skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

>In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so that it becomes obsolete (i.e., unfashionable, or no longer functional) after a certain period of time.[1] The rationale behind this strategy is to generate long-term sales volume by reducing the time between repeat purchases (referred to as "shortening the replacement cycle").[2] It is the deliberate shortening of a lifespan of a product to force consumers to purchase replacements.[3]

Apple does this with their hardware by limiting the software support period and economical hardware repair. Having something like the T2 ensures that third parties are not able to extend the life of their systems in a reasonable manner.
Nobody can hear the hold music any more because the vocoders are voodoo and the mobile networks drop 99% of the packets. Only people on landlines and VoIP have any idea what your hold music even is. On mobile it's just undifferentiated screeching.
American politics, at least, has been very partisan at times long before social media showed up. Much of 19th century was like that, even outside of the Civil War. That recent period you referenced, when politics was mostly private and considered embarrassing to bring up, is actually more abnormal than normal in that regard. IMO, it just indicates a period of time after major political issues get decisively resolved one way or the other, and a new issue hasn't come up yet (or, more likely, hasn't come to the boiling point yet).
This Kitty terminal isn't new. Going by the history on GitHub, this terminal predates the one you linked by a couple years.
> "In practice what you're doing is disallowing employers from offering employees terms of employment that provide the employee with working conditions of greater non-monetary value than ordinary jobs in exchange for less money."

the other side of that problem is that the wages are dictated by one party (with basically no external price signals impinging on them) rather than being free to respond to demand. it has the same anti-competitive issues that any price-fixing scheme has. plus, there are other sociopolitical forces depressing wages in a decidedly tilted labor market. fix those imbalances and then we'd have much more support for a freely self-adjusting labor market for driving.
Reading the letter sent to tenants and homeowners, imo the key takeaway in the communication seems to be they are transferring the headache of navigating evictions during COVID of nonpaying tenants to the homeowners.

Tough time to be a landlord in an already tenant-friendly state during an economic downturn.
> Actually, GEO satellites have quite a bit of aggregate capacity (1 Tbps and going up) and more capacity where it matters (over land, and specifically, population centers) than LEO constellations, and therefore have better bandwidth economics. They also last ~3x as long, which brings the $/Mbps down more.

the aggregate capacity of a 180 million dollar (construction plus launch cost) 6000 kg geostationary telecom satellite is less than two strands of fiber and a set of modern 100/200/400GbE coherent DWDM system line terminals.

saying that the throughput of all of the ka-band spot beams on a satellite is 1Tbps is both double-counting math for the capacity in both directions, and does not reflect the actual capability of the satellite. maybe if every single ground station was something large enough and with enough link budget to operate at 16APSK and better modulations. not a realistic figure if you're talking about low-cost, sub $1500 hardware, consumer grade ku and ka band vsats.

for a randomly chosen rural zip code in WA state, hughesnet is offering a 50GB quota/month for $150/month. so yes, 60GB transfer limits and things are still a real thing. and during peak evening hours TDMA contention means that latency will be 1150ms+, or worse.

the unavoidable economics of consumer grade small VSAT require serious oversubscription. Dedicated 1:1 satellite capacity starts from $1500/Mbps and up, and requires a serious VSAT terminal, not a hughesnet/viasat/wildblue type toy.

as to your last paragraph, if you have a proper 4G/LTE network in your area, just use that. There's verizon and at&t resellers with plans available that have quotas close to 200GB/month for a reasonable price now. why you would want a hybrid cheap vsat and 4G LTE setup, as a consumer, I don't know.
Does this support the parents thesis or are you adding this to counter?
That's fair, if you care about close-enough time-ordering but don't care about strict global causality then ULIDs would be useful. I suppose if you have a partition-able workload (say users posts go into Kafka keyed on userId) then you can use ULIDs to have guaranteed order within a partition, which is probably enough for many use-cases.
See https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-41... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342497 .

I don't know what Reddit thread is being referenced. The only Reddit thread that I found was making fairly juvenile and crude suggestions for alternative names and not talking about the author.
WSL2 is by far superior to running Windows in a VM, mostly because it's not "just" Linux in VM.

And anyway, just the way it lets me manage multiple instances of Linux is far superior to anything I experienced on Mac or Linux itself. By the current standards, Wine is just _painful_ to use. Meanwhile Windows window management and the terminal app have made great strides in last couple years.
Wow, and on the heels of the disastrous price hike in Youtube TV because well gee those content guys are so MEAN they want all the dollarz. I also like Google Chat you know its like that thing we got rid of years ago, went through about six evolutions and came back to but without the interoperability with other systems that actually made the first one useful.

It makes me wonder if there is anyone working at Google who understands what the term "value added" even means.

