology/productivity advances that have brought billions of people out of poverty, the continuance of which is necessary (although not sufficient) for a post-scarcity utopian future. I don’t know if we will ever invent a replicator, but I think more software engineers increase the odds!
Certainly but one needs to get information from somewhere. There are a lot of sources but some are going to be more prevalent than others for that age (reddit, twitter and then all the instagrams and co.).

So if I have a choice to make, I prefer to push them towards a source where people who write nonsense are more likely to be corrected than a place where tribalism or conformism is so high that another opinion does not have a chance.

All of this is the introduction to discussions between us afterwards (where they get one more biased opinion - mine), but I prefer the topics they would get from HN than Instagram.

As an example, we spent a good amont of time yesterday when he brought up the case of a child (11 yo) that paid for the artwork of his mother. It was a very interesting exchange of opinions about what parents and children are entitled to vs responsibilities vs casual money management etc.
I would be interested in a comparision with a neural JPEG decoder that tries to restore the original image as much as possible.

It's incredibly hard to change the default file format on the web, but there's an opportunity to switch libjpeg to a decoder with much more realistic output images.
Can you explain? I'm used to seeing people talk about ADD/ADHD with relation to struggling with productivity/procrastination/attention (naturally), but I am surprised to see you link it to a personality disorder.

I know a little about avoidant personality disorder thanks to some reading I did a while ago on the basis of self-diagnosing with schizoid PD/avoidant PD (depending on exactly how finely one wishes to split that particularly hair), so you don't have to explain that half to me.
And to be honest it make sense in the early days. Jobs wanted the absolute best Apps in the Apps Store.

Situation now is different though. Jobs would likely have some human touch in the current situation. Where as Tim Cook feels less so.
I've been programming games in Roblox for a while now and honestly once you get used to LUA the things that once appeared to be "horrors" are now just quirks that I've honestly gotten used to.
No, they just get repairs and warranty refused at large monetary cost to them.
Youtube has two offerings: an ad-free version of youtube, and a version that shows a whole bunch of live local (and national) tv channels. The latter is close to 5X the cost of the former and is, I suspect, what you are thinking of.
Climate change and environmental collapse are somewhat larger dimensions than smoking though, both in impact as well as required policy changes.

The tobacco industry has never had a particular good reputation, so getting social buy-in is not that hard. It has no more utility than the alcohol industry, so getting rid of it has not a lot of knock-on effects. Even then, demanding a few scary pictures was a slap on the wrist, compared to outright banning them. (Not sure about Australia, but other notions actually work with local bans in a gradually increasing number of locations)

I think fighting climate change and environmental collapse are harder problems because the responsible industries are deeply intertwined into our economic systems and lifestyles. They are also providing a significant amount of political power. We'll have to actively work to find alternative ways of doing things in many areas before we're able to scale back here.
I suspect the reason Apple went after the more recent "hackintosh" brigade is because they were seeing a repetition of a bad experience they had before when Apple officially permitted OEM manufacturing of compatible "clone" computers back in the 90s.

The official 90s clones ended badly because the OEMs were cutting corners as part of a race to the bottom on pricing. This led to shit hardware which led to a shit customer experience. Which meant Apple took back control and killed off the official clone industry.

There are videos on YouTube of Steve Jobs talking (during informal interviews, not corporate statements) about the importance to both him personally and Apple of the entire customer experience (hardware and software). Its not from a perspective of monopoly. Its from a perspective of quality of the overall experience. That's what all the dumb Apple bashers fail to understand.
> many companies have already started building core infra in Rust. Facebook with Mononoke, Libra, Eden, and Hack. Dropbox for storage servers. Mozilla with Firefox.

You missed Amazon, Google, the Linux kernel, Microsoft, Apple, ... which big company isn't using Rust at this point in production?

The main difference between Rust as Haskell is that, while I really like doing competitive programming with Haskell, what I really like doing with Rust is shipping products to customers.

In my free time, I don't use Rust, right now I mostly use Idris2. But the main reason I can do that is that since we moved from C++ to Rust, nobody really call us on the weekend anymore to fix something that can't wait till monday.
Ideas are cheap. I started working on slack before slack and on aws before aws. Neither have been executed through to the end.
Hey, you just described Stadia!
Instead of minicars or scooters, the absolutely safest option would be to use regular small cars that are re-registered with a speed limiter.

