skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to waste money on a fun social experience is an enormous privilege for the upper middle class.

For the other 85% of Americans, getting a job with an investment that doesn't put you into debt is super important.
if google managed my apartment they'd cut out sections of the floor due to low usage because i didn't actively step on them
Hrm. If the average car lasts 200,000 miles, then 800 miles is 0.4% of that, and if the car cost $30000, that alone is $120.

Just some food for thought -- of course, if you have passengers it'll quickly be worth it even if you decide to factor in this kind of calculation.
Unfortunately car owners tend to ignore depreciation and risks of accidents in their cost estimates, but include comforts like the ability to carry more luggage.
The only high-speed rail effort I'm aware of that has any reasonable shot at becoming actual and is currently being pursued, is the Dallas-Houston line.

From September 21:

"High-speed train between Dallas and Houston gets federal approval"

"Texas Central expects to start construction in the first half of 2021."

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/21/dallas-houston-high-...
A long time ago a lone ricer experimented with this in Gentoo to find the best compiler flags:

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110312082043/http://www.coyote...

[2] https://github.com/Acovea/libacovea

[3] http://swmath.org/software/28819

[4] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5380987

I think he was way ahead of the times then.

Nowadays? Not so much, integrate it with all sorts of fuzzers, ccache, distcc, whatever and let the "compile cloud" churn.
That goes against the first amendment.
> Who is being paid in this "auction"? What percentage of customers of search know precisely what they are paying? The latter I'm putting at "so close to zero as makes no difference" which makes "price competitive" outcome a little on the absurd side.

Honestly, most of the people I've talked with know about Google's business model. They give answers ranging around here abouts:

* I don't care about privacy; I have nothing to hide.

* DuckDuckGo are probably a honeypot; they gather as much or more information as Google, and lie about it.

* Even if I switch search engine, they'll probably get all my info some other way anyhow, and I don't have the skill or time to try to find everything that could be leaking information.

* Google supplies a better search engine, so it's worth it.

* Using DuckDuckGo as my search engine, when I'm using Android as my OS, seems like a waste of time, and I'm not buying a new phone.
> Cargo-cult HOWTOs is the only explanation I can think of.

Pretty much. When I google "raspberry Pi time machine," every result I see, except one, tells you to do the HFS+/AFP method. These results include content churning sites like techradar and howtogeek.

The only site that recommends ext4/smb that comes up, fourth on my list of results, is this one: https://mudge.name/2019/11/12/using-a-raspberry-pi-for-time-...
It's not so much about what's "fair", it's about what's right. Fabricating some baseless headline about how Google is intentionally hoarding duck.com to overplay the "David v Goliath" story is just lame. I do agree this is their marketing, but twisting the truth and the facts to forcefully drive a narrative should be called out.
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There are a lot of great counter arguments to what you said, but as someone who is from the Twin Cities and studied in Chicago, I'd recheck each trip and always go car or plane. Often I could car pool, and splitting with one person made zero interest with going train. Train should be easy and way more competitive than it is.
> Is there a standard for PSU's about how long they provide power, that SSDs could design to?

Yes. The ATX power supply spec has timing requirements for the PWR_OK signal. As described on Wikipedia:

> The ATX specification requires that the power-good signal ("PWR_OK") [...] remain high for 16 ms after loss of AC power, and fall (to less than 0.4 V) at least 1 ms before the power rails fall out of specification (to 95% of their nominal value).

So power supplies are expected to continue operating through roughly a single missing cycle of AC power, but they only have to give the system 1ms of warning when power is going out. This signal would have to be delivered to the SSD by software in the form of a shutdown notification (a write to a particular NVMe register).

And now that I think about it, that shutdown notification mechanism probably warrants inclusion in the article.
I'm bored, and I might might take this up as an after-hours project (perhaps as a chrome extension). I'd appreciate if HN readers could answer these questions (it would save me a lot of time researching)

1. Can out-of-the-box VLC be an adequate replacement? It can play YouTube videos and it can also load & display .srt caption files (least work for me, but will hit channel's incomes)

2. Can browser extensions easily query the playback time on a YouTube video with sub-second accuracy?

3. Can a browser extension easily overlay text over a YouTube video? I'm thinking anti-clickjacking security might get in the way, but I'm not familiar with the current extensions security models.
> I read and practiced for a few months before getting my job at Microsoft at age 45.

What resources did you use and what resources would you recommend?
Microsoft partners with the telecommunications industry to roll out 5G and more
A small core does not demonstrate that performance does not matter. It demonstrates, exactly, constrained resources. Often performance becomes much more important because there is so little to spare.
Here in Japan, JR and the other train operators are extremely profitable, since they also act as developers in the land over their stations, so obviously they build and profit from shopping, apartment and office towers on every station. Which makes sense - you didn’t ride the train just to ride a train, you rode it to go somewhere.
Everything you say there underlines and reinfoces the point that the percentage of customers who know precisely what they are paying is so close to zero as makes no difference.