Maybe they should just buy Roku and crap on that. After all Roku is moving into an analytics for sale company away from a streaming company. Why? Because everyone wants to be a portal but they can't afford to be with the studios demanding extortionate sums for their content. So instead of getting money for bringing you the content (because they have to pass on more than they can afford to the content owner) they sell their observation of people watching content to people who want to make content that people watch which is "their data" because it happened on "their device."

It makes me physically ill sometimes with how messed up this whole system came to be.
The lack of such a feature is not a technical problem; it's misaligned incentives. The company does not want you on the phone; the annoyance of being on hold is a feature for them and not a problem that should be fixed.

In a healthy market this behavior would cause the company to lose marketshare to a competitor offering better support, which is why the only companies still using call centers as their primary (and often only contact) are those in monopolized industries like telecommunications. Every other industry has moved on to better solutions (async email, chat, etc) because consumers demanded them.

The real problem here is monopolies and misplaced regulation (harmful regulation that prevents competition combined with the lack of regulation that would force the incumbent to actually provide good service).
Not that you asked, but `git rebase -i master` pops up $EDITOR with all the commits since `master`. You can reorder them, squash them, mark them as "fixup"s (squash + omit commit message), reword commit messages, etc etc.
Jura is the Apple of coffee, in my opinion. Swiss engineering, superb minimalist design, and fantastic coffee. (Nespresso not so much.)
Probably not. In fact Nvidia dumped the Nvidia Shield tablet but kept released new tv devices recently.
Lots of people who have never worked for Microsoft have experience building in the Windows codebase.

Large OEM partners that need to do driver development, academics, and government customers are all granted source access licenses.
> But a typo is easy to fix and probably won't spend weeks in pull request ping pong hell.

Yeah. How the maintainer(s)s of a repo respond to trivial typo fixes (real ones, not spam) is also a good way to test things / check for any weird attitudes.

Most of the time, PR's are accepted easily and swiftly. But sometimes (rarely), the response is strange or off putting.

There is the occasional PR that just sits there forever without being looked at too, which just shows the repo at that URL is dead / unmaintained. Also good to know before putting much time/effort in. ;)
Ooh, imagine a NUC or such small enough machine running off of USB-C Power Delivery. 65 Watt power budget easily. I guess a Raspberry Pi would count as that?

Then a battery pack could provide that, as DC.
Are we talking about the same virus, the one with a death rate far below 1%? The one that's almost completely harmless to everyone who wasn't severly ill and going to die soon to begin with? The one that many people are immune to already thanks to cross-immunity?
Yes Eon is similar BUT it is not nearly as turnkey. Agree it is not well marketed.
One of the repos that I manage actively participates in Hacktoberfest and I'm finding out about this "invalid" label counting now, via this article.

No, I didn't read the FAQ, but I imagine neither did a lot of maintainers, especially those that don't participate. The undercounting must be massive.
Yep, the end result of Google’s play here is that Duplex calls Duplex and they tie themselves up in 3 hours of AI chess to result in zero.
I am an Indian, and I've studied at an Indian university for my undergraduate degree, and I've witnessed spam like this everywhere. Not hacktoberfest, but I've been a part of it myself for some of the other things. Wish I had behaved better.

In most of these cases, it usually starts with someone really talented doing it with all the good intentions, and everyone else wanting to get in on that 'swag' and appear just as 'talented' and 'unique' amongst their peers. The freebies are mostly for 'show off'.

A few hours ago this link showed extremely low effort LeetCode/Programming Challenge problems and solutions aggregation repos created by us Indians (disproportionally more than any other country at the time I checked) with very silly open issues created & marked as 'hacktoberfest2020' (looks like some of them are gone now)[1].

But, from what I heard from my uni recently, things are improving and this year folks are trying their best to form groups to focus on meaningful contribution over spam.

Even after all that, unfortunately for us though, we'll still have bad actors, probably at the same percentage as any other country, but amplified due to our population and hyper-fixation with an unreal perception about most things we do.

[1] https://github.com/search?p=1&q=label%3Ahacktoberfest+state%....
It is a VM with a lot of hacks. For most tasks it is good but for complicated situations it will get you.

I used to run Linux VM inside HyperV before WSL2 released, and it worked like a charm. WSL2 just adds a lot of hacks to integrate Windows & Linux experience.
Early works by Edward Hopper found to be copies of other artists
When they could just send I/O and call it a draw in 40ms.
> Ostensibly everyone participating is doing so voluntarily

I disagree that it’s voluntary.

Nobody is driving for Uber because it’s their passion.

For the majority, they’re doing it to make enough money to allow them to barely get by. They myth of college kid earning a couple extra bucks for beer money is a great bit of storytelling by Uber and other gig economy companies.

