skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. People love to root for the underdog and AMD was behind for the longest time.

AMD has had pretty much always a solid mid-tier offering in the last five years, but people would still rather buy an nVidia card (like, say, a 1050) instead of the better AMD (at the price point) because of the "1080 Ti" halo effect.

nVidias software stack is pretty bad. Sure, the driver core works pretty well. The nVidia control panel looks like it was last updated in 2004, which is actually true (go find some screenshots of it from 15 years ago running on XP, it looks the same). Now, that doesn't mean it has to be bad (don't fix what isn't broken), but the NCP is actually clunky to use. Not to imply AMD's variant is necessarily better, but at least they're working on it.

The nVidia "value-adds" like shadow play and so on are all extremely buggy. And while their core driver may be good, you still get somewhat frequent driver resets and hangs with certain interactive GPU compute applications.
For 64GB which isn’t enough if your doing pro type tasks like videos or photo editing. To up it, it cost $150 and puts it into the pro range. I was going to update my current air but can’t justify spend $750 and will just wait for the pro refresh.
It’s obviously a computer. It’s clearly Turing complete.

It’s just not one you can install your own operating system on without jailbreaking.

If you want to define a computer as a machine that you can install your own operating system on, then you probably have to rule out a bunch of early computers that were too simple to install any operating system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Mark_1
> This may not be scalable at Google/FB where you're hiring commodity L3-L5s a lot.

I think that's probably more the rub than anything. I never had a happier time being an interviewer than my time at hypergrowth startups. The sheer caliber of both candidates AND resource allotment towards landing them was far higher than what I was able to see in the BigCo environment. It made things a lot more pleasant.
I'm pretty sure SemVer allows for alpha and beta releases. Why not extend that versioning convention to include an omega release as well? (Is "omega release" even a thing? I'm imagining it as the last stable release - it will be maintained but no new features will be added. Which I think I would consider different from EOL.)
If the cost of recycling was added in as a tax on the material, that could be effective as well. Then the market could decide which materials are truly cost effective.
Reason: supply chain supply chain supply chain
I'm 100% sure I've come off in a couple interviews like one of those "phew we dodged a bullet there, guy can't code at all" stories. Meanwhile actually I can and many employers have been very happy with my ability to do so, and I've had a long and reasonably successful career.

The problem's not even that I'm bad under pressure, and in fact I've repeatedly been told the exact opposite by people who've worked with me. The problem is specifically about doing a programming performance in front of an audience, in an interview rather than co-worker context. I'm god-awful at that unless I'm heavily prepped for exactly what's going on. No tools? I'll forget basic syntax, yes even in "a language I chose". Let me use tools? I'll forget how to use them, or get self-conscious and avoid things I'm not entirely sure will work, overriding my own muscle memory. It's a very specific problem but I doubt I'm the only one who absolutely can do the job just fine, but is also entirely capable of coming off like a complete "faker" in an interview.

[EDIT] to make matters worse I can talk about programming just fine in that setting, which probably adds to the "he's some kind of social engineering genius who learned to sound exactly like a competent programmer while somehow also not learning a single thing about programming" impression. It's not usually an issue, but I'm quite sure I've reinforced some interviewers' notion that it's a good thing they do whiteboard screening because they're overwhelmed with lying applicants, and that I was one of them.
Yup. Sorry probably shoulda noted that. :D
Everyone can have IPv6 today by using a tunnelbroker.
I used the free tunnel from https://www.he.net/ in the past, when I didn't have native v6. Today I don't need it anymore.
In the age of COVID, this also includes plenty of far more profitable things like concerts, trade shows, online classes, etc.
The vast majority of things people think of as recyclable are actually not.

The result is an endless stream of trash in the recycling stream which makes the actual recyclables worthless.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-...

> reporters come here thinking this is the destination for old laptops exported from the United States [..] But this isn’t the destination at all. The computer shops are.

> According to the United Nations Environment Programme, 85 percent of the e-waste dumped in Ghana and other parts of West Africa is produced in Ghana and West Africa

I think "produced" is a massive misnomer here. For as far as I know, there are no high-tech electronics factories in Africa. What the 85% figure refers to, I guess, is the part of the waste that was part of the local economy before ending up at the dump. But from the first quote, that still means the site is filled with discarded items from the US and Europe, just not directly.
7 requests per page load. No, I don't think so.
Why does the default option matter to you?
> I suspect that the license may not require you to retain the notices

It explicitly does.
And yet, I would venture to guess he’s more satisfied than somebody trying to get his name onto a big building.

Recognizing what’s important to you and knowing that you have it is what’s actually valuable.
And I get to judge him for making the wrong call.
> But what should buildings be named after? Famous scientists? Planets?