Used small cars are cheap and they come with all the safety features that have been around and mandated for decades. They are infinitely more safe than these plastic boxes. Just tack a safety triangle in the back of the car to warn others of the slow speed. When the young person turns 18 they could just have the speed limiter removed and continue driving the same car.

Sweden has a local exception that allows turning old cars into tractors that 16-year-olds can drive. There are other limitations and those are really slow, and building tractors out of old Volvos doesn't sound too unsafe.
The amount of criminal usage of cryptocurrencies is definitely often overstated, but I don't think that article says anything that actually contradicts the statement (which, again, I think is false!) that crime is the only sector thriving in crypto right now. The article says "criminals use more cash than cryptocurrency for money laundering"- this doesn't tell you how much cryptocurrency use is related to crime, though.

They say up to 2 trillion could be getting laundered annually- at that point, Bitcoin's entire 2019 transaction volume could be money laundering, and it would be no less true that "criminals prefer fiat over cryptocurrency for money laundering." Obviously, this is absurd- the point is the article doesn't tell you what you actually want to know (how prevalent is money laundering in cryptocurrencies compared to legitimate transactions in same?)
Everyone is different. My data is mostly people in tech in France (around Paris) where the usual path is

- home with the parents in one place until college

- then college in an another city or around their place (and so they stay with the parents), maybe a 50/50 split

- then they move for a job

This is 2-3 places.

Again, everyone is different and it depends on many factors, this is data from maybe 20 or 30 people (we've been discussing a lot about that recently as we have children who go or will shortly go to college and we were comparing them to us)
They are more recyclable (reusable) now as the inside doesn’t have a sharp edge ring on the inside. Remember when I was a kid, reach your arm the full way in, you get scratched up pulling it out.
I think you are now talking about an even worse solution (untrusted desktop apps) than the one described in the article (sandboxed browser extension).
The PS4 apps currently allow a user to access tgeir console via ios without any of this other stuff.
6000€ is the price of a driving license plus a very nice first car in France, I don't really see who's the target for this product.
> Meat is absolutely PACKED with bioavailable nutrients in a way that most plant products simply aren't.

We'll ok, but we're not in the stone age anymore. We can produce processed, plant-based food with a similar nutrition density.

> Add to that, the growing evidence that much of the plant material we're eating may have inflammatory side effects of consumption.

Do you have sources for that?
There's a significant segment of the community that seems to be afraid of anything that fundamentally rethinks an old subsystem, I believe in large part because it forces them to learn new skills and they're been able to get paid rather handsomely thus far with their teenage-learned Unix skills.

It's a form of gatekeeping.

In my house, PulseAudio powers an entire wireless speaker setup, (except the speakers are actual high-quality bookshelfs, rather than say an Echo and I don't have to wiretap my house).

systemd is another project they love to hate despite what came before being an unreadable, inconsistent mess of variable quality shell scripts that came nowhere close to what systemd provides with its declarative services.
For Haskell original purpose it is hugely successful. It is a fantastic language to test new ideas and for functional language research. Think about how big of an impact it has had on languages like C#, Scala, Kotlin, and Swift.
Yeah, think that's my only solution as well.
Previous thread discussing similar vehicles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18061897
well... it depends... try to do it in my old town with small streets and devious curves...
As your parent pointed out, many places have a deeply entrenched culture of owners and mechanics illegally tuning vehicles. A speed limiter would not last long.
Really surprised with the the comments here.

Ami has never been created for teenagers , it was created by Peugeot to compete in the 'Licence Free EV' space.

Most owners of those vehicles are adult living in Urban Areas, not '14 years old'.

It's sad people keep focusing on 'Headlines' these days instead of taking a step back and actually reading the article...
IMHO

The only problem with Haskell is that it's on a journey to dependent types and they haven't released new standard yet.

It's future will depend on how good that future standard will be.

Rust is becoming more popular than Haskell because It's in a different niche (no gc). Not because it's more productive to write Rust code.

Haskell is still much easier and faster to write than any other production language.

Try to compare merge function for merge sort in Haskell and in other languages.
Does it literally brick your hardware, or do you just lose access to the Oculus store or something similar, and can still use it as a generic VR headset?
> We want to be able to traverse the AST for deeper analysis, so we need a parser to produce that syntax tree. From there, we’re free to perform any operations we wish to do on that AST.