Is there a literal gun to their heads? No. Is there a figurative gun where they’re looking down the barrel of not paying for meals, healthcare, and other necessities? For many, yes.
You're projecting an exclusiveness that is just not there in the quote. Nowhere does it argue that this corporation should be the only one helping.

If anything, "this kind of technology" means the opposite of exclusivity, namely that Coinbase is part of a larger system than themselves, made of multiple corporations and other entities, and the people themselves, using this kind of technology, which it is claimed together help the underserved.

Or are you trying to argue that this for-profit corporation, or all for-profit corporations, should not be aiming to help underserved people?
>The origins of Edward Hopper’s
earliest oil paintings

https://burlington.org.uk/media/_file/generic/202010-42790.p...
So you imagine that Uber and Lyft drivers will spend their extra money on Uber and Lyft rides so the number of rides won't go down and it will be a perpetual motion machine?
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We're not on the same page. My point being that the macOS users that Apple are targeting with this policy has the choice between a new Mac and an used one.

That's where they make their money. People that just want good specs at cheap prices are not their target market.
What's the differencd between what you're proposing and ENUM (e164.arpa) other than being public (maybe?)
I got one of these (they changed the title of the project in the readme to that of one of their personal projects) earlier and had no idea what it was about until a GitHub support person told me it was just more Hacktoberfest spam (at which point I went up and learned what that is). And apparently it's my responsibility to clean it up? No thank you.

I love the idea, but maybe let me opt in or something instead of putting the burden on me to reduce your spam. It would be trivial to have projects put a "hacktoberfest" label on something if they want to participate, for example.
I'm there with you - just saying that even with all the avoidance... you can't really avoid it unless you give someone else the task or have some special resources at your disposal to get direct lines to people.
1. How are those two things mutually exclusive? Re-opening plans were inadequate and also remote learning leaves students behind. There's "No Silver Bullet" in software, and educating the country's children in a pandemic is infinitely more complicated than most software projects. (And, BTW, re-opening schools also isn't an either/or... but hard-line partisans on both sides are giving school district admins hell about any attempt at a hybrid approach)

2. Even if you think those two things are mutually exclusive, which they're not, why can't the New Yorker publish two different pieces on two different perspectives written by two different people (Alec MacGillis and Amy Davidson Sorkin)? It's a magazine, not a party platform.
Putting your customers on hold is treating them as adversaries. It's usually a signal that whatever product you're calling about is a scam. Unfortunately, participating in some scams (ie healthcare) are pretty much mandatory.
My C-64 has a USB interface.

It's the one my dad bought in 1984 or so. Imagine the scene:

Me and my brother flew home to West Germany (Rheindahlen) from the UK (Army brats) for the Christmas hols. Dad proudly shows us the new computer and plugged the power into the video input. pop. About two months later we receive the repaired unit from NAAFI. Me and my brother went back to school for the spring term. Mum and Dad had not banked on the C64 as a main Chrimbo pressie for us and gave us other things. They clearly knew well ahead of time how IT will always screw up - they were clearly prescient types.

We absolutely loved it. I wont bore you any more with reminisces but I still have it and it still works.

Capacitors don't evaporate, they swell or blow if dodgy enough - long story, search it ("blown capacitors".)
Ah, thanks, yep - that makes sense :)
One thing to consider is that the bar for "the best time ever" never gets lower. To defeat this, I concentrate on "good times frequently". I've found that shifting the goal from "best ever" to "reliably enjoyable" works well for me.
It was a problem last year too. Even the person running it for DO suggested making it opt in.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/MattIPv4/status/1311391325443555328
Not much better than watching Apple TV+ in Apple TV app on an Apple TV.
There is a reason, but ain’t bc of their cloud databases...
People are moving because of climate right now and it's causing massive civil unrest. This is nothing compared to the scale that will happen when a sizeable portion of the earth is not inhabitable.

If we get to 6C, which is a very real possibility given the fairly large number of positive feedback and history of rapid climate events on the planet, human extinction is a potential outcome.

But I suspect that's really no evidence or argument that would convince you that things won't be pretty much fine, which is why I'm personally more convinced then ever that we will likely see that 6C.
> They are different but with regards to what makes them good, they are basically the same.

Yes. The rules for how long to show a subtitle, and when to pop them in and out are the same, regardless of the actual text shown. Everyone can decide what characters-per-second limit works for them, but whatever you choose, it fundamentally alters everything else and restricts what text can actually go in the subtitle. Translated or not translated, sound cues or no sound cues.
It feels like Western Europe very much did experience political divisions in that time period, looking at how various populist parties (that thrive on that) are faring now compared to, say, 30 years ago, and the kind of rhetoric they're generating.
Shame I can't look at this if I ever want to work on WINE of another legit workaround.
I am confused as how it can call itself a "knowledge database" when it doesn't even have basic knowledge.