Basic numbers and letters. Building 4, Building C, Building 97, Building Z, etc.
This solves the namespacing problem and allows creators and consumers to use different names if they want. Searching based on the creator's original name for a project becomes a mess because there will be a very large number of HelloWorld applications out there. Interestingly enough the google web store sort of already does this. The issue that comes up fairly quickly though is how to deal with the relationships between different packaged and published versions of what is nomalinally the same code base, or even forks/branches of the same code base. Maintaining a verifiable and discoverable chain for published artifacts without completely confusing users or exposing them to various malicious attacks (change a single byte in the middle of that random string and you have a nice off-by-one attack). Lots of infrastructure would be required to pull this off, but it would be great if it could be built.
What do you use to visualise results and explore features?
>A small number of ultra-rich people should not be deciding for society what causes get funded.
Alternatively, we can elect a small number of ultra-rich people into government who would have surly spent his money better on say, funding an ever-growing military.
Was anyone else deeply saddened about three words into the headline, on realizing this wasn't a watch? (RIP)
Doing 60 interviews is certainly not my style of job-hunting, but I think it'd be pretty dang easy (but a ton of work) to line up that many interviews in a few month period if you are not overly selective in companies you interview with.

Yes, a good LinkedIn profile with the right resume items helps with that. Also living in (or relocating to) a tech hub.
I think it took both China and Taiwan much less than 2 years to ramp up production. Why would it take you so long?
>It seems like the only way to make recycling truly effective at a large scale is to make it economically viable

I think it's easier and less corruptible to have the goal be to reduce the consumption causing the waste and attack the problem at the root. I.e. a tax increasing the cost of everything to reflect the cost of properly disposing it.

Recycling doesn't undo the environmental damage, and in many cases it takes huge amounts of energy to recycle causing even more damage.
Absence of Evidence
I feel like you have it backwards here. Consumers aren't the ones deciding how much plastic is in what. For example, I didn't decide that my new pair of scissors should come in large, impossible to open blister packaging. I didn't decide that my grocery store should only sell milk in large plastic jugs. And that's just going by the packaging I can see. Who knows how much disposable packaging is used throughout the production process.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't try to reduce the amount of plastic you use. But the end consumer wasn't responsible for the huge rise of plastic products, and there's only so much they can do to fix it.
"just works" – unless your iPhone is sideways. Or you're wearing polarized sunglasses. Or you're lying on your side in bed. Or your iPhone is flat on the table. Or...
For ffmpeg h.264 encoding on macOS it is not very wise to use x264 instead of h264_videotoolbox.
A less cynical take is that they can now ask Mali customers "how can we modify this better and more mature architecture to be appropriate for your use case"
I doubt it. Real narcissists and psychopaths are incredibly self-centered; they have a lot of trouble even accounting for others' goals in, e.g. a business negotiation, which is why they usually resort to authoritarian or manipulative attitudes. A typical narcissist wouldn't even know how to start looking at good opportunities for philanthropy or charity. Now, I agree that philanthropy might come with selfish side-benefits for the person who donates, but true narcissism is most likely not involved.
Hackers Connected to China Have Compromised U.S. Government Systems, CISA Says
See also: GM And Nikola: A Fine Deal For GM

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4374438-gm-and-nikola-fine-...

> The deal shows Nikola doesn’t have any technology of its own, be it battery technology or fuel cell technology.
The deal also shows that Nikola is willing to forego any possibility of an economic return, just to further the story and pump the stock.
That's assuming a 60-minute workout, using apps throughout the day, and the GPS model (which is slightly more energy-consuming anyway). The workout is really what'll get you; those switch the heartrate and other bio-monitoring from passive to active, which greatly increases battery drain.

If you use your Watch more passively, all-day performance is not out of the question. It all depends on your individual use case.

Besides, 18 hours should be sufficient since you ought to be getting more than 6 hours of sleep a night anyway. Somewhere in that offtime is when you can charge. I do it overnight, but plenty of people charge during their morning routine (shower, etc.) and say it charges more than enough to last all day.
There are different ladders with different hiring expectations (e.g. SWE and Eng manager). Regardless, a lot of leeway is given for code rustiness at these levels, but design skills are still important. Algorithmic skills are often still required (e.g. imagine you are hiring a senior dev into a Search Infrastructure group, do you want them to be rusty on algorithms?).
Also, the Los Logos books.
If you want to find things hidden in masterpieces get Charles Bouleau's The Painter's Secret Geometry and learn about the scaffolding which gives imagery its underlying structure and guides the eye around it.
That update basically wasn't one. The A12Z is a binned A12X from the 2018 model and the Lidar sensor is the single other change.
It's basically a 2018 Pro.
Surely they could drop a few extra million for oblique Helvetica.
This is an Apple-related story, it draws a different crowd in my experience. I think more generally these consumer electronic stories tend to have pretty uninteresting discussions on this website, probably because there's very little barrier to entry. Not really surprising to see that it quickly devolves to reddit-tier upvote/downvote battles.
I've been on the linux desktop for 15+ years and what does this mean then?