Sounds to me like they are trying to reinvent python3 in lua.
Why not embed python anyway?
> I know that if I don’t change the medication, he will probably be a zombie like this until such time as somebody else does change it, which may be never. But if I do change the medication…well, there must be some reason somebody put him on that, and the idea of somebody who needed that much medication not being on it is too horrible to imagine. Also, I’m only seeing him once, and then he gets transferred to someone else. What do I do?

> The maxim is “do what lets you sleep at night”, so I punted. I kept him on his medications and turned him over to the next guy. I just hope the next guy gets my documentation instead of thinking “Dr. Alexander kept him on all this medication…I wonder what he knows that I don’t.”

Oh man, I have noticed this same behaviour with doctors.

I think how we portray doctors and hospitals as isn't aligned with practice. People really lack the skills to express their issues succinctly to doctors and expect them to figure out everything when they couldn't in months or years. The idea that a 30 min conversation is enough for doctors to know your entire life and medical history to prescribe you relevant medicine and diagnosis is flawed. Many people omit details out of fear and shame. Not that doctors are better at communicating that as a message. It's really like an interview.
Ah, the traditional future of OS development.
I am still wondering if we'll loose all the network capabilities of PA in PipeWire, whereas I don't need its low latency capabilities. Right now, it looks like one will have to install both PA and PW with a bridge between them, which seems a rather bug-prone setup if you ask me.
Crunches here in RU. And squids are those who don't wear protection.
6000€ it's HUGE for that "car".
I do not know about the rest of Europe but in the Netherlands, EULAs can be legally binding. That this means users have a lot of reading to do is true but not relevant. Source (in Dutch): https://blog.iusmentis.com/2008/04/05/de-rechtsgeldigheid-va...
This is not quite what is going on. The "rich" that lose are the workers from rich countries. Their employers lose nothing. They can cut costs because they can employ people with a way lower salary. It might still be at the upper level of the poorer country's market rate, but foreign employers won't pay much more than they strictly have to.
I know paper right now doesn't have a great environmental footprint, but paper does seem like a pretty good way to trick capitalism into planting lots of trees.
>So, why is it so hard, when confronted with facts about the consequences of your decisions, to really think about the meaning of your actions (much less to resolve to change your habits)?

The statistics show most people can't keep themselves from eating excess calories and developing diabetes and hypertension. They certainly know their eating habits will cause them pain in the long run. Yet they still do it. Because it's obviously hard to choose the long term benefit over the short term benefit.

If people can't control themselves from binging on sugar, salt, alcohol, in order to prevent harm to themselves, there's not much chance they're going to do it for their kids or grandkids, and definitely not for great grandkids.
There's probably a mix of both. At some point, most people probably realize that there's something fundamentally wrong - but by then, they're a few decades in and too much of their career and personal life depends on it being true, so openly changing course is very daunting. When your identity and career depends on something wrong being considered true, you have no incentive to point out problems, and every incentive to mislead.
Unfortunately, Apple controls the browser channel by mandating the use of their engine, WebKit, which is suspiciously limited on the features that make web apps close to native, Store-distributed apps.
Compared to systemd I feel like most of the issues with pulseaudio circa 2009 were distro or application specific, like the current situation with Wayland. You could run Ubuntu and have PA eat all your RAM and not even work, but switch to Fedora and not have so many problems (performance was still unacceptable on the toaster I used back then, though). Whereas if you dislike how systemd works and Poettering’s often narrow minded approach, using a different systemd based distro probably won’t change your mind.
Yes but none of the imminent dangers he warned about came to pass did they? We're still waiting. So, perhaps the right choice was made.

20 years later, you should watch that film again and see the manipulative fear mongering that is in play.

And let's not forget that Al is heavily invested in 'green' tech.
The Twizy is 4 wheels, though.

JFYI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20506703
As far as I understand I can't get back into the Oculus Hub where I bought my VR titles. The VR headset will still work, I just can't use it on software I bought.
> Haha, no, that'd be too much work for us

What's funny is that it's literally their job. They receive money for doing it.

Doing a take home is not paid. I have no idea why these recruiters assume it's ok to ask candidates for multi hours work without any kind of compensation.
This is something I was going to address but wasn't my main focus in the beginning.
But I made another write-up on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ir8ic6/youtube...

A tiny conversation about this here as well https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc/issues/56#issue...
MaLARea won a single category in two years, out of 11 categories in a competition running since 1996 (though not all categories were used each year). Furthermore, there were five other winners in the same category since the first entry of MaLARea. I think your enthusiasm is a little premature.
Except plastic breaks down into micro plastics and seeps into the ecosystem, unless you’re willing to hermetically seal hundreds of thousands of acres of land
> Fundamentally, Haskell did not clearly solve any particular problem with other languages. There are a lot of cool things you can do in Haskell, and arguably, there are problems in other languages that aren't issues in Haskell. But the advantages of Haskell were never as clear cut as Rust

I agree with you 100%

Did C++ kill C? Will Rust kill C++?

I think Haskell wasn't there to replace anything except maybe Standard ML, and you could say it won that one.

Rust is trying to be a better C++. And it addresses C++ issues directly in ways that are relatable to C++ programmers.

Similarly for Go, it really appeals to the Java croud that wants less patterns, less verbosity, more simplicity and especially that want lower memory footprint, fast startup times and simple deployments and delivery. It appeals to the Python croud that want better performance and to use what Google uses, etc.

I think in that sense, I see languages that take hold are those that directly address some of the pain points of other popular languages. Another great example of this is TypeScript.

And I'd say, that language cannot change everything that is familiar in doing so. You got to keep around a good 70% from the language that is popular, and with that 30% you can replace with something that fixes major pain points from it.

I think when you look at Rust it does that regarding C++, it purposely stayed close to the syntax.

And when I think of Haskell, it didn't do that. It wasn't trying to address the biggest pain points of everyday programmers in some other existing popular language. It was trying to be a whole new thing, an evolution of an already niche paradigm. It didn't meet anyone 70% of the way unless you were an ML programmer.

Now Squeak I find much more interesting, because it seem like it could have blown up, I mean Smalltalk too, not sure what happened, even Sun was working on Self, and the Java, Java won. I think it was due to performance at the time.
Imho we also tend to underestimate the impact of cognitive biases on our own views and behaviors. We are often largely unaware of this. In this case, I find that Hanlon's razor is to simple with the black and white distinction of incompetence and malice. Biases often fall in neither category.

People who view themself as rational / technical might be even more prone to not realizing how much they are affected by this? If your self-image is that you are very rational person (more rational than others), you might be especially prone to denying
and therefore not being aware of biases.
Should You Write a Business Plan Before Starting Your Business?
I live next to a greenbelt. It is pretty much impossible to push your way through the undergrowth. I'm aware that if it ever catches on fire my house is toast.
Selective logging. Sequester the CO2 by converting the logged trees to lumber and paper.
You completely missed exactly my point. You're arguing in terms of programming, which I explicitly state:

> Not in programming terms, but in social terms.
related (when parametric art was mechanical): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilloché
If you have a trusted source for a million host names, you have a trusted source for one hostname. So why would you have to download a million upfront and not just the one you need?
At high stock values, you don’t get many shares. It’s more like one share this year, and one share next year.

And a single share isn’t going to gain $100k.
Are you literally quoting a 18th century event as a reason for bad driving practices in 2020?
I don't see why a browser has to come in? Uber does in-app payments on its own because they are for services outside the app.

That's what I meant.
The boxy shape is to minimize parking space.

The weird design is to cut down on costs: as mentioned in the article, the doors are identical, the front and back panels are as well.

A sleek carlet wouldn't have cost 6000€.
Some of the best DDOS attacks work by sending data as character by character as slow as possible before the connection times out so as to mimic extremely slow connections and consume handler threads. Also HTTP1.1 downgrade attacks can force the usage of more connections especially if keep-alive is false.
I for one don't understand why Section 3.3.1 wasn't the end of it. Google it if you don't remember that in 2010 Apple tried to mandate which programming languages could be used to develop apps on the iPhone. To this day, your app can be blocked for having a link to your own website or a mention that your app is also available on Android.

I don't believe all software has to be free software, in the GPL sense, but I will not use a computing device as personal as the modern phone if the vendor gets to control what software I can run.
Damn I got an error at cell 19

otherwise seemed to work
that would be cool

like 3d printer for cocktails