Searched for Falcon, apparently it's a company in the AI industry, has a website falcon.com.cn and is a genus of birds.

Also searched "Apple", got the company, good knowledge base. The fruit Apple is a page that says it's a fruit tree, with the CEO Tim Cook, former CEO Tim Cook, and Timothy Cook.

It seems to just be completely wrong, minus maybe a 100 articles.

I feel like basic encyclopedia information should have at least been pre-populated.
I got motion sick while trying to read this webpage. Apparently scrolling counts as motion to the brain and all the crazy flying icons set it off. I don’t normally get motion sickness, either.
Maybe, maybe not. It's hard to really know without trying it and measuring.
I've really re-evaluated my views of public vs. private schools during this crisis. I like a lot about our local public schools, but the district is strapped for cash and we are wondering if our kids will be back this school year.

Meanwhile I'm browsing private schools websites and starting to notice all the opportunities my kids are missing. Private schools can offer so much more and I'm not sure why we never seriously looked into them. They cost, sure, but we could put the money together if we wanted to.

There's been a steady outflow of parents from public to private around here and I don't think those kids are coming back. I don't know where this ends, but I don't think it ends well for public schools.

It's a pity.
Disagree, their parents wanted that land for 'culture'. It's a good lesson for the kids to see how valuable that culture is.
Does your router run Merlin or DD-WRT? Throw it on there for your whole home and you'll free up some slots.
Is anyone who’s worked for MS barred?
Amazon Timestream is generally available
Nope just that there’s nothing at all incongruous with that quote identifying an underserved market and libertarian politics.
I agree, but I actually really liked the interior design photos. That sofa! That TV stand! So sparse and yet luxurious at the same time. (I am NOT being sarcastic. That furniture is drool worthy, and the photography is first rate.)
I think perhaps Marco’s thread on this more clearly articulates what I was trying to get at. Maybe y’all disagree but it does not really matter... it only matters how the power is wielded and who benefits and how.

https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1311431871474003968?s=21
A few comments have asserted that if an existing company chooses to be apolitical, that may itself be a political act. This sounds clever, but it's not correct.

At the highest level, a company is a group of people who get together to 1) set an impactful goal, and then 2) work very hard to achieve it. The first part — the setting of the goal — is the political act. Disagreements at this level are good, and broadly healthy.

But the second part — the achieving of the goal — is purely a practical act. Here, your guiding principle is to take those actions, and only those actions, which you believe will give you the highest chance of achieving your goal.

Politicizing a company contradicts this principle: to the extent that you make the act of achievement more political, you are also making it less practical. To the extent that you allocate more budget, focus, and optimization power to X, you are also taking it away from Y.

If you make the act of achievement less practical, someone else may beat you to your goal. Your company will be less impactful than it could have been, and may even die as a result.

What Brian is saying here is: we set our goal in 2012 when we started Coinbase. We are now engaged in the practical act of achieving it. If you have a goal that's different from the one we set, no problem. Here is some money: you may use it, if you choose, to find an organization whose goals you support.
Or just keep buying things the other guy will be paying for...
So as I recently got a Mac from a guy and he don’t remember the password and I’m stuck on activation lock should I keep it or should I sell it or throw it ! Thanks a lot
Ask HN: If a pistol made before 1898 isn't legally a “firearm”
IANAL

https://blogs.findlaw.com/fourth_circuit/2013/10/antique-firearms-black-powder-ammo-in-felon-in-possession-case.html

Doesn't this mean antique pistols and other such non-"firearm" firearms are exempted in a number of statutory-defined situations based on the word "firearm?" Airports? Bars? Airport bars? Banks?
At the peak we were camping at least once a month. We opted to home school our kids for the elementary - middle school years (they went to public high school) and that allowed us some freedoms like spending a week in Yellowstone working on geology lessons, biology (wildlife) lessons, as well as general life lessons. I am extremely grateful we had a chance to do that.

Walking is something I started doing when I began focusing on my health and where I'd be if I didn't do something. These days I walk about 7 - 8 miles a day but being semi-retired helps there. Another friend of mine and I found we can spend our time walking and talking on conference calls very effectively to 'double use' the time.
I dream of the day I can walk into a job interview and brag about how many PRs my Open Source projects have to reject per day. Maybe that's just my Nobody Privilege talking though.
> The desire to protect children may put their long-term well-being at stake.

The virus barely affects children. It's never been about the children, only about protecting the welfare of old people at all costs, the youth be damned.
There was a big update recently that added better split pane support. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog.html#id9
Glad to see it! I'm hoping to see more ARM laptops on the Windows side as well.

Can anyone comment on the advantages/disadvantages of Microsoft's approach to running x86 code on ARM versus Apple's? (As far as I understand it, Apple is using some kind of ahead of time recompilation, while Microsoft is using emulation?)