That's a problem for a market.
DDG in theory is great. I would love to use a service that does what DDG wants to do for privacy.

In practice though, their search is mostly unusable. Google’s results are 99% more accurate for me, even without being logged in. Anecdotal, but I’ve heard similar feedback.
Bad headline.
Also consider the health benefits and reduced medical costs if your lifestyle includes bicycling or walking.
$200000 of student loan debt with high interest rates because federal government has to subsidize defaulters is not worth "a social experience" or a "first time away from home experience". Spend a summer backpacking in Asia if you want that. It's way cheaper as a bonus.
Some 90% of people have a high school diploma now. All it means at this point is that you were not thrown out of school or locked in jail, and even then a lot of those people have it.

If someone said "I have a high school diploma" to you, what could you reasonably infer about their skills and abilities? Next to nothing.
Amnesia of everything but carefully written. Rebirth.
In Swift, if cow is a reference type you all share a cow that moos whoever asks, but if cow is a value type then you all have your own copy of a cow that only moos for you.
Uphold already covers Portugal.
New to me also. Their FAQ gives some clues to what they're doing. https://www.privacywall.org/faq.html

Not sure who is providing their results but I would assume Bing.

Their Google Play app has 10K installs so it appears people are using it.

Not much chatter about them on the web.
Good. While college is great for the social experience, there is little taught in the actual classes that cannot be learned through alternative means. Modern academia in the US is not only a bloated financial drain on society propped up by government subsidy, but it has also abandoned its core mission. Today’s college campuses are utterly illiberal monocultures, hostile towards free speech, free thought, and free inquiry. The democratization and decentralization of higher education cannot come soon enough, and I will welcome the death of the modern American university.

I also hope K12 schools are disrupted soon after, as they are quickly following the same path with ever-increasing per-student expenses and no results to show for it. Moreover, with large teacher unions like the NEA adopting political stances and bringing ideological bias into their classes, they are replicating the same monocultures that have corrupted higher education slowly over the last few decades. The mission to teach students how to learn is going away, and in its place is curriculums on what to think. This is not what society needs.
The linked article clearly states that number only applies to new car ownership. For reference, I have a 20 year old vehicle which I own outright, runs great, and drive maybe 6k miles a year. I usually bike and/or walk to work (or did, before COVID.)

Buy a used car and do your due diligence before purchasing.

Not sure what state they're using for license, tax, and registration. I pay less than $100 a year for that.

Maintenance is about right and can be lower, especially if you don't buy junk.

My insurance is lower than that, but that's a perk of my state.

I fill up maybe once every three weeks, so my fuel usage is way lower than that.

It'll probably go to the scrap yard once I'm done, and this thing was worth around maybe $3k when I bought it some years ago.

All in all, I'm sitting somewhere around $2000 a year for my car. Totally worth having.

Just be smart about it. Cars are very useful to have.
TIC-80 version 0.80
TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games. Version 0.80 brings numerous enhancements and a new UI.
This already exists, it's called community college.
Here was Apollo’s sine/cosine code, a 5th degree polynomial which clearly had its coefficients optimized for minimax relative error (presumably by the Remez algorithm):

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/apollo-11-implementation-of-tri...

Here’s a comparison between its relative error vs. a 5th degree Taylor series (if you use high precision arithmetic; I’m sure on the machine itself rounding errors made things a bit choppier). In the worst case for the Taylor series the relative error is about 45 times lower in the optimized polynomial:

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/aelh9kf9ms
Yes - Fortan doesn't have a built-in pi constant, but does have trigonometric functions. Usually programs define pi based on atan or some other trig relation.
I agree with you but there's no way the number is that high. My used car cost $3,000 and for three years the total cost of service has been less than $600. Add in $300 per year of insurance and you're looking at a yearly cost of $1,500 tops
until someone hits you with their car or you catch pneumonia from cycling in february
Or given that Apple only has 20% world wide, and the local market happens to be almost exclusively Android, a couple of other smartphones and feature phones, focus on Android first, and iOS only if it ever goes global.
Few people will own a car if self driving cars become a reality.
Rather than send child to college, I let him party in Asia for a year then he gets a Porsche when he lands back in the states. And I still come way out ahead! A far more useful social experience for a lower cost IMO.
Another read of the situation is that the transaction does not cost these folks anything they value. You may want them to value it (whatever you think "it" is, I'm not sure) but they don't.
On a road trip my family and I stopped at Wishram once. What a strange little community in the Columbia with its own train stop. It was a Sunday, so it was pretty deserted (maybe everyone was at church?), but you could see signs of human habitation everywhere.
I wonder what sorta rendition flight is being hidden.
Ask HN: Will API first approach speed up the development process?
I'm pretty sure my first comment describes where I find the irony.
What happens when you get to your destination? Do you suddenly just stop needing a car?
Unlike Apple’s approach, Google’s one is more fair for both sides.