You're free to live in the year of the linux desktop, each and every year. Choose your reality.
The people for whom that's attractive aren't Peloton's real target market anyway. If you're positioning as a luxury lifestyle brand you don't worry about the people building their own.
>You reduced the critique of the article to "How dare they screen tenants", which is a strawman that no one is proposing.

The website -- and other commenters -- were citing "they do background checks" in itself, with no further commentary, as something inherently outrageous. What you're quoting was my (and several others') best effort identify what we thought was being criticized; this is really hard when no one will commit to a position, and when they do, it turns out their complaint is ultimately (see below) "oh, they didn't do my kind of background check, where I'd never make a wrongfully biased decision based on a coffee shop chat", which feels, to me, not morally superior.

>Sometimes. I know some people I've rented to. Others have been strangers. Ask for references, have a coffee shop conversation.

Gotcha, so you do a background check them, just not the standard, criminal/credit check, and feel like this is a morally-relevant distinction. You also base a lot of your decision about a hard-to-quantify "gut feel" from this coffee shop chat, and are sure you aren't allowing an insidious bias that you would criticize if a corporation did it (cf. "culture fit").
I have both an iPad Air 2 (60Hz) and an iPad Pro 10.5 (ProMotion 120Hz). (I wanted to trade in my Air 2 but saw it wasn't worth much so decided to keep it)

Scrolling is smoother on the latter, but it wasn't appreciable enough that the iPad Air 2 looked bad in comparison. I could continue using the Air 2 without any FOMO.

Maybe it makes more of a difference for artists? (Pencil users)
This is a very presumptuous take.
I'd love to see the Pencil come to the Mac! And Big Sur spacing out everything hints at touch probably coming to the Mac.

As a MacBook Air user I'd love an option to restore the previous compact spacing. Maybe it will still come as an accessibility option? One can hope.
I hope this is not the case, because it would mean that I'm currently being charged twice for the same service.
And wildfires.
What is the LiDAR sensor for?
John Harvard and Elihu Yale seemed to have avoided this fate. And Leland Stanford had the same name as his father, so maybe founding a university is the way to go here?
Modern smartphones would make the early 90's top 500.
The Plastic recycling process as a whole is an incredibly succesful cost externalization for the petro-chemical and packaging industries.

Governments and consumers need to get serious with these lobbies:

- Ban ALL single-use plastic (except for medical supplies).

- Heavily tax plastic packaging

- Tax breaks for glass and paper packaging

- Force plastic return deposit schemes at supermarkets _payed for by manufacturers_

- Define industry quotas for how much 'new' plastic is allowed to be made from crude and make companies bid for it in a "new plastic" market, this would enable buy in from petro-chemical businesses whose profit currently depends on volume.

Yes, product prices will increase but the reality is that the price is already there but is just currently hidden behind the recycling PR machine.

None of this requires ocean micro plastic cleaning tech, or plastic separating computer vision, it is purely political it is purely stopping this protectionism. It can change right now if people are outraged enough.
Among the bigger companies, Google is by far the friendliest when it comes to intra-company transfers. All you need is the manager of the destination team to accept you. If the team is in a different country, the immigration teams will do what needs to be done.

You don't need permission from your current manager.

Maybe you don't care about this, but many would consider this a huge 'perk', that justifies Google's focus on hiring good generalist SWEs who are not too wedded to a specific team.

It's a very strong part of Google culture, and it manifests itself in every aspect of Google life, such as general openness wrt code and documentation across the whole company, internal job boards etc. which make it easy to take a call about what team you want to work on next.
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Among the bigger companies, Google is by far the friendliest when it comes to intra-company transfers. All you need is the manager of the destination team to accept you. If the team is in a different country, the immigration teams will do what needs to be done.
You don't need permission from your current manager.

Maybe you don't care about this, but many would consider this a huge 'perk', that justifies Google's focus on hiring good generalist SWEs who are not too wedded to a specific team.

It's a very strong part of Google culture, and it manifests itself in every aspect of Google life, such as general openness wrt code and documentation across the whole company, internal job boards etc. which make it easy to take a call about what team you want to work on next.
... A pig

In a cage

On antibiotics
If you're ok with a slightly rougher finish on the casting but the same material properties as Kee Klamp, you can get cheaper store-brand variants of many of the common connector types from Global Industrial, Grainger, and other industrial suppliers.

Also, structural pipe is usually pretty dirty from production and I've found it's worth the cost to just have a local metal fabricator take care of the cleaning.

https://www.globalindustrial.com/c/storage/fittings-framing-...
I don’t think this comment should be downvoted because I think it’s worth addressing directly.