* you don’t need Google to sign every app. You can allow external apks and even keep Play monitoring for malicious apps.

* you can add another App Store.

* the fact you can say a user there’s another purchase way and it is relevant information.

Android feels like a democratic country vs Apple’s meritocracy.

The past few years I’ve switched back to Apple. But I still miss the ability to just compile something and run it without it being expired after a week (Apple’s free developer certs expires after a week)
Nitpick: you certainly do not actually mean the observable universe

Bacterial cells in one adult human body: ~100 trillion

Stars in observable universe: ~1 billion trillion

You're off by seven orders of magnitude.
Capitalists can easily justify building trains, if you just let train operators commercialize the land around stations. When you have a literal conveyor belt of customers getting dumped directly into your shopping centers, office complexes and apartment buildings, you can easily make a pretty penny, like how it works in places like HK and Japan where the train systems are very profitable. I always found it bizarre that subway stations in American cities like NYC usually have literally nothing inside or around them.
It is still an OS level restriction too. There is no way to install an application without prompting the user except through "system" app stores currently. To test: you can install a vanilla Lineage OS ROM that does not have Google Play Services/Store, and then install the F-Droid application. F-Droid will not be allowed to install applications unless you (a) allow installing applications from untrusted sources (yeah, you cannot even say that F-Droid is the only trusted source, you just have to open it up all the way) and (b) you manually approve the installation of any APKs (including) updates that are installed via F-Droid.
I see, didn't even know that the original ATX spec made any promises, I guess 1 ms is "something", strictly speaking :)

I was hoping for a post-1995, more usable spec since we know that current PSUs often do provide power longer than 1 ms.

A single AC cycle would be 16-20 milliseconds which could already be doable if the SSD got the signal right away without OS involvement.
A quick DDG search says 10^13 bacterial cells in a human, 10^12 galaxies in the observable universe and 10^8 stars per galaxy. Your hyperbole is very off. The rest of the argument is not unreasonable, but not evidently convincing either. Certainly inspiring to think about though.
The problem is that employers would need to value those programs and see them as an effective signal that graduates are of high quality.

We have a lot of those short type of programs in my city in Canada, but employers generally seem to treat them as where you end up if you couldn't get a real degree. There is no signal and thus it is often hard to use it to get a job.
you became a manager?
I think Scott Galloway has already covered this authoritatively[0]

[0] https://www.profgalloway.com/higher-ed-enough-already (and other articles)
90% of your computing stack is US controlled code. What's so different about LLVM

LLVM monoculture is pretty bad though.. and its codebase quality is not very good either. But that's another issue.
Many train systems (eg japan) make profit on renting station space, they are actually profitable overall without subsidy, but this is very much like the land grant system used to fund America’s first railroads. Perhaps something like that would work in the USA again
> In the case of photography, there’s simply no good excuse. Every country has photographers able to produce excellent work… and they’ll charge less than a globe-trotting Westerner. Why does the aid industry give so many assignments to Westerners?

I wager that the author doesn't know very much about professional photography.
Yes, in OT the clients can send what they think is the global counter. Then each client or the server can transform the edit operation from the edit history eg. move the index left/right. In CRDT each index is instead an ID and deleted characters has to be saved as "tomestones" so you know where they where.
The same reason the Mastodon app is allowed. They allow you to access unmoderated content, but they don't proactively push it at you (the default search engines, and the news home pages on Edge/MSN and Firefox/Pocket, do proactively push content, but they're moderated).
Great article.

Are there any rules on hn about posting things behind a login wall?

edit: you can see it using a private window
> This won’t fit on certain consumer motherboard.

From diving into this recently in speccing out a budget system for myself, it looks to be mostly the lower end budget chipsets and motherboards that don't support it. At least that's what I've seen of the regular sized ATX boards, but it may be a different story for Micro-ATX or Mini-ITX.

The relevant info is always in the specs, and will look something like:

M.2 Slots
2242/2260/2280/22110 M-key
2242/2260/2280 M-key

For each of those, the first two numbers are the width, the rest denote the length. So 2280 is 22mm x 80mm, and 22110 is 22mm x 110mm.
IMO it is not necessary to quit internet or even social media unless it is really (I mean really) affecting your life. The benefits that you get from having access to internet and social media is way more than the negatives that you think.

But, anything is harmful if consumed too much (Lol, Even Oxygen)
After setting up HTTPS, always being updated, introduce port knocking for HTTPS port : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...