So, no. I don’t like that. Do you think Apple is going to start buying churches? Why?
And what a strange name. Why is “shoot” treated like an expletive? I’m actually not even sure I’m parsing the name correctly.
Isn't one goal of the web to have features implemented regardless of underlying platform?
>I don't really understand why recycling plastic is not viable. I feel like this is more of a problem with ideology than actual process. [...] Anyways, if someone smarter than me tells me the economics doesn't work, I will believe them, but until then I am skeptical of the idea that we can't properly recycle plastic.

This comment is baffling. In the beginning you think it's an ideological issue. Later on you acknowledge that cost might be an issue, but then you move to goal posts from "plastic is not viable" to "we can't properly recycle plastic". Cost is absolutely the main issue here, not that it's "not possible". Even if recycled plastic is substandard compared to virgin plastic, most consumers can be convinced of otherwise if it's sufficiently cheap enough.
I like reading these by my gosh man, they are always written by people with seeming no material insight into either the practical, strategic or aspirational aspects of branding and marketing. It's pretty hard to take any of it very seriously.

What's just as shocking is how naive most of the tech world is in terms of their understanding of what marketing even is, let alone advertising. Similarity for finance and financial concepts.

Advertising and Marketing is a complicated thing, but it's part of the structure of business and it's far from irrelevant.
Unless you live in Japan where evidently copyright infringement is A ok, you're fine.
In a large part it has to do with the logistics. For simplicity: Oil is used for plastic, the specific kind of oil is siphoned off and processed in bulk for plastic.

If you want to recapture plastic and recycle. You’d need to get plastic, separate it, reprocess (more expensive in most cases), then you could mold again (often at a slight loss of input, I.e. there will be waste).

This makes recycling plastic (today) multiple times more expensive to produce the same good. No one would want to spend double the current price on a soda.
I don't think it's fair to ignore the instructor and class content of Peloton. I use mine because of the classes, I'm not sure I would use the bike if it weren't for the instructors and classes that I like.

Peloton did also just release a new bike that does work with Apple's GymKit too, so, I don't think it's just the metrics.
First time in 175 years, Scientific American endorses a presidential candidate
The recently popular NPR article on the same subject[1] mentioned a few reasons why the economics doesn't work, at a high level of detail. Overall I believe it's because there are so many different kinds of plastic and they all need to be recycled differently, and mainly just that producing new plastic is just so cheap and easy by comparison.

Hopefully with better processes and technical innovations that will change soon.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-...
Custom Lamborghini vs. Tesla – Winner Keeps Car
I know the lens isn’t touching the table, but doesn’t that also mean the lens does get scratched easier?
More copyleft FUD
"Earning to give" doesn't mean you have to earn in dishonest fashion.
I don't see this happening. Wireless charging is slower and is awkward if you want to use the phone while it's charging. With something like the Apple Watch it doesn't matter since it's unlikely you would even want to have it on your wrist while connected to the wall.

I get that people also thought removing the headphone jack was crazy too, but Bluetooth audio is as good as wired for the majority of people. In many cases it's even nicer than having a wire going from your device to your head (something that I hated about listening to music on the go for decades). Plus it didn't fully disappear. You can still do wired audio with a dongle.
That's absolutely right and it's a major problem of this study. There is one caveat though, in the most common ER+ breast cancer, radiological response is more predictive of survival than pCR. And in this study, they do observe a better radiological response in the fasting group, even when looking at ITT (though just barely significant).
> I think we need 5x the number of representatives at the House level. Separate their duties, strip power from some of them, and keep them in district most of the year so they can actually be held accountable.

That is a a great idea. One idea along those lines, is maybe make the House entirely online with the representatives being in the district 100% of the time. It would do a couple of things. It would make lobbying harder since instead of getting a bunch of people together in Washington at a fancy dinner, the lobbyists would have to travel and meet 1:1. In addition, it might decrease partisan ship by decreasing the power of the party whips. When people are all in a single location, tremendous social pressure can be brought to bear to convince a representative to vote along the party lines, even if it would be going against the wishes of their constituents. With the representatives dispersed and remote, the social pressure would be diminished, and maybe representatives would vote more in line with their constituents’ wishes.
Because that's the Zuckerberg SF General Hospital and not just for kids. [0]

[0]https://zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/
> I'm not above ladling a bit of soup into a bowl or picking up the dog shit while at the animal shelter.

I'm not opposed to that if you're doing it for your own benefit. But you should be thinking of this as leisure time for yourself, rather than assuming that you're "donating time" for the sake of real social impact. There's picking up dog $#!+, and then there's actually impactful stuff.
I've installed Intel's Driver Update Utility and it keeps the wifi up to date from them rather than Windows Update. I remember conflicts with Windows Update when trying to use Intel's own drivers years ago but it hasn't been an issue with my current device.