Its less of a hassle to use something like nginx reverse proxy docker container in front of your web services, as it comes preconfigured with some best practices regarding TLS. (TLS1.2+ only by default) https://hub.docker.com/r/jwilder/nginx-proxy

If you use docker, be sure to google around how to manage firewall with containers (must use DOCKER-USER chain instead of INPUT)

Ofcourse, you will get a bit involved in setup step if you choose to tie nginx proxy, letsenccrypt and nextcloud containers. But search engine is your friend.
I have seen mobile Web apps much better than clunky Cordova stuff that the same consumers worship as native.

While I am on the native side, what brings money home are cross platform projects, and for CRUD stuff mobile Web is just fine, provided one doesn't download a SPA over 3G to display static text.
Alternatively, they might offer a crippleware version through Google and up-sell to another app store.
It's fun that nobody ever includes the cost of the Interstate Highway System into these throwaway calculations, as if the roads just magically appeared and are maintained by faeries. As if the roads, car companies, and the airlines aren't "massively subsidized" with energy (fuel and corn->ethanol) subsidies.

We spent half a trillion dollars building the IHS over five decades, and have historically thrown at least a few billion a year at US oil producers - is it really surprising to anyone that driving is cheap? We keep bailing out the airline industry repeatedly - we already gave them $25 billion in grants this year because of the coronavirus, and they're still asking for more.

But, dare we build an alternative to those systems, one that could be more ecologically and financially sound? Nope, too busy feeding our sunk cost industries. Keep blaming Amtrak for being terrible while refusing to give them their own run of rails so they don't constantly get stuck behind freighter traffic. Keep shuting down High Speed Rail projects around the country because the billionaires don't want it in their back yards.
it's an entirely circular argument because the basis for a service like DDG to be able to compete on product quality is having more users in the first place.

It's a classic case of network effects, one of the main reasons for Google's accurate results is the amount of data they have available, and that in turn depends on their userbase.

Quality of the product and popularity are correlated when it comes to most internet firms, so just appealing to consumer choice means little. Do we need to argue if Facebook without ads and more privacy would be better? Of course it'd be better, did anyone ever go "gosh I miss my Facebook ads"? The damn issue is that the value isn't in the product, but in the users already on the platform.
It is a clone. The original one is dead. Works for teleportation too.
You heard of CDATA, bro?
I can use DDG for one to three word phrases, or just a general unordered keyword search.

But any time I need to search for exact sequences of strings (usually error messages), then DDG fails miserably and Google comes through.

Here is a recent example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=u-boot+%22unable+to+select+a...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=u-boot+"unable+to+select+a+mode"+s...
That isn't the case for Android or Windows, both Google and Microsoft are pretty heavy on PWAs, including providing access to native APIs if you package them for the stores.
I'm not sure that bit actually comes from the original ATX spec; Wikipedia seems to indicate it showed up in ATX 2.31 in February 2008. It does also appear to be consistent with the very recent Intel ATX12VO spec.
Wireflow – an open-source flowchart real-time collaboration tool
I have tried to contact multiple newspapers and did a survey that had an okay response I really want to start an organization that unites subscription to all newspapers and it just tunnels money directly from reader to newspapers.
I have really enjoyed CWM, and still use it even after switching from OpenBSD to Linux (I really liked OpenBSD, but need some programs that only run on Linux).

One of the features I find most useful is that you can have a window focused without raising it. So if you have some reference material open in a browser over top of part of your terminal, you can switch focus to and even click in the terminal without raising it (in my setup, I alt-click to raise). Admittedly, I'm not sure if this is the default behavior, as many of my settings are non-default.

I also really like the ability to search through window titles. I have alt+/ set to open the window search menu, then I can type a substring of the window title I want to raise, press return, and it's automatically raised and focused.

CWM is really, really nice, and every other WM I've tried before or since has disappointed me by comparison.
> FWIW it's also done for ICs at Google where you have to get promoted to senior by some time or you're let go. I don't know what the story is for managers.

Google explicitly changed the policy from expecting that all eng ICs reach L5 (Senior SWE) to expecting that all reach L4 (informally a "solid individual contributor").
given it's just ocaml I don't think it can do this ever, not that it's necessarily a bad thing.
I absolutely agree with your comment.

Every time I set DDG as my default search engine, I return back to Google after two weeks because I get fed up of using !g to get proper search results.

If I know the site where I can get what I seek e.g. Reddit, SO, HN then bangs on DDG are useful but when I don't know which site would get me the information I seek, DDG fails me 9/10 times in giving me a proper result and I have to resort to !g.

DDG needs to be a better search engine first than anything else if it needs to survive, just advertising Privacy wouldn't cut it, Hypothetically If Apple announces a search engine tomorrow most of DDG customer base would shift even if Apple had a poor search engine just because 'Apple sells Privacy